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*SOMEONE* doesn't know how to properly do laundry.....

[Anyone else notice that Ben pulled a BLACK shirt out of a load of otherwise WHITE laundry? That's a good way to make it all be GREY laundry....]

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It could be that the basket still had the shirts in it when he dumped the whites on top. I've done that, so that I don't have to make two trips to the bedroom, just dump one load on top of the other.

- Mjolnir

Repeat after me: "We are all individuals"

That laundry comment reminds me of that simpsons episode with Bart's lucky red cap =^^=

Heh, yeah, same old goth freaks

HEY! We are all differant! Thats we all look like the same, half-starved, zombie clones in desperate need of sunlight!

Yeah, it kinda bugs me that guys say that are "fighting the machine" and "normality," yet I see far more diversity in the "norms."

edit: In case someone noticed, I posted five times trying to post the same thing. It kept entering some debug mode and said it could not post. It did post however. Five times, in fact.

5 times!

bleaghh!

99% of all human DNA is identical (or so I've heard)

the difference between first and second plase to olympic atheletes is typically less then a tenth of a second or otherwise standard unit of measurement.

so small a difference, and yet so vast a diversity. those who see everyone as being the same don't see us as we are, but see us as he/she wants to see us.

but seriously though folks, when talking about similarities you know in the end we're all indifferent.

I usually don't shop at Hot Topic, but I sure do like their Nintendo tee-shirts.

If everyone is the same, why are internet forums full of trolls and flamers?


Whether you're in a major city or some isolated little farm town, people are most assuredly individuals with no two alike. If you wander far enough out into extremism that you can no longer see any details when you look back at most of humanity... Maybe THEN, they all look the same?


And hey, after your dark clothing or brightly-colored clothing has been through the wash a few dozen times, it's already bled out all of the dye it's going to bleed. After that, it's safe to wash it all together. That's my experience anyway.

I doubt that she lets her dark clothes bleed out, probably uses shoe polish to keep em nice and black, not black and greying.

plus I think most people in one form or another are either extreem or are only a few short steps from being extreem, true most people also don't cross those steps no matter how short they are, but that said from one point of view or other everyone looks the same


(a harmless hypothetical:)
yalls don't have my DNA! (and aren't you glad you don't! ) and therefore are the same in that you all don't have it and only I do, therefore I am the only individual around here being the only one who has my DNA!
(/harmless hypothetical)

Well, let's not forget that she's a poser - most goths are entirely aware of the irony inherent in their lifestyle.

(Then again, most goths I know are just people who like to play dress-up in public. I don't think I've ever actually met a lifestyle goth who was particularly morose about it; mostly, they just had seriously bent senses of humour.)

shyal_malkes wrote:(a harmless hypothetical:)
yalls don't have my DNA! (and aren't you glad you don't! ) and therefore are the same in that you all don't have it and only I do, therefore I am the only individual around here being the only one who has my DNA!
(/harmless hypothetical)

And the logical conclusions (read: word twisting games) to this harmless hypothetical are...
1) It's good to be a non-individual (if we're supposed to be glad that we don't have the DNA - namely, yours - to make us individuals)
2) If we did have the DNA (namely yours) to make us individuals... we would all have the same DNA... and would therefore all be non-individuals
3) You (the only posessor of your DNA and therefore the only individual)are the same as everyone else in that you don't have my DNA, making you (the only individual) a non-individual.

Aaaaaannnd, in conclusion...

[Drumroll...]

It's weird to be normal and it's normal to be weird.

Get's handed memo. Reads...

Sorry folks, wrong conclusion. The correct conclusion:
Wayfarer will stop causing mischief now.

I - What -
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Two things... on the wash... who knows. Maybe it was that one shirt to finish the load. Maybe she doesn't care about gray undies. Maybe she was unobservant.

On hot topic and what not... heh.

Hot topic and other stores that cater to "counter culture" are really just an outlet for rebellious natures while capitalizing on disposable income provided by parents who feel it is easier to simply provide money rather than oversee the purchasing process. Really, how does getting a nose ring or a green day album do anything to change the existing status quo? Really, all you've done is bought your goods and proceeded to go into the corner and do... nothing. The threat of any kind of organization for real substantial change is circumvented and, at the same time, made profitable.

This is a lesson learned from the 60's and 70's. The counter culture of the time was effective because it organized and attempted to forward a political agenda. Nevermind that it was doomed to failure, it was still something. The counter culture paraphanalia were not mass produced in taiwan, but by the counter culturalists themselves. The money went into pockets with the intent on furthering the culture revolution, rather than into the pockets of the shareholders. Counter culture is so ineffective because the youth of today... and probably of yesteryears... never think about where the money goes after you pay for your 'screw the world' T-shirt.

"Hense why counter culture is relatively harmless to your society. It is a pain in the caboose when you actually have to live with it though."

Somber

Actually, Somber,

Most of the "sixties counterculture" was just as fake and fabricated as the Hot Topic culture today. More, probably.... it's just that you couldn't look it up online and count on your fingers and toes.

In case you didn't notice, the RIAA wasn't exactly going broke back then. Neither were the musicians.... about the time Lennon was singing "imagine no posessions" he was already squatting atop a multimillion dollar fortune.

And for most hippy-nostalgics, it's a real kick in the stones to learn that <I>Woodstock was a for-pay fee-on-entry event.</i> They just eventually got swarmed by so many people the fences couldn't keep all the gatecrashers out.

Bell bottoms, nehru jackets, all the other hippie sartorial splendor--- really think the counterculture produced those? Most of 'em couldn't WALK a straight line, much less SEW one. They bought off the rack just like you. And tie dye was, ironically, a pop phenom because the RIT dye company pushed it. (It literally saved them from bankruptcy.) For every "counterculture" item, there was a boardroom full of fat little bald white guys in suits patting themselves on the back while they counted their money.

The only company that really suffered during the Hippy Rebellion was Ivory Soap.

Ivory soap's a ripoff anyway; the stuff is mostly air. I don't really care too much if they lost sales.

I think the 60s counter-culture did a tremendous amount of good for the Indian (India Indian, not American Indian) cotton clothing industry, though.

Plus it contributed to the funniest divorce I know about.

Dare I ask?

Luna_Northcat wrote:Ivory soap's a ripoff anyway; the stuff is mostly air. I don't really care too much if they lost sales.

I think the 60s counter-culture did a tremendous amount of good for the Indian (India Indian, not American Indian) cotton clothing industry, though.

Plus it contributed to the funniest divorce I know about.

Yup..yup...yup!!!

HEEEYYY PRETTY KITTY.....Welcome back.....good to see yer "face" again!!!

*big (gentle) wolfy hug*

S'aaruuk

Aw, thanks! *furry hug back*

Good to see you too.

StrangeWulf13 wrote: Dare I ask?

Heh heh heh....

My sister-in-law --brother's wife-- was married before. She married almost the minute she turned 18, just to escape her family. This was a big mistake. He was an older middle manager who wanted a young and pretty trophy wife, and to be honest I think she had no idea what a "trophy wife" was, much less what she was getting herself into. It turned out that the guy was a complete control freak; he not only bought all of her clothes (and threw out all the clothes she brought with her as "unacceptable"), he decided what she would wear every day -- when he got up in the morning he would lay out her outfit for her on the bed, including accessories like jewelry and the handbag she was allowed to carry. Everything of his, and everything in their house, had to be "just so" as well, right down to his drilling her for two weeks in exactly how to iron the creases in his shirts and how socks should be folded and put away. If an item of clothing aquired a spot or worn bit it was thrown away immediately, because everything had to be absolutely pristine.

He only wore white underwear and white shirts, and they had to sparkle.

He actually starched and ironed his boxers.

Well, apparently she actually lived with this for two years. The final straw was because she was vegetarian. She'd been vegetarian since she was 12 -- fortunately she isn't the kind of person who tries to force this on anybody else, she had just made the decision that she didn't want animals dying to feed her, and she stuck to it. Which is not a feeling I share, but is something I can respect.

Anyway, her husband knew this. And he knew her feelings about not wanting animals to die for her. And knowing this, he went out and bought her a mink coat. There was a big business Christmas party coming up, you see, and he instructed her to wear it. (He had also picked out a rather stunning blue dress, and her belt, purse, necklace, and earrings.)

She snapped. The afternoon before the party, while he was away at work, she bought up a job lot of RIT dye, and she tie-dyed every single piece of white cotton in the house, including all his carefully starched, pressed boxer shorts. And she left them draped over everything.

Then she showed up to the party in complete hippie clothes -- the flares, the gauze blouse, the giant clay hippie beads -- and announced that they were getting a divorce to everyone.

Then she grabbed her suitcases and left, so unfortunately there is no description to be had about what his face was like when he got home. Imagination must be left to fill in for that.

She's not actually a hippie (never was), but given the situation, I can't think of anything that would have had quite the same impact. Nor, I guess, could she.

So there you go...I tend to regard divorce as messy, ugly and undesireable, but if it has to happen, well....

[...unWARP!!!]

Good evening.


Golly....


Sounds like what's happening on "Cathy", except Cathy is the control freak....

Live and learn, I suppose. Your sister-in-law must have a lot of patience developed by now

The JAM wrote:

Golly....


Sounds like what's happening on "Cathy", except Cathy is the control freak....

Live and learn, I suppose. Your sister-in-law must have a lot of patience developed by now

Cathy? As in, the comic strip? I have to admit, I wouldn't know -- I decided the strip was boring and stopped reading it years ago. Maybe I'll check it out.

"Your sister-in-law must have a lot of patience developed by now " -- considering that she has stayed married to my brother, ooooooooohhh yes.