What is Cute
Life in These United States is so very often linked to the CUTE, the Unexamined (just ask any Brit here) so I'm asked, on an hourly basis (if not more), if I am ten pounds over-weight, if I am BORED or USING DRUGS to combat this boredom, or something else Oprah can eventually use (hopefully molestation-related) BUT ! The real answer would be that I am bored and using COFFEE CAKE to com--never mind... Anyway....You know? I'm pretty immune to cute. I'm sorta wanting to launch a Jihad on cute.
plus, tw pisses me off.
I've always hated "cute." I think the most egregious offender is Kim Anderson and her exploitative pictures of children not only dressed up as adults, but mimicing adult behaviour. It reminds me of child pornography. Awful.
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Cute is the epitome of all that is babies, kittens, puppies, furry little yellow chicks, and incredibly huge-eyed Japanese anime schoolgirls.
However... we all learned language for a reason. Why not try to describe things the way they really are? For instance, use attractive if something indeed seems to pull at you. Or how about delightful in the place of cute if an image gives you joy?
I can't say I've ever really given any thought to this over abundance of "cute" before now, but I promise I'll try to use my words like a big girl from now on, and use ambrosial next time.
I think the word cute is like the word sh*t. It's used so many ways, in so many contexts, it means nothing by itself anymore. :2cents:
.....plus, tw pisses me off.
You don't think tw is cute????? Oh yeah, I definitely visualize him as cute, like a sweet littly geeky guy in hornrim glasses surrounded by empty coffee cups and stacks of every major newspaper in the country and a computer with every political-theme blog bookmarked. I'll be he is one of the cutest guys here ;)
...damn.... now I feel cheap.... and so.... uncute.
I kind of doubt tw is physically cute, even in a sweet li'l geek way. If he was, he wouldn't be so pompously, bitterly full of himself.
But he's impressively so...and that's what makes him cute! Dare I say, God certainly does work in mysterious ways. :turd:
Ugh. I dislike words that once fit so well but have become the lazy way to express yourself. I'm guilty of using them frequently myself, though I'm trying to stop, really I am! :o
[visual]"oh isn't that cute" with sarcasm and rolled up eyes. I've seen that.
No one believes cute anymore. No, cute is sagging diapers, whinning teenagers and locking the keys in the car while running. Cute has done a complete 90 degree turn so....yeah cute sucks.
[visual]"oh isn't that cute" with sarcasm and rolled up eyes. I've seen that.
No one believes cute anymore. No, cute is sagging diapers, whinning teenagers and locking the keys in the car while running. Cute has done a complete 90 degree turn so....yeah cute sucks.
About a month or two ago, I actually locked my keys in my car while running... for over 6 hours.
Very cute.
What is cute?
THIS is cute.
Originally Posted by Tonchi
You don't think tw is cute????? Oh yeah, I definitely visualize him as cute ...
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What is cute?
THIS is cute.
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Cuteoverload wins.
About a month or two ago, I actually locked my keys in my car while running... for over 6 hours. Very cute.
You were running for over six hours, or the car was?
AAA has that long of a response time?
Egad...this conversation makes me think how terribly immature I am for my age!
I will say to a coworker "How cute is that skirt?"
However, I'm not phony...if I didn't like the skirt I would keep my mouth shut.
So I guess what I'm saying is that "cute" is one of those overused words that has lost meaning because people apply it to so many things.
Then again, I have a philosophy on curse words that may be related to this conversation. OK, just because someone decided that a certain series of letters constitute a "bad" word doesn't make the word itself "bad." The emotion it is supposed to evoke may indeed be bad, but the word itself is not. Therefore, I could look someone straight in the eye and say "You happy flower face parental love child" and while it doesn't sound particularly mean if I mean it to be mean then it is. Because someone a long time ago thought that using the word "fuckhead" in that statement is what would make it a bad statement has no bearing on the emotion I am feeling as I say the less innocuous statement.
Having said that, "cute" can just be a formation of letters that we use when we are trying to provide a compliment, or an idea of loveliness..it's just verbal convention that leads us to use cute instead of some more illuminating and aesthetic verbage.
(What the hell did I just say up there? Never mind, I'm just talking out of my ass.) :muse:
Immature? Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. I've no idea what I was on about when I started this. Anyway, I'm concerned about something else today and it's really, really bothering me: Woody Allen and Scarlett Johanssan. Now, why would their relationship bother me to the degree that it has? Gads.
You were running for over six hours, or the car was?
AAA has that long of a response time?
Haha, the car was running for over six hours. I was diligently working my ass off, not even clued in to the fact that the car was just idling away. I didn't have a cell phone at the time, and by the time I realized my keys were locked in the car, I couldn't get back into work. Luckily, I only live about a block away from where I work, so I was able to walk home and cry to my fiance. I can't remember why we decided against AAA. No money, maybe? Yes, we're that poor. Thanks can be given to a college education for that one. Anyway, we ended up calling my parents (who live a good 45 minutes away) to come rescue me. While we were waiting for them, my fiance and I walked back to my car and had a little picnic in the rock pit that we call a parking lot behind the building. That's cute, right?!
The reason God makes puppies and babies so cute....is so you don't kill them!
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... Luckily, I only live about a block away from where I work...
And you drive to work?
If I had a bike, I'd ride it. However, when it's 100+ degrees outside, you just can't find the willpower to walk that block. And since I work in a restaurant, that means I'm on my feet and moving and going the whole time, usually for a good 4-6 hours. After that, I'm doing good to drag my feet to my car.
Immature? Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. I've no idea what I was on about when I started this. Anyway, I'm concerned about something else today and it's really, really bothering me: Woody Allen and Scarlett Johanssan. Now, why would their relationship bother me to the degree that it has? Gads.
What happened to Soon-Lee or whatever her name was? I had no idea! Maybe Scarlett wants to replace Mariel Hemingway in the remake of Manhattan?
What happened to Soon-Lee or whatever her name was? I had no idea! Maybe Scarlett wants to replace Mariel Hemingway in the remake of Manhattan?
Soon Yi is not amused.
Soon Yi is not amused.
But she can't be surprised, can she?
THIS is cute.
Wait, I mean it's not "cute," it's something else entirely. Adorable maybe? Can you really say you're immune to this cuteness, Bri? :)
That's an adorable monkey! :)
precious! adorable and oh, oh so cute!
I think cute, the good kind of cute WAS meant for all kinds of babys!
a very darling minifob
He's a cute kid, alright.
I've got absolutely nothing against minifob (or most other infants for that matter), but I await my sound beating in my declaration: until they reach a certain age, babies are most certainly not cute. Newborns, especially, are only considered cute by the parents that produce them -- the creatures are alien looking in their wrinkly, smooshed-up faces, deformed skulls, and blank stare. Until their age defines them as "children", the actions of babies alone often negate any cute properties they might have gentically aquired: the chubby little face, fatty arms/legs, and oversized eyes cannot compete with the basic function of turning food into drool, poo, vomit, and screaming.
That's the beauty of still photography for recording moments in time like this.
He're a cute pic of my daughter. A fairly typical pose at that age. Notice the adorable drool on her chin. So much, she wore a bib between meals. And the lovely cry. You can't hear it, but trust me, it was lovely. And you can't smell her sweet aroma, but I think I know why she was crying.;)
A fairly typical pose at that age.
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That pose is usually followed with by the phrase, "here, you take her", and the diaper crinkle sound as the infant is forced into the arms of unsuspecting victim. The problem is that it is impossible to deny the offer to hold a baby.
Actually it is possible. I have become quite practiced at feigning ineptitude when presented with someone else's offspring.
"No, I'm not allowed to hold one of those."
"I have been exposed to several very frightening infectious diseases this week at work, and my test results aren't back yet."
Holding the wriggly creature at arm's length, under the armpits, making sure that it's arms are pointing roughly upward, but a different angles, also guarantees parental rescuing.
It seems to work in reverse for me. Perfect strangers or people I barely know come up to me and, if they're polite, ask to pick up or hold the baby, and if not, they simply try to take them. They put their fingers all over my baby's hands (which go in their mouths), tickle them, tousle their carefully arranged hair, and often either try to stuff their pacifier/bottle IN their mouth or yank it OUT (depending on the pacifier's location). I've had to work on a response to retrieve my baby back from them and still maintain my civility. :worried:
Stormie
Newborns, especially, are only considered cute by the parents that produce them -- the creatures are alien looking in their wrinkly, smooshed-up faces, deformed skulls, and blank stare.
I must say that I thought my newborn daughter was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. I was so in love with every mm of her. Her nose, lips, even eyebrows were perfect. Her skin, red hair, finger and toenails, magnificent. Then, a few years later, when I was going thru pictures putting them in some semblance of order in an album, I realized that she was just as ugly as every other newborn out there. :3_eyes: Those hormones are powerful things!!
Of course,
now she really
is the most beautiful child ever.
:lol: A dingo ate your baby.
Couldn't resist!
Just something from a Seinfeld ep. It's an illness of mine!:)
Nothing against you! Best wishes to you and your beautiful baby.
