Posts by Danielle
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(Back to childhood nutrition again! These threads converge so often.)
I'm not convinced that it's constructive to have 'things we tell boys' and 'things we tell girls'.
This this this. Exactly. I hate the way sex education is gendered, so that it always ends up being 'girls are pressured innocent flowers, but boys are little horndogs'. It's insulting to both sides.
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I would like to note, irrelevantly, that the title of this post has caused me to mentally sing Lobo's 1970s smash hit 'Me and You and a Dog Named Boo' for approximately four straight hours.
Travellin' and livin' off the land...
Sigh.
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His speechwriter is apparently some 26-year-old wunderkind called Jon Favreau. (No, not that one.) And a coupla other young whippersnappers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/20speechwriter.html
(Get off my lawn!)
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The thing which gets lost in all this is that National is basically a conservative party rather than being a particularly right wing one.
I really like this explanatory theory. And I hope you're right. I just have a sort of niggling suspicion about those lurking, rigorous freemarketeers...
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Early actresses standing in cement outside Grauman's in Hollywood did it in two stages to make the print of their high heel look closer to the toe. Tricky but feasible.
That is so interesting! When I went there I wondered why the prints all seemed crazily miniscule...
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To be honest, you could say the same for Labour and their traditional base.
I kind of disagree, in that even though Labour has some iffy thirdwayishness about them, there is a kind of vague 'hey, poor peeps, here's something that helps you not starve to death!' quality to their policies. So you can say they stand for *something*. I still don't have any idea what National's general brief actually is. 'We're not Labour! But we won't sell everything off (yet)! Or cut benefits! Or do anything that might conceivably be associated with the new right reforms! We'll just... be better!' Um, OK...
Craig is going to splutter at me now. Three, two, one... :)
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do a little better than Irradiated Rogergnomes Under The Bed
But... if they don't stand for economic reform a la Roger Douglas, with the privatising and the freemarketeering and the tax cuts yadda yadda yadda, what exactly do they stand for then? I am confused.
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I find it very strange that this information is publicly available.
It's *gross*, but I don't think it's strange. If you have a many-centuries-long history of being chattel, your measurements are going to continue to be be part of the pop-cultural deal, even after you become a 'person'...
Those nude shots of Norma Jean are awesome, though. :)
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Her measurements are bigger than most actresses and models of previous generations.
I think our childhood nutrition has a lot to do with that. We're practically Amazonian compared with women who grew up during the Depression and WWII rationing.
Although, also: Jayne Mansfield. Marilyn Monroe. Mae West. Jane Russell. 'Twasn't all Audreys and Kate Hepburns either, back in the day.
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The same, I suppose could be said for this, which was a huge hit when I was about four
You put acid in my coffee, right?
(That is one of the single greatest things I've ever seen. Thank you. The tune is vaguely familiar, but I had no idea of the original context.)