You know...

[missroserose]

...I honestly can't decide who is more frustrating to deal with - insane people who just blow up at you and have done with it; or insane people who make some effort to appear sane and rational and reasonable, but as you try to talk to them it becomes increasingly clear that they're just passive-aggressively batshit loco.

No. I take it back. The second category just gets under my skin. The former you can brush off, but with the latter you have to keep revising your assumptions downward as the conversation progresses and you gradually realize that nothing this person says is reliable or true.

Also, I love the people who are completely unable to distinguish between different departments in a bureaucracy and therefore insist on calling each and every one of them that might possibly be involved and reading each hapless admin their list of complaints because "you're all the City and something has to be done."

Is it a full moon or something? What's with all the crazy people today?

Comments

[flewellyn.livejournal.com]

It is, in fact, a full moon.

A bit behind the question

[faith-rose08.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just caught up to entry on corsets and have this comment - which should bring me up to date on today's theme: "Anyone who would voluntarily wear a corset is quite possibly under the influence of the full moon or otherwise crazy! One reason the bowhead and other baleen whales were hunted to the verge of extinction was exactly because of the world's desire to encase women in organ squishing, spine bending, lung crushing corsets!"

Now I admit that my beautiful daughter looks awesome in a corset - but I am so glad she doesn't wear it daily, laced to give her that "hour glass" womanly figure! My personal figure is rapidly moving to resemble that of the bowhead whale BEFORE baleen is harvested . . . so pass the muktuk and let's get on with fashion that allows a woman to expand to comfortable proportions! And no, I don't think a woman who's figure is built for comfort, rather than speed, is lunacy in the slightest! Love, Mum

Re: A bit behind the question

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Actually, the extreme organ-squishing corsetry didn't come along until the Victorian period, relatively late in the corset's history. Previous iterations were designed to create a cone shape for the bodice and didn't deform your body anywhere near the way the later ones did. Wikipedia's got a pretty good rundown of the historyhere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_corsets).

And thankfully, baleen isn't used for corsets and buggy whips any more - the latter are obsolete, and we have spring steel for the former!

Re: A bit behind the question

[faith-rose08.livejournal.com]

Trust you to know the history of the "truss"! My but my current figure would have fit in well in those glorious periods where women were allowed to eat! Give me the Gibson Girl without her corset!! Glad we are having fun with fashion! Love, Mum