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kemperboyd
09/23/09

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The British men always complain about women drinking. But they hate a woman who can't keep up. And trust me there are as many drunken men lying around the streets as women. Piers is a hypocritical bastard.
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rednrowdy
09/23/09

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piers finally gets it. the attractive women in a strip club taking their clothes off while you drink wine aren't into you and probably don't even like you. they love your money! but not you.
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JennaW
09/23/09

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Ew.
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cocobanal
09/23/09

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Trembling female carcasses = great band name
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acrobatic rabbit
09/23/09

@cocobanal: or kickass B horror zombie movie.
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thatgirlinnewyork
09/23/09

@cocobanal: that also describes a typical night's view of the meatpacking district
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aimeeg
09/23/09

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Maybe, Piers Morgan, just maybe they're not actively thinking 'I wonder what I should do that Piers Morgan is going to think is sexy.'... maybe they're going out and having a good time and not actually even considering for a second what YOU, Piers Morgan, think is sexy. Perhaps, Piers Morgan, just perhaps everytihng women do ISN'T for men. For the record, there are not trembling female bodies littering England's streets. That, Piers Morgan, is some hyperbole. The kind of hyperbole you and your ilk like to vomit about because you like to blame everything on women and people who aren't white. Because that's the kind of ill informed, twittish bigot you are, Piers Morgan.
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heykoukla
09/23/09

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Oh Piers, the irony is that most British women would only go home with you if they'd downed 20 pints first.
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cuteasabutton
09/23/09

@heykoukla: It would take the contents of an entire brewery. And then some tequila shots.
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heykoukla
09/23/09

@cuteasabutton: And followed by a shame-and-regret chaser.
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lilbobbytables
09/23/09

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How can a carcass tremble? THAT'S NOT A CARCASS! ITS A ZOMBIE!!!!!!!!
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JennyGreenteeth
09/23/09

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Oh no. Piers Morgan does not find us British women sexy. What ever are we to do now?
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cuteasabutton
09/23/09

@JennyGreenteeth: Oh dear is that what he is saying? I don't understand his popularity whatsoever after the scandal over the faked photos. Also, the feeling is mutual. He is as sexy as a damp washing up sponge.
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DailyPep
09/23/09

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Michael Carrington and Cha Cha DiGregorio discuss the wild nights at Rydell High.
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FattyCatty
09/23/09

@DailyPep: Is it too early for COTD?
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Cheesecake
09/23/09

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Hey, my trembling carcass after 20 pints of beer is DAMN sexy!
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curiousgeorgiana
09/23/09

@Cheesecake: I'd hit that.
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curiousgeorgiana
09/23/09

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If Hoda unties the yellow ribbon around her neck, will her head fall off?
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BeRy51
09/23/09

@curiousgeorgiana: Hoda's yellow is just for flair; it has to be a green ribbon to keep your head on (i would be so excited if ANYONE else was haunted by a random book of scary stories that i read in second grade where a young girl finally lets her boyfriend untie the green ribbon and SPLAT!, head falls off)
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curiousgeorgiana
09/23/09

@BeRy51: That story scared the crap out of me. In my version it was her husband, and they had been married for like 20 years and she finally let him remove the ribbon. And SPLAT indeed. Nightmares.
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GirlFailer
09/23/09

@curiousgeorgiana: Is this the same book that included the vintage prom dress that embalmed a teenage girl?
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curiousgeorgiana
09/23/09

@GirlFailer: That sounds so familiar. I've got to find this book now.
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BeRy51
09/23/09

@curiousgeorgiana: yes, you are right! It was the husband, and a long time after they married! And now that I've thought about it, THUMP is probably the better descriptive.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
09/23/09

@curiousgeorgiana: I was sure that would be the twist in The Orphan.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
09/23/09

@curiousgeorgiana: It's probably one from the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. God those illustrations are freaky.

[www.amazon.com]
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GirlFailer
09/23/09

@HeatherNumber1: THAT'S IT! I loved those books when I was younger!
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Triphena
09/23/09

@GirlFailer: OH MY GOD. I read that story when I was waaaay to young and my mother bought me a dress for Thanksgiving dinner that was just like the one in the story and I spent the whole day thinking I was getting sicker and sicker and finally my mother was like, "Are you all right?" and I confessed that I was dying from embalming fluid poisoning and she laughed and laughed. And then took every book out of my room that wasn't BabySitters Club or Sleepover Friends.
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prettypithy
12/08/08

In reply to Beatrix Campbell: "Lap Dancing Exists For Men To Buy Women"
As a rule, I'm getting bored with the intelligentsia marketing the exception as the rule in terms of empowered women in the sex trade. Although I have no doubt that there are many empowered women in the sex trade I also have no doubt that they are a vast minority. It is generally a bad thing to represent a multifaceted group as a monolith but I don't think it is unreasonable when the minority that does not conform to the generalization is apparently minuscule.
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La Chica Lucy
12/08/08

@prettypithy: This. The sex trade is a creation of Patriarchy. Throughout history, women have been treated as chattel, to be bought and sold, and now, because there are some empowered women in some nations, to hold them up as the example of sex work being female-positive only lends an air of acceptance to the sex trade, which, for the vast majority of sex workers around the globe, is not a choice by any stretch of the imagination.
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Meretrix
12/08/08

In reply to Beatrix Campbell: "Lap Dancing Exists For Men To Buy Women"
I've always maintained that a boyfriend is safer in a strip club than he is at the laundromat. Or the office. Or the happy hour bar. As others have noted, strippers are *working* and the only thing they want to suck is the money out of his wallet.

Personally, I'm far happier in my sweats and glasses and feel far sexier in a boybeater and cotton panties. I'm happy to outsource the gyrating and grinding in ridiculous shoes and butt floss to the strippers and lapdancers. The club ladies can pay their tuition/rent, he gets to revel in the attention, and rather than busting my ass in the impossible task of trying to embody his every fantasy, I get to just be the woman he loves ... and fucks. Everyone wins!
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veronykah
12/08/08

@Meretrix: E X A C T L Y !
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bowleserised
12/08/08

In reply to Beatrix Campbell: "Lap Dancing Exists For Men To Buy Women"
Did she make the point that the number of rapes/sexual assaults in an area increases when a lap dancing club opens?

I have the same debates about freedom as I see here, but that statistical correlation has always given me pause for thought.
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Grim Reaper of the Forest
12/08/08

In reply to Beatrix Campbell: "Lap Dancing Exists For Men To Buy Women"
Obviously stripping can be a rational choice for someone who doesn't have another way to earn that much money and have the flexible schedule. Just because it is rational doesn't mean it isn't also a somewhat degrading way to make a living. Basically your success in your job depends on how well you can get some sleazy guys off. Life is hard and sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to get by, but it is not a job I would recommend for my friends and relatives. I think you would have to be pretty strong psychologically to do that year after year and not start to see yourself as an object.
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