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Up Front: Isn't It Romantic?

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  • 3410,

    I'll bet someone thought you were 'Mrs. Hulk'.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    See? It's not easy being green. Apparently.

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    See? It's not easy being green. Apparently.

    For a start, you wake up in the morning and the only remaining body paint is on your eyelids.

    I'll bet someone thought you were 'Mrs. Hulk'.

    It was a party thrown by the UC Science-fiction club. The allusion was well-recognised. Also I won the previously non-existent 'sluttiest costume' prize.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • Bart Janssen,

    I won the previously non-existent 'sluttiest costume' prize.

    aw they made a prize specially for you, isn't that sweet.

    But now I'm wondering what did the trophy look like?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 4461 posts Report

  • Paul Litterick,

    For a start, you wake up in the morning and the only remaining body paint is on your eyelids.

    Green before meat
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    I'll get my coat.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1000 posts Report

  • Sacha,

    Interestingly, the word "slut" appears at PAS all of 45 times (now 46). I have no idea how many of those occurences are the inspiration or efforts of Emma. :)

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report

  • Sam F,

    Green before meat
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    I'll get my coat.

    Oh you!

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    But now I'm wondering what did the trophy look like?

    Sorry to disappoint, it was a pair of stick-on Spock ears.

    Interestingly, the word "slut" appears at PAS all of 45 times (now 46). I have no idea how many of those occurences are the inspiration or efforts of Emma. :)

    I've been trying to work out how to feel about that. I've also been trying unsuccessfully to find the fabulous discussion my friend Sinead and I had about the word 'slut'. In that slut-shaming is something absolutely guaranteed to make me rabidly angry, but I will happily refer to both myself and her as looking slutty or behaving sluttily. It's 'nigger' territory, basically.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • giovanni tiso,

    It's 'nigger' territory, basically.

    Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to use that word though. Not even for the purposes of academic comparison.

    There's an Italian slur, terrone, which means bloody southerner. I can use it when referring to myself but you'd better not.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

  • Dinah Dunavan,

    I've always operated on a policy, when retelling my life history, to exaggerate slightly (or a lot). That way while everyone is going "oh what a wicked/exciting life you led" I'm quietly thinking "it was actually a lot tamer than that". So I get the rep of being exciting without really having done much that would get me into much trouble (or poor health).

    Dunedin • Since Jun 2008 • 186 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    I've always operated on a policy, when retelling my life history, to exaggerate slightly (or a lot).

    We all mythologise our past, right? With me it's more a matter of not mentioning the down side, so that I look appropriately heartless and shallow.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • Sayana,

    Emma- Umm, I'm just intrigued - I know who two of the three were, but was number 3 who I think it was?

    Since Sep 2008 • 50 posts Report

  • Paul Litterick,

    They weren't the Bee Gees, by any chance, were they?

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1000 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    Emma- Umm, I'm just intrigued - I know who two of the three were, but was number 3 who I think it was?

    I have no idea, who do you think it was?

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    I have no idea, who do you think it was?

    ...__drumroll__...

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    Italics FAIL!

    Never mind who No.3 was, I'm with No.6 & seek the identity of No.1!!

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    They weren't the Bee Gees, by any chance, were they?

    OMG, my brain.

    How long d'you think you'd still be spitting out hair after that?

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • Sam F,

    In stitches right now.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report

  • Paul Litterick,

    Green hair.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1000 posts Report

  • Sayana,

    Ok - Sorted now, thanks...

    Since Sep 2008 • 50 posts Report

  • Jackie Clark,

    Interestingly, the word "slut" appears at PAS all of 45 times (now 46). I have no idea how many of those occurences are the inspiration or efforts of Emma. :)

    I've been trying to work out how to feel about that. I've also been trying unsuccessfully to find the fabulous discussion my friend Sinead and I had about the word 'slut'. In that slut-shaming is something absolutely guaranteed to make me rabidly angry, but I will happily refer to both myself and her as looking slutty or behaving sluttily. It's 'nigger' territory, basically.

    Interesting indeed. When younger - from the ages of 20 to 28 - I had a very, very active sex life. My exploits were many and varied, and took place in a large variety of settings with a very large number of people, over a couple of continents, and sometimes there was more than two of us, but I don't ever remember being called a slut, and certainly never did I feel my behaviour was "sluttish". I had a lot of fun, I met a lot of people, and all of the experiences, bar one, were consenting. I liked sex, alot. And I just happened to like it with lots of people. It's such a sexually repressive word, "slut". Meant to keep women in their place. I find it incredible that we're in 2009, and people still are so quick to judge, and be so condemnatory. Shame on them. I still call myself the Queen of the One Night Stands, and I'm old enough to say that I have pride in my once ferocious sexuality. Live while you can, I say, and enjoy it.

    Mt Eden, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 3136 posts Report

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    Sayana - amazing I didn't bump into you ;-) Didn't Bowie look cute in a parka? I was hoping for Station to Station or The Return on the Disco King both of which did get a few outings on that tour. Space Oddity I can live without luckily as it pretty much never gets played live anymore.

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report

  • Emma Hart,

    My exploits were many and varied, and took place in a large variety of settings with a very large number of people, over a couple of continents, and sometimes there was more than two of us, but I don't ever remember being called a slut, and certainly never did I feel my behaviour was "sluttish".

    The thing about 'slut' is that it doesn't seem to relate to one's sexual exploits at all. So Sinead and I have both have it tossed at us (only and always by women in the offensive sense) but people we know who are just as 'bad' if not worse than us don't. It seems to be more an attitudinal thing, I guess, and a response to another woman seeing you as a threat.

    We are both also people who are very secure in and happy with our own bodies. At least with me this is an attitude which has been largely untouched over a range of twenty-five kilos, several dress sizes, and twenty years. It's about what's inside your head, not what's on the outside of your body.

    We do both have fabulous tits, though.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report

  • Sam F,

    It was going in all sorts of exciting directions, but looks like this thread just rolled over and went to sleep before 10pm. How romantic...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report

  • giovanni tiso,

    when you're in bed you're not always sleeping, you know

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

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