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Jul 4 07 4:22 PM
chaotic2 wrote: If people are going to be still digging up that photo from the Internet 5 years, let alone 10 years, from now I think I'll shoot myself.
Don't tempt me to hand you any bullets!!
Well, think of it this way, chaotic2...
Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah's couch in May 2005. That's TWO YEARS AGO by my reckoning. The video of that bizarre incident is STILL on the Internet for anyone to watch ad nauseum (and yes, people are STILL talking about it to this day). No matter what Cruise does for the rest of his career or life, he will ALWAYS be known in public as "that cult guy who went koo-koo for CoCo Puffs on the Oprah talk show". So, things can take on a life of their own and end up in a way that you didn't intend nor envision (especially online).
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KidLawless77 wrote: I am with peach on this one. It would be one thing if Hurley dressed her son in a bikini and took some candid family photos to be seen only by friends and family but she did not do this. I have a problem with her putting this on the internet. Her son is already in school and has been teased over some past photos of him that appeared in the press. (There was one were he appeared in public wearing some very strange outfit that looked like something out of Victorian storybook.) This is only going to add fuel to the fire.
ITA KidLawless. EL is a thoughtless bitch for using her son in that way.
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Jul 4 07 11:46 PM
Slightly OT, but has anyone else here seen "A Christmas Story"? Probably my all-time fave Christmas movie; it dances merrily on the grave of "It's A Wonderful Life", IMO! Anyway, this thread makes me think of how the aunt of "Ralphie", the film's 9-year-old protagonist, sends him a fuzzy, pink bunny suit for Christmas, complete with ears and feet, that is totally inappropriate for a boy his age. Ralphie makes it abundantly clear that he would rather stick cockroaches up his nose than wear it, but his mother orders him to "march" upstairs and put it on because "Aunt Susie always makes you such beautiful things and I won't have you disrespect her like that" or some such nonsense. Then when he slinks miserably down the stairs in it, his mom coos and fusses on about how "sweet" and "adorable" he looks. The mother's intentions are the very best, but the poor kid is utterly humiliated. The scene is funny, not only because he looks hilarious, but because we understand, and relate to, his resentment and his powerlessness in the face of his mother's cluelessness and the fact that ultimately, what mom says...goes.
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Jen4 wrote: You here stories of mothers throughout time who wanted daughters not sons and grew their sons curls out long and dressed them in frilly dresses which led to a lot of confusion until they were old enough to protest.
Jul 5 07 6:40 AM
princesspeach wrote: Slightly OT, but has anyone else here seen "A Christmas Story"? Probably my all-time fave Christmas movie; it dances merrily on the grave of "It's A Wonderful Life", IMO! Anyway, this thread makes me think of how the aunt of "Ralphie", the film's 9-year-old protagonist, sends him a fuzzy, pink bunny suit for Christmas, complete with ears and feet, that is totally inappropriate for a boy his age. Ralphie makes it abundantly clear that he would rather stick cockroaches up his nose than wear it, but his mother orders him to "march" upstairs and put it on because "Aunt Susie always makes you such beautiful things and I won't have you disrespect her like that" or some such nonsense. Then when he slinks miserably down the stairs in it, his mom coos and fusses on about how "sweet" and "adorable" he looks. The mother's intentions are the very best, but the poor kid is utterly humiliated. The scene is funny, not only because he looks hilarious, but because we understand, and relate to, his resentment and his powerlessness in the face of his mother's cluelessness and the fact that ultimately, what mom says...goes.
He was also much older than Damien, wearing something that was implied it was meant for a much younger child. Everybody has pictures that they hate from when they were a kid, based on the pictures in the first post on the thread she obviously isnt trying to make him look like a girl because he looks nothing like a girl in either of those pics. Its one pic that no one is even talking about anymore I doubt in 20 years when he is rolling in his trust fund that he will care about one picture eons ago that he probably wont even remember having taken. I cant imagine there is a parent in the world who has 100% of the time let their kid wear whatever clothing they wanted that made the kid 100% happy, or hasnt put the kid into something that they hated because they wanted the kid to wear it for some reason.
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So it IS Eddie Izzard. At first glance I thought it was Julian Clary.
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suriously wrote: Can you look at Cranberry juice cocktail in the same light now Nanuq? Does Ocean Spray mean something more to you now? Ah, the sins of the mother...
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