WS 2012 Sandbox: ws in the sand

First:

http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/1312452663234.gif

then:

http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/202261151/rachel_businessweeksmall.jpg

Rachel Sterne, Chief Digital Officer for NYC

Would smash into sand (in oh so many different permutations of meaning)

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/50045261/Thom+Yorke+2.jpg

Smash smash smash.

lol is it me or is the idea of Thom Yorke being papped really funny

It is utterly hilarious and deeply RONG. But also v v hott.

Is that a T Rex I see before me?

v. jealous of his flat stomach, of any guy with a flat stomach

signed, El Gordo

I swear he ~posed~ for that "look at me suck in my abs and show off my desire lines" pic above to make up for the "belly rolls and back hair" photo he got papped before.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HTS9mtzNGnI/ScQF3TwkCwI/AAAAAAABIkg/seQMtaMLHGM/s1600/thom-yorke-shirtless-01.jpg

(would totally still smash, either way)

(wow OK the original of that photo is actual size. sorry)

Feel like I'm having a dirty down-low smang with T.Yorke coz you all know that my heart really belongs to my one and only:

http://data6.nightparty.ru/albums/npofficial/00000-000-5096272-696.jpg

<3 <3 <3 <3 <4

Thom Yorke, inspiring unattractive dudes with lazy eyes since 1992

If you ignore the ptosis (which is, actually, let's face it, kinda sexy sometimes?) and the regretable haircuts and the fact that he's five foot nothing in his socks, he's actually got remarkably good bone structure.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/3298507/Thom+Yorke+thom1988.jpg

But if anything, that's got to be an inspiration to unfortunately follicled dudes that this odd-looking little man can still be lusted after by thousands of women around the world?

Thom Yorke, inspiring unattractive dudes with lazy eyes since 1992

― milo z, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 17:05 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

a hoy hoy's hero

lusted after by thousands of women around the world?

Errrrrrrrrrrr, is he?

I wasn't being sarcastic. Talented ugly guys should give us all hope.

x-post One word: CHEESECAKE. He totally is. Hugely.

p.s. it's not a lazy eye. My Cornish Husband has a lazy eye, thusly:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/69339878/Aphex+Twin.jpg

which is also v v sexy in a slightly different way.

O_o

http://img.poptower.com/pic-27286/aziz-ansari.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liadf6teE71qi3b4ro6_r1_500.jpg

is the woman in the original post Trudy from Mad Men

Is that a T Rex I see before me?

― OH GNUS (Pyth), Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:46 AM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah what is up with his arms they look cachectic

y alison brie is trudy

you should check community threads they are basically abt her boobs

I was gonna make a comment about excessive skinniness being due to being a vegan but I didn't wanna start that clusterfuck in the sandbox. I'll take him to Brixton Market and stuff him with cupcakes.

as someone who is going attempt going vegan as my ny resolution and also could lose a couple stone, i'm glad to see excessive skinniness

thomosexuality is a sin

It's pretty easy to be a junk food vegan and be the opposite of skinny if you're not careful with what you're eating. Just saying you shouldn't count on that alone as a weight loss technique AHH.

thomosexuality tuomasexuality is a sin

fixed

I was so happy to have climbed to Thomosexuality from being totally Aphexual!

Hoy, if you become a skinny armed, lazy-eyed vegan I can introduce you to loads of RH-loving ladies who would be dying to meet you in Last.fm and YouTube comments threads!

I was just thinking Tuomasexual II would be a great display name
xp

heh beat you to it

I'm bored of this name already. It was all just to make a "hullo CLOUDS" joke which I messed up anyway. Ho hum.

This thred has not been going well.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/-ig9LkjAWAR0/ThoqbNccNTI/AAAAAAAAAAA/tgDi1H7gfMA/s512/ellie_kemper_photo_by_josephine_sittenfeld1_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg

^otm

honest to god, my first thought was that that was a subtle photoshop of Thom Yorke

http://www.popmatters.com/images/reviews_art/j/josnizoosplash.jpg

look into my eye(s), Fotherington Thomas

"omg i'm crying"

Balerhghalghhhhl. I need a floppy-haired palate cleanser.

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/la/alves_muxo_handbag_departures2_080808/jake_weber_2015444.jpg

based on this thread all of ilx's sexual desires are directed at radiohead and nbc sitcoms...ok yeah that sounds about right

NNNGNGNGNGNGN NGJGNGNNGGN LKADJFAKSJF LKDJFKLASJDFKLASJDFLKJSDKLF ALSDFJKLJKLJDLKJKLJKL

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bFJCxeavSzM/RcN1UloqI5I/AAAAAAAAAa0/QBnl29MxPBU/s1600/cheesepage3.jpg

^^^^^^not responsible for any BRANE BRAKAEGE that may occur if you click this link

is that thom yorke making out with our stevie?

Which Stevie?

No, that's a Greenwood. Colin, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGYc2_4s3U

I can't find a Jonny one that doesn't have way too much cock in it to post here. There's only so much incest I can take and I always thought Colin was hottter anyway. Also the slash is canonical.

Oh ohew, one page without cocks:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bFJCxeavSzM/Rq1mQUkV6LI/AAAAAAAACYk/Tmoxyqvfw8c/s1600-h/Capitulo+3_Pag-3.jpg

The way she's drawn his ~FINGERS~ in the first panel is just too, too delightful.

My 23 year old self just came.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/931/1994rockondv2.jpg

The thread started with so much ws promise with just one simple gift, but omg has it been forever ruined.

gif, but really a gift too

https://fbcdn-photos-a.akamaihd.net/photos-ak-snc1/v41818/flyers/105/54/13201036671324518982_1_9cfa4f6e.jpg

bad attitude for the ws thread

who's that on the right - is that Brett Anderson or Lars Ulrich?

FT is why we need SB also why 77 is invite only

http://guy.com/a/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Cintia-Dicker-1.jpg

nah xp

Yea.

Wow, she's really beautiful and not just cause tits.

http://www.celebrityonlines.com/upload/cintia-dicker_012.jpg

tits
tits
tits
tits
tits
tits
tits
tits
tits
tits
tits

Her last name's DICKER

nice

very nice

http://www.thecoolist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Cintia-Dicker_by-Ellen-von-Unwerth_for-Lula-Magazine_7.jpg

imma go nuclear on this thred fair warning

Look out Zooey!

http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/wallpapers/128224/cintia-dicker-mobile-wallpaper.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-K3K7mJRiniI/TWICsTuMAKI/AAAAAAAAJSM/zgmz8CQ-R6Y/s1600/Cintia+Dicker+%2528i-D+June+2007%2529+%25283%2529.JPG

http://www.etoday.ru/uploads/2009/04/02/cintia_dicker_anna_mag14.jpg

http://www.efi-costarica.com/images/antique-tub-chair-21306641.jpg

Why is it more legitimate to post up enormous pictures of tits than to post up pictures of a scrawny dude in shorts? If you wanted it to be WS: females only, then you should have put that in the thread title.

The chair is probably the most smashable thing posted so far, in my opinion.

^ that discussion is pointless. I never said one was more valid than the other. I did imply that FT was trolling, however

If you knew FT, you would know that she would indeed smash Mr Yorke. That's what the thread is for, right? So how is it trolling?

^^^

Jimmy Mod Explains to you How To Masturbate Correctly

^this is a valid point, also WS threads have a no judgey policy that I am violating. Post away. xp

hmmn idk isn't that chair a bit low? i have a similar chair which is higher but it still isn't ideal

fwiw I thought it was trolling too just because there were so many pics posted in a row not because of the subject matter or anything.

idk if it's low but it seems to deserve a better fate than it has in that pic xp

smash or no, i *am* appalled by mr. yorke's hair

i think it's a bit of both, also i really like that chair

Glad we cool, Jimmy. I don't have any current WS' to contribute, sadly. I don't tend to get turned on by celebs/models, really.

xpost, E - nah, that's just over-excitement, not trolling!

and i'm totally pro-trolling WS threads

the lugubrious curves and plush upholstery are their own reward, capable of imbuing even the most contemporary of rooms with the ambience of a country house hotel in the 1970s

justine seems so regretful

I was just telling my wife and daughter a few minutes ago about how on ILX, nothing gets crapped on quicker than expressions of enthusiasm.

I think that red headed big breasted woman was in some bra commercial that nearly made me yazoo

god i hope i never regale my family with tales of message board meanies

J0n Arbuckle, do you really mean she made you:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_oJDHBv1Dgkc/S6EZavTxoiI/AAAAAAAADUU/s0Lei1oXZ0Q/s320/yazoo_002893_1_MainPicture%5B1%5D.jpg

????

This could get confusing because those who even know of Yazoo in the US know them as Yaz.

Would smash Vince Clarke out of sheer admiration and <333 for almost all he's ever done but I'm pretty sure I'm not exactly his type. ;_;

and Yaz is also the name of that birth control product there's a class action lawsuit about?

It's definitely a BCP. Didn't know about the lawsuit.

it's one of the facebook ads i get all the time!

lol

yep. that's what she made me do, move out, stop messing around

otm about Vince Clarke too -- though he is not on our team

I will have you know I am now playing Upstairs at Eric's because of this thread. Thanks thread!

did a mule spray barley into that ginger's face or

http://www.filmofilia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Elizabeth-Olsen.jpg

On every forum ever: it is always the ~same dudes~ who post the HUEGEST amount of random ladies' tits pics, who object most strongly if someone objectifies a man with anything near approaching the same enthusiasm.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6501355643_a18c9d67a2_b.jpg

^^^^^^that is, conveniently, both WS and my reply

"OMG, this makes me uncomfortable, therefore I *must* be being trolled, there is no other explanation!"

Such as, y'know, Thom Yorke in eyeliner really is sex on a stick

http://www.radiox.ru/pics/1993/93010.jpg

I have no problem at all with the blond hair extensions stage. That's what he looked like the first time I saw his band so it's all "ah, nostalgia." The only TY haircut I really W not S was that terrible terrible shaved head plus Tintin spike he wore between 1997 and 2001.

ICEBERG

He looks kinda like Andrej Pejic in that pic which can really only be a good thing.

http://www.fashionisingpictures.net/photoshoots/110414AndrejPejic.jpg

(there should really be a "dudes biting their shirts" sub-section but unfortunately it would be full of that Gosling tosser and W not S no nononononono.)

c'mon no dudes on this thread say "i came"

I counted one, in the vernacular

Sorry, help me out, perhaps you should provide me with a list of expressions of approval which are acceptable in this thread, so I know, y'know...

Acceptable:
-would smash
-she made me yazoo
-tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits tits etc

Not acceptable:
-I came
-cock cock cock cock cock cock?

Because I totally need to know the ~acceptable~ way to express that I would like to Vince Clarke all over this man's face:

http://www.radiox.ru/pics/r/tomx/ty068.jpg

fotheringtonmaxsmom

F.ing. Thom. = best WS poster. emil.y otm.

.

Fostering Thom As?

If you knew FT, you would know that she would indeed smash Mr Yorke. That's what the thread is for, right? So how is it trolling?

― Illia Rump (emil.y), Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

^this is a valid point, also WS threads have a no judgey policy that I am violating. Post away. xp

― Mr Jimmy Mod, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink

So, y'know, read

Jimmy, I got no beef with you. I appreciate the clarification.

But, y'know, there were another couple dozen posts that I decided to respond to - not nastily, but with humour. Hence the jokes about "Vince Clarke" referencing the funnies above.

This is something that this thread has brought sharply to my attention - how differently people read my intentions from my actions. Like, when I'm being exhuberantly gleeful some people read it as trolling, (except emil.y who knows me IRL enough to know that I'm being genuinely joyfully enthusiastic) When I'm being playful like I was being to jaymc, do people read that as nasty?

I dunno. It's *interesting* to me, to note differences and patterns. There's a ton of stuff that, like, talking to Hoy and Milo and Mookie on this thread has made me think about WRT attraction. But it's really kind of a bummer knowing that people are going to get defensive the moment gender even gets mentioned, and therefore get aggro towards me. Which is no fun for anyone. Because I thought this thread was just happy fun lusting and crushing, you know?

if anyone's seriously getting aggressive towards you or anyone else in this thread they need to gtfo immediately. this right here is the ws zone, the zone for

http://images.starpulse.com/news/bloggers/10/blog_images/selita-ebanks-1.jpg

Would smash Vince Clarke out of sheer admiration and <333 for almost all he's ever done but I'm pretty sure I'm not exactly his type. ;_;

― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Thursday, 15 December 2011 03:06 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

I read this as Vince Cable and had a genuine WTFFFFFFFFFFFFF moment.

Thom Yorke is less trolly than Paz de la Huerta was in the troo thread.

paz dlh is amazing, it was the particular pic of her that was a little trolly

which particular pic? oh, all of them?

have you seen boardwalk empire just asking

GUYS.

HEY E WASSUP

She's not my cup of tea either but I feel like at this point WHO CARES.

noone cares, it is just ilx and i'm bored.

Fair enough.

she is a legit discussion topic iirc

also she is not a cup of tea type of gal she is a shot of rotgut type of gal imo

But we've had that discussion a million times already!
I am bored too but can't think of anyone to post. ;_; Sad.

btw i can't view pics so it's all acadeemc

girl from tv3 football coverage is ws but i think i'll keep that one to myself tbh

Problem is, there are very many people who I think are v v pretty, such as the above mentioned Andrej Pejic

http://www.lustralboy.com/images/uploads/lboctap6.jpg

and ppl like Bastien Bonizec who is super hott to ridiculous extremes

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4003/4284450850_aca70e5199_o.jpg

and George Allen who is also off the scale physically amazing looking in every way

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lk34djNTCa1qg02rso1_500.gif

But I don't want to smash any of them. I just want to look at them. Like, the aesthetics of them is just enough. I can't even imagine speaking to them, let alone any kind of sexual interaction, it would just be too distracting. I enjoy looking at perfection, but I'm not actually ~attracted~ to perfection.

I don't know if this is because, literally, it is the flaws that make someone beautiful as opposed to merely pretty, to me - or if it's a question of expectations. As a person who is not actually that conventionally attractive to start with, the kind of people that I have got involved with tend towards the "clever but quite odd looking" in the way of TY and RDJ so maybe I've been conditioned to fancy clever but slightly odd looking men bcuz that is where my sexing has usually come from? (Or the other way around, that I expect men with TY or RDJ type looks as opposed to male model looks are more likely to settle for me?) But this gets into that weird thing about looks-based expectations that causes arguments and angst on the OKC thread and the Gurl thread so I'm just going to look at the pretty male models. Pretty.

Andrej is so like his dad

http://www.bluekipper.com/onthisdayimages/1295947744-mike_pejic.jpg

I know this is the thread for keeping it positive and all, but PLEASE get that hideous creature off the smashing thread, massive buzz-kill, ugh.

lol

relevant to my interests:
http://www.esquire.com/women/me-in-my-place/ari-graynor-pics-0111?click=top

http://cdn02.cdn.egotastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/14/ari-graynor-esquire-me-in-my-place-10-580x430.jpg
http://cdn03.cdn.egotastic.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/14/ari-graynor-esquire-me-in-my-place-15-580x289.jpg

schwinn(g)

she is breathtakingly hot

holy

HELOOOOOOOO NURSE

also she is not a cup of tea type of gal she is a shot of rotgut type of gal imo

― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, December 15, 2011 10:06 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

^^^actual lols

my 23 yr old self just spurted all over the county of limerick

This thread and others like it are just perpetual Sociological Images 101 in terms of the *presentation* of female sexual attractiveness vs male sexual attractiveness.

Genuinely not criticising any individuals on this thread, but just find it really strange and perplexing. Can anyone find me the equivalent of heartthrob dudes, straddling bicycles in their skivvies? I mean, seriously, not that "man pin-ups" calendar thing. Even heartthrobs I don't find attractive, but maybe people like Mark Ruffalo or Ryan Gosling that the ladies of ILX find attractive? I am just wondering what the equivalent is, and how they are represented.

Stating again for the record, I'm not trolling and apologies in advance if I offend any men with this line of questioning, I am just interested in this. The presentation of heartthrob men in their underwear. What's it look like?

freddie ljungberg ad that my gf uses as a bookmark!

http://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/hasselhoff-puppies.jpg

That must make quite an indentation on the page (xp)

Well, share! x-post

The closest I can think of is...

I have an academic friend who every year gets shipped in a "men of the French Rugby team" calendar which portrays sportsmen in a very "beautiful boys" kind of way, strategically naked, romping with horses and sports equipment - but it is photographed in a very "homoerotic" gaze - i.e. we have endless arguments about whether it's designed for women or gay men.

When I get out of this meeting I'll try and find some photos she's posted of it.

Great example, horseshoe!

looking up on phone is unwieldy, looking up on work pc isn't gonna hapoen, think it was ysl campaign tho

Calvin Klein, maybe?

http://m.blog.hu/ou/ourfashion/image/bianka/Liz8_calvinkle.jpg

I am not familiar with these people, is this the right man?

That's him. You said on another thread something about some photograph of some SEXY HUNK that it was a male idea of what an attractive man was and I thought, no, that's like 1000% wrong!

Actually he appears to have done 40,000 pants ads so what would I know?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vJbEFgWRC5M/S9nyY364rgI/AAAAAAAAA8E/2YOoIhTC4FI/s1600/becks.jpg

I'm still not feeling the smash, TBH, but it's interesting imagery.

Damn. Anyway, meeting!

the one i'm talking bout he's sitting thighs akimbo in boxers, ie v much a 'lads mag' for girls- or, as you say, maybe other guys

The underwear or the sportsmen?

Genuinely not criticising any individuals on this thread, but just find it really strange and perplexing. Can anyone find me the equivalent of heartthrob dudes, straddling bicycles in their skivvies?
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, December 16, 2011 5:02 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

You posted a picture of a man with his legs spread, biting his shirt as he reveals his abdomen.

Indeed, an androgynous boy/man but still a man

Think Deems is on to something - is this visual vocabulary derived from "lads mag" poses (legs akimbo in knickers)? Is there a different vocabulary for "what" "women" "want" or is it just the same thing transposed?

Revealing the abdomen is definitely a ~thing~ - not just for me, but loads of women...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/2388946/Thom+Yorke+ombligooo.jpg

^^^^^^total WS and also used as the splash image for lots of female oriented fan sites so this is not just a *me* thing, don't know if it's "look at my sixpack I am fit" or if it's "I am revealing my vulnerable areas"

The biting the shirt thing also appears to be a ~thing~ - it's not just Ryan Gosling (though, W not S) thing, but it's a repeated thing in the vocabulary of presentation of objects of female desire, but I think that's a universal thing, because oral pleasure is definitely a thing for all genders - whether it's ladies licking ice cream or men chewing at their clothing with desire.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Kozz3X37AII/TGWiIN-0wWI/AAAAAAAABSs/lZ0_IMOrV08/s1600/1139583810_DAlessiaRyanGosling.jpg

I don't think that Andrej Peljic is a good example for anything because he's one of those people whose entire career is based on shaking up or transposing or dismantling the visual vocabulary of gender and Style but here he is with very female styled presenation, yet that "here is my abdomen" of male sexual presentation. Which I find fascinating.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/278071/ANDREJ-PEJIC-DOSSIER.jpg

I like people just kind of dressed in regular clothes best

How about biting regular clothes?

FT, there is such a thing as over-thinking things.

Thom Yorke is a persistent abdomen exposer. It's really quite endearing.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/12936693/Thom+Yorke+yhellothar.jpg

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/28433819/Thom+Yorke++Sunglasses.jpg

There's more recent ones, too, but I can't be arsed to dig through 40,000 fan sites to find them right now.

Do wonder how much of Ryan Gosling's appeal is down to *his* persistent abdomen exposing. Watching fan dialogue about him, it's not even the abdomen but those ~lines~ that extend from hip to groin. Which seem to drive many women (OK, Jezebel commenters and ladies in my tweetstream) into a froth of sexual excitation.

FT, there is such a thing as over-thinking things.

― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 December 2011 12:04 (4 minutes ago)

Um, have you taken a look at where you ~are~? This is ILX. We have 400 post threads about whether to put 1 or 2 spaces after a fullstop. And you think questioning the pervasive and all-surrounding depictions of one of human beings' most fundamental activities is *overthinking*?

RMDE!

It's not but I guess this thread has a standing history of being mostly pictures and people often get up in arms when it gets too wordy. More pics, less talk was the sort of arrangement we had previously. There are tons of other threads where this sort of thing can and should be discussed.

ps - Gosling is overrated in the attractiveness dept imo. I just don't really get the appeal.

^^ otm xp

*perplexed face*

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/392283/Thom+Yorke.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyv8d3FXtA1qa1iiqo1_500.jpg

anyway. where were we.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dDPWwJABtuk/TtxnZNPljWI/AAAAAAAANhU/Gw0mXSNja5s/s1600/Denise%2BMilani%2B01.jpg

^^^^^ would not smash. He looks bizarre, and totally unlike himself. That photo has always freaked me out.

(sorry, too much talking again)

HAHAHAHAHAH x-post

lol

TY does look really weird there. It's over photoshopped, right?

FT I wasn't trying to be mean or bitchy before. I just wanted you to know why ppl might be giving you a hard time. A little talk is fine but the big discussions stuff is generally better elsewhere, I think?

http://s3.amazonaws.com/cmi-niche/assets/pictures/4136/content_Michael-Pitt.jpg?1289857992

I think he's one of those people who looks better in action than still pics but I love Michael Pitt even tho in most real life pics he looks pretty gross and sort of like he smells. He's pretty beautiful imo.

ahhh huge sorry

He looks weird because they've photoshopped out all the things that make him look distinctive - his freckles, his ptosis, his sticky out ears, his lizard cheekbones. I think he looks so much better like this (apart from the bad hair)

http://www.radiox.ru/pics/r/tomx/ty063.jpg

But then again, I think that *this* woman is so beautiful and amazing looking and sexy *because* of her freckles, and ppl were being nasty about them upthread (makes me feel self conscious TBH)

http://guy.com/a/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Cintia-Dicker-1.jpg

I have no idea how that Michael Pitt dude is, but he is ~pretty~ - then again, I don't have a problem with dudes looking like they smell, as we all know.

http://trialx.com/curetalk/wp-content/blogs.dir/7/files/2011/04/gcelebrities/Michael_Pitt-3.jpg

That woman's freckles are amazing.

The first thing I remember seeing Pitt in was Hedwig and the Angry Inch but he's been in a bunch of movies and is one of the main people on Boardwalk Empire.

I love Michael Pitt even tho in most real life pics he looks pretty gross and sort of like he smells. He's pretty beautiful imo.

this is AGL, cf daniel craig, sometimes

It can be and the pic FT posted is hottt but he's lefit shown up to some premiers in disgusting stained t shirts looking like he really hasn't showered in months. I think he may have had some errr problems for a time. It was an unhealthy sort of gross look not a hot one.

Don't understand how anyone could object to freckles tbh

Can we use this thread for vintage ws's too? Because

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/tumblr_lslcj93r4j1qdy7vgo1_500.jpg

The model Ferenc Berko used for his 'Nude Study, Paris, 1937' series... yes oh yes...

p much of the opinion that god invented freckles so that the ppl of the "Celtic" nations could get laid. (or maybe that's whisky, not sure TBH)

See also exhibit A:

http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Aphex+Twin-b.jpg

Now, that's "conventionally handsome", I'll grant you.

Sorry, *shh*

I just realized that michael pitt and I sort of look like we could be related and not I've skeeved myself out.

ha ha, I have only just realised that Thommy there is totally biting the style of my No 1 Boyfriend...

http://www.radiox.ru/pics/r/tomx/ty063.jpg

http://www.ratsnest.com/pictures/albums/Aphex%20Twin%20-%20Richard%20D.%20James%20Album.jpg

I just realized that michael pitt and I sort of look like we could be related and not I've skeeved myself out.

This is a skeeve, why? It's part of the appeal of No.1 Boyfriend, TBh :-P

what do ♀ilx think of 'France's fresh-faced finance minister, François Baroin, 46'?

Any shots of him bearing his abdomen and/or biting a shirt?

Any shots of him bearing his abdomen and/or biting a shirt?

― Derek Pringles (Deep in the Tony Hart land), Friday, 16 December 2011

^^^^^^^would be helpful in deciding

Quick GIS shows him to be alright in a smarmy blow dried Nu Labour kind of way, but he's no Chuka Umunna that's for sure.

that "weird" picture of Thom is from a series of photos, including the other radiohead dudes, where they were all obscenely photoshopped in the glossy fashion mag style.

by the way, i'm in the camp that's cool with thom yorke (and anyone else) getting posted, just not 5 trillion times. it's not like there's a hard limit but come on

hard limit

that "weird" picture of Thom is from a series of photos, including the other radiohead dudes, where they were all obscenely photoshopped in the glossy fashion mag style.

yeah it kind of amazes me that anyone had to explain this considering that he's HOLDING UP A SIGN WITH PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS

i was gonna say

but it was a cardboard sign, so, less legit

Dear Z S, while you're here, please can you photoshop my RMDE poster into an animated GIF where all the members of RMDE are, literally, rolling their eyes and KMT-ing?

I will curtail my Thom Yorke enthusiasm on this thread to no more than 1 Thom per day if you do this for me, and that's a promise.

hahaha

i'm not ready to commit, but i need to ask two questions:

who are RMDE?
what is KMT-ing?

:)

i'm gonna break my self imposed salpa ban at this rate

Rolling My Damn Eyes
Kissing My Teeth

Come on, that should be a cinch for someone with your photoshop skillz!

The poster is upthread, but here it is again if you don't feel like going back that far

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7154/6501355643_a18c9d67a2_b.jpg

i'm gonna break my self imposed salpa ban at this rate

Now you've lost me, you internet kids

georgia salpa GIS imo

hmmm, Kiss My Teeth is interesting, but what if I go for the alternative KMT definition at Urban Dictionary?

KMT 52 up, 497 down
THESE 3 WORDS STAND FOR KRAZY.MEXICAN.TAGGERS A CREW IN SOUTH MPLS 612 IN MINNESOTA....
IM FROM THE TAGGIN CREW KMT FOO!

They have Sexy Models in Ireland? An outrage!

So long as there is eye-rolling involved, sure, go crazy! I have 100% faith in your inspired funnies-bringing creative skills.

I demand freckles!

salpa is iirc the only girl in ireland w/out the pigmentation speckle

Salpa is semi-imported tbf

hush now

yah i mentioned that to deems before

a neat mirroring where brazil deifies freckly cynthia dicker and ireland reps for mediterraneans

Yes, you don't get Sexy People in Ireland

I just watched Your Highness, which wasn't very good, but I thought the actress playing the love interest of the protagonists' brother was pretty hot:

http://0.tqn.com/d/movies/1/0/E/I/X/your-highness-photo-zooey-deschanel2.jpg

Sadly it was only a supporting role, while the lead female role was by Natalie Portman, who I don't really find attractive at all.

Guys is this a 'shop? What do you think?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh96sj28Zq1qgw04po1_400.jpg

lol 'the actress'

What's funny about that?

Article 452 of the 'non-gender-specific' role descriptors in the Language English retired the word "Actress" in 1997.

Oh Tuomas. <3

yeah it kind of amazes me that anyone had to explain this considering that he's HOLDING UP A SIGN WITH PHOTOSHOP INSTRUCTIONS

I didn't read the damn sign!

lol 'the actress'

― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Friday, December 16, 2011 2:21 PM

^^

tuomas is that the first time you became aware of zooey d??

Tuomas that actress is Zoey I can't be bothered to actually look up how you spell her last name. She's pretty popular her as the cutesy indie actress of the past couple years and the subject of at least one v popular ILX thread.

He's pulling a lex on us

I think I've seen her in a trailer for some other movie too. Is she not an actress, then?

(xx-post)

Wait, this is not actually Tuomas, is it?

It's funny to us because pretty much everyone in the US/UK would know her name, that's all.

Fake Tuomas? Geir, stop that will you?

Okay, I didn't know she was such a "thing". I've never seen her in any other movie.

Using the phrase "actress", not specifying gender in the period poll, I seriously think this is an imposter.

x-post - It's OK, you're not missing much.

Yes, Real Tuomas would know who she is

It's funny to us because pretty much everyone in the US/UK would know her name, that's all.

― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Friday, 16 December 2011 14:27

yah i think it's perfectly acceptable to not know who she is but quite funny in an ilx context

anyway i reckon sandbox tuom is real, maybe too real but still real

I've always thought "actress" was a bit stupid (there is a gendered ending equivalent to "-ess" in Finnish, but it's old-fashioned and nobody uses it anymore), but I thought it was the only grammatically correct term? If not, I'll start using it "actor" then.

Nah, hardly anyone calls actresses actors

Helen Mirren probably does, but I'm struggling thereafter

I was looking at Zooey Deschanel's filmography, and apparently she was in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I have actually seen. I guess she wasn't that memorable in it, because this was the first I time I paid attention to her, and she does have a pretty distinctive face.

pls someone post mirren pic thx

it's gradually becoming adopted but few people would say 'the actor playing the love interest of the protagonists' brother' wrt eg zooey

i've gruon accuostuomed tuo her faaace

Tuomas, never change.

Yeah, there are two threads devoted to her on ILX: one on ILE and another on ILM. (She's also a singer.)

She's probably best known for the movies (500) Days of Summer and Elf, although now she is the star of a popular US sitcom, too.

This thread and others like it are just perpetual Sociological Images 101 in terms of the *presentation* of female sexual attractiveness vs male sexual attractiveness.

Genuinely not criticising any individuals on this thread, but just find it really strange and perplexing. Can anyone find me the equivalent of heartthrob dudes, straddling bicycles in their skivvies? I mean, seriously, not that "man pin-ups" calendar thing. Even heartthrobs I don't find attractive, but maybe people like Mark Ruffalo or Ryan Gosling that the ladies of ILX find attractive? I am just wondering what the equivalent is, and how they are represented.

Stating again for the record, I'm not trolling and apologies in advance if I offend any men with this line of questioning, I am just interested in this. The presentation of heartthrob men in their underwear. What's it look like?

― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Friday, 16 December 2011 11:02 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

At this point you'd posted two pictures of Thom Yorke just in shorts and Andrej Pejic showing off his chest and with his legs spread. Just sayin'.

Ok and then after reading this rest of the thread I see that had been pointed out many times.

I've already been told several times to lay off this thread of conversation, but my point was: these kinds of images (all images of Pejic, images of Yorke in shorts) are very much the exception in the portrayal of men in popular culture (with seemingly only very specific areas where men are portrayed in those ways: boybands and beefcake actors aimed at women, and also sports figures) but they are much more common in the portrayal of women, regardless of the setting.

I have to search through quite a lot more images, and often much more deliberately, to find a picture of Thom Yorke portraying him in that kind of way, than if I type "zooey deschanel" into GIS and they come up in the first row. Why is it so much harder for me to find what I want to see?

It's a numbers game and it's about expectations. I just find it weird, OK?

I did a GIS search for "Olyphant" cuz I'm not sure who he is and google auto-filled with "Timothy Olyphant shirtless."

Why is it so much harder for me to find what I want to see?

Because Titillating Thommy Yorke's probably not that into getting photographed in sexy poses/clotheses? And there's not really that much demand for it either, tbh.

would shush, more pics!

Also, probably the same reason every time I type "Freaky" towards "Freaky Trigger Popular" in GoogleSearch, it always autosuggests "Freaky Friday" first.

Ummm the fact that Zooey D and Thom Yorke come from totally different spectrums of pop culture might have something to do with it. Zooey D should be compared to someone like Jake Gyllanhal or Gosling, who always be showing themselves off as popular young actors are likely to do. Whereas the equiv to Yorke or Aphex is... PJ Harvey or someone? And she hasn't been seen dressed more like this today-

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/pjharvey648.jpg

--

Of course I'm not saying that men are as equally sexualised or exploited or whatever. I just think maybe the 'how people post to ws' thing is a misnomer.

(totally ws peej, obv.)

Because PJ Harvey has *never* been photographed in her skivvies, amirite? RONG.

Because Titillating Thommy Yorke's probably not that into getting photographed in sexy poses/clotheses?

I could write paragraphs about his changing attitudes towards his body and being photographed over the past 20 years, but this isn't the place. There is certainly the demand, though.

Anyway, more pics. Whatevs.

Peej did a bit of that early on in her career but not much lately (unless you have the pics, heh heh)

FT shut up and post more pix. You want to discuss politics of WS hie thee to a thread on the topic. Be forewarned: it will consist of you talking to yourself and tuomas scratching his head as you both try and figure out what it means to be human.

And she hasn't been seen dressed more like this today-

http://cellardoorfam.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/azealia-banks.jpg?w=500&h=334

I don't like 212 but Azealia Banks herself is super cute.

Fotherington Thomas: here

LOL @ bottom right

Z S you are my HERO and I love you forever carry your books home from school do your taxes for free kinds of love. You have just MADE my afternoon!

lol, no problem. but i have to admit that i felt gross making that. gonna take a shower, brb

Genuinely not criticising any individuals on this thread, but just find it really strange and perplexing. Can anyone find me the equivalent of heartthrob dudes, straddling bicycles in their skivvies? I mean, seriously, not that "man pin-ups" calendar thing.

That Ari Graynor shoot I posted is actually less an example of how starlets are sexualized than most - she's portrayed more in the vein of 'it's so hot when my girlfriend lounges around in one of my shirts' and she's stunningly hot but not in a rail-thin model way. Curvy is too often damning with faint praise (or used to describe model-thin women with big boobs), but she legit is.

model thin women with big boobs are legit curvy stop hatin on the way-thin

No, they're thin women with big boobs, jesus, darra. Like what you like but don't be disingenuous about it for chrissake.

milo, I noticed what you say about that model, still would say some things but the intent of the photos but this isn't the place obv as everyone has agreed.

*about the intent of the photos

i felt gross making that. gonna take a shower, brb

Maybe not the best wording itt, tbh.

I noticed what you say about that model

I did too. When I saw the pictures last night I did a double take because her body was a) awesome b) so damn refreshing to see which is both wonderful and incredibly sad at the same time.

Maybe not the best wording itt, tbh.

aahahahahaha

not being disingenuous, boobs are curves?

I like my boobs like my post-punk, angular as fuck.

They're the (only) kinds of curves sexy women are "supposed" to have, that are policed equally as much as how thin everything ELSE on one's body is supposed to be. You, as a dude, will probably think/say, "But all of them are awesome!" but that is not reflected in media.

Noted comedic actor Stanley Tucci

but it's as much policing in another direction to claim a girl with boobs and eg slim hips *can't* be described as curvy- imo, and not disingenuously. There's certainly no inherent value judgement or 'should' involved.

dear god why didn't we make this a new thread

I've only seen him in Devil Wears Prada and Julie/Julia over the last few years, I didn't know what else to call him

and that high-school remake of The Scarlet Letter

Stop defensively mansplaining about how I should feel about the demands on women's bodies. There is value judgment EVERY IOTA OF THIS THREAD and in the whole societal conversation on every aspect of female physical beauty.

Agreed. That said, I really really hate the term "mansplaining" and find it pretty offensive.

OMG I met a female mansplainer the other week! For real! I nearly fell off my chair because it was the first time I'd ever encountered one. I wish there were a different term for it now, but this one will have to do because, well, I'm lazy and I like the shortcut of it.

xp Let me know when you come up for another word for it that you like better.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2319/2351146820_42031d875f.jpg

I wish there was a better term, believe me. :(

if that's what i was doing i'm sorry? I don't know where i've told you or insinuated what you feel or should feel. My last sentence (just trying to reply to your own use of 'should') in the post was rushed because i'm at work, and if it's clumsy again, apologies.

OMG @ "mansplainer", I feel like my life was a little better five minutes ago when I didn't know the term existed.

The problem is, the "man" in "mansplain" doesn't ~have~ to refer to the male gender, but the inherent assumption of automatic greater knowledge due to unspoken privilege. If you can get all that in a snappy 2-syllable phrase, we're laughing.

There are still people left on ILX that are unfamiliar with the term "mansplaining"? Really? Guess it was a positive thing that Thom's irresistable belly drove me to this thread, in a small way, then.

I mean I understand the concept of what it refers to, but I honestly 100% had never heard the term itself until today.

ditto, thank god

I pretty much hate all words that do that type of thing though, "mansplain", "bromance", "manscaping", like worst trend ever.

Do you hate all neologisms, or just the ones that draw attention to previously unremarked areas of male behaviour?

Definitely somewhere between the two.

definitely a sexist kind of marketing driven application of "man-" to all kinds of things, to make clear that it's ok for men to do it or have it.

but that's not really of the same species as "mansplain"

i.e. I don't hate all neologisms, I just hate "cutesy" (for lack of a better word) ones that are most often used to describe a new cultural trend that really isn't a new cultural trend at all

Fair enough. Because I tend to reserve my hatred for neologisms like "vagazzle" and shit like that - because on your latter count, you know, I just feel a bit "welcome to our world"

Well yeah it just sorta happened that all of the examples that popped into my head were of the, "OMG men do this too" variety.

I'm not sure the concepts of bromances and manscaping and so on were unremarked on before - bromance is just a dumb and conceivably offensive ('it's so not GAY, god no') take on male friendships, isn't it?

bags are for women, men have "manbags"
hair removal is for women, men have to "manscape"

etc.

anything conceivably feminine has to be (semi-jokingly, lest you be led to think seriously about it at all) re-named to be man-suitable.

You know what? I'll make a deal. We'll take manbag and manscape and bromance away if you can get rid of "actress" and "lady doctor" and "female musician" and every other damn ugly phrase that gets applied to women and only women? Kay? x

i'm not arguing with you? i think these terms originate from the same place

fwiw I just posted this on the girls thread as to why the term bugs me a lot

x-post - It just seems to me to imply that it's something that all and only men do which I don't think is actually the case. That's why I was saying that I'd prefer a term like FT was suggesting. One that encapsulates the phenomenon as FT stated above and doesn't seem so damning and exclusive.

Yeah, I kind of feel like that (entirely justified) vitriol is aimed at the wrong people here?

xxxp - I don't see how any of those are akin to neologisms that are designed to make cultural prejudices against being perceived as feminine or gay okay (manbags, etc.). Actress? I don't know how that can conceivably be offensive.

Goole, I don't think these terms actually do originate from "the same place." Or at least, not in the same way?

Because I think that the "lady X" and "-ess" terms come from a place of diminishing and othering women because we can't have or be the ~real~ thing.

While the "Man-" terms - perhaps they come from a marketing perspective? But I guess that is the same place, because the whole reason that men have to have a ~special~ Man-thing rather than just a thing (associated with women) is because the association with ~women~ and ~what women do~ is considered so awful and icky that a dude who wouldn't be caught dead carrying a handbag feels OK carrying a Manbag?

But then that's all that "marketing of masculinity" stuff which comes from the same place of OMG gender panic, so if that's what you mean by "coming from the same place" then yes they are.

Anyway, I really think that someone needs to post a picture of an attractive person quite soon because this is quite a derail. I'm not allowed to post any more Thoms so Pyth or CO, do you have anyone to add?

I never post anyone but Steve McQueen, so you can just imagine another Bullit still here if you like.

"cultural prejudices against being perceived as feminine or gay" = based on the idea that being feminine sucks = sexism

Judging women on their femaleness first (as in the case of "actress") and their ~stuff they do~ second (with a side order of men = real thing, women = weird special lady thing) = also sexism

No, I think that part of me is hibernating or something right now. I can't think of anyone. I guess that hot picture of Paul Newman is my go to but I can't be bothered GISing it now so

HOT PAUL NEWMAN PIC HERE

my fucking head is killing me

Ok here

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0vddi9GZe1qbxep8o1_400.jpg

omg I feel a lot better now

How about Lemmy and Stacia? I would happily smash either of them in those days.

http://www.angel.dk/hawkwind/store/HawkStaA_02A.jpg

Hott dudes = better than yoga at making heads not hurt. Proven by science.

lol

Judging women on their femaleness first (as in the case of "actress") and their

Milo, there's this whole book by Dale Spender, called Man Made Language about ~exactly~ this issue. Perhaps you could read it, and digest some of its points about the way language is used to constrain women (and also men but mostly, problematically, women) before you attempt to "mansplain" "gender" in "language" to me, OK? Thanks.

enough of the girltalk in this thread.

There is an intrinsic judgement in mansplain, manbag, etc. (that can be sexist against women - or against men) that does not exist in "actress" or "lady doctor." Lady doctor or female musician can be diminutive, but that derives from the context of whatever else is said ('female musicians can only be bass players' or w/e) - identification by gender is not inherently judgemental.

Actress, more than the others, is a strange word to bring up in this argument.

Not true. Like I said, read Dale Spender and get back to me. I really cannot have this conversation with you until you actually know what the hell you are talking about.

Or you could make the argument you're alluding to, rather than relying on authority.

What is sexist about 'actress,' beyond being gender-identified?
How does that work in languages where basic nouns have genders?

Never understood why there need to be actresses when I've never been to the doctress

bags are for women, men have "manbags"
hair removal is for women, men have to "manscape"

etc.

I'm conflicted on "man crush." On one hand, I like that it opens up the normal-guy discourse to intimations of homoeroticism. On the other hand, the word "man" does a lot of work in signifying that it's not a REAL crush.

Dear Milo: I am not ILX's personal Womens Studies Professor. There is like 30 or 40 years of research and documentation on this stuff that you would find if you just used your eyes. And what is just a fun entertaining diversion for a Friday afternoon is the stuff of my actual life. And I would rather spend that life looking at photos of Thom Yorke's belly.

Also, you are doing this, right here:

http://derailingfordummies.com/#educate2

That's just pretty shitty - you start the discussion, then appeal to authority, then claim I'm derailing.

Read what it says in the link. I have told you where to find the information you're asking for, you just want me to spoon feed it to you, instead of actually reading it, and I'm tired and I want to go home but I haven't finished my actual work because I've been having this conversation for the 10,000th time.

Post pictures of mostly naked women if you must, but don't let's be completely dense? She answered you. You aren't entitled to a crash course in why you're not checking your own privilege.

Kate, while I pretty much agree with you on the subject, I think it's bad form to first argue something (that those words are sexist), then when someone asks you to explain it, you just say "why don't you understand it, go read these books you fool!". If you're not willing to back up you arguments, you shouldn't bring them up in the first place.

(particularly given that we don't disagree nearly as much as you think we do)

"Go read this book" is not dialogue.

"explain 30 years of research to me in an afternoon" is not a dialogue either, Milo.

But, iirc, he wasn't asking for that, he was asking for you, personally, to explain your feelings/thoughts.

ie the disagreement is extremely narrow - the problematic nature of and how easily gender identification can be diminutive and sexist (lady doctor, male nurse) is undoubtedly true and certainly worth talking about, but you can't raise them as exact analogies to new neologisms that carry prejudices built into the word itself.

No one is asking for 30 years of research - you made an argument and are unwilling to discuss it in any way. You can't demand that I agree with you because you say so.

But, iirc, he wasn't asking for that, he was asking for you, personally, to explain your feelings/thoughts.

true, but I think K has already explained her feelings/thoughts!

She's not usually the bashful type

Could draw some lol parallels between womensstudiessplaining and mansplaining here, tbh. The privilege of perceived academic credentials abrogates any need for explanation beyond 'I said so.'

the problematic nature of and how easily gender identification can be diminutive and sexist (lady doctor, male nurse) is undoubtedly true and certainly worth talking about, but you can't raise them as exact analogies to new neologisms that carry prejudices built into the word itself.

I think "lady doctor" carries a prejudice (as well as male nurse) built into itself: the whole idea behind adding the lady prefix is that woman being a doctor is an exception from the male norm.

This would never have happened, Tuomas, if you'd known who Zooey Deschanel was

That can very easily be so - but it can also be innocuous. It is possible to use that language solely as a gender identifier, without malice or negativity. Maybe only a small percentage of time, and maybe even problematic in ways then, if you think that gender should be eliminated from conversation.
But there aren't innocuous uses of manbag or bromance that can be separated from the feminine/gay-panic angle - they're built into the words themselves.

Like I said, FT's reaction surprised me because my reading is that it's 95% agreement, aside from the analogy she drew.

It is possible to use that language solely as a gender identifier, without malice or negativity.

Maybe, yeah, but in this case there's no commonly used male equivalent to "lady doctor" or "female musician". If only one gender needs the identifier (because it's assumed to be an exception from the norm), then there's inherent prejudice in choosing to use those terms instead of just "doctor" or "musician".

It might be possible for you to use it that way, milo, but it's not possible for some people to hear it that way, and in the case of things that have a history of being derogatory or limiting, the burden falls on the speaker to be clear if possible, or at least to accept someone else's objections reasonably graciously.

Milo, it is this idea that I have some moral ~obligation~ to go on at length and explain an argument for which I have already drawn out my basic position and told you a place where you can find 30 years of discussion on that very thing that you brought up, if you're interested in learning even more about it.

Instead of me, like, spending my entire afternoon having this conversation for the 8 millionth time - when really I should be finishing up my reports and preparing for a trip to Cornwall in like 10 hours time that I haven't even started packing for!

And that's not even mentioning how you demand my time and my attention and my discussion at length - then it's not you, but *me* that gets all the snide zings and the eye-rolling from people who reduce me to "omg that person who goes on about womens studies all the time!" and complain about the length of the discussion.

But, you know, you can claim the moral high ground about how I surrendered the argument because I chose to go and pack for Cornwall instead of talking to you. The last word! You can have it! All yours. Enjoy.

Also and this is the same point as an essay I read last week about rape jokes: that when you use words that you think it's time to de-nuance or "reclaim" even though you're not the recipient of them, or whatever, you can't help if some of your listeners HAVEN'T thought about it as much as you have, and you may be reinforcing their belief that the terms or ideas you're using are acceptable on their face.

Pyth, please shout at me, if you catch me on this thread again, instead of packing for Cornwall. The reports are now done and I'm going home. I'm sure I've forgotten something important.

Shit. Wrong thread.

http://host.trivialbeing.org/up/wolverine-nov27-maggie-q-silver-fox-preview.jpg

http://images.askmen.com/photos/isla-fisher/84218.jpg
remember when she made hilarious movies? I miss those days

http://www.ftape.com/media/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/AndrejPejic-HEMA-PushupBra-FTAPE.COM02.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IWFoT.gif

With some pics it is hard to say whether you want to smash the person or just the picture.

xp that actually made me cheer

Christ, you guys really know how to fuck up a ws thread, jesus... way to go people, way to go...

Wish we had 77 back ~ at least people knew what a ws thread was meant for there. Bloody nora.

i'm pretty sure that if you go to tumblr.com/search and mash your keyboard for long enough u will get the unadulterated stream of ppl that ppl with avatar ponytail connections to the internet want to pork that you are looking for

some of you must walk sideways from the constant butthurt

maybe their assholes are large enough so that it doesn't hurt as much?

Rachel Sterne, Chief Digital Officer for NYC

― Mr Jimmy Mod, Tuesday, December 13, 2011 11:28 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Permalink

lol a while a go i googled to find out if she really was as hot as she appeared in her twitter pic

http://www.outofaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Isla-Fisher-7.jpg

She's in the new Gatsby movie, apparently, which is only a shame becuz yeah the funniez but I guess that Shopping movie kinda killed her funny girl status.

Also that pushup bra ad is awesome trolling

Who she?

isla fisher, who might as well be a piece of sexy 'disney's tangled' fanart in that cool retro-styled pinup girl pic

The "cool retro-styled pinup girl" look works tbh

she was in the last couple episodes of bored to death s3 btw. which, I dunno, I thought it was funny

she's a babia majora and all but an angora sweater and andy's mom's skin looks good on everyone

mega push-up beha

I guess that Shopping movie kinda killed her funny girl status.

― Mr Jimmy Mod, Friday, December 16, 2011 4:33 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

she is amazing in this movie btw. Worth watching just for her performance.

this is good to know

hey guys i just skipped all of this thread to see wussherface from home&away and to set my bookmark. did i miss anything or was it just that twice a year ws thread chatter that is life-draining and never really gets anywhere about nothing really?

people could probably learn a few things from that chatter tbh

there's no commonly used male equivalent to "lady doctor" or "female musician".

I don't know about that, you have male nurse, or male childminder for example. Like the female equivalent they're necessarily meant in a demeaning way, but culture often gets in the way of them being neutral terms.

Anyway, shouldn't really be in a WS thread, my lady spouse (do you see?) will not be pleased, but whoever Ari Graynor is, I would most certainly consider WS with anyone elses, and blonde hair isn't usually my thing.

whoever Ari Graynor is, I would most certainly consider WS with anyone elses, and blonde hair isn't usually my thing.

I've seen a couple of her movies and at the time didn't rate her above "general hot person", but on closer inspection she's got this Monica Vitti thing with her eyes that's just WOW.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg:

http://allthingsd.com/files/2011/09/sheryl-sandberg.png

looks like:

http://partner-ad.photobucket.com/albums/xx291/katfilan/Gifs/tumblr_lpza3faX3P1r1dgm2o1_500.gif

there's no commonly used male equivalent to "lady doctor" or "female musician".

I don't know about that, you have male nurse, or male childminder for example. Like the female equivalent they're necessarily meant in a demeaning way, but culture often gets in the way of them being neutral terms.

No, what I meant is that there is no commonly used prefix for a male doctor or male musician, because those professions are thought to be male by default, hence you can just say "doctor" or "musician". "Male nurse" is an example of the same thing, when a profession is considered female by default.

The use of "lady doctor" has faded considerably, now that women are not only going to med school in greater numbers, but are often choosing to serve in the less glamorous roles of family medicine and pediatrics, so they are often one's main doctor. As for "female musician", I have never encountered it. Not once. And I don't seem to be a carrier for the idea that musicians are male by default. Composers and conductors, otoh...

"Male nurse" is still going strong, although they are less of a rarity now.

i have yet to encounter "lady doctor" within the field of medicine

Anyone run into "lady strawman" yet?

i think i heard 'lady doctor' once iirc

http://www.primaryignition.com/wp-content/uploads/ron-burgundy.jpg

Yeah, I've never ever heard Lady Doctor. Wtf.

hay dr. lady

so we have two datapoints; Ron Burgundy and Jerry Lewis

What about Lady Writers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNWPNPQxpl8

hey, i'ts mark knoplfer. is that your submission for Male Vagina?

No headband, no cred, no M.V.

sexy lady doctor

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/62233/62233%2C1254722792%2C1/stock-photo-sexy-lady-in-open-medical-overall-monitoring-beat-of-her-heart-38249218.jpg

god that weisz gif

monitoring-beat-of-her-heart, you say

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li8t4zfOlE1qa9euzo1_500.gif

Is she biting a cuticle?

or just being coy?

I like em tall & funny

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_B1LlYh6iKqs/TMiQ2UHQz2I/AAAAAAAADNE/Xcp9KDSN02Q/s1600/stephen-merchant.jpg

Joan Cusack, specifically here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apvf2DdbtWc&feature=related

http://www.easternct.edu/mt-static/press_releases/assets_c/2010/08/Maulik%20(2)-thumb-300x250-2246.jpg

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw4lfefm4D1qzcik8o1_500.gif

I like to imagine that he is saying "I'm in yr forum... MANSPLAININ" with that particular handwaving.

No comment.

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg

Ever watched her try to keep Zuckerberg on-message? This is kind of fascinating - http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/07/zuckerberg-and-sandberg-on-charlie-rose/

Amy Adams is charming, but I could do without the pinup thing. Same with the nailbiting. "Ugh," I believe the kids say.

Joan C is definitely cute.

lol at that yorke pic

I gotta admit, approaching the 2012 I was thinking that I'd find the ws threads more creepy, and the "hold on I'm spoogin here!"-style comments kind of give that feel, but overall the beauty of the pictures on this thread break that barrier for me.

I still think the level of creepiness is like this though:
Posting picture of smashable person you're attracted to - mildy creepy
Making color commentary -- a bit creepy there, depends on wording
Using a reference to your crush as the professional name you sell work under -- CREPEY

just for reference, where is "getting a glass of water...at night!!" on that scale?

ice COLD water!

ooooh, I dunno, that is a crisp question

http://www.artinfo.com/sites/default/files/styles/613w/public/Lucy-Walters.jpg

lucy walters as "woman on subway" in the recent film Shame

Tellin' random strangers on th'interwebs where, exactly on your ~own personal creepiness scale~ you think aspects of their lives belong = DING DING DING BIGGEST CREPE OF ALL

Hold on, I'm spoogin here!

http://media.theiapolis.com/d4/hMO/i1I3Y/k4/l1ICH/w1HC/lea-seydoux-in-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol.jpg

"random strangers"

dayo otm

Using a reference to your crush as the professional name you sell work under -- CREPEY

― knackered housecat, Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:55 PM (12 minutes ago)

huh?

http://ring.cdandlp.com/gigi5055/photo_grande/114786785.jpg

I dunno we're random strangers, we know nothing about that stuff.

On another note:

Carey Mulligan is way ws, but I can't be bothered to find a pic since it's more about her excellent choice in film roles and demeanor

I don't know that I would pick Lucy Walters as the first or second most attractive woman in that photo, despite the obvious telegraphing.

I dunno, I just tend to think that whole ~researching yr life~ stuff to find out what names people use professionally or otherwise is way creepier than than looking at cheesecake pictures of celebrities. But, you know, to each their own personal level of creepiness.

i don't think that much research was involved?

but then i have no idea what the reference is so:

http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/562/362504-dean_cigar.jpg

It's kinda head-scratchy as far as zings go, y'know, considering no one is using this thread to sell any professional work, it's just a weird and out of context thing to come up with.

Anyway, ZS is gonna shout at me bcuz this is my second one of the day but seriously, I didn't post any for two weeks when I was in Cornwall so bear with me for a little how cuet is that BELLY BELLY BELLY BELLY BLEEEEEEEE

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5155/5881788560_0dc93b26d1_b.jpg

was it even intended as a zing?

he has aged pretty well too

http://www.lookwhosturning.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ca-pf-dean-stockwell01x.jpg

I dunno, I just thought that, like, making numbered lists and hierarchies of what specific behaviour constituted crepeyness was itself more than a little suspect.

But never mind me, I'm off to buy some awesome sexay fan art from a dude named "Thom Yorke's Manhood."

i just figured it was a lighthearted joke considering the context

x-post his skin is looking pretty smooth for a cigar smoker. Good genes. (or surgeons)

Eh, maybe. Perhaps I'm just being defensive, coz, y'know, I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

guessing it's genes a la Clooney, and

http://cineclap.free.fr/l-ours-en-peluche/alain-delon.jpeg

Sorry, I've got the giggles now. Is that Alain Delon? Looking good.

oh yes! Alain Delon is kinda my ws for the ages

How dare he make smoking look so damn sexay.

http://www.mimifroufrou.com/scentedsalamander/images/Alain-Delon-Dior-Perier.jpg

Sweet jaysus, double WS

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45691000/jpg/_45691310_alain_delon.jpg

I always forget that he's in that film, too.

i've finally broken down and ordered the dvd of Scorpio which features him and a cat, partly because it's a good movie, and partly for the purposes of taking a screenshot of him w/cat to post here.

ziggy says ws

is ziggy your cat?

Just a tumblr random but yowza

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/14791801638/1/tumblr_lwgytym6Bu1qa5p47

Also want that shirt-jacket

The shirt pull is making this an FT-esque choice.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CKgNqr1c6NI/SGRixVhetPI/AAAAAAAAAmM/Ol4S1kz5j1c/s576/Jang_Dong_Gun080627008.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/menphoto/SHl982sTV_I/AAAAAAAAA-w/SLsJgJE3uC4/Jang_Dong_Gun090913007.jpg

is that the guy from 'the warrior's way'

google says it is fwiw i should prob just have asked google anyway he's awesome in that

Why darra, it's almost as if you know me.

only caught it a couple of weeks ago was appropriately delighted

It was that or this guy, but the latter is just too young in almost all pics I could find.

http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo213679.jpg

Not to mention, QUITE FRANKLY, this Jimmy the Mod lookalike:

http://seoulrhythms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Thanayong-Wongtrakul-Man-from-Nowhere.jpg

One more for yas before I start drinking and go out for the night.

http://www.evilsponge.org/images/2011/May27__Nightingales1.jpg

Anyway, ZS is gonna shout at me bcuz this is my second one of the day but seriously, I didn't post any for two weeks when I was in Cornwall so bear with me for a little how cuet is that BELLY BELLY BELLY BELLY BLEEEEEEEE

Who is that guy? The BELLY is indeed very cuet.

http://uptownmagazine.com/uptownsocial/files/2011/04/peo-robriley.jpg
WS FURIOUSLY

Also want that shirt-jacket

You mean "Would Wear", amirite?

watching house of cards today and susannah harker

is ziggy your cat?

ziggy was dean stockwell's computer or something in 'quantum leap'

my cat, who has returned to me today, is named lyle. he is wicked handsome, it's true.

well when i get to posting the delon w/cat pic, i'd like to get lyle's opinion

ziggy was dean stockwell's computer or something in 'quantum leap'

― mookieproof, Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:32 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i always thought ziggy was a dude back at home base communicating with al through text messages

i should be more in control of my references, but i never actually watched quantum leap, just going by the wiki

my cat is handsome as fuc tho

what if there was a ws for cats?

I have a crush on your cat, mookie.

and I don't usually like cats that much.

then my cat would be the z_s of that thread

xp

me too!

i was thinking in terms of cats that the cats of ilx find attractive

I'm sure it has something to do with enjoying the owner of said cat, but nonetheless, a handsome cat it is indeed.

Ziggy was a computer with a girl's voice on Quantum Leap. ws?

http://xaxor.com/images/Anna-de-Rijk-Yelena-Yemchuk/Anna-de-Rijk-Yelena-Yemchuk7.jpg

http://attheloft.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ecca8b988330162fdc669ed970d-pi

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-M3QGQdLQzMQ/TvEKEsi02QI/AAAAAAAAPNQ/u18keAf4vP0/s1600/anna_de_rijk6.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/Wuy68nRwWqgezpk6gaqeu7pfo1_500.jpg

?

lol

ZIIIIGGGGYYYY

he is kinda cute!

I heard you ilxors were looking for smashable cats

also, є(٥_ ٥)э dreadfully otm

Ziggy from the Wire is so ws'able for me. 100% WS. James Ransone 4 Lyfe. He looks kinda short, but I'm willing to overlook that this time.

i think he actually isn't _that_ short; Pablo Schrieber is just realllllly tall.

my cat, who has returned to me today, is named lyle. he is wicked handsome, it's true.

― mookieproof, Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:32 PM (57 minutes ago)

is this the cat you lost custody of in a split?

WS some instances of Giovanni Ribisi, including this one:

http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2001_Heaven/001HVN_Giovanni_Ribisi_013.jpg

But then again, if I smashed all the cute instances, eventually that would leave only the gross ones where he has a mustache.....

love the Giovanni

is this the cat you lost custody of in a split?

yesss

Jesse otm re Ribisi. Have thought the same many times.

Pyth OTM, that Jang Dong Gun doing a shirtpull thing is v v attractive.

Jesse! That beautiful man with the BELLY is my Secondary Boyfriend, Mr Thomas Yorke. Can you not tell from the terrible, terrible dancing?

I have been trying for years to find a photo of the BELLY of my Number One Boyfriend, Mr Richard D James but this the closest I have ever got. He is not much of an abdomen-exposer.

http://data6.nightparty.ru/albums/npofficial/00000-000-5096250-992.jpg

(I thought at first he had no hair on his belly, then realised that the hair on his belly is the same ginger colour as on his arms and head and got v v v excited.

Wow, I'd nominate Anna de Rijk for WS 2012 if we ever get back to real ilx.

http://joshreads.com/images/11/11/i111105ziggy.png

(he misspelled "smashed")

Is seems unlikely that he would have suffered a foot injury from being rear-ended.

Jesse! That beautiful man with the BELLY is my Secondary Boyfriend, Mr Thomas Yorke. Can you not tell from the terrible, terrible dancing?

Oh wow. I didn't recognize him. No offense, but I don't find him attractive. But I do love his belly, so that's good.

thats not his foot

Oh you're right. Man, that's a the most serious anal prolapse I've ever seen in a Ziggy cartoon.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UKokpZZu2BM/Td5jGrwL_MI/AAAAAAAACnY/KkOTqElLDgg/s1600/melanie-laurent.jpg

purty

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/110204/progressive-flo_320.jpg

not so much but spunky

forgive me. its the voice.

http://gossip.whyfame.com/files/2010/10/lamar_odom.jpg