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Post by peach on Jan 24, 2009 2:17:36 GMT
Contrary to what Michael Douglas said in Wall Street, greed is NOT good, not now not ever. How many more times do we have to read about another wall streeter who took advantage? People's nerves are frayed enough and their faith in the financial industry is waning. When will they ever learn? It's hard enough trying to convince people that the market will turn around, but they always ask when. I really feel like telling them I'll check my crystal ball and get right back to you. For obvious reasons I can't say that, if I did I'd lose my job, one O'm very greatful to have. But I just wish they'd stop with the same question day after day.
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Post by tipou on Jan 24, 2009 2:21:09 GMT
what is your job?
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Post by peach on Jan 24, 2009 2:50:58 GMT
I don't want to say the firm, but it was recently taken over and merged. I'm in the financial field (think wall st). Job is soooooooooooooo stressfull right now, no one knows when the bottom will finally hit, some think, at least the people I work with think another 6 mos. perhaps more, but that's just an educated guess.
Bernie Madoff, Ken Lay and now John Thain haven't made our jobs any easier. Let me tell you. I've seen 20 years of savings and investing drop by well over 55%, I think this is what I've worked for??? Crikey, sometimes I just don't feel like going to work, thankfully I've had more good days than bad. I just try to be there for my clients and do the best that I can. It's not been easy.
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Post by tipou on Jan 24, 2009 3:05:55 GMT
i hear ya! tough times for hard working people.
MAJOR PET PEEVE: when people die before they can pay for they've done - a quebec singer/songwriter whose work i like a lot once wrote a song for people like ken lay - litterally translated, it's called "god, promise me that hell exists".
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Post by peach on Jan 24, 2009 3:51:05 GMT
Karma is a good thing ! Lay got off real easy, if you ask me. Don't like to speak ill of the departed but what he did to samny hard working people just makes me so damned angry. They lost it all, everything where do you begin again?
Yes Karma is good, very good.
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Post by ambra on Jan 24, 2009 4:44:27 GMT
I think all these crooks who bilked people out of their life savings should be thrown in jail for at least 20 years, no parole. Maybe if the punishment was more severe, they'd think twice before running their scams.
Ok, my rant for the day--Plus-size companies who don't use plus-size models in their catalogs! I'm plus-size and everytime I get a catalog that is supposedly aimed at women like me yet the models are nowhere near plus-size, it just ticks me off and makes me less likely to buy their clothing. If you can't show me how the clothes will look on my body type, why would I buy from you? And a note to the clothing designers: Just because I'm plus-size, doesn't mean I want to wear mu-mus and shapeless sack-like clothing. I know I can't wear the same fashions as someone who's a size two, but at least make the clothing somewhat fashionable and flattering!
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Post by peach on Jan 24, 2009 22:09:03 GMT
ambra, kudos to you, I'm in my forties, and am so sick and tired of 12 yr old models touting wrinkle cream. Give me a break. Those idiots on Madison Ave haven't a clue.
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Post by rueful on Jan 25, 2009 1:26:42 GMT
ambra and peach, you are both so right! To them add the store's fashion buyers, who don't know or won't acknowledge how most of America lives! Why do plus size people have to do much of their buying through catalogs? Because stores only stock one or two of each item in the larger sizes, but carry 40 size extra smalls, which will be on sale at the end of the season, since most people can't fit them.
And on a related note, speaking as a middle-aged woman, Hollywood's weird idea that women are washed up after about the age of 35, while men can be the romantic lead until they are 100, annoys me. I saw an interview with Dustin Hoffman where he was talking about his new romantic comedy Last Chance Harvey. He mentioned how it is harder for him to get such roles at his age (71), but he was glad that he could work with an experienced actress like Emma Thompson. To which I say, "She's 22 years your junior!" Not that I think there's necessarily anything wrong with age gaps (my husband and I have a bit of one) but it's maddening that it's considered something to cheer about that he's only 22 years older than the female lead instead of 40!
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Post by peach on Jan 25, 2009 1:58:16 GMT
Oh rueful, how right you are, in this country that's true, actresses are not allowed to age. England treats their how shall I say mature actresses with the utmost respect. It's like in our country, this building is old let's tear it down and rebuild it into a glass monstrosity, with nothing but glass and build it 100 stories high, let's take a lesson from England or Italy, that castle is old let's rebuild, that Colisseum is decrepit time to knock it down. Being a native NY'er most major pet peeve, in two words..........DONALD TRUMP. The most pompous individual to come along it quite some time.
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Post by tipou on Jan 25, 2009 3:35:04 GMT
I saw an interview with Dustin Hoffman where he was talking about his new romantic comedy Last Chance Harvey. He mentioned how it is harder for him to get such roles at his age (71), but he was glad that he could work with an experienced actress like Emma Thompson. To which I say, "She's 22 years your junior!" Not that I think there's necessarily anything wrong with age gaps (my husband and I have a bit of one) but it's maddening that it's considered something to cheer about that he's only 22 years older than the female lead instead of 40! WHAT?  IS EMMA THOMPSON PUSHING 50 ALREADY? OHMYGOD. HOW TIME FLIES!!! |
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Post by rueful on Jan 25, 2009 3:50:45 GMT
Time gets us all, doesn't it?
peach, I'm sorry your city is infected with Trumpitis. It is a plague that should be wiped out. Sometimes an old building can't be saved, but mostly they don't even try. After all, they can get more rent out of 100 stories than they can 3 or even 20.
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Post by tipou on Jan 25, 2009 3:51:55 GMT
TO ALL OF YOU WHO EXPRESSED BEING P.O.'D BY PLUS WOMEN CLOTHING AND COSMETICS COMMERCIALS, I SALUTE YOU. once i read the following advice for "skincare according to group age" in ELLE-QUEBEC: up until 18 - hydrate, protect from sun, get a good cleaner. 18 to 25 - hydrate more, invest in professional skin care. 16 to 30 - adapt make up and hydrate more. get anti age cream (!) 30 and above - preserve your assets. PRESERVE YOUR ASSETS???oh yes. that's right. at 30, you have nothing to contemplate but old age and death. its too late. forget it. and yet, there is my next door neighbour suzanne, pushing 60, not the skinny type by any standard, with her grey hair down on her shoulders, wearing no make up and the cutest wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, wearing comfie and chic cotton clothes probably similar to those she wore as a younger woman. when she walks by, proud and forever smiling, carefree and happy, every man on the street, young and old, follow her with covetous stares. so f**** you oil of olay! |
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Post by rueful on Jan 25, 2009 4:04:27 GMT
Ha, that's hilarious yet disturbing. Did you ever see the movie Logan's Run, about a society where everyone sent to the "sleepshop" to be executed at the age of 30? That's what I think it's like for the staff of fashion magazines. On their 30th birthday, staffers are "taken out for lunch" which is really a trip down the garbage chute (which they fit in easily, with room to spare).
Which can be a sort-of segue to my next rant, about how the supposedly liberated, super-empowered woman-centric magazines focus all their attention on sex and how to use it to get/please/retain a man. Look at the cover of any issue of Cosmo or Glamour and 80% of the headlines are about sex. I counted one of them last time I was in a checkout line with my daughter, and it was 5 out of 7. Hey, sex has its place, but teen girls need to know that they have more assets than their bodies.
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Post by tipou on Jan 25, 2009 4:41:19 GMT
i kid you not: last year, a "woman's magazine" from montreal added to its february issue (for valentine's day, get it? get it?) a special booklet titled: "everything about the penis - and how to please it" again, i kid you not!!!
on this too, as on most things, i must admit, i have a personal theory: i am certain that all these "women's magazines" are owned and published either by GQ or Playboy. possibly by Hustler on occasions.
OH, AND, RUEFUL: TAG!!!!
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Post by rueful on Jan 25, 2009 5:11:15 GMT
Oh...my... I don't even know what to say about that. Is this what the previous generations of women who fought for equality had in mind? I don't think so.
Time for a rave, with a disclaimer: I don't live in NY, and I have no idea if the woman picked for the vacant US senate seat (to replace Hillary Clinton) is a good choice. I'm just very, very glad it wasn't handed over to the "I feel entitled to it because my name is Kennedy" candidate. That kind of thing happens far too often in this country. Might as well go back to the monarchy.
tipou: tag, and I'm on base, so no tag backs, nah, nah (when I was a kid we called that "gool," probably a mispronunciation of "goal")
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IS EMMA THOMPSON PUSHING 50 ALREADY?