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24 Apr 2008, 8:57 pm
24 Apr 2008, 9:00 pm
24 Apr 2008, 9:05 pm
ouinon wrote:
ref: clothes/dressing ...oh ditto ditto ditto! me too i had this one; when i was younger and richer i used to play up to the wacky style approach, looking deliberately more colourful and bright and floaty and bohemian.
Then i got older and poorer and i depended on charity-shops/second-hand shops which meant that i looked heaps weirder, but by then i rarely had a regular job either. But I still had colour style so it worked.
But oh horror sometime in the last 10-12 years i lost my enjoyment of wearing colours, mainly because I have become fussier about the colours; the really beautiful ( unmuddy/non-violent/clear ) ones are rare or expensive, so all i can find/want to wear is black and grey and bits of white, so my essentially "mannish"/asexual style, of baggy trousers/plain leggings, huge tops and uncluttered/classic/severe lines has become very apparent.
I used to wear colourful jewellery too, but can't bear to anymore. Nor scarves and all the other "bits" that make one so much more "acceptable". And heels... ... impossible, so certain kinds of clothing has always been out of the question, because don't go with big wide chunky flatties.
Yes, i received comments too, in several jobs, about various aspects of my clothing, ( trousers, colourful shirts, shoes, socks, etc), although I was always clean, and in my opinion attractive/stylish within the means at my disposition anyway!!
Then i got older and poorer and i depended on charity-shops/second-hand shops which meant that i looked heaps weirder, but by then i rarely had a regular job either. But I still had colour style so it worked.
But oh horror sometime in the last 10-12 years i lost my enjoyment of wearing colours, mainly because I have become fussier about the colours; the really beautiful ( unmuddy/non-violent/clear ) ones are rare or expensive, so all i can find/want to wear is black and grey and bits of white, so my essentially "mannish"/asexual style, of baggy trousers/plain leggings, huge tops and uncluttered/classic/severe lines has become very apparent.
I used to wear colourful jewellery too, but can't bear to anymore. Nor scarves and all the other "bits" that make one so much more "acceptable". And heels... ... impossible, so certain kinds of clothing has always been out of the question, because don't go with big wide chunky flatties.
Yes, i received comments too, in several jobs, about various aspects of my clothing, ( trousers, colourful shirts, shoes, socks, etc), although I was always clean, and in my opinion attractive/stylish within the means at my disposition anyway!!
What would you say your favorite colors are?
24 Apr 2008, 9:08 pm
ouinon wrote:
ref: lesbian invasion:... when i was actively lesbian and with a girlfriend we went with a friend of mine to a party she had been invited to by colleagues. I went in a long black dress and almost shaved head, and my partner in short bleached haircut and leather pilot's jacket etc.
We were approached in one room by a woman who had been drinking and plucked up courage to tell us that her husband wouldn't let her out of the house on her own because he said she was too unstable etc. She started crying because she said he had separated her from a dear ( female) friend of hers.
The husband gathered support to have us removed from his wife's presence; we were considered to be dangerously influencing a fragile woman, and apparently most people there found us "alarming".
We tried to contact the woman afterwards; a friend experienced in counselling suggested we prepare a letter beforehand with useful tel numbers for abused wives, because she said we wouldn't be allowed to see her, ..and we weren't. She didn't dare let us in the house and pretended we were someone else at the door, so we just handed her the letter and left.
We were approached in one room by a woman who had been drinking and plucked up courage to tell us that her husband wouldn't let her out of the house on her own because he said she was too unstable etc. She started crying because she said he had separated her from a dear ( female) friend of hers.
The husband gathered support to have us removed from his wife's presence; we were considered to be dangerously influencing a fragile woman, and apparently most people there found us "alarming".
We tried to contact the woman afterwards; a friend experienced in counselling suggested we prepare a letter beforehand with useful tel numbers for abused wives, because she said we wouldn't be allowed to see her, ..and we weren't. She didn't dare let us in the house and pretended we were someone else at the door, so we just handed her the letter and left.
Girl, that's sad.
I guess it qualifies as a different sort of bullying
24 Apr 2008, 9:11 pm
DeaconBlues wrote:
cosmiccat wrote:
Let's Give Them Something to Talk About
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04r_tlWdRs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z04r_tlWdRs[/youtube]
I've never been good with mornings. In seventh grade, I was usually half-asleep during first-period English class. As a result, a rumor started that I was an alcoholic, and was coming to class drunk. When the rumor finally got back to me, I came to class one morning with an empty, carefully-washed wine bottle filled with cherry Fla-Vor-Aid (we were too broke for Kool-Aid). I did stop by and let the teacher know what was going on before sitting down - and every so often, during class, I'd sneak a sip of red liquid from this wine bottle...
When someone asked, I actually let them have a drink. I kind of wish I'd had the guts back then to tell them that the red liquid was human blood - I bet they'd have bought it, too!
I don't think I ever pulled tricks like that. I sucked at lying. Although I did do some creative costumes for Halloween.
24 Apr 2008, 9:13 pm
reika wrote:
FIRST BIKE RIDE of the year on Earth Day (how apropo) 
Did 24 miles alltogether, but man, does my butt hurt. It was beautiful out, still a few icy spots on the trails but I'll live. I'm SO happy!! !! ! Gonna go ride some more today, while Mini-Reika is at school. I only have a month to ride while shes at school and then I have to pay a babysitter (her older sister, the only person I really trust w/ her)) to watch her while I ride.
Gonna ride in the "Walk and Roll for Hope" in May, its not very far (the bike ride part) but its for the foundation where I get her grants from so I want to give back something. My only problem is I seem to be unable to ask people to sponsor me. I just get all tounge-tied when I think of asking someone. Two of the girls from work put in money w/out me having to ask, but thats the only sponsers I have.
When my boss saw me (78 year old Greek Man) he asked me what was wrong, and I told him my butt hurt, he just smiled and said "Vasilene" He always makes me laugh. Its like his mission, I love him for caring if I ever laugh or not.
Did 24 miles alltogether, but man, does my butt hurt. It was beautiful out, still a few icy spots on the trails but I'll live. I'm SO happy!! !! ! Gonna go ride some more today, while Mini-Reika is at school. I only have a month to ride while shes at school and then I have to pay a babysitter (her older sister, the only person I really trust w/ her)) to watch her while I ride.Gonna ride in the "Walk and Roll for Hope" in May, its not very far (the bike ride part) but its for the foundation where I get her grants from so I want to give back something. My only problem is I seem to be unable to ask people to sponsor me. I just get all tounge-tied when I think of asking someone. Two of the girls from work put in money w/out me having to ask, but thats the only sponsers I have.
When my boss saw me (78 year old Greek Man) he asked me what was wrong, and I told him my butt hurt, he just smiled and said "Vasilene" He always makes me laugh. Its like his mission, I love him for caring if I ever laugh or not.
Ever practiced in front of a mirror?
24 Apr 2008, 9:16 pm
sinsboldly wrote:
ouinon wrote:
ref: lesbian invasion:... when i was actively lesbian and with a girlfriend we went with a friend of mine to a party she had been invited to by colleagues. I went in a long black dress and almost shaved head, and my partner in short bleached haircut and leather pilot's jacket etc.
We were approached in one room by a woman who had been drinking and plucked up courage to tell us that her husband wouldn't let her out of the house on her own because he said she was too unstable etc. She started crying because she said he had separated her from a dear ( female) friend of hers.
The husband gathered support to have us removed from his wife's presence; we were considered to be dangerously influencing a fragile woman, and apparently most people there found us "alarming".
We tried to contact the woman afterwards; a friend experienced in counselling suggested we prepare a letter beforehand with useful tel numbers for abused wives, because she said we wouldn't be allowed to see her, ..and we weren't. She didn't dare let us in the house and pretended we were someone else at the door, so we just handed her the letter and left.
We were approached in one room by a woman who had been drinking and plucked up courage to tell us that her husband wouldn't let her out of the house on her own because he said she was too unstable etc. She started crying because she said he had separated her from a dear ( female) friend of hers.
The husband gathered support to have us removed from his wife's presence; we were considered to be dangerously influencing a fragile woman, and apparently most people there found us "alarming".
We tried to contact the woman afterwards; a friend experienced in counselling suggested we prepare a letter beforehand with useful tel numbers for abused wives, because she said we wouldn't be allowed to see her, ..and we weren't. She didn't dare let us in the house and pretended we were someone else at the door, so we just handed her the letter and left.
I remember trying to 'rescue' a young woman I met when working at a 'naked encounter studio' in San Francisco in the 70's. I was way over my head here but when I went home with her once I could see she had a very controlling boyfriend and her boyfriends boyfriend was also controlling her saying things like " Rachel, we told you to bring home other girls from work so they can join us, why are you bringing home ret*ds?" "Rachel, come here, you have not made me contented, didn't you promise you would bring home girls from work?" and Rachel would say in a monotone, "yes, yes you did and I promised" At that time, I was being beaten by my own husband, and there was not much notice of this sort of behaviour. I tried to get her to come home with me, but I could not keep her where I lived and she had no place else to go and neither did I.
thank goodness things are available for battered women these days! It still happens but it is not so culturely OK anymore.
Merle
Well, did you "rescue" her?
24 Apr 2008, 9:18 pm
ouinon wrote:
I can remember being shocked though, because it was 1990, and I thought that oppression of that sort was a thing of the past, but then it was only two years since I had become conscious of feminism, as something of earth shattering relevance to my life. 
I was about 20 years behind the times myself.
And very angry afterwards because the friend whose colleagues they were refused to say anything about it to the guy, her colleague, or put pressure on him to allow his wife to meet up with her etc. ( we lived in another town hundreds of miles away so we couldn't do much more about it after the visit) She said that our "behaviour", which was just to be visible lesbians and listen sympathetically and believingly to this wife's story, had already caused enough of a stink/tension in the dept already.
I was about 20 years behind the times myself. And very angry afterwards because the friend whose colleagues they were refused to say anything about it to the guy, her colleague, or put pressure on him to allow his wife to meet up with her etc. ( we lived in another town hundreds of miles away so we couldn't do much more about it after the visit) She said that our "behaviour", which was just to be visible lesbians and listen sympathetically and believingly to this wife's story, had already caused enough of a stink/tension in the dept already.
I'm afraid oppression of that sort hasn't gone away, and probably won't for some time.
24 Apr 2008, 9:19 pm
richie wrote:
reika wrote:
FIRST BIKE RIDE of the year on Earth Day (how apropo) Did 24 miles alltogether, but man, does my butt hurt. It was beautiful out, still a few icy spots on the trails but I'll live. I'm SO happy!! !! ! Gonna go ride some more today, while Mini-Reika is at school. I only have a month to ride while shes at school and then I have to pay a babysitter (her older sister, the only person I really trust w/ her)) to watch her while I ride.
Gonna ride in the "Walk and Roll for Hope" in May, its not very far (the bike ride part) but its for the foundation where I get her grants from so I want to give back something. My only problem is I seem to be unable to ask people to sponsor me. I just get all tounge-tied when I think of asking someone. Two of the girls from work put in money w/out me having to ask, but thats the only sponsers I have.
When my boss saw me (78 year old Greek Man) he asked me what was wrong, and I told him my butt hurt, he just smiled and said "Vasilene" He always makes me laugh. Its like his mission, I love him for caring if I ever laugh or not.
Did 24 miles alltogether, but man, does my butt hurt. It was beautiful out, still a few icy spots on the trails but I'll live. I'm SO happy!! !! ! Gonna go ride some more today, while Mini-Reika is at school. I only have a month to ride while shes at school and then I have to pay a babysitter (her older sister, the only person I really trust w/ her)) to watch her while I ride.Gonna ride in the "Walk and Roll for Hope" in May, its not very far (the bike ride part) but its for the foundation where I get her grants from so I want to give back something. My only problem is I seem to be unable to ask people to sponsor me. I just get all tounge-tied when I think of asking someone. Two of the girls from work put in money w/out me having to ask, but thats the only sponsers I have.
When my boss saw me (78 year old Greek Man) he asked me what was wrong, and I told him my butt hurt, he just smiled and said "Vasilene" He always makes me laugh. Its like his mission, I love him for caring if I ever laugh or not.
We finally have some nice weather for the weekend coming....in the 80s..So I'm looking forward to my first ride on the Rail-trail
for this year....
What's Rail-trail
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25 Apr 2008, 1:17 am
morning_after wrote:
Hey, Merle, thanks.
Just so you all know, he is very adament that he was sorry. He meant it as a joke and it got out of hand.
Just so you all know, he is very adament that he was sorry. He meant it as a joke and it got out of hand.
if it 'gets out of hand' again, you will know what you are working with.
Merle
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25 Apr 2008, 4:25 am
25 Apr 2008, 8:23 am
Thanks Sleepydragon. Just ordered Donnie Darko and Boondock Saints.
25 Apr 2008, 9:54 am
This just in: Corelle dinnerware is not unbreakable! If thrown full force in the direction of husband who has messed with wife's reality one too many times. It will shatter into thousands of shards as said husband high tails it out the door to go fishing with a look of utter shock and disbelief on face. The positive effects of Corelle hurling by wife on wife is a great sense of calm, much like the effects of xanax or orgasm. The negative effects on wife is the sight of her half eaten scrapple and eggs all over the walls and mixed in with the shards of Corelle on the kitchen floor. Pictures taken before clean up by wife will be submitted at a later date for proof that Corelle dinnerware is not unbreakable. 
25 Apr 2008, 10:12 am
cosmiccat wrote:
This just in: Corelle dinnerware is not unbreakable! If thrown full force in the direction of husband who has messed with wife's reality one too many times. It will shatter into thousands of shards as said husband high tails it out the door to go fishing with a look of utter shock and disbelief on face. The positive effects of Corelle hurling by wife on wife is a great sense of calm, much like the effects of xanax or orgasm. The negative effects on wife is the sight of her half eaten scrapple and eggs all over the walls and mixed in with the shards of Corelle on the kitchen floor. Pictures taken before clean up by wife will be submitted at a later date for proof that Corelle dinnerware is not unbreakable.
The manufacturers will replace said item at no cost - you just contact them. ; )
PS Watch out for the really little shards, they fly quite a distance and they are like little glass needles if you step on 'em.
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