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14 December 2005

This is for Amberglow →[More:]You called me FAT!!! (see comments).

You're mean.

(The other night at the meet-up Amberglow said I was zaftig or had zaftig...he said he meant it in a nice way but calling a girl fat is never nice no matter how you say it).
post by: Lola_G at: 13:41 | 143 comments
lola_g, you. are. HAWT.
posted by quonsar 14 December | 13:43
I guess I should be happy you said it to my face.

(Back to crying at my desk)
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 13:43
You just say that because I love you, quonsar.

Seriously, I'm not fishing here. Just wondering if I should be insulted by the zaftig thing...
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 13:44
no. full, shapely figure is not insulting.
posted by quonsar 14 December | 13:45
Does this comment make me look fat?
posted by danostuporstar 14 December | 13:48
zaftig doesn't mean fat, it means stacked and curvy.
posted by mygothlaundry 14 December | 13:51
I'm proud to be zaftig! And Rubenesque, even.
posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 13:52
Well, then I did a google search and came up with all these plus sized clothing websites. I know I am being a silly sensitive girl here but I'm moody and crabby so that doesn't help things. (Maybe I should have started a shouting thread instead?)
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 13:53
lola, dear: zaftig is hot, trust me. It means the same as BBW, curvy, etc. and Real Men like their women that way. I'd take a girl with your shape over 1000 Victoria's Secret stick figures.

/male stick-figure himself
posted by jonmc 14 December | 13:55
Okay, thanks for the reassurance. I wasn't fishing for compliments at all -- I'm just sensitive to it (happens when your sister is a model and 125 in a down jacket).

And I mostly had a bad midwestern public school education so I don't have a very sophisticated vocabulary.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 13:58
Real Men like their women that way

FINALLY, an explaination for my love of gay men.

/female stick-figure
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 13:58
it doesn't mean fat at all, and it's not at all in any way shape or form any kind of insult--sorry, hon--i didn't mean to give you a complex.

it means ripe and luscious.
posted by amberglow 14 December | 14:00
well, thepinksuperhero, while I can vouch for the fact that you are indeed hotter than Georgia asphalt, I think that my preference four voluptuous women comes from the fact that I am myself famine victim level skinny and I guess I don't want to bump up against a body like mine.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:01
I'm proud to be Real Men!
posted by danostuporstar 14 December | 14:01
What mygothlaundry said. And the notion of plus-size clothes is retarded and doesn't say much about being fat. Plus-size is anything over twelve; I wear a twelve or a fourteen, but plenty of short people who are way fatter for their size don't make it to those sizes because they have a lot further to go, being like a four when they aren't fat.

Also, you aren't fat. Though you are stacked.
posted by dame 14 December | 14:02
Awwwwww jonmc ::blushes::
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:03
Not on preview: I think you are prettier than your sister.
posted by dame 14 December | 14:03
I'm starting to get excited

*fans self, mops brow*
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:04
Yes, tis a blessing and a curse. I just bought two new swimsuits, Dame.

Hope to be up to your speed soon.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:05
I think you are prettier than your sister.

I'd second that, mainly based on your figure. every though your sister is pretty damn pretty herself.

I just bought two new swimsuits, Dame.

Oh, my....
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:06
And Amberglow, sorry for the kneejerk reaction.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:07
Hehe, it was based on something he said last Friday, so I don't know if it can be classified as "kneejerk". Unless it's an old lady knee or something.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:08
Yay!!! New swimsuits are one of the great pleasure in life. I need to get one soon, because I'm shrinking and the front keeps pulling down.

After you do your class for a bit, you should come visit my team.
posted by dame 14 December | 14:08
Thanks, jon. I didn't really start this for all the compliments though I can't say it hurts. Though now I feel a bit silly.

The swimsuits are speedos. And they ain't sexy. I am hoping to become a swimmer and join a swim team like Dame.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:09
Well, kneejerk after my friend told me he called me fat. (From the link)
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:10
Ahhh, I see.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:10
Also, you aren't fat. Though you are stacked.

listen to dame--you're not fat. zaftig is stacked, hourglass, buxom, ripe, luscious--it's fabulous--it's been the standard of beauty for millenia--eons even. (and ignore american dictionary definitions of yiddish words from now on--zaftig is not fat at all--it's curvy and rounded--it's Marilyn Monroe and Jennifer Tilly and Jennifer Lopez instead of Kate Moss)
posted by amberglow 14 December | 14:10
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posted by Eideteker 14 December | 14:10
The swimsuits are speedos. And they ain't sexy.

You'd be amazed and surprised at what I (and other men) find sexy. I developed a massive crush on this voluptuos model in a bridal gown(safe for work). I don't go for the whole thong/micro-string/wicked weasel look. I like girl-next-door class.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:13
I should also mention I haven't had a cigarette in almost 48 hours....
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:18
I think Speedos are hot, too, because they say "I'm here to really swim." Did you get the lycra ones or the "endurance" polyester ones? If the former, get the polyester ones when they wear out; I kill a lycra suit in like two months; my polyester one is still going after about six.

Also, Eideteker, that first picture is glorious.
posted by dame 14 December | 14:19
I still maintain that this is not one of Speedo Inc's better ideas. Conjures up images of kercheifed immigrant women in a factory wringing out nuthuggers into bottles.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:22
It looks like the Antron/Lycra on both. I should have emailed you because I couldn't remember your advice on the subject.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:26
I just wanna chime in and say how much I love jonmc for his continual praise of the curvy woman.

And lola_g? dead sexy.
posted by gaspode 14 December | 14:26
you're welcome, but I ain't the only one, trust me.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:27
I've seen your picture, lola. Zaftig is hot. You are gorgeous. Men or women, gay or straight or in-between, you can call me zaftig anytime. Just call me.

On preview: Seconding gaspode's praise of jonmc's philosophy of curves.
posted by matildaben 14 December | 14:27
lola, I don't know the etymology or proper usage of the word "zaftig", but I think you're juicy and juicy is where it's at.
posted by Frisbee Girl 14 December | 14:28
*pours remainder of Country Time Lemonade over head*

Aww, man...
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:30
you're welcome, but I ain't the only one, trust me.

Yeah, he ain't. Zaftig is a great word. You know in the old cartoons when the wolf bugs out and whistles and flips out and shoots fireworks out of his ears and so on? He's just seen a zaftig lady.

posted by Divine_Wino 14 December | 14:31
Really guys, thank you.

My original point was, "Hey, I spent all Friday with Amberglow and I was too stupid to know what he meant when he called me zaftig and today I see it on my girlfriend's blog and hey, I thought Amberglow and I hit it off and was he calling me fat????"

God, this place is so much nicer than that other place. I wouldn't even think of bringing this up there for fear I'd wind up killing myself.

posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:31
And just so you know, me and the wino do the same thing in real life. Those fireworks leave scorch marks, you know.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:32
You know, jon, real swimmer boys look hot in these "nuthuggers" as you call them. (Though I don't know what's up with the lighting.)

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But lots of swimmers were looser drag shorts at practice anyway; they're something between little briefs and silly trunks.
posted by dame 14 December | 14:35
Michael Phelps is sooooo dreamy.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:36
Ditto. I was in love during the last summer games and I think it was illegal.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:38
Michael Phelps. I swam in the same pool as him once. Although at the other side, in the slow lane.
posted by gaspode 14 December | 14:39
I just caught the lighting. It's like a halo around his manhood.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:40
Oh yeah, Lola, you have to practice looking at the other lanes while you swim, so you can check out the swimmer boys in their full moving glory--fly and backstroke turns, especially. Then I will teach you my patented "no, I wasn't trying to grab your ass, but you know how swimming backstroke is" move.

Look at this photo girls. Yowza. And he's legal now. (I can't hotlink because it's tripod.)

posted by dame 14 December | 14:40
Hmm, I don't see the photo, dame.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:41
Furthermore, clothes don't hurt any.

≡ Click to see image ≡
posted by dame 14 December | 14:41
I'd do Lola_G not only from the back but from the front as well. Now if that's not a glowing endorsement, I don't know what is.

What would you like for breakfast?
posted by Eideteker 14 December | 14:41
You have to click the link. It works when I do it. Also, I so want this documentary for my birthday, but my boy is buying me more gear instead. It's so hard to choose.
posted by dame 14 December | 14:44
Ouch, dame. I think that photo almost turned me gay. Maybe it's the hipsway? Nothing sexier than a man standing with his hips slanted. Unless it's a woman standing with her hips slanted.
posted by Eideteker 14 December | 14:46
He'd be preeetty to me if I didn't hear the gossip that he's a dick. But yes, he's so preeeeettty. I clearly need to take up swimming.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:46
On a healthy swimmer guy, they look good, I'm sure. On a guy like me, somewhat ridiculous
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:48
They look good on swimmers when they're swimming. If I was hanging at the beach and saw him in that hanging out, I'd think, there's a guy who is in love with himself.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:49
Would you have a heavenly glow around your package?

Cause that's all I really need. Divine pee-pee.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:49
Isn't that what we all really need?
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:50
(I can comment freely on glowing weiners but not on comments regarding how someone would "do me". Not really sure about that...)
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:50
Who's up for a road trip to Ann Arbor? Eideteker, you can come too.

Is he really a dick? Well, we'll just have to gag him while we do dirty things. No harm in that, is there?
posted by dame 14 December | 14:50
I had a summer student a couple of summers back who was friends with him. Summer student was a great guy, so hopefully that means MP isn't a *complete* dick.

summer student was also young, athletic and hott. I don't like being a boss, sometimes
posted by gaspode 14 December | 14:50
Nope, no harm in gagging the boys, none at all. Let's find him!

::abandons cubicle in search of rope::
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:51
I love that this has become a young horny girl (and Eideteker) thread. This is improving my overall mood greatly. Though now, I want a cigarette for a very different reason.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:52
Would you have a heavenly glow around your package?

Nah. more like a thundercloud. or smog.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 14:53
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 14:55
I love the NYC girls. We are awsome. And hott. And once Michigan starts school again, we will be patrolling Ann Arbor. I have two super caliente pic of Phelps (inluding one with a hot Olympic tatoo) on my hard drive. Can you guys get big email attachments?
posted by dame 14 December | 14:55
Yes please!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 14:55
yeeessssssssss

(tell me where and when to trawl Ann Arbor! Go Blue!)
posted by gaspode 14 December | 14:56
Am I too late for the hot swimmer boy action?
posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 14:57
Amberglow, I hope you think Michael Phelps is hot, seeing as this thread was for you!!
posted by gaspode 14 December | 14:59
Nope, no harm in gagging the boys,

I misread this as "no harm in gagging ON boys."
posted by jrossi4r 14 December | 15:00
that too.
posted by gaspode 14 December | 15:01
Nope, no harm in gagging the boys,

I misread this as "no harm in gagging ON boys."


Well, that too.
posted by kellydamnit 14 December | 15:01
MetaChat needs to get a room.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 14 December | 15:02
preferably one with a big bouncy bed all the girls can jump on in their underwear.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 15:04
Start your gmails, the photos have been sent.
posted by dame 14 December | 15:04
I just wanna chime in and say how much I love jonmc for his continual praise of the curvy woman.

...

On preview: Seconding gaspode's praise of jonmc's philosophy of curves.

If I mention I collect [sorta nsfw] pics of curvy women on flickr, can I get some of the gaspode/matildaben love? Or is my collection too stalkerish?
posted by danostuporstar 14 December | 15:04
This thread makes me really, really want to go swimming.
posted by jrossi4r 14 December | 15:06
I swear, the men of metachat have done more for my self esteem than any of the guys I interact with in person.
posted by kellydamnit 14 December | 15:06
Hell, dano, this is the internet. We've all got our collections of pictures of whatever blows our hair back.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 15:07
Of course, dano!

This thread is making me wish I were *more* curvy...

(read: wants bigger boobs)
posted by gaspode 14 December | 15:09
I prefer zaftig...probably a remnant of being breastfed until 3.5 (which contributed to my love of luscious breasteses)

*sigh*

i miss my curvy girl...
posted by Schyler523 14 December | 15:10
It's true; the men of MeCha are pretty awesome.
posted by dame 14 December | 15:11
Yay.
Hmm, I hadn't "realized" my selections were so exclusively top heavy...I'll have to address that.
posted by danostuporstar 14 December | 15:12
the men of MeCha are pretty awesome.

we got our moments.

*takes of shirt, poses preens, ducks flying vegetables*
posted by jonmc 14 December | 15:12
Gary: I was nuts for the girl....and what did it to me was these big titties she had.
Fastman: Big titties...haha!
Gary: She wouldn't have to worry about no titties for the rest of her life, boy, you know she was set and she was lookin' gooood son!

(That scene was the first thing that popped into my head on perusing dano's site.)

posted by jrossi4r 14 December | 15:12
Seriously, I just want to clean my clothes against his stomach and then let him bring me things like lattes and then foot rubs.

He is yummmmmmmy.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 15:13
Beautiful pics! I like the ones with the Asian girls staring at his... tattoo!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 15:14
Yeah, I love that tattoo. So, I guess I should wear my I heart boys in speedos T-shirt to the next meetup now, huh?

Also, the boys on my swim team are moderately hot, but they are also all girl-positive: they were talking about tampons at practice last night. Tampons and math. I'm telling you, swimmers are hott.
posted by dame 14 December | 15:16
There was a tattoo? I must have been distracted. ;)
posted by gaspode 14 December | 15:17
We've all got our collections of pictures of whatever blows our hair back.

≡ Click to see image ≡

Don't judge me.
posted by Divine_Wino 14 December | 15:17
Oh, no. Don't make me choose between Churchill and Phelps. I just can't do it.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 15:21
Ach, we act all nice and flattering to the MeCha ladies and whadda they do? Get all agitated over some dude who imitates a fish.

*sulks, passes bottle to his boys*
posted by jonmc 14 December | 15:22
Schyler!!

Hi!
posted by Frisbee Girl 14 December | 15:22
How could you miss the tat? It's in the best place of all.
posted by dame 14 December | 15:23
yeah, but I was looking slightly to the right.
posted by gaspode 14 December | 15:25
Heh.
posted by dame 14 December | 15:25
I love that thing that men get (the only woman I've seen it on is Pink) that hip/muscle/indenty thing.

posted by Lola_G 14 December | 15:28
*looks at hip muscle, mystified*

*drinks more*
posted by jonmc 14 December | 15:30
It's called the Adonis belt, I believe.

Also nice looking are Ous Mellouli (r. and below) and Grant Hackett (center).

I should take a nap now.

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posted by dame 14 December | 15:32
So that WAS you outside my window with the binoculars! I've gotta stop dancing to "My Humps" with the blinds open.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 15:33
Which meaning of nap are you referring to?
posted by danostuporstar 14 December | 15:34
I can just hear the conversation at home tonight.

Lola to Mr. Lola: So, I have zaftig and my internet friends appreciate it more than you.

Mr. Lola: Oh, yeah.

Lola: Well, well...you don't have an adonis belt so your not so great either.

(Mr. Lola looks at her like the crazy woman she is and shakes his head and goes back to reading whatever he was reading before she went mental for the 1500th time of the evening.
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 15:39
Ah, swimmerboys. Takes me back to my days on the high school JV team. There was this one hottie guy who was an exchange student from Croatia or something like that. He was the total ringer on the varsity team and on the water polo team. Any stroke, this guy could do it. But he didn't really get a hang of playing water polo the American way...

...until one day when some dude was totally up in his face (he was the goalie) and scratching him left and right with his toenails. Exchange Student dude waited until they were out of the water, and kneed him in the balls. Got a foul and time in the penalty box, but it was worth it.
posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 15:40
your = you're
posted by Lola_G 14 December | 15:40
I've gotta stop dancing to "My Humps" with the blinds open.

I do the same thing only it's usually to "Teenage Lobotomy."
posted by jonmc 14 December | 15:41
It's true; the men of MeCha are pretty awesome.

What about those of us who are still boys, at least intellectually? Don't hold my satyriasis against me, though I'd willingly hold it against you. *wink wink, nudge nudge*

No harm in being crude; it's the Internet!
posted by Eideteker 14 December | 15:59
I'm just looking for one divine hammer. [tm Breeders]
posted by matildaben 14 December | 16:02
I love curves. Mmmmmmm, curvy.
posted by tr33hggr 14 December | 16:05
Amberglow, I hope you think Michael Phelps is hot, seeing as this thread was for you!!

nah--too boyish for me.
posted by amberglow 14 December | 16:07
Why is defenestration EVERYONE's favorite word?

...and I thought being zaftig was a good thing. My english teacher once said "it means she's got a nice place for him to lay his head, and something to grab on to while they're dancing."
posted by muddgirl 14 December | 16:12
Hmm..I was never big into the swimmers. My jock of choice was soccer players. All that running up and down the field gave them legs like thoroughbreds and incredible stamina.

(They were just for fun, though. The dorky guys with good taste in music and movies are the ones I always ended up falling in love with.)
posted by jrossi4r 14 December | 16:13
What about those of us who are still boys, at least intellectually?

Aren't you in grad school? That'd make you older than me intellectualy. I'm the overgrown adolescent here. Pips has been known to walk into my computer room at midnight, see me thrashing around to the Ramones in my underwear drinking beer and say, "You're 35, not 15. Turn it down."
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:15
Also, I just found my copy of Master Of Puppets in a desk drawer. That record will be 20 years old next year! No matter, I'm still banging my head as I type. I want my old hair back.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:20
soccer players are hotter--great legs and they look sturdier rather than willowy. (except for Posh's husband, who they're still trying to sell to us--he's not at all hot)
posted by amberglow 14 December | 16:22
Metallica said all they had to say in Kill 'Em All.

/kneejerk

I like triathletes, myself
posted by gaspode 14 December | 16:23
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat

Bow to Leper Messiah!

*makes devil hands, shouts along, realizes how long it's been, cries*


and for the record the only sport I particapted in was Competitive Smoking and Freestyle Drunkeness. Not many groupies there sadly.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:26
jon: It'll cost you, if you want it. (I knew hanging around your barber's would pay off one day.)

And for the record, I'm not in grad school yet precisely because I'm still mentally a juvenile. I'm working on it, but I think I'll still have a bit of fun on the way.

jrossi: I was on the math team.
posted by Eideteker 14 December | 16:29
can you remulletize it? or is it my later Jesus-On-Meth look hair? In which case, I'll have to ask for my goatee back as well.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:33
It was band geeks and the art boys for me. You lust after the jocks, but it's the guy in the band you went to the supply closet with. ^_^
posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 16:41
Jeez, didn't any of you ladies lust after the pimply delinquents drinking beer in the parking lot? I thought "bad boy" was supposed to work wonders.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:44
My high school boyfriends were curious hybrids of math-competition nerds +pimply delinquents drinking beer in the carpark. What can I say? the nerds, they knew how to party in my school.
posted by gaspode 14 December | 16:46
soccer players are hotter--great legs and they look sturdier rather than willowy.


Are you implying swimmers look willowy? Swimmers have torsos to undo any soccer player. Besides, everyone knows that the soccer guys are for getting baked with.
posted by dame 14 December | 16:47
of course, if I had been getting lusted after and laid during those years, I wouldn't have evolved into the eloquently nihilistic misanthrope you've all come to love. So it's for the best.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:47
swimmers totally look willowy to me.
posted by amberglow 14 December | 16:52
You are looking at the wrong swimmers. Too bad you don't like ladies; lady swimmers are even sturdier.

And jon, I wasn't into boys in high school--I was all about socialism, existentialism, history & AP exams.
posted by dame 14 December | 16:55
All the swimmers I knew were skinny as could be.
But, I just don't go for the athletic type.

I suspect I will be totally alone on this one, though.

And Dame... I am still all about socialism, existentialism, and history. But I always have time for hot guys with questionable hair.
posted by kellydamnit 14 December | 16:56
And jon, I wasn't into boys in high school--I was all about socialism, existentialism, history & AP exams.

Lucky you. Girls were just about all I thought about, but I didn't manage to hook up with one till I was almost nineteen; Partly because back then I looked (and often acted) like an apprentice wino, and partly because I was utterly and completely dense to how women think and act around men. Truth be told it's a hair raising scorpion dance at any age. Let's hear it for domesticity.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 16:58
I never hooked up in high school because I was shy. Also, unattractive. I'm certain I'm still at least one of the two of those.
posted by Eideteker 14 December | 17:05
Ha! I was a total slut in high school. And a mathlete. It's a very sexy combination.
posted by gaspode 14 December | 17:10
A slutty mathlete?? Be still my beating heart.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 17:25
I was the stoner mathlete that played soccer...and i was in band!

*waits patiently to get smothered by awed mecha ladies*

I'm off to work the second half of a 16 hour day...Yay me!
posted by Schyler523 14 December | 17:39
Aw, doubles suck Schyler. Good luck. I'd smother you, but I think I'll leave that for the other ladies & just take advantage of you when you come visit again.
posted by dame 14 December | 17:44
I was like dame in high school. And I crushed out on other nerds.
posted by matildaben 14 December | 18:02
I'm always late! 'defenestration' is not my favorite word. And I have heard that MP is indeed a dick (though I would regard anyone who wanted/owned an Escalade was a dick). I kind of agree with amberglow that swimmers seem willowy. Kind of like cyclists - they seem willowy to me, too.
posted by chewatadistance 14 December | 18:19
I was like dame in high school. And I crushed out on other nerds.

I am absolutely sure that I was never crushed on in high school. I just can't picture some girl writing "I wonder if that bonehead jonmc likes me..." Too surreal.

Although, a mildly retarded girl used to follow me around at my grocery store job when I was 16. Later she asked me to the prom, but one my bonehead friends put her up to it.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 18:36
*awe-filled, smothers Schyler*
posted by Specklet 14 December | 18:42
I highly doubt that I was crushed on during high school. However, I did get to kiss quite a few guys before I got my first real boyfriend. One of them was the brother of the gal I was on the Tall Flags team with my freshman year. He's still number one on my "best kisser" list.

I made up for being boyfriendless during my first two years of high school by dating a college freshman my junior year of high school. (The guy I mentioned in the PDF link? That's him.) We ended up dating for six years.
posted by TrishaLynn 14 December | 19:04
Y'all are hawt.
posted by deborah 14 December | 20:40
Schyler? Another mathlete? yay!
posted by gaspode 14 December | 21:20
Y'all are hawt.

Not me. I'm lookwawm.
posted by jonmc 14 December | 21:30
Cyclists are willowy because your weight matters a lot for that; same with running. Swimmers have giant shoulders. You guys are way confused. But whatever. More swimmers for me.
posted by dame 14 December | 22:13
I highly doubt that I was crushed on during high school.

I felt the same way, and then someone started a website for alumni of my high school (it was a performing arts program, so we all knew each other), and we had a thread where we all gave away our high school crushes, and so many guys I never would have guessed had crushes on me!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 14 December | 23:09
thepinksuperhero, I went to a huge public high school (550 in my graduating class) and didn't hang around the fast partying rich kid clique that ran the place (the jocks in our school were actually kind of an out group themselves, oddly). I was smart but a complete underachiever, I ran with a rough crowd, but I was a wanna-be tough guy at best myself, and worked at dorky-ass paper hat service jobs from age 15 on up, i dressed like a wino, was loaded with pimples and bad hair, and listened to weird music and read books publicly (although I was too rowdy for the intellectual crowd, and thought they were dull & snobby). So I really didn't distinguism myself much, except as just another nimrod.

so many guys I never would have guessed had crushes on me!

Of course they did, you're a pretty girl. And even if you were an average girl, some dude would've been out there pining away. That's the way it is with girls. It's different for guys. Only those who are exceptional in some way-looks, brains, charm, money or whatever, get pined after. What the rest of us do is hope for an "A for Effort," situation.

posted by jonmc 15 December | 09:41
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