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    Image of cassandra cassandra
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    More shocking: the stretch marks on her hip. #americanapparel
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    11/11/09

    @cassandra: At least someone doesn't airbrush their models. It's almost as if they're people. #americanapparel
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    11/13/09

    @ostartero: This is the beginning of a strange trend. #americanapparel
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    Image of Btwbfdimho Btwbfdimho
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    Wow, where did you get that pic of Nidal Hasan? #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    HuffPo will never work until it stops censoring comments so much; the sameness makes it as boring as the comments on, oh, CuteOverload, for example. It's become more about boobs and provocative titles and giving hacks of every kind a chance to "post" their inane comments or flog their latest book/product/agenda. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Nigerian Business Executive Nigerian Business Executive
    11/11/09

    @Novaload: I am proud to have been banned from HuffPo for calling Alec Baldwin a douche! #huffingtonpost
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    Novaload promoted this comment Nigerian Business Executive was starred Nigerian Business Executive was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @Nigerian Business Executive: OMG, I went after him, Jamie Lee Curtis, Maria Shriver, and the feel-good fake doctors of everything promoting their books and tapes. I didn't get banned, they just refused to approve the comments, so it became a challenge to me to find the key flag words. Apparent "fatuous pinheaded fame whore hack" is a no-no, but that's just my working hypothesis. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Maryscary Maryscary
    11/11/09

    @Novaload: There are comments on Cute Overload?
    Edit: Yes, and there's currently a raging controversy about whether human babies should be allowed!
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    Novaload promoted this comment Edited by Maryscary at 11/11/09 9:27 PM Maryscary was starred Maryscary was unstarred
    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/12/09

    @Maryscary: OMG yes. But it's a cult, wherein you are only allowed to say "OMG!" and "Oh, my head will asplode from teh qute!" and they exchange sunshine tofu recipes and give each other imaginary cookies-- and if you say anything that strikes anyone negatively you are a terrible, terrible person. It's notorious for requiring that the rear end be kissed of the Megan and her henchman, Theo. I know this because of painful experience with a cousin. They also had a huge argument over whether people's faces should ever be included. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of triplethreat triplethreat
    11/12/09

    @Novaload: Except for when people go crazy saying "That toy has a sequin on it that COULD HAVE KILLED THAT CAT. Turn the owner in!" #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @triplethreat: Yes, yes! Those are called 'nuffers' there--If I recall right. "That's enough with the poor kitties who are posed precariously on a piano! That's enough of wet kitties" yadda yadda yadda. I know it's evil, but I sometimes wish 4chan would go after them.
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    Edited by Novaload at 11/12/09 10:53 AM Novaload was starred Novaload was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @Novaload: Nuffers! Everything is cute! #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    So, if any of us had bothered to answer the ad and if we made the cut, we could be getting a Huffington Post?
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    Edited by Magister at 11/11/09 8:06 PM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/11/09

    In reply to The Huffington Post Unveils Its New Local Strategy: Unpaid Bloggers
    I have a friend since high school whose late mother was a best-selling writer and whose father was his wife's business manager. Years ago, while still a whelp, I placed an article in a highly local newspaper, an article I wasn't paid for but that gave me experience and a small platform. When I proudly told my friend's parents about this, her father gravely said, "You're a writer when you get paid for it." #huffingtonpost
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: As a Greek-American writer, I offer my very distant relative Homer to refute your statement, TBG. Then again, you are TheBusinessGuy--what else are you going to posit?

    Your post brings up an interesting debate. Next time you're in L.A., first rounds on me... #huffingtonpost
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/11/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: I didn't say I agreed with it. But I will take the round, and thanks. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of TheSometimesWhy TheSometimesWhy
    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You didn't. As someone whose income is falling more steadily than a pair of cosmetically enhanced breasts, the whole "when is a writer a writer" debate takes on renewed meaning. It is a touchy subject, as my Mother would say.

    Anyway, you're welcome. Keep up the great posts... #huffingtonpost
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/11/09

    @TheSometimesWhy: Hey, some of my best friends, etc., etc., etc. Thanks for the kind words, which I return in kind. And good luck! #huffingtonpost
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/11/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: You're a writer when you don't need other people to tell you if you're a writer or not. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of TheBusinessGuy TheBusinessGuy
    11/11/09

    @raincoaster: I like that. But what about all of those people who think they can write poetry? #huffingtonpost
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    11/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: when you get paid for it. Interesting hypothesis.

    The other one that I've heard is that you cannot tell during your own life whether you are a writer or a copywriter. Only your thombstone will tell the truth on that question. #huffingtonpost
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    raincoaster promoted this comment Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was starred Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: Please retract your statement above. You've clearly forgotten about graphomaniacs.

    This isn't a jab about your writing in general, just about the single above sentence. It is just wrong. #huffingtonpost
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    raincoaster promoted this comment Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was starred Spy from the Land of Rainpeople was unstarred
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    11/12/09

    @TheBusinessGuy: Nobody said they were GOOD writers. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @Spy from the Land of Rainpeople: Nope, I just expanded on it. You can be a writer without being a talented writer, same as you can be a dreadful actor, an appallingly bad painter, a really clumsy dancer. #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: After all, we need those kinds of people in the industry to make US look good. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of atlasspanked atlasspanked
    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: "You haven't seen enough to be a writer." --Wolf Larsen, The Sea Wolf, by Jack London #huffingtonpost
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    11/12/09

    @atlasspanked: That'll school that uppity Emily Dickinson. #huffingtonpost
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    At least she has the good sense to cloak that alluring neck. I only hope the ankles are properly covered as well, lest shopkeepers be distracted as she walks down the street. #americanapparel
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Was this post really too subtle? #americanapparel
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/11/09

    @Hamilton Nolan: Subtly and American Apparel don't ever mix. Somewhere Dov Charney is laughing. #americanapparel
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    Image of DTurkin DTurkin
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    I prefer to see nipples than someone giving birth. #americanapparel
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    11/11/09

    @DTurkin: This was like an eye bath #americanapparel
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Oh, geez. They're almost dainty. I could see if they were like huge cow utters ready to slap you in the forehead. These are like junior-nips. Not really classy, classy, but in terms of obscenity from American Apparel, I was expecting much more...like nipples, socks, a puddle of milk and nothing else in the shot. #americanapparel
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    At least, they are very nice looking nipples. #americanapparel
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    It's intentional. Nips are a fact, HamNo.

    Team Nip Display Banish the Padded Bra Bring Back the Balcony Corset #americanapparel
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Thousands of years ago Victoria's Secret showed nipples quite freely. They also showed pubic hair back when women had it.

    Women do have nipples after all and this is honest advertising. If you have nipples and you wear this garment, then your nipples will show.

    Why Barbie-ize us all? #americanapparel
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    Image of PrincessOfPower PrincessOfPower
    11/11/09

    @Tart of Darkness: pubic hair? what's that? #americanapparel
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/11/09

    @PrincessOfPower: I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. #americanapparel
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/11/09

    @Tart of Darkness: I actually agree with what you said but I really don't think American Apparel was trying to make a feminist statement. In fact, I don't think anyone at American Apparel know how to SPELL feminist. If the model's nipples were exposed it's probably because the sad folks at American Apparel got off on the 'naughtiness' of it all. #americanapparel
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    11/11/09

    @topsy: Well, what's wrong with that?

    I can't believe I'm defending AA, but a little naughtiness never hurt anybody. And neither did being turned on by it. If we weren't turned on by naughtiness, nobody would bother having sex and the species would have died out a long time ago. #americanapparel
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/11/09

    @badasscat: I can't believe that you're defending AA either. #americanapparel
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    11/11/09

    @topsy: Well, I agree they are not intending to make a feminist statement but I really don't have a problem with the lack of air-brushing. Back in the late 70s/early 80s sometimes lingerie models in newspaper ads had visible nipples. Why have we decided that feminist = prudish while at the same time feminist = promiscuity, too?

    I find today's sexuality confusing. We are supposed to faint and scream at the sight of a nipple in a catalog, but have sex freely as we choose with as many people as we like.

    And for men it's even more confusing. They are all supposed to be addicted to porn, masturbate furiously on an hourly basis while hoping to get laid and this all at the same time that they pretend not to notice any sexual features on the woman they are standing next to on a bus.

    And I'd like to say I can't believe I'm defending AA either even as I'm starting to wonder why I'm supposed to defame them. #americanapparel
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    Image of topsy topsy
    11/11/09

    @Tart of Darkness: Thanks for the lecture on modern sexuality. Believe it or not I have no problems with nipples; I even have two of my own. What I do have a problem with is AA (who a lot of people are willing to go to the wall for) make a shitload of money out of appealing to the pimply adolescent in so many. 'Oooo look! Nipples! How edgy! How cutting edge.' Please. I prefer not to participate in Mr. Charney jerk-off fantasies, but feel free. The sight of barely-legal models (or those who just LOOK that way) flashing their pink bits for Dov's pleasure and profit makes me a bit queasy. But like I said, feel free.
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    Image of naugahydeinplainsight naugahydeinplainsight
    11/11/09

    In reply to American Apparel in Mortifying Nipple-Reveal
    Well, twice does represent the usual complement.

    Oh, you meant two separate models. (Second one makes my neck hurt.) #americanapparel
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    11/11/09

    @naugahydeinplainsight: The second picture's a little strange, but then again I'm totally stumped about a more effective way to sell bow ties and suspenders to women. I think in this case just plain distracting from the product is the only reasonable choice. #americanapparel
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    11/11/09

    @Z und Vielpunkt's chick: ...and I just ordered a dozen of each. I'm such a sucker.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    10/15/09

    In reply to American Apparel My Butt
    She's applying for a position on the Letterman staff. Too bad for him he's not into the hotness. #americanapparel
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    Image of BeeGee BeeGee
    10/15/09

    In reply to American Apparel My Butt
    Mr. Nolan, How much is Charney paying you for this adspace.... Click to enlarge... more like click to engorge! #americanapparel
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    Hamilton Nolan promoted this comment BeeGee was starred BeeGee was unstarred
    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    10/15/09

    @BeeGee: I might steal that phrase, thx. #americanapparel
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