Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

[StillStunned]

Oops, sorry, missed my cue.
One Purple Dildo, coming right up...
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"And on today's episode of "Skills With No Real-World Application", we talk to Anabelle. Anabelle describes herself as quiet, outdoorsy and the world's biggest fan of Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Let's welcome her onto the stage!"

 

[EmilyMiller]

"And on today's episode of "Skills With No Real-World Application", we talk to Anabelle. Anabelle describes herself as quiet, outdoorsy and the world's biggest fan of Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Let's welcome her onto the stage!"

I can think of a real world application, hun.

Shall I draw you a diagram?

Emily

 

[StillStunned]

I can think of a real world application, hun.

Shall I draw you a diagram?

Emily

That's alright. It took me a while, but then I remembered how fond you Americans are of hotdog-eating contests.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

That's alright. It took me a while, but then I remembered how fond you Americans are of hotdog-eating contests.

I'd say that 'purple dinosaur' falls more into the sausage category.

 

[StillStunned]

I'd say that 'purple dinosaur' falls more into the sausage category.

As Em noted yesterday, a dinosaur would have had a cloaca, not a sausage.

 

[SimonDoom]

Men's facial hair, and in fact their hair in general, has gone through various phases for centuries. It has also varied a great deal according to the nature of the culture where these men are living. All aspects of human appearance, including clothes, have gone through many such phases.

Pedestrians and cab drivers at 24th and Broadway around 1900.

https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/180_1900c-loc.tif.jpg

To a considerable extent you can track it through US Presidents. US Presidents were clean-shaven until Lincoln, then they went through the beard phase, then the mustache phase. The last president with any facial hair was Taft, whose presidency ended in 1913. Beards are fairly common now, but not among public office holders.

I suppose we'll never know about the first ladies', mmmm, grooming customs.

 

[MrPixel]

I suppose we'll never know about the first ladies', mmmm, grooming customs.

You forgot about the Bush years.

 

[Melanieishere]

Did someone say purple dildo?

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[Melanieishere]

I can never figure out how to get the actual gif

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

To a considerable extent you can track it through US Presidents. US Presidents were clean-shaven until Lincoln, then they went through the beard phase, then the mustache phase. The last president with any facial hair was Taft, whose presidency ended in 1913. Beards are fairly common now, but not among public office holders.

I suppose we'll never know about the first ladies', mmmm, grooming customs.

I do seem to remember hearing that Mrs. Trumps grooming customs may have been documented for posterity...

 

[Melanieishere]

I do seem to remember hearing that Mrs. Trumps grooming customs may have been documented for posterity...

She has very good grooming customs

 

[yowser]

There's a famous line in David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' where the girl says 'Kiss me where it smells' and the guy then drives her to Allston.

(Inside joke of course, Allston is a seedy suburb of Boston.)

 

[gunhilltrain]

To a considerable extent you can track it through US Presidents. US Presidents were clean-shaven until Lincoln, then they went through the beard phase, then the mustache phase. The last president with any facial hair was Taft, whose presidency ended in 1913. Beards are fairly common now, but not among public office holders.

I suppose we'll never know about the first ladies', mmmm, grooming customs.

Yes, I was thinking of American presidents as a good example. Yet Brazil has no problem being led by a president with facial hair.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva:​

https://library.brown.edu/create/fi...03/400px-Lula_-_foto_oficial05012007_edit.jpg

 

[gunhilltrain]

There's a famous line in David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest' where the girl says 'Kiss me where it smells' and the guy then drives her to Allston.

(Inside joke of course, Allston is a seedy suburb of Boston.)

I can think of many places in this country that are far worse than Allston. Wallace was often too clever for his own good.

 

[intim8]

I can think of many places in this country that are far worse than Allston.

Zug Island.

 

[SimonDoom]

I can think of many places in this country that are far worse than Allston. Wallace was often too clever for his own good.

Harris Ranch comes to mind, alongside Interstate 5 in California, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The largest cattle feedlot in California, right next to the freeway. The stench of cattle shit stretches for miles. So thick and pungent it makes you worry it's going to stick in your clothing.

 

[StillStunned]

For more than 30 years I've been describing the crap town where I grew as "the place where the sun don't shine".

 

[Zootonius]

Oops, sorry, missed my cue.
One Purple Dildo, coming right up...
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Is that a new type of gummy bear?

 

[intim8]

The largest cattle feedlot in California, right next to the freeway. The stench of cattle shit stretches for miles.

Try Hereford, TX, on US 60 in the panhandle west of Lubbock. Holy hell.

EDIT: US 60/70 is a convenient shortcut from westbound I-40 to westbound I-10 and avoids having to make a left turn at Albuquerque,

 

[intim8]

Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"

 

[SimonDoom]

Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"

If there's one thing this thread has taught us, it's that there are a lot of peculiar ways of looking at the bright side.

 

[Melanieishere]

Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"

Ohio?

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"

The White House?

 

[MillieDynamite]

My brother lived with my folks and me for a few months after his divorce back in 2012, and at that time, it was his room.

Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"

 

[EmilyMiller]

Emily's positivity thread: "What's the worst smelling place in the United States?"

This stopped being my positivity thread around the same time the dinosaurs were saying, what’s that bright light in the sky?

Emily