A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness;
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribands to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.
Kindles in clothes a wantonness;
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction;
An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher;
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribands to flow confusedly;
A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat;
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility:
Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.
--Robert Herrick, 17th century
But Taylor's not acting like she's the only battered wife who ever lived. She always brings up her abuse in the context of a pervasive relationship pattern.
It sounds like you're saying there's something wrong with Taylor because she's not "ashamed" and "mortified" enough about the fact that she was the victim of a crime. The shame lies with the criminal, though. No one should be "humiliated" by having suffered at someone else's hands. Taylor shouldn't be. I wish you weren't either. What happened to you wasn't your fault. I hope you're in a safe and peaceful place now.
My husband George isn't "worked up" here. He's chuckling and amiable. I do what he's doing all the time: casually swear in conversation, and if it received with laughter, continue swearing merrily. People find it highly entertaining. Occasionally some isolated individual will ask what I'm so mad about, and I'm dumbfounded. I don't know how anyone can ignore all the cues of tone, body language, and the sentiment being expressed in favor of hyperfocussing on the word "fuck." Is "fuck" really all that shocking these days?
That's interesting. I didn't see anything about the collapse of the finance industry, the bursting of the housing bubble, food deserts, classism, and the 10% unemployment rate. Maybe I'm using the wrong browser.
"Charities cut tags out of the clothing they handle and remove other brand identifiers."
As someone who has both worked in a clothing bank and thrifted her whole life, I can tell you that this is in no way true.
Adore her then and now and always and forever. "This was an Edwardian dress, but it was dry-rotted at the bottom, so I turned it into a tube top."
Heh, do I sound that much like a lawyer? :)
That last paragraph KILLS. I laughed myself into a coughing fit. Thank you for loosening my phlegm in the best way possible.
You've just noticed his family has gone quiet... in the hour or two since you posted they were crawling out of everywhere? Maybe I don't understand what you're trying to get across.
Defamation suits are based on damage that has been done to the plaintiff's livelihood. Since dead people don't make money, his survivors have no cause of action. Armstrong would, had he survived, actually have a viable suit if the specific allegations made by Grammer were untrue, such as if he never broke his wife's jaw. His past wrongdoing could not have been brought into evidence in that suit; the court doesn't consider this relevant. It would look at what was said and whether it were truthful.
"But, the worst part is, they just keep showing that dead guy over and over and over. So, you know Taylor had to approve that, otherwise his family would be suing Bravo."
Suing on what grounds? The release he signed isn't invalid because he's deceased. I'm curious what cause of action might apply here.
Stranger still is that the very last sentence reads in part "multi-person sex (which isn't really the right term since much of it was non-consensual)." If the writer knows the term in the study is wrong, why propagate the error? It's like reading an article that's putatively about ride-sharing and finding out that it's actually about carjacking.
Hi, is it good by you if I make some suggestions about sweeping reforms that I think would really improve your country? I am only familiar Europe based on how it is depicted in Hollywood movies, but I'm sure those are 100% factually accurate. I now understand the dynamics at play much better than the people who actually live there.
To those of you who find these children insufferable: please keep in mind that they are being raised by people who think it's hilarious to film them crying and then submit the footage to a national TV show.
Yes. When you're young, they punish you for being unapologetically opinionated. After all that has been beaten out of you, and you're only comfortable expressing yourself passively on insignificant subjects, they mock you for being vapid. Par. Course.
Seven people from entirely different walks of life are thrown together in a study group at a rinky-dink community college, where they bond while resolving their differences.
Basically Gilligan's Island, but with a cafeteria.
Basically Gilligan's Island, but with a cafeteria.
You didn't just say, "it's a bitch to get around." You made the specific statement that if traffic can't pass through Fifth and Pike, drivers have no choice but to drive all the way up to Capitol Hill to circumvent the blockage. This just isn't true; you hardly need "an illustrated map" (as opposed to one that's just text?) to refute that. I live on Capitol Hill (this is the first I've heard that it's a "magical being," though), and Pike was closed between Fifth and Fourth for literally years during the development of Westlake. All that traffic wasn't being redirected a mile uphill into my hood that entire time.
"I don't know where you are from, but in Seattle, each road goes one way in downtown. Then we have magical beings called hills."
I'm from Seattle. I was there on Tuesday night. I don't think I can reason with someone who thinks that if the intersection at Fifth and Pike is blocked, you need to go all the way to Cap Hill to avoid that single intersection. After Westlake Park was constructed, that intersection was closed to cars for years, because it turned out the bricks used to pave the park couldn't bear the weight of the traffic. (Needless to say, that intersection was also blocked during the construction of the park and the repaving. Years!) It didn't shut down the entire city.
(Mace and pepper spray are two different substances, by the way.)
I'm from Seattle. I was there on Tuesday night. I don't think I can reason with someone who thinks that if the intersection at Fifth and Pike is blocked, you need to go all the way to Cap Hill to avoid that single intersection. After Westlake Park was constructed, that intersection was closed to cars for years, because it turned out the bricks used to pave the park couldn't bear the weight of the traffic. (Needless to say, that intersection was also blocked during the construction of the park and the repaving. Years!) It didn't shut down the entire city.
(Mace and pepper spray are two different substances, by the way.)
1) A "professional protestor"? A professional is someone who derives an income from an activity. Who was paying Dorli Rainey to be there?
2) They were blocking a single lane of traffic on a single block. This does not "prevent commuters from going home." It requires them to drive a block out of their way.
3) Engaging in civil disobedience, as Henry David Thoreau knew, often necessitates getting arrested. But if someone breaks a law, does that make it okay for the police to physically harm her? If a police officer catches you jaywalking, is it okay to hit you with a baton? After all, you were knowingly breaking the law.
2) They were blocking a single lane of traffic on a single block. This does not "prevent commuters from going home." It requires them to drive a block out of their way.
3) Engaging in civil disobedience, as Henry David Thoreau knew, often necessitates getting arrested. But if someone breaks a law, does that make it okay for the police to physically harm her? If a police officer catches you jaywalking, is it okay to hit you with a baton? After all, you were knowingly breaking the law.
Oui, but as tintmyworld points out, an adjectival form of "bleach" exists, and that's what's called for here. I have never seen "bleach blond" in print, although I may have heard it without realizing because of the way the phonemes blend.
"Bleach blonde hair"? Bleach can be either a noun or a verb, but not an adjective.
