And it's not like it was a complex, rarely used word.
I am more upset about that ad than the rather large, uh, brown-Jillifont-with-hermit-like-tendencies I just murderated.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Strix - Mar 19, 2012 6:27:24 pm PDT #27313 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
sarameg - Mar 19, 2012 6:27:40 pm PDT #27314 of 30001
I think I've found my handyman-husband. Who has a grill on his van made from gear wheels, Top Gear bumper stickers, might be a little punkish, yet listens to NPR while he works. And FIXED MY CEILING & PORCH for under $300. Woohoo! I've recc'd him to a neighbor who needs ceiling work. My hole was $50. Damn.
Strix - Mar 19, 2012 6:28:44 pm PDT #27315 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Dang, send him my way! Not to marry, just to hire!
§ ita § - Mar 19, 2012 6:32:56 pm PDT #27316 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Speaking of things that get through a lot of people...I just noticed a Verizon ad with an Asian guy with a shopping bag with a blonde blue-eyed doll peeking out of it. Why is the doll peeking out of the bag? I mean, of all the things that could have been in his bag, why is it a doll of the stereotypical American beauty ideal that he's not part of, and his kids probably aren't either? It's...peculiar.
It's a bit more charged for me because I recognise the guy from a short film about fetishising sex partners (he was saying he'd never been with a black woman, and the black woman he gets with has the worst Asian stereotype fetish, involving demeaning costumes and everything). So I already think about him in conjunction with race issues.
It just seems...unnecessary.
But, hey! Race blind casting!
Though it would have rocked if it had been a little brown doll. Just saying. A blonde doll says nothing in the manner that says everything. Everything.
t /hypersensitivity, I know
sarameg - Mar 19, 2012 6:35:07 pm PDT #27317 of 30001
That is what all my single female friends on the block say. And I oblige. I'm a newbie, most of them have their guys and gals, but not all. Walt has no idea what Ednor Gardens can provide him in work...
le nubian - Mar 20, 2012 2:08:37 am PDT #27318 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
apparently there is a movement afoot to "knit your Congressman a vagina."
I don't knit, but I find this highly amusing.
The picture though is not a vagina, but a knit uterus.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2012 2:21:34 am PDT #27319 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Finally, the Bella's Womb Lady has found a practical application for her gifts!
sumi - Mar 20, 2012 4:12:11 am PDT #27320 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Yep, there is a group on Ravelry for Vagina knitters to gather.
Toddson - Mar 20, 2012 4:37:46 am PDT #27321 of 30001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
In re misspelled signs - years ago I worked for a PR firm; it was long enough ago that there were no PowerPoint presentations, we had professionally prepared placards. Big ones - about two feet by three feet. We did the copy, sent them out. We were representing some group advocating butter rather than margarine, so the word "margarine" got used a LOT. When we got the placards - at the last minute, it being typical PR production - we discovered that the company had oh so helpfully gone through and corrected our spelling to "margerine". So, at the very last minute, we had to go through with white-out and a marker correcting their corrections.
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2012 5:11:49 am PDT #27322 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Happy Vernal Equinox for those folks above the equator!