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!"
― Chaka Demus & Plies (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2009 06:51 (fifteen years ago) link
In this week's Sunday supplement: 22,000 words on DID YOU KNOW: some of YOUR NEIGHBOURS don't live in caves?
― Chaka Demus & Plies (sic), Saturday, 30 May 2009 06:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― paedo turkoglu (hmmmm), Saturday, 30 May 2009 09:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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, 22 June 2009 20:55 (fifteen years ago) link
we welcome you to 77.
― probably gets busy with larper chicks or somefin' (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:03 (fifteen years ago) link
?
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
what's your login email so we may have you join us on 77?
― probably gets busy with larper chicks or somefin' (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
77 being...?
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:14 (fifteen years ago) link
its a hug emoticon duc?
― Lamp, Monday, 22 June 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
http://barnabasnagy.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/skull_and_crossbones_c1947_ghw_bush_left_of_clock.jpg
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
xp
― Originally opened in 1964 (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― get money fuck witches (HI DERE), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
― 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
― gabb 'bag (s1ocki), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ha u live in gaytown
― probably gets busy with larper chicks or somefin' (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
yea more like montregay
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I do actually, but on the anglo side of Montreal.
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
daavid, go to the "boards" section and check out 7Curtis's 7borad
― probably gets busy with larper chicks or somefin' (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, thanks!
― touch my bum / this is life (daavid), Monday, 22 June 2009 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
'emoness'??
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:05 (fifteen years ago) link
dont cry about it
― gabb 'bag (s1ocki), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
im going to make a private 77 thred about how im ;_;
― autogucci cru (deej), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
OK I never read that clothesline article before now. Its an Onion piece someone misplaced, right?
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:24 (fifteen years ago) link
me neither. fuck a dryer imo
― task force vs the brisbane punks (electricsound), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― I'm Rick Wakeman, bitch! (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 06:12 (fifteen years ago) link
EXCELLENT message/username combination, daavid.
― StanM, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 06:19 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
heffernan does not report, she babbles nonsense about stuff she's heard from her friends and family.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah doesn't she have her own personal fact checker on staff? amazing she's still employed
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
She obviously wants it to be true.
― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:52 (fifteen years ago) link
huh, i had always figured her for being a good bit older than 40. i guess she's just dumb.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:53 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― the people vs peer gynt (goole), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
sentences like that are how nazi germany started basically
― the people vs peer gynt (goole), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
a small but noticeable group are fleeing
― velko, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Another thought the scene had turned desperate.Another thought the scene had turned desperate.Another thought the scene had turned desperate.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I think she needs a hug.
― Houston (Euler), Monday, 31 August 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Virginia Heffernan thinks the scene has turned desperate
― Mr. Que, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
ILXodus
― velko, Monday, 31 August 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Mr. Que's posts had turned desperate.
don't they know about "hide posts" functionz
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Another friend, who didn’t want his name used, found that Facebook undermined his whole notion of online friendship.
― ian, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
seriously "web service with 150 million users has a few malcontents" is in actual fact Not Fit To Print
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
guys she does this pretty much every week.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heffernan
Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.Heffernan began her career as a fact-checker with The New Yorker magazine.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
http://2009.sxsw.com/files/u13/VirginiaHeffernan.jpg
― velko, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
dumb AND cute!
― stfuhut (k3vin k.), Monday, 31 August 2009 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd check her facts.
― scott seward, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Que is thinking of Alessandra Stanley, isn't he?
I don't know if this qualifies as bogus-trend "reporting" cause it was in Heffernan's column in the magazine, which is very much not "reported."
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes. Both have written about TV for the Times.
― jaymc, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
which also BTW is way less cringy than I'd ever have imagined when it started! I think I've actually enjoyed a few weeks
― nabisco, Monday, 31 August 2009 20:28 (fifteen years ago) link