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Aesop's Foibles. YES.
06/10/09

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My fat rolls just clutched their pearls at being branded as distasteful.

I'm not kidding. I heard a collective sharp intake of breath followed by, "Well I never!!"

My rolls are highly incensed.
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MJ
06/10/09

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Hey, this is Tennessee. We're too busy allowing people to carry guns in bars (!!!) to worry about things like moral decay and dress codes.
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@MJ: Sigh. I remember that passing, although it got vetoed by the Governor.
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MJ
06/10/09

@Trulymadlyme: And his veto was promptly overturned by the backwards mess that masquerades as our state legislature.

We can't provide health care for indigent children, or take care of our elderly or mentally ill, but by God, we can take our guns into bars. Because that's exactly what we need more of in Tennessee....armed, drunk, rednecks.
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@MJ: Didn't get that memo. Sigh.
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lalaland13
06/10/09

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Oh you would have a heyday with some of the papers here....I should say no more. But pity the people who have to type those things up. In unreadable fonts.
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Lucille van Pelt
06/10/09

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I don't agree with how he said it, at all, but I do agree with the point he was trying to make. When I was a youth group advisor we had to send girls home because of the clothing they wore. On occasion we sent boys home too, but the vast majority was high school girls wearing too short skirts or too small shirts to religious events. He wasn't talking about a religious event, but the theory still holds.
He was wrong for calling them sluts and the rest, but come on, how many of you have walked by a group of 11 or 12 year old girls wearing "juicy" or "cutie" on their bums thought "well that's inappropriate?"

Weren't we just talking the other day about those 2 little girls dressing older then they should and acting older then they are for that pool party? how is this any different?

Get off my lawn guy was just an asshole about it.
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SarahMC
06/10/09

@Lucille van Pelt: It's different because, as you said, the guy was an asshole about it, and is angry about their fashions for exactly the wrong reasons.
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maggeimerc
06/10/09

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Chattie holla!

Riverbend used to be pretty great a few years ago, and judging from the rural Tennessee outrage it still is!
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@maggeimerc: It's fantastic. I got to see The Hard Lessons on Sat. and spent the entire set dancing like a fool. With my tart showing, apparently.
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tscheese
06/10/09

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Um, hey, dude who was slinging around the King James Bible? I know you like cherrypicking the bits of Deuteronomy that sound nice and "godly" to you. But dude, Deut. 22 is a CLUSTERFUCK.

Forsooth!

11. Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and linen together.

OH NO, Deuteronomy Dude! ARE YOU WEARING BLENDED FIBERS!!?! You're just as bad as those tarts, aren't you!

12. Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

Oh no, dude, do you have a vesture without fringes!? SHIT, God is going to SMITE YOU.

Also, the rest of Deuteronomy 22 is mostly about how to kill women for not bleeding on the sheet properly on their wedding nights. So, I mean, since you're so down with the Old Testament, I guess you'd better come over here and throw some rocks and shit at me or whatever. Y'know, since you're trying so hard to do what God said back in the day.
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hatepaperdoll
06/10/09

@tscheese: Just to be clear, I'm good in my fringed buckskin pantsuit, right?
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tscheese
06/10/09

@hatepaperdoll: Depends. This week, have you stoned any virgins for not bleeding enough on a sheet? Yes? You're A-OK then!
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Kali Mama
06/10/09

@tscheese: Shit girl let's go out for lobster first.
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DinnerBelle
06/10/09

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Oh golly. I dislike nothing more than the hand-wringing about the younger generations and declining morals. It's a silly cycle that's been going on for ages. Probably centuries, or maybe millennia.

You know, those bobby-soxers were pretty scandalous in their day. Oh, and those floozies at the USO dances too!

Yep, the kids today do not wear what we wore, thank god! I'm pretty sure I don't need to see anyone else in a jewel-toned, skin-tight, stretchy velvet dress. Ever.
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Kali Mama
06/10/09

@DinnerBelle: "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for

authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place

of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their

households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They

contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties

at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

-(attributed to) Socrates
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BabyJane
06/10/09

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The worst part of Riverbend is the guy with the tight pants, sparkly shirt open to his navel and his headband.

Wait, that's Riverdance.
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hatepaperdoll
06/10/09

@BabyJane: I think it's all the pointy ears, gauzy clothing, and epic songs.

Wait, that's Rivendell.
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ragincajun67
06/10/09

@BabyJane: It's all the violence, chopping up Reavers, and killing people with her brain!

No, wait, that's River Tam.
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BabyJane
06/10/09

@all: I love all of you!
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morninggloria
06/10/09

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Sorry, but you're all jealous of the sexy teenagers.
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Evie Havok
06/10/09

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Is it wrong that I agree with the part about girls (ans I mean girls not in their teens) dressing too sexy? I see twelve year old's in mini skirts and halter tops all of the time. I'd be lying if I said it didn't bother me.
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SarahMC
06/10/09

@Evie Havok: I don't think that's wrong. It bothers me too but I know where to place the blame (hint: it's not at the girls themselves and it's wrong to accuse them of asking for rape).
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LaFemme
06/10/09

@Evie Havok: I don't think it is wrong. I hate seeing 13 year olds in low cut tight jeans with short shirts and g strings hanging out. If nothing else, it is trashy as all get out. And no one ever asks for rape, but you can certainly ask for a type of sexualized attention. And that dress will get you that attention, which is completely fucked up if you are 13 years old.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
06/10/09

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So this is what that whore Pocahontas meant when she sang "Just Around the Riverbend"!
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Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin)
06/10/09

@BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): I'm trying to make a Poke-your-hot-ass pun but its not happening.
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hatepaperdoll
06/10/09

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I'm assuming Riverbed is something like "Homecoming" in my hometown, in which case, they should probably be more concerned about drunk cops taking potshots at birds than anyone's attire.
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greengrey
06/10/09

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I am so fucking happy I don't live there. God, what neanderthals. Ah, and the "good mom"? I love it when fat women hate on fat women. It's like "I'm fat too, but at least I have the SHAME to cover myself." Argh. How much you want to bet she'll be a very bad mom if her daughter "is bigger" and starts dressing "trampy"? I hope she's not one of those crazy moms who passes her weight issues onto others, but it sounds like it.

People like this make me see red. STFU, mind your business, and go read a book or something if you're so fucking bored/boring.
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Keitha
06/10/09

@greengrey (is not a star!): I was raised in Dalton, GA which is 30 mi. south of Chattanooga. My mom is begging me to "come back home", but it's crap like this & the "creationism" billboards that made me up & leave in the first place.

I'm in Seattle now - you couldn't pay me enough to move back to the intellectual void that IS the South.
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@Keitha: I try to defend it since it's apparently gotten much, much cooler in the past ten years! And there is an amazing arts community here.
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greengrey
06/10/09

@Keitha: I can only hope that our generation will wipe out places like this just by moving out when they get sick of the crap.

They aren't going to keep the youths around by pearl clutching over youthful behavior!
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hellosunshine
06/10/09

@greengrey (is not a star!): Or we could stay here in the South and help against people like these. (I'm a damn proud Southerner.)
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dripdrop
06/10/09

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Oh sweet merciful Jesus. I wish that comments could be banned from newspaper websites. Only the most idiotic, homophobic, crazy religious, racist, misogynistic people comment. It makes me fear for the world.
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SarahMC
06/10/09

@dripdrop: Why is this? I was just bleaching my eyes out after reading a local news story about the Holocaust Museum shooting that has made me want to shoot MYSELF. Is it because only society's bottomfeeders and losers think to bother with the comments on newspaper sites? Or are the vast majority of people on the planet absolute bigots who think Hitler was a "far leftist" (just one theme from the aformentioned article).
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dripdrop
06/10/09

@SarahMC: ball-cutting cybersuccubus:

I honestly have no fucking clue. I try not to read the comments, I really do. But I ultimately get sucked in and then end up feeling depressed. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE??
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Pixley
06/10/09

@dripdrop: I never read comments on my local paper's website because I just end up thinking, "These are my neighbors. I have to live with these people. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEM?"
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doodley is not amused
06/10/09

@dripdrop: I've had to institute a complete ban on reading comments on my local paper's website. The paper sucks anyway, but the comments invariably make me homicidal.
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SarahMC
06/10/09

@Pixley: Can you help me? I need to figure out whether to off myself prematurely. Do papers' websites just attract the worst of the worst or are the comments sections a real cross-section of the population?
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hfree
06/10/09

@dripdrop: My dad is the editor of a local newspaper. You should see the emails he gets. He's been called a seditionist and a traitor! Sometimes the letters are funny, sometimes they are downright scary.
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hfree
06/10/09

@dripdrop: Don't ever read the comments on the USAToday site. Those people are scary and will jump on anything.

Some of the comments on WaPo about the Holcaust Museum shooting are starting to get testy.

What gets me is that these people can make anything political. It's amazing.
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willwriteforfood
06/10/09

@dripdrop: Trust, the people who bother commenting on newspapers' websites are truly the trolls and not representative at all of the way most people think. I work at a newspaper and seriously, the comments and forums are chockful of conspiracy theories, rumors and diatribes. The sole saving grace, at least on our forums, is that they have created a community of a sort and police each other, so if someone posts a really egregious comment about race or gender, many others will call him or her out. It's kind of amusing to read along.
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

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Dear Lord,

I'm in Chattanooga right NOW!

Must.Go.To.Riverbend.
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@Trulymadlyme: grabs coat
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DangerMouse
06/10/09

@Trulymadlyme: Dress as suggestively as possible!!
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@DangerMouse: I plan on wearing a member's only coat, a speedo, flip flops & a Cowboy Hat. I might add one of these. [jezebel.com]

They'll just have to deal. It's hot outside.
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BabyJane
06/10/09

@Trulymadlyme: Say hi to the tramps for us!
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Trulymadlyme
06/10/09

@BabyJane: Will do. I'm shocked no one's talking about the men. I ran into this guy at Rock City last weekend!

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