FWIW, I do know morbidly obese people who have trouble fitting into airline seats, so a long flight is very uncomfortable. But I think the ad is trying to be more romantic-sounding than "my husband will want to have sex with me again."
There are cockroaches in Mexico big enough to own property.
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
Theodosia - Jul 28, 2009 12:38:22 pm PDT #1076 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
megan walker - Jul 28, 2009 12:43:05 pm PDT #1077 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Is she afraid of being mocked by nasty French people or something?
If so, we have a zillion ways to mock Americans, her efforts are fruitless.
-t - Jul 28, 2009 12:43:50 pm PDT #1078 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't see how eating frozen fruit could be wrong unless it hurts your teeth.
StuntHusband - Jul 28, 2009 12:44:54 pm PDT #1079 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2009 12:46:53 pm PDT #1080 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I do know morbidly obese people who have trouble fitting into airline seats
Have you seen the ad? She's not morbidly obese, except maybe by BMI standards. And we know what that's worth. And to give them credit, it looks like her hubby still likes her a lot.
Ginger - Jul 28, 2009 12:50:23 pm PDT #1081 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
He also turns wine into water. (OK, he really turns wine into urine....)
"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?" -- Isak Dinesen
"For the longest time McCain said torture doesn't work then he admitted in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last summer that he was broken by North Vietnamese. So what are we to think here?" - April 17, 2009.
McCain admitted that he was broken and would tell his captors anything he thought they wanted to hear. That is why he says torture doesn't work as an intelligence-gathering tool.
Barb - Jul 28, 2009 12:50:28 pm PDT #1082 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Oh, GAG.
I mean, I'm happy for Charlaine and everything and I hope to hell she's getting royalties off this, but really? Fake blood as a drink?
Omni Consumer Products, which actually makes the stuff (called, just as in the series, Tru Blood) claims it's a "great tasting, refreshing and enlivening drink." Which is odd because the vampires in the show are always denouncing it as tasteless, dull and generally the vampire equivalent of tofuburgers, but whatever.
This is right up there with the sparkly vampire makeup.
Polter-Cow - Jul 28, 2009 12:53:13 pm PDT #1083 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wouldn't lump the two together. Sparkly vampire makeup is just dumb (uh, isn't that just glitter?), but drinkable fake blood is fun! I have no idea what it's supposed to taste like, but I think it's kind of a neat idea.
Atropa - Jul 28, 2009 12:56:51 pm PDT #1084 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Fake blood as a drink?
Apparently some of the bars around ComicCon had it for sale. I did not go try any, because I didn't want to fight the crowds.
StuntHusband - Jul 28, 2009 12:56:57 pm PDT #1085 of 30001
Electromagnetic candy! - Stark
but drinkable fake blood is fun!
At various times during my (more-)sordid goth post-adolescence, various goth bars in Seattle and Portland would experiment with blood-like drinks. Nowadays most people settle for red wine.
It's really not worth the effort, and usually tastes *foul* (mixing various alcohols to get just the right shade of red...that you can tell is red in club lighting...BAH!)