Celebrities should insist on more-opaque trash bags when they brave the paparazzi, although a box screaming "20 Mule Team BORAX" is pretty cool, as it turns out.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Medieval Latin bōrāx, from Arabic būraq, from Middle Persian būrak.
Jessica Biel is using the power of subliminal etymology to make you support Barak Obama.
that is a photo of a perfectly ordinary, pleasant-looking woman somewhere between the age of majority and middle age.
There are approximately one half of a billion people in the world who would look equally nice and pleasant if they were photographed in this way.
And I think that's great, because if you find that attractive, you stand a good chance of finding a mate you think is attractive, and then you can settle down and be a very happy person, raise a family, worry about other things, etc.
But if you think that photo depicts a rare and unusual beauty, it can only be because you project on to it some other impressions you have acquired from other pictures of the same person.
It illustrates what Dr. Johnson said about the power of imagination, i.e. "Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess." Most of the supposed allures, elegances, and graces of the duchess are the result of projection, not of reality.
Which is great, too, because, read in the contrapositive, it means that you *can* be as happy in the arms of the chambermaid, provided that you know how to value a real woman in your arms more than a fake woman in your imagination. or in photos
She put that box in the trash instead of breaking it down and recycling it? Points off for you, Jessica.
8 -- it's a Southern thing, see.
Is that rug burn I see on those knees?
9 is awesome, and totally correct.
hat is a photo of a perfectly ordinary, pleasant-looking woman
I don't think ordinary means what you think it means.
Or, you're not getting out and seeing many ordinary people.
6: Sorry, but she's hot. Not as hot as my wife, of course, but still -- that face!
I fell into the Borax factory
Of your love
Dragged by muletrain
Out across the akaline plain
To the Borax factory
Of your love
Borax Factory, by Neighborhood Texture Jam
15: You say that like it's a bad thing.
Aren't these in fact recycling bins?
In any case, the Pacific Northwest: insufferable.
kid bitzer is trippin'; this photo makes me a true believer in jessica biel's hottness. she has luminous skin.
Oh look, she's even sorting the plastics. Suck it, Jesus.
8 -- it's a Southern thing, see.
I was just pointing out that she is white and carrying trash.
(Pre-emptive: "racist!")
20 gets it right.
Plus the dressing gown and head-towel reminds me of classic 50s Technicolour screw-ball comedies. Lots of fun symbolism happenin'
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it's true that i have been condemned to spend my life in the perpetual late adolescence of the american university, growing ever more repulsive and gnome-like myself while my interlocutors enjoy unending youth.
so my comparison class may be a bit skewed.
but that only drops it from 500 million down to, say 220 million.
look, i do think she is attractive. i am not disputing that. but then, i also think that at least 219 million other women in the world are attractive.
We can all agree that there are a lot of attractive women in the world.
Did y'all see this picture of TB-guy and his new bride? Porntastic.
If she was a total nobody, just another receptionist or accountant who'd moved into your building/bought the house across the street, and one of your friends asked what the new neighbor chick looked like, you know what word you wouldn't use? Ordinary.
The blue thing is a trash can, if she put that bag of trash in it. She may be redeeming herself in the last pic, but only if she's actually sorting the plastics and not sucking down the last drops of juice before tossing the bottle in the garbage.
If you can't bear to experience joy, Jesus, I'm not going to force you.
I want proof of her inner beauty, Ogged.
at least 219 million other women in the world are attractive
Maybe, but do they recycle?
Jesus has had some painful experiences with beautiful, non-recycling women, and it's better not to bait him about it.
Biels might look better when the chemicals actually functioning than when she's detoxing.
I should point out to ogged that Biel is wearing makeup here. Maybe it's permanent makeup---like eyelash-dying---but she's got some sort of color-additive to her eyes. It looks good!
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right, you might read the headline "jb is pretty all the time" as describing a kind of living hell induced by paparazzi: "i have to spend an hour in front of the mirror even to take out the f'ing trash!"
Did I say she wasn't wearing makeup? Huh? Huh?
Either that, or the photos were set up.
38.---Oh, okay: you ogle her, but you wouldn't date her. I get it now.
I mean, you think I think I should date every hottie? What do you think I am, shallow?
A perfectly good borax thread, ruined.
I understand: you have to maintain your standards; otherwise, who knows what could happen?
you can ruin borax thread just like that, if you don't sort your colors first.
Apparently The Borax twenty mule team is one of the most memorable icons of the American West. Who knew.
you have to maintain your standards
Et tu, Mormon?
And for the rest of your life.
52: Surely he'll give her a break every so often.
This is turning into one of those "jam every other day" paradoxes, isn't it.
Surely he'll give her a break every so often.
Woe unto intercourse, that its first derivative should ever be undefined.
"I don't care if the Viagra kills your hunger", says JM. "I'm hungry, so get off me."
I'll just mark that down in my book of pompous, mathematically-tinged statements I've made and immediately disowned.
57: or immediately discontinued.
6 is correct. Whether or not you'd use the word "ordinary."
Also, the towel hat is a flattering look for most people, what with elongating the neck and isolating the face.
55: Amen!
Ogged, I think that blue thing is a trash bin, and the black thing is for clippings, and Jesus is right. It's very rare for recycling bins to be so tall and have lids, and everywhere I've lived but Berkeley the regular trash bin was blue . It looks like she's throwing away the borax box AND the plastic bottle. If she really wanted to score some points, she'd be toting a kleen kanteen.. And who takes a shower and wears nice fluffy robes before taking the trash out? What if you get some icky trash juice onyourself when you're opening the lid, or something falls? I always do that stuff and then shower---the dirtiest action my robe (red or black silk, thank you very much) sees is a boy, a book, or unfogged.
On the other hand she is hot, and I do want those slippers.
The blue thing is the recycling bin in LA.
Happy to help!
Recycling bins in South Orange are tall and lidded, but dark green.
Recycle bin Laden is tall and lanky, and hates freedom and landfills.
I live in my bathrobe. That's one sad thing about summer -- it makes my bathrobe too hot to lounge around in.
That's the point of the sarong (in Samoa, ie). I haven't held onto a lot of Samoan habits, but my old ie get a lot of wear as summertime bathrobe/dressing gowns.
Not that I even looked at those pictures, much less studied them in detail, but the blue thing is clearly marked as a recycling bin, haters.
It's very rare for recycling bins to be so tall and have lids
Not where I live. They all look like that.
I'm not sure 67 is a clean pwn of 68, but it feels pwny enough to make me happy.
Enough with you Biel apologists. As the photo in the original post clearly indicates, she didn't separate her trash. Why do you hate the earth, Jessica Biel?
70: Clearly, the incentives haven't been properly aligned to produce maximal utility. Clearly.
Since when is Jesus so judgmental? Where did the plastic bottle come from, then? She's not carrying it in the earlier photos, so unless you think she took it out of the garbage bag just to take a swig, she's clearly sorting the recycling.
Recycling bins in El Suburb are little plastic crates. Would that we had the massive bins rumored to exist in other Bay Area cities.
And I totally want those slippers.
Sarongs are great.
Blue is recycling, green (bizarrely) is regular trash, and brown is yard waste. What pisses me off is that you don't have to *bag* your trash, so inevitably on garbage day there are loose plastic bags and styrofoam cups and all sorts of other lightweight crap blowing around the neighborhood, and I have to pick it all up as I walk PK to and from school.
Sorry to bust your quotidian fantasies, but I read online (so it *must* be true!) that these photos are from a shoot she's doing for either a commercial or a film. So she's done up and looks loverly for the cameras, on purpose; it's not a casual zebra-slippered moment at home. And if she's recycling, she's only doing it cuz it's in the script.
She does look done up, but I'm going to refuse to believe you until you supply a link.
Like this, maybe. But that doesn't count, since I found it myself.
Heh, your source is better than mine even. I read it on theSuperficial forums.
Egads, now I've revealed that read not only theSuperficial, but the damn forums. They're going to deduct my few remaining feminist credits or something. I hate being overdrawn on femcred.
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oh, man, now I feel even worser about having said that ogged's fantasy elegant ravishing hotty looks just kinda plain jane--the fact is, she *is* all dolled up to take out the trash! "pretty all the time" indeed--all the time she is made up and on camera.
don't worry, ogged--she's a cute enough kid, and no mistake, and you always have your imagination, anyhow.
furthermore--the link does put to rest any doubts about whether she is recycling or not. it's an *ad* for recycling, so she *must* be.
(unless those are merely stunt-containers, or container-doubles, or maybe computer generated images of containers).
I'm sure she has someone do that head-toweling for her. That's a very specialized skill.
Blue is recycling, green (bizarrely) is regular trash
Even Utah figured out that the green bin is recycling, and blue is trash.
In LA black is trash and green is yard waste. I don't know where b got that brown bin, but I think she should give it back.
Seriously though it depends on the city. In Pasadena they give you three green bins. In San Diego you simply throw your trash into Mexico.
My hometown of 4,000 souls had blue recycling bins. Pittsburgh requires us to provide our own recycling bins in the form of blue disposable plastic bags.
