tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post5335431859289839701..comments2024-03-28T17:12:01.740-04:00Comments on Face to Face: The fashion for suntanning began decades before Coco Chanelagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-51022769245158925142009-03-02T14:57:00.000-05:002009-03-02T14:57:00.000-05:00You're sure living up to your name, numbnuts. Did ...You're sure living up to your name, numbnuts. Did Spanish commoners dislike the king vs. cherish him so much to emulate his speech? Dude, pick up just about any history book. Or google "peasant revolts" or something.<BR/><BR/>Spain is one of the most fiercely anti-clerical and anti-centralist areas of the developed world.<BR/><BR/>And as I said, Spaniard do *not* lisp. There is no observation to account for.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-64093620849287335062009-03-02T13:53:00.000-05:002009-03-02T13:53:00.000-05:00It seems very possible that nobles would copy the ...It seems very possible that nobles would copy the speech patterns of the king, similar to the way that children copy their parents and peers. These speech patterns would then have been considered upper class and could have spread down from there. An extremely important person, like the king, is just the person who would most easily start such trends. Do you have any evidence that the Spanish used to hate the King of Spain? I would imagine that if people see their king as being divinely appointed they would like and try to emulate him. <BR/><BR/>It is possible that the king of Spain had nothing to do with the lisping that is prevalent in parts of Spain; however, it is not a ridiculous hypothesis regardless of how "patronizing" you find it.<BR/><BR/>The fact that trends have been misattributed in the past doesn't mean that some trends don't actually start with an individual.<BR/><BR/>-UnderachieverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-22336991690449145112009-03-02T06:30:00.000-05:002009-03-02T06:30:00.000-05:00FWDMIf women are less pigmented because their subc...<A HREF="http://pages.globetrotter.net/peter_frost61z/fwdm2.htm" REL="nofollow">FWDM</A><BR/><I>If women are less pigmented because their subcutaneous fat decreases their skin's exposure to androgen, one would have to conclude that the scientific literature has underestimated the sex difference in skin color. Most studies use the upper inner arm for measurements, to reduce the effects of tanning. This site, however, is only slightly dimorphic for subcutaneous fat and it might be expected that male and female reflectance values would differ more at the breasts and the waist. In fact, they do — five to ten times more than at the upper inner arm. But it has always been assumed that differences in sun exposure were responsible.</I><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2006/12/but-what-about-suntanning.html" REL="nofollow">"But what about suntanning?" </A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-32655787289830967982009-03-01T18:59:00.000-05:002009-03-01T18:59:00.000-05:00Even without knowing any of the details, I'd say i...Even without knowing any of the details, I'd say it's horeshit. For example, why didn't they just do away with the bottom button, or make a larger / reshaped suit so he could button the bottom one?<BR/><BR/>These ideas are worse than folk etymologies.agnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-86405382525351122192009-03-01T18:16:00.000-05:002009-03-01T18:16:00.000-05:00Care to comment on the idea that the bottom button...Care to comment on the idea that the bottom button on a suit is left unbuttoned because Prince George was too fat to button it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com