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Post by Ouch on Jun 26, 2008 14:27:16 GMT -5
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Post by matisse on Jun 27, 2008 14:30:22 GMT -5
The other just used the guy, having him pay for a Flat in Moscow. Did he get anything out of that arrangement?
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Post by matisse on Jun 27, 2008 14:33:00 GMT -5
i love this...it's so hyper-analytical, NYC, grad school; how about people like to eat cupcakes because they taste REALLY GOOD! and people will BUY THEM if given the opportunity. i'd pay $2.50 for a fresh chocolate cupcake right now...or a german chocolate one...or a yellow cake w/chocolate frosting...or.... There is a little more too it than just cupcakes, it seems. I passed by the cupcake place in Boston, and it's on Newbury street, a very upscale shopping area, so they are paying a shitload of rent and need to jack up their prices. If it was just the cupcakes themselves, it seems there would have been a whole bunch of cupcake vendor carts around.
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Post by andyc251 on Jun 27, 2008 16:30:18 GMT -5
That place on Newbury St in Boston is actually just a tshirt shop by Johnny Cupcakes (I'm a tshirt addict) who has it all designed to look like a bakery type place, but he only sells tshirts, really cool tshirts. The guy's still only about 25 and started out making tshirts in his bedroom and selling them out of a suitcase when he was on tour with his friends band. He's grown it into a massive label with a cult following and is just about to open another store on Melrose Ave. His logo is a cupcake above crossed bones and he carries the bakery theme throughout his stores, tshirts are laid out in old ovens on baking shelves and stuff like that. When he has a launch party for a new range of tshirts you get free cupcakes with each shirt. As a business owner he's pretty inspirational and impressive, his blog is always a good read too: Johnny Cupcakes
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Post by natasha on Jun 27, 2008 21:40:58 GMT -5
hahaha..So, Matisse got fooled about that store in Boston!! funny!!! Wow, I just read the story and browse around the website... Yeah, def. great story..Im a new fan now also!! Thanks Andy.....
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Post by laurasweetou on Jun 27, 2008 23:19:03 GMT -5
deleted because my sleeping meds kicking in
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Post by matisse on Jun 27, 2008 23:31:36 GMT -5
Dang, and here I figured the tshirts were just a spinoff from the cupcake business..........THERE WERE NEVER ANY CUPCAKES!??!?!!?
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Post by Ray T on Jun 28, 2008 0:01:39 GMT -5
I thought the fashion gods had banned nylons under shorts........... Pfft, not in Russia. I swear to god, it's like it's 1994 here. Girls wont be seen without their Scrunchies (I tried to insert a barf smiley face, but it's not available here) and it's completely acceptable for even the smartest-dressed girl to wear pantyhose with open-toed shoes (another barf smiley would come in handy here). Besides A LOT of makeup and fried hair from being dyed, permed, whathaveyou, too many times, very high heels are pretty much all that are worn by Russian girls. I feel so frumpy in my flats, which were/are very much in style in the U.S., when I was in the UK, and Australia (<---or so my friend tells me, who's there studying at the moment). I'm seriously not feeling the Russian fashion scene. Not to say that all women here look like this (about 5% look very nice), but it's all very........hookerish. Altogether, it's just too much; the 5-inch heels, fishnets, miniskirts, LOTS of makeup, and so much bling-bling at once it would make Mary J. Blige blush. And oh god, let's not forget the mullets! I swear on everything I own that, seriously, about 3 in every 5 guys has a mullet or braided "rat-tail." Mullets are very, very in right now (men and women alike), and I'm tired of getting slapped in the face by the tails of them every time I walk outside. Sorry if this post has included anyone here's particular fashion sense, but speaking personally, these are just not things that I admire. Well Chan just remember id the 80's did not go over to russia we would still have them. Seems that Germany was 10 years behind on what was cool ( when i lived there in 1the late 90's, 80's music and David Hasselhofwas a big thing) and i guess Russia is 20 years behind.
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Post by natasha on Jun 28, 2008 0:18:49 GMT -5
I got on myspace and went to Johnny's cupcake page, asked him for a request and sent him a little message.. He actually f*cking responded it!! I'm so excited!! Even if he respond all hes messages I don't care, I felt special!! lol.... ;D I just decided I'm not a Dev anymore from now on I want to be friking Johnny Cupcake BITCH!!
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Post by natasha on Jun 28, 2008 0:22:11 GMT -5
deleted because my sleeping meds kicking in whats up with that laura!! you always seems to put your comments in the wrong places!! ...ha!
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Post by Ouch on Jun 28, 2008 10:48:13 GMT -5
Dang, and here I figured the tshirts were just a spinoff from the cupcake business..........THERE WERE NEVER ANY CUPCAKES!??!?!!? The cake is a lie!
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Post by Pony on Jun 30, 2008 16:05:26 GMT -5
This is what kinda eats under my skin, the open discrimination and prejudice doesn't seem to be an outrageous thing around the globe. Even in the states it's kinda 'okay' to be ignorant, or plain rude, in some cases. Definitely, inroads have been made, but I'd say that most ABs are wayyyy too shocked that chairdudes still possess the same dreams of getting married, having sex, want to work for a living. Where's our Public Relations manager? I want to FIRE him!!
I've recently been thinking how important your 'brand' name is...Example: America's brand name has taken a real beating over past few years. Bush, and many others, has hurt the Republican brand name, just like Clinton's blow job hurt the Dems. We, as chairdudes, have a brand that can be enhanced, or damaged, and it seems like we haven't done a very good job of painting the image we want. I'm talking in the Western World here...most of the World hasn't even begun to recognize the talents and worthiness of anybody in a chair. All they have to do is look RIGHT HERE to see some fine examples of productive people who just want the same fucking things everybody else has.
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Post by Chan on Jul 19, 2008 12:26:26 GMT -5
Ok, so I'm leaving Russia in three days, and this is the tally for the disabled persons I've seen my entire stay in the second largest city in the country:
Hearing impaired- about 10 or so (I just counted the people who were using sign language, so I have no idea if some of them could actually hear or not)
Visually impaired- 2
Crutch/cane users- 6
Wheelchair users- 2
As far as the wheelchair users are concerned, though, I did see them while visiting the Hermitage, so I assume that they were tourists and/or foreign. And my initial impression of the attitudes I described the average Russian having towards the disabled community are still the same even now; it's very condescending and even negative. Just one example, when I was going into one of the shops around here the other day a relatively young guy who seemed to be having a very difficult time getting around with his one crutch (I think he might have had a mild form of cerebral palsy) was trying to make his way up the steps and into the shop. It was really busy, though, and lots of people were coming and going in and out through the one door, but when he finally made his way up the to the top of the stairs, no one would let him have that one extra moment to actually make it through the door.
Everyone from both sides just kept pushing past him and completely ignored the fact that he couldn't make his way inside unless the traffic actually stopped for a couple extra seconds so he could maneuver his way in. He just had to wait until everybody that needed to go in or out had done so and then managed to amble through the entrance. I was pretty disgusted with the general population at that point.
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Post by faith on Jul 19, 2008 15:58:45 GMT -5
Your description of the man with the crutch reminds me a little of how some treat the elderly in this country. I so often see people walk in front, push aside or even made faces at some that are slower or need just that extra moment to hold the hand rail or take a little extra time in their movements. Although America may have better accessibility and be more accepting- I am not sure it always carries over to better attitudes.
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Post by matisse on Jul 24, 2008 21:26:03 GMT -5
There may have been a time in America when wheelers were treated poorly, but I gotta say, people generally seem to bend over backward for me, almost to the point of being annoying since I know a lot of it is based on pity. The folks at the barber shop only recently quit charging me the student rate, after someone else from our office building told them what I do for a living.
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