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Profile shot...
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 12:59am
does not do that guy any favors. Bring on the blur!
Sexy
By JohnAKeith
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 2:16am
That's some bagpipe.
Amazing how that gets
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 6:09am
Amazing how that gets blurred, but we can turn on the television at almost any hour and watch people get shot and blown up. Seems a bit crazy to me.
sex, violence & videotape
By John-W
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 7:27am
Also interesting that scantily clad women seem to be ok in most news shots of these events, but equally scanty clad men (who happen to be fat and look a bit, shall we say, dumpy) get blurred.
I'm glad they did it (c'mon guy at least wear boxers), but still, there's some weird criteria being used that feels like it can only end with beautiful toned people being murdered heinously for our entertainment. But please, don't show me the fatties!!
Have you seen the way some of
By Bearwalker
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:16am
Have you seen the way some of these women "news presenters" dress? I never watch local news but a was flipping the other night and couldn't believe what the "anchor woman" was wearing, it was certainly more suitable for a nightclub. It must be a new requirement for female news presenters to have large chests and dress inappropriately. And they blurred out this guy?
Actually, Boston local news
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 1:12pm
Actually, Boston local news (ch. 4, 5 & 7) has by far the most professionally dressed, well-spoken and informed anchorwomen. Have you seen how TV presenters dress and behave in Los Angeles? It's quite shocking. Makes me appreciate that we at least have some standards here.
The female "anchors" on the
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 4:32pm
The female "anchors" on the Boston local news look like badly dressed prostitutes. The poor dears look like fools in these costumes that look like they're designed to accentuate their boobs.
I miss the days of Natalie Jacobson
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 5:49pm
I miss the days of Natalie Jacobson. She had class. Today, anchors like Bianca Delagarza and Maria Stephanos tend to come across as crude and ill spoken.
Off camera, Natalie Jacobson
By NotWhitey
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 7:40pm
Off camera, Natalie Jacobson was known for cursing like a m..f..ing sailor. "Do you know who I am?"
How they dress?
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 8:35pm
More like "how the stations dress these women". If you look in the credits, there is usually something about who provided their wardrobe.
Shrinkage.
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 7:27am
Shrinkage.
(No subject)
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:58am
[Img]http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb201104062227...
7 Makes It Look Worse
By Suldog
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 8:19am
Or better, I suppose, depending upon what you like. When I looked at the blurred photo, I assumed he was totally naked.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Trunk Show
By shrinkage
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 10:54am
Made it look like the Swim was part of a trunk show ... except not swim trunks.
Reddit link
By Lanny Budd
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:03am
http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/15u40n/swa...
I don't get it
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:04am
What's with the underwear? Is this common practice with these Southie swimmers? Can't this guy afford a bathing suit?
They like their brownies
By anon
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:15am
They like their brownies without nuts.
Meanwhile, Down Under
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 10:58am
It's summertime, and they are trying to simplify this "trunks" vs. "underwear" issue from a different perspective. (as opposed to "trunk" vs. "underwear" ...)
A handy guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Lx2ihpGbc
At least Ch. 7 refrained from
By agingcynic
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 11:37am
their most aggravating propensity:
Irritating alliteration!
Gigantic junk!
Crazy consonants!
Herald headline homage!
former red sox pitcher rob woodward
By bostnkid
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 2:37pm
anyone? anyone?
when the red sox clinched the american league east in 1986 pitcher rob woodward's junk was exposed to a live tv audience for two minutes while celebrating in the sox clubhouse. channel 5!!! yeah baby!!!!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/mag...
Perspective is not your friend
By DebGeisler
Thu, 01/03/2013 - 10:09pm
We watched that entire broadcast from the locker room, as Woodward toweled himself off in all of his glory, as seen (over the reporter's shoulder?) in background. My then-boyfriend (now husband) and I laughed ourselves silly, while one of my colleagues (who teaches sports journalism) said, "Hey, that's the pitcher's area. We should be able to figure out who that was..."
It made a *great* case study for our broadcast journalism classes...
Ouch - that link hurt
By merlinmurph
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 7:49am
This snippet brought back some pain:
Way ahead of the curve on this one
By anon
Fri, 01/04/2013 - 11:31am
My friends and I used to jump off the drawbridge on Morrisey Blvd every summer.
We hooked school one unseasonably warm day in the middle of March.
We were drinking beer and getting hot so we decided to go for a swim.
No suits of course so we both got down to our tightie whites and climbed up to the bridge. As we were standing on the sidewalk and getting up on the railing all the cars driving by were honking and cheering us on.
Jumped in and shot out and almost ran across the water like cartoon characters. Insane complete sensory overload of coldness.
So, sauntering around Carson Beach? Not so impressed.