Well, it IS normal for them now, since this is how the majority of them dress.  I'm not sure which is worse, the whore dressing or the pajamas and SLIPPERS, as those seem to be the 2 choices whenever I see young women out.

Eww, chick with the pink shirt on needs to get some shorts that have at least a 5" inseam!  Only stickly models can pull off 3" inseam shorts well!

Well, it IS normal for them now, since this is how the majority of them dress. I'm not sure which is worse, the whore dressing or the pajamas and SLIPPERS, as those seem to be the 2 choices whenever I see young women out.

 

You don't see one as worse?  You think that trying to draw attention to yourself by dressing like a skank is as bad as simply having bad fashion sense (or not caring if people like what you're wearing)?

I really don't know which is worse.  I think looking like a slob who just rolled out of bed is just completely unacceptable.  The whore thing is also bad, but I think they're equally offensive.

Eww, chick with the pink shirt on needs to get some shorts that have at least a 5" inseam! Only stickly models can pull off 3" inseam shorts well!

 

I understand you are being a little toungue in cheek here, but as a woman I would think that you would not want to contribute to the line of thought that your waist size dictates what is socially acceptable for you to wear. 

 

Personally, the 'sticky' women are less attractive to me.  JMO.  I like a little meat on my bones ;)  Not fat... but healthy!

actually, she's talking about the size of your thighs, not your waist, but I see what you're saying.

I like how today's MTV exists solely to manipulate girls between the ages of 8 and 20.

I'm a size 8/10 (mostly because of my bum), and I'm perfectly happy with myself besides trying to keep myself toned. My comment was merely because she has gross amounts of cellulite showing, and her fat legs are making her shorts ride up. I just think people should wear appropriate clothes for their size, that's all. I don't like incredibly stickly types either. There are flattering clothes for every body type. Short shorts just don't look good on normal sized people!

I can agree that a girl who is a size 14 should not try to squeeze into a size 6.  We see that far too often these days.  I don't agree that body size should determine what 'type' of clothes a girl should wear.  I know plenty of size 10's that look a lot better in Daisy Dukes than size 2 girls.  JMO.

 

On the flip side, do you think that there are any clothes that the larger women can wear that a smaller woman can not?  That is, I guess, where I see the problem with this line of thought.

I agree with docbroc, it looks really bad when your cellulite is hanging out of shorts that are too short, and rubbing together causing your shorts to ride up.  But women who are very thin can have that problem, because of cheap, shitty shorts or because of genetics.  It's not always a weight game.

I can agree that a girl who is a size 14 should not try to squeeze into a size 6. We see that far too often these days. I don't agree that body size should determine what 'type' of clothes a girl should wear. I know plenty of size 10's that look a lot better in Daisy Dukes than size 2 girls. JMO.

 

On the flip side, do you think that there are any clothes that the larger women can wear that a smaller woman can not? That is, I guess, where I see the problem with this line of thought.

 

I think that people with curves can pull off quite a few things better than those without - most dresses and layered looks (i.e. a blazer or cardigan over another shirt).  Stickly people don't look good with too many layers cause all the clothing just hangs there!  I just feel that if I can practically see your crotch, or if I can count the number of fat rolls on your midsection, you should be wearing something different!

Reruns... Although it's a great episode, I have seen this episode of Forensic Files about ten times already...

What a coincidence!  One of my pet peeves is women NOT showing their parts off.

Well, it IS normal for them now, since this is how the majority of them dress. I'm not sure which is worse, the whore dressing or the pajamas and SLIPPERS, as those seem to be the 2 choices whenever I see young women out.

 

I hate the pajamas thing too. What are you, 4? You are a passed around at frat parties and now you want to feel like a pre-schooler?

Reruns... Although it's a great episode, I have seen this episode of Forensic Files about ten times already...

 

Then you're watching too much TV! Unplug the evil brain-infuser and turn it to face the wall, so you can't watch it and it can't watch you! :wink:

 

I did it three-plus years ago, never bought a new digital TV or converter. I'm experiencing success in my recovery, and haven't relapsed. Now I feel an aversion to the things, and whenever I encounter one in a waiting room or other public place, if no one else is watching I turn it off.

I hate TVs placed in waiting rooms, fast food joints etc. TV really annoys me unless it's something I actually want to watch, which is getting rarer. I like going to bars that have 0 or 1 TVs, though sometimes a sports bar can be fun.

It is increasingly difficult to find any bar anywhere that doesn't have a TV, and most restaurants have them in their bars as well.  I find it annoying, and I LOVE my TV.  I mean, can we not carry on a conversation once and awhile, do we have to just sit and listen/watch a TV everywhere?

 

It's like trying to find a store where they don't play overhead music. Seriously, can we not just shop in silence anymore?  They even play music while you're waiting at the rapid station now in Tower City.  Is that really necessary?  I like standing out on the platform at Brookpark and looking at nature and not having to hear piped in music.

I don't have a TV, but I find this level of aversion to it odd.  If you don't want to watch it, can't you just ignore it?  Is it's pull that mesmerizing that it is impossible to have a conversation in it's presence?  I've been to many a bar, and never found it more difficult to have a conversation because a TV was present.

I find that people just sit and watch the TV when it's on.  You can see people doing it at every restaurant where there are bars.  They don't talk to each other, they just watch the TV.

It's like trying to find a store where they don't play overhead music. Seriously, can we not just shop in silence anymore?

 

I was thinking that as I shopped for groceries yesterday. Aaaackkk! Muzak-style covers of oldies that were annoying when they were new, the kind of noise that drills holes in your head.

 

And then there's the sharp, loud, sudden bird-chirp noise in the produce section just before the taped announcement that the spray-misters are about to turn on. It always startles me and makes me flinch.

 

I may resort to my noise-exclusion gear when shopping in such stores. It works fine for excluding the mechanical noises and motormouths' ceaseless, mindless babble when riding the South Shore to Chicago. First, I insert those roll-up foam ear plugs that are available in most hardware stores. Then I put on my industrial 29db earmuffs. Blissful near-silence!

I grocery shopped with my iPod on for quite awhile, but now with the baby, not so practical.

I find that people just sit and watch the TV when it's on. You can see people doing it at every restaurant where there are bars. They don't talk to each other, they just watch the TV.

 

Exactly.  I usually tune out the TV at home, but it's hard when the people you are with are just watching. 

 

I don't watch much TV, so I don't know much about the new TV shows that are on now.  I've found that some people cannot have a conversation without talking about TV.  I've also had people give me a blank look and ask "well what do you do then?" when I mention that I don't watch much.

I'm a big pop culture junkie, so watching at least some amount of TV is kind of important to me.  It's not like I don't have any other interests, but you can BET I can't sit around discussing Bill Graham's autobiography with people I know, or talking about how we made duck legs confit or 12 hour braised short ribs last weekend, people just look at you like you have 3 heads.  TV is a pop culture thing that a lot of people can discuss and find something in common, and I think it does make you sort of "fringy" to not know at least a little of what's going on in the pop culture world. 

 

Now that I have the baby, I'll never be caught up on all the shows Tivo has recorded for us, but it's more "targeted" watching than mindless entertainment like it is for most people; we really look forward to the select shows that we watch and usually are doing something else while they're on, like folding laundry or lifting weights or whatever. 

"I don't have a TV, but I find this level of aversion to it odd.  If you don't want to watch it, can't you just ignore it?  Is it's pull that mesmerizing that it is impossible to have a conversation in it's presence?  I've been to many a bar, and never found it more difficult to have a conversation because a TV was present".

 

it is hard to ignore when it is blaring to the point you cannot speak or it is something really controversial-ie Ann coulter spouting off on fox news. I don't think I should go to Fat Cats and have to hear this with my small plates.  For a while we were in to going to the Southside from time to time on Sunday afternoons. But then they started playing Browns games. no problem at all. But they were blaring it louder than any sports bar I have been to ever, even on a hometown superbowl sunday.  The browns were away, and losing. Not necessary. I am not TV aversive, but I don't need to go out and hear a blaring TV.

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People who walk around downtown in pajamas.  Okay, I understand it's Saturday, 10:00 am and you ran out of your damn Cinnamon Toast Crunch.  Please walk to Walgreens with some decency.  This is MICHIGAN AVE AND OAK STREET not on your way to the college dining hall back in the day.  What do you think those Prada and Louis V folks are saying when you pass by in your penguin prints looking all like Christmas morning. 

My apologies if I've already posted this, but women dressing like whores in public. If you're not open for business, don't dress like it. If you are, there are neighborhoods where potential customers are looking for you!

 

 

I have some bad ass army night pants (basically pajamas) I'd have no problem wearing on Oak St. with a basic white T. Let the haters hate, it's what a hater's job is and in the recession people need all the work they can get. I'm hoping to employ 20 more people by the end of the week.

Media outlets that don't have their advertising specs (print, online or otherwise) readily available on their website. Let me put it this way - the rinkydink newspaper from my hometown (with a circulation of 5,700) HAS it.  :x

 

No, I don't want you to kill a tree and waste postage and mail something to me, and NO, I don't have time to dial your number and chat for a few minutes so we can talk about "ad strategies" - I just to place an ad, and I just need to know the deadline and the size, and I need to know it NOW. :-)

Uh-oh looks like Mayday is back in the working world....

 

BTW Mayday, circulation of 5700, you really were a "city kid" we didn't have 5700 people in our township....

When PNC tries to bill me $10,000 for taxes I know I don't owe (and the county says I don't either!)!  Eff you PNC!  You better get me my corrected payment vouchers before May 1st .

I think my newest pet peeve is all the announcements on the rapid. I just can't take it anymore. I think I will not get a bus pass for April.  Maybe I'll drive to work during the warmer months and resume when winter comes back.  Anyone know where the cheap parking lots are downtown?

I think my newest pet peeve is all the announcements on the rapid. I just can't take it anymore. I think I will not get a bus pass for April.  Maybe I'll drive to work during the warmer months and resume when winter comes back.  Anyone know where the cheap parking lots are downtown?

 

By my house.  $3.50/day.  Or in the Flats I think.

mmm, 3.50 a day sounds lovely.  Where?  I thought about the flats, but would rather not have to tackle that hill.

mmm, 3.50 a day sounds lovely. Where? I thought about the flats, but would rather not have to tackle that hill.

 

E. 13th and Rockwell.  I'm not sure how much the one at E. 13th and Superior is... if it's the same or not.

excellent. Thanks!

When PNC tries to bill me $10,000 for taxes I know I don't owe (and the county says I don't either!)!  Eff you PNC!  You better get me my corrected payment vouchers before May 1st .

 

Whoa, that sucks....

 

Do they still do parking in the muni lot off of W. 3rd? That's where I was parking when I still was downtown 4 years ago (Grrrr) it was really cheap. Back then it was $2.50 a day or $25 a month. And the hill isn't that bad.

When PNC tries to bill me $10,000 for taxes I know I don't owe (and the county says I don't either!)! Eff you PNC! You better get me my corrected payment vouchers before May 1st .

 

Whoa, that sucks....

 

Yeah, especially when I was completely shitting my pants (because it raises the montly payment $900) until I figured out what was going on......  When you see one box that says "Old payment = x" and another box that says "New payment = x+900", you kinda die a little bit inside!

I would have sh8t my pants opening that too, that is whack. WTF?

I would have sh8t my pants opening that too, that is whack. WTF?

 

I don't know what exactly happened, but they were paying about $2700 twice a year instead of $240.  Essentially, they paid what would equate to full property taxes without the abatement and then adjusted our escrow/mortgage payments to account for that.  The County tax office said to me this morning that their computers only show us owing $240 twice a year and that there's a giant balance that sitting there waiting to be collected by PNC because of their overpayment.  At any rate, it's in the hands of the PNC tax office to hopefully be taken care of before they mail us the vouchers for the next year.

All I can think about is the line in Office Space when they check the account the next day and there is a million dollars in it and Mike Bolton goes, "Sh!t, I always miss the decimal point."

All I can think about is the line in Office Space when they check the account the next day and there is a million dollars in it and Mike Bolton goes, "Sh!t, I always miss the decimal point."

 

Hehe :-D

Raccoons...they piss me off.

 

first they'd managed to pry open and get into the roof in our bedroom making all kinds of noise starting at about 3 in the morning.  Then they managed to evade capture/kill by the two pest control companies i hired.

 

Now? they chewed a hole through my compost bin and dragged all the veggies and other things in there across the yard.  I just screwed a bunch of chicken wire over the hole...let's hope that keeps them out.

 

In other news...i can't wait to get a dog.

Ha ha. I had some raccoons chew a hole in my facia board and live in the attic about a year ago. We set traps, laid out poison, and eventually the sounds went away. Then, last spring, I head the noises again and just realized they had hibernated in my attic all winter. I had a roofer come out and they had chewed a hole on the other side of the house as well, so they had a front and back door. Sealed those up while there were out. Ha ha, suckers!

 

Thankfully, the roofer cleaned out the poop in the attic.

i used to lay in bed at 4 in the morning listening to them pull themselves along the cathedral ceiling.  They were in this addition to the back of our master bedroom.  It doesn't have access to the rest of the house...but, it was damn obnoxious.

 

I am getting roofers out this summer to redo it all.  i'm going to have them check the insulation/see if there is any.

Why does Ohio have to have the dumbest state quarter, the ugliest license plate, the most boring state flower/bird and the lamest state motto?  Our official state rock song makes up for some of it, but man there seems to be a taste deficit when it comes to our state stuff.

Why does Ohio have to have the dumbest state quarter, the ugliest license plate, the most boring state flower/bird and the lamest state motto? Our official state rock song makes up for some of it, but man there seems to be a taste deficit when it comes to our state stuff.

 

Well, at least in Ohio they don't have the state prisoners putting on some of the stickers for you in the WRONG places.  Missouri had stickers between the two sets of numbers/letters for years, and when they tried to switch in 1998 with a new license plate that actually had two recessed areas at the bottom corners for the stickers, the dumbasses still put them in the center.  A few years later, they put a recessed area back in the center of the plate.

See, I didn't even know we had this:

http://www.bmv.ohio.gov/sp_ohio_sustainable_agriculture.stm

 

I think a sustainable agriculture plate is pretty darn cool.  I'd like to know where the money for the fee goes before I would consider paying $30 for it.  In the meantime, the farmer's market at crocker opens back up on 4/10, and I'll be there supporting local farmers that way.

^OK, that's kind of cool.  Though I'm not sure how much I like the state wading into personal expression via license plate (sticky 1st amendment issues).  The worst were the ones that looked dirty on the bottom half and had the old informal motto "the heart of it all!"  (top middle in http://tearsinrain.ninjajedi.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/USA_OH_GI8_1990s-today.jpg)

 

And I miss the county names on license plates.

I prefer the county names not to be on there.  Cops in my hometown are notorious for pulling drivers over who a) are from out of the county and b) who are not driving an American car.  It's like a double-whammy.  I would rather not have that kind of identification when driving around.

I prefer the county names not to be on there. Cops in my hometown are notorious for pulling drivers over who a) are from out of the county and b) who are not driving an American car. It's like a double-whammy. I would rather not have that kind of identification when driving around.

 

When will we stop the profiling??

 

"That fancy Fi-ero yer drivin' might fly up there in Portage county, but this here's Ford country!"

No sh*t, that's JUST the attitude.

And I miss the county names on license plates.

 

They're still there, just very small.  It's easy to figure most of them out from the number, though, which is very easily readable.