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Title: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: vaskidmark on June 16, 2012, 05:44:19 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15/elle-italia-july-2012-cover-knife_n_1601067.html?ref=topbar

I was going to try and go all snarky over the gushing about some model sporting the latest beach vacation fashion accessory, but I just can't do it.

I guess it has to do with the early hour.  Plus the fact that I'm laughing too hard to hit the right keyes consistently.

Anyhow, I offer this to you an an opportunity to flex your own snark.

stay safe.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: Viking on June 16, 2012, 06:04:59 AM
"Bowie knife" if you are a pant-wetting liberal. For everyone else, it's seems just right for everyday tasks that doesn't involve stabbinating the hell out of bears, tigers or wild shoggoths.
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Post by: Regolith on June 16, 2012, 06:19:08 AM
There's a knife in that photo?  ???

Jokes aside, That's not a knife... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLS3RGesIFQ&t=0m26s)


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Post by: Fly320s on June 16, 2012, 07:45:28 AM
There's a knife in that photo?  ???

There's fashion in that photo? Looks like a 6-year old girl dressed her.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 16, 2012, 08:28:47 AM
"Bowie knife" if you are a pant-wetting liberal.


Actually, it qualifies as a Bowie because it is so "intense-looking." It gets extra Bowie points for looking intense.
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Post by: 230RN on June 16, 2012, 08:54:08 AM
To the urban fops and sops who consider themselves "sophisticated," every long gun is an AK-47 and every knife is a Bowie knife and all icky and ewwy and sphincter-shrinking and violence is never the answer anyway and who needs a knife or a gun in this day and age of Cuisinarts and cellphones?
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: Hawkmoon on June 16, 2012, 08:54:24 AM
As noted: "That's not a knife."

Seriously. It most assuredly isn't a Bowie knife. Looks to me like a letter opener in a pseudo-tactical sheath.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 16, 2012, 08:57:04 AM
There's fashion in that photo? Looks like a 6-year old girl dressed her.

That, and the "model" looks like a stick figure caricature of a woman.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: lee n. field on June 16, 2012, 09:44:40 AM
That, and the "model" looks like a stick figure caricature of a woman.

Photoshopped, proportions adjusted. 

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As noted: <crocodile dundee>"That's not a knife."
</crocodile dundee>

Fashion is about appearance and symbol, not reality.  Playing on sociobiological urges for sex and reproduction.

You'll never see an Elle model wear one of these (https://www.google.com/search?q=camillus+survival+knife&hl=en&safe=off&client=ubuntu&hs=9lZ&channel=fs&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5YzcT56RG4Og2gWXzdjBDQ&ved=0CKoBELAE&biw=1226&bih=689):
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog.bnbknives.com%2Fimages%2FFB%252020%2520%28B%29.JPG&hash=1a3ada9007c604793fe9746fb15286633787cda8)

Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: MrsSmith on June 16, 2012, 12:18:38 PM
I'm very proud of you guys.

My thoughts:
- That's hardly a "big" knife as it spans only half the length of her bicep. If that spindly arm even contains muscle tissue.
- She appears to be one of those women who've had ribs removed as I've never seen a curve from rib to hip like that anywhere but on a Barbie Doll
- She most certainly was dressed by a 6-year-old. Possibly a 4-year-old.
- The expression on her face is likely indicative of her intelligence and personality. That's snarky, but I really hate the fashion world's insistence that this is an attractive look. I really think they'd sell a lot more clothes if the girls all had "girl next door" smiles rather than mannequin stares.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: 280plus on June 16, 2012, 12:30:12 PM
I had a Bowie knife for a while. The back of the blade was 1/4" thick. It disappeared when the cops raided my apt looking for my roommate. It never quite appeared on the evidence manifesto. Neither did my postage stamps. Rather odd booty, a Bowie knife and postage stamps. ;)
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: seeker_two on June 16, 2012, 12:50:09 PM
They tried for Ursula Andress in DR. NO.....and failed miserably....  :facepalm:
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 16, 2012, 12:58:58 PM
My thoughts:
- That's hardly a "big" knife as it spans only half the length of her bicep. If that spindly arm even contains muscle tissue.
- She appears to be one of those women who've had ribs removed as I've never seen a curve from rib to hip like that anywhere but on a Barbie Doll
- She most certainly was dressed by a 6-year-old. Possibly a 4-year-old.
- The expression on her face is likely indicative of her intelligence and personality. That's snarky, but I really hate the fashion world's insistence that this is an attractive look. I really think they'd sell a lot more clothes if the girls all had "girl next door" smiles rather than mannequin stares.


Don't hate her because she's Bowie-ful. After all, she appears to be smarter than this girl.  :-*

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FABcUt.jpg&hash=2471a7b8b9da425ba689cb5ffe4cb97374ea4951)

http://www.raisinglemons.com/travel/philmont-scout-camp/
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: makattak on June 16, 2012, 03:03:50 PM

Don't hate her because she's Bowie-ful. After all, she appears to be smarter than this girl.  :-*

http://i.imgur.com/ABcUt.jpg

http://www.raisinglemons.com/travel/philmont-scout-camp/

Don't blame the girl. It is apparently in her genes.

From the website captioning that photo after saying they got grief for lrtting them buy pocket knives...

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(And besides, what’s a childhood without a set of stitches?)

Although I will not shelter my children for fear of getting hurt, I also won't let them actively try to get stitches.

And her father is a scout leader!? Shame.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: 280plus on June 16, 2012, 03:32:50 PM
Could be worse, she could be playing mumblypeg.  ;)
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: zxcvbob on June 16, 2012, 06:50:48 PM
Quote from: MrsSmith
- The expression on her face is likely indicative of her intelligence and personality. That's snarky, but I really hate the fashion world's insistence that this is an attractive look.

At least she's not doing the "duckface"

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rubberduckface.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F04%2FMona_Lisa_Duckface-259x300.jpg&hash=d015d69e4134b69e345485e2d46e62032d026d91)

In other news, on the Rolling Stone cover, Lady Gaga looks... looks like she's cold.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: BlueStarLizzard on June 16, 2012, 07:54:55 PM
Mrs. Smith, I don't think your being snarky, the expressionless eyes do make her look dumber then a box of rocks.

At first glance, I didn't see the knife. I highly doubt I would have noticed it at all if I hadn't been looking for it. In addition to her miss matched outfit, she has WAY too much crap on her arms.
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: MechAg94 on June 16, 2012, 08:55:59 PM
They tried for Ursula Andress in DR. NO.....and failed miserably....  :facepalm:
That is what I first thought of.  I guess it comes from having James Bond movies imprinted on my brain at an early age.
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg2.bdbphotos.com%2Fimages%2Forig%2F9%2Ft%2F9tt8rx782lo6xr8t.jpg&hash=3ef5d2ce2ad41e85150b0a0bbf116c08f3dfa03b)

Honestly, the fact that a knife is on her arm should not even garner notice.  it is just one more piece of crappy accessories she has on. 

Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: MechAg94 on June 16, 2012, 08:58:58 PM
At least she's not doing the "duckface"

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rubberduckface.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F04%2FMona_Lisa_Duckface-259x300.jpg&hash=d015d69e4134b69e345485e2d46e62032d026d91)

In other news, on the Rolling Stone cover, Lady Gaga looks... looks like she's cold.
Please don't remind me.  That whole "look" is so overblown it is pathetic.  Some of the women I've seen with plastic surgery for this look hideous. 
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: RoadKingLarry on June 16, 2012, 09:30:23 PM
Please don't remind me.  That whole "look" is so overblown it is pathetic.  Some All of the women I've seen with plastic surgery for this look hideous. 

FTFY
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: SADShooter on June 16, 2012, 10:30:12 PM
Proper caption: "Things are so screwed up, even heroin-chic sophisticates are realizing you need a knife to cut through liberal media BS."

Something like that?
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: Perd Hapley on June 16, 2012, 10:43:52 PM
I guess that would work if she had a knife that was somewhere near big enough. A very large sword, perhaps?
Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: freakazoid on June 16, 2012, 11:02:54 PM
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm4.static.flickr.com%2F3080%2F3253047213_7cf7e8f585.jpg&hash=e027c00b0c9577b36016635ec18680faa71518fc) + (https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.windstream.net%2Fsethmiller%2Fpix%2Fdundee.jpg&hash=7ebaf2d0a27aff4905196403fe96c32201c84cc5) =  ???
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Post by: 230RN on June 17, 2012, 03:05:24 AM
(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Faboutfacts.net%2FHistory%2FH72%2FSmall%2F482px-Jimbowie.jpg&hash=98dec2b01384983994f47a19d44841a92898b513)
                  "I'm pissed."
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Post by: Hawkmoon on June 17, 2012, 08:01:44 PM
That whole "look" is so overblown it is pathetic.

That was a pun ... wasn't it?
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Post by: ArfinGreebly on June 17, 2012, 10:37:41 PM
Vapid.

Ribs showing.  Really?  Girl, put some meat on.

Big knife?  Seriously?  I had to look twice to figure out where it was hidden.

Bowie?  No . . . let me think . . . no, I think it's more like a Claidheamh Mòr (Claymore, if you prefer).  Yeah, that's the ticket.

Did I mention vapid?  'Cuz . . . damn.

And the sheath is turned the wrong way . . . there's no way she has a decent grip to deploy that thing.

And vapid, in case I didn't say so before.

Title: Re: The snark is just not coming - please help!
Post by: vaskidmark on June 17, 2012, 11:41:09 PM
Bowie?  No . . . let me think . . . no, I think it's more like a Claidheamh Mòr (Claymore, if you prefer).  Yeah, that's the ticket.

Claymore?  Always thought they had to be as big as ....

Oh!

I see what you did there. :O

stay safe.