Comments on: weekend read: bringing home the birkin

By: Megan

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:31:17 +0000

“i would have been very sad if you’d bypassed my review.”

Wow, you are easily saddened.
Well, you must truly must be saddened then by the fact that only two or three people appear to have read your review.

ar·ro·gance Audio Help /ˈærəgəns/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[ar-uh-guhns] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun offensive display of superiority or self-importance; overbearing pride.

Also, ar·ro·gan·cy.

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[Origin: 1275–1325; ME < MF < L arrogantia presumption. See arrogant, -ance]

—Synonyms haughtiness, insolence, disdain.
—Antonyms humility, modesty, diffidence.

If this isn’t a display of superiority, I don’t know what it.

By: Doris Ashworth

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:29:10 +0000

Megan: “…but everyone on here disagrees,..”

Disagrees with what?

By: Megan

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:21:40 +0000

I wasn’t saying there are retractions written on reviews, I was saying that not everything you read is true. No examples necessary. Your opinion is your opinion and not everyone has to agree, but everyone on here disagrees, that’s all. I din’t find your opinion arrogant, I found the way you write arrogant. PS, I know what a retraction is, but thanks for teh vocabulary lesson.

Beckie, I love the site

By: Doris Ashworth

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:16:12 +0000

Megan: “There are retractiosn written every day… ”

Yes, there are. Usually they are an isolated situation based on some incorrect fact.
I’ve never heard of a review retraction. Would be rather odd for someone to write that they changed their mind or opinion. i.e. one day they loved the lobster at such and such a restaurant but this morning they decided they hated it. Ditto with a book. Perhaps you could cite an example.
Also interesting that you find someone’s opinion to be arogant when it’s different than your own. Why is it arogant that I found this site’s review to be “Interesting. Contradicts the New York Times piece by Janet Maslin” ?
Is there some sort of requirement here that I agree with everything posted here?

By: Megan

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:08:19 +0000

52 flavors…some of those are Nerds, cotton candy and some crazy green Shrek concoction. Just becase there are 52, doesn’t make them good. But, I agree, the NYT probably loves Shrek ice cream.

By: Always In Style

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:06:44 +0000

Giggle.

The day I rely on “Access Hollywood” for a credible book review is the day someone needs to check me into the loony bin.

But I do appreciate the input Doris.

By: Mrs. Moneypenny

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:59:58 +0000

52 Flavors! That’s like one for each week of the year. And here I thought I’d tried them all. I simply must go and try numbers 32-52.

Maybe the NYT has written a review of those flavors. I bet they liked them!

By: Megan

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:56:44 +0000

Don’t misunderstand me, I think you are comfusing powerful with arrogant. I am just saying that just because it is written in a “reputable” paper does not make it true. There are retractiosn written every day about much more importnant subjects than some book about a purse. You should have your own blog, maybe then people would take the review as seriously as they do when they read this one.

By: Doris Ashworth

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:51:11 +0000

Of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I personally find a general consensus amongst credible publications (i.e. the Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Boston Globe, Publishers Weekly, Herald Tribune, Seattle Times, Columbus Dispatch, Boston Herald, Marie Claire Magazine, InStyle Magazine, Richmond Times Dispatch, Toronto Star, the Today Show, Access Hollywood, and dozens others) to be more reputable than an anonymous blog site. But as they say this is why Baskin Robbins makes 52 flavours. I read in InSyle that the author has two more book deals and a movie deal so I guess others are in agreement with me.

Megan, I’m impressed that you find me to be so powerful. I should consider having my own blog, perhaps.

Toodles all.

By: shoppingsmycardio

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:43:24 +0000

always in style – i’m not 100% positive, and would not want to slander a perfectly lovely ebayer. but based on the purse forum activity, i believe it’s “won4the$”.