Fashionable Bones
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
13 November 2011 23:21136668Speaking as somebody fed up with politics and doom and gloom on here lately and has has a couple of drinks.
Is it the new fashion to have bones sticking out with just a thin covering, I am not talking about being thin I mean skiinny, boney, anorexic looking. Television is supposed to make you look fatter so the ones I see must literally be skin and bone.
I admit I am speaking as somebody who is well past cuddly and is fat.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 13 November 2011 23:25136669How many drinks have you had Jan?
Only met you the once but I would still give you a cuddle.
Your a forumite and a family member.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet. - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
13 November 2011 23:28136674How many drinks have you had Ian or are you desperate.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 13 November 2011 23:32136676A fat lady: (To a health expert) Give me some advice that can reduce my fatness.
Health expert: Okay. You must move your head to the right and the left at a particular time.
Fat lady: At which particular time?
Health expert: Whenever anybody asks you to eat.
Jan..............never, ever put yourself down.....
because yourself is all you have
If you have your health, then you have your wealth..... - 13 November 2011 23:33136677Jan My dear ( whoops ) I had my first pint at 10-00 hrs this morning and shame to admit am still going.
I am not desperate but think of all Forumites as family members, Thats what we are.
I still love you though. 
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet. - 14 November 2011 08:27136684You weren't one of the guys who passed out at the service yesterday, were you Ian ???
It's a big lovely family though, I agree.
Roger - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
14 November 2011 09:00136686Charlie, I never put myself down just being honest, I know I am perfect.
I was serious with my OP, it was the BBC news reader last night who looked like a skeleton with skin but no flesh, if you know what I mean.
This forum is just like a family full of squabbles but we would defend each other to the end, I love it. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 14 November 2011 09:41136692I don't know about the news reader but there is quite a few A list celebrities now putting ON weight, eg Christina Agulaia. Perhaps a normal size now. Dissapointing to see the media using lines like 'piling on the pounds' 'comfort eating'. Is it any wonder they feel the need to look like skeletons!?
Keeps politics to myself - Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
14 November 2011 10:03136695Just looked looked the news reader up it was Emily Maitlis.
Are we becoming a nation of extremes either anorexic or obese. I have two daughters one skinny the other permanently fighting the flab.-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 14 November 2011 12:01136712As a woman of generous proportions, mainly due to a good diet consisting of too much of most things washed down with quantities of good wine and whiskey, I am comfortable with who I am! It would be nice to drop a few pounds because of my health - and I will do so - but we should feel ok about ourselves. And yes, people on telly do conform to a different body fascism, and it is probably as unhealthy as being overweight or getting depressed about a bit of extra cuddle-grip.
- 14 November 2011 12:43136723Love that expression Bern - "cuddle grips".
I agree we should be happy with our bodies - whatever size they are, unless you actually want to lose a bit and that should be because you want to, not because you are guided by fashion or style.
I lost just over two stone in the summer because I wanted to - for health reasons; now I've relaxed, I've put about a stone back on. I ought to lose it again and will do so when I'm ready.
Roger - 14 November 2011 12:48136727Are they what used to be called love handles?I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 14 November 2011 12:53136731Ah! yes indeed, I too love that expression 'cuddle grips', sounds more endearing than 'love handles' or am I just showing my age! Where would we be without a good cuddle especially in these cold winter months
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
14 November 2011 18:02136785bern,are cuddle grips the same as love handles or bat wings. 
- 14 November 2011 18:12136788....or bingo wings?I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 14 November 2011 18:15136789All of those and so much more.........