Sydney Sweeny/American Eagle Genes/Jeans Controversy

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  1. Crosis36

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    Homophobic insults won't distract from your cowardice.
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  2. Coloratura

    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    This. THIIIIIS is the crux of my argument.

    This is also completely fair and an excellent point.
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  3. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    YES THE FUCK IT DOES.

    Your doctor saying "The negative effects on your health have not presented YET" is NOT the same as saying "It is perfectly healthy to be a fatass."
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  4. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Still doesn't change the fact that there is nothing evil or oppressive to not being attracted to obese people.
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  5. Crosis36

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    I see it in the Youtube videos my daughter watches. People who harangue public figures like Lizzo or that Rolling In The Deep singer for their weight loss, saying it sends a bad message.
    It's insane, but it has taken hold in certain segments of the younger population.
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  6. Uncle Albert

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    That's the danger of living your life by the approval of others.

    Why should they be expected to say that? How is that not fucking IMPLIED AT ALL TIMES?


    Your doctor IS doing you a favor. Nothing obligates you to listen to anyonr else.
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  7. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Whomever told you you are a clever manipulator has done you a disservice.
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    Order2Chaos Ultimate... Immortal Administrator

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    That shouldn’t be necessary, any more than for anyone posting about anything else they see as an accomplishment.

    People were lecturing smokers up into the 90s, at which point it switched into “that shit stinks, cut it out”. I think at this point you only don’t see it anymore because of how well-disseminated the knowledge that it’s bad for you is. Meanwhile with weight loss, there’s been negative progress on that front. We see “healthy at any weight” (which is simply false) campaigns and shit like that.
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  9. Crosis36

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    If you think I'm manipulating you, then your foaming, expletive-laden responses to me would indicate that not only am i good at it, but that you're doubly foolish for "seeing through it" and still getting your dander up.
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  10. Ten Lubak

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    Holy fuck we officially have our first mowing lawns dick waving contest at Wordforge. Historic
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  11. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey cynicism isn't wisdom, it's surrender.

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    and as always, AI believes he's special for doing what almost everyone else has done 30+ years ago...

    We get it dude... you got a participation ribbon.
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  12. Ten Lubak

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    All I know is the day that I could afford to pay someone to mow my lawn for me was one of the best days of my life
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  13. Crosis36

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    What's especially funny is, I asked what strenuous activity he does now, and his response is that he mowed lawns 30+ years ago.
    Congrats, I guess?
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  14. Crosis36

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    My wife pointed out that it was foolish to pay someone to do our lawn when I do it better.
    Talk about a no-win scenario.
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  15. T.R

    T.R Don't care.

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    Next time she suggests going out to eat or delivery, tell her it would be foolish to pay someone to cook when she does it better ;)
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    Bickendan Custom Title Administrator Faceless Mook Writer

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    :mos:
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  17. Donald Trump Raped Kids

    Donald Trump Raped Kids And wants to fuck his daughter

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    I've never mowed a lawn, and I'm happy to pay people like UA to do that for me.

    And also Donald Trump rapes children.
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    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    I don't mind mowing my lawn. I don't enjoy it, but it's not difficult.

    What I don't understand are people who buy godsdamned riding mowers to mow regular city lot-sized yards. Get a push mower, you lazy fucks. :jayzus:
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    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    Also, two-stroke engines have been the bane of my existence as far back as I can remember.

    A couple of months ago I got a great electric mower. Works great and is so quiet that when I'm listening to music with ear buds, I can't even tell that the mower's running.
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  20. notnick

    notnick lost, as usual

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    says the most vain person in the entire BBS and beyond!!!! mirrors are you ENEMY
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  21. Uncle Albert

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    Once again with your ignorant assumptions. I was doing it as soon as I could push a mower, and unlike Crosis, I didn't need someone to tell me what a pretty pretty princess I was for it.
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  22. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Sure. List my exercise routine. Jump through hoops for the "clever troll."

    :dayton:
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  23. Uncle Albert

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    :wtf:

    What lawnmowers are you people finding with 2 cycle engines?
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  24. Garraty_47

    Garraty_47 Fresh Meat

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    Sorry I'm late but for what it's worth:

    Sex sells; always has and probably always will.
    So does controversy because that drives public awareness and results in lots of free "advertising".

    Whether or not the company was aware of the potential for and perhaps even wanted the ads to create controversy is debatable but the salient point is from a marketing perspective it wouldn't have made any difference because the ultimate goal is simply to flog a product and bean counters don't actually care how it happens as long as sales go up.

    Unless proven otherwise I find it difficult in the extreme to believe the company's primary motivation was to dog-whistle a white supremacist ideology. Their motivation was/is far more crude and apolitical; they wanted to sell as many jeans as possible to as many people as possible for as few advertising dollars as possible. Be it through salacious attention-grabbing or cultivated scandal it's all the same to them as long as product gets sold.

    Greed explains it all... the willingness to overlook or even exploit controversy in making the ads, the attention those ads have received from the outrage/grievance grifters, etc.

    Money, as usual, is the dirt in which the turmoil grows and the root of the turmoil and the branches of turmoil rushing to grow as tall as they can as fast as they can merely for the sake of growth itself.

    /shrug
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  25. shootER

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    Sorry. Meant to type four-stroke, though weedeater and other little engines have also always sucked for me.
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  26. Bickendan

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    Aww, what a pretty princess!
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  27. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey cynicism isn't wisdom, it's surrender.

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    whoopee.
    glad your dad lent you his mower so you could do what every suburban 10 year old has done.

    likewise, congrats that you're able to believe it when you tell yourself what a pretty princess you are now.
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  28. Bailey

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    I got an electric lawnmower a couple of years ago and it's good. Wish I'd bought the slightly beefier model up though, will do that next time.

    Fully sucked into the manufacturers ecosystem now with my lawnmower, whipper snipper, electric pruning shears and various household tools all using the same swappable batteries.
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  29. shootER

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    Our mower is a good size, but my next step is to buy larger capacity batteries. As long as the greenery is at a manageable level, I can mow the front and back yards on one charge (though I usually put the batteries back on the charger after I do the front and let them charge while I leaf blow the driveway and sidewalks) but I'd like to have more juice available just in case. The first time I used the mower, the back yard was way overdue for cutting and by the time I'd gotten through all the tall stuff the red light on the mower was showing.

    For weed-eating and leaf-blowing, I just use a long extension cord.
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  30. Coloratura

    Coloratura "Not a total fucking piece of shit."

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    The only upside to renting where we are is that our landlord maintains the apartment grounds. So neither myself nor my dad have to cut the grass, which is fine by me because my allergies are trying to murder me every single day this spring and summer.
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