instead of bitches, could everyone reign in their 8 yr old side for a second. thanks.
― jess, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― maryann, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ronan, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― dave q, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
i also got a very strange one from douglas hsu, which i cd not decode as to content, which also went to mjemmeson and mitch, i noticed, plus a buncha foaxs whose addys i dint know)
― mark s, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
who is generally regarded as the most trouble-making, discord- creating ile poster around here anyway???
― Vic, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
And it was talking to people I MIGHT not be aroused by.
sincerely,
an 8 yr old
...but yes, I have considered that, I of course don't think it's someone's "fault," and honestly, I would rather date a healthy 160 pound/5'8" girl than an anorexic, anyday. But I am also sticking to that ideal of honesty when I truthfully confess that if I had a choice and I didn't know the girl's personality AT ALL, I would probably choose a slimmer girl over those stats, not least because i am such a toothpick myself and have had painful experiences with overweight women before. Yet in my situation, i already KNOW the girl's personality, so I'm not just going to be sgum (see the fob board) and drop her or anything...I'm going to take a chance and see what she's like *as a person* in person. I would never just hold her weight against her or use it to "blame" her, like you're implying.
don't think pubic problem, maryann, think PUBIC OPPORTUNITY
or was it jess? he's a blabmouth considering he has such a teenytiny head
huh, wait...maryann, how do you know about my musical tastes or fantasies anyway????
the j-lu/jel thing = a gag spoiled by all these ppl having their serious argt; the jess thing = TRUE cuz i saw it in a dream
(which reminds i dreamt abt duane last night maryann: he wasn't there, but every dilemma that presented itself, i wondered solennly WHAT WOULD DUANE DO? I didn't start the Cuprofen Max Strength till this morning either)
carry on folks you've been a swell audience (except for YOU)
Mark S - 'What would Duane do'? That's pretty funny considering Duane's decision-making algorithm seems to always default to 'I'll just pretend to be reading this Cream magazine from 1973 and wait until everyone's gone away.' Of course that's what attracted me to him in the first place.
As for this:
An extremely loose guideline suggests allowing 100 lbs for 5'0" tall, and in women, another 5 lbs for each additional inch of height (men are spotted 10 lbs for each additional inch). Now, this system rightly is criticized because it doesn't allow for extremely large or small bones or much muscular development.
I don't think this is very true. It doesn't fit me and I am certain I'm not fat or overweight or anything (I'm not giving my weight, etc. on ILE).
― Maria, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nitsuh, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Gale Deslongchamps, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Layna, Monday, 26 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
thats more than 25 kilos guys! how come nobody noticed!
― di, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ed, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Vic, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Blah blah blah, fat is a feminist issue, etc. etc.
Yes, in an ideal world, people should be happy with their body image no matter what they weigh, the tyrany of the anorexic with the airbrush is harmful to everyone.
However, I always have to say this about my own weight. When I am happy with my life, my weight drops naturally (less comfort eating, more energy) and when I am miserable, my weight increases. So mood and weight and self image are all utterly inexorably tied together, and anyone who tries to tell you that it is or should be otherwise is foolish at best.
I am 5'8" and I'd just like to take this opportunity to point out that since getting out of an unhappy... situation, I have lost about a stone, just through not being miserable and not binging on chocolate every day. I'm still 165lbs, and therefore FAT, but I'm very pleased with the results. Everybody give me a big hand or I'll thwack you.
There are guidelines for how much healthy individuals of either sex should weigh if they are certain heights, and this is suppsed to be tempered for bone structure. (So there is a leeway of about 15 lbs on either side of "normal" before you're classed as medically overweight.)
I don't know what I'm blethering on about. But everybody clap for my discarded stone of useless flesh! (And there will be no quips about the 9 or 10 stone of useless flesh I discarded a few months ago, please!)
― kate, Tuesday, 27 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
She's not remotely chubby, is she?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
A famously nearly nude Hollywood starlet like RMcG? Totally, totally way way too skinny unless you mean merely in comparison to a runway model.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:02 (sixteen years ago) link
no, especeially not these days, but she's always pulled off that beautiful voluptuous thing
right, right, i know you're right.
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Jess needs to be here to properly define this
― kingfish, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Charlotte Church?
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
RIP Jess's definitions
― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Re Charlotte Church, a quick GIS says "maybe, depending on which photo yer talking about" to me.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link
She is zaftig these days
― Tom D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
The point is sort of that zaftig is a folk term, and was born from the Ashkenazic population of sort of famously peasant-y Eastern Europeans (I think, don't ask me to trace it back any farther). I would say that a) it's all relative, and b) there's an essential earthiness or hmm... suggestion of bounty, fertility.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:14 (sixteen years ago) link
sounds otm to me
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
zaf·tig Audio Help /ˈzɑftɪk, -tɪg/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[zahf-tik, -tig] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –adjective Slang. 1. Gianna Michaels, fer real
― yungblut, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bengals.hp.infoseek.co.jp/pict/past_player/ickey_shuffle03.jpg
180 lbs isn't fat! Not if you're tall, anyway. I mean it's not skinny, either...was that article written by an R. Crumb of 1918?
― Abbott, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Funnily enough I was watching the new American Gladiators show last night and they give height and weight for the glads -- and none of the women was admitted to be over 155 lbs even though they ranged from 5'7" to 5'10" and clearly all had shoulders and thighs the size of quarterbacks'. I do respectfully suggest that that is extremely unlikely; 180 sounds far more probable (and healthful).
― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i would suggest that you are right about that
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
are fat girls really sluttier??
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
okay, SLUTTIER is not the word. easier to get in the sack?
i guess as a ZAFTIG girl myself I should know the answer to that
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Googled for the legernd that is George Pesante and found that the article is from a 1962 bongo mag:
http://www.erosblog.com/2008/07/17/chubby-girl-1962/
(nsfw pic, btw)
― Bodrick III, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 19:34 (sixteen years ago) link