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[vilakins]

A couple of links from communicator. I so need a decent screencap of links to iconise.

The Moral Matrix - despite its name, a political test which finds your political position not by asking you what you think about political issues, but by defining your Personal Moral System.. According to the 2-question version, I'm a moderate socialist. The longer 16-question version makes me an extreme one.

And now for the 50s stretchy pants of doom! Definitely dodgy with its "Let's get down to business" and the stretchy seat which gives "up and down" and has men "coming back for more." I know it's only a matter of time before someone here photoshops this into a B7 encounter among the Liberator cabling.

This site led me to another one of vintage ads which gave me a lot of innocent amusement.

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

I was staggered by the stretchy pants of doom! Haven't seen anything so funny in that line aince I got hold of an old Sears & Roeback catalogue from before the days of euphemism and saw the page headed, with no tactful references to the fuller figure, "Underwear for Fat Men".

My sight being what it is, I couldn't make out most of the words on the pants of doom ad - thank you for adding to the gaiety of nations!

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Good Lord! Catch anyone these days advertising big game hunting as only a day away from wherever. Imagine the kerfuffle there would be! (And the less said about 'stretchy-seat', the better able to keep a straight face will I be...)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

But why would you want to? ;-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The fine print reads:

"STRETCHY-SEAT™" is a Munsingwear exclusive. It is a special horizontal panel knitted to give up and down. No other underwear has "STRETCHY-SEAT™". Men find it so comfortable they keep coming back for more. That's good business.
"STRETCHY-SEAT™" is an exclusive feature of Munsingwear's SKIT-Trunks, Shorts, Longies, and Shin-highs.

I have no idea what SKIT-Trunks are.

Bwahahaha! Munsingwear still exist (http://www.freshpair.com/catalog_section_men_brand_31.html) and are just as innovative: "Munsingwear briefs for men revolutionized the fashion industry with innovations such as the Munsingwear briefs kangaroo pouch." (my bolding) And they're part of the Penguin Munsingwear clothing group!

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

love the ads, and some of the comments that people have put after them, I like the second comment on this one best: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanadaal/294782583/in/set-72057594093324824/

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-P They're all shut away out of sight in the new cupboards. So much tidier and starkly modern that way.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I can remember my mother wearing something akin to the stretchy pants of doom it was called a roll on here. If that advert doesn't feature in a manip I will be complaining to certain people, it is just begging for it.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

I've just taken the Moral Matrix test and while I think of myself as Liberal I got the same answer as you. I am definitely not a modern socialist UK version though. My Grand father, staunch conservative, would Look at Blair as a fellow traveler while his son, Uncle Bill, who was a union man and very far left but not quite communist, would have had him shot at dawn come the revolution.

I've come to the conclusion that socialist means something a little different in The USA. I'm glad to say I have only a 42% overlap with Bush. I would have preferred it if it were lower though.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

Now I came out as a Liberal in the short test and a Moderate Socialist in the long version. I tend to think of myself as an old fashioned Liberal, dating back to the days of Jo Grimond.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

The Moral Matrix test being multi choice limits the options. Being from Britain I'm more of the opinion that education and health care for instance should be free and available to all. However that wasn't one of the options featured. The god question was also a problem, I'm not an atheist but I don't believe in a definite deity or organised religion either. In fact my first thought was "Which God are they asking about?". This is definitely an American test for Americans.

Like the adverts though! Mind you I thought with some of the costumes Blake and Avon wore were stretchy enough.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You mean a corset?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Did you tick the confusing questions? They had boxes for that.

I suspect I came out as extreme socialist (though I am pretty left-wing) because I went for the options closest to providing education and health care for all, a concept I think is alien over there.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think it does mean something different over there, and they're frightened of the idea too. I'm Labour here (which is much more left-wing then your Labour) but we've never had a liberal party.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, and I had a 42% overlap too. I matched Jimmy Carter at over 90% I think.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Yep totally alien!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm a crazy leftie too, w00t!

Those pants adverts are begging to be Photoshopped... *grins evilly*

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

True, true. I don't know, though, if it's better or worse than the bra ad in the other link, claiming to give life and vigour (or something like that) to your beauty zone. Your what?!?!? Hmm, maybe 'stretchy-seat' is better after all...

[labingi.livejournal.com]

I got extreme socialist too. And US Parties: no match. Tell me something I don't know. And, yes, I did vote for Nader, but only because I knew Gore was going to win in California anyway, so he didn't my vote.

[labingi.livejournal.com]

Pardon me, "didn't need my vote."

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Beauty zone? Bah, that has to be American; they have a thing about mammary glands.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They are! I'd say that's Blake's bum.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

It is a silly euphemism. I don't think I want to speculate on what those advertisers would call the area of the body to be covered by the 'stretchy-seat', in that case...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I noticed Jimmy Carter came out as a close match for me, but he doesn't seem well-regarded as a president. I do admire him for the work he does round the world these days.

[labingi.livejournal.com]

In fairness, I'm too young to remember anything about Carter's presidency besides that it happened. But I don't think he was a bad president apart from some mishandling of the Iran hostage affair.

The problem is that history, as we know, is written by the winners, and the winners in America for the past 25 years have been the far right. That's why Reagan is "one of our greatest presidents" despite that fact that he radically increased the gap between the rich and poor, dismantled our welfare state, escalated the buildup of the military industrial complex, threatened the world with US military domination of space, gave us a massive deficit, was embroiled in toppling the democractic government of Nicaragua, and did nothing to "end the Cold War" but get out of Gorbachev's way--oh, and was obviously senile by his second term. End rant.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That was an excellent rant. I don't know much about Jimmy Carter either except for the peanuts and the fact that he was pretty liberal and despised for it. They called him the wimp during his term, didn't they?

[labingi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, everyone who's not in favor conquering the world is a "wimp," she said cynically.