These Japanese ladies? Not so much.

Japan has been famous for its extreme fashion fads, mostly among teenagers. These have ranged from the Lolita look, in which women dress up in baby-doll dresses and bonnets, to a tough-girl look called Yamamba, or mountain hag, which requires a dark tan, white eye shadow and shaggy, silver-bleached hair.

But the princess boom is seen as a more polished and sophisticated look that's popular among working women in their 20s and 30s, perhaps as a bit of escapism from workaday stress and economic uncertainty.

"There's a longing for a happy-ending fairy tale," says Asuka Watanabe, a sociology professor at Kyoritsu Women's Junior College, who specializes in street fashion.

While it may be in style among fashionable women in New York and London, black isn't an option for hime girls, who prefer pink and florals. They also have a doll-like sense of beauty that requires effort and practice to attain. To create the ideal "supervolume hair," curl only a few strands of hair at a time and alternate between inward and outward curls, advises Vanilla Girl, a fashion magazine for teenagers aspiring to become hime girls. Dyed hair extensions can help form more dynamic ringlets, while mascara applied on top of fake eyelashes plus black liquid eyeliner can really accentuate the eyes.

The princess boom has also taken off among an unlikely group of women: nightclub hostesses who also like the big-hair, glamorous look, though their dresses are often more revealing.

Jesus Diamante started the princess boom. Toyotaka Miyamae, 52, who had run an import shop specializing in evening gowns, set up the company in Osaka seven years ago to design feminine dresses tailored to Japanese women, whom he found to be shorter and to have smaller chests than Western women. Inspired by his favorite actress, Brigitte Bardot, he created dresses in quality fabrics that mimicked the feminine and elegant style of her youth.

"What I wanted to do wasn't that unique," says Mr. Miyamae, who named the company after a Japanese musical. "I just made them to fit Japanese bodies."

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Since I failed to post anything on Wednesday marking World Toilet Day, I thought I'd share this list of letters to the Times of London from people complaining about public restrooms. Some of them date back more than 100 years!

Um, enjoy, I guess.

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Once again, some "victim group" feels left out because they aren't allowed to participate in literally fucking everything so they sue and now another private organization is forced to change their behavior to cater to the minority.

Sickening.

Before you* call me a homophobe** let me point out that this has absolutely nothing to do with who is fucking who and absolutely everything to do with private fucking property.  This company was created by a man who doesn't support homosexual relationships and it should be his right to exclude whoever he wants from his service for any reason he can think of.  Yes, I include bigotry in this.  It is his property.  He should be able to do with it as he pleases.

So, what can we do?  I know what I'm going to do if I can figure it out. 

I want to sue every "exclusionary" organization in America that doesn't allow White, Christian, Heterosexual Men as members.  All I need is a competent, obnoxious lawyer and time. 

Let's see how these fascists like being forced to include everyone in America into their special clubs.

P.S. You have no idea how many times I had to delete the word "fucking" from this post.  If there is one thing that gets under my skin it is forcing people to do something they don't want with their own property.  Smoking bans, trans fats, even the ADA fucking make me shake with rage. 

I just wish more people would embrace the following statement the way they embrace being turbodouches:  LIFE ISN'T FAIR.  SUCK IT UP.

Update: You have got to be fucking kidding me.  We should start suing Muslim-owned stores and restaurants for not serving pork and alcohol.  Yeah... I have to step away from the blog.   Urge..to kill.... rising.

* - I don't mean you as in, regular readers.  I mean you as in the convenient liberal strawman I generally argue with.

** This term needs to be replaced immediately.  It is so absurd it makes me physically angry.  Even if a person doesn't like gay people,  it is retarded to imply that they are afraid of them.  This is the kind of 1984 newspeak that slowly paints anyone who has legitimate (to them, and there are plenty non-bigoted, defensible ones) gripes with homosexuality into a frightened homo-hater.  It pisses me off, I say.

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The Obama daughters will not share the fate of most of the minority and poverty stricken population in DC.  They will have the opportunity to go to a school that actually teaches them something. 

Vouchers are totally dumb.

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Iowahawk is the man. 

All new for 2012, the Pelosi GTxi SS/Rt Sport Edition is the mandatory American car so advanced it took $100 billion and an entire Congress to design it. We started with same reliable 7-way hybrid ethanol-biodeisel-electric-clean coal-wind-solar-pedal power plant behind the base model Pelosi, but packed it with extra oomph and the sassy styling pizazz that tells the world that 1974 Detroit is back again -- with a vengeance.

Now, if only I could get to Chicago tomorrow for the All-Star Moron Meetup.

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I think I may be able to buy the NY Times!

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This asshat bought an Army uniform online, and was running around pretending he was an Army sergeant.  Police busted Sgt. Dumbass as he was trying to cash a bogus check for $40K at a bank, some of the arresting officers were retired servicemen, and knew he was a bogus soldier.  The guy had already bought a new Dodge Charger with another bogus check.  I'm guessing Sgt. Dumbass is going to learn a whole new meaning for "embrace the suck" once his trial ends...

Hurrr...Semper Fi, or something...

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...in Hempstead, New York. 

Exit question:  How quickly would there have been a Narrative about creeping fascism if a public school had been renamed George W. Bush Elementary on November 21, 2000?

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Fellas, you set yourselves up as the pothead mecca, of course you were going to get overrun by douchebaggy hippies, trustafarians and college students.  Alas, it appears that some cities are looking to limit the amount of weed you can buy, so that means we'll be less likely to rid ourselves of the wankers for two weeks out of the year.

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Anti-earmark Rep. Jeff Flake is running for a seat on the House Appropriations Committee.

There's info at his site detailing how you can help him.  Why should you help?  Because helping Flake now will personalize the pain and resentment you feel toward the GOP leadership when they choose some pork-addicted Congressman for the spot instead. 

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President Bush hasn't even finished his term in office, but some people in the media can't wait to piss on his legacy:

George W. Bush is unlikely to find his name on a lot of buildings and geographical features after he becomes a former U.S. president Jan. 20.

At the moment, the 43rd president has an elementary school and road in Texas and two highways -- one in Ghana and one in the former Soviet republic of Georgia -- named after him, the Austin (Texas) American-Statesman reports.

Forgive me, but haven't we been told by the left and some people in the MSM (but of course, I repeat myself) that we've been living in a fascist, totalitarian state over the last eight years? The kind of place where our "Dear Leader" is honored with statues, streets, buildings, and even cities named in his honor? You know, like in West Virginia?

I'm fairly certain that George W. Bush will wait for the judgment of history, which usually takes quite a while.  But the fact that he doesn't have a bunch of stuff named for him already?  Damning. 

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Heh:

Also Thursday: Chaffetz said he agreed to appear on the satirical Colbert Report, which has poked fun at House members in its "Better Know a District" segment. House members have been warned not to appear on the Comedy Central show, but Chaffetz said he can handle it.

"Yeah, whatever," he said Thursday. "Lighten up."

Good luck.  Somewhat related, if you've never seen "Strangers with Candy," why are you still reading this sentence?  Go rent it Seasons 1-3 right now, while avoiding the movie at all costs.

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In a column on a coming "invasion" of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches in yesterday's Miami Herald, Fred Grimm writes:

At times, for reasons unclear to entomologists, the whole damn colony erupts in a hissy fit. Sort of like the crowd at a Sarah Palin campaign rally. And almost as creepy.

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Because if I had waited until January, it would have looked like this:

Part of me wanted to get this one to add to the collection I started when they issued similar cards for President Bush in 2000 and 2004, but then I realized they only did this for Obama. 

Your tax dollars at work.

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Doctors find worm in woman's brain

The only appropriate response to this? EW EW EW EW OMG EW WTF ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH

Bonus points for running around in a circle and flailing like I did.

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After running a completely debt-free campaign, Congressman-elect Jason Chaffetz is planning on foregoing an apartment in DC for a cot in his office.

His political director says that she's been getting all kinds of calls from national media wanting to interview him about this.  Oh, and that he was elected unanimously to represent the freshman class in the Republican Policy Committee. 

P.S. - Keep those fingers crossed.

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Nice to see New York is still New York in some aspects.

Cell phone video showing NYPD cops - wearing riot gear - screaming at and swatting revelers in Brooklyn following Barack Obama's election win circulated on the Internet Wednesday.

An anonymous person recorded the Nov. 5 confrontation on Bedford Ave. and N. 7th St. in Williamsburg as celebrations erupted after Obama gave his victory speech.

"Get that f---ing phone outta my face," screamed the cop, seconds before lunging at a person.

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Very nice work by Patterico, not Ace-level Sully smackdown, but pretty damn good. 

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"Stevens leaves to a standing ovation"

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