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so, on the topic: if you were suddenly unemployed, how long would you wait before you took a job that was just a job or temp to tide you over? - Andie Mar 8, 08:07 5
- in these times? probably would take the first job I can get, temp or whatnot, while trying to find a better long-term job -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 08:12
- a week (during which I wouldn't even get UI benefits, due to the imposed wait period) - znufrii Mar 8, 08:08
- i have very little savings, so i would take whatever kept my family stable as soon as humanly possible. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 08:08
- I'd need to be looking for a job the moment I leave the old one. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 08:08 1
  - when I was laid off from the dotcoms, I called recruiters from my desk the minute after I was laid off. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 08:09
25 Indiana men don't think intercourse counts as sex. *looks at Remlik and Spawn* -- (link) - oblique Mar 8, 07:58
And we're back to asking the Oscars to lie down and hold still so we can pee on its face! Huzzah! -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:57
sitwap: from the "how-stupid-can-people-be" side of things, Women feeds bear at zoo, looses fingers. -- (link) - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:56
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- yeah, I didn't like it at all -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 07:59
- You almost have to think that before he went out there they said, "Tom...can you speed this up?" - Jim Mar 8, 07:57 5
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    - In the last half hour; they wasted 10 minutes hearing stories about spooning in Mexico and every other nominee. - Will Hunting Mar 8, 08:02
    - did the acting nominees really need both a handjob *and* fellatio/cunnilingus to stoke their egos? -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 08:01 1
      - exactly. If that kind of thing really is necessary, why not save it for best picture? -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 08:05
  - yep. this is exactly it/ -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:58
- they were running late, wanted to end before the hour was up. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:57
And they did the impossible.....Diane Kruger looked awful imo. - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:55
I wonder if the dance off was meant to provide a bathroom break for the audience. - ceregon Mar 8, 07:53
Also, dear Zac Efron....comb your hair. - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:51 12
- Agreed. Though compared to the Twilighters and Cyrus, he seemed like Hollywood acting royalty with his stage presence. -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 08:01 7
  - i wanted to yank Miley's shoulders back all night. STOP! HUNCHING! -- nm - Andie Mar 8, 08:08 1
    - Isn't she absurdly tall for a young girl? - Will Hunting Mar 8, 08:09
  - Oh yeah, his presence and style is by far better. I didn't mind Lautner as he seems like a good kid thrust into stardom - Will Hunting Mar 8, 08:03 4
    - Was Stewart as emotionless as she is in her movies? -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 8, 08:05 2
      - She looked stoned/bored again. - Will Hunting Mar 8, 08:07
      - she was awkward, sullen, and looked as dreadful as usual in a dress. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 08:06
    - Yeah, Lautner at least seemed excited to be there. -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 08:04
- That internal message was very wrong last night. -- nm - MDH Mar 8, 07:56
- pics or it didn't happen -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 8, 07:55 2
  - Here -- (link) - Will Hunting Mar 8, 08:00 1
    - eek he does look horrible, very Joaquin-Phoenix-getting-fat horrible -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 8, 08:02
sitwap: Former Majority leader Tom Delay seems to think that unemployment benefits keep people from finding jobs. -- (link) - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:51 37
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  - are the prisons empty? are there no workhouses?? -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 8, 07:56
  - i dont agree with that. considering my unemployment benefit was less than the cost of my Cobra payment. - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:55 32
    - well, currently COBRA is cheap, thanks to the stimulus package. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:58 2
      - maybe now, but it wasnt 6 years ago. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:58 1
        
        I know. I'm just addressing the current situation. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:59
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      - what? -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:58
    - But if you hadn't gotten even that, you would have looked even harder, is the point. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:56 26
      - Nope. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:58
      - umm, no. not getting unemployment benefits would not have changed how hard i looked for a job. - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:58 24
        
        Not just you. People, in general. More people look for work if there is no free money then do when there is free money. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:58 23
        
        i just dont see it. if you need money to pay bills, you arent gonna not try to find a job when you are getting 1/3 or less of what you made. - tRuMaN Mar 8, 08:00 10
        
        Let's assume 100 people lose their jobs, and go to the office for benefits, and they are told they can get $800/month. - TFox Mar 8, 08:03 5
        
        so, screw the 95% who'd look for work anyway, for the sake of 3% who wouldn't? -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 08:12 1
        
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        $800 a month? I got like $450 a month from kansas. - tRuMaN Mar 8, 08:05 2
        
        but you just said it. you didn't take a job, because you had benefits. if you hadn't had those benefits, you would have worked faster. - TFox Mar 8, 08:06 1
        
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        and you and tfox are arguing a policy question without taking into account current economic times. - tRuMaN Mar 8, 08:03 2
        
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        sorry, economical studies, whatever you want to call the data that says people dont rush out to find a job. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 08:06
        
        Yes. It's not as though economists haven't looked at this issue before. -- nm - Roger More Mar 8, 08:00
        
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        you can look all you want. if the work isn't there to be had, you're not going to find sh!t. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 07:59 9
        
        That is assuredly true, though not the same point. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 08:00 8
        
        boiling it down to black and white, the thrust of the argument is to blame a person's unemployment on a personal moral failing, sloth in this case. - znufrii Mar 8, 08:04 4
        
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        nah, you're okay. I was basing more on the implications of the original DeLay statement - znufrii Mar 8, 08:14
        
        There is a trade-off between providing a social safety net (which I think everyone here agree is a worthy thing) and providing the right incentives - Roger More Mar 8, 08:09
        
        there's my buddy znufrii. i missed you! -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 08:06
        
        yes actually it is. if the discussion was bunning holding up the bill to extend benefits, and a justification for that was - tRuMaN Mar 8, 08:03
        
        I think what he's saying is, sometimes you *can't* look harder for a job -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 08:01 1
        
        sometimes, sure. but you know, the world isn't out of open jobs yet. it really isn't. - TFox Mar 8, 08:05
  - I dunno about other states, but in VA what they pay is pathetic. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:54
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Also, can ANYONE explain to me how they put SJP as the fashion person considering she's almost always the worst dressed person in every room? - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:44 28
- Haute-Couture One, Will Hunting Zero -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:56
- Half of Sex and the City was about style and fashion...and she was the star for several years. - Jim Mar 8, 07:46
- She starred in a show in which her character focused on clothes a lot, and then everyone got confused about the real person? -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:45 22
  - you guys must have missed how she has a reputation as a clothes horse, with great style, IRL. - loosilu Mar 8, 07:46 18
    - Her makeup last night was absolutely disastrous. And she can't afford to be made to look worse. -- nm - pmb Mar 8, 08:09
    - you got the horse part right anyway -- nm - Beaker Mar 8, 07:59 1
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      - Somehow I knew about it before SATC. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:49 7
        
        Yet you missed the whole Bigelow used to be married to James Cameron thing. -- nm - Jim Mar 8, 07:52 1
        
        indeed I did. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:53
        
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        Seriously. I remember when HBO first started promo-ing SATC. "Starring Sarah Jessica Parker" made me think..."What? Why???" - Jim Mar 8, 07:54
        
        have you been reading fashoin magazines for a couple of decades too? -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:52 2
        
        More proof fashion is nuts. - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:52 1
        
        I can't disagree. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:55
    - years that might theoretically have coincided with her getting famous as the star of SATC, where she focused on clothes a lot? -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:47 5
      - I think you have cause and effect mixed up. She helped influence the character that way. FOr instance, she had a personal - loosilu Mar 8, 07:48 4
        
        Were it not for SJP, Carrie would have routinely worn Osh B'Gosh overalls? -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:50 3
        
        with minolo blahniks -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:51
        
        yes, that's exactly what I said. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:50 1
        
        cool, then its settled. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:50
  - wait .. SJP *isn't* Carrie? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:46 1
    - shhh... don't tell any depressed secretaries. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:47
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- AFAIK she has a reputation for dressing great. She's not naturally pretty but wears Chanel very well. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:45
- Unrelated: I hate her but I really enjoyed her appearance on that ancestry show the other day -- nm - oblique Mar 8, 07:45
- you just don't understand horse-logic, man ... -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:45
This seems right up ST's alley. Capture your Peeps for National Geographic -- (link) - oblique Mar 8, 07:44 1
- love it! (do we still have peeps in canada? how can i not know this?) -- nm - Andie Mar 8, 07:50
Oh...one other thing from last night...what the hell was Sean Penn talking about before presenting his award? Anyone? -- nm - Jim Mar 8, 07:42 1
- something about not nominating people year after year. - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:43
I just read an interesting proposed solution to the DH "issue" in baseball that I hadn't seen before. - TFox Mar 8, 07:40
My Oscar highlights - Inigo Mar 8, 07:34 15
- imo Best Costume was a jerk. She was so conceited. - MDH Mar 8, 07:42 11
  - she was being ironic -- nm - 16 & pixie Mar 8, 07:48
  - and even when she did acknowldge her peers, it came across like "sucks to be you that you slave away on a film that does nada for your oscar chances." -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 07:46 6
    - I don't think that's what she meant at all. She was giving a shout out to those designers who will never ever be recognized by the academy... - Jim Mar 8, 07:47 3
      - I agree, I don't think she meant it that way, but to me it did come across as a little condescending, in the context of the rest of the speech. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 07:48
      - Yeah, if you ain't costuming a period piece, you ain't got much a shot in that category. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:48 1
        
        it's a legitimate criticism of the category, for sure. -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 07:50
    - Exactly. -- nm - MDH Mar 8, 07:46 1
      - I'll give her the benefit of the doubt that she didn't intend for it to come across that way, though... -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 07:47
  - my take was that she felt kind of guilty about getting it again, but didn't handle it smoothly. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:43
  - I didn't like the whole "I already have 2 of these" comment. but I think her comments about the other designers that get skipped over - Jim Mar 8, 07:43 1
    - Yeah nice sentiment...bad execution -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:45
- *SLAP* -- nm - sleepwalking Steve Martin Mar 8, 07:39
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- "it's like Bed, Bath and Beyond threw up on her..." -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 8, 07:38
I loved Bullock's speech a lot last night. -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:34 2
- i was confused by one part - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:41
- that's my vote for best speech. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:40
Stupic albatrosses feed their babies plastic. -- (link) - mara Mar 8, 07:34 5
- sad pictures of a dead albatross that had ingested plastics -- (link) - Hotkiss Mar 8, 07:39 [Image]
- ALBATROSS! -- nm - Albatross vendor Mar 8, 07:38
- They deserve to be extinct -- nm - Redmond Mar 8, 07:35 2
  - If only we could just figure out a way to raise their IQ. Bird education is key. -- nm - mara Mar 8, 07:35 1
    - znufrii? -- nm - oblique Mar 8, 07:36
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- It's very possible he looked at Bigelow, looked at Suzy Amos, back to Bigelow and then just bleeped the real thing. - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:36 3
  - Yeah, she looks like a Gelfling after the Skeksis made them stare into The Dark Crystal. -- nm - Inigo Mar 8, 07:39 1
    - Looks like Gelfling. Smells like Gelfling! -- nm - Jim Mar 8, 07:40
  - If only we had access to Carnivore logs. We could scan pretty quickly for the phrase "Thanks, James, but no thanks." -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:38
- ...with 3D glasses on. -- nm - TFox Mar 8, 07:31
Can anyone ID these animals I saw while hiking yesterday? Some sort of lemur? -- (link) - Hotkiss Mar 8, 07:25 [Image] 11
- It's a coati mundi -- (link) - Redmond Mar 8, 07:28 [Image] 7
  - awesome, thanks, ST seriously baffles me with its collective knowledge sometimes -- nm - Hotkiss Mar 8, 07:31
  - well, it's a coati - here are all the types -- (link) - Andie Mar 8, 07:31 2
    - I think HK's animal has a more fluffy tail. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:34 1
      - never mind, looks like cacomistles are not common, whereas coatis are. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:44
  - Better pic -- (link) - Redmond Mar 8, 07:29 [Image]
  - that's it! member of the raccoon family. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:29 1
    - I take that back, I think it looks more like a Cacomistle (another member of the raccoon family). -- (link) - loosilu Mar 8, 07:30
- i think it's a pizote, we saw them at tikal (not sure if that's the right spelling) -- nm - Andie Mar 8, 07:28
- Some kind of raccoon. Lemurs live in Madagascar. -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:26 1
  - that was my initial reaction as well... -- nm - znufrii Mar 8, 07:27
*rolls the board* -- nm - Barbra Streisand Mar 8, 07:24 8
- Honestly...I wish Cameron had won...if only because Barbra might have spontaneously combusted right there on the Oscar stage. -- nm - Jim Mar 8, 07:30 6
  - "The time has.... wait...WHAT!? I DRESSED UP IN A SUIT FOR THIS!??! James Cameron." -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:35 5
    - Exactly...she might have actually stabbed him with the Oscar...which would have made fantastic television. -- nm - Jim Mar 8, 07:38 4
      - Every studio honcho in the room woulda rushed her. "YOU JUST STABBED $4bil! -- nm - Will Hunting Mar 8, 07:41 3
        
        see? Fantastic television. :) -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:42 2
        
        Can't you see the headlines? "Streisand shoves Oscar up Cameron's ass...is torn to bits by money hungry Studio Execs." -- nm - Jim Mar 8, 07:44 1
        
        "Best Oscars Ever" -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 07:45
- the time has come. -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 07:29
its over. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:24 2
- crazy chick? -- nm - loosilu Mar 8, 07:24 1
  - no, b1 was over. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 8, 07:33

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