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Natter 62: The 62nd Natter  

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.


beth b - Nov 17, 2008 9:09:08 pm PST #2037 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Time to confess -- I own one of those sunggly things. There will be no pictures - EVER. But even though I don't get cold very often -- when I do it takes me hours and hours to get warm. and they are really nice to wear when you need some extra comfort.


Liese S. - Nov 17, 2008 9:31:19 pm PST #2038 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Wait, how do you weave the ends into the braid? I have braid end issues. When I have long hair, that is.

Right now I have the worst hair ever from the growing out of the bad emo cut over the summer. But I'm miserable from looking for hairdressers. I'm half inclined to just cut it myself so that I can just say I cut it myself when I go in, and not have to explain about the previous cut.

I tend to have very specific ideas about my hair, but the ideas and the execution are separate things. But I badly, badly need it cut and I don't know what to do with it.

If you object to inside pants, you'll love me. I don't have a between work clothes and pajamas wardrobe; I just wear my pajamas to work. Admittedly that's only down the hallway and doesn't count as Outside, but I rarely get dressed if I'm not going into the field. Why should I? Putative Tim Gunn can kiss my yoga pants clad ass.


aurelia - Nov 17, 2008 10:42:02 pm PST #2039 of 10002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

"I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion," - Newt Gingrich, referring to the 18,000 married couples just forced apart after a Mormon-funded campaign against equal rights in California.

Newt, I'm quite certain none of them want to marry you. Stop worrying.


Anne W. - Nov 18, 2008 1:33:40 am PST #2040 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

I've been sporting an angled bob for eons. Is it wrong of me to be cranky at Ms. Posh for running the look in to the ground?


Barb - Nov 18, 2008 2:33:15 am PST #2041 of 10002
“Not dead yet!”

I tend to grow it long so I can wear it up in elaborate 'dos.

I wish I could put mine up in elaborate 'dos. It's just the combo of thick, mostly straight, yet somewhat fine that adds up to "Not staying up in any kind of style without enough product to produce a hole in the ozone with your name on it." I am growing it out though. Probably to at least shoulder length. Maybe longer. We'll see.

Is it wrong of me to be cranky at Ms. Posh for running the look in to the ground?

No. Esp. 'cause you rock it harder.


Steph L. - Nov 18, 2008 4:06:32 am PST #2042 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

After reading all the Inside Pants posts (and the faux [?] scorn from Hec), I've come to the conclusion that Hec is really Fernando from 1980s Saturday Night Live. ("It is better to look good than to feel good.")

My hair is fucking LONG (like shoulder length), to appease The Boy, because he's one of Those Guys who likes long hair on women regardless of whether the style looks like ass or not. They're just happy to see hair hair hair hair hair. WTF *is* that???

And I hate that I'm the kind of woman who will grow her hair to appease a man. (Or cut it for the same reason. IJS.) I think I have to burn my feminist membership card now.

And if I cut it to make *me* happy, he'll grumble, and I'll have to smack him and remind him that MY hair is not HIS possession.

(But if I cut my hair, I'm afraid he'll grow his long in retaliation. And I've seen pictures -- long hair is NOT attractive on him, yet he thinks it is. Oh dear god. There seriously are no words.)

(And, uh, to be totally honest, I've probably mostly let my hair grow because my -- what do you call it? -- mood disorder has me in a place where I don't give a shit about how I look, and longer hair means ponytail. Maybe it's time for antidepressants and a haircut.)


Jessica - Nov 18, 2008 4:11:24 am PST #2043 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

ZOMG Y'ALL.

Three HUNDRED posts later, and you're still talking about INSIDE PANTS??!!?!?!!!INTERROBANG???!!?!?!

I stay in my work clothes only if I'm expecting to see someone outside my immediate family in between getting home and bedtime. Otherwise it's straight into my red flannel moose-print pants. Work pants are less conducive to romping on the floor with a toddler.

And like Burrell, I wore a bra to bed while I was in the early days of breastfeeding. (Until my mother, having nursed 4 children, told me that they'd hurt a lot less if I let them air dry. Which turned out to be the single best piece of breastfeeding advice anyone ever gave me.)

My hair is in an annoying phase right now because I'm growing it out. It's just long enough that I can't put it up and the curls are sticking out at truly bizarre angles. When it gets a little longer the weight will hold them down, but that's still at least a few months away.


Jesse - Nov 18, 2008 4:17:57 am PST #2044 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Three HUNDRED posts later, and you're still talking about INSIDE PANTS??!!?!?!!!

Ha! That was pretty much my reaction. And I mostly change when I get home to try to keep work clothes free of cat hair.

And I hate that I'm the kind of woman who will grow her hair to appease a man. (Or cut it for the same reason. IJS.) I think I have to burn my feminist membership card now.

Meh. I think it's kind of different in the context of a specific relationship. I mean, presumably you each do all kinds of things to make the other person happy, right?

I am currently annoyed that I still have a stupid headache from yesterday, but at least my sore throat isn't getting worse....


Steph L. - Nov 18, 2008 4:20:33 am PST #2045 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

And I hate that I'm the kind of woman who will grow her hair to appease a man. (Or cut it for the same reason. IJS.) I think I have to burn my feminist membership card now.

Meh. I think it's kind of different in the context of a specific relationship. I mean, presumably you each do all kinds of things to make the other person happy, right?

Well, yeah.

Huh.

That makes sense. Jesse is wise.


tommyrot - Nov 18, 2008 4:33:00 am PST #2046 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Does anybody care anymore what Phyllis Schlafly thinks? I mean, if I post something she wrote, the reaction will be laughter, not outrage, right?

Anyway, with that assumption in mind - from Kos (because I'm not going to link directly to her):

Phyllis Schlafly dishes out a whole lotta crazy on why John McCain lost those feminist-created, single women voters:

The women who cast off husbands look to Big Brother Government to support them. They vote for the party that promises more benefits from the Welfare State...

...the feminists achieved unilateral divorce on demand from state legislatures, unilateral abortion on demand from the courts, and unilateral control over children in the welfare class by taxpayer handouts to women that made husbands and fathers unnecessary.

The feminists have continued their campaign against marriage through Joe Biden's favorite legislation, the Violence Against Women Act, which provides a billion dollars a year to feminist centers to promote divorce and oppose reconciliation.

It must be so confusing to be a woman and a misogynist.

Has she gotten more extreme?

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