I think pale and curvy is hawt.
'Ariel'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yay for pale and curvy! Bony hips can bruise.
IJS.
Mmmm gentle curves :) I miss them.... Oops, outloud typing again. Damn I hate that.
ION, after cleaning a bit, I decided to pull out "the rack" (known commercially as Total Gym 1000) to finally do some stretches. Step one to actually doing some excercises to lose some of my "prosperous" belly. What did I put in the DVD player? Firefly disc 1 :) Mmm, lets see, after a week of watching Season 2 Buffy, why not watch some Firefly. It's been a Joss week, what can I say! Shiney! :)
Mmm 4am, and still not sleepy. read? no! Let's watch Train Job. Gotta love insomnia.
At least it's nice to have insomnia have some bonus, after all.
I'd posit that, because we have to spend 50 posts discussing varying standards of beauty, whereas nobody is disputing standards of tallness, that the two are orthogonal. One can be tall relative to context, as when I went in heels to a wedding where the participants were 5'2" and 5'5" and I felt like a giraffe, but one is or is not tall, and one can measure that against medians/means of the population.
Ye canna quantitatively score for beauty. It seems more like 'family resemblance theory,' where you class several things together because they seem to belong together, but you can't formally describe any one thing they have in common.
However, I will agree that "everyone's beautiful in their own way" is as mealy-mouthed and diluting-the-meaning as "everyone's smart in their own way." If you want a word to be meaningful, then it can't describe everything in the universe.
Charlie Brown Christmas alternate ending: [link]
Language is NSFW. Also, don't watch with children around.
Okay, I think it is absolutely a good idea to give a little refresher on Pinochet while reporting on his apparently imminent demise. But do you have to preface it with "now you may remember his name..."
Timelies all!
Quiet day today. Catch up on some tapes, go to the supermarket, that sort of thing...
Timelies.
My day is pretty much going to be grading, and trying to do something to make my sinuses stop hurting.
I'm still a little bit too asleep to compose anything sensical about beauty.