That's not what making out sounds like -- unless I'm doing it wrong?

Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet  

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.


Burrell - Nov 18, 2012 11:59:47 am PST #1375 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I think good jeans fit is all about 1) the hip to waist ratio and 2) the waistband is high enough in back to not flash any butt when you sit or bend. Oh, and pocket placement needs to be right.

I don't think I've found my OTJ but fairly sure it's priced out of my range. Instead I default to reliable fit and affordable, which in my case is Levi's and Lucky Brand. But I feel like you have a smaller waist than I do ita, so not sure if a jean that fits me would fit you too.


Glamcookie - Nov 18, 2012 12:02:45 pm PST #1376 of 30001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Lucky is my OTJ. They discontinued the style I really loved (Sundown) but Sweet and Lows work for me.

ION, I am drinking pickle juice. I ate the last (tiny) pickle and it was not enough!


Burrell - Nov 18, 2012 12:08:33 pm PST #1377 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

ION, I am drinking pickle juice. I ate the last (tiny) pickle and it was not enough!

Yay! An actual pregnant lady who craves pickle juice. Add ice cream and you're golden!


billytea - Nov 18, 2012 12:28:15 pm PST #1378 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Discovered on (where else?) the internet: this quote.

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate but equally important groups: the cops who investigate crimes, and the district attorneys who star in Deep Throat Part II: The Bonening." >[link]

And also: a review of a Christian textbook on world history. [link] The money quote:

"We think that “spiritual decay” is, for this textbook, something like “toxins” for fans of alternative medicine: It’s a vaguely-defined Seriously Bad Thing that they are completely sure is causing systemic damage, even though it can’t be explicitly identified, and it can only be gotten rid of by a good purge."


Scrappy - Nov 18, 2012 1:27:25 pm PST #1379 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I just bought jeans an hour ago. Super cheap ones from Target. I have some nice jeans and I can wear them but only with a serious muffin-top situation. I needed dark wash jeans I could wear on my business trip in a week, but that I would not need after I lose about 10 more lbs.


§ ita § - Nov 18, 2012 1:28:15 pm PST #1380 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The three same cut jeans I have now (in two sizes, just in case) are all Lucky Brand. And they were pretty much revelatory--up until then I'd mostly been wearing boy shaped jeans, and...yeah. I still have a pair of those that I keep around as a cautionary tale in case I start to get sloppy again. I do actually curve in places, and it's best when jeans reflect that.

The style # on the label seems defunct, though. So it's best possible alternative, and I'm mostly going by the things that went wrong with the last pair of jeans I bought. Without consideration.

Other people can wear low rise jeans, so I'm thinking it's the fit on the thighs vs. waist that make the difference in what happens the minute I start to move. Too close in the thighs, not close at all in the waist, and it's remarkably tacky looking.

Somehow there is a Jenny McCarthy movie on my screen. I remember liking the idea of her for five minutes, but good lord did she ruin the party with her actual self.


erikaj - Nov 18, 2012 1:41:20 pm PST #1381 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Maybe she has dyscalculia, like me, JZ. I mean, not to worry, or anything, but if you keep noticing that, um, don't make her wait until she's twenty-two to figure it out. But she could just get it, too. But many highly creative people can haz it.


Kat - Nov 18, 2012 2:04:12 pm PST #1382 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

ita, can you try a lucky store?


Burrell - Nov 18, 2012 2:32:01 pm PST #1383 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

Hey Kat, Franny just did another closet culling and we have another bag of lovely dresses. Mostly size 6, but there are some 4s and 5s in there as well. And I have some bags of cute trousers, boy sweaters, and I'm sure some cute dresses in 4-5 from an earlier culling. Are you interested?

My boy now outweighs his sister by almost 10 pounds, and they look the same height, but she's somehow longer than he is, so she's wearing size 8 & 10 while he's still in boys' 6s and 7s. Also when do boys' sizes start going up by 2s?


flea - Nov 18, 2012 2:42:43 pm PST #1384 of 30001
information libertarian

Boys goes 6, 6x, 7, 8, 10, just like girls. I just bought Casper 12 slim jeans, which are still too big in the waist, but she needs the length. She is the queen of high waters, just like I was. Sigh. (She doesn't care - yet.)