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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: Shaggy 2 Grote on September 12, 2007, 11:36:15 PM
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So tonight I walk into my 6:10 class - I'm not feeling one way or the other, just gearing up to get through it, having assigned 50+ pages of reading on the history of the clinic and the medical gaze and so forth. I usually come equipped with a few crazy gross-out stories about body mods, pro-"ana" websites, and stuff that relates to the readings but will hopefully keep the kids from getting too glassy-eyed.
Sitting on my desk is a manila envelope with the words, "for Jason, from Matt" written on it. I look inside, and what do I find but an autographed photo of Tommy Tornado! And that's not all - there are TBSOWFMU and Scharpling and Wurster stickers and pins and the whole nine yards. It was all I could do not to laugh out loud or leap for joy. In the midst of expounding on medical consumerism, I would lose my train of thought, my mind wandering to my new 2006 fun kit.
So I hope this has nothing to do with Matt's leaving the board - while the fun kit made my night, I'd hate to think I was taking it from him. But it made my night - the FOT army are the best fans in all of fandom.
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Woah, that's awesome, but I'm also totally confused! What if that's a fucking total and complete surrender of FOTness to you? What sort of bittersweet fruit hath we wrought?
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Yeah, I was mostly just happy about it but that thought entered my head as I was posting. You what what? I am going to email this cat.
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I meant you *know* what. Pre-coffee. But while we're thinking of it, can I get a what what?
I also meant to add that it was a brand-new, factory-sealed fun kit, so I'm holding out hope that he just had an extra.
EDIT: I just found out that I can edit.
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So just in case anyone except me is still following this, Jason informed me that Matt grabbed a bunch of the fun kits at the last meetup. I emailed him anyway to thank him and let him know that the FOTs wanted him to return to the board.
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What's his stance on diabetics?
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Sorry, Dave, I think he's an anti-diabetic skinhead. He's an otherwise cool guy, though, and I think maybe I can get him to come around.
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So just in case anyone except me is still following this, Jason informed me that Matt grabbed a bunch of the fun kits at the last meetup. I emailed him anyway to thank him and let him know that the FOTs wanted him to return to the board.
This is good news.
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What are "pro-"ana" websites"?
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What are "pro-"ana" websites"?
Pro-anorexia websites, which are mostly livejournal communities. I think it's a shame that livejournal doesn't shut that site down, especially since simply looking at other girls that look like Christian Bale in the Machinist exacerbates these poor girls' outlook. One of the downfalls of in-patient group therapy for anorexics is that being around other bony broads only makes these girls want to starve themselves more, and that's a HUGE roadblock in the recovery process. I say "girls," by the way, because people who post on such websites are primarily girls. They post pictures of their favorite models for "thinspiration," and they take pictures of themselves when they feel really happy about how they look (i.e., exposed clavicles, ribs, stick arms and legs...)
It's sad.
Edit: I searched lj for "pro-ana" interests. 329 communities. The subtitle for _thinspire: "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." Oh, and someone posted some pictures of Bettie Page, Rita Hayworth, Betty Grable, Thora Birch, and Scarlett Johannssen. The comments?
"No offesense [sic] but in some of these the women are kind of fat. Pretty but fat."
"lol, agreed."
"i also agree. they are pretty, but thinner would be hot."
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Scarlett Johansen is fat in all the right places.
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I want her fat in my mouth
and all over my face
fuuuuuuuck
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I am a very sexy guy, why do you ask?
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Sorry guys, but I'm going to have to tell Scarlett About this thread.
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I want her fat in my mouth
and all over my face
fuuuuuuuck
Wow.
That was borderline jerkcity. (jerkcity.com for the uninitiated) If you had closed with "HLUAGHUAHLGHALGH..." that would have capped it. T Rands, I vote yikes.
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Jerk Towers.