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31 Aug 10 - 03:27 PM (#2976883) Subject: BS: Diet stories From: gnu Been on a diet. Lost quite a bit of weight. The old works pants wouldn't stay up even using the last nottch on the belt but I just kept hoisting them up. However, today... As hurricane Earl is forecast, at the moment, to pass just to our east, I figured I would "tighten up" the seal on the windows which have portable AC hoses in inserts to accomodate them for casement (crank) windows. I had taken the windows out so I can't just shut these windows. So, I got out the ladder and the duct tape and proceeded to tape the insert to the frames. On the last window, I had to extend my arms fully to seal near the top as the ladder was kinda tippy and I couldn't step up one more rung without blocking the legs of the ladder. I was almost finished when it occured to me that my pants were in imminent danger of falling down. I quickly tried to catch them with my right hand but I was holding a piece of duct tape with both hands and duct tape is very sticky. Now, here is the key point. I have degenerative arthritis in the lower three disc spaces in my spine and a satanic nerve pinched in two places. Yes, satanic... hurts like the devil. Do you know how fucking hard it is to descend a ladder with your pants around your ankles? It may have been some solace that a lady neighbour said, "Nice legs. Nice behind.", but she's in her 80s and it was just embarassing, unless her eyesight is good and her memory is keen, which didn't occur to me at that particular moment. I now have a new notch in my belt. Anyone else got a story? |
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31 Aug 10 - 03:32 PM (#2976888) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: katlaughing Next time use the duct tape on yer pants before you climb the ladder!**bg** Congratulations. I told my Rog I am going to print out your daily intake suggestions as I think it will appeal to him and he would be better off with about thirty pounds less than he is now. My doc said I am 6 lbs less than I was when she saw me last, three months ago. Slow going, but lasting and safe. |
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31 Aug 10 - 04:05 PM (#2976914) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: LilyFestre One day I was hauling groceries down the hill and into the house. As I approached the front door with my arms FULL, my pants fell down around my ankles.....doing steps with fallen pants isn't so easy either! Another time I had attended a Christmas party and when I left, I found that it had been snowing quite hard and the roads were terrible. Instead of driving the 30+ miles home, I stopped at my mom's house for the night. I had a change of clothes there, including pajamas for just such an occassion. I changed out of my party clothes and into my jammies and the pants would NOT stay up for anything. I had to bunch the fabric up at the waist into a big ball and put a rubberband around it! Another time I went to a church service in a skirt and for whatever reason, it was a service where we stayed a while, then left for a walk and then were headed back (I forget what holiday it was). Anyway, it was COLD outside and my undies kept trying to slide down. I kept reaching for them and hiking them back up. Finally they fell to my knees and I had had enough. I ditched them in hotel bathroom and walked back to church. Nobody had a clue. I can tell you this though...it was FREEZING outside in a skirt and being in church without your panties just feels WRONG. LOL Michelle |
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31 Aug 10 - 04:37 PM (#2976943) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: Amergin Seamus Kennedy has done a wonderful cover of Shel Silverstein's Diet Song on one of his albums....it is so true.... |
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31 Aug 10 - 04:50 PM (#2976958) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: bobad Suspenders is da solution to da problem. |
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31 Aug 10 - 06:02 PM (#2977012) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: Ebbie The funniest thing about the pants of today is what the boys are doing with them (If you see tight or fitted pants on some body, you know that it's a girl). But the boys- it is to laugh. I'm the 'lunch lady' at two schools and it's right next to the high school. Every day while I'm waiting for the bus I watch the boys walking spraddle-legged by, just to keep their pants from falling below a certain level. From time to time they reach down and hike them back up. If they want to speed up to a trot, with one hand they hold onto the pants. I have sometimes wondered whether a boy pees over the waistband or does he hike them up so he can reach the zipper? Now some of these boys are into sports- can you imagine a basketball player having to hold onto his silks with one hand while galloping up the floor? Or a football (American) player having to worry about whether a tackle will bring everything to disaster? Is this just an American thing? Or are other countries' kids just as funny? |
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31 Aug 10 - 07:13 PM (#2977077) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: JennieG No Ebbie, no.....it's here too. Although I must admit since we moved to this country town we don;t see it, must be a Big City thing. Cheers JennieG |
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31 Aug 10 - 07:24 PM (#2977086) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: gnu I see them aboutst... and I wonder what possesses their parents to stand idly by whilst there offspring dresses like an idiot. I am not a parent so I speak from whence I have no knowledge, but, if I were, I would at least try to tell the young man that following fashion idiocy is branding oneself with an idiot logo for all to view. If that didn't work, I might consider my father's approach. But, that's illegal now supposedly. |
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31 Aug 10 - 07:56 PM (#2977111) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: ragdall I wonder what possesses their parents to stand idly by whilst there offspring dresses like an idiot. gnu, The parents' approach is, "If that's the worst he'd doing, why hassle him? He will eventually decide for himself to wear something else." If it were one of mine, I'd take lots of pictures and save them to use later for blackmail. rags |
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31 Aug 10 - 08:22 PM (#2977119) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: gnu Well, rags, when I was a lad, the only time someone wore his peaked cap to the side was when it was raining and he had a hearing aid. On sunny days, such a hat was worn to shield the eyes from the sun. Apparentlty, the youth of today are as stunned as me arse, wearing pants hanging well below that arse. I would hassle him from dawn to dusk if he was that fashion stupid. Again, I don't have any kids, so I guess I'll never get in trouble for kicking any of them in the arse. And, yes, I know... their offsping... it's hot... I had a few typos. |
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01 Sep 10 - 02:13 AM (#2977227) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: Herga Kitty The boys wearing jeans with the crotch round the knees phenomenon occurs in England too - Acorn4 has written a song about it! Kitty |
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01 Sep 10 - 02:48 AM (#2977238) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: VirginiaTam And that song is hilarious.. I just want to approach said young man look sternly into his face, grab his waist band and give it a very very sharp "painful" yank upward, while shouting "Where's your mother?" |
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01 Sep 10 - 03:06 AM (#2977244) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: Dave Hanson I'm on an alcohol diet, I've lost three days already. Dave H |
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01 Sep 10 - 05:56 AM (#2977309) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: Sandra in Sydney My nutritionist knows that the day I arrive wearing my 1978 midcalf fuchsia skirt, I'll be close to my intended weight. I can wear the skirt, but it doesn't sit on my (current version of a) waist. It sits a few inches above, which doesn't look good & is not comfortable. My last boss always wore her above-the-knee skirts at the same level, with blouses that often popped the buttons ("Nice bra you're wearing", I'd say) - not a very professional look, & surely not comfortable. Which is why I don't wear clothes I can no-longer fit into. following the thread drift above - speaking of young folks & fashions ... living in Sydney;s entertainment precinct, I see zillions of young folks dressed in their best for their Big Night(s) Out - many girls wear short, tight little dresses (is the tug-at-mid-thigh look fashionable where you are?) & ultra-hight heels with platforms - their dresses are normally low-necked & usually sleeveless, & never a jacket in sight! Many of them don't even carry a bag. They wear the same styles winter & summer. well, one wintery night I saw the best ever sight - girl striding along on high heels & wearing what looked like a fine semi-sheer white cotton business shirt, wrapped at the waist with a belt or sash - barely covering a pair of white boy-leg knickers! I wished I was a Very Old, White-haired Old Lady & could say to her "Excuse me, dear, did you know you left your skirt at home?" Based on a "Punch" cartoon of the 1920's where such a LOL was at the beach & asking very bemused fashionably dressed sunbathers did they know that the moths had got into their bathing suits. The latest fashion was for large cutout areas in the suits to get maximum suntan. But us white haired LOLs aren't expected to know the latest fashions! sandra |
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01 Sep 10 - 07:45 PM (#2978037) Subject: RE: BS: Diet stories From: Stilly River Sage Thanks for the good laugh, gnu! I have a co-worker who has been on a diet for many months now. Ages ago I blocked his facebook feed because that was all he ever seemed to write about. But the other day I realized that as heavy as he still is, he has probably taken off about 100 pounds. If he manages to take off all of that weight and look like the college photo he has on his facebook page I think he'll be a lot happier and a whole lot healthier. I'm working on about 40 pounds that crept on while I was struggling with the mix in my HRT over the last couple of years. I haven't been as active because I've been less energetic when I weigh more. As it cools a bit this time of year I've been able to take the dogs out for more walks, and walk more comfortably across campus. When you're going to work and you spend much time out in the really high heat you just don't feel real professional when you walk in drenched in sweat. That'll be less of a problem now. Good luck, all! SRS |