Awwww, the poor thing.....

Would you really want to spend anytime around her? Stupid little cow. C

Now there's a thought lol Some wit on our radio said that the psychiatric problems arose when she had to spend the nights on jail issue 100 thread count sheets, it hurt her skin lol What a shambles, what a pity she is female and such a disgrace to us females.

Oh, absolutely. I'd love to spend a few minutes slapping some sense into her.

Might make you feel better, too. ;)

I just hope that when this mess is over the media will forget about her and her stupid, spoiled brat, loopy image and Hollywood will finally try to clean up it's act and produce some good role models instead of the idiots they are producing now.

I also wonder about the judicial system in LaLa Land. Don't they think they need to follow the same rules and regs as the rest of the country or are they really living in a fairy tale?

Lucille

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Oh ya!

C

Well,

I wonder why the topic Paris Hilton is more important in a craft newsgroup than everything stitching related, except what someone is working on. Ignorance of messages announcing something good and interesting is remarkable. I was a member of the RCTN many, many years ago. Back then I remember many designers being a part of it, and people were joining in droves and discussing crafts.

Why is that so? And why do I notice always the same bunch of people chattering amongst each other and so little participation of others?

"SiK" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

It may have escaped your notice that usenet is used far less frequently now, chat groups probably rule. The decline is for ALL groups across usenet, not just this one.

Personally, when I sit down to stitch with my group on Tuesdays, part of the time is spent discussing projects, what we are working on, will work on etc. but everything else comes into play as well. We want to know the latest on our two members who have recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, we sit and listen to how they feel, their worries and concerns. We may not be able to DO much, but we can listen sympathetically.

Younger ones will discuss their kids, some politics usually are embarked upon.

Now in all the above do you see any similarities ?? It's what stitchers have done for centuries when they gathered together to stitch, it will always continue in one form or another.

I can only suggest if it is not to your liking, then try elsewhere - perhaps there is a group somewhere that will not allow anything non-stitching related to be discussed. Must be very monotonous and boring I would think.

If you can't understand Cheryl's bad day and why many of us feel for her then TOO DAMNED BAD !

That's why a lot of people filter/killfile OT messages (Karen, you forgot to mark it OT!). And you can't make people participate - I dropped offline for years when life got hectic.

Meredith

If you want more needlework related items, why not try starting an interesting thread about needlework.

Nowhere does it say you're required to read or participate in off topic things in order to join in on the ones that do interest you. Feel free to join in when the spirit moves you and ignore the rest.

Lucille

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I thought that Paris Hilton was an hotel until I looked on the internet. Now I know she is a female who resembles an anorexic stick insect and (to me) has about as sexy as a blocked drain.

The food wasn't up to her standards, either, I heard. Arizona's tough Sheriff Joe Arpaio reminds us that in his jail, each meal costs an average of 15 cents, so his guys would give their eyeteeth to eat the cuisine she was offered.

I'm sure part of the problem is that because she's a celebrity, for her own protection she's essentially in solitary confinement. 23 hours a day alone in her cell (where I think she should be contemplating her transgressions). Solitary can drive most people round the bend, though they usually last longer than 72 hours before they start howling at the moon.

That's why I think she should take up stitching ... would give her something to do to take her mind off it that she's alone.

Yes, California has laws. No, starstruck lower-level personnel don't always follow them where celebrities are concerned.

The judge, thank God, has his head screwed on straight, and doesn't give a rat's patoot who she is. I was, in fact, really surprised that he didn't throw the book at her and tack on another 30 days to teach her that even though we jokingly call such places The County Hilton, it's not her place to call the shots.

I couldn't help but post this:

if it prevents even ONE spoiled little girl from flouting her position, then it was worth it (evil grin).

Just a waste regardless of the X&Y combination. A shining example of someone that just has gone through life with no desire to learn or be of use for anything, wasting all the advantages she's had to start with.

Thank goodness the judge said enough. The AP story about today's hearing is pretty good and to the point - for curiousity's sake. Let her deal with it - it's not as if she's actually around other inmates except for something like an hour a day.

Ellice

Probably the best Hollywood example is Leondardo DiCaprio who seems to do very worthwhile and intelligent things with his charity work, and living responsibly.

Not the judicial system that let her out. Someone in the sheriff's office that oversees the jail evidently decided to let her out because of a "medical condition" - and didn't contact either the judge or someone from the prosecutor's office. Plus the judge said that the sheriff was supposedly sending over documents to support the reason that she was let out. The judge evidently had some suspicion about her being seen by a private psychiatrist, and then suddenly having this medical condition. But the sheriff never sent any documents over to substantiate, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if some under-sheriff or deputy didn't get some supposedly untraceable bribe to go along with this.

Whatever - at least in this case it wasn't the judiciary doing bizarre, but someone susceptible in the jail .

Ellice

Well, you're not far off. She and her sister years ago were just famous as socialites. But, they are indeed the heirs to the Hilton hotel family fortune (which amzingly enough was founded in the hole knonw as Socorro, New Mexico). But, Paris is one of those sad instances of being famous just for being famous - she's a dilettante at many things - does a little runway modelling, does some version of speaking a few lines in minor acting roles, has an insipid tv show called "the simple life" . Mostly became really well known when some rather graphic sex videos hit the web a couple of years ago.

Nothing admirable in this girl. It would seem the parents finally sort of gave up some years back - the parents aren't known for being very wild, etc. But, whatever.

Ellice

At the beginning of the hearing, the judge commented this paperwork was supposed to be delivered a couple days ago, and apparently stopped the hearing every few minutes to note on the record "the time is now 11:11, and I still don't have the promised paperwork."

GMTA.

As I hear from upper-class friends, this is often a problem, though usually in Nouveau Riche families. The kids grow up with the notion that because "my daddy is richer than your daddy", they can get away with anything, and don't have to learn to do anything useful because the trust fund is there to support them.

And then you take my friend who's Old Money dating back to the Revolutionary War. If he wanted to go to the movies, he had to earn the money by mowing the lawn. Just like any other kid you know, except their lawn was over an acre. He has an incredible work ethic as a result. At one point, I was trying to reconcile his story about being a "ski bum" with the dates on his resume' -- he may be the only Ski Bum in history to have a full-time job while he was being a bum. :)

Wouldn't trust that chit with so much as a PICTURE of a #28 tapestry needle in jail (or out of it, either, for that fact).