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10-20-2010, 02:06 PM
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#2001
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: In my own world.
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Originally Posted by Versus
Garethsteen, do you cross-dress?
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Hmm...now there's a notion. Might try that later. 
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10-20-2010, 03:13 PM
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#2002
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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It's funny, because when girls dress like guys, they're called "tomboys." When guys dress like girls, they're called "fucking fags." Probably the reason why most men who like dresses indulge in the closet, and not in public.
Guys who crossdress are not necessarily gay.
If I dress in a manner similar to a Victorian man, even if the individual articles are made for women, is it crossdressing?
I think I just like Victorian clothing. I like to wear big skirts (though without bustles - I haven't gone that far into period dress), and waistcoats and toppers and pocket watches and frilly shirts and corset-look-alikes and such.
I'm pretty much resigned to having to make an awesome frock coat. I wouldn't mind one similar to the 1700s. They flare nicely and have nice sleeves.
Edit: A 1700s dress would be fun too, depending on how wide it was. Turning sideways to go through doors could be good or bad, depending on how practical I had/wanted to be at the time.
It could also depend on whether or not it had curtain tassles.
The Boyfriend has threatened to push me over if I ever wore one. He'd help me up after, of course, but...
If I ever wore one, I think I would probably deserve to be pushed over, and it would probably be worth it.
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10-20-2010, 03:21 PM
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#2003
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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Originally Posted by LaBelleDameSansMerci
It's funny, because when girls dress like guys, they're called "tomboys." When guys dress like girls, they're called "fucking fags."
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Consolatory bullshit. My personal view on this is that female subordination is so undeniably damaging, people can't argue that shit [and rightly so]. However, patriarchy is a double-edged sword.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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10-20-2010, 04:23 PM
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#2004
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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Patriarchy is a double-edged sword. As would matriarchy be. One edge may be blunter than the other, but still double-edged.
I rather wish men could dress in skirts and not weird everyone out (though I do include myself in the category of people who find publicly-skirt-wearing men surprising, I hope it's only because it's unusual). Women are allowed to wear pants, but unless a man is Scottish and wearing a kilt, wearing a garment in which both legs stick out of a single opening is considered a no-no.
I knew an Indian guy in university who wore non-tartan kilts a lot, but only while he was inside the residence. It was part of his comfy clothes.
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Twinkle, twinkle, little bat
How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
Like a tea-tray in the sky.
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10-21-2010, 03:29 PM
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#2005
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,812
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Originally Posted by Garethsteen
Hmm...now there's a notion. Might try that later. |
Oh, shit. I totally forgot I had even said anything. I guess it's too late now, though.
Anyway. I made an old lady's day by opening a door for her. I didn't think anything of it because I do that for everyone, but apparently she was very flattered.
Old people are awesome.
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10-21-2010, 07:21 PM
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#2006
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Posts: 357
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 Kicked ass in the debate in class tonight.
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"An orphan's curse would drag to hell
A spirit from on high ;
But oh ! more horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye !
Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die."
-The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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10-21-2010, 10:59 PM
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#2007
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: In my own world.
Posts: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Versus
Anyway. I made an old lady's day by opening a door for her. I didn't think anything of it because I do that for everyone, but apparently she was very flattered.
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Probably because few people do it anymore. The number of times I've held open a door for women and got the 'do I look like I need your help?' look. Feminism has killed chivalry in my oppinion.
What's made my day is I bought myself a new game and it's amazing fun, plus it's now friday. So now I've a whole weekend to play it while wrapped up in bed.
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10-21-2010, 11:40 PM
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#2008
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 3,812
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Originally Posted by Garethsteen
Probably because few people do it anymore. The number of times I've held open a door for women and got the 'do I look like I need your help?' look. Feminism has killed chivalry in my oppinion.
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I hate that so much. It's a polite gesture. Nothing else.
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10-23-2010, 03:30 PM
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#2010
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: colorado USA
Posts: 1,254
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Finding out that my parents are rolling in this evening instead of tomorrow is getting me quite giddy!
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10-23-2010, 10:26 PM
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#2011
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: colorado USA
Posts: 1,254
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What topped my parents arrival?
Having my most favorite hat ever back safe in my hands after fearing that I'd lost it forever while out to dinner with the family!
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For the tree of life is growing where the spirit never dies
And the bright light of salvation up in dark and empty skies
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10-24-2010, 03:55 AM
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#2012
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 2,721
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I reall, really need to start keeping the sleeping patterns of a normal person, and stop this underemployed vampiric catnapper thing that's been going on lately.
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All pleasure is relief from tension. - William S. Burroughs
Witches have no wit, said the magician who was weak.
Hula, hula, said the witches. - Norman Mailer
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10-24-2010, 01:12 PM
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#2013
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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Woke up to a GORGEOUS autumn day.
Went to BryccHouse's FreeWheel Bike Collective and worked on bikes for three hours.
Went home, painted, then hopped on my bike and went for a ride.
There's a show at a punk venue (a block down the road from my house) tonight, and it's gonna be great. 
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Autonomy Not Uniformity
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10-25-2010, 10:10 AM
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#2014
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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I recieved a letter from the taxbastards. They owe me £546 in overpaid tax and I will recieve a cheque for this in the next 2 weeks or so. I can FINALLY buy myself a laptop
Which means the end of sitting freezing my tits off in the spare room and the start of being nice and cosy in bed when floating about on the internet . I shall also need a dongle and a wireless router 
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10-25-2010, 11:05 AM
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#2015
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: So Utah
Posts: 36
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what made my day? i got sick of my laptop so i dissected it! now i'm gonna put the 12 gauge to it! gotta love Utah!
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10-25-2010, 01:44 PM
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#2016
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I was freaking out because I couldn't find a shirt like Spock's, but I finally found one. Now all I gotta do is add the trim! And make the ears, since apparently elf ears aren't all the rage this year.
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10-27-2010, 12:07 PM
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#2017
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NoVA
Posts: 5,290
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My friend got me a punk rock activity book as a joke. I'm quite tempted to photocopy a few pages for the kids that I babysit.
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10-28-2010, 10:39 AM
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#2018
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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I have some naaice tight black velvet trousers ready for WGW, AND my new bank card has arrived, AND so has the cheque for £546 from the taxbastards! WOOOO!
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10-28-2010, 12:14 PM
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#2019
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 46
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Originally Posted by korinna5555
My friend got me a punk rock activity book as a joke. I'm quite tempted to photocopy a few pages for the kids that I babysit. |
I almost bought that once.
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10-28-2010, 03:00 PM
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#2020
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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I was dreading logging into my online course because I didn't think I did good on my paper, but guess what! I got an 83%! Its the first paper I wrote in years! I procrastinated and changed my thesis the day before it was due! Huzzah.
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10-28-2010, 03:33 PM
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#2021
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: In your trash can
Posts: 2,594
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Watching babybat sleep. He's angelic.
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Help me, I'm holding on for dear life
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10-29-2010, 12:35 PM
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#2022
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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My Religion In The Modern World prof comparing the Catholic Church at the time of Luther to the Borg.
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10-29-2010, 01:11 PM
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#2023
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Smexyville, Colorado
Posts: 2,424
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Finding awesome Halloween wigs on sale at the local discount store. XD Eeeee!
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10-29-2010, 06:34 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 634
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Lucky last year I bought my wings for $45 (I looked like a chicken with hair lost).
I got my report card today...B-E-S-T D-A-Y E-V-E-R the lowest grade I got was an 88 out of 100 on two classes and the rest were above 90! I'm an A student!
not to sound like a snob but my parents bought me new platform mary janes and a leather spiked choker with a spider dangling from it. (but my dad told my english teacher that I did not want to read his mahatma gandhi book)
But it was all worth it (well not when my last essay came in and I had a breakdown) five page essays and new bags under my eyes.
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" The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear"
- H. P. Lovecraft
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10-29-2010, 08:00 PM
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#2025
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: elsewhere
Posts: 2,015
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I am successfully able to get my fun-contacts in AND out.
Onyx: Longest one I did was 16, double-spaced.
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How I wonder where you're at.
Up above the world you fly
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