Reality Shows Are Real - Real Fake
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When my younger sister hit 9th grade she did a report on what was called "Sublime Seduction". This was about the time when everyone found out that when you went to the movies, just before intermission they would start inserting single exposures of a cold coke. You didn't remember seeing it but by the time intermission came you were thirsty. Anyway, she had gathered up a ton of magazines and started looking. I remember one womans magazine had a photo of a woman bottle feeding a baby. She was wearing a gold satin blouse and in the shadows of the wrinkles of her right arm was the word SEX. Once I saw it I couldn't unsee it. But we were looking for it. But for those that don't look for it, they would just think is was an exciting picture but wouldn't know why.
He is hot.! I love drummers!
I had a "thing" for Martin Chambers of the Pretenders back in the 80s.
...nope they're real....at least Honey Boo-Poo is...it's a stretch to ask anyone to act like an in-bred half-wit and pull it off so convincingly...
It's often obvious who wrote the script.
Let's make our own Reality Shows . . .
Here's a few . . .
Keeping Up With Karrie's Younger Brother!
The Real Housewives of The Stephen King Message Board!
Here's a few . . .
Keeping Up With Karrie's Younger Brother!
The Real Housewives of The Stephen King Message Board!
The Prom Date
or Carrie's Prom Date (guys compete to see who gets to take Carrie to the prom)
or Carrie's Prom Date (guys compete to see who gets to take Carrie to the prom)
Interesting first hand story about reality shows. Thanks.
And I'm curious how people handle the shoe situation when they don't wear real animal products. Canvas and vinyl?
All of my "leather" shoes say "All Man Made Materials." I have no idea what it actually is and I'll probably die of foot cancer but at least I saved animals!!!
Thanks, I had to look it up shoes of man made materials. I was completely unaware that so many shoes and boots these days are now made of man made materials, usually PVC’s, which as you implied are toxic. I did read the glue they use in them usually contains some animal products, and it seems extremely hard to find any shoes that do not have some form of animal in the construction. But those made of man made materials do come the closest to being animal free. Now I will need to check the labeling on my shoe purchases more closely, and I’ll switch over to canvas sneakers.
FINALLY! After 13 years of animal rights I FINALLY have a convert. You made my day.
I do have leather shoes that are old from when I wasn't trying to be as vegan as possible. I still wear them because, really, what good would it do to throw them away? I tend to try to repair those shoes as well so I can get as much use of them as possible.
I wouldn’t say "convert," but if acceptable alternatives from man made materials exist, why not switch and decrease our reliance on animal products, the vast resources needed to support their growth which could be put to better use, and the methods used to bring them to market? If someone could save the needless loss of life of a few animals over one's lifetime by making a few simple changes to your lifestyle, why wouldn't you want to? One step at a time is good, right?
That got me thinking. I have a question regarding footwear and vegans & animal rights attitudes. Where I come from there are there are multitudes of deer hit by cars lying on the side of the road every morning. On my trip just this morning, I counted four new deer, including a baby fawn, on the side of the road. The carcasses are just left to rot on the side of the road or dragged into a field to decompose.
Do you think it would be acceptable to animal rights activists to wear footwear made solely from deerskin where no animal was raised or hunted for their hides? Would it be okay and supported to not let an unfortunate loss of animal life go to waste? A company could pay unemployed people per hide to go out every morning and gather up fresh carcasses, then turn the leather into fashionable shoes and boots? The byproducts could also be turned into fertilizer. The company name would be prominently put on the man made sole of the footwear to prove the authenticity of a humane product (you could call the company something like "Honor Bound Footwear"). Do you think there would be a market for such an endeavor, and would consensus animal rights people be willing to pay a premium for hand-made fashionable shoes and boots like these, and where supply would be limited and often made to order only when the raw materials are retrieved?
And if you get the right set of interesting "characters" (ala Duck Dynasty) running the company and gathering the carcasses, it might also make for a good reality show.