Delicious LiveJournal Links for 9-3-2009
Sep. 3rd, 2009 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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They want success to mean bringing in more money than you spend. Can't see _that_ catching on.
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100-200 mutations per generation!
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So awfully bad that it's hilarious.
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Very nice idea - I'd like to see it taken a lot further. It really does make long chunks of text more readable.
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Comic Artist witnesses burglary, puts powers to use for the forces of GOOD! (True story, well worth a quick read)
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In which it turns out that men actually think women should be larger than women do. Warning - nakedness on the page.
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Date: 2009-09-03 11:11 am (UTC)15. which celebrity has the best?
32% said face
15% said Breasts
1% said arms
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17. What surgery would you have (for those who said yes) ?
41% chose liposuction
5% chose gastic band
34% said breast enlargement
20% chose breast enlargement
WTF?
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Date: 2009-09-03 11:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-03 11:26 am (UTC)I mean, she's from Brazil.
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Date: 2009-09-03 11:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-03 11:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-03 11:32 am (UTC)"Do you knoe..."
"Which of these female celebrities have the bes body?" (2-for-1 there!)
"In a bid to lose weight, have you ever ... made yourslef sick ..."
*despairs for the state of the language and journalistic quality-control*
edited to fix my own grammar. Oops! :)
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Date: 2009-09-03 01:46 pm (UTC)Plus, do men really know what dress sizes are anyway?! I know some of my exes have gotten it very very wrong.
There is a forum somewhere on LJ, I think its called everydaybodies (not sure) so there is a collection of what normal people look like, because even the models don't look their sizes (imo). The size 16 could pass for a 12. BAH!
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Date: 2009-09-03 01:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-03 11:37 am (UTC)Where did they get the strangled elephant from, I wonder?
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Date: 2009-09-03 12:26 pm (UTC)e.g. The average wife/girlfriend is a smaller size than the average women, and the average husband/boyfriend is on balance more likely to want them to lose weight than gain weight. As the average woman wants to be a smaller size than the average man is willing to settle for, we can conclude that men are pressuring women to lose weight, and that women are responding to that pressure.
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Date: 2009-09-03 02:47 pm (UTC)