Excellent! I was tired of the deflector beanie mussing up my hair.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
You cannot shame the shameless.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
You can’t love your country only when you win.
Battle won, war still ongoing.
People are complicated. Love is not.
The words do not have to be perfect.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania. Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
Optimism opens the door to great things.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
No one could have predicted…
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.
Their freedom requires your slavery.
Mason
Mussing hair is not all they do!
http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/
Zifnab
Hahahaha! That’s just nuts.
srv
I don’t know if it blocks RFIDs, but the fashion is better at:
ducttapefashions.com
srv
The original ducttapefashions
Tim F.
If I anti-RFID’d my wallet then I wouldn’t be able to get to work. A good compromise might be tinfoil pants.
srv
They even have stuff for stormy and Krista:
Totes & Purses
Bill Arnold
I wonder, would highly conductive hair gel work? I mean if it was properly grounded, and one had no significantly large bald spots.
See also the refutation of the MIT study.
Krista
Well I’ll be damned — some of those are actually kind of cute. Duct tape accessories are still just a little too Red Green Show for me.
But thanks for thinking of me. :)
Gary Farber
“Mussing hair is not all they do!”
Gee, it’s almost as if people didn’t clink on the links, and so they repost one of the same URLs linked in the referred to post. But that couldn’t be. It would be almost as if it made pointless doing posts about such links in the first place. And that just couldn’t be.
Perry Como
Faraday cage hats have been worn by those “in the know” for a while now.
Stormy70
Awesome! I was worried about the alien rays this week, what with all the Tom and Katie posts in the Entertainment blogs.
I saw that first linked study a while back, and just rolled on the floor laughing. It’s funny because it’s true.
Stormy70
Those duct tape purses are not too bad, however they lost me with the skanky chick getting out of the car with her handbag. Is this the only action shot they could get? Very low budget.
I get out of the car then grab my purse. It is just not realistic at all. Too bad.
Krista – where are your pet picks?
srv
Ah, spoken like a true Dallas girl. These are starving artists, not Coach (well, Coach probably has a sweatshop with starving folks, or models with the heroin look)!
Actually, I messed up. This is the guy you should give business to:
Ducttapefashion.com
skip
Just think, if Joan of Arc had worn a foil hat, France might be speaking English today (pleasing a host of delta-minus xenophobes on this list).
Krista
Well, it IS duct tape, not Prada.
Good question. I emailed them to John yesterday. John?
Stormy70
Well, I am not really a “handbag” person. I can dine out on a handbag for a good year, before getting a new one. Then it is only the best for me! ;)
(Only if I can find it at Target or Ross or TJ Maxx. Any good handbag comes in the form of a present for Christmas, since the cost of said handbag will put a dent in my sweet geek $$$$.)
Save the DVDs!
Stormy70
Thank God I really live in Grapevine. We are not built of plastic or living on our Sugar Daddy’s money here! We do have wine, though. And a lake! With a trail!
Krista
Sounds lovely. And I’m all about the inexpensive accessories too. (Although I did once indulge in a Prada bag, just so that I can have ONE really kickass bag in my life.)
I’m betting any men reading this are now going, “Oh Christ, they’re talking about purses. This thread’s dead.”
capelza
Krista…I did the same thing with a Coach bag, unfortunately the thing is so hard to kill that I still have it after 15 years.
Though I do still spend money on myself with “La Perla” lingerie. (maybe that last word will keep them in the thread :p)
No one will take my aluminium chapeau away from me! I even glued super secret symbols on it. It’s beauuuuutifuuuul!
Krista
Ooo la la, La Perla! Very nice.
(Getting an amusing mental image of capelza with her lovely lingerie, her worn-in Coach bag, and an aluminum chapeau.) A fetching ensemble, to be sure. :)
Stormy70
Some things in life must be indulged in, Dahling. I prefer Felina, myself. It is reasonably priced.
I do have a Louis Vatton bag that I take on vacation, since it holds everything, including a book, my headphones, lotion, sunglasses, etc. When I open it up, I can see the entire inside of it at a glance. The importance of this cannot be underestimated, since the cell phone is at the bottom of all the rest.
This is one of the best coffee makers out there, by the way. And you can use your 20% off coupon to save $20 bucks off. Mmmm, I love kitchen items!
This is our thread now, boy minions! Feel the power points grow!
(You have to know their boy language to communicate on the pop culture threads.)
capelza
Yes, fetching..lol. Though living in the subdued PNW, it is a small, circumspect chapeau. Now, Stormy, lucky girl, living in Texas can have a great big flashy one. I was very excited to go to a Texas wedding once, becuase I would be able to wear one of those big brimmed French numbers. That just isn’t done up here in flannel world.
demimondian
Seeing as how I took FDDD out last week to buy her a new handbag, I wouldn’t be too sure of that if I were you.
John Cole
Coffee is meant to be made in a
FrenchFreedom Press.Stormy70
Freedom (ahem) coffee is the best, but it is no 12-cup-mecca-of-no-carafe-to-wash-up morning coffee maker.
Plus, it has an old-timey fuel gauge that goes from full to empty as you pour your cups. Retro, baby!
Stormy70
Fuel gauge. On a coffee maker. Plus, you can remove the bottom grate to pour coffee into your larger metal cup.
demimondian
The only good use for a French press coffee maker is to make tea.
skip
“The only good use for a French press coffee maker is to make tea.”
Demi-tete doesn’t seem to like the French either, proving the old adage that being trendy is better than being deraciné.
Mason
Or, it could be that some people did click the link in the main post, followed a few of the links from *that* page, but did not spend the next five hours following every damned link from each successive page (especially the ones with vague descriptions) before dying from a blog-induced positive feedback loop. It might just be possible that some folks had about two or three minutes to kill, took a quick look at a favorite blog, and remembered a funny story after seeing the page which was linked in the main post.
It might even be possible that some people are just contentious chowderheads.
Krista
Coffee in a French press is incredibly tasty and lovely, but when short on time in the morning, as I usually am, it’s nice to be able to just pre-set the Delonghi to start up at 7am.
Enough with the anti-French sentiment already, d’accord?
Stormy — Felina? Also very nice! Unfortunately, my budget disallows many indulgences, so it’s good old La Senza for me (the Canadian version of Victoria’s Secret.)
Being Acadian, I’m unsure if my tinfoil hat should be a beret, a touque, or a bonnet a la 1755. Thoughts?
skip
The anti-French posturing has become a real bore. A lot of manly-men talk at the sport bars where aging MEMBERS ONLY poseurs drink O’Douls and make fun of soccer.
Krista
skip – it’s kind of 2002, isn’t it? And it just makes the speaker look small-minded and petty.
demimondian
I hate to be snide, but, frankly, French press coffee is hideous — it’s cloudy, and the bitterness of the liquid is concealed behind the woodiness of the suspended grounds.
On the other hand, a French press is nearly the perfect way to make loose leaf tea — you can heat the pot prior to adding the tea, the tea can steep in suspensions, you can clear the leaves with the press without squeezing them to bitterness, and it is easy to clean.
So, sorry — not anti-French bigotry, just good taste.
Krista
demi – hey, to each their own, right? I’ve only had French press coffee a couple of times, and it was excellent both times, but we each have our own tastes, thank heavens. And you’re right about the tea…a French press is a perfect way to make loose leaf tea.
Glad you’re not anti-French…I’d be hurt. :)
Stormy70
Krista – the whole “freedom” instead of French thing is a joke.
Krista
stormy – oh, it is now, and when I comment on it, I realize that we’re all in jest here.
But at the time, I bet there were some people who were dead serious about it. Wacky.
Gary Farber
“Or, it could be that some people did click the link in the main post, followed a few of the links from that page, but did not spend the next five hours following every damned link from each successive page….”
Um, there were three whole links in my post, two of which were the two aluminim foil stories.
You’re welcome.
Luke
I don’t think he has ever cared about civil liberties – he sees his job as protecting us, not protecting our liberties.
Mason
Okay, I’ve never been one to know when to leave well enough alone, but since you seem to have taken this so personally, here it is in simple language:
John links to a post of yours. That post of yours links to something about an RFID-blocking wallet, Bruce Schnier, something about explosive hunting wasps, and another link to some other page on your site. I clicked on — imagine this! — all four links and scanned each page. As I am not a regular reader of your site, I ignored the self-referential post which only had vaguely described links.
AFTER all of that, I remembered a funny website for which I quickly googled, found, and posted.
Next time, take a freaking deep breath before getting your undies in a twist.