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My beauty tip: Learn all you can about the Photoshop filters menu and never go to FAPs.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey mark c where do you and jerry play? its about time i got out and did some good ol flailing and kicking of balls.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Steve, we play in Fulham at 6.45 on a Monday night. It's a family (not either of our families, I should add) organised thing - the players range from a couple of extremely skilful 9 year olds to a rickety 45. It's fun though, no-one's either fantastic or appalling, and it's a very friendly atmosphere. Email me if you want further info.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sarah have you read The Little Friend? It could happen!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sarah you are copying my swimming idea. Which I am actually going to do. Apologies to anyone who has met me and finds the idea of me in swimwear more than a little disturbing. I too find it disturbing, but hopefully the swimming will gradulaly make things less disturbing. Or, to not beat around the bush, FAT.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

I too am 25, and my body too has turned to crap this year, only on the inside too... In the past year I've got acid reflux (continually full stomach, phlegm in lungs, no breath) and RSI (continual pain in arms and shoulders and back + shouldn't type anymore, which sux as I'm a writer...). And to top it all, I now have the irrefutable photgraphic proof that my hairline in receding. AND I'm starting to get spots again, for the first time in 11 years. I am basically a walking Christmas pudding. Thank you, GOD!

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

christmas pudding? yum.

I am 25 and am incredibly pale and a bit flabby despite having sticks for legs. But I know I just need a good bit of sunshine and exercise and I'll be happy as can be like in the secret garden.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Reading some of the posts on this thread... am I the only person who thinks that they look *better* at 33 than I did ten years ago? I am much less overweight, my skin is clear and I have decent(ish) hair now that I never had in my early 20's. I was a frigging ugly teenager and youth, but I've sort of grown into a non-hideousness or even attractiveness that I never had when I was young. So take heed! All is not lost!

― kate, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

No diving no bombing no heavy petting EE-URP.

Lixi - do we have a neu local swimming pool? I did aqua aerobics a couple of times you know. It's good! You get to do a very silly workout and then afterwards you get to mess about in the pool doing handstands or practising being a drowned corpse, whatever takes yr fancy.

I think I have forgotten to do a roll turn. Bah humbug.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have no desire to do group exercise.I intend to turn up, change in a darkened room which they will have erected specially for me, creep into the pool, swim a few lengths then return home, slightly moist as I will not have dared stay long in the changing rooms...

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't believe I never wound up posting to this thread. Amateurist looks very nice, actually. I know comments like that are no help, since it's less about the reassurance of others than it is about living up to whatever personal potential you're trying to unlock, but . . . Amateurist is great-looking, I think.

And if everything he says is true, he might be out-of-shape enough to make a good running partner for me! Whaddayasay, let's get together over by the lake and do, say, 500 yards every weekend? Then maybe some cigarettes and chili cheese dogs.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

why don't you just marry him already

― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ama wouldn't have him: he's ugly.

(I love you really!!!)

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

My version of "running" = walk from Belmont El to Reckless, get CDs, walk from Reckless to hot dog stand, get hot dog, walk from hot dog stand to lakefront and eat hot dog on bench, thumb through liner notes. Take nap.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait!, where's the "leave bench and walk home" step?

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Bench = home.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

re: swimming costume...they sell little shorts for girls now that I love. They cover your whole ass and you don't have to worry about waxing or what not. Plus if you wear the shorts with a band t-shirt you look punk rock.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dude, the walk from the Belmont El to Reckless is a bitch! Okay, not really, but: no matter how many times I walk that walk, I'm still surprised that it's quite a bit longer than the "couple blocks" I always imagine it is.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cause, you know, there's that mega-block past Halsted.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

This is my favourite thread Ever

― alexfack (alexfack), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

nabisco, you're a wimp.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah, I second Diamond. Y'all should try walking from 18th and Halsted to the Archer Orange Line in January sometime.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

ooh hstencil you're so baaaaaadd

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

Badder than ol' King Kong, meaner than a junkyard dog.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

i was gonna say i'd take gainsbourg's face, but..

http://www.artouest.org/web/gainsnet/imagesite/photos/gainsbar.jpg

i think the photos i've posted here are really flattering compared to what i "really" look like. i photograph pretty well. i don't videotape well. unfortunately, i trust tv.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Get off my jock, bitches: I said "no, not really, it's just longer than I always think." You can call me a walking-wimp next time you two walk from Hyde Park to the Red Line in the snow.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

See, now I'm bad. Plus that's like omigod sort of a "rough neighborhood" ooo-err!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

eh, I've done that. Try walking from the Belmont Red Line to Cornelia and Damen in the snow at 3 AM, pal.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

Belmont Red Line to Cornelia and Damn in the snow at 3 AM? You were lucky! I had to walk from the Howard Red Line to Fullerton and California at high noon during the 1995 heat wave!

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I see your Howard Red Line to Fullerton and California and raise you one Botanical Gardens in Winnetka to the Loop by bicycle.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

dude now I know you're lying.

(uh, no I don't)

― hstencil, Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"and we had to eat coal, and work 27 hours a day, and we were glad to be beaten to death when we got home..."

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Whew, I was hoping someone would get the "You were lucky" reference. I would never walk from Howard to California, that'd be idiotic.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anyway, during the 95 heat wave I was in Michigan. I walked from the pinky-knuckle to the ring-fingertip dressed only in an aluminum foil loincloth just so I could get smacked with a sand-filled hose and told to walk back.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

95 isn't very hot. Or do you mean centigrade?

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have a cute sappy romantic story about the worst day of the 95 heatwave which I will not share with you.

"95 heat wave" = 1995, when it was up to 110 degrees I believe.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Possibly a bit more. Several hundred people died. But not me. I was slogging out through West Rogers Park on my way down to Fullerton, licking the sweat off of passing dogs and drinking my own urine.

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Damn that was my cute sappy romantic story. Oh well.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was joking.

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was at Lollapalooza down in Tinley Park during the 95 heatwave. God that was brutal.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was working at a summer camp and we herded all the campers inside to watch Free Willy and Free Willy 2.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

And now I'm thirsty. Just a moment.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

In 1995 I was (a) drunker than you, (b) more likely to injure myself than you, (c) having more sex than you, and (d) getting in more fights than you.

(Note: none of the above are true.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did a lot of tubing that summer, though, up in Michigan. Ahh, the lazy float of the inner tube down whatever small body of water that was ...

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually I'm certain beyond a reasonable doubt that all of those things are true.

Actually I got in some trouble at camp. I was playing tag with several campers when they decided it would be fun to all jump on me at once while I was sitting down on the grass. One overzealous girl leaped right onto my arm. As I heard the crack I yelled, "God DAMN it!" Oops. Luckily there was a hospital around the corner and I got patched up alright.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

ten months pass...

ugh

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 06:35 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

ugh

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:35 (twenty years ago) link

mirrors are not my friend these days; a combination of laziness and lack of time has turned me into the bald guy who never gets a haircut when he needs one

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

Me, yesterday:

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/09/102609.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

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