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fozziewazzi		2013-04-09 01:29:34 PM

2 votes:

Theaetetus: fozziewazzi: But there will be plenty of guys with either well-paying, well regarded or 'interesting' jobs...whether they have them or not. Why? Because when you're trying to pick up women, it works we haven't yet implemented laws that say that fraudulently obtained consent to sex does not count.

FTFY.

Honestly, though, if you're so boring that you have no external interests to point to and have to fall back on work, and then your work is so lame that you have to lie about that, you probably shouldn't be in the dating pool anyway.

Why is the onus on men? If women weren't so caught up in what men do, what they earn and how much they own, men wouldn't have to lie.

And if men weren't so obsessed with how a woman looks above all else, they wouldn't need spanx, push-up bras and half a pound of make-up.

But that's not the reality and never has been. So men and women play the game.

RenownedCurator		2013-04-09 03:35:41 PM

1 votes:

farkingnotworking: FarkinHostile: "That is not her natural hair color or length.
Those are not her real fingernails.
She doesn't look like that after a shower and she washes off her makeup.
Shes lied to you three times before you even spoke."

But that IS her gut that was hidden under that elastic fabric, so make it 4 lies.

The person who invented spanx should be shot in the head. Twice now I have been unpleasantly surprised by the lie.

A) The "lie" might in fact be originating in the photoshopped magazines, web sites or porn you are looking at which is giving you a false notion of what typical women's bodies look like. If some women are learning that men's tastes have veered toward an unnatural silhouette, is it so unthinkable that women would use garments (instead of, say, surgery) to obtain those artificial silhouettes? Why is the artificial construction in visual culture blameless while the spanxification a "lie"?

B) That said, I don't know if it is possible for anyone to present themselves without making some kind of artificial intervention in how they look. Guys wear certain clothes to cover certain body features all the time. They wear hats to cover bald spots. They use hair junk to make their hair look thicker. They wear that awful Axe stuff because they apparently want to smell like a whorehouse for huffers on Ash Wednesday. Meanwhile people buy alcohol for those they are seducing so that they will seem more attractive. They flock to darkened clubs with flashing lights for the same reason. The whole thing (not just the cake) is a lie.

/spanxification

Yes, I don't see why Spanx come in for so much vitriol instead of the expectation that women should be able to look like mannequins or airbrushed models no matter what. I'm not that big, but I have had three children, and without celebrity-level workouts and diets I'm just not going to look like I did when I was twenty. Spanx are a much more painless way of looking good on a big occasion than surgery and starving myself to impossible degrees.

/I don't know about the lawsuit's merits, but Spanx is a much better name than Yummy Tummy. You want your customers to forget what their stomachs look like, not put it right there in the name.

fozziewazzi		2013-04-09 03:31:49 PM

1 votes:

DeltaPunch: p the boiler: DeltaPunch: Does anyone remember that video of two guys singing about how much they love fat chicks with gunts? It was hysterical, done in a rap video format.... I'm totally coming up dry on google here.

A cookie to whoever can deliver!

Look up FUPA ... Fat Upper Pussy Area

YES! I was searching for "gunt".... I knew it was a different word but couldn't remember. Thanks...

In case anybody hasn't seen it

I used to think there was no such thing as 'bad' knowledge. I'm older and wiser now. I won't click that link.

Tsar_Bomba1		2013-04-09 02:50:50 PM

1 votes:

tricycleracer		2013-04-09 02:46:34 PM

1 votes:

Theaetetus: tricycleracer: Theaetetus: tricycleracer: Theaetetus: Maybe men shouldn't be lying to get laid.

"Hello, attractive woman. I race cars."

"I conditionally consent to intercourse with you, racer-guy."

"Huh. That's an odd answer that should give me reason to pause and reflect... You 'conditionally consent', so not fully and without reservation? Y'know, I'mma go talk to that woman instead."

All consent is conditional. She might come home with you and see all your Star Wars toys and leave.

Yeah, and if you stop her from leaving and rape her anyway, you can't claim "but she came home with me" as your defense.

Well, duh.

What I don't agree with is having a rape charge filed against me because she checks IMDB in the morning and finds out I wasn't Matt Damon's stunt double in the Bourne movies.

tricycleracer		2013-04-09 02:17:07 PM

1 votes:

Theaetetus: tricycleracer: Theaetetus: Maybe men shouldn't be lying to get laid.

"Hello, attractive woman. I race cars."

"I conditionally consent to intercourse with you, racer-guy."

"Huh. That's an odd answer that should give me reason to pause and reflect... You 'conditionally consent', so not fully and without reservation? Y'know, I'mma go talk to that woman instead."

All consent is conditional. She might come home with you and see all your Star Wars toys and leave.

FarkinHostile		2013-04-09 02:03:04 PM

1 votes:

Theaetetus: FarkinHostile: Theaetetus: fozziewazzi: But there will be plenty of guys with either well-paying, well regarded or 'interesting' jobs...whether they have them or not. Why? Because when you're trying to pick up women, it works we haven't yet implemented laws that say that fraudulently obtained consent to sex does not count.

FTFY.

Please tell me you're not advocating making lying to get laid as Rape.

I can see cases where it's reasonable. If you intentionally deceive someone, knowing that they would not consent to sex with you had they known the truth, that seems pretty despicable. Also, Tennessee and California both have rape by fraud statutes.

Well, I'll say one thing: You're consistent.

Ridiculous, but consistant.

dv-ous		2013-04-09 01:54:16 PM

1 votes:

Marcus Aurelius: FarkinHostile: Twice now I have been unpleasantly surprised by the lie

How much can you hide in one of those things? Volume can only be redistributed.

You know how, when you suck your gut in, your chest expands and you can't breathe as deeply?

You know how men like it when women with big chests get short of breath?

Seriously, though - I've never worn them, but it looks like they wouldn't be sturdy enough to function like an honest to goodness corset. (If you were sucking it in, you'd still have to remember to use your abdominal muscles) but it would serve to smooth out one's appearance - turning a muffin-top into a smooth, linear, if slightly thicker profile.

It would probably also be helpful with post-pregnancy loose skin.

Compression garments also help reduce swelling after lipo. I wonder if these can be used that way?

fireclown		2013-04-09 01:52:06 PM

1 votes:

someone say spandex?

BitwiseShift		2013-04-09 01:43:24 PM

1 votes:

If only I'd thought of patent trolling first, I wouldn't have to get up so early, and go outside in the cold to picket dead people's memorials. And probably make more money too.

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ManRay		2013-04-09 01:43:17 PM

1 votes:

I am just stunned that Spanx has a value of over $1 billion. Props to the founder for her marketing and hard work, but it's such an obvious idea.

sjmcc13		2013-04-09 01:30:16 PM

1 votes:

Theaetetus: sjmcc13: No, I read more. I just understand the stuff well enough to notice that a lot of apples patents should never have been issued. Many of the things apple was listing off in the design patents suits were things that came from merging a cell phone and a PDA (which is all an iPhone is, and that is NOT something apple cameup with). or were functionally necessary and/or forced choices.

If they were functionally necessary and/or forced choices, then by definition, Samsung couldn't have made non-infringing smart phones and tablets, such the Galaxy Tab 10.1N, which doesn't infringe, or this sucker:
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They are making different designs because different people want different options. If they want to market to all demographics they have to design phones for each demographic. This is the same thing in pretty much every industry.

To a fair number of people that phone would not be desirable since the slideout keypad is only a benefit to those who need physical keys, and is a flaw to to many others as it it an extra point where the phone can and will break due to it creating a structural weak point.

The problem is that apple is trying to claim all the design space for what certain demographics will want as their own.

Your example is akin to looking at a car company and saying this 2 seat sports card is obviously copying my 2 seat sports car, and the other guy obviously chose to copy me since he also makes a 4 seat family car. you are trying to justify something as being true, but it relies on the system not being broken, and unfortunatly it is F-ing broken as all hell. and the people makign mone of it do not want to change it.

The same thing happens in software when someone claims another guy stole their program, because they both do the same thing in similar ways, but then it turn out that both based their work on the same text books/ papers, and the similarities are almost all things that came from the shared source material.

The problem with the tech industry patents suits is that the only people who are actually qualified to judge them are the academics who are teaching and grading the base material, sinc they are the ones who are aware of just how similiar indipendently developed code/circuits/etc can be when you just give someone a problem description to solve. The vase majority of these patent suits are cases that should be thrown out since they rely on the system not working in the first place.

tillerman35		2013-04-09 12:50:35 PM

1 votes:

FarkinHostile: "That is not her natural hair color or length.
Those are not her real fingernails.
She doesn't look like that after a shower and she washes off her makeup.
Shes lied to you three times before you even spoke."

I'm married to a woman who's at her most gorgeous when she wakes up, no makeup on, hair all wild and sexy, and best of all, next to me. All that other crap is totally unnecessary.

The Stealth Hippopotamus		2013-04-09 12:33:14 PM

1 votes:

spandex can be a good thing.

True more often than not it isn't

fozziewazzi		2013-04-09 12:14:42 PM

1 votes:

FarkinHostile: "That is not her natural hair color or length.
Those are not her real fingernails.
She doesn't look like that after a shower and she washes off her makeup.
Shes lied to you three times before you even spoke."

But that IS her gut that was hidden under that elastic fabric, so make it 4 lies.

The person who invented spanx should be shot in the head. Twice now I have been unpleasantly surprised by the lie.

But it's horrible when a guy lies about what he does for a living.

Theaetetus		2013-04-09 12:12:55 PM

1 votes:

jfivealive: Dear douche who wrote that article:

When reporting on such a subject as patent infringement with regards to tangible items, you may want to include images of both types of items in the article. You could even place these items side by side so the reader could form their own opinion on whether the lawsuit had merit or was frivolous. Way to suck ass fark face.

media4.s-nbcnews.com

FIG. 1s from two of the design patents
2.bp.blogspot.com

Accused Spanx

jfivealive		2013-04-09 12:07:09 PM

1 votes:

Dear douche who wrote that article:

When reporting on such a subject as patent infringement with regards to tangible items, you may want to include images of both types of items in the article. You could even place these items side by side so the reader could form their own opinion on whether the lawsuit had merit or was frivolous. Way to suck ass fark face.

DigitalCoffee		2013-04-09 12:03:52 PM

1 votes:

Never heard of either brand. Hope they both lose.

/Spanx? More like Skanx.

FarkinHostile		2013-04-09 11:54:10 AM

1 votes:

"That is not her natural hair color or length.
Those are not her real fingernails.
She doesn't look like that after a shower and she washes off her makeup.
Shes lied to you three times before you even spoke."

But that IS her gut that was hidden under that elastic fabric, so make it 4 lies.

The person who invented spanx should be shot in the head. Twice now I have been unpleasantly surprised by the lie.