posts very much in character

banned.

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:24 AM (Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:24 AM) Bookmark Link

gay

While I wouldn't counsel ignoring completely what candidates say, an aspie-like over-literal reading of their words without regard to the context is even more off-base. All of these guys are playing a bit against type to try to address perceived weaknesses. Hillary knows that women are perceived as weaker in the national security dept so she hit hawkish notes until everyone had them stuck in their head. Obama knows that black liberals are not generally regarded as paragons of electability, so from his earliest days he's introduced himself as a mainstream unifying figure careful to respect the other side. Edwards knows that traditional Southern whites are not often the first choice of liberal Democratic primary voters, so he consistently positioned himself a half-step to the left of the other two. Hil is now Rovianly trying to turn Obama's pivot towards strength into a weakness. She's saying you want to be the unthreatening black candidate, fine, now you're too centrist for Dem primary voters. (This very cleverly allows her to address her own too-centrist problem with Dem primary voters by making her appear to be the more leftwing candidate without actually making gestures toward the left that would compromise her in the general). She may justify this by saying that such an approach will only help Obama in the general if she loses the primary. But she's also going directly for Obama's strength by trying to turn him back into the black candidate. Oh no, she wouldn't go so far as to marginalize him into Jesse or Al, but she's perfectly comfortable portraying him as a 'very likeable', charming, smooth-talking guy who can't be completely trusted (Vito to Pino on backstabbing in the backroom) and might let you down in the end (you know what I'm talking about, girlfriend!).

As for the Dems who want a candidate who's perceived as a fighter, of course there are more of them than Dems who just like the guy who's perceived to talk flowery (tho the ratio is smaller than it used to be). But that seems irrelevant in a general tho - I don't think either of these Dem groups decides the election. Independents do, and we have a pretty good idea who they like more.

-- gabbneb, Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:25 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

That's actually a good gabbneb post, but boring!

"long post, but important"

sleep's post was best

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http://www.greenlightoffice.com/images/EJ041241.jpg

NAAN BIC
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my little pony utopia lols

it is where i live in my dreams

^^^ Flash/Dreamweaver websites that look like a cross between Lisa Frank and Katamari Damacy ^^^

r.a. the rugged man did a movie with crispin glover!!

-- and what, Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:31 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You know I love music. And every time I hear somethin' hot, it makes me wanna move. It makes me wanna have fun. But it's somethin' about this joint right here, this joint right here, it makes me wanna WOOOOO!

-- Alex in Baltimore, Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:12 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

oops wrong thread

hahahah

I donwloaded this off Derek ages ago but have only just, prompted, vanity-style, by Matt DC's mention of me in his post way up where, got around to listening to it. And I like it. Nicely organised! Haha, it is very sweet, and spacious, and gentle. It's just... music? I wouldn't listen to it for the sake of it being "afropop". I'd listen to it because it's got some great sounds and melodies and rhythms and vocals. Nice strings, too. (Looking at it in Audacity, there's shitloads of space. Niiiiiice.) I'm gonna go and buy a real copy of this, and without fear. The brevity of the songs stops it veering full-on into Paul Simon / Peter Gabriel / Sting wankywank. I think. It's just good odd-pop, aye? The lightness of touch is what confirms it to me as pop.

-- Scik Mouthy, Monday, January 28, 2008 9:45 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

posts very much in Mary J. Blige's character

lol this must be a joke that I really don't get.

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Sunday, January 27, 2008 3:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I couldn't get to sleep last night because I was thinking about how fruits work as adaptations for plants!!!!

-- Abbott, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 1:30 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hillary does look so annoyed, but hot

-- Surmounter, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:27 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

My nominee for "hideous album covers I luv (the cover and the album)":

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg300/g346/g34654iwjbf.jpg

-- MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Friday, 3 December 2004 02:03 (3 years ago) Link

bwahaah

Wait... does an open handed slap count? Because I have sho' nuff been slapped.

-- kenan, Friday, February 1, 2008 1:33 PM (Friday, February 1, 2008 1:33 PM) Bookmark Link

oh kenan... always saying 'sho nuff'

I always get Kenan and Jazze Pha confused.

asian girls

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Sunday, February 3, 2008 12:22 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ha xp

This is weird, I'm sure I once started a thread called "Totoro porn", yet I can't find it via ILX 's search.

-- Tuomas, Monday, February 4, 2008 5:09 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

actually, i believe that was on the sandbox

u right

[pic of jason bateman as michael bluth]

who's that guy he's cute

-- Surmounter, Monday, February 4, 2008 11:18 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

I can only speak to levi's 501/505/517/Trucker Jacket denim as those are probably the only models still around from when you were a kid.

For North American markets, the denim that levi's uses for the above models still consists mostly of long staple pima cotton from Texas, blended with other cottons.

If you wore shrink to fit 501s as a kid, than you are probably used to a raw denim with a more rough "hand". Or maybe it is the feel of the advances in open-end yarn construction technology compared to the old way of ringspun (or double ringspun) yarn used to weave denim. Or maybe it's projectile loom weave versus the old way imperfect weave of vintage Draper shuttle looms. It's hard to say.

But let's not be naive, low-end denim is made as cheaply as possible as unlike other industries, apparel has actually suffered relative deflation compared to other consumer goods over the past 20 years. It is more than likely made from the lowest grade cotton available using low-skilled laborers with an incentive geared towards yield rather than quality.

To replicate a pair of pre-1970s levi's 501s (1970s MSRP $19.99) profitably would command a retail price of over $100. To utilize selvage Cone denim (up until 1983) would put you close to $200. But in a day when you can buy jeans for $8 at a mass market retailer, those prices seems absurd to the average consumer.

-- Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 16:33 (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

wait wtf I just realized my Economist hasn't come for over a month!

-- Hurting 2, Wednesday, February 6, 2008 6:07 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

thanks for ruining my masterpiece everyone.

-- chaki, Sunday, 11 November 2007 11:05 (2 months ago) Link

van gogh never sold one painting during his lifetime

Actually, the problem I have at work isn't uncontrollable boner-popping, the problem I have is with people thinking I have major digestive problems, when I really just keep taking breaks to impregnate the toilet. I get off on not washing my hands and sharing finger-foods with the girls at work. It's like my penis is in their mouth!
Ok, that was a bit distasteful. But, it's funny because it's true! (Not really. [but is it not really "funny" or not really "true?])

-- Scaredy Cat, Friday, August 29, 2003 4:03 PM (4 years ago)

dag yo

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, February 6, 2008 2:45 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Link

S.... L... joined the group Hillary Clinton for President - One Million STRONG.

who is scaredy cat? want to make sure we never go to the same potluck

it's nude spock

Can someone find the Paul Revere "Nude Spock!" image or (better) a link to the thread with?

we're projecting far too much on this film.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, February 8, 2008 7:18 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Everything about Bangbus! : )

-- James Blount (James Blount), Monday, October 7, 2002 3:54 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Link

HI GUYS btw

sam adams here

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, February 10, 2008 1:07 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

If there was only one man left in the world, and only one woman. And she wasn't into it, but without intercourse humanity would die? Surely rape in that case would be better than murder, or genocide, which is what her continued and consistent refusal would be, possibly the extinction of all intelligent life in the universe?
-- Momus (Momus), Saturday, 26 April 2003 14:43 (4 years ago)

such a fascinating question.

my frenulum of prepuce of penis

-- sanskrit, Sunday, February 10, 2008 7:16 PM

will "30 Rock" be infecting US movies 3 years from now like "Arrested Development" currently is?

-- Dr Morbius

^^^ btw morbz otm

(love AD but the effect is duddish)