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Lymed
09/02/09

In reply to Heidi Klum Is Out. (Of Her Clothes. On Your Coffee Table.)
Nudity with coffee? Of course not. But people were fighting over copies of Madonna's Chai Tea Latte table book.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/02/09

In reply to Heidi Klum Is Out. (Of Her Clothes. On Your Coffee Table.)
Megan Fox really strikes me as having a face that would more closely be associated with the scent of cannabis and tequila shooters than Armani.
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greengrey
09/02/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Beer, Doritos, and desperation for approval?
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colormeroutine
09/02/09

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I really do not understand the concept of "coffee table books". How often do you really have someone sitting on your couch with nothing to entertain them? And isn't that what tv is for? And how do you fit the book on the table around the half full mugs and discarded notebooks and post-its and the books you're actually reading and don't have a shelf for?
....or is that just me?
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/02/09

@colormeroutine: You also use them to prove how smart and well read you are. I personally like to leave graphic novels and Harlequin Romances there. I find it really brings the room together.
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Lymed
09/02/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: I use shutterfly to make books filled with pictures of myself reenacting my favorite photo shoots from ANTM.
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Harlot Brontë
09/02/09

@colormeroutine: Oh. I've been plonking my mugs of tea straight down on top of the books on handmade Turkish kilims and the great trout fishing lodges of North America. Also, I notice now that there is a forgotten bowl of two-week-old grapes sitting on top of an interesting volume of photographs of Angkor Wat, and a handful of manky tissues lodged behind the dust cover. I am living in filthy squalor. I do not deserve nice things. I do not deserve naked Heidi.

I conclude that coffee table books bring nothing but shame and sadness.
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BlondeGoddess
09/02/09

@Harlot Brontë: Obviously, you have never seen the coffee table book about coffee tables. With legs that can fold out so it can act as a... coffee table!
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greengrey
09/02/09

In reply to Heidi Klum Is Out. (Of Her Clothes. On Your Coffee Table.)
"and revealing one underaged nip"
Did they prove she is "underaged"? Appearing to be under 16 and BEING under 16 are two very different things.
As "sleazy" as AA is, at least they don't use sweatshop labor? They certainly aren't the only store to use sexually provocative ads, and they have much better practices than most places.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
09/02/09

@greengrey: 'Better practices than most places' doesn't quite excuse sexually harassing employees (or reporters, for that matter). Pretty rampant. Sure it's a bit of an ethical conundrum, but is it too much to dream of a company that doesn't use slave labor AND doesn't make them pay for their green cards with blow jobs?
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greengrey
09/02/09

@HeatherNumber1: Yeah, it'd be great if there were companies that were totally ethical, but I just don't understand the anger directed at AA when other stores are arguably worse.
I'd rather shop at AA than urban outfitters. I don't know why people consider AA worse than UO.
But the only articles on Jez about UO or anthropologie are pictures from their catalog, and we ignore the awful shit their chairman pulls. Why is AA constantly attacked, but stores with worse practices are left alone?
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/02/09

@greengrey: If it makes you feel better, I refuse to shop at AA OR UO OR Anthropologie.
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colormeroutine
09/02/09

@greengrey: I think part of it is because American Apparel's whole platform when it started was "buy from us! we're ethical! we don't use sweatshops!" so they kind of opened it up for attack
And part of it is because they sell hideous gold lame leggings. for $80 a pair
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greengrey
09/02/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Where do you shop if you don't mind me asking? I'm open to finding places that are somewhat environmentally friendly, don't use sweatshop labor, and don't have iffy ads.
@colormeroutine: The shiny leggings are $42. Why yes, I do have a pair, haha.
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JuliaStepchild
09/02/09

@greengrey: even if the model is of age, but appears underage, i would sort of have a problem with that imagery put out there into the universe. also, the context of the nudity is the thing--AA's use of nudity is just raunchy, not natural or egalitarian...
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greengrey
09/02/09

@JuliaStepchild: Did you see the ad? She looks 19 to me. It also looks fairly tame for AA standards.
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Lymed
09/02/09

@greengrey: Arguably worse, but not necessarily worse. I don't know if I can say sweatshop labor is worse than the level of sexual harassment that seems to exist at AA. I don't think they are comparable, but I think it is horrendous that a company would market itself as treating employees well based on their salaries when they are exploited sexually. It is not just the ads, it is the ads and the treatment of employees by the head of the company.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/02/09

@greengrey: I actually don't really shop a lot, partially because I feel guilty whenever I buy things and partially because I am poor. I am in the process of teaching myself how to sew my own clothes because I am just THAT frontier chic.
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colormeroutine
09/02/09

@greengrey: Oh, sorry, it's the DENIM print leggings that are $80. Totally reasonable in that case =p
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Harlot Brontë
09/02/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: Please tell me you are working on bonnets and pantaloons and lace-trimmed aprons. It would make my day. Frontier Zombie! It's like The Little Zombie House on the Prairie, and there is nothing more awesome than that.
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Zombie Ms. Skittles
09/02/09

@Harlot Brontë: Actually, I am sort of considering making myself some sunbonnets because I live in Texas...Also, somebody really freakin' needs to write Little Zombie House on the Prairie in the same style as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
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greengrey
09/02/09

@Lymed: For this argument to work, wouldn't we have to pretend women who work in sweatshop conditions aren't sexually harassed (or worse)?
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greengrey
09/02/09

@colormeroutine: Hm, I've never seen leggings for over $45 there. Are you in the UK?
Their jeans are around $80.
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la.donna.pietra
09/02/09

@Zombie Ms. Skittles: "Pa carefully loaded his musket with black powder and bullets he had made himself in a lead mold, took aim, and shot the lurching zombie square between the eyes. It dropped with a *splorch*."
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hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
09/02/09

In reply to Heidi Klum Is Out. (Of Her Clothes. On Your Coffee Table.)
anybody else click on the link and watch the escada commercial?
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ObtuseIntolerant
11/18/08

In reply to Manswers
I think this is a staged ploy to make people think he's not gay. There. I said it!!!
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redheadedbuddha
11/17/08

In reply to Manswers
As for those assuming that this man is straight because he doesn't know colors or designers:

I once had a boyfriend (I'm a boy) who tried to go out wearing brown shoes and a black belt...with light wash relaxed jeans. I rest my case.
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ObtuseIntolerant
11/18/08

@redheadedbuddha: Thank you for being the voice of reason way before I got here.
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EkaterinaBallerina
11/17/08

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Oh Chace, I judge, I really judge. How could you not know the answers?!?

On another note, I guess this confirms he's straight? Or is this just a ruse to make us think he's straight??

Actually to be honest the first thing that popped into my mind when I read this was, "why the hell was he asked these questions in the first place?!?"
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tscheese
11/17/08

In reply to Manswers
Wait, what are the fashion capitols? New York, Milan...Antarctica? You guys gotta help me, I feel like such a hayseed.
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pandorasmittens
11/17/08

@tscheese: London is traditionally regarded as the fourth. However, recently Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai have made the list.
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R_Claw
11/17/08

In reply to Manswers
Um, hi he's hawt. Thanks bye.
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arodriguez.romero
11/17/08

In reply to Manswers
Did you see the little comparison between this guy and the dude from high school musical? They look a lot alike.
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Macloserboy
11/17/08

@arodriguez.romero speaks java: I know it sounds weird, but he's actually a bit more manly. I saw him in the street with his boys and there has a sufficient, though not a lot, air of douche about him for me to believe he's straight. Also, he's got that pretty boy dumbness about him which straight guys tend to have (see Walker, Paul).
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arodriguez.romero
11/17/08

@Macloserboy: Maybe the guy from high school musical seems less manly because of the context. His fans are 10yo and under, he needs to be non-threatening to cash his checks. Meanwhile, the target audience for this guy's show is older.
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mbprice
11/17/08

In reply to Manswers
Let's see, I would say... Paris, for one of the fashion capitals? And you gave me Milan as a free answer, but I don't think I would have known that on my own. NYC? I have no idea about a 4th.

I know stilettos are pointy with a long heel point thing, and wedges are... less pointy.

I don't know who Alexander Wang is.

I would describe beige as a light brown or perhaps cream color. Khaki-ish.

Do I pass or fail?
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Penny
11/17/08

@mbprice: C-, which is totally passing.
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hellosunshine
11/17/08

@mbprice: Awww, you totally pass!
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AthertonMerriweather
11/17/08

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and Chuck Bass breezes into the room, scotch in hand and says "The difference between a wedge and a stiletto is that the stiletto wearer will be in the back of my limo."
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tscheese
11/17/08

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It's not like he's running for VP or anything.
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Penny
11/17/08

In reply to Manswers
Isn't it capitols, not capitals?

Have I been doing it wrong THIS WHOLE TIME???
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Penny
11/17/08

@Archetype: I just looked into this and I am still confused. I swear, I am smarter than this....
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SisterMaryMartha
11/17/08

@Archetype: I wondered the same thing- I was all: FFFF?
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tscheese
11/17/08

@Archetype: IT IS TOTALLY CAPITOLS. Capitols are cities. CAPITAL IS JUST CAPITAL.
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mustlovebooknerd
11/17/08

@Archetype: Nope. The capitol is the building where legislation happens. Capital with an a can mean the seat of government, available assets, big letters, and for usage like "that's a capital idea, my good man."
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mysterygirl
11/17/08

@Archetype: Don't you only use "capitol" to refer to the actual building? Like, the U.S. Capitol Building is in our nation's capital?

I don't know-- that's my best crack at it!
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tscheese
11/17/08

@tscheese: ...I was trying to be witty and failed.

CAPITAL IS LIKE CAPITAL LETTERS, or venture capital, or market capitalization in fancy moneytalk. CAPITOLS are cities.

You can remember it this way: If something is "capital", like an adjective for being super-good, it's like getting an A on an assignment. The alphabet contains letters, and the alphabet starts with A, so if you're talking about CAPITAL LETTERS, remember to use an A. AND YOU GUYS KNOW HOW MUCH WE LIKE TO USE ALL-CAPS!!!11
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30RocksMySocks
11/17/08

@tscheese: Capitols are not cities. Capitals are cities. Capitol is the building. The capitol building for a state's legislature is located in the state's capital city.
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jigglyball
11/17/08

@30RocksMySocks: Yup, capitol ONLY refers to the building itself. All other references are "capital(s)."
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Penny
11/17/08

@mustlovebooknerd: Yes, this is what I gathered from my research. This really makes me mad that I've been wrong this whole time.
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tscheese
11/17/08

@30RocksMySocks: What? SHIT. You're right.

Mea culpa. HORTENSE!? Where are you!? Take down my dumb comment! I DID SOMETHING DUMB ON THE INTERNET!

No, seriously, this is a major blow to me.
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