Archive for August 6th, 2008

what your lipstick says about you

August 6, 2008

Apparently this little personality profile is the work of a sorority, but in spite of that I find mine to be amusingly accurate:

…except you could probably replace “Can be” with “Is”.
(Although these days I find myself wearing glosses and stains more often than lipstick. What does that say about me?)

australia: welcome to the unpleasant world of fat discrimination, the last socially acceptable prejudice*

August 6, 2008

You may have heard that Australia recently overtook the US as the world’s fattest nation. Guess I’ll have to retire my big fat foam thumbs-up with USA! USA! DRINK A GLASS OF GRAVY! printed on it.
So now Australia gets to experience being inundated with the fat-hatin’ rage that us American fatsos have had to put [...]

death is not an option!

August 6, 2008

Mantyhose, or…
High-heeled Crocs?
Not content with manufacturing shoes that have an unfortunate tendency to get the wearer’s feet trapped in escalators and ripped to shreds, these monstrosities take the one single positive attribute of the shoe — comfort — and remove it by slapping a 3-inch heel on them. These shoes have no reason to exist: [...]

“twilight”: the vampire series for mormons and other people whose moms think anne rice is too hardcore

August 6, 2008

So wow, the Twilight faithful are freaking the fuck out over Breaking Dawn, the 4th and allegedly final installment of Stephanie Meyers’ teenaged vampire romance series. I heard she had to twist her publisher’s arm into letting her write a 4th book; they’re probably wishing now they hadn’t given in, as the fans are turning [...]