4th Floor - Shoes, Linens, Nice People Hidey Places

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BLACKEYEDGIRL

Friday, December 2, 2005 2:17 PM

New floor!! Yay!!! As promised, it is Friday, thus a day for a new floor!!

Catch up on this thread here: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15184&m=212225#212225

This is the 4th floor, where we will ask Haidon how exactly we can post the Juggling Gosling emoticon (submit it to Haken too so everyone can enjoy it, share and enjoy!!).

I will rehash ScorpionRegent's Question to start us off on our HAPPIER floor:

Quote:
New topic: places, If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Why? Have you been there before? If so, what happened? If not, why would you go there? Do you know people there/ Tell us about them if you dare. This is a sci fi chat room, these places, need not be real.

My Real Place? In Aswan on the Nile River in Egypt. At the Cataract Hotel sipping tea, puffing on a hookah and eating little sandwiches while overlooking the botanical gardens, the felucas sailing past (Egyptian sail boats), seeing the granite islands covered in birds and seeing the sun hide behind the mausoleum of Muhammed Ali (different one). I've been there before and at sunset, I do not think there is a more beautiful place on earth. I don't necessarily need to be there with anyone, but I wish I could take my mother, she would love it (but has anxiety/panic issues so she can't).

My Sci-Fi place? Let me think on that a while...

Welcome to the new floor!

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Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."

MAL4PREZ

Friday, December 2, 2005 2:24 PM

Good morning all! Come with me on my vacation -

--- everything blurs into ---

a chartered sailboat on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. a friendly crew to drive the boat and let you help if you're so inclined. 6-8 guests sleep on the deck under the stars, wake up in the morning and roll into the blue water. Visit beaches and ruins and little towns, and party with Aussies on neighboring boats as you meander along the coast ...

--- blurs back to your local reality ---

I had a friend who did this. It will be me someday. Oh yes it will.

m4p

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, December 2, 2005 2:43 PM

I've done that.

They're known as Gullets. And yes I recommend you do it someday. They're amazing! The food is always fresh too usually caught that day from the sea!

One night we had Crabs, Lobsters and Snapper cooked for us on deck under the midnight moon. This after a hard day's loafing about secluded beaches, and swimming so much that salt crystals would form all over your body... Man what a holiday.

www.cirqus.com

MAL4PREZ

Friday, December 2, 2005 3:08 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
I've done that.

They're known as Gullets. And yes I recommend you do it someday. They're amazing! The food is always fresh too usually caught that day from the sea!

One night we had Crabs, Lobsters and Snapper cooked for us on deck under the midnight moon. This after a hard day's loafing about secluded beaches, and swimming so much that salt crystals would form all over your body... Man what a holiday.

www.cirqus.com

mmmm grilled seafood

**waves of envy going your way**

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

CALLMESERENITY

Friday, December 2, 2005 3:50 PM

I don't like all this talk of exciting far-away places.

It's making me not like where I am even more!

*heads back down to the first floor to renew her efforts on portal construction*

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

BLACKEYEDGIRL

Friday, December 2, 2005 4:04 PM

Okay CallMeSerenity, if you could use the portal to go anywhere or see anything what would it be?? Come on, besides the secret hidey place of nice guys. You could go to France, or Mars or The Klondike or wherever. Sometimes, it's nice to have a Fantasy Friday!

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http://pluralofapocalypse.blogspot.com
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Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."

CHRISISALL

Friday, December 2, 2005 4:42 PM

I would rent a boat and go to a deserted tropical island with my wife so we could run around naked and make love on the beach, whilst our veggie-burgers cooked over a big fire.

Hey! Get that satelite camera outta here!!!

Lost Chrisisall

ORPHEUS

Friday, December 2, 2005 5:00 PM

4th floor! That's a great thing to wake up to.

Where would I go for real? Someplace up in coastal New England. Maine, most likely. My dad and I took a trip up there a couple years ago. Best seafood I've ever had, and some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Plus, it's Stephen King country.

My sci-fi place to go? Floston Paradise (that floating cruise-liner from The Fifth Element).
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"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

BLACKEYEDGIRL

Friday, December 2, 2005 5:13 PM

I've always wanted to see Maine. I've always wanted to see what inspires Stephen King to write such macabre stories.

I'm so with you on the Flotson Paradise, I wanna see Pavalaguna.

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http://pluralofapocalypse.blogspot.com
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Inara: "Do aliens live among us?"
Kaylee: "Yes. One of them's a doctor."

ORPHEUS

Friday, December 2, 2005 5:20 PM

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I'm so with you on the Flotson Paradise, I wanna see Pavalaguna.

We'll make a trip of it sometime. Maybe when that portal gets figured out.
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"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

CALLMESERENITY

Friday, December 2, 2005 5:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BlackEyedGirl:
I've always wanted to see Maine. I've always wanted to see what inspires Stephen King to write such macabre stories.

I love Maine. In the summer. I have loads of family up there. We usually go up there every year. It's my favourite state. (And I've been to all but three.)

In fact, I very nearly hit Stephen King with my car near Bar Harbor. At least, I'm 95% sure it was him. Or someone who looked EXACTLY like him. It FREAKED me out, let me tell you.

Oh, and if you want good Stephen King stories, XanderLHarris had dinner with him at her aunt's house. She's got stories!

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

ILLUSORY

Friday, December 2, 2005 5:51 PM

Quote:
New topic: places, If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Why? Have you been there before? If so, what happened? If not, why would you go there? Do you know people there/ Tell us about them if you dare. This is a sci fi chat room, these places, need not be real.

/lurk

How about some place on each continent? I've been to europe, mideast, and most of the US, that leaves south america, asia, australia, or antartica, unless the mideast doesn't count as africa. Its all about the journy not so much the destination.

A couple weeks ago a friend sent me ( http://www.jagszone.com/other/ode_guy.html) after having much the same discussion with a friend of mine. Particularly the definition of too nice.... thats a killer when some one tells you thats the reason they can't date you btw.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Friday, December 2, 2005 6:39 PM

ok sorry I'm going to show off.... Just I've had the fortune to have had folks who believed in travelling with their kids, so my bro and I have had the pleasure in seeing, and living:

South America: (Paraguay,Brasil,Venezuela,Argentina,Peru,Bolivia)

America: (New York, Boston)

Europe: (well UK, France,Spain-(personal favourite) Italy,Belgium,Holland,Denmark,Switzerland,Austria,
Turkey)

Carribean: (Grenada, Barbados, Carriacou, Petite Martinique, Trinadad & Tobago)

And come February I will be going to Australia for three weeks. So soon I'll have another continent :)

Ok done bragging sorry.

www.cirqus.com

CALLMESERENITY

Friday, December 2, 2005 6:54 PM

I made the mistake of putting horseradish mustard on my (veggie) hot dog. It hurts my nose to eat it. Whew!

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

SERYN

Friday, December 2, 2005 7:59 PM

i love horseradish but it has to be eaten in really tiny quantities on a fork, same with anything pickled, and choclate spread.

All of these fabulous destinations, i'm afraid i'm going to come off as really mundane now...

the place i love the most is the Pennines, the bar of small mountains that runs down the middle of the uk. y'see, we live on the west side of them and my grandparents on the east, so we've been driving over them eversince i was a kid, hundres of times, in all kind's of weather and every season, and come glorious blazing sunshine making every field look like its made of rippling molten emeralds, thick blanketing snow, or even fog so thick that everything close is a muted ethereal shade of blue or lavender and lorries come screaming out of it, lights blazing and so close that you thing they must be after you or something.(er, that that when i was about five)Its just a magical journey.

I think the reason i want to go there again is that i always travel that route with my family, and for once i'd like to travel it with someone who appreciates it the way i do.

Otherwise, Venice, carnivale! i've a not so secret ambition to run away to there and apprentic myself to the maskmaker and costumers there.

Trying to learn italian first though.

'you'll go to that special level of hell - the one reserved for child molesters and people who talk at the theatre'

MAL4PREZ

Friday, December 2, 2005 8:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
Otherwise, Venice, carnivale! i've a not so secret ambition to run away to there and apprentic myself to the maskmaker and costumers there.

Italy, good call! I had a conference in Florence once, and it was the BEST week! I really need more time in Italy - food, wine, scenery, history, shopping (and I'm not a shopper, it's just that good!) ...

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

CALLMESERENITY

Friday, December 2, 2005 8:27 PM

The horseradishy mustard made my head and sinuses hurt. It's evil and must be punished.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

HAIDON

Friday, December 2, 2005 8:54 PM

Ok, well, I had to fix the animation before I could bring myself to actually continue this. I had one of the little goslings going off the edge, and I just couldn't have that.

Now, as to inserting it....

Just like so.

NOw that I'm done being a smartass, you just do it like you'd do any other link. find somewheres to host the file (imageshack, etc.) and just paste the URL to it as though you were gonna link it to someone. Voila, it just decides to show up as an image.

As for submitting it to Haken, how might I go about doing so?

XEROGRAVITY

Friday, December 2, 2005 9:52 PM

I'd love to rejoin this thread. Just kind of wondering where my last post in the previous thread went. Thought I posted something there. Even thought I got e-mails saying 2 other people replied to that specific post.

Strangely enough... I find nothing. I must be having edited Deja Vu of some sort. Life and it's many mysteries.

XG

Candid debate used to be so much fun here.

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

CYBERSNARK

Friday, December 2, 2005 10:03 PM

Real world:
San Francisco, 'cause my two great loves are seafood and Star Trek. If you don't get the significance of how these three things intersect, I'm not gonna help you. Plus, San Fran has the added benefit of not being overly hot, and I have trouble taking heat (no tropical vacations for me, I'd die).

Tokyo, 'cause I'm an animé freak. This wouldn't just be a vacation, but a working trip --I wanna write for an animé series. Won't happen though until I learn some Japanese (and have at least one finished show under my belt), 'cause I don't want to come across as some wierd gaijin otaku.

Unreal world:
Deep Space Nine. No question, no hesitation. Everyone (in the shows and books, anyway) talks about how uncomfortable, dark, and ominous that station is, but I fell in love in the first episode. It's like space-gothic, all dark and melancholy and full of spines and not-quite-right angles and almost-alive curves. I've gone there so many times in my head I almost feel like I know my way around. Plus I like the Bajorans. They're good people.

With all apologies to Joss. Much as I love the Firefly 'verse, I don't think I'd wanna live there.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

XEROGRAVITY

Friday, December 2, 2005 10:09 PM

Captain Kirk joins "Save the Whales".

DS9 rawked. Everyone needed a break from "The Love Boat" flying thru space. Maybe if Whoopee Goldberg had been named Isaac, it could have been different. Alas...

XG

No such thing as gravity. The "Earth-that-was" just sucks.

JADEHAND

Friday, December 2, 2005 11:17 PM

Late start today, good to see things active. Interesting topic.
Places I think I'd like to visit: UK (spent a couple hours in an airport there, doesn't count) All the folk from there I've met on-line seem great, and all the best music comes from there. Myan Ruins (always interested) Japan (cause, wow)
Places I'd like to return to: Holland.
Fictional place I'd like to live: A home near all my friends with portals in the basement to Harlaam, Holland; The Safe House in Milwaukee, and Disney World(it's hard to not have fun there).

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Forgive me if I stare, But I can see the island behind your tired, troubled eyes." -Fantastic Place (Marbles) -Marillion

CITIZEN

Friday, December 2, 2005 11:20 PM

Trollin' Trollin' Trollin'
Keep them Troller's Trollin'
Troll-Hide!

(Thanks to Chrisisall for the inspiration)

Hi guys.

Sooo, where's the shoe section, I need some.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

JADEHAND

Saturday, December 3, 2005 2:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haidon:
Ok, well, I had to fix the animation before I could bring myself to actually continue this. I had one of the little goslings going off the edge, and I just couldn't have that.

Now, as to inserting it....

Just like so.

NOw that I'm done being a smartass, you just do it like you'd do any other link. find somewheres to host the file (imageshack, etc.) and just paste the URL to it as though you were gonna link it to someone. Voila, it just decides to show up as an image.

As for submitting it to Haken, how might I go about doing so?

I passed the request along to Amiton, who has been in tag and is helpping Haken Admin the site.
Hopefully we'll all be doing the :Juggle: soon

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"Dreaming the dream that only the sleepless know."
"Say you understand me, And I will leave myself completely.
Forgive me if I stare, But I can see the island behind your tired, troubled eyes." -Fantastic Place (Marbles) -Marillion

SHINYTALENT

Saturday, December 3, 2005 3:21 AM

Simple. Victoria, B.C. @ Curious Comics. If I could I would live there. I know it sounds kinda silly and not as exotic as Egypt but Victoria is Beautiful and I could stroll down to that great hotdog vendor across the road from the Empress and just watch the people stroll past.

The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.

HAIDON

Saturday, December 3, 2005 3:21 AM

Woohoo! I'm gonna be famous :)

AS for actually answering the pressing question that has been brought forth... (I actually intended to do that on my last post, but absent-mindeness and work-like duties prevented it)

If I were to visit somewhere here in the states, it would have to be L.A. My friends and I joke we live in L.A. (that's Louisville Area for us,) but I'd love to see just how that city runs. Knowing my luck though, I'd probably get myself murdered.

If I were to go somewhere abroad, it would be a toss up. The Netherlands, or Japan. I think Netherlands would win, because I at least know someone there, and between my knowledge of English and French, I might actually be able to communicate. But Japan is just so mysterious, I'd like to just have the chance to stroll through the street markets there.

Somewhere non-existant? Lots of choices here. I'd say travellingback in time and spending a couple of years in knight training in the middle ages would be super, but I'd just take all our modern illnesses back with me and kill every living thing... that would be not so nice.

Serenity, on the other hand... spend a couple months sailing with the crew, helping them be bad guys (shiny!) would be super cool. Maybe Jayne would let me fire off a couple rounds with VEra :)

I have to say though, I like the idea of DS9 now that you guys bring it up. I never did get why so many people were turned off from that show. I think it was the best Trek show ever. I'd still pick our little Firefly over ds9 any day, though.

JADEHAND

Saturday, December 3, 2005 4:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haidon:
Woohoo! I'm gonna be famous :)

If I were to go somewhere abroad, it would be a toss up. The Netherlands, or Japan. I think Netherlands would win, because I at least know someone there, and between my knowledge of English and French, I might actually be able to communicate. But Japan is just so mysterious, I'd like to just have the chance to stroll through the street markets there..

I hope so. I gave a link to this thread so he/they could see the emoticon and give all credit to you.

Netherlands and Japan are two of my choices as well. I've been to the Netherlands, all you need is English. Everyone there takes 7 years of English in school. They also seem to be happy to get a chance to practice it with us foreign folk and will attempt to teach you some Dutch, as opposed to other places that get offended that you would dare visit without knowing the language.
Having not been to Japan, I can't say how they are there, But from what I've heard, likely similar in manner to Netherlands. One funny thing about the Dutch, from my limited time there, the People tend towards the tall, yet the cars are getting smaller all the time. Limited real estate doesn't provide the chance to expand roads, so the cars stay small. You'll see things smaller than a VW Bug stop and a 7 footer get out. More odd than funny. They, of course, rely primarily on Bike and Rail. Of course Holland also is known for it's lieneancy on certain things. Adult stores are common and have no stigma attached as they tend to here. No blacked out windows, you can walk down the street and look at all the various toys in the window. Also the "coffee houses" allow the purchase and use on site(removing it from the purchase site is still illegal from what I understand) of MJ. On the street where I stayed for about 2 weeks, there was an Adult shop, a coffee house, and a record shop for rave DJs all within two blocks. (Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll) I found the image amusing. I, of course, only visited the record shop. But they didn't have any Marillion *sniff*.

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"Dreaming the dream that only the sleepless know."
"Say you understand me, And I will leave myself completely.
Forgive me if I stare, But I can see the island behind your tired, troubled eyes." -Fantastic Place (Marbles) -Marillion

SAMEERTIA

Saturday, December 3, 2005 5:11 AM

Don't look at me! I just came for the shoes. Something in a nice suede, maybe a low-heeled boot?

Vacation.
Vacation?
Oh yeah! I remember what those are! Looking forward to 10 days in Scotland come March. YAY!

ORPHEUS

Saturday, December 3, 2005 5:12 AM

Quote:
Simple. Victoria, B.C. @ Curious Comics.

I've been there. Victoria's a beautiful town (city? town?). I love that vague Native American vibe the town gives off. After spending a creepy night in Vancouver (homeless people, old people, long story), Victoria was just breathtaking. I'd love to visit there again.
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"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

SCORPIONREGENT

Saturday, December 3, 2005 6:57 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
The horseradishy mustard made my head and sinuses hurt. It's evil and must be punished.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

Oh come on, I can't get enough Wasabi with my Sushi once I get over the sensation my nose has been broken.

Scorpion Regent

XEROGRAVITY

Saturday, December 3, 2005 10:15 AM

Haidon... if your flight lands you in LA, go have a look around. BUT, grab the first available bus out of there and take a crosscountry tour. Throw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, drop off the standard route, just drop out altogether, and go see the real deal. LA is the over-marketed gate of Disneyland. The real Utopia is off the map. No tour guides can lead you in that direction.

COZEN

Saturday, December 3, 2005 11:53 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Orpheus:
Victoria's a beautiful town....

I agree, 'tis beautiful. Also noteworthy is a recent demographic study which revealed the average age of a Victorian resident is "expired of natural causes at a very old age".

Folks on this thread are by and large so very nice. How can this be? Were y'all traumatised into it by terrifying space monkeys?

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"You think somebody wouldn't go see somebody if they didn't want entertainment?"

ORPHEUS

Saturday, December 3, 2005 12:17 PM

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Were y'all traumatised into it by terrifying space monkeys?

I know I was.
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"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

CITIZEN

Saturday, December 3, 2005 12:22 PM

I enslaved the Space Monkeys and trained them in the arts of the Ninja, does that count?

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

SCORPIONREGENT

Saturday, December 3, 2005 3:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
Haidon... if your flight lands you in LA, go have a look around. BUT, grab the first available bus out of there and take a crosscountry tour. Throw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, drop off the standard route, just drop out altogether, and go see the real deal. LA is the over-marketed gate of Disneyland. The real Utopia is off the map. No tour guides can lead you in that direction.

Hey we may have our differences, but I'm going to agree with you on this one XG.

Scorpion Regent

CALLMESERENITY

Saturday, December 3, 2005 4:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:

Oh come on, I can't get enough Wasabi with my Sushi once I get over the sensation my nose has been broken.

Scorpion Regent

Not me. Don't like Wasabi, don't eat sushi. I can tolerate some hot foods but most just give me sores on the inside of my mouth, so I avoid them. And I felt sick the whole rest of the day from the horseradish. Never again.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

I have a live journal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/callmeserenity/

SERYN

Saturday, December 3, 2005 9:48 PM

Quote:

citizen wrote:
Saturday, December 03, 2005 02:22
I enslaved the Space Monkeys and trained them in the arts of the Ninja, does that count?

are you serious? thats like giving a trained ape a gun, oh, hang on...yeah

(sorry, could.not.resist.)

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'do not fear me, ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony'

BRUISERSMOM

Sunday, December 4, 2005 1:07 AM

I've been to Moscow, St. Petersburg and Kiev and enjoyed being able to sit in a restaurant, drink and eat with friends and new acquaintances and not have the waitress be in a hurry to get us out of the restaurant. That's one of the differences about that part of the world. Going out to eat is still an event that everyone takes their time doing, so you can sit back, chew your food slowly and enjoy the company of you compatriots without the waitress putting the check down on the table before you're done eating or immediately after you put the last bite in your mouth.

I also like the souvenirs from there.

As for where I would like to go, I would like to see those countries that I fly over to get to Russia and Ukraine.

"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."--George Mikes

CITIZEN

Sunday, December 4, 2005 1:07 PM

Hmm, Where I'd like to go:
Back to Germany for the Oktoberfest would be great.
Or back to Oz to see the family.

I've always wanted to go on a world tour, just drive through europe and asia and workout how to make my car go over water.

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

SERYN

Sunday, December 4, 2005 9:25 PM

This floor promised shoes, and so far nothing!

well, here they are, I'd like to announce the arrival of my brand new pretty's - they're antique gold coloured with pointed toes and the cutest little kitten heels, low sided so you get the tiniest bit of arch showing and just loose enough that they occaisionally slip off and dangle louche-ly from the toes.

its just foot bliss, they are getting worn for every party this season, especially as they are the exact right shade to complement my kimono jacket and my green dress, oh i'm in shoe heaven!

Ahem, ok, i'm done now.

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'do not fear me, ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony'

JADEHAND

Monday, December 5, 2005 1:32 AM

ummmmm......Shoes.
and Linens!
Looks like everyone has retired to their Hidey Places for the weekend.
* likes shiny black boot thingies

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Forgive me if I stare, But I can see the island behind your tired, troubled eyes." -Fantastic Place (Marbles) -Marillion

SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 7:59 AM

Yes, mmmmm, shoe's...

no, hang on, I meant yes, it looks like they have all gone for the week end.

dear jadehand,

do you have any idea how I would put a picture on one of these posts?

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'do not fear me, ours is a peaceful race, and we must live in harmony'

HAIDON

Monday, December 5, 2005 2:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
Haidon... if your flight lands you in LA, go have a look around. BUT, grab the first available bus out of there and take a crosscountry tour. Throw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, drop off the standard route, just drop out altogether, and go see the real deal. LA is the over-marketed gate of Disneyland. The real Utopia is off the map. No tour guides can lead you in that direction.

When I said I wanted to visit L.A., I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was some spectacular place that represents the beauty of America, or any such gibberish like that. Honestly, I think that city is probably about the nuttiest place anyone could imagine to live. That's what intrigues me about it. I mean, you gotta wonder what's going on in people's heads that choose to live in a place where gunplay is commonplace on the freeways. (Yeah, I'm sure that's probably overstated/exaggerated.)

Visiting NYC might fit into the same kind of mind set. If I were looking to visit either of those cities, I'd be looking for crazy and haphazard, not spectacular and amazing.

BRUISERSMOM

Monday, December 5, 2005 2:46 PM

Yea, gunplay on the freeways happens but it's frequency is overstated by the press. Remember safe landing don't make the news.

"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals."--George Mikes

MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 3:42 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BruisersMom:
As for where I would like to go, I would like to see those countries that I fly over to get to Russia and Ukraine.

I spent a month in the Republic of Georgia last summer, holy cow what a beautiful country. They drive like maniacs and whatever you do DON'T eat the cheese

but the scenery is gorgeous, the pace is slow, and the people are super friendly. And swear words in Georgian are the best. (I'd share, but they defy typing)

As for souvenirs: the guilded drinking horns, as in actual horns from a big beast of burden, hollowed out and guilded, were my favorite.

m4p

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

SCORPIONREGENT

Monday, December 5, 2005 4:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Haidon:
Quote:
Originally posted by XeroGravity:
Haidon... if your flight lands you in LA, go have a look around. BUT, grab the first available bus out of there and take a crosscountry tour. Throw on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, drop off the standard route, just drop out altogether, and go see the real deal. LA is the over-marketed gate of Disneyland. The real Utopia is off the map. No tour guides can lead you in that direction.

When I said I wanted to visit L.A., I didn't mean to imply that I thought it was some spectacular place that represents the beauty of America, or any such gibberish like that. Honestly, I think that city is probably about the nuttiest place anyone could imagine to live. That's what intrigues me about it. I mean, you gotta wonder what's going on in people's heads that choose to live in a place where gunplay is commonplace on the freeways. (Yeah, I'm sure that's probably overstated/exaggerated.)

Visiting NYC might fit into the same kind of mind set. If I were looking to visit either of those cities, I'd be looking for crazy and haphazard, not spectacular and amazing.

You are probably thinking of Hollywood and maybe Venice. The rest of the greater LA Megalopolis is one giant urban sprawl that goes on and on. The freeway gunplay, if it happens it gets frontpage and opens the 5 o'clock news, but it's not that common it's just there are so many people that someone is bound to do something in a given day. You are more likely to get hit by lightening. Some of LA can be nice, but for the most part it's just a big sprawl where hordes of people are struggling to keep up with the outrageous cost of living in a place that is marketed as too desireable for words. There's smog, crime, superficiality, conspicious consumption, retched excess and everything else that you can possibly imagine and plenty more you can't. It's good, it's bad, it's ugly.

Oh yeah, the beach is never as nice as Baywatch.

Scorpion Regent

BLACKEYEDGIRL

Monday, December 5, 2005 5:27 PM

M4P: OMG I want a guilded drinking horn! That's so cool!!

OMG! I love shoes! I can't remember if it was Seryn or who on this thread that brought up shoes, but hot damn I love shoes. I have tiny tiny feet so I will basically buy any shoe that fits me. Although I have a thing for knee-high black boots. I love tall black boots!! I also love pointy toed shoes but that's cos they make my feet look bigger (I range for 4 1/2-6 depending on manufacturer, so I'm dying for them to look a bit bigger (bell bottoms completely eat up my feet), just for the guys, the average womans foot is a size 7-9). I have this adorable pair of pink ankle boots with pointy toes. Oh how I wish I had more to wear them with. Otherwise 99% of my shoes/boots are black. Cos they go with anything!! I used to have over 200 pairs of shoes, but I threw out and sold off some when I moved up here, and the only plus to living in Wausau is a HUGE Asian population which means stores actually carry tiny tiny shoes cos those little Hmong girls have tiny tiny feet too!!

Okay i will shut up about shoes before people start to wonder if I have some sort of fetish (I don't I just love shoes, I am woman, what do you expect?).

-BEG, who is out of the hidey weekend hidey hole.

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Monday, December 5, 2005 5:40 PM

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Originally posted by BlackEyedGirl:
M4P: OMG I want a guilded drinking horn! That's so cool!!

OMG! I love shoes! I can't remember if it was Seryn or who on this thread that brought up shoes, but hot damn I love shoes. I have tiny tiny feet so I will basically buy any shoe that fits me. Although I have a thing for knee-high black boots. I love tall black boots!! I also love pointy toed shoes but that's cos they make my feet look bigger (I range for 4 1/2-6 depending on manufacturer, so I'm dying for them to look a bit bigger (bell bottoms completely eat up my feet), just for the guys, the average womans foot is a size 7-9). I have this adorable pair of pink ankle boots with pointy toes. Oh how I wish I had more to wear them with. Otherwise 99% of my shoes/boots are black. Cos they go with anything!! I used to have over 200 pairs of shoes, but I threw out and sold off some when I moved up here, and the only plus to living in Wausau is a HUGE Asian population which means stores actually carry tiny tiny shoes cos those little Hmong girls have tiny tiny feet too!!

Okay i will shut up about shoes before people start to wonder if I have some sort of fetish (I don't I just love shoes, I am woman, what do you expect?).

-BEG, who is out of the hidey weekend hidey hole.

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No fair! I have size 10s and all the shoes that are so cute on the rack are monstrous on me! And pointy shoes are like 2 feet long! (funny you use the phrase though - I've been playing with a fanfic that makes good use of a pointy shoe

)

hmm, maybe this shoe discussion will serve as a non-nice boy detector. Or will nice boys flee from it as well?

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HAIDON

Monday, December 5, 2005 5:53 PM

I won't flee.....

However, I currently own a whopping total of 3 pairs of shoes.

Pair #1: White tennis shoes. For everyday wear. $7.

Pair #2: Hiking boots - for those dressy kinda days. $8.

Pair #3: Leather medieval bootses. For the ren faires. $?? over a C-note, but I got them for my birthday, so I can't be sure.

As for the weekend.... I spent most of it scooping vomit out of the rug. (My nephew had a nasty stomach virus. Poor kid.)

CITIZEN

Monday, December 5, 2005 6:10 PM

Hmm, gunplay on freeways, I'm kinda glad that I live in Britian now...

As for shoes, I have steel toe cap boots that I don't wear anymore (£~40), Work shoes that have almost fallen apart (£35), and some Converse All Stars that I wear most of the time and actually have fallen apart (£35).

$8? I thought £25 was cheap for shoes, rip-off Britian man

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BLACKEYEDGIRL

Monday, December 5, 2005 6:37 PM

Okay, my most expensive pair of shoes are a pair of knee high black leather boots from New York, which I got for $185 on sale cos they were sample sized and no one else would buy them! But as a woman, this is a small price to pay to own what I have affectionately deemed as 'Franken-Hooker' boots (they look like is Frankenstein was a woman and a hooker like what he would wear).

My everyday shoes though are a pair of New Balance 470 or 485's. Those I got for like $25 a pair on clearance. I buy a lot of shoes on clearance where I can.

OMG this just became the shoe-thread. Or would it be more appropriate to call it the shoe-string???

MM vomit cleaning weekend, gonna say I would pass on that. I got a new TV and went and saw Walk the Line (which was really really good for all you cash fans out there, and even non-Cash fans).

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 6:37 PM

yey, shoe talk!

I have huge feet, but then i'm tall so they fit me, I'm an english size seven, so i think that make a nine or ten or something in america? huge feet, so I initially always stayed away from pointy toes and went for cute little retro round toes, and then a couple of years ago i found the most gorgeous pair of soft soft soft italian leather ones with a short neat little points and was hooked, I wore those shoes to death, if theyed had more pairs i would have bought them all as they were only a fiver (approx $9 i think)
the thing is even though they are longer they really slim and flatter the feet, and they peek out from under the hems of skirts and jeans and look really good, really delicate (which when you are my size, is really desirable) so give them a go, you wont look back!

yes, its an unhealthy obsession, but whats fun that isn't?

as for weeding out the bad boys, i think we'd need to start talking about underwear...

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 6:51 PM

Italian shoes are the way to go for us boat-footed women. Oh, take me back to the street markets in Florence!!

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 6:58 PM

you know, Italy sounds more and more intriguing every day...

curse my crap head for languages.

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 8:03 PM

Italian women must all have big feet, the shoes there somehow look good even in size 10! And they have really good band aid technology (wicked high heels + cobble stones + all out model walk = superior band aid required)

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
as for weeding out the bad boys, i think we'd need to start talking about underwear...

That could go either way, depending on the type of underwear you're talking about.

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 8:22 PM

oh i know what you mean, the street around the museum is cobbled and even in a sensible cuban heel its hell on the ankles, cobbles -picturesque death traps

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BLACKEYEDGIRL

Monday, December 5, 2005 8:35 PM

In Egypt they actualyl repaved one of the temples because the Italian women with thier fancy shoes were falling and breaking their ankles on the uneven stones. Isn't that ridiculous?? So apparently those Italian ladies aren't as sure on their feet as we supposed.

I love a really good high stiletto heel. There is something insanely attractive about it. Or maybe I just think there is.

My mother has size 9 feet and she always wears pointy toed shoes and they look fabulous. But they have to be narrow.

Also if I wear the rounded toe shoes (which I love cos I have a thing for retro anything) I honestly look like I am one of those Chinese ladies with the bound feet. it's hi-larious.

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Monday, December 5, 2005 8:40 PM

I love to look at them, and occaisionally wear them, but only when sitting down, if I dare stand up In them sooner or later its going to get veeeery ugly.

life deals these blows...

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 8:48 PM

Isn't there a Cramps CD cover that has a pointe shoe with a stilletto heel attached? Now that's some high heels! ouch!

oh ya - I found it, the cover of flamejob.

http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6399642/a/FlameJob.htm

You'll notice she's not standing up.

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:03 PM

If you get the chance watch the video for 'blue orchid' by the white stripes.
ouch

ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch!

http://www.xlrecordings.com/broadcast/~blueorchid/

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:14 PM

Ya, those would be the shoes.

Do you think she got bonus hardship pay for walking down the stairs in those? ga-ah!

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CALLMESERENITY

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:29 PM

Oh! Shoes! Yay!

I used to wear a size 6 1/2 or 7, but I honestly think my feet have shunk because even my 6 1/2s are lose on me these days. But I'm short so I should have little feet.

I don't like pointy toed anything, but that's because I have wide feet and they never fit me. I adore anything with a rounded toe because it deaccentuates my wide feet. And it makes them look smaller, too.

And I don't like stilettos or narrow heels. I don't know why. I just don't. I used to work at a shoe store that sold "exotic" shoes. Most of our clientelle for these shoes were exotic dancers. You could always tell because they'd pay for their shoes all in ones. I once spent an entire day at the store in a pair of thigh high 4 inch heels on a dare. Never again!

My absolute favourite shoes are a pair of brown suede knee high lace up high heeled boots I got several years ago on sale out of a catalog.

I also have a fantastic pair of black patent leather boots with the funkiest heel. Like an hourglass.

And I love converses! I want a new pair, but whenever I find a colour I like, they're always out of my size.

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:31 PM

new feet fitted at least I should think.

actually, i had a random though the other day, when Niska cut it off Simon just seemed to glue Mal's ear back on, with that kind of technology would they be able to re-attatch whole limbs?

would that meen that there would be real second hand shops?

(yes, go and get vera, put me out of my misery.)

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
new feet fitted at least I should think.

actually, i had a random though the other day, when Niska cut it off Simon just seemed to glue Mal's ear back on, with that kind of technology would they be able to re-attatch whole limbs?

would that meen that there would be real second hand shops?

(yes, go and get vera, put me out of my misery.)

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Actually, I think that deserves a slap.

OK, but a friendly one.

Sort of.

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CITIZEN

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:40 PM

He attached a girls leg and she named her Hamster after him, which is why Hamsters is nice.

I like Womens underware...

What, no not wearing it myself! Although it does seem more silky soft than mine...

I measure my shoe size in Feet...

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:44 PM

I apologise, but i had to out do the really dire trained ape quip in another thread, that was just terrifying, baaad, bad, bad.
I am suitably shamed.

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
And I love converses! I want a new pair, but whenever I find a colour I like, they're always out of my size.

I have a pair of high top converses with the road runner stitched on the outside of one and Wile E. Coyote on the other. They were my very favorite shoes, but they're all worn to shreds now.

Wish I could find another pair!

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 9:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
I apologise, but i had to out do the really dire trained ape quip in another thread, that was just terrifying, baaad, bad, bad.
I am suitably shamed.

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Who's more ashamed? I laughed out loud!

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CALLMESERENITY

Monday, December 5, 2005 10:05 PM

On the underwear topic:

I didn't realize till after noon that I put mine on inside out this morning! Felt a bit silly.

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 10:23 PM

does anyone here ever bother to match their sets up?

does anyone even buy sets anymore?

er, this is probably only really appropriate to the girls, unless you happen to enjoy coordinating your socks with things...

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MAL4PREZ

Monday, December 5, 2005 10:31 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
does anyone here ever bother to match their sets up?

does anyone even buy sets anymore?

er, this is probably only really appropriate to the girls, unless you happen to enjoy coordinating your socks with things...

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Sets? You mean like panty/bra?

I live in the world of the flatchested, haven't bought a real bra since high school. (I'm freeee!)

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SERYN

Monday, December 5, 2005 10:33 PM

oh the bliss of not having to shop for bra's!

yep, i always go to the shops and think, yeah, i should really buy them to match, so i spend more on a set, and then I get to the draw every morning and think 'whatever the hell leaps into my hands' it makes for some rather bizarre colour combinations, (especially as my socks never match either) and was just hoping to hell that i'm not the only one who does this...

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CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 12:10 AM

I don't buy sets, nor do I care if top and bottoms match. I have to spend nearly $60 on one bra as it is, so I'm not going to spend extra money on matching panties.

Plus, it's not like anyone's seeing them. Maybe if someone was I'd care a bit more...

But I'm proud to report that today everything's pink! I didn't mean to match, but I sort of did!

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JADEHAND

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 6:43 AM

Ok, Dead thread on Sun, so I waited til really late to check todayand the whole thing has blown up...
On to Q&A
Seryn: I'm not sure how to post a picutre in a thred. I think it has to be hosted on a net server. Then you could just add the URL to the post, I think. If that doesn't do it, it will at least show up as a link to the image. I have no online storage space to hold images so I don't do that stuff. Wish I could be more helpful.

Seryn and BEG: I'm confused, is the talk of shoes supposed to scare off the nice boys, or only the nice boys would stay and talk about shoes? And the Bra and Panty conversation...Ummm nice boys stay or boys that stay and talk about bras and panties aren't nice?

BEG: Not a foot/shoe fetishist, But the black boot thingies inspire. I would love to see these "FrankenHooker" boots you speak of. Anything from black soft leather ankle boots with the zipper, to Shiny black leather thigh highs with all manner of hanging rings and straps. They catch my eye.

Ladies: Bras and Panties: Wear (or not) whatever is comfortable. Most guys, if they get to the point that they are seeing you in just these items, are unlikey to say, "Black panties with a Pink Bra? Oh God that's it, it's over. I'm out of here." Dong Ma?

Having revealed too much, I wander to the next thread...

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SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 7:08 AM

The topic: womens underwear.
The challenge: saying something interesting that will not offend my lady friends.

Scorpion steps out onto the tight rope and walks out into the great void. Observe the lack of net. At the center of the span he stops, clears his voice and speaks.
I am aware that the are some women who have two separate collections of underwear. The first is the plain, comfortable underwear for every day. The second is the sexy, but uncomfortable underwear for when they are entertaining a man. Is this true for you or do you consider yourself to be entertainment enough and save you money for more important things or is all you underwear sexy, but uncomfortable because secretly you are a masochist?

Scorpion Regent

SERYN

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 9:32 AM

No underwear is fabulously comfortable, but the cotton is an easier fabric to wear, unfortunetly, unless you are super efficient at laundering, or you have a butler, there is no way i've ever found that white will stay bright white beyond five washes. If I could just invent non graying cotton, god i'd be so rich,

I'd have enough to fund series 2.

Right, any scientists here? get started, if we work quick enough... all you lawyers get started on the patent and anyone who wants to help me with the marketing...

flippers crossed

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SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 2:47 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
No underwear is fabulously comfortable, but the cotton is an easier fabric to wear, unfortunetly, unless you are super efficient at laundering, or you have a butler, there is no way i've ever found that white will stay bright white beyond five washes. If I could just invent non graying cotton, god i'd be so rich,

I'd have enough to fund series 2.

Right, any scientists here? get started, if we work quick enough... all you lawyers get started on the patent and anyone who wants to help me with the marketing...

flippers crossed

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I hate to break it to you, but blueing compound and bleach were invented a longtime ago, so no fortune, but maybe now your undies will be white.

Oh pleases are we talking about laundry now? I could take shoes. Blackeyedgirl's boots even sounded mighty sexy, but laundry?

Scorpion Regent

CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 3:06 PM

I am proud to say that I own not a single pair of solid white undies. I do have one pair that's mostly white, with hot pink trim, but that's because they came in a set with a hot pink stripey pair that caught my eye.

Nor do I own a single pair of black panties.

I'm somewhere in the middle, I guess.

I don't have a problem finding underwear that is comfortable, cute and practical. Bras are the hard shop. Bane of my existance and whatnot.

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MAL4PREZ

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 3:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
I am aware that the are some women who have two separate collections of underwear. The first is the plain, comfortable underwear for every day. The second is the sexy, but uncomfortable underwear for when they are entertaining a man. Is this true for you or do you consider yourself to be entertainment enough and save you money for more important things or is all you underwear sexy, but uncomfortable because secretly you are a masochist?

What the body is and does is much more important than what's on it, I say. I live in comfy undies and comfy shoes.

Of course, comfy doesn't have to mean ugly.

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BLACKEYEDGIRL

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 3:19 PM

Seryn: I think I might be the last of a dying breed. Although I will qualify as such: I do have the 'everyday' and 'special occasion' undies. I'm a matcher, if I buy a bra I have to buy at least 2 pairs of underwear to match (I don't use the word panties cos it sounds like something a child molestor would say, or maybe that's just me). I'm primarily a psycho about this when I go out some place where there is a snow ball's chance in hell that someone else might see them. Plus they make me feel sexy. Women forsake comfort for beauty every day, and I don't mind if that means a g-string and a push-up bra. Cos it makes me feel pretty or whatever. Also While I am a matcher pretty much everything I own is black with the exception of a few lighter colored bras to wear under light colors (which I pretty much never wear), so it's not too hard to always match when it's black to black. Just ask Victoria's Secret, who I ended up with a gold card for cos I can't stop feeding my need to have more pretty undies. It's a sick addiction, right up there with shoes. God sometimes I'm girly.

PS: We all know that men could give 2 shits what we have on. By the time they get to the underwear they are so excited to be getting some that they could really care if you were wearing burlap and blood larvae. ALTHOUGH all of you have a prefrence. Why do I say this? Cos the last 4 guys I was with each had a preference, one liked black bikini's another had a thing for thongs. You all have a preference, but it's not so important.

About the whites: Well ScorpionRegent, bleach isn't as simple as you think. Much like Seryn I can't keep white undies white (thus I stopped buying them, black never gets all gross colored), and I tried bleach (turned them yellow after a few washes) and it did crap. I've actually tried nearly every method on earth to keep 'em white, but much like white T-shirts, I fail and they either end up grey or yellow. I blame the cotton industry for doing something screwy tot he cotton. Seryn: I'm with you on this, non-fading white would be the way to go! We'd make zillions!

BTW: gentlemen, just so you all know, there are probably 5 women on the face of the earth that find tighty whities attractive. For gods sake please work the boxers, the boxer-brief or go commando. The tighty-whities just give us all the willies, or at least all teh women I know. Go ahead and wear them when you don't think any woman is going to see them, but if there's a snow ablls chance in hell those pants are coming off, please wear the boxers. Also Euro-guys that goes the same for the wierd black-tighties you guys work. They freak me out!

BEG, freakin' on the whities...

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XEROGRAVITY

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 3:23 PM

The 4th floor is yours. So is the 3rd and the the 5th and everything beyond it. But...

When you hit the end of floor 12 be sure you skip direct to floor 14.

Everything inbetween belongs to me. I own all the corner offices, everything with a window, all the square footage on Floor 13. It's the XeroGravity zone where stairs and elevators can't take you.

No talk of boots and underwear. Birthday suits and flipflops only (dress code thing).

XG

No such thing as gravity. The "13th floor" is mine.

SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 3:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
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What the body is and does is much more important than what's on it, I say. I live in comfy undies and comfy shoes.

Of course, comfy doesn't have to mean ugly.

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"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

Spoken like a true athelete. No show, just go and feel good doing it with the confidence of a person who makes their body into a familiar tool.
Damn! woman you make practical sound down right sexy!

Scorpion Regent

MAL4PREZ

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 3:55 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
Damn! woman you make practical sound down right sexy!

Well, isn't it?

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SCORPIONREGENT

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 4:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by mal4prez:
Quote:
Originally posted by ScorpionRegent:
Damn! woman you make practical sound down right sexy!

Well, isn't it?

Ask Dr. Science ... he knows more than you do.
"I have a Master's degree ... in science!"

As if there ever was a doubt.

Scorpion Regent

MAL4PREZ

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 5:07 PM

Not to change the subject, but ...

I just got a copy of the acoustic guiter FF theme from the movie

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=15340

which I never heard (I never managed stayed in the theater) and it is sooo good and sooooo sad. I just want to lay my head down on my desk and cry.

Quick, for the love of Joss, someone make an underwear joke.

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SERYN

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 6:09 PM

Well, i'm gonna go with BEG and state that i'm just not comfortable with the word panties, so i'm just going to get all english at you and shout knickers!

I gave up on white cotton too, after awhile bleach just makes things so skanky, so most of my stuff now is black or brightly coloured, and i never match, unless by accident, I think the last time I did was for a first date (we did things kind of arse about face, and were together for several weeks before we got round to a 'date' date) he invited two of his friends along with us, needless to say he didn't get to see all the effort I'd gone to - ever again -

and I kind of lost heart after that...

ah well.

knickers

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MONTANAGIRL

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 7:21 PM

*pops in to recite the Underwear Poem*

Underwear is fun to wear, I wonder where my underwear?
Under here, under there
Under sea, under stair
Under noodle, under wagon
Under pooodle, under dragon
Underwear is fun to wear, I wonder where my underwear?

(I learned this in like 7th grade so I maybe didn't remember all the words right.)

And I agree with cotton, but not white.

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BLACKEYEDGIRL

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 8:51 PM

KNICKERS!! I so prefer knickers. 'panties' just gives me the creeps. When ever a guy says panties I want to cringe.

And yes, I am a fan of cotton (Victoria's Secret 'Pink' collection makes awesome bikini's (cos I like to have my actual ass covered) and they are in all sorts of fun, bright patterns and colors, I have puppy knickers from there and they are soo cute) as well. Technically according to health care providers that is all we should be wearing anyway.

The underwear song was lovely. It gave me a moment of thinking about the Barenaked Ladies song where they say 'I just made you say underwear,' which sadly, still cracks me up.

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SERYN

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 11:32 PM

In a radical change of direction (hold on)

I was reading in the film companion interview with Joss that he fully intends to bring back everyone (yes, EVERYONE) should he get the chance to continue the series/do sequels. Something along the lines of 'no magic amulets or demon powers, but yes, i'd be bringin' 'em all back'

now has this already been discussed and squashed, or do I have leave to go and do lots of happy scooby dancing with my plastic dino's? (would you believe I actually had them before i ever saw an episode -yes, i'm that strange)

another radical tangent (told you to hold on)

My mother, dear thing, wants to know if Adam Baldwin is one of the Baldwins, as in billy and alec et al, cos if he is she's going to have to stop slagging them off.

and yet again (anyone hit the deck yet? no? good good)

I finally worked out who Nathan Fillion reminds me of - Josh Homme from the Queens of the Stoneage - in a less gingery-grumpy manner of course, come to think of it, Josh's hair is exactly the same colour as Alans, wierd that...

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CALLMESERENITY

Tuesday, December 6, 2005 11:41 PM

My favourite knickers (I always think Knickerbockers and it just makes me giggle.) are from PacSun. They have cute designs (I love anything tropical) and I love their boycut ones.

I don't like Victoria's Secret because they never carry bras in my size.

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CITIZEN

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 1:34 AM

Knickers is nice

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
Remember, the ice caps aren't melting, the water is being liberated.

BLACKEYEDGIRL

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 2:42 AM

::Does the Scooby Dance with Dinos:: I heard that all 9 of them are signed on for 3 movies, should Universal decide to do the other 2 (it was in their contracts). Which makes me happy!!

Adam Baldwin is NOT a Baldwin brother. He's from Winnetka Illinois, not wherever the other ones are from. Its okay, my mom wondered the same thing.

Yay!!
Adrianna

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THATWEIRDGIRL

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 4:00 AM

we're talkin about knickers now? Wow, you miss a week and suddenly Frederick's has taken over FFF.

When I wear them, they're lacey...anything lacey: boycut, french, g-string, bikini...just lacey.

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JADEHAND

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 7:09 AM

Didn't mean to be creepy. I think Cotton and black are the way to go. All mine are Black or Grey. Cotton. Boxerbrief. I tried "working" them, but I'm just not very good at that yet. Most all of my clothing is Black. As you said, it makes matching so much easier. Sure I have various colored dress shirts to wear with my black slacks and black silk tie. Pink just doesn't work for me *sniff*.

So we started out in the original hidey place hunting ideal mates, then covered ideal locations and ideal under garments. I'm curious about future topics.

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JADEHAND

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 7:09 AM

Double post. wonders whats on the fifth floor.

CITIZEN

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 7:53 AM

JadeHand:
maybe we'll be discussing your big-bag-o-tricks(tm) .

More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
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SCORPIONREGENT

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 1:54 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by CallMeSerenity:
My favourite knickers (I always think Knickerbockers and it just makes me giggle.) are from PacSun. They have cute designs (I love anything tropical) and I love their boycut ones.

I don't like Victoria's Secret because they never carry bras in my size.

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Would it be indiscreet of me to ask what that size is?

Scorpion Regent

CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 2:24 PM

Yes, it would be.

But it wouldn't be the first time someone's been indiscreet on this thread.

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CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 2:27 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
side note to CMS:
My warning label reads "INFORMATION: thatweirdgirl is arestricted area. Authorised personel only."

What does that mean? I'm not allowed near you?

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CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, December 7, 2005 2:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jadehand:
Most all of my clothing is Black. As you said, it makes matching so much easier. Sure I have various colored dress shirts to wear with my black slacks and black silk tie. Pink just doesn't work for me *sniff*.

That's a shame, because you look so nice in warm colours. That orange "let's be bad guys" shirt of yours is a great colour for you. You should wear more brown, you look good in brown. (Course, I think we should all wear more brown!)

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