The New And Improved Fashion Board

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My little sister, who for most of her adult life lived the life of an uber-rich expat wife in northern Africa and the middle east has now moved back home to small town Canada with her son, divorced her husband (but on very friendly terms -- in keeping with her sisters' examples), is now dating a welder (whose wife left him for another woman, shocking the small town) who is very fond of hockey and has three little sons, and now she's opening up an A&W burger franchise (not in a mall). So for the past week she has been flipping burgers as part of the franchisee training program. She has to work the cash register today. I do not think she is wearing flair though.

ETA: I forgot. The welder drives a pickup. It's totally Lifetime movie of the week.

I worked as a welder's assistant in the oilfields of East Texas.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
My little sister, who for most of her adult life lived the life of an uber-rich expat wife in northern Africa and the middle east has now moved back home to small town Canada with her son, divorced her husband (but on very friendly terms -- in keeping with her sisters' examples), is now dating a welder (whose wife left him for another woman, shocking the small town) who is very fond of hockey and has three little sons, and now she's opening up an A&W burger franchise (not in a mall). So for the past week she has been flipping burgers as part of the franchisee training program. She has to work the cash register today. I do not think she is wearing flair though.

ETA: I forgot. The welder drives a pickup. It's totally Lifetime movie of the week.

Did you ever make it by the Tim Hortons in Connecticut? Much better than A&W - would you rather have an egg salad and a timbit or that fatty burger?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
All joking aside, I think some of the injustices and racsim you have encountered have deeply wounded you on some level and you carry that around with you.

No shit? What tipped you off?

All joking aside, I think some of the injustices and fattycism you have encountered have deeply wounded you on some level and you carry that around with you.

TM

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I worked as a welder's assistant in the oilfields of East Texas.

Did you drive a pickup?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Has there ever been a time in your life where men didn't become drooling idiots around you (besides the 10 minutes when we had that one drink, when neither I nor anyone around you flirted with you at all)?

Pretty much every woman I know is better looking than you and yet, not one of them has ever felt the need to talk about their looks 10% as much as you do. Hmmmmm. I guess maybe this isn't much of a mystery, although, the unattractive women I've known would never make themselves the object of ridicule by talking about how desirable they are either.

You are truly one-of-a-kind.

TM

You make it sound like I am so ugly. "Pretty much every woman I know is better looking than you.." that is unduly harsh.

I get approached a lot. you can attribute it to what you would like and you have the right to think I'm butt.

I'm insecure about my extra weight gain [which I've essentially started losing I'm halfway there] yes. But other than you I don't think I've ever been told I was ugly. so yes, you are a special case as well, mr. chip on your shoulder guy

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
No shit? What tipped you off?

All joking aside, I think some of the injustices and fattycism you have encountered have deeply wounded you on some level and you carry that around with you.

TM

I thought black guys like fat chicks?

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I worked as a welder's assistant in the oilfields of East Texas.

At Apex Technical School, we don't just teach oxacetylene welding! And you get to keep your tools when you're done. But I can't call you. You have to take the first step.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
You make it sound like I am so ugly. "Pretty much every woman I know is better looking than you.." that is unduly harsh.

I get approached a lot. you can attribute it to what you would like and you have the right to think I'm butt.

I'm insecure about my extra weight gain [which I've essentially started losing I'm halfway there] yes. But other than you I don't think I've ever been told I was ugly. so yes, you are a special case as well, mr. chip on your shoulder guy

I don't think ugly people are told they are ugly very often, if at all. I'm just saying.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Did you drive a pickup?

At work, yes. Other times I drove a Honda.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I don't think ugly people are told they are ugly very often, if at all. I'm just saying.

honey ugly people don't get approached at all. sorry

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I worked as a welder's assistant in the oilfields of East Texas.

Rugged. You're sort of the carpenter, or biker, in the Village People.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
honey ugly people don't get approached at all. sorry

Hmm. Where do the ugly people keep coming from, then?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
honey ugly people don't get approached at all. sorry

What do you mean by "approached"? Are you sure they don't think you are a hooker? Or are just interacting with you as another human being? I mean, I don't think I'm all the way down at "ugly" but I don't think I really get approached. Other than the occasional almost obligatory "hey baby"* from the valet parking guys I walk past.



*I don't think that is actually what they say, but you get the idea.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
At work, yes. Other times I drove a Honda.

Honda makes pickups.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
What do you mean by "approached"? Are you sure they don't think you are a hooker? Or are just interacting with you as another human being? I mean, I don't think I'm all the way down at "ugly" but I don't think I really get approached. Other than the occasional almost obligatory "hey baby"* from the valet parking guys I walk past.



*I don't think that is actually what they say, but you get the idea.

why would they think I'm a hooker? I dress very conservatively.

I mean conversation starting, getting hit on.