Grown so ugly.

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hahahahahahaha

strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

well at least throw some jogging in there, and gradually add more and more.

oops (Oops), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link

i've started gym, but on a basis that's so far too sporadic to be really useful (i overdo it once a week and then feel like crap, basically). these days i'm completely see-sawing from believing that i'm alright-looking enough to make my way in the world (i've completely given up on the idea that i might be attractive qua attractive), to thinking that i'm really UNattractive, gross, bad, ugly etc. right now i'm definitely in the 2nd camp. and it's not just a physical unattractiveness that i fear - it's that feeling that i'm useless and inadequate in the world, that i'm constantly saying the wrong things and making the wrong moves. occasionally i'll do or say or move the RIGHT way and then, in the subsequent hours/days/weeks/months, prize this RIGHTNESS to the degree that i feel i'll never be capable of it again, or at least not intentionally.

m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...
i lost 25 pounds in france, and have been steadily gaining it back again. i think i'm better at shaving though. i am going to buy a new bicycle, i think, and ride it around i0wa c1ty.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude I hope you do! Ride it at least 1/2 hour a day (especially to work, it is magically beneficial) and on days you don't, try to do at least 1/2 hour of pushups and situps.

-rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:26 (nineteen years ago) link

the scale has told me that i have lost 10 lbs since joining the gym but i do not see it. i also bought a beard trimmer to wack this thing into shape. i'm one aftershave bottle and an iron away from metrosexuality.

strng hlkngtn, Friday, 1 July 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

amateurist, I think you are selling yourself incredibly short in your initial post!

I am more in shape than I have been since christmas, I think.

Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

at least 1/2 hour of pushups and situps.

Not only is this impossible, but it won't work.

Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link

1/2 hour of exercise is a good limit, but you need a more varied workout than that.

Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link

http://theroadhousedobes.com/Crybaby.jpg

Ô¿Ô (eman), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG

cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link


I gained some weight from sleep deprivation, and ever since I got settled in my new home I've been sleeping better, and lo! I lost weight and am still losing weight. I'm getting a little more exercise, but I've been extremely busy, so it's not like I was on some tough regime to lose it. I'm so happy because I'm wearing a skirt that I haven't worn in ages, and most of my old clothes are fitting me again! The only major factor that has changed here has been the sleep, so I'm guessing it's a factor.

VM 9001 (dymaxia), Friday, 1 July 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

what are you doing in iowa city?

g e o f f (gcannon), Friday, 1 July 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

we need to see some photos amaturist

ken c (ken c), Saturday, 2 July 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

amateurist is good looking. I saw him in a bar where they were playing primus on a movie screen.

bnw (bnw), Saturday, 2 July 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh hell Amateurist, I'm ugly too. Who cares? Life is for the living.

Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 2 July 2005 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

primus, you say?

Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Saturday, 2 July 2005 05:11 (nineteen years ago) link

apparently.

jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 2 July 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, i always go to primus bars. you look surprised.

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 2 July 2005 05:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Before I moved I used to cycle 20 mins both ways to work and back but now that I live practically next to the station I'm starting to feel scooshy and out of shape. I would join a gym but the fees are stupendous. Plus I do shift work so it's hard to fit the exercise into my schedule. :-(

dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 2 July 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

ha, mark s's advice to shave with fruit may actually be rather good. the russian recently went through a phase of making facemasks out of whatever fruit she could find in the house and some yoghurt, occasionally with bits of stuff in it (what stuff i know not, i suspect grit) and then forcing everyone in the house to plaster themselves in it before it went rank. my skin was noticeably smoother for a day or two after each time i complied. perhaps it would help with shaving.

emsk, Saturday, 2 July 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I will never look great, in my opinion. There's still a vague hope that I can work towards rakish sometime in the near future.

Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 2 July 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

you remind me of six feet under guy, eric, i think his name is nate? anyway i think you, like amateurist, are selling yourself short!

s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 2 July 2005 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

he looks like a cross between the two brothers.

jed_ (jed), Saturday, 2 July 2005 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, you look like a cross between two tigers!

s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 3 July 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

i don't think i'm ugly

Surmounter, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link

but i don't think i'm like stunning either. it's that midway point that gets so confusing, see.

Surmounter, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

i don't know anymore

surm, Sunday, 2 January 2011 08:54 (thirteen years ago) link

oh god i'm being emo

surm, Sunday, 2 January 2011 08:59 (thirteen years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jizu9Li--I

gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 2 January 2011 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Hahaha surm thinking he's ugly is like a glass of freshly-squeezed orange juice saying "I am not refreshing or satisfying, no one will find me delicious"

A glass of orange juice with, like, the cutesy imaginable.

cathy opie & anthony (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 January 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link

And like we're not even talking the impeccable sense of style (omg the pearls) but you've got a pretty unique and lovely bone structure as well

cathy opie & anthony (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 January 2011 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link

xp that was supposed to say "the cutest frames"

cathy opie & anthony (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 2 January 2011 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link

I had Fred Savage Syndrome around the years of 18-20, went from being an adorable little kid to having a horse face. during an internet squabble between two boards, someone found my college pic and posted it to taunt me for being ugly.

by 24-25 I started to look somewhat normal again and in the last few years, once I've shed the shaggy look, I've been attractive to more people, so I guess I thank nature for this.

O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Sunday, 2 January 2011 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link

i looked really baby-faced in my late teens and early 20s, i got ID'd everywhere until i was about 25. so i'm actually glad to be 29, i at least look like a grown man.

carles II of spain (max arrrrrgh), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link

wait til yr 39- I'm on the tipping point now- I don't really like either of two alternatives that seem sort of glaring- the "let yourself go" model of instantly getting a gut and a double chin and just thinking, "fuck it, time to go to pot" OR the crazy narcissistic gym queen with a million moisturizers school of "fighting aging"- at least for gay men there are so many people who fall into this weird trap and they tend to pick Door #2- they turn into what I call "neckdowns"- they have the body of a 20 year old from the neck down, and then there's this weird middle aged head tacked on top with a sad, haunted expression, usually covered with an Abercrombie baseball cap, as they try not to be what they are: 30s/40s.

then I look at pictures of Samuel Beckett and think "old dudes are awesome"

http://www.johnminihan.com/resources/images/beckett/large/Samuel%20Beckett%20in%20room%20604%20of%20The%20Hyde%20Park%20Hotel,%20London%201980%20%282%29.jpg

the tune is space, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link

Man, I wish I still looked like the pic I complainingly posted in 2005 ... well, hairline excepted I guess I still do. Late 20s/early 30s so far so good. Think that's true of a lot of people; just having shaken off the last of the awkward years.

it also takes hip-hip with it (Eric H.), Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link

the tune in space u look good for ur age. u have nice skin, and boyish features.

i otoh will inevitably follow in the footsteps of my grandmother: all nose, eyes and hair.

surm, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link

*is space

surm, Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link

i still get carded, and i'm 26. when i shave, i could be 18.

i'm getting a gym membership today. i want more muscle.

a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link

also the tune is space otm, re those two positions. i find it equally creepy when older dudes look like 21 year olds under their shirts. like, it's rad to have a fit, nice body at any age, but act and dress your age, old queens.

a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link

my hair has gotten so thin since I graduated from high school ;_;

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link

but I dunno I find ways to work around it

=(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link

for some reason, i think i'm lucking out on that front and not inheriting my mom's family's baldness gene. my hair is very thin, tho.

a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link

i think i'm happier with the way i look with each passing year tbh (/youthful hubris)

Auld Future Wolf Lang Syne Them All (donna rouge), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link

This turned into another gay thread, huh.

it also takes hip-hip with it (Eric H.), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link

u know what i think

plax (ico), Sunday, 2 January 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link


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