There is a denim jacket for $200,000.
But! But? I can understand how couture can be expensive, taking into account labour-hours and cost of materials and such, but how many hours can have gone into a fricking denim jacket? Dear Jesus.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jars - Oct 31, 2007 7:39:31 am PDT #9546 of 10001
shrift - Oct 31, 2007 7:42:01 am PDT #9547 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Oh my GOD.
Thanks to Facebook, I have discovered that my ten year HS class reunion is the same weekend as Thanksgiving. When I will be in town.
And while there are a couple of people I might like to see, uh...
"Hi, everyone! I've gained weight since high school AND I am completely unsuccessful! How YOU doin'?"
Gudanov - Oct 31, 2007 7:42:38 am PDT #9548 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
taking into account labour-hours
Maybe it was made by multinational CEOs and professional sports players. Those labor charges would add up quick.
Toddson - Oct 31, 2007 7:43:06 am PDT #9549 of 10001
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Mink lined - the mink were specially bred, fed a diet of champagne and caviar, hand-groomed every day, the fur taken when each had reached the peak of its beauty. Denim from specially cultivated cotton, hand-picked, thread spun and then woven by hand by temple virgins.
Or just an obscene mark-up for a designer label.
Jars - Oct 31, 2007 7:44:57 am PDT #9550 of 10001
"Hi, everyone! I've gained weight since high school AND I am completely unsuccessful! How YOU doin'?"
I'd phrase it more like "Hi, everyone! I haven't had kids and get to lie in on weekends, thinking of ways to spend all the money I don't have to spend on diapers! You?"
No?
Pix - Oct 31, 2007 7:46:10 am PDT #9551 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Seriously. Couture is one thing, but that level of decadence makes my skin crawl. 75,000+ homeless in LA, many living mere miles away from a $200,000 denim jacket. Feh.
Jesse - Oct 31, 2007 7:47:17 am PDT #9552 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Mink lined - the mink were specially bred, fed a diet of champagne and caviar, hand-groomed every day, the fur taken when each had reached the peak of its beauty.
Like on HIMYM this week: the lobsters raised on Kobe beef!
P.M. Marc - Oct 31, 2007 7:48:05 am PDT #9553 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Sue, your house is a candy bowl! It's awesome! So pretty.
Kevin - Oct 31, 2007 7:48:09 am PDT #9554 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
"Hi, everyone! I haven't had kids and get to lie in on weekends, thinking of ways to spend all the money I don't have to spend on diapers! You?"
"Hi, everyone! I've met Neil Gaiman, and danced with Joss Whedon to Greenday. You don't even know who any of those people are!".
Jesse - Oct 31, 2007 7:48:20 am PDT #9555 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Also:
"Hi, everyone! I've gained weight since high school AND I am completely unsuccessful! How YOU doin'?"
Everyone's gained weight since high school, and most of them have never left town. At least, that was my experience at my 10 year reunion.