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[owl]

My default summer shoes are navy gutties (rubber soles, canvas uppers—what's the English name?). It seems that all makers of trainers now cater soley for the chav market (shiny white trainers, what use are they??), apart from Converse and its copycats. I bought a pair of black Converse knock-offs for £6 yesterday, which with a certain inevitability have been dubbed 'Doctor Shoe'.

LJ seems to have melted down over the breast-feeding icons thing. Simple solution: stop using default icons on search pages. It looks stupid, it eats bandwidth and takes forever to load on dial-up.

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[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Plimsolls?

And amen to that about the icons on search pages thing. Why can't they just list usernames like they used to?

How is your dad doing?

[owl]

Plimsolls?

That's the word.

Or why not have an option to turn off viewing userpics?

My dad's not too bad; it's more the frustration at not being able to work that's getting to him.

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your dad's doing better. I hope he gets back to work soon.

And I agree about the search pages thing. You can also fit more search results to a page if you don't include pictures.

Everyone's all in a tizzy about whether or not breastfeeding icons should be allowed, and I must've misplaced my outrage, because I'm pretty apathetic either way. I think it's a bit ridiculous to ban medeival paintings an famous art, but honestly, most of the icons using photographs of nursing babies are bad icons anyway (the 'yummy!' one everyone's all up in arms about? It's really badly-made). Not that that should be a determining factor, but it's not as if they're burning priceless masterpieces in a fire on the office roof.

The child-hater communities that are going around reporting people's icons kinda bug me, though. Isn't there something about hate comms in the lj TOS? Because I fail to see why calling mothers "Moos" and their children "Spawn," "Meatbags," etc and cracking jokes about running them over is more acceptable than slurring someone's religion or nationality.

[owl]

I don't see the problem if the baby's latched on, myself. (If it was just breast+baby, you could have people photoshopping babies onto Page 3 pics and saying, 'Look, breast-feeding!)

People—I don't know if it's a US thing or not—seem to get very uptight about breast-feeding in public. They aren't exclusively sexual. Personally I'm not bothered in the slightest by public feeding, though I do glance away in case the mother is uncomfortable.

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

Yeah, public feeding doesn't bother me (I glance away myself for the same reason), but I guess I feel like I've got better things to get up in arms about than default icons on livejournal.

It seems to me that a lot of the U.S. is just more uptight than Europe about nudity in general. I could be imagining things, but it seems like it's not nearly a big a deal on your side of the pond as it is on ours.

[emmy-roo.livejournal.com]

"Breast-feeding" icons??

[owl]

That....would be what I meant, yah. My speling (:-P) is bad

[emmy-roo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I figured that, I just was wondering about the reference. I've missed this particular bit of hullaballoo.

[owl]

Basically LJ banned icons where aurola was showing, even with baby attatched. Much kerfuffle ensued.

[yubsie]

It's LJ. People have conniptions (coniptions? I've never had to write this word out before! :p) about the most inane things. :p

[owl]

People are Teh Silly. *sigh*

[yubsie]

Yes. Yes they are.

[anthon1.livejournal.com]

Either plimsolls or possibly deck-shoes - if they're blue, there's a high probability of them being the latter...

(Although I'm not entirely sure what the difference is, technically. It just feels better? :P)