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I'm so awdul (OT)
On Jul 2, 4:12*pm, Yowie wrote:
My father can eat and eat and eat and never puts any weight on as well. He wore the same suit to my wedding as he did to his own! I shared that metabolism until I was well into my twenties - When I was a kid I ate everything in sight and my nickname was "Skinny Minnie" because I didn't put any weight on to the extent the school nurse urged my mum to feed me up and still no weight gain....then puberty kicked in Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
On Jul 2, 5:05*pm, Lucys Mom wrote:
.. *I stopped dead, turned around, looked them up and down and said, making sure they and those around heard, "-5" and started to walk away. *Then I turned back around and added "each". The look on their faces was priceless and boy, did I feel good!! LOVE IT! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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On Jul 2, 5:05*pm, Lucys Mom wrote:
My favorite all-round come-back to anyone foolish enough to comment on my size is "Did your mother teach you or did you learn all on your own how to be so da*N rude?". *Usually shuts them up. Reminds me of a come-back of my own (admittedly borrowed from Winston Churchill) I was coming back from a successful shopping trip (I'd just been made redundant and was out looking for something for interviews and managed to find a really smart suit that didn't break the bank so I was well happy) and I'd grabbed a bottle of mango lassi for the train home as I got out the train I was putting the empty bottle in the bin and a guy said "Excuse me?" very politely like he might be asking for directions or something so I said "Yes?" and he replied "That should be a diet drink you fat f***ing c**t!" I shrugged and said "I can diet you'll still be rude" Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
This has all just so reminded me of the worse put down I ever did- one
I'm still trying to forget because I'm not proud of it....well just a little.... I was sitting on a bus and this guy sat next to me- didn't think much of it the bus was packed and I had a Terry Pratchett book on the go. Moments later the guy said "Hi" So being polite I said "Hi" back...the next thing his hand is on my boob so I pulled it away and said "What?!" He said "The bus is about to stop. What about I take you round the corner and s**g you for a couple of minutes?" I think my face must have shown what I was thinking because his next charming chat up line was "Come on! A fat ugly bird like you it's the best offer you're ever going to get" I looked at the guy and went "Okay" So the guy got up and as the bus stopped he jumped off then turned back to me....I smacked the bell twice and as the bus moved away at the top of my voice I shouted "A couple of minutes? You should see your doctor about your premature ejaculation"" This was a routemaster so not only did everyone on the bus hear it so did everyone standing at the bus stop (and the way I shouted people within about 200 yards) Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
Lesley wrote:
This has all just so reminded me of the worse put down I ever did- one I'm still trying to forget because I'm not proud of it....well just a little.... I was sitting on a bus and this guy sat next to me- didn't think much of it the bus was packed and I had a Terry Pratchett book on the go. Moments later the guy said "Hi" So being polite I said "Hi" back...the next thing his hand is on my boob so I pulled it away and said "What?!" He said "The bus is about to stop. What about I take you round the corner and s**g you for a couple of minutes?" I think my face must have shown what I was thinking because his next charming chat up line was "Come on! A fat ugly bird like you it's the best offer you're ever going to get" I looked at the guy and went "Okay" So the guy got up and as the bus stopped he jumped off then turned back to me....I smacked the bell twice and as the bus moved away at the top of my voice I shouted "A couple of minutes? You should see your doctor about your premature ejaculation"" This was a routemaster so not only did everyone on the bus hear it so did everyone standing at the bus stop (and the way I shouted people within about 200 yards) Are you kidding?? You should be *proud* of that one! It's hilarious. He deserved that! Joyce -- Basically, I feel like the food industry is making us fat so the diet industry can make us thin. -- Janet |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
On 2/07/2010 1:25 AM, BfloPolska wrote:
On Jul 1, 10:56 am, wrote: On 1 July, 15:29, wrote: A postscript, nearly 20 years later: the guy landed on Workers' Comp after taking a fall on the job. He hasn't worked since. And boy, did he get fat!!! I used to know a guy called Jason who once said to me that he would consider going out with me if I "lost a few tons" (he was one of those guys who really thought he was God's gift to women but I never saw the charm of him myself). Didn't I go to high school with that creep? I had one who tried to ease the sting: "You have such a pretty face, now if you'd only lose so-and-so much we could really have it going on." I was going with a guy named Jeff, and my mother went through a phase where she would follow me around muttering, "You're going to lose him. You're not pretty. You're a pig." What I am is in therapy. A few years later I was drinking with another friend of mine who'd been on the recieving end and she said she saw him and he was now massively obese! We shouldn't have laughed but we did! I love running into old classmates. The girls who used to give me hell look ten years older, either from overtanning or plain old work and worry, and in my heart I chuckle at the fickle tricks of time. The most recent one I met sounded almost accusing when she said I hadn't changed since 1984, though part of me wants to say she lies like a cheap rug; I have bits of gray at the temples, that surely weren't there in 1984, and my walk is a bit stiffer after the accident that messed up my back. But hell, I'll take the compliment. When I first met my sister in law, she was 18, slim, feminine and exceptionally pretty, and luckily (or perhaps unluckily) for her, her looks opened opportunities I never had. After losing yet another job she pined "Oh Vicky, how do I get a job like yours?" I was honest "Well, first you have to finish senior highschool and then go to University" She replied without a hint of sarcasm or jest, and I repeat this verbatim because I will never ever forget this, "Thats not fair, I'm prettier than you." We're both 15 years older now. She's still an attractive woman, but she can't compete with 18 year olds, and since she's relied solely on her looks and feminine charms to get her anywhere, life is going to get quite tough for her in the next 5 years. Meanwhile, as ugly as I may have been, I haven't got much worse, and there's still that university degree - with 15 years industry experience to go with it. At 40, I know what attributes I'd prefer to have! Yowie |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
"Christine BA" wrote in message ... 2.7.2010 22:01, Christina Websell kirjoitti: wrote in message ... not jealous, but man do i have calorie envy... thats about three times what i can eat and maintain if i am exercising and doing everything i can to keep my metabolic rate at its highest... my rate is not slow its definitely retarded, Lee wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote bastXXXette wrote cshenk wrote: Mee too! Many of my friends are generously proportioned. Yay! Thin allies against stupidity, always welcome! Believe me, thin isn't always pretty - that "You can't be too rich or too skinny" is a crock of sh*t. After all the weight I've lost with this insidious illness I look like the crypt keeper. LOL! Been there! I'm 5ft1in tall (please don't delete the extra inch, I'm proud of it!). Most of my life, my *natural* weight was way way too thin. High metabolism. Kinda looked like a pipecleaner with the fuzz pulled off. Got accused of anything from Anorexia to Bullemia. *Finally* about age 40, I gained some curves at last and I'm ever so happy! Now for the first time, I am just a touch over due to back issues preventing my normal activity, but it would be easy to lose if I wanted to bother. Cutting back to 3,000 cal a day would do it. Yeah I know, life isn't fair. I'd no more blame a friend for being naturally generously proportioned, than she would me for being naturally thinner. If she did, she wouldn't be a friend. It sucks just as bad, to be too thin. Yes, my German friend is far too thin, when she visited I needed to feed her around every two hours or she fainted. Vegetarian. Enough said. Tweed Oh, but she burst out of her jeans after 10 days of my cooking and we had to get a new pair ;-) Quorn. That's what did it! g Tweed Marina's also a vegetarian, and the last time I saw her, or a photo of her, she was no stick-figure. I'm not saying she's fat, by no means, but not skinny or threatening to faint or some such... So I wouldn't quite put it like that: "Vegetarian. Enough said." All vegetarians I know are slim. Except the one in my team at work. It was quite difficult keeping N fed when she was here. If we went out for a few hours we'd have to take things to eat. 5 ft 10 - 8 stone - she needed it. |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
Yowie wrote:
When I first met my sister in law, she was 18, slim, feminine and exceptionally pretty, and luckily (or perhaps unluckily) for her, her looks opened opportunities I never had. After losing yet another job she pined "Oh Vicky, how do I get a job like yours?" I was honest "Well, first you have to finish senior highschool and then go to University" She replied without a hint of sarcasm or jest, and I repeat this verbatim because I will never ever forget this, "Thats not fair, I'm prettier than you." We're both 15 years older now. She's still an attractive woman, but she can't compete with 18 year olds, and since she's relied solely on her looks and feminine charms to get her anywhere, life is going to get quite tough for her in the next 5 years. Meanwhile, as ugly as I may have been, I haven't got much worse, and there's still that university degree - with 15 years industry experience to go with it. At 40, I know what attributes I'd prefer to have! Sheesh Vicki, you're not ugly!! Just because you don't fit advertising standards (which is almost all of us) hardly means you're ugly. What a terrible word to put on someone, especially yourself. There's a long-standing tradition that women fit into two mutually exclusive categories: smart or pretty. I was just talking about this to a friend last night. We were talking about high school insecurities, and she said she'd really believed in that dichotomy. And because she knew she was exceptionally smart, she figured that she therefore couldn't be pretty. And she didn't fit the standards of prettiness, not being tall, lithe or blonde. Instead she was short, flat-chested and Jewish-looking, with extremely curly dark hair. (Hair that I think is gorgeous, btw.) I think she's very attractive, but it's hard to undo all the conditioning you get in puberty. In high school, I thought I was pretty. I wasn't a great beauty, but I was cute. I was also smart, but insecure about that because of the academic tracking system that had put me in the "second best" category. The really smart kids were in the top track, and these were the kids I hung out with, but I always feared that I was inferior to them. I stayed friends with several of these people for years after high school, and the inferiority complex about my intelligence lingered throughout those years. (I didn't actually discover what my academic capabilities were until I put myself through college in my mid to late 20s.) I also had a younger, geeky friend in high school, who was very smart, in the accelerated track, and was very insecure about her looks. So within the context of our friendship, she became the "smart one" and I became the "pretty one" - and we were both really jealous of each other over that. How stupid is that?? It's not pretty, either. Joyce -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
Christina Websell wrote:
All vegetarians I know are slim. Except the one in my team at work. It was quite difficult keeping N fed when she was here. If we went out for a few hours we'd have to take things to eat. 5 ft 10 - 8 stone - she needed it. It probably has nothing to do with her being a vegetarian. It sounds like she has an exceptionally high metabolism. If she needs to eat every few hours, that means she's burning up calories at a high rate. I wonder if she suffers from a bit of hyperthyroidism? Or some other metabolic condition? It's one thing to be thin due to a high metabolism. But if she really gets so hungry she's practically fainting every few hours, something's going on. Has she ever had it checked out? Joyce -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. |
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I'm so awdul (OT)
the weight loss personality susan powder*powter* not sure which was at one
point well over weight and was a vegetarian. you just must eat for YOUR body, Lee "Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "Christine BA" wrote in message ... 2.7.2010 22:01, Christina Websell kirjoitti: wrote in message ... not jealous, but man do i have calorie envy... thats about three times what i can eat and maintain if i am exercising and doing everything i can to keep my metabolic rate at its highest... my rate is not slow its definitely retarded, Lee wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote bastXXXette wrote cshenk wrote: Mee too! Many of my friends are generously proportioned. Yay! Thin allies against stupidity, always welcome! Believe me, thin isn't always pretty - that "You can't be too rich or too skinny" is a crock of sh*t. After all the weight I've lost with this insidious illness I look like the crypt keeper. LOL! Been there! I'm 5ft1in tall (please don't delete the extra inch, I'm proud of it!). Most of my life, my *natural* weight was way way too thin. High metabolism. Kinda looked like a pipecleaner with the fuzz pulled off. Got accused of anything from Anorexia to Bullemia. *Finally* about age 40, I gained some curves at last and I'm ever so happy! Now for the first time, I am just a touch over due to back issues preventing my normal activity, but it would be easy to lose if I wanted to bother. Cutting back to 3,000 cal a day would do it. Yeah I know, life isn't fair. I'd no more blame a friend for being naturally generously proportioned, than she would me for being naturally thinner. If she did, she wouldn't be a friend. It sucks just as bad, to be too thin. Yes, my German friend is far too thin, when she visited I needed to feed her around every two hours or she fainted. Vegetarian. Enough said. Tweed Oh, but she burst out of her jeans after 10 days of my cooking and we had to get a new pair ;-) Quorn. That's what did it! g Tweed Marina's also a vegetarian, and the last time I saw her, or a photo of her, she was no stick-figure. I'm not saying she's fat, by no means, but not skinny or threatening to faint or some such... So I wouldn't quite put it like that: "Vegetarian. Enough said." All vegetarians I know are slim. Except the one in my team at work. It was quite difficult keeping N fed when she was here. If we went out for a few hours we'd have to take things to eat. 5 ft 10 - 8 stone - she needed it. |
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