Althouse has a whole post today about Gwyneth Paltrow and her diet secrets on Oprah. I would like to dive into this discussion but I can't. Unlike the mainstream media I have ethics and don't want to comment where it could hurt someone. I happen to know someone who works with Miss Paltrow on her diet regime and have some inside knowledge about it. However this person is a very good friend of ours and we can't talk about any of this in good conscience. I will say that she tells us that Miss Paltrow is a very nice person who has been misinterpreted by a lot of people.I hated her movie "Shallow Hal" which paid lip service to the idea that looks shouldn't matter but still ridiculed anyone over a size 2 with vicious attacks that made these people look foolish.
So I am very ambivalent about Miss Paltrow and choose not to eviscerate her because of my respect for my friend and her take on her.
Plus if I eviscerated her, how much meat would we really get?
Nice try professor, but I am not playing.
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This picture is of course how Hollywood, Althouse, and Titus see woman. Either/or. No in between. Sad really. So much hate in the world.
Can't you let a person enjoy a slice of cake or some macaroni and cheese?
I liked her in Iron Man. I don't recall her looking like such a scarecrow.
I like in between girls Trooper.
Love Bette Midler, love Roseanne, love lots of gals that are heavier or middle of the road. I like thin girls too.
I like all kinds of girls.
I think Jessica Simpson looks good now!
I don't hate bigger gals either.
The thing about Paltrow is that she has ultimate U good looks. She's hated mainly for that reason. Jealousy pure and simple. Not that's she's anything much beyond her looks. And...I'd like to shtoop her.
She's a pretty girl.
She has had some good lucking men in her life too.
A friend of mine also knows her and said she is very nice, does that help at all?
You know I am just razzing you too Troop. I love you.
Same here Titus. I hear that she is very nice too and that what she talks about and the way she talks about it are not the way she really is. So I am inclined to cut her break.
Dude, you should link to the Althouse post if you're going to razz her about it. Ask Miss Manners. She'll tell you -- it's only polite.
Hey she is the big fish and I am the little pischer. She doesn't even have me on her blog roll. And she never threw me a link. So fair is fair. Plus I know that anyone who is here has already been on her site pretty much.
Good lookin' out though.
Wow, I am surprised you are not on her blogroll???
That seems weird?
What's up with that?
Oh I think I am just a late comer and haven't really been blogging that long. It must just be an oversight.
Plus I think the Trooper’s blog is a little too déclassé you know what I mean?
Have some meatloaf.
Plus I think the Trooper’s blog is a little too déclassé you know what I mean?
That's all part of the attraction.
@Titus: have you ever heard of pump and dump schemes?
Plus I think the Trooper’s blog is a little too déclassé you know what I mean?
Never. Classiest bunch I've found. Real people.
Or I'm really gullible. (Shh...don't comment on that)
This is a great blog. You are a newbie and just getting started and doing great. You have great polls or Poles-in Zach's case-everyting is a Pole to Zach-disgusting.
Is Pump and Dump when you get blown while you take a shit? Someone wanted to do that to me once. I like sex and dumps but not together. My dump is always in private, with the exception of a rare clumber at my feet.
It is interesting that you are not on her blogroll though. I don't think I have ever gone on to any of those other blogs that are on her list.
I am sure you have contributed more to her blog than any of those other bloggers which is why I think it is weird that you are not on her blogroll.
De Classe? Pfft. I talk about loaves and hogs. De Classe is cool.
I also absolutely love Faster Pussycat Kill Kill-one of my all time favs. Talk about De Classe-that movie is it. And I loved Divine in Pink Flamingos eating dog shit.
Speaking of shit, here goes ... Gwynnie's on my shit list because she has made numerous negative comments about America since she's been living in Europe. One little gem was about how everyone in the US is so focused on money, and she prefers Europe for that reason.
... meanwhile, she's married to a multi-millionaire, hangs out with Madonna, and comes straight to the US to make her own millions. Turns around, heads back to Europe and considers herself above it all.
The dieting stuff? Typical Hollywood BS, no biggie.
As is her blog, a masterpiece of narcissism.
"She doesn't even have me on her blog roll. And she never threw me a link."
I thought you wanted it that way! I thought your whole thing was sneaking around behind my back!
Sneakin' around! Sneakin' around!
You must be kidding. I just thought I was getting tiresome with all my posts that were off topic.
Plus any joshing and parody threads were done with a great deal of affection towards you personally. A smidge of nasty fun here and there but still with a deep reservoir of affection.
I wouldn't post that stuff directly on your blog because that would be too Maxine like.
OHHHHH NOOOOO!!!!!
Plus you are way too political for me now a days. All of the political troll guys you got spouting off are really off putting to me at least.
So I am just hanging out here for a while having fun eating sandwiches and cake and arguing with Freeman about how chubby the starlets should be on the blog.
I hope I didn't contribute to any tiff between the 2 of you.
I want everyone to get along.
Go email each other offsite and kiss and makeup.
I will feel better.
You guys are a good couple of characters.
I am sorry I even responded to you not being on the blogroll Troop.
No tiff on my side Titus. The professor should know that I really admire her and read her blog every day. She has been very generous and kind to me in all of her dealings.
That doesn't mean that she isn't one crazy broad.
Trooper, I didn't say I thought you were being nasty to me, only that you enjoyed playing off of me over here in your own place, like the kids fooling around when the teacher is out of the room. I thought you needed to feel that the teacher wasn't watching. I'll put you on the blogroll, etc. if I'm wrong about that. I enjoy your blog and love you very much.
@Althouse: Did you vote here? Maybe you should blog about so people can tear into you . :)
Group Hug!
Stop teasing and spill (so to speak) about the great pump already! Don't make me beg, big boy.
And don't forget the skinny bitch named her kid Apple instead of Meatloaf or Mac and Cheese, or even Chocolate Godzilla. If she wanted to fit in in London she should have named them Mohammad or Schwarma. She sucks. And not in a good way, if you know what I mean. Have you ever been to fucking Londonistan? Talk about your Third World. No wonder the English are so very serious about their annual overseas holidays. I don't blame them.
Aww. That was adorable. You like each other, you really like each other!
:)
I think he just missedspelled DUMP. Might be Titus is Dicksylectic.
I love you too professor. It would be great to be on your blog roll.
I didn't want to presume by flogging my own blog on your space.
Flogging my blog, that sounds like something Titus would write about.
As far as the teacher students thing, you really can't put everything in that framework. I mean we are of an age and I would like to think in my lowly way we and a lot of the people who post here and at Althouse are more like peers.
Except for Titus, Zach and Palladian who are of course more like queers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I just count myself as very lucky that most of the cool people who post at Althouse also comment here. I seem to have avoided the drones and the political hacks and needlessly pedantic douche bags that seem to have infested almost every thread.
I have been curtailing my commenting ever since the Sarah Palin threads started generating over 300 posts of nonsense and endless invective that was just distasteful and boring.
Of course when you start posting about cool stuff like American Idol and pictures of dogs urinating I would be happy to lend a hand.
Not to help the dog urinate, Art Shamsky already has that covered.
I'll defend Shallow Hal, here. It's a little schizo but I think it shows more heart than your average sitcom, where fat jokes are freely thrown around and there are no fat people to be seen anywhere.
I noticed this with the Farrelly Bros movies on handicapped people: Yeah, they make fun of them--but they hire them, and they treat them as grownups and peers.
You don't find magic retards in an FB movie, you find real people with various handicaps who are free to be good or to be jerks like everyone else.
I think that's good.
I also think Paltrow did a good job (for a perennially skinny girl) at portraying both the physicality and mentality of an overweight person who's been mocked relentlessly for it.
I know we're probably not going to agree on this, but there it is.
Like I said, from what I am given to understand she is a very nice girl, just given to foolish statements like many of us are in one way or another.
Sarah Jessica Parker on the other hand is one of the four horse faces of the apocalypse
I love Althouse's blog but just try and avoid the political stuff. It gets too nasty for my liking.
You did get the cool people from her blog-who also post on her blog.
And some very cool chicks.
Darcy is the bomb.
I often lose sight of the idea that famous folks are, well, actually people. It seems more like mocking a concept than a human.
I don't think about Paltrow at all, save for this sort of silliness.
As for fat, the absolute worst anti-fat crusdaers are doctors. Man, no mercy there. But the patients are often really saddened how hard it can be to lose weight, much harder than it seems, and no one seems to show much kindness.
Kinda ugly.
Trooper, posting here is a blast! I love Althouse too, but I wonder how much serious political discussion you can get into without it turning into Troll-Whack-A-Mole.
If we stick to the wisdom taught us by Frank Zappa, (Titties and Beer, only here with cake for added measure) how wrong can we go?
I had a vile little comment in my noggin about the guy-caught-under-the-car story that I would hesitate to post there, but here it might be fun...
Thanks for putting me on your blog roll, also, even though I'm not the blogging maven some are...
It would be great to be on your blog roll.
I didn't want to presume by flogging my own blog on your space.
Looks like you got four lashes over on Althouse's blog roll--congrats!
Man she likes to overdo it. Cool.
Yeah, congrats, Trooper! This back and forth is sure fun to read.
And did Titus say something nice about me? Aww.
Yes, I believe he did Darcy, and I heartily concord!
Aww, chickenlittle. Sweet.
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