ok the dangerous teenage hug epidemic - another important new york times trend piece

His peers don't find him especially huggable bcz of this.

I am not sure I understand what is happening there

I blame My Chemical Romance

<3 yr new nickname, crütz

I just saw these two people downtown

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3577087214_754c6920a7_o.jpg

In case you can't make out the signs, they say "FREE HUGS"

HUGS $1

The free hugs people were all over Boston last summer. Creepy.

I wonder if I could haggle for a kiss too.

http://www.redwinebuzz.com/winesooth/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/joe-george-bush-picture-1-2.jpg

Rarely is the question asked, is our children hugging?

OMG that article Mr. Que found! Shocking.

seriously, what is the premise of that article? is it really just

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/12/siren.gif CLOTHESLINES EXIST http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/12/siren.gif ?

I can't tell what on earth it's trying to say otherwise and don't know why the fuck you'd pitch, research, write, place, sub and publish that story. "HOLD THE FRONT PAGE, we've discovered kettles, plumbing and potplants!"

In this week's Sunday supplement: 22,000 words on DID YOU KNOW: some of YOUR NEIGHBOURS don't live in caves?

Years ago, she had another clothesline outside the bathroom, one that stretched to the building next door. Ms. Schill shared the line with the woman in the opposite apartment, an unlikely connection on the thinnest of strings. The other woman died, and eventually the line was removed.

Ms. Schill misses that clothesline sometimes. And her neighbor, too.

OK I am going to comment on this from a cultural perspective, based on my own experience. I am from Mexico where, as in most Latin America, people touch each other all the time. It has nothing to do -at least on a conscious level- with sexuality. It is just a way social bonding I guess. I was honestly a bit shocking, after coming to Canada (where I've lived for the past six years) people hardly hug or touch each other at all. Even among close friends. I must say that during my first long harsh winter (while I wasn't seeing anyone) I could have done with a little more physical contact.

we welcome you to 77.

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what's your login email so we may have you join us on 77?

77 being...?

its a hug emoticon duc?

http://barnabasnagy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/skull_and_crossbones_c1947_ghw_bush_left_of_clock.jpg

xp

77 is the colloquial term for a ILX board that isn't visible to the general public but does a very good job of being exactly like ILE only with more emoness

OK I am going to comment on this from a cultural perspective, based on my own experience. I am from Mexico where, as in most Latin America, people touch each other all the time. It has nothing to do -at least on a conscious level- with sexuality. It is just a way social bonding I guess. I was honestly a bit shocking, after coming to Canada (where I've lived for the past six years) people hardly hug or touch each other at all. Even among close friends. I must say that during my first long harsh winter (while I wasn't seeing anyone) I could have done with a little more physical contact.

― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Monday, June 22, 2009 4:55 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i guess u don't live in quebec? everyone hugs and kisses each other on the cheek here

ha ha u live in gaytown

yea more like montregay

I do actually, but on the anglo side of Montreal.

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daavid, go to the "boards" section and check out 7Curtis's 7borad

OK, thanks!

'emoness'??

dont cry about it

im going to make a private 77 thred about how im ;_;

OK I never read that clothesline article before now. Its an Onion piece someone misplaced, right?

me neither. fuck a dryer imo

And I thought the "hey look, hipsters all wear chunky black framed glasses! Even when they DONT NEED TO!" wank in last weeks Age was bad enough.

EXCELLENT message/username combination, daavid.

And in other fake trends, a "Facebook Exodus"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/magazine/30FOB-medium-t.html?em

The article itself admits that the numbers don't back this up. How do they feel comfortable reporting this?

heffernan does not report, she babbles nonsense about stuff she's heard from her friends and family.

yeah doesn't she have her own personal fact checker on staff? amazing she's still employed

She obviously wants it to be true.

huh, i had always figured her for being a good bit older than 40. i guess she's just dumb.

One person shut down her account because she disliked how nosy it made her. Another thought the scene had turned desperate. A third feared stalkers. A fourth believed his privacy was compromised. A fifth disappeared without a word.

The exodus is not evident from the site’s overall numbers.

sentences like that are how nazi germany started basically

a small but noticeable group are fleeing

Another thought the scene had turned desperate.
Another thought the scene had turned desperate.
Another thought the scene had turned desperate.

I think she needs a hug.

Virginia Heffernan thinks the scene has turned desperate

ILXodus

Mr. Que's posts had turned desperate.

don't they know about "hide posts" functionz