At the very least, remove the bras before burning.

Um, good bras are expensive. I’ve owned a couple that were nearly 50$. So no burning for moi.

Wow, holy shit. I’m surprised that K-Lo (who, for all the mocking about her ineptitude that we deliver, is a working woman nonetheless) would stand for this.

The idea that men relax best when their wives are busy is as seriously wrong as everything else she writes. What do you got to do to get some rest around here?

Um, good bras are expensive.

And invented by men, no doubt.

PROTIP: Try on fancy bras in the fancy bra store and find out what fits you, then buy the motherfuckers on eBay.

Ladies, do not burn your bras, modern feminized men are impotent to invent machine to hold up tits

BTW, does this “argument” remind anyone else of the whole, “Poor people can’t be poor! They have color TVs and phones!” thing?

Try on fancy bras in the fancy bra store

You’ll be much more popular if you try on the fancy bras in McDonalds.

I got out of the boat, and damn if that isn’t really what she said. I didn’t want to believe it.

On a more personal note, it makes me very uncomfortable if my wife is doing housework while I laze about, so that doesn’t happen. However, it doesn’t make me uncomfortable if NOBODY does the housework, so we still have stuff to fight about.

“does this ‘argument’ remind anyone else”

Heck ya. But I think that more broadly it’s arguing against any sort of citizenship or agency other than consumption. I am supposed to look in the closet, see a bunch of shirts, and say to myself, “shut the fuck up, you lucky bastard.”

Husbands Relax Best When Wives Are Busy

(Offer invalid for husband whose wife is busy buying 20kg bags of quicklime & Googling “Wholesale Deadly Nightshade Extract”)

You ladies can thank us for dishwashers and stuff now. Men are SO underappreciated.

Husbands Relax Best When Wives Are Busy away

That’s more like it.

Try on fancy bras in the fancy bra store

In my experience this is lots of fun. Because you’re the only man around perfect strangers will ask your opinion. Party in the try-out rooms!

In my experience this is lots of fun. Because you’re the only man around perfect strangers will ask your opinion. Party in the try-out rooms!

Dear Penthouse Forum;

I never thought this would happen to me….

“Because you’re the only man around perfect strangers will ask your opinion.”

Do you think this one would be clean-burning? How long does a 36DD burn?

Wow, holy shit. I’m surprised that K-Lo (who, for all the mocking about her ineptitude that we deliver, is a working woman nonetheless) would stand for this.

This is like being a liberal and putting up with the “I don’t watch TV, it rots your brain” crowd. Same sort or misguided sanctimony, IMO. They’re more of an annoyance than something worth getting heated up over.

Nancy, like doodz who bathe in Polo, is just trying to get laid.

“Because you’re the only man around perfect strangers will ask your opinion.”

Do you think this one would burn clean?
How long will a 36DD burn? No, on the ground

So, what I’m taking from this is a true feminist would burn the dishes. And then begin hurling the flaming plates at people like Nancy French via some sort of self-designed flaming-plate-hurler.

VS, Truculent, get on that, would ya?

some sort of self-designed flaming-plate-hurler

It’s a little early in the thread for trebuchets.

After several years of engaging with Sadly, No, it’s my experience that it’s never too early for trebuchets.

i want to punch nancy in the face…and then kick a guy in the jimmies…

Men also invented the aeolipile, silly putty, and nostril hair trimmers. After achievements such as these, we should be allowed to simply lay on the couch and masturbate.

So, what I’m taking from this is a true feminist would burn the dishes.

what i’m taking from this is that us ladies are LUCKY so we should just all stfu…

After achievements such as these, we should be allowed to simply lay on the couch and masturbate.

I would argue that the male ability and affinity for couch-lying-masturbation is one of the better pieces of evidence for intelligent design.

it’s my experience that it’s never too early for trebuchets

Premature trebucheting.

Happy rapture day everybody! I’m going for a motorcycle ride — I imagine traffic should be nice and light — I should be OK if I can avoid all the abandoned cars.

and then kick a guy in the jimmies

My jimmies are out in the barn, on the shelf under the tool bench and if you tell me when you’re going to kick them I could prolly sell tickets.

Oooooooooo Nancy!!!

Let’s Get Busy

Um, good bras are expensive.

Also: toxic when burned.

After achievements such as these, we should be allowed to simply lay on the couch and masturbate.

But I thought the study said husbands relax best when WIVES are busy lying on the couch and masturbating. NSF, I need money to conduct an in-depth study. Also too extensive spouse polling.

I am inventing an appliance RIGHT NOW.

husbands relax best when WIVES are busy lying on the couch and masturbating.>/i>

Truer words were never spoken.

uh oh, I committed a bbkf tag fail….

Oregon Beer Snob said,

Happy rapture day everybody!

Back atcha!
~

Nancy French feels strongly about the division of housework because she’s ashamed that her father was a housekeeper.

Yays nu thred! Thank you Car…er Tintin.

“Try on fancy bras in the fancy bra store”

They never let me.

Since the weather sux I won’t be seeing ya, OBS. Haz fun!

Yeah, and while we’re on the subject, why does everyone who talks about George Washington Carver never mention that white people own most of the major peanut butter companies?

Happy rapture day everybody!

Another reason why men should not be compelled to do housework is that they need time to develop and publicize their predictions on how God is about to destroy the world.

Really, where else are you gonna see a Mr French joke?

@Spearhafoc, who has been Raptured just now on twitter.
(ya need a special Agode Reader program to see these tweets)

Tintin = Edroso

So disappointed in old rusted out camper. I wuz hoping for Blondie.

True story: In HS I worked as the grunt boy – sweep, wash windows, move displays etc. – at the big ladies store in my small town. The HS girls always asked my opinion on which halter top etc. They’d model everything for me. The HS guys were severely jealous, not knowing (as did some of the girls) that I was a big ol’ fag. I was amused.

I wuz hoping for Blondie.

Check my previous post, Pup.
~

Je ne comprends pas, Hunchback.

Now if only a man would invent a machine that automatically burns bras, lady-types will have nothing but free time. Am I right? Am I right, folks?

Hey, El Manquécito or PM or anyone interested in resurrecting the sous-vide conversation : any recommendations on vacuum sealers? I see there are a ton out there. Seems like Food Saver might be the way to go.

Women have never invented anything.

And before you femibolsheviks start listing women who have invented things, I must point out that those women were themselves invented by a man’s holy sperm – thereby making everything a woman’s invented a man’s invention.

Think about it. Or don’t. In fact, it works better when you don’t.

Femibolsheviks?

Femibolsheviks!

Spear,
Since you now have access to information denied to the rest of us….see Edroso had Nancy French links yesterday, so the joke would be……okay…never mind.
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.
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Lunch!

http://www.newzimbabwe.com/news-907-Gweru%20Goat%20gives%20birth%20to%20human/news.aspx
THE provincial governor of Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province said “an adult human being was responsible” after a goat gave birth to a “human-like creature” on Sunday.

Really, where else are you gonna see a Mr French joke?

For that, you gotta ask these ladies.

Rosalind Franklin INVENTED FUCKING DNA. Whats his nuts and crick got the credit and all she got was this lousy cancer.

Femibolsheviks?

Femibolsheviks!

(Also, WP should be taken out back and beaten)(or my laptop)

(OOOH, beating the laptop!)

For that, you gotta ask these ladies.

I’m going to pretend that the song is being sung by Angel to Buffy Summers.

Men also invented the aeolipile, silly putty, and nostril hair trimmers. After achievements such as these, we should be allowed to simply lay on the couch and masturbate.

…and this would be different from an un-invent-ful day how?

A must-link:

Inventions by Women

uh oh, I committed a bbkf tag fail….

damn…i thought you forgot about that…

My Dad used to say that, back in the early 70’s and “Women’s Lib”. He was indignant that I subscribed to Ms. magazine.

“American women have it easy!” He’d shout. “You’re men go out and work themselves to death to buy you wonderful things like washers & dryers and … and.. stoves! So you can sit around all day watching TV! Most women of the Olden Days would kill to have it so fun and easy!”

A must-link:

i see the dishwasher was actually invented by a woman…what does miss nancypants have to say to that? also, i’m a girl and i invented my own tag-fail…

can the rusty camper tell me how to make the nifty copyright mark?

Yes, I know I’d kill to spend all my time watching daytime TV from the early 70’s.

Being a conservative blogger (euphemism for pathetic hack), you’re not required to soil your beautiful talking-points with something as vulgar as research.

If you have a number keypad, you can make it by holding down the alt key and typing “0-1-7-4” (or some such…with the winetop I can’t do that).

Mostly I just cut and paste it if I need it in comments at the Haus of Sad™.

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kg – I have a mid-price one that works fine for me. I can’t recall which brand nor what I paid, prolly 60 or maybe 70 bux a couples years back (and this was my second one to replace my burned out old old old one). Just get something in the middle of the range, it’ll work.

Bbkf – type & trade ; without spaces. Or & copy ;

Funny, though.

Devices which at first offer labor and time saving then become the standard, and the freed up time and labor must be committed to something else.

It’s not like most people get a net increase on free time.

I’m pretty sure she didn’t actually invent DNA, much less FUCKING DNA.

KG, get a Foodsaver but get the bags in bulk on e-bay. The canisters and other accessories are pretty cool too.

So men invented the whole system in which men went to work and women did all of the housework, but it’s okay because the men invented machines so the women could clean the men’s clothes and house and cook the food for them more quickly, so they now have time for jobs too.

That’s pretty much the Republican approach, like saying “yes the top one percent have all of the money, but they’ve invented new things to sell to the rest of the people so the people can give them even more money, so it’s okay.”

That’s pretty much the Republican approach, like saying “yes the top one percent have all of the money, but they’ve invented new things to sell

inherited their wealth and hired people to help them steal.

Feexed!
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To be clear, typing ™ yields ™ upon posting ( and in preview)

I know I’d kill to spend all my time watching daytime TV from the early 70?s.

DO NOT dis the Galloping Gourmet.

Hey! the New Zealand TV channels pretty much only show American daytime TV from the 70’s. And it does us no hyarm.&trade

Preview is a lying Jezabel!!!

Aww, dead RSS feed.

Ha ha, AK not worth Rapturing.

I am inventing an appliance RIGHT NOW.

if it is a portable device to shoot streams of santorum at people’s faces, sign me up.

I said “I ain’t doing no rapturing on Saturday masturbation on the couch night. Now throw another bra on the fire”

Either that, Substance, or the entire nation of New Zealand was Raptured, and are getting the television broadcasts we’ve being beaming out to the furthest reaches of space which is where Heaven and God is, obviously.

God’s a big fan of Chico and the Man, incidentally.

if it is a portable device to shoot streams of santorum at people’s faces, sign me up.

Another bell or whistle on the Wingnut Processor™.

AK – the semicolon is required. Preview has premature rendering syndrome.

First off, the pee-shop* of L’il Debbie Schutzstaffel (from the previous awesome post) is the best pee-shop evah!

The Creaturette makes me use all those handy household timesaving devices while she works and bring home the bacon, so’s I can fry it up in a pan!

If I had a bra, damn right I’d burn it! How about I burn some underwear a t-shirts, and call it even?

* (veiled water-sports reference)

Also: Ms. French=One Girl, Two Cups?

“™” can also be produced on a Mac with the option key and “@.”

I should really have had a JanusNode popsicle module ready for Debbie’s bit.

X ice-cream truck driver was caught with frozen animal/liquid/creature and was gonna sell Ysicles to the kids to raise money for Z!

ABCTajpu’ll produce most characters you can render, but WordPress will only produce so many characters without Unicode.

so…bbkftagfail™

sweet!!

And to beat a dead horse…

http://mashable.com/2011/05/21/rapture-bomb-pics/

My fave is the “feeding baby” shot.

? Look Donalde! ? I am a big communist! ? Also my name is Carl and I am Tintin. ?

Looch is apparently unaware multiple sentences can be entered into a comment.

☭ For fuck’s sake rapture me because I cannot take my own advice. ☭

? Look Donalde! ? I am a big communist! ? Also my name is Carl and I am Tintin. ?

Too many questions. Donalde™ cannot answer more than one per week. Also note, new post over there jabbering on about the tailpipes, etc. The man’s a wreck.

The baby pic is great. GOD STOLE MY BABY!

ooooooh…how did you do that?!?!

Men invent useful gadgets to do the housework…
Jehovah invented Eve…
This is how we know that Jehovah was masculine.

Men and cars, I think this is made up by the Torygraph to SHOCK!!!

So, technically, I have about 39 minutes here in the EDT zone.

Suggestions?

☭ makes the character for the hammer and sickle.

I used ABCTajpu to type the character (a Firefox extension) and this to convert that to Unicode which WordPress will render.

Men and cars, I think this is made up by the Torygraph to SHOCK!!!

“Mr Smith is now part of a global community of more than 500 “car lovers” brought together by internet forums.”

Alert The Donalde™!!!!!1!!!1!!

30 seconds on the Great Gazoogle:

Josephine Cochrane ( March 8, 1839, Ashtabula County, Ohio[2] – August 3, 1913)[3] made the first practical mechanical dishwasher in 1886

☭

So, technically, I have about 39 minutes here in the EDT zone.
Suggestions?
At four minutes each to ensure each one reaches a climax, you have time to fuck 9 cars.

smut: ahem!

Reuben, Esq. said,
May 21, 2011 at 21:00

Inventions by Women

Femibolsheviks?

Note the dames are almost all scarved. (Scarfed?) We need no further proof of the vast (nay, intergalactic) Commie-Muzzie conspiracy to hate America & undermine the Constitution.

Alert The Donalde™!!!!!1!!!1!!

and jimbobdon surber…he might like to know that he can date more than one truck at a time…

Uh oh.

btw that was not a patented bbkftagfail™

A-hemming the smut.

and jimbobdon surber…he might like to know that he can date more than one truck at a time…

Nah. He’s one of The 500.

The 500? Is this the “Well if there had been a rapturing we would have gone because we paid 500K each, but we didn’t go and there’s no need to go on about it” 500?

Wait. WTF?!? Babbies get raptured?!?! I gotta find some sin for Ultra Ninja in the next fifteen minutes!

Wait, I think we got a linen-wool onesie at the shower.

Leather boots & denim skirt
She could really make me hurt

☠

Much fun & abuse potential here.

Pupienus said,

Since the weather sux I won’t be seeing ya, OBS. Haz fun!

Yeah, it’s a bit chilly — thankfully no rain yet though. I cut the ride short…

Cutting the ride short.

… to avoid some weather that looked like it was heading in. There was a huge turnout with lots of cool old bikes — hopefully the show/swap meet tomorrow will stay dry.

Wait. WTF?!? Babbies get raptured?!?!

Being too young to have made any moral decisions, babies are actually getting a pass on their Original Sin.

babies are actually getting a pass on their Original Sin.

GAHUD’S message: POOPING OK!1!!!11

OK, this is amusing. ☝

Or, they are passing their original sin.
Half-goatse: ☄

Hey!!

I used ABCTajpu to type the character (a Firefox extension) and this to convert that to Unicode which WordPress will render.

You really put a lot of effort into this snarky commenting thing, don’t you?

Being too young to have made any moral decisions, babies are actually getting a pass on their Original Sin.

WTF? How does that work?! Here I was hoping everything was gonna be fine because she hasn’t accepted Jesus as her Saviour. Oh well, we’ll see what goes in teh next few minutes. I’ve tried to raise her as areligiously as possible – that’s the best I can do.

Might be worth pointing out, but the modern dishwasher was invented by a woman.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Cochrane

At four minutes each to ensure each one reaches a climax, you have time to fuck 9 cars.

I hope this is the first comment new visitors ever see when they happen upon this site.

OK. Will stop now before the rubber band snaps & it’s hamster holocaust all over the series of tubes, followed by a stern lecture from Tintin/Carlsomeone.

At four minutes each to ensure each one reaches a climax, you have time to fuck 9 cars.

Obviously this is predicated upon the use of the Up-On-The-Backstroke technique. Otherwise it takes longer.

Hamster Holocaust Isreal!

Rapture?

Sadly, No!

N_B, was Cuba real?

Still have a babby. And a place that delivers hakka-chinese. If the good folks at the Bulleit distillery are still around then this Apocalypse is going to be bearable.

N_B, was Cuba real?

Hyper-real. I’m still processing everything I saw and getting the last of the rum and cigars out of my bloodstream. Posting on this topic to come…

Posting on this topic to come…

Commie.
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cigars out of my bloodstream

You may not have done the cigar part correctly.

Getting the last of the rum and cigars out of my bloodstream.

WP, you bastard!!

Have the rationalizations started flying yet?

(Flying the rationalization)

Any bets on whether Nineveh gets cited?

(citing th…. oh forget it)

Sometimes a cigar is just a metaphorical PENIS.

You may not have done the cigar part correctly.

I followed the directions of a young woman with the face of Spanish Madonna, so it was correct regardless.

“SpotWeld said,”

Prepare thyself for an AHEM shitstorm.

Worst. Nin. Eveh!

Shackleford Wins Preakness Stakes; Animal Kingdom Second

Congrats, Rusty!

Shackleford Wins Preakness Stakes

Ernest runs pretty good for a 127-year-old.

Nice headline, M.B.
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Have the rationalizations started flying yet?

The lack of the Biblical Armageddon we all expected is further proof that atheists are gullible.

I think Nancy French needs to STFU AND MAKE ME A SAMMICH!

How on earth did this thread go more than 100 comments without that?

“™” can also be produced on a Mac with the option key and “@.”

It’s like the In-N-Out secret menu!

Prepare thyself for an AHEM shitstorm.

Prophylactic AHEM recognition/contrition recommended.

And: Now that I fucked all these cars, what am I supposed to do?

RapturePHAIL.

Oh, and the best part of this? I live in semi-rural country, lots of small farms around, etc. My son and all of his friends (12 year-olds) have been making jokes about RapturePHAIL™ and how they still have to take tests and go to school, etc.

There’s hope for the young’uns. Yessiree, Bob.

the modern dishwasher was invented by a woman.

Ah, so not only is Nancy a jerk, she’s also wrong? Who’da thunk it?

How on earth did this thread go more than 100 comments without that?

Roy’s comments are just better I guess.

MB’s browser doesn’t playnice with Unicode. Opera was like that. That’s one of the rasoms I gave up the magic 8 ball schtick – had to type in the Unicode every comment.

“You’re men go out and work themselves to death to buy you wonderful things like washers & dryers and … and.. stoves! So you can sit around all day watching TV! Most women of the Olden Days would kill to have it so fun and easy!”

To be fair, he’s almost got something there. The life of a 70s housewife was indeed a step up from spending twelve hours a day grinding acorns into a semi-edible paste or whatever ladies did in the “Olden Days.” Most men of the Olden Days, of course, would also kill to be able to go to work for only eight hours a day, come home to a warm home that they owned which had indoor plumbing, and have plentiful booze of reasonable quality and affordability available on virtually every other street corner. Also, internet pron.

Ah, progress.

And to beat a dead horse…
http://mashable.com/2011/05/21/rapture-bomb-pics/

A late contribution.

Was that last picture from inside the haus, Herr Smut?
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kg: if you really want to cheap out on sous-vide use freezer grade ziplocks. I own three different food sealers and they all suck in different ways. I’ve used ziplocks to good effect in lots of sous-vide experiments.

“I own three different food sealers and they all suck in different ways.”

I doesn’t matter _how_ they suck, only that they suck.

I doesn’t matter _how_ they suck, only that they suck.

Your Honor: I rest my case.

Roy’s comments are just better I guess.

A couple of them are virtually the same.

Was that last picture from inside the haus, Herr Smut?

Already noted the ducks on the wall & the waterbed. Sheesh.

I doesn’t matter _how_ they suck, only that they suck.

Wait, are you commenting on Smut’s picture?

Wow. That is one archaic line of attack.

The whole “bitches have dishwashers so there’s no need for women’s lib” was the conservative nut brigade’s contemporary response to The Feminine Fucking Mystique back when that was new.

I mean, this is like a couple years back when you uncovered the rant about the Irish, it’s one of those things that’s so directly archaic in argumentation that you almost have to give it a begrudging smatter of applause because it obviously came from some form of cranky time-traveler.

Also, bonus points for trying to use the patriarchy to argue against the patriarchy.

Hey, men, invented a system by which women stay home, do a bunch of unpaid, unrespected housework that allows men to look better to their bosses and not have to worry or do anything when they get home (even if the woman has been working an 8-hour job herself), but it means you get through these dreary under-respected tasks faster so no complaints about an abusive system which is based on the theft of labor.

Why do I think these are the same people who would argue that slaves should have stopped grumbling because the cotton gin made their jobs easier.

Hey Nancy, Mrs. Josephine Cochran of Shelbyville, Illinois patented the first dishwasher in 1886!

PENIS.

POOP

Please excuse the less than 100% relevant butt-in, but when one examines the history of corset-becoming-modern-brassiere, one finds that many women are credited with significant innovations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_brassieres

Probably a reason. Probably a personal one. Tough to find a decent bra. Even tougher to design one. I’ve tried, as Polly Jacobs is my witness, to find a decent pattern, but… honestly, as much as I’ve attempted to develop a set of survival skills to get me through the zombipocalypse, I’ve had to give up the idea of even attempting to design and make my own bra. It’s a shame, because the commercial variety is inadequate and custom corsetry completely out of reach financially.

Maybe that’s why I never have to have the latest car, plasma screen, smartphone, shoes… what would really enrich my life, more than anything else, is a decent bra.

PIE !

what would really enrich my life, more than anything else, is a decent bra.

amen…

hey sadlyladies…here’s a place we can go on vaca!

what would really enrich my life, more than anything else, is a decent bra.

Ditto.

I’ve got one that makes my breasts look fabulous with the downside of being way too tight and acting like a corset for my upper chest.

And it’s sad that that one line probably sums up most of the history of the bra right there.

UncertaintyVicePrincipal: Clever nym !!!

((Wanted to mention that in earlier threads, but it always slipped my mind. As so many things do in Older-Person-Hood….))

*slips back into the shadows agains*

I think where this crap comes from is the fact that either the gomers making these arguments or the “pundits” they’re cribbing from grew up in the 1950s, or have their fondest memories of that era, anyway. About 1920 to 1960 was a unique era—one that will never be repeated, but they don’t understand that.

Very few people today realize how brutally labor-intensive “women’s work” was up until the early 20th century. Cooking, cleaning, and especially washing for a household was second only to picking cotton and the other kinds of tasks that used to be done by slave labor.

By 1900, labor-saving devices were beginning to change that, and then the economic boom that resulted from the US being untouched by a World War and the warring nations needing rebuilding allowed ordinary people to benefit from this technology.

The picture’s confused somewhat by the depression and another war in the middle, but then history repeated itself—a world in ruins and a US untouched by the war undergoing another economic boom. So yes, it’s true, things were easier for women for a while there—except for unimportant stuff like childbearing and raising a houseful of screaming rugrats. This is the substrate of these kind of arguments.

Of course the end of the postwar boom necessitated two-income families to approximate the lifestyle people had (very briefly) gotten used to, and the conservatives have never really acknowledged that, or the tax rates that made the 1950s prosperity possible. Now women are having to do the same kind of work men do just to keep the family’s head above water (frequently unsuccessfully), plus do all those household chores—which are easier than they were in 1850, true enough.

Getting the conservatives to acknowledge that the 1950s were a unique era that will never come again, or the middle class death-spiral that their policies have brought on, or the reason the 1950s were so prosperous (>90% top marginal rates) is a task that’s impossible to accomplish, so pointing and laughing (if you can keep yourself from crying) is about all we can do.

Heh!

That’s the first time I ever gave myself a case of dancing badgers!

PIE !

Now now, don’t be vulgar.

And say what you will about the 50’s but they knew how to dress back then. Can we somehow return to 1920’s-60’s aesthetics and clothing (without the uncomfortable underwear for the womenfolk, obviously) without giving back any of the social progress we’ve made since then? The 70’s were a visual blight, and the less said about the 80’s, the better.

Just my (utterly correct and unassailable) point of view.

Utilizing the Greasemonkey

they knew how to dress back then

I refudiate your argument by referring you to Ms. French’s contemporary ensemble. Hawt, yet lady-like.

RE: the bra – middle age is when the advantages of being relatively under-endowed become crystal clear. Yeah, everyone loves the big boobies when they’re young and pert…but from the complaints I hear, by middle age they just become a pain in the back. I can still wear the equivalent of a training bra, so have never had personal experience with these bra complaints. For this I am grateful.

RE: the Rupture that wasn’t – I got a chart up over at my joint that will explain to you the specific reason why you, personally, were Left Behind.

And say what you will about the 50?s but they knew how to dress back then.

Not necessarily.

I’m so old I can actually remember the 50s. A real shithole of a decade.

Snorghagen said,

May 22, 2011 at 6:24 (kill)

And say what you will about the 50?s but they knew how to dress back then.

Not necessarily.

I’m so old I can actually remember the 50s. A real shithole of a decade.

Yeah, the 20s to 60s timeframe that Spearhafoc was talking about really slumped in the middle.

The 20s, where women started wearing negligeés in public, wasn’t too bad—but of course that’s also where the anorexic-10-year-old-boy ideal of feminine beauty got started. Feh!

The 60’s of course gave us the miniskirt and so forth, but in between, the 40s and 50s were a real disaster. Not only were women supposed to be unnaturally skinny, but they were supposed to use elastic undergarments to keep their pelvises from ever becoming female in conformation, sort of like the Mayan skull deformation but much more harmful.

As far as men’s styles go…I don’t care what men look like, so I guess I have no opinion. That interlude when color and variety were acceptable has come and gone—and subject to ridicule—and now we’re back to dressing like NKVD men again. Oh well—my t-shirt-sweatpants-and zoris ensemble was never going to win any fashion awards anyway.

Just a quick observation before I go home from a long day at work- if a couple performed household chores together, it would be a good chance to converse, to interact, to make the work less onerous, maybe to initiate a little sexytime in the kitchen. Social conservatives take seriously the notion of a “battle of the sexes”, liberals see a collaborative effort as optimal.

For the record, though, I would rather wash a sinkful of dishes than watch a football game. I draw the line at ironing, though. Hate it, always have.

I’m gonna pull a Fenwick, and catch up with the thread tomorrow. Quel fromage!

A good bra is hard to find…fwiw, Target has decent bras for cheap.

Trying on the bra? Meh.

B^4, I am somehow capable of creating *more* wrinkles with an iron.

the 40s and 50s were a real disaster.

My interest in fashion is minimal, but now that I think about it I do have preferences. I kind of like the 20s, 40s, and 60s. The 70s shtick was silly but harmless. On the other hand, the 50s style makes my skin crawl – aggressively bland and vaguely creepy. This modern-day woman would have fit right in.

This modern-day woman would have fit right in.

Jaysus Haploid Christ In A Chartreuse Polka Dot Muu-Muu!!!!!!

If there has ever, EVAR, been a photograph in need of laser beams being photoshopped in, THAT is it.

what would really enrich my life, more than anything else, is a decent bra.

probably only applicable to brits & euro type, but mrs lobbey swears by a proper bra fitting at Marks & Spencers. She got fitted 4 years ago, and realised she had been wearing the wrong size for years.

Animooted, of course.

I’d do it, but my box is chewing up all its memory and whatnot scanning for evil at the moment.

Maybe if I quit teh browser…

OK, this proves TV has destroyed my brain, but reading about bra shopping, I can’t think of anything but Peggy Bundy’s bra being discontinued and Al having to go to Francine’s of Hollywood in Oconowoc, WI to find them. Their motto: “If you’ve got the boulders, we’ve got the holders.”

Getting the conservatives to acknowledge that the 1950s were a unique era that will never come again, or the middle class death-spiral that their policies have brought on, or the reason the 1950s were so prosperous (>90% top marginal rates) is a task that’s impossible to accomplish, so pointing and laughing (if you can keep yourself from crying) is about all we can do.

Amen to that, brother….

…and now we’re back to dressing like NKVD men again.

im sorry, what is an NKVD man?

and now we’re back to dressing like NKVD men again.

a guy wearing a Russian tee shirt… is that the style now, did I miss a meeting?

Also, too.

Teh Rapture?

Totes happened.

You don’t know about it because God took one look at humanity and said “Fucketh This” and took no one.

There are, however, several thousand fewer dolphin in the oceans than there were yesterday.

Whether or not He’s going to bother following through with the whole pestilence, extermination and Hell thing largely depends on how amused said dolphins can keep Him for the next five months or so.

Go, dudes. Go.

Eeeeʔeeeeeʔeeeeeeeeʔ Eeeeeeʔeeeeeeʔeeeeeeʔ

This modern-day woman would have fit right in.

And Holy Crap! I thought they were kidding about “She’s got the Crazy Eyes™” on How I Met Your Mother. Yeah, I know, more TV references.

as for teh rapture, how do we know that it didn’t happen?

im sorry, what is an NKVD man?

Well, the MVD was split up to become the MVD and KGB in 1953. Before it became a “Ministry” it was a “People’s Kommissariat” for Internal Affairs—NKVD. Stalin-era secret policemen, in other words. They weren’t snappy dressers.

This modern-day woman would have fit right in.
Substance McG has animated that picture (no laser beams, though). But he can pimp his own blog because I am too busy pimping a different animated version.

I’m gonna pull a Fenwick, and catch up with the thread tomorrow. Quel fromage!

Pulling a Fenwick.

Love them both, Smut.

This is what came to mind immediately upon seeing the original, though.

Appropriate noises are left as an exercise for the viewer.

This is what came to mind immediately upon seeing the original, though.
Other possibilities here.

At the very least, remove the bras before burning.

Burn the bras, bare the boobies.

mmmmmm….BOOBIES!

Ladies, do not burn your bras, modern feminized men are impotent to invent machine to hold up tits

Nothing like manual labor to keep a man honest…

I would argue that the male ability and affinity for couch-lying-masturbation is one of the better pieces of evidence for intelligent design.

Really? I think this supports evolution. I think it’s a step up the scale that we no longer sit in trees and masturbate, but have found a nice, comfortable ground-based perch for our onastic needs.

Plus porn. Also.

I would argue that the male ability and affinity for couch-lying-masturbation is one of the better pieces of evidence for intelligent design.

*throwing hands up*

You work your wrist tendons to the bone trying to create a sockpuppet and some other jerk gets all the credit…

Let’s try that again, shall we?

I would argue that the male ability and affinity for couch-lying-masturbation is one of the better pieces of evidence for intelligent design.

TinTin = Edroso

*throwing hands up*

You work your wrist tendons to the bone trying to create a sockpuppet and some other jerk gets all the credit…

*muttering* Fucking Rapture coffee…how does it work?

…NKVD. Stalin-era secret policemen,…

In the old Soviet Union it was said the NKVD had the tallest building in all of Russia.

From its basement, you could see all the way to Siberia…

RE: the Rupture that wasn’t – I got a chart up over at my joint that will explain to you the specific reason why you, personally, were Left Behind.

In Heaven, they’re always playing my favorite song…
~

In Heaven, they’re always playing my favorite song…

The Wheel?

It’s on the list!
~

I am somehow capable of creating *more* wrinkles with an iron

I thought throwing an iron created dents more than wrinkles.

Well, the MVD was split up to become the MVD and KGB in 1953. Before it became a “Ministry” it was a “People’s Kommissariat” for Internal Affairs—NKVD. Stalin-era secret policemen, in other words. They weren’t snappy dressers.

yeah knew who the NKVD were, just missed the dress sense connection! But I aggre, guys dress sense has referted back to fucken boring over the last 5 years or so. though the golf/polo shirt thing would die out like it did in the 80’s, but its stronger than ever. As for work clothes, a recent meeting I had in london confirmed that grey in the new mauve!

Did the NKVD wear BVDs?

Okay, perhaps my idea of classic fashions are just as idealised as wingnuts’ “moral past”. Still, I wish men wore suits and hats, and women’s fashion looked more like this.

The ad is annoying but there are some beautiful pictures there. I strongly recommend checking it out.

I tend to think of “The Rapture” as more like an alignment of planets that must be happening in order for a successful conjuration of Jesus and Holy Rollers, so obviously somebody forgot a spell component.

Actually, for a true believer it would be a ‘summoning’.

Those of you poo-pooing 50’s fashion are straight-up crazy.

Also too, The ‘Slayer strongly approves of this sort of aesthetic. And this.

And you can’t go wrong with a little of this. And this And this.

The ‘Slayer very much approves of this as well.

Possibly on-topic video
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Second Target bras, they’re surprisingly good.

I have printed out a bra pattern, now I just need to make the 83000 required measurements(and more than once during a cycle because things change) and make the damn thing. The nice thing about a custom bra is none of those stupid slides that cut into your shoulder blades, you just cut the straps to the right length.

linkies:
http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3729/the-bra-dilemma-solved
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=116298.0
http://craftstew.com/sewing/70-free-lingerie-sewing-patterns

In Heaven, they’re always playing my favorite song…

Heaven is teh Intoornauts

NKVD. Stalin-era secret policemen, in other words. They weren’t snappy dressers.

But they were very nice people!

Thank you, Ms. Slayer. I agree fully.

Did you guys know that browser on the Droid is a serious piece of shit? Well, now you do.

I just had to add the word Droid to my druid’s vocabulary.

I noticed that all the repigs are grunting and shitting all over the Sunday morning comedy improv shows. We can rest assured that there was no rapture.

Sorry your smart phone is more of a snot phone!

Smart it is decidedly not.

Also on 50s fashion; everything audrey Hepburn did was right right right.

This modern day woman would have fit in

With this modern day man

Those of you poo-pooing 50?s fashion are straight-up crazy.

That’s fantasy 50s fashion, worn by an exceptionally beautiful woman. Here’s real-life 50s fashion. The style just didn’t work in the real world. Note that most of these women would have looked pretty good if they were decked out in typical 40s fashion, or 60s, or even 70s.

Be advised that I’m a certified slob. I wear clothes till they rot away. Fashion don’t mean nothing to me, normally. But the 50s… yick.

I agree–my parents’ yearbooks from the late 50’s and early 60’s are quite horrifying.

And yes, comparing a Kate Beckinsale to your average soccer mom who is STILL (how in the fuck?) wearing denim button up shirts isn’t exactly fair.

Those of you poo-pooing 50’s fashion are straight-up crazy.

Those of you pooping 50s fashion need more roughage in your diet.

The 1920s¹ & the 1950s² created epic cultural kickage of ass, for the same reason each time: World Wars.

People have proven repeatedly that humanity’s collective urge for progress in the wake of a long season spent in living hell is amazing.

What came in the wake of the Black Death was even more breath-taking – reviving democracy after so many centuries in a coma? Distilling humanism out of thin air just from sheer all-out bloody-minded ballsiness? Outpacing scores of generations’ worth of technological knowhow & establishing many of the fundamental operating principles for true natural sciences in a few decades?

For sheer implausibility, that’s as if last year The Mighty Mouse Fan Club had teamed up with Zoroastrians & dominated the planet overnight.

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¹ ??? Flapper girls, fuck YEAH! ???
² ??? Beatnik girls, fuck YEAH! ???

With this modern day man

But I thought this was the modern man!

WF

“?” = ♥ … for flurck’s sake.

COMPOOTER Y U NO PASTE?!?!

Those of you pooping 50s fashion need more roughage in your diet.

The worst part is having to explain to the plumber why your toilet’s clogged with leopard-skin pillbox hats.

The worst part is having to explain to the plumber why your toilet’s clogged with leopard-skin pillbox hats.

Well duh, how else do you get rid of them when the narcs raid?

leopard-skin pillbox hats.

Snorg: Extra points for the Blonde on Blonde riff.

If you’re gonna burn your bra, over the sink is a good place to do it.