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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 09/09/2009 : 06:11:39 [Permalink]
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Just came back home 4 hrs ago, from my combined honeymoon/Dragon*Con visit.
Pics will be up eventually.
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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 Posted - 09/09/2009 : 08:11:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Just came back home 4 hrs ago, from my combined honeymoon/Dragon*Con visit.
Pics will be up eventually.
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Cool!!! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 13:01:42 [Permalink]
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http://trilliadin.mine.nu/dragoncon2009/
I've started writing comments to some of the pictures. (They appear above them, if they exist)
I'm not done with them yet though. More comments will be added, and perhaps a few more pics.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 17:25:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
http://trilliadin.mine.nu/dragoncon2009/
I've started writing comments to some of the pictures. (They appear above them, if they exist)
I'm not done with them yet though. More comments will be added, and perhaps a few more pics.
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Those were cool, thanks! Let us know when you have more of the people labeled. I want to look at them again, then.
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 18:00:30 [Permalink]
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/13/2009 : 23:52:58 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by marfknox
That Centauri family's costumes were amazing!
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Yes, very well done. Definitly top 10% in terms of quality both on costume and makeup.
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 03:27:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by marfknox
That Centauri family's costumes were amazing!
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Yes, very well done. Definitly top 10% in terms of quality both on costume and makeup.
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A wife that will shave her head for you is a keeper. (Or is the "keeper" a husband who will shave half his head and make the rest of his hair into a peacock's tail?)
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 06:50:51 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
A wife that will shave her head for you is a keeper. (Or is the "keeper" a husband who will shave half his head and make the rest of his hair into a peacock's tail?)
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Good question. In Centauri society (Babylon 5) the male's hair-do is a sign of his status in society. Longer and wider spread means wealthier/more influential family/clan.
Centauri women are considered beyond such displays of statue, and are thus shaved.
It's amazing how much thought there is behind such things in the series.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 13:14:23 [Permalink]
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Ok, I'm officially in a foul mood.
Take a look at the beautiful Babylon-5 T-shirt I wore in some of the pics.
I bought two of them at Dragon*Con. Today I washed them, and they're ruined. The fabric was as durable as over-cooked noodles. I could hold the fabric between my thumbs and pinky-finger and rip it apart.
I just washed them with some detergent, at 40°C as instructed on the lable, which says in big letters: "Fashion Victim".
Ok, I do feel like a victim here, not of fashion though, but of fraud. I mean, these t-shirts are a joke. If I sneeze in them, I blow holes in them. I'm not joking!
Everyone double check: T-shirts labelled "Fashion Victim". Stay away from them.
  
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 14:47:07 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Ok, I'm officially in a foul mood.
Take a look at the beautiful Babylon-5 T-shirt I wore in some of the pics.
I bought two of them at Dragon*Con. Today I washed them, and they're ruined. The fabric was as durable as over-cooked noodles. I could hold the fabric between my thumbs and pinky-finger and rip it apart.
I just washed them with some detergent, at 40°C as instructed on the lable, which says in big letters: "Fashion Victim".
Ok, I do feel like a victim here, not of fashion though, but of fraud. I mean, these t-shirts are a joke. If I sneeze in them, I blow holes in them. I'm not joking!
Everyone double check: T-shirts labelled "Fashion Victim". Stay away from them.
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Wow! Strange. Even bad T-shirts usually hold up better than that. They just look crappy after they are washed.
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 18:47:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I just washed them with some detergent, at 40°C as instructed on the lable... |
I would never, ever wash a printed T-shirt in hot water, even if the label said to do so. Cold water, and light on the detergent. No bleach (color-safe or otherwise). And if you really want your tees to last a long time, hang them to dry. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/14/2009 : 21:08:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by HalfMooner
A wife that will shave her head for you is a keeper. (Or is the "keeper" a husband who will shave half his head and make the rest of his hair into a peacock's tail?)
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Good question. In Centauri society (Babylon 5) the male's hair-do is a sign of his status in society. Longer and wider spread means wealthier/more influential family/clan.
Centauri women are considered beyond such displays of statue, and are thus shaved.
It's amazing how much thought there is behind such things in the series.
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Interesting, but I was commenting on the homo sap family which was pretending to be Centauri.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 03:06:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Interesting, but I was commenting on the homo sap family which was pretending to be Centauri.
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Well, I saw them later out of costume, and I think I'd have noticed if she was bald. Either she was wearing a wig, or her Centauri make-up was way much better than average.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 03:11:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I just washed them with some detergent, at 40°C as instructed on the lable... |
I would never, ever wash a printed T-shirt in hot water, even if the label said to do so. Cold water, and light on the detergent. No bleach (color-safe or otherwise). And if you really want your tees to last a long time, hang them to dry.
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I didn't treat these t-shirts any differently than any other printed t-shirt I've own since I moved out of my parent's house.
Now when I think of it, there were signs of poor fabric quality even before I washed them, I just didn't make the connection. One of the pins on the Psi-Corps badge cut an unusually large hole in the fabric, and at some point I aquired air-vents under my armpits.
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 09/15/2009 : 03:16:09 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
Wow! Strange. Even bad T-shirts usually hold up better than that. They just look crappy after they are washed.
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I agree.
The SFN-shirts looked really nice before I washed them the first time. After the wash, the printing lost 40-50% of the colour saturation/vibrance. But after that, they've kept their colour constant for two years.
They even survived a 5 hour bleach bath I put them through because I got stains on them from mosquito-repellent. However, the stains are still there. A weird faint yellow-ish hue that simply won't go away. It turned shock-red/pink when I threw it in the bleach, but after the red was bleached out, the yellow remaind. Really weird.
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