in the news today (not comedy, sorry)
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aumentouPeople are worried that longer drinking hours won't lower binge drinking and the associated violence. I can see why. Initially, there will be a period while people get used to it, so they will still be rushing around half ten, but then they won't stop until twelve. Secondly, Ireland introduced longer hours, and they just got longer drunk periods. Is our culture more Irish or French? I think we all know it's the former.
I think there's a really easy way to lower binge drinking, or at least violence. Legalise pot. I think binge drinking is people trying desperately to have a good time, and/or forget how shitty their everyday lives are. Legalising dope will mean that some of the people who would have been pissed out of their heads will now be stoned instead. Instantly, less violence.
Also today, rising oil prices might mean that flights are more expensive. This is a good thing. Flying is the least fuel efficient means of travel, and the amount of fuel is finite. Flying should be rationed, or if you prefer market forces it should at least be really expensive. For some reason our crazy society taxes other fuels but not aircraft fuel, hence flying is effectively subsidised! You know there's something fucked up when it's cheaper to fly London to Amsterdam to Liverpool than to get a train.
Yet somehow all those short term minds are worried about is that they can't afford to fly abroad. The idea that every human being can have a holiday with a flight is as dangerous as the idea that everyone can have a car. These ideas will kill us all. We can see the impact from less than a third of the world doing it. What's going to happen if everyone in Africa gets a US style SUV doing 9 miles/gallon, as equality would suggest? Answer is, those of us that aren't flooded out by the rising sea will choke to death. Nice.
On a more personal note, I've got a new toy. It's a wooden flute, and it's difficult to play.
I think there's a really easy way to lower binge drinking, or at least violence. Legalise pot. I think binge drinking is people trying desperately to have a good time, and/or forget how shitty their everyday lives are. Legalising dope will mean that some of the people who would have been pissed out of their heads will now be stoned instead. Instantly, less violence.
Also today, rising oil prices might mean that flights are more expensive. This is a good thing. Flying is the least fuel efficient means of travel, and the amount of fuel is finite. Flying should be rationed, or if you prefer market forces it should at least be really expensive. For some reason our crazy society taxes other fuels but not aircraft fuel, hence flying is effectively subsidised! You know there's something fucked up when it's cheaper to fly London to Amsterdam to Liverpool than to get a train.
Yet somehow all those short term minds are worried about is that they can't afford to fly abroad. The idea that every human being can have a holiday with a flight is as dangerous as the idea that everyone can have a car. These ideas will kill us all. We can see the impact from less than a third of the world doing it. What's going to happen if everyone in Africa gets a US style SUV doing 9 miles/gallon, as equality would suggest? Answer is, those of us that aren't flooded out by the rising sea will choke to death. Nice.
On a more personal note, I've got a new toy. It's a wooden flute, and it's difficult to play.
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Date: 2004-05-15 10:57 am (UTC)Regarding the subject at hand, from the deadlygirlz website, I see the sizes range from 20-30" waists. With a 4" reduction that means 24-34".
Now, perhaps this is just me, but I always thought the point of corsets was to push the fat up or down so as to reduce waist size and enhance the breasts? If that is indeed the point, then it seems deadlygirlz are aiming for entirely the wrong section of the market! In order for a corset to do something, the wearer would actually have to have a reducible waist, i.e. one with some fat on it. They would also need to have breasts that were big enough to have a noticeable sag when unsupported. This would suggest to me that corsets would be more useful the larger the woman was, and completely unnecessary below a certain size. I would place that "completely useless" size limit around a 30" waist, with not much effect gained up to 34, so it seems to me that most of the sizes deadlygirlz do corsets in are sizes at which corsets are pointless.
Think about it like this:
You say you've a 34" waist. You find your corset useful. Now suppose you were 2" bigger around the waist, and 2" bigger around the breasts, would a corset be more or less useful? The answer is of course that it would be more useful.
Now imagine that you were that 2" bigger girl. You want a corset, you can make far better use of a corset than those 24" sticks, but deadlygirlz refuse to make you one because...
... and there really isn't any good reason. Deadlygirlz' refusal to create corsets for precisely the people that could make best use of them is extremely confusing to me. I can see that were I a 36+" waisted female I might conceivably take offence at the implication that as a 36" waisted girl I was too big to enjoy nice clothes.
Frankly, I think in the long run a refusal by a corset maker to cater to the market segment that needs corsetry will probably put them out of business.
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Date: 2004-05-15 03:48 pm (UTC)I see your point about corsets- I know several larger girls who find their corsets v flattering to their figures but I would disagree that they don't have much effect on smaller girls. At a 30" waist I use my corset to give me more of a pinched in hour glass figure and a tiny waist and I also use it to enhance my breasts which it does by pushing them up- at a D cup I am at the limit where my boobs would sag if I went without a bra. Corsets also have the effect that they can give anyone however flat chested a bit of a cleavage- some girls have the opp problem you are describing and are unhappy because they are too thin and feel self conscious in a society that celebrates big tits.
I think the answer is that companies like DG should accept that woman come in all shapes and sizes and cater for as large a range as possible.