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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 5, 2003 7:05:00 GMT -5
But the thing about the human race is that we are all different in our own special way and part of that is that we are all different shapes and sizes.
I mean, I'm not thin, and although I could prolly do with losing a few pounds for my health I'm not in any big rush to do it cos I like being me. Also cos I'm stingey and don't want to have to go buy a whole new wardrobe. In Australian sizes I'm about a 16-18 and the smallest I would want to go is a twelve. I would look weirder than En if I wa really thin cos I have a wide pelvis and broad shouders. (En love, I only call you weird looking cos you do too )
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 5, 2003 7:40:19 GMT -5
Hey, I'm at the other end of the scale. At 151cm and 45kg, if I were to lose more weight or my muscle mass, they'd chuck me in a hospital. Oh, but conversely, a few years ago I was thinking of joining the police force and got told that if I were to apply at my height and weight, I'd fail the physical and I needed to put on 10kg before they'd even consider me.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 5, 2003 8:14:31 GMT -5
The good thing is that there are now people fighting to try and make sure people keep their weight realistic.
KoKo, remember that search for a super modle show that was on? There was this one girl who didn't make it to the finals of that cos throughout the show over the time they had been picking and choosing girls she progressively kept losing weight and they told her she had to go home because she was too thin and they were concerned about her health. I was so happy when they did that. I mean, losing would have broken her heart, but some people need that kind of wake up call to get their life and what they are doing to themselves back into perspective.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 5, 2003 8:23:38 GMT -5
I never watched Search for a Supermodel! My friends were on it though- the African guy who said "I'm just here for the scenery" outside the Melbourne one is one of my muso friends. What an embarassment.
That's the other thing. Why the heck would one want to be a model in the first place? It sounds like such a boring job to me- sure, it might be glam and all that, but there's no intellectual stimulation going on there. Are we to glorify brainless standing around?
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 5, 2003 8:42:59 GMT -5
It wasn't a show I watched much, but I heppened to see that part of that episode. I just thought it was good cos it sent the message out to girls all over Australia that it isn't OK to be thin to the point of grossness.
Another problem we seem to have is at the other end of the scale - obesity. You know, this little town that I live in has the highest rate of heart diease in all of Australia? One little town with a population of like 15,000 has the highest rate of heart disease in a country with about 19 million. How sad is that?
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 5, 2003 9:57:32 GMT -5
Really? I never knew that...
Hey, there's an English show that's on TV late at night called "Fat Club". They took 10 obese people and got them to go to "Fat Club" once a month for a week to do all this exercise (with drill sergeants and stuff) and all this. And they had to collectively lose 60 pounds a week. One guy started out so heavy they couldn't weigh him on conventional scales.
I kind of thought the concept of the show was mean to start with, but I guess it did help those people lose weight and it showed other people at home how to do it as well.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 5, 2003 10:09:04 GMT -5
I'm going to assume you meant once a week for a month there.
Thing is, it's the trying to get people who are unhealthly overweight to reach a healthy weight to save their lives that is getting so many people to think they are fat when they aren't, compelling them to turn themselves into little stick figures.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 6, 2003 3:32:41 GMT -5
Nah, it was once a month for a week. Like, every month, they took one week off and went to fat club, and the other 3 weeks they were at home trying to lose the weight on their own.
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 6, 2003 5:22:44 GMT -5
Ah, I see what you mean. So how long did it go on for all together then?
On another topic, I was sitting here today and all of a sudden the place smelt exactly as it did when I first joined TD. This was weird cos that sort of thing doesn't happen randomly like that very often and no-one else was home to do something to make that smell, but it was really cool. My memory seems to get jogged better by smells than anything else, visual things coming in at a close second. I just liked it cos it was the same smell that was around when I joined Glenmore so it's a special smell and smelling it again made me feel really happy for a moment.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 6, 2003 8:08:09 GMT -5
Hmmm, the show is supposed to run for 13 episodes, which would mean that it was 13 months if each episode showed one month of progress. Or maybe it was 12 months because the last ep (which they haven't showed yet) is the "reunion" thingy, you know how it is with reality TV...
You and your super-powerful nose. You know, there is one particular shade of blue that makes me get all emotional. I don't know why, but it comes from a time when I was about one or two years old and my mum was giving me a bath in our little red plastic bathtub in our apartment and I looked out the really skinny bathroom window (you know, near the roof) and it was just starting to be nighttime, but it wasn't really, and the sky was this gorgeous lightish bluish colour with a bit of purple in it. And I remember that it made me feel really sad, but for no particular reason. I don't think I've found the exact same shade of sky since, but yeah, anything close to it will draw a similar reaction out of me, and I don't know why.
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Post by En on Apr 6, 2003 15:37:59 GMT -5
Weird... I have a shade of gold that does the same thing for almost the same reason. I've sort of tried to duplicate it with my text colour here. It's partly because that's a colour I saw in a couple of very important sunsets in my life, and also because it is like the colour of dandelion wine, which has mucho significance to me.
Heh, I don't mind when people say I look weird. It's true. I'm 178cm and about 50kg, and I have very boney hands with ropey veins and big knuckles which will someday look exactly like stereotypical old bearded wizard hands.
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Post by KoNeko on Apr 11, 2003 10:18:59 GMT -5
Weird, and I thought I was the only one that was randomly emotional. Er, what's dandelion wine? I've had hickory wine and walnut and orange wine but not dandelion wine...
When I grow up, I'm still going to have stumpy little hands. You can't believe how difficult and annoying it is to try and play the piano or guitar when you can't even reach around the neck of your guitar or an octave on a keyboard. Which is why usually most of my compositions have rather fluid melody lines as opposed to chords.
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Post by Jet Black on Apr 12, 2003 7:18:22 GMT -5
These days, during piano practice, I can barely stretch my fingers up to one octave and one key. Good enough, I guess.
Does anyone here have a particular smell? For example, every time after I sleep, I leave a sort of warm, comfy smell on my pillow. And sometimes my hair gets in my face and I catch a hint of the smell, but when I sniff my hair again, the smell's not there.
I think that my conditioner + warmness/body heat = my smell. ;D
BTW, I'm 165 cm tall (the last time I measured) and I weigh 66 kg. Legs are muscled and arms are pretty thin. Weird..
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Post by En on Apr 15, 2003 10:47:33 GMT -5
*wonders whether a 3/4 guitar with a steel bar neck can be shipped to Aus* Yay for music adapting to the creator's body type though. That's awesome. My piano compositions often involve weird arpeggios because I like the way it feels to play them, and my guitar compositions are often fast picking things because it livens up the music and somewhat hides the fact that I can't do bar chords on a steel stringer. *rolls eyes* My fingers aren't that strong yet. I'm working on that though.
I don't know what I smell like, but Telly smells really familiar to me (wonder if that is why I keep forgetting I've only known him for a couple of months?), and Rue smells like the ocean, and Lumie usually smells like whatever shampoo she's got. *wonders suddenly whether Lumie would smell different to everyone else -- like, if I'm so accustomed to her smell that I don't smell it, or if she and I have similar smells that I can't smell*
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Post by coldmercurywitch on Apr 15, 2003 11:02:17 GMT -5
My mum smells old. Like, antique old people smell old. Has done for a few years now. My sister Sarina smells of cigarette smoke and often grease and oil because of the large quantities of junk and takeaway food she eats. My brothers Aidan and Dylan smell really similar, but they spend all their time together and they are still pretty young. I can always smell Aidan's thick hair. My sister Melanie generally smells of BO of late cos she's started pubity and hasn't yet gotten into the habit of using deodorant. My dad used to smell of tobacco and marajuana,now ne really only smells of tobacca and cigarette smoke. Craige always smell of sweat and speed and often of decay with a slight hint of rotting. Our dog Conan smells more of hair than our dog bear and our dog Bubbles usually smellsmore of dirt. Andy smells like Andy which smells like happiness if happiness has a smell. I think a large part of this boils down to the fact that when I'm with Andy I'm not with or anywhere near my mum. Oh, and he sometimes has that slight smell of electrical equipment about him.
I'm not sure what I smell like or what smells my smells remind them of. I'll have to ask someone when I remember to.
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