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Pit Bull with Lipstick!

  • 06-09-2008 6:28pm
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    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    How do you see yourselves women?

    Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate in the US, characterized herself in a recent speech as being a "Pit Bull with Lipstick." It would seem that she wanted to project herself as being a tough opponent? Other pit bull interpretations come to mind, in addition to being tough, not all of them complementary.

    When reading this thread, did an image of yourself or a metaphor that describes you come to mind? If you were giving a speech, how would you characterize yourself?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 39,022 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,365 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    Sarah Palin is agood looking woman for 44, and given the chance at a shot at her I'd be game. But only if she never mentioned politics, she's more right wing than Hitler, which puts her out of the running immediately as far as I'm concerned.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    Interesting question, OP. I certainly wouldn't describe myself as a pit bull with lipstick. (Whether she intended the comparison or not, she has frequently been referred to as such by the American media since her speech.) I'd probably try not to draw any comparisons, tbh.

    And I don't think the media has done nearly as good a job of portraying Sarah Palin as a right-wing nutjobber as she herself as done. She's more conservative than the McCains ffs.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,919 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    He was so left wing he was right wing though, like parts of Alaska being so far West, they're East.

    I'd describe myself as a chimp with trousers.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


    I think being against abortion even in the cases of rape and incest would suffice, nevermind the fact that she wants creationism taught in schools. But why don't you go over to the politics forum? There's already a thread on Sarah Palin there and it's a more appropriate forum for the topic than LL.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Good question and it'll be interesting to see the answers hereabouts too. Good mental exercise to figure out how you see yourself or even more so in revealing how you would like others to see you.


    I'm always dubious about people who do that in public around strangers. You know the type, the ones that volunteer how great they are, tell you they're very intelligent, or insightful or whatever. Usually a good rule of thumb is to figure that they're the complete opposite.:D






    Just to note: Hitler was left-wing, not right-wing. Nazi was short for the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or National Socialist German Workers Party. You might want to get your history right.
    Pedantic much(in both posts)? In any case, by your argument, Zaph was indeed initially correct, she is more right wing than Herr Hitler..... You see this is why Godwins law should be respected. :D

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


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    Maybe your local priest, I haven't got one! And I was paraphrasing your "right-wing lunatic", since you seem to be caught up on the wording.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    PillyPen wrote: »
    I think being against abortion even in the cases of rape and incest would suffice, nevermind the fact that she wants creationism taught in schools. But why don't you go over to the politics forum? There's already a thread on Sarah Palin there and it's a more appropriate forum for the topic than LL.
    Agreed, where your "theories" on the left and the right would be explored more robustly and god forbid actually on topic.:rolleyes:

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Correct though and if you're so concerned or informed about modding forums then surely off topic posting would have registered with you by now?

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


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    No, but they haven't posted 50% of the replies in this topic, unlike you, and so far not a single one of yours has been on topic.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


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    Again, there is a political forum for that. Why don't you bring us back on topic by answering OP's original question?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    i'd describe myself as a big pink marshmallow with a little tough bit of marshmallow inside. I'm a bit of a softy with a big heart and I mostly hate confrontation but if you píss me off then you'll know all about it.

    Sarah Palin makes my blood boil. I read her political beliefs (I actually get to vote in American presidential elections so I like to keep informed) and I got to her beliefs on global warming - that it is not man made and I read no more!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


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    I don't moderate this forum. I'm just a normal user when I post here. Perhaps read the boards rules before getting on your high horse. Telling people they are off topic is known as back seat modding and is not allowed.

    If I did moderate this forum, you'd know about it.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭Jackz


    ^ Internet serious business. Sarah Palin is a right wing nutjob and in my opinion while expressing the views of Rome parish priests can be too, but then they have the good sense not to go around expressing those views too much in 2008.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    Donegalfella, you seem to be very agressive in getting your point across, cool off a bit bud.

    On topic, I clasify myself (being a dude) as a Cnut. I really am, I know it and my friends know it. Not proud but I am comfortable with that label.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    How can you be comfortable in that but not proud?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    How can you be comfortable in that but not proud?

    Learned to accept it, Tried to change can't so I decided to just accept who I am.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,181 ✭✭✭LolaDub


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    :confused:


    So by your own admission Sarah Palin is more right wing than Hitler?!?


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,365 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


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    At 3.30am after a large feed of drink I'm just amazed that I managed to correct all my typos and post coherently. The content was regrettably off-topic and I apologise for my drunken ramblings.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭pretty*monster


    I'm like a ferrero rocher. On the surface I'm coarse, spikey, and abrasive. Beneath that I'm really quite soft and sweet but at the core I'm just a nut.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    I would say I was a Canis lupus with ocassionally lipstick, heather shimmer to be more precise.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


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    As a Moderator of this forum, I think you should stfu and let the thread flow as it is.
    It is more irrelevant and off-topic to highlight the fact that there are moderators from other forums here.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


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    Lollers, yes but that moderator mods this forum and has the powers to ban you.
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    Oh time to make the popcorn for feedback.

    [ontopic]
    Funny I don't think she has the saggy jawline to be akin to a bulldog, but who knows maybe she drools alot.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    There is no time limit on a mod taking action in a thread.

    And my Name here is Thaedydal or Thaed, I am just a poster in this thread, but damn it I am a free poster not a number.

    Personally I would say Palin is more of a yorkshire terrier then a bulldog.


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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,365 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    OK, seeing as I was the one who originally dragged things off-topic, I was going to stay out of this, but sure what the hell, here goes:

    - My original post was made while under the influence of drink. It was inappropriate and I apologised for that, so that should be enough, let it go.

    - One point I feel does need correcting however, Adolf Hitler was very much right wing. National Socialism had nothing at all to do with socialism, it was a fascist ideal and as such was the polar opposite of the ultra-left wing ideal, communism. My comment about Palin being to the right of Hitler was a throwaway remark, obviously she's not quite that far to the right, so again, let it go.

    - The status of other moderators makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. If I post in soccer, for example, my modship of several other fora is completely inconsequential, I'm just a regular poster there. That's how it is here when mods of other fora post here. This site doesn't operate along the lines of some others where a mod has powers over all they survey. Everyone gets to look after their own little patch, outside of that you're just a regular poster, so please, please, please let it go.

    - Thaed, save some popcorn for me please.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,044 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    See the thing is this is not the politics forum, if you want a debate and to defend her I suggest you post there.

    As for me I have no time for her or what she stands for what so ever /shrug but I do admire that she walks her talk even if I think she is crazier then a rabid dingo, wearing bright green lipstick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    +1


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Zaph wrote: »
    My comment about Palin being to the right of Hitler was a throwaway remark, obviously she's not quite that far to the right, so again, let it go.
    Yeah, I regularly hear and use the phrase "somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan"... it's not meant to be taken literally. It's used ironically, satirically... surely you can see that, donegalfella?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,496 ✭✭✭LolaLuv


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    That's a fair point, tbh. I think the issue is that none of the other posters who were making anti-Palin remarks were nearly as agressive as donegalfella was making pro-Palin posts. They didn't keep on posting and keep on posting. Oh well, I'm glad we've all agreed to leave the Palin discussion alone in favor of the OP's original question (which I did answer with my first post, btw.)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 316 ✭✭Magpie!


    I just see myself as a woman. it's not that complicated is it?

    Woman.

    Men who don't/can't understand women might feel the need to shoehorn us into categories to make it simpler for them but I don't feel the need to define myself in terms of some other creature. :confused:


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    It's hardly a feminist issue though. Just a bit of a laugh. I mean it's healthy enough to see how you would define yourself in the context of something else. Animal vegetable or mineral. It's a woman(AFAK) that put the question anyway.

    Plus women can be complicated. Bloody complicated at times. People are complicated, men or women. So sometimes it's at least diverting to try to sum ourselves up, however inaccurately.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,812 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Whew! My Galway Gran told me never to bring up either religion or politics in mixed company, and I am beginning to think the wise old bird was correct after viewing this thread. The OP was intended to be light and fun, and the mention of Sarah Palin was for illustrative purposes in passing, and not the intended subject of discussion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Tsk, if you think that's bad Blue, they deleted my post on this thread just cause I've been going through some *changes*, and I'm not fully a woman yet.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Moonspell


    well.. I have been described as the Northern winds... always somewhat aggressive, but sometimes pleasant and cool other times warm and strong ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    This post has been deleted.
    Using the word Socialist in the name of your party doesn't actually make you a socialist or left-wing. But I do agree with you that extreme totalitarian regimes of any hue eventually tend to resemble each other.
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    And your point is ...? :D



    Anyway, on-topic ... I guess I'm a somewhat cuddly bear who occasionally growls just to stop himself being beaten up by the bigger fiercer bears! :o


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