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REALLY??????????

Anyone else bothered by this obviously man created ad?

Panties, George - Panties!

This was on Yahoo! a couple of weeks ago. News of this sort usually sends me in one of two directions:

a - either I feel better about myself and realize I am not as bad as I think I am

OR

b - I feel so very concerned and worried about the human race I lay in my bed for a week drinking and trying to shut it all out.

Either way it makes you feel - hope you enjoy.

Man arrested with panties hanging from pants

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ATHENS, Tenn. -A man has been charged with public intoxication after authorities said he was walking along Highway 11 with a pair of panties hanging out from his unzipped pants. According to The Daily Post-Athenian, 31-year-old man told deputies he had been at a pool party and stole them from a nearby home early Sunday.

A search revealed the man had stuffed some 40 pairs of female undergarments into his pants, although he had thrown most of them to the ground as a deputy approached.

The owner of the garments declined to prosecute but the man was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.

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Information from: The Daily Post-Athenian, http://dpa.xtn.net

Woman Sitting on Toilet Shot in Leg

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TAMPA, Fla. (July 10) - Authorities said a bullet from a gun that was accidentally dropped injured a Tampa woman sitting in a bathroom stall. Police said the bullet hit 53-year-old Janifer Bliss in the lower left leg. She was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

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Bliss was sitting on the toilet in a hotel bathroom when a woman in the next stall accidentally let her handgun slip out of her waist holster. The weapon discharged when it hit the ground.

Police said the gun belonged to a 56-year-old woman who has a concealed weapons permit.

The case has been referred to the State Attorney's Office to determine if any charges will be filed.

Why Are We In this Predicament?

I have been wondering for months now how our economy got into this mess.  Jake is quick to point a finger at our former President, but even he admits it isn't that simple.  We over extended on all fronts.  Did we really need two different sheet retailers? How often are you people updating your sheets? I fear I will have to get divorced and remarried in order to really retool my linen cabinet. Did I EVER need a store where all I could purchase there was professional and college branded hats? Evidently, yes and in fact I needed more than one store - Lids, Hatland, and we aren't even talking about the online retailers yet. Look I love a good baseball cap - but this is ridiculous. With the exception of my b.i.l., I can't imagine anyone buying more than 2 or 3 caps of THEIR team. (He has upwards of 15 I think - visor, all black, ski cap, etc)  

Thankfully, the recent economic downturn is correcting some of this duplication and un-necessarification (my word) in the marketplace. But. right when I was feeling better about the direction we were headed, I found this on Yahoo! yesterday from the AP Wire.

"In this photo made Thursday, July 9, 2009, Pet Airways Co-founder Alysa Binder's dog, Zoe, walks by one of the upstart airline's aircraft in Omaha, Neb. On the first-ever all-pet airline started by husband-and-wife team Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel, dogs and cats will fly in the main cabin of a Suburban Air Freight plane, retooled and lined with carriers in place of seats.

 (AP Photo/Dave Weaver)

REALLY?????????

BTW - welcome back Angry and Louise - had missed you both!

Shine On

Sometimes, even those of us with a continual sarcastic comment, don't know what to say.

Today's post is really a link to a part of Yahoo! an odd part at best and the link takes you to the epitome of "really?"

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Shine

Shit - like picking out an outfit isn't hard enough....

Here is an article and clip taken from the WCBStv.com in New York. CF comments in ().

Here is the link to the video:

Fashion Warning Tight Jean Syndrome

 Fashion Warning: Tight Jean Syndrome

Believe It Or Not, More And More Women Suffering Serious Physical Problems From Wearing "Skinny Jeans"

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Skinny jeans.

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Here's a fashion warning: high heels and super-sized purses may look great, but doctors say these styles are wreaking havoc on women's backs and feet. (no shit!)

Now, add skinny jeans to the list. (great, because I look bad in them and think they should have stayed in the 80's were they belong)

CBS station WCBS-TV in New York reports they could turn you into a serious fashion casualty. (love these news stories that propogate fear and concern in the population over something that happens to less then 1% of the world - "how your microwave oven is killing your grandchildren, etc")

This spring and summer fashion editors say when it comes to pants skinny is in. 

"Skinny jeans obviously. There's also leggings. You have treggings (WTF????), which I happen to like because it's a cross between a trouser and a legging," said Self magazine senior fashion market editor Lindsay Taylor Huggins. (wondering if she should be a senior fashion editor when she is promoting something called a tregging)

But this trend may be creating a whole new crop of fashion victims (worse than the treggings????) suffering from ... 

"The tight jean syndrome," neurologist Dr. Betty Mintz said. (there used to be a tight-fitting jeans contest in a local bar near my college - could they be sued???)

Mintz said constant pressure from tight pants can injure a nerve in the thigh. When compressed it causes mild to excruciating pain. (hello - if your pants are causing excruciating pain - they are beyond tight and you are beyond help!)

"There are people who come in and say it is absolutely the most horrible pain imaginable," Mintz said. (pants causing pain that is greater than pain associated with chemotherapy/radiation or greater than the heartbreak of psoriasis?)

"I was literally dragging my leg for a while so the pain would stop," added Christina Crane. (what about taking off the pants?)

Crane, 22, said she's worn low-rise rise jeans for six years before getting her diagnosis and now takes anti-seizure medicine to control her symptoms.  (low rise jeans is not what this article is about - it is about tight fitting jeans - these are not necessarily the same thing - you can have very baggy low-rise jeans - ever seen a rapper?)

"The jeans are always resting on my hip and I know that's where the initial pain begins is from the pelvis, that nerve there," Crane said. 

Firefighters, construction workers and police officers more typically suffer from "tingling thigh syndrome" because they wear heavy, low slung belts, and pregnant or obese women because of leg pressure. But more young women are now developing symptoms. 

"Certainly, the tight jeans could predispose more skinny, young women to developing this," Dr. Mintz said.  (Could, so could eating too many apple chips (flutter?) or reading too many romance novels I suppose - could is a huge weasle word)

"I couldn't do anything. I couldn't walk on it. It just hurt so bad," Crane said. (please don't tell me she got disability because she wanted to show off her rear)

Crane has since tossed her skinny jeans, but will other women do the same? 

"I still don't think women are going to give up their jeans. Beauty is pain," Huggins said. 

Doctors said the pain is the most intense when the condition first starts, but the problem can persist through a patient's lifetime and treated only with pain medication. 

This is not the first time blue jeans have been called a health hazard. In the 1970s rumors circulated of snug jeans causing infertility in men and infections in women.