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Lord, it's an illness. I can't stop hitting the "post" button. But as a friend said when she showed me this spot, "I have run out of piss with which to piss my pants laughing."
Sites that exist just to make fun of people who have commited the horrible crime of *gasp* making tacky clothes offend me far more than the clothes themselves.
You must've been popular as kid. Seriously, what's it to you if somebody wants to wear something the almighty mihail has deemed "fugly."
I'm supposed to be impressed that you consider yourself a hipper version of Joan Rivers crticizing the red carpeteers? Oooh, go out on a limb, why don't you.
Besides, it's fun to make fun of people who dress funny.
I prefer not being mean-spirited to people until they dish it out on others. Call me a sentimental old coot.
...and the people who wear them. My grandma knits garish afghans. my mother in law wears gem sweaters. But you know what, the people who make this stuff get some satisfaction out of it. more power to 'em.
But feel free to pretend this is any diffeent than Mean Girls style teasing about somebody's shoes.
They're making fun of the clothes, and the photography, and the goofy poses, etc. No one is getting hurt by it, so I don't see the harm.
As a powerless victim who was forced to wear some incredibly hideous garments (there, I got in my garment quota for the week, dfowler) while my mother taught herself how to knit, I can totally relate, and laugh. Hell, I'm probably featured on one of those pages!
FYI, jonmc, I was probably forced to wear outfits like that when my mother was going through her "I must make all of my daughter's clothing" period. Which lasted from birth to age 16, when I began working and buying all of my own clothes (though not enough to buy the truly "cool" attire; just enough to avoid being targeted by the rich kids). I was the biggest nerd ever in high school, right down to my Princess Di shirt (that my mom made, natch).
and years later you make fun of people and things you think aren't cool enough for you? That's not progress, that perpetuating cheap cattiness. Sorry, but that's how I see it.
My mom dressed me in uncool stuff, too, and still insists on buying me stuff I don't like for Christmas and birthdays. But I know she meant well and she was doing the best she could.
FYI, jonmc, I was probably forced to wear outfits like that when my mother was going through her "I must make all of my daughter's clothing" period. Which lasted from birth to age 16, when I began working and buying all of my own clothes (though not enough to buy the truly "cool" attire; just enough to avoid being targeted by the rich kids). I was the biggest nerd ever in high school, right down to my Princess Di shirt (that my mom made, natch).
jonmc is always ready to prick the bubble of others' ego: none to consider themselves better than others in matters of style, music, fashion, or taste.
Haha! The Mother-Daughter matching thing - my mom got into this for a short period, and would make things like matching sundresses for herself, me, and my sister. Thanks goodness she's a lot like me though, and gets bored with new projects relatively quickly.
postmodernmillie, those are so scary! if it was a little darker and i were a little younger, i'd be rocking backwards and forwards under my duvet about now
OK, so I overreacted. Stuff like this still bugs me, though. To devote that much of your time and energy to being snotty about fashion choices just seems mean-spirited to me. YMMV.
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