Posts by Lilith __
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Yay for supermarkets re-opening!!
And good to know you're still out and about with your camera. :-)
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Yamis,
The human slinky owns Friday
That is the strangest thing I've seen for a long time!
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
It was like the fucking Nuremberg rally!"
Sometimes we really need a “like” button here on PAS!
Re: hare krishnas: I’ve certainly been wildly irritated by some of their proselytisers on the street, especially when I’ve had places to be and they’ve been all determinedly serene at me.
But they have my eternal gratitude for the amazingly wonderful food they dish up, either free or for a nominal charge. For years when I was a poor student I ate their $3 all-you-can-eat lunches, of a tasty vegetable curry and rice, plus halva for pudding. This and all their Food for Life initiatives I think are fantastic. I wish all religious groups had such a practical attitude to helping people.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Russell Brown,
Any buttheadedness was solely homegrown.
Thank you for this sentence Russell. Not many smiles in this thread but that's one. :-)
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
Well done you and your garden Hebe!
BTW I tracked down that native planting guide I was telling you about. It divides greater Chch into soil-type zones and native ecosystems. The navigation is a little odd, but you can click the main map for more detailed maps (which each have a magnifier when you mouseover), and if you click on any ecosystem it takes you to a list of plants that belong there. My ex and I planted our garden based on this guide.
Edit: I also found this pdf from the council on Chch landforms and history. Fascinating for some of us. :-)
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Some of these are also very fine.
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Dusk on the shortest day, with a new moon setting. Happy Solstice, everybody!
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
a better range of “ethnic” (guess what that’s code for) models for a while
Vogue Italia did a whole issue with only black models back in 2008. As Jezebel notes, that wasn’t including the ads.
Ian: I too remember Burda though I was too flummoxed by the layered outlines to cut out any of the patterns! I knew a few people who did, though. Frill seekers, indeed. ;-)
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Jos,
I haz a fish eye
A one fish eyed cat in a shop? ;-)
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I think these beauty/sex/fashion magazines all work the same way, as Russell mentioned earlier.
If personal grooming, getting dressed, and having sex can be made subject to rules which are complicated, ritualised, and certain to change…then you have a captive market. The more anxious and insecure we are, the more products we’ll buy, and the more advice we’ll want.
Heaven forbid we treat sex partners as people, much like ourselves, who can tell us what they like and what they want, and listen when we tell them what we like and what we want.
No, we have to already know what any partner wants, in any context, or we have to guess it based on some kind of baloney statistic.
[And do they know what we want? That doesn’t often get mentioned. Except that if we’re not having a good enough time, then it must somehow be our fault, and we need more advice.]My advice: forget doing figure-eights with your tongue, spit out the mango, and use your mouth to talk to your partner.
