I know some readers get annoyed with me when I post photos of curvy women - they complain that a big set of boobs doesn't make a girl "amazonic". I suppose that's true. However, one thing that struck me when looking at today's two Jessica Simpson articles on
Hollywood Tuna is that Simpson is starting to develop some impressive matched sets in addition to the one she was already famous for.
As noted here earlier this summer, Jessica Simpson's legs have grown noticeably muscular thanks to a strict gym routine. In the photo at right, it's obvious that Simpson's shoulders are shaping up nicely - deltoids and traps are both well-above average at this point, and her arms have a solid, toned look about them. I defy anyone to examine the full size images in today's two Jessica Simpson posts at Hollywood Tuna [1, 2], and then come back and deny that Jessica Simpson's gym work is showing terrific results.
Keep it up, Jessica, you look fantastic - sexier than ever.
Notice how Jessica Simpson has been relatively quiet over the last few months? She's popped up on the radar every now and then but for the most part she's stayed out of the headlines. That's because she's been in seclusion training for the 2008 Olympics.
Great stuff. Getting back to--even exceeding--her Dukes of Hazzard form.
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2007-09-07 01:03:14
Friggin awesome. This will start the next great American woman form.
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2007-09-07 07:44:48
Pity that all that buffness is wasted - I can't get worked-up over her as she is so spectacularly dim. It's wonderfully ironic that Lingster linked to Hollywood Tuna given that she's famous for not knowing whether tuna was fish or not. :roll: :lol:
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2007-09-07 09:51:00
You Brits often discount intelligence if it's not accompanied by erudition or status. It's your cultural blind spot.
I'm not sure that Jessica Simpson is even remotely "dim". She vaulted to prominence in mainstream pop culture eight years ago, and she's held on to it while nearly all her peers have crashed, burned or just faded.
There are lots and lots of women as good-looking, talented and charming as Jessica Simpson. She's got something else going for her in addition to all that, and I suspect that it is high social intelligence, common sense, and skill with resource management.
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2007-09-07 12:04:40
Knowing that tuna isn't chicken isn't erudition, nor is it to do with status. There is such a thing as being simply stupid, and my opinion is that all nations have blind spots, that of the US being that it is culturally unacceptable to consider anyone as plain stupid. As for her career, I'd suggest that her success has more to do with her management team.
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2007-09-07 14:59:53
Well, you may have something there. In the novel Forrest Gump, the protagonist's tagline was not (as in the movie) "Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're gonna get." Instead it was a somewhat more direct and concise sentence: "Being an idiot ain't no box of chocolates."
Rest assured, I have no trouble labeling people as stupid - I do it several times a day. Stupid people, however, do not thrive in highly competitive environments. And there are few environments more competitive than the celebrity industry in the United States.
(By the way, the most popular brand of tuna in the United States is called "Chicken of the Sea". Simpson also once expressed disbelief that buffalo have wings - she's literal-minded and not very well educated, but that doesn't make her stupid.)
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2007-09-07 17:34:21
Perhaps that's it - I'm used to comprehensive schooling in the British state sector of the 1980s and early-mid 1990s. Maybe she isn't as dumb as I thought.
I knew about the "Chicken of the sea" brand and couldn't understand it - how is tinned (sorry, canned) tuna anything like chicken? :confused:
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2007-09-08 00:24:52
I think it was branded as "Chicken of the Sea" as a way of introducing the product. I don't believe canned fish was widely consumed prior to that, so likening it to chicken was a way of winning public acceptance.
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2007-09-08 06:33:49
...has been popular in the UK ever since the canning process was developed. In my parent's day, a popular Saturday evening tea dish was tinned pilchards on toast. Oily fish is very good for the brain, strangely - perhaps dear Jessica should eat more. :lol:
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2007-09-09 11:36:03
After some consideration, I think it was chopped-up fish that hadn't been popular prior to canned tuna. Sardines and such had been around for decades prior.
Fresh food used to be a lot more expensive in the U.S. than it is now (relative to income), so canned or frozen options were appealing. Chopped tuna is far cheaper than fresh chicken, but is an acceptable substitute because it occupies a similar dietary niche.
When I was a kid we'd usually have sirloin for dinner one night mid-week, and then the rest of the week the protein source (if there was one) would be pork or chicken parts, ground beef, canned tuna or sausage. Vegetables were usually frozen or out of a can, and potatoes were a big part of the diet. On Sundays we'd go to my grandparents' house and my grandmother would serve either roast beef or roast chicken with a fresh vegetable, and that was easily the most expensive meal of the week.
I think today most Americans have more fresh vegetables and fresh cuts of meat and fish in their diets. I do, anyway.
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2007-09-09 12:15:05
What about the vast fresh-food deserts that I read about in the US, where families can't get to anywhere that sells fresh veg (or even frozen veg?)
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2007-09-09 13:27:57
I don't know what you mean. Could you provide a source?
FWIW, I have five supermarkets within three miles of my house, four of which have organic or "whole foods" sections and one of which is organic-only. All five have extensive fruit and vegetable sections. I also have four smaller markets and a "7-11" store within walking distance, and two of them sell fresh vegetables. One of the markets has a butcher counter in the back.
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2007-09-09 13:32:13
The United States is very large, as you know, and there are surely areas where the nearest true supermarket is more than a hundred miles away. But those are areas with almost no people in them.
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2007-10-20 00:36:13
Lingster wrote:
I don't know what you mean. Could you provide a source?
FWIW, I have five supermarkets within three miles of my house, four of which have organic or "whole foods" sections and one of which is organic-only. All five have extensive fruit and vegetable sections. I also have four smaller markets and a "7-11" store within walking distance, and two of them sell fresh vegetables. One of the markets has a butcher counter in the back.
The first of these articles refers to an inner city neighborhoods. The nearest supermarket is listed as "several long, hot city blocks away" which doesn't strike me as a "desert". In the other the writer fails to actually enumerate the distance, but it's about an elderly woman who lives in a semi-rural area but doesn't own a car.
I don't take either article very seriously.
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2007-09-11 14:15:07
Lingster wrote:
I don't take either article very seriously.
Well, that guy that ran across the US last year had huge problems getting access to good, fresh food on his run, and I can't see that he would have complained about a few blocks. :P
