alright, dude, i can see your penis... (butler pl!)

I think it would be too scary for certain people to admit that blacks and whites actually have more similarities than differences. So, we continue to just stress the differences, all the time

crustythor wrote: the hootie and the blowfish and drunken frat talk 'til 5am

This is the most inexcusable offense, in my opinion.

Hootie and the Blowfish? Still?? Lordy.

mypasswordwontwork wrote: It's interesting how telling people's responses to ambiguous statements can be! I never said that it was racist to not recognize Big Daddy Kane and it is very interesting indeed that you interpreted my comment in that way!

I interpreted it that way because it seems to me you have a history of assuming racism in others, and making "innocent" statements that are not so very. If I'm wrong, correct me. What was your meaning? Why would you be surprised that people didn't recognize it? (Fwiw, I remembered seeing the photo, but couldn't place a name.) I mean, you didn't recognize Little Edie Beale. So what? Different cultural universes. Why make a sniffy remark about how you're not surprised no-one on this board recognized him?

doctorj wrote: Completely anecdotally, it seems to me that people from the Northern Midwest are more than averagely concerned with modesty. I wonder if there's a connection with colonization by Lutherans in the 19th century: all the modest Germans and Scandinavians moved to the Midwest in search of a more private, better draped life, leaving those countries in the godless, modesty-depleted, uncurtained condition for which they're now renowned.

Dude, loosen up a bit.

Anyway race aside, I think it's disrespectful to your neighbors to prance around naked and fuck when you KNOW that your neighbors and your neighbors' kids could see you. How long does it take to draw a fucking curtain??? I just don't get it! It's one thing if you live in a house in its own land but in NYC we largely live very very close to one another and it's time to get some curtains and use them.

mypasswordwontwork wrote: I meant that the majority of people who frequent this board seemed unlikely - IMO - to know much about hip-hop. That is all.

Just speaking for myself, I like quite a great deal of hip-hop (mostly old school tho). I wouldn't make assumptions about other people - I mean, I just don't know what other people listen to. So I'm curious as to why you would make such an assumption.

mypasswordwontwork wrote: Most people who really know their old school hip-hop would instantly recognize a picture of Big Daddy Kane. Just sayin'

I've got tons of music by people I wouldn't instantly recognize a photograph of. And my old hip-hop collection was copied from cassettes in the 80s.

I always wonder who's going to market Occam's Razor first, Bic or Gillette...?

i think that this is the best post in the PH boards ever.

laura wrote: I just think that in this particular discussion Occam's Razor wins the day (people who just moved in haven't bought curtains yet) and your erudition strikes me as a tad stiff and out of place.

What's an abstruse goose to do? Unhemmed by conventional dressings, and perhaps three sheets to the wind, we can drape our prose in fabric of words like 'insouciantly' and 'erudition', but sometimes you don't need to weave in the whole nine yards to throw open the shutters and expose a window on the prying light of bare reason. Like the Venetians before us, you've got it all sewn up: Occam's Razor trims all, whether or not we're cut from the same cloth -- the shady, the blinded, the sill-y, the naked. It draws aside the shadows and defenestrates the quilted patchwork of our tacked up security blankets. Stiff as a rod I may be, you've no need to cut me down to size; my pelmet sits fast. No more dirty linen, no more pointwork in running rings around sheer ambi-valences or endless needling, because it's im-material -- rather than leave it hanging or become fur-ther en-meshed, I think it's curtain time for this darned thread.

doctorj wrote: What's an abstruse goose to do? Unhemmed by conventional dressings, and perhaps three sheets to the wind, we can drape our prose in fabric of words like 'insouciantly' and 'erudition', but sometimes you don't need to weave in the whole nine yards to throw open the shutters and expose a window on the prying light of bare reason. Like the Venetians before us, you've got it all sewn up: Occam's Razor trims all, whether or not we're cut from the same cloth -- the shady, the blinded, the sill-y, the naked. It draws aside the shadows and defenestrates the quilted patchwork of our tacked up security blankets. Stiff as a rod I may be, you've no need to cut me down to size; my pelmet sits fast. No more dirty linen, no more pointwork in running rings around sheer ambi-valences or endless needling, because it's im-material -- rather than leave it hanging or become fur-ther en-meshed, I think it's curtain time for this darned thread.

ProspectPlaceGirl, I have to disagree with you about this thread's place in the pantheon of PH threads, though... 2005 really was a banner year for this board.

doctorj wrote: [quote=escap]And English isn't your native language?

(American is not my native language. English not what I speak at home, but it's my first language).

Oh really? Somehow I thought you were Swedish. My mistake.

cbukster wrote:

Have you all lost your minds?

Personally, I never had a mind to lose.

ProspectPlaceGirl,

How about posting some photos of your neighbor's "great New York boobs"?