Your Business is Slow Because......

[Dorian Gray]

Subjective....

[Toyz]

Kirstie Allie...doable



Kirstie Allie-undoable

[TemptationTammie]

Originally Posted by GenesisNicole

This is completely "My Bad!" here....

BTW I thought it was cookies...walnut cookies. Either way, stop on by my bakery and I'll hook you up!

FYI. NOTHING, of the baked goods variety, found in my home or bakery is store bought! LOL

It's ALL freshly made and made from scratch. *curtsy and a giggle*

Homemade is always the best. I get in moods where I just want to bake and some of my clients have gotten to try some interesting muffins or cupcakes because of it. Sometimes sustenance is needed after a session.

[GneissGuy]

Originally Posted by Dorian Gray

Inversely how would any of you 'tards react if your boss arbitrarily decided you were overpaid & now will be getting paid (thrown out random figure) 15% less?

Either put up with it or go find a job with better pay.

If you can't find a job with equal or better pay, apparently he is correct and you WERE being overpaid.

[GneissGuy]

Originally Posted by KaitlynDior

I dont mean to be rude honey, but like most of my upscale clients say, "If you can't afford to be in the hobby then you should find another hobby. "

Or find another provider.

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The ones who get me are the ones who don't bother to post ads, or don't bother to reply to requests, or no show clients, and then complain that business is bad.

[chelseabean]

Originally Posted by Dorian Gray

Subjective....

Tootie looks like a hooker. I want to see the reverse mushroom. haircut on her at this age. What the hell were the sylists for the show thinking? I also wonder about the style of dress for the Saved by the Bell characters. Wasn't the show made in the mid-nineties. Why the hell were they all dressed like it was 1980. There was sooo much acid wash material and assorted blue jean jackets in that show. And Slater had a curly mullet.

[Centaur]

I never really got why Kirstie Allie was such a big sex icon. I mean, yes, she had one hell of a body. But she always looked and spoke like she was about to nod off to sleep.

Originally Posted by chelseabean

I also wonder about the style of dress for the Saved by the Bell characters. Wasn't the show made in the mid-nineties.

Well, '89 to '9something...the '80s sort of metastasized into the vacuum of suck that was most of the '90s.
{*ducks rotten pizza slices from moody atonal grunge kids*}

[chelseabean]

Originally Posted by Centaur

I never really got why Kirstie Allie was such a big sex icon. I mean, yes, she had one hell of a body. But she always looked and spoke like she was about to nod off to sleep.


Well, '89 to '9something...the '80s sort of metastasized into the vacuum of suck that was most of the '90s.
{*ducks rotten pizza slices from moody atonal grunge kids*}

The nineties a Vaccum of suck? Oh, hell no. The nineties were awesome. Like the sixties, but with condoms and heroin. Thinking about moving to Portland, you know, "where the dream of the nineties is still alive. "Where young people go to retire". I love portlandia.

[Centaur]

Originally Posted by chelseabean

The nineties a Vaccum of suck? Oh, hell no. The nineties were awesome. Like the sixties, but with condoms and heroin. Thinking about moving to Portland, you know, "where the dream of the nineties is still alive. "Where young people go to retire". I love portlandia.

Oh no, you did not just compare the 90's to the 60's?!?!?! The Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Hendrix, Pink fucking Floyd to...what, Pearl Jam and NIN?*

The 90's were fun for about a year. Unfortunately they went on for ten.

*Tongue firmly in cheek. There were some great 90's musicians...R.E.M., Radiohead, Beastie Boys, President Clinton...

[chelseabean]

[QUOTE=Centaur;1055635009]Oh no, you did not just compare the 90's to the 60's?!?!?! The Beatles, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Hendrix, Pink fucking Floyd to...what, Pearl Jam and NIN?*

The 90's were fun for about a year. Unfortunately they went on for ten.

*Tongue firmly in cheek. There were some great 90's musicians...R.E.M., Radiohead, Beastie Boys, President Clinton...

I was about to say, we had an awesomely cool president who got sloppy blows in the oval office, smoked pot and played the saxaphone. Sweet.

Ummm, also nirvana, cowboy junkies, Pixies.

Tarantino (although, I can't watch another revenge fantasy; he may have peaked in the nineties), Richard linklater, although technically he's a boomer, Whit Stillman, Harvey Keitel's primal, atavistic, organism's first step onto dry land scream, Cohen brothers, Spy magazine (someone pleasssse bring that back), Gave us Conan, a national treasure, the Simpsons and Seinfeld. Uhhh, yeah, the nineties rule, maybe not so much an iron fist, but more a non-committal shrug of the shoulders, but rule it does all the same. Much like the Simpsons (will that show never end?), perhaps the ethos of overeducated and underemployed aimlessness did drag on a bit. And apparently still does in Portland.

[Centaur]

Originally Posted by chelseabean

Tarantino (although, I can't watch another revenge fantasy; he may have peaked in the nineties)

Tarantino achieved that vaunted acclaim whereby he was so cool that the cool kids relegated him to a cliché because he made something new in the world (then beat that horse to death, but hey) and had to be torn down to preserve their cultivated supercilious indifference to greatness. You haven't truly arrived until the consensus hates you like a post-pubescent evangelical hates masturbation.

Also, Fraiser....

[Still Looking]

Originally Posted by GneissGuy

The ones who get me are the ones who don't bother to post ads, or don't bother to reply to requests, or no show clients, and then complain that business is bad.

Exactly!

[chelseabean]

Originally Posted by Centaur

Tarantino achieved that vaunted acclaim whereby he was so cool that the cool kids relegated him to a cliché because he made something new in the world (then beat that horse to death, but hey) and had to be torn down to preserve their cultivated supercilious indifference to greatness. You haven't truly arrived until the consensus hates you like a post-pubescent evangelical hates masturbation.

Also, Fraiser....

Now, I know you weren't talking about me. I love Tarrintino. I love what he does. I'm all about exploring power dynamics, even in an inverted, comic book fashion. A necessary and ever-evolving conversation. A worthy dialogue for art, for sure. However, I don't think the cool kids created his cliche; he did that himself. Also, I'm not sure the consensus is the same as mine. He did win an academy award for Django unchained and the critics were dry humping all over it. I was just bored by it. It felt very "yippeykayay motherfucker", very Diehard III. That whole nineties trope of juxtaposing extreme violence with extreme glibness felt very predictable and out of place in the issue of slavery, which is the biggest wound our nation has still yet to heal from.

[Centaur]

Originally Posted by chelseabean

However, I don't think the cool kids created his cliche; he did that himself.

Meh, I agree he's repeated his winning formula a lot. But he does vary it. I just see a lot of people who've never created anything remotely original dismissing his oeuvre because they think it makes them sophisticated. I don't read that vibe from you.

Originally Posted by chelseabean

He did win an academy award for Django unchained and the critics were dry humping all over it. I was just bored by it. It felt very "yippeykayay motherfucker", very Diehard III. That whole nineties trope of juxtaposing extreme violence with extreme glibness felt very predictable and out of place in the issue of slavery, which is the biggest wound our nation has still yet to heal from.

Hmm...there was that little issue of the systematic destruction of the Native American tribes, and I don't think centuries of slavery is something that ever heals, but I take your point. Art is bound to offend somebody. It's not necessarily the fault of the artist or the offended parties. It's just the kind of disagreement we have to put up with if we want to protect freedom of expression. I always shake my head when I see people who cause and take offense dig in against each other as if the only possible outcome is for one or the other side to recant. My half-baked theory is that it bothers a lot of people to have outspoken voices disagreeing with them because they need external validation to feel secure in their convictions, or they're addicted to moral outrage, or they think they have to move the Overton window to their camp by winning at stubbornness. Anyway, I digress, and I'm not saying that about you.

There are many things I think Western Europe does better than America, but free speech isn't one of them this day in age. There was a while in the 19th century when they seemed to be on the cutting edge of free expression, but I think getting steamrolled by fascists put them off it for a couple of centuries. Understandable, if misguided, IMO.

[Dorian Gray]

Originally Posted by chelseabean

He did win an academy award for Django unchained and the critics were dry humping all over it. I was just bored by it. It felt very "yippeykayay motherfucker", very Diehard III. That whole nineties trope of juxtaposing extreme violence with extreme glibness felt very predictable and out of place in the issue of slavery, which is the biggest wound our nation has still yet to heal from.