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    The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    i have a friend who is the super fittest person i know and she doesn't even belong to a gym; lifts light weights in her 1br apt, does spin on her stationery bike, and does yoga vhs tapes she's had for, oh, 10 years.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    Now I have to run out and get a wheelbarrow to carry around my contempt for the rich and privileged. I wonder how THAT will affect my posture?
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    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    The benefits of exercise notwithstanding...


    THIS is why perfectly normal American guys will travel halfway around the world to find love and/or sex with a Third World stranger.

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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    06/29/09

    @atlasspanked: Oh, welcome - you must be the representative from the Neanderthal contingent. Your point?
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    Image of clevernamehere clevernamehere
    06/29/09

    @atlasspanked: Holy non-sequiter Batman!


    Just so you know, Plum Sykes is British, not American. Not that your comment would make any sense if she was American.

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    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    That's not your back hurting, Plummie. That's your ego that's been trying to prop up your lack of talent that's screaming in pain there.
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    Image of seastar86 seastar86
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    Okay, yeah, real annoying.


    But I thought the article was interesting, because she went to a ton of super-expensive doctors, none of whom could diagnose her problem. They were all looking for internal problems, but what she really needed was some good old-fashioned strengthening.


    If she can't even get a simple diagnosis, what about the rest of us?

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    Image of Cerridwen Cerridwen
    06/29/09

    @seastar86: Getting a diagnosis for back pain (well, any kind of chronic pain, really) is notoriously difficult. There is a lot modern medicine still does not understand about the human body.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    If I had a frillion kajillion dollars, and I had back pain, I'd probably go to whatever specialist I could afford and get all sorts of exotic cutting-edge physical therapy and what-not.


    However, I probably wouldn't write about it all "POOR ME POOR ME POOR ME POOR ME POOR ME TYPING IS HAAAARD."

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    Image of kemperboyd kemperboyd
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    I love how she solved this problem: horseriding, pilates and an assistant. I recently developed shoulder problems due to being a student who did all her interneting on her back in bed. My (NHS) physio gave me exercises that involved lifting a can of beans! Oh to be rich and oblivious.
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    Oh and you can get great dictation software for considerably less than the price of compensating your assistant for her own work-related back pain.
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    Image of my cousin is an ape my cousin is an ape
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    First thought: she has enough money to own a pony and only rides twice a week? Then I smacked myself with reality and realized how absurd hiring an assistant to type for you is.
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    Image of Laulau Laulau
    06/29/09

    @my cousin is an ape: I don't think there's anything ridiculous about it - I've known several people who made decent money as typists doing legal transcription - it's just not an interesting article. "Sitting at a computer can hurt your back, so I hired a typist" kind of fails to offer new insight or entertain, and obviously isn't practical advice for individuals unless you have money to burn.
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    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    Ya know, I may be taking my life in my hands by saying this, but at least the lad mags include bearable prose. When I read Playboy (and yes, it is actually possible to read Playboy), the articles on technology or whatever are more "This is a really cool toy" than "Don't you wish you were me?" Even GQ's articles on how not to look like an idiot in front of attractive women are to the tune of "we've all had that problem, haven't we, guys?"
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    06/29/09

    @Perhaps Not: The lad magazines have more bearable prose? I think Maxim/FHM have the most obnoxious writers in the world.


    I don't even find this obnoxious. Plum Sykes lives in such a different world that its like an anthropological study.

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    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    Sure all that Pilates makes her nice and plum, but on the inside, deep down, she's a real prune.
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    That caps it- Vogue- its over.
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    Image of bowleserised bowleserised
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    I'm somewhat annoyed with the implication that it's more stylish and elegant to be a muscle-free weed.
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    06/29/09

    @bowleserised: That has latent Victorian and related classist associations. Fragile women are always more feminine, blah blah.
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    Here's a suggestion, Smug Sikes: Learn to sit up straight.


    Whining about the back pain from two-finger typing little missives about the travails of being rich is an insult to those of us who have to sit at a desk 8 to 10 hours a day to earn an actual living. Also, many people have serious, real, debilitating back pain and get no relief via an assistant. So shut it, m'kay?

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    06/29/09

    @willwriteforfood: Seconded, but in addition to simply getting relief from her assistant, she's basically saying to the assistant, "Your back is less rich than my back. Toil in pain, suffer wee peasant." It's the fashion writer's version of sending a poor kid to war for a rich kid.
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    06/29/09

    @willwriteforfood: Seriously. I keep thinking about my friend who injured his back working in a warehouse and cannot work currently because of the debilitating pain. He is now in dire financial straits as a result of not being able to work but needing expensive medical treatments and prescriptions to deal with the chronic pain. He was preparing to get married and now has to move back in with his grandmother because he can't afford rent, let alone a wedding. He worries that he may never be totally pain-free again. And he received virtually no worker's comp for his injury.


    Plum Sykes can STFU.

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    Image of lalaland13 lalaland13
    06/29/09

    In reply to The Plum Chronicles: Vogue Writer's Back Pain Is More Expensive Than Yours
    I once had a dance instructor tell me I carry a lot of tension in my shoulders. My solution was to major in something besides theatre. Now I'm at my desk, trying to push my shoulders down because they seem to want to hunch of their own accord.
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