Two exceptions exist: (1) if I actually ask "Hey, do I look like a manatee today?"
Honestly, maybe not even then. "Yo, do I look fat?" "YES YOU DO." That's not right.
A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter .38 Special
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Jesse - Aug 22, 2005 6:54:38 am PDT #100 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2005 6:54:57 am PDT #101 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Nothing mitigating unless her brain is addled.
Nope. She's still as sharp as a tack. And apparently she has fucked her lovely granddaughter up about her weight, too.
My family, it turns out, is so completely from HELL.
(I have a headache and I'm just a wee bit cranky today, in case no one could tell.)
Nilly - Aug 22, 2005 6:56:24 am PDT #102 of 10002
Swouncing
Go, Teppy!
I never understand the way people seem to think that they need to point out to you facts about yourself. "Your'e still single." (even without the "Does that mean there's something wrong with you, since nobody wants you?"). "You're too fat/thin/wearing big glasses/looks in any way different than what these people think is the One Right Way to look" (in a brit of a cousin's son a month ago, a second-aunt told me that I still look like I did when I was 16 years old, and she managed to make it sound like a really bad thing).
Um, I won't get into the whole list, OK? I was counting those sort of sayings on that brit I mentioned as a way to keep me entertained, but I don't think b.org should be submitted to it.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 22, 2005 6:56:30 am PDT #103 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Nope. She's still as sharp as a tack. And apparently she has fucked her lovely granddaughter up about her weight, too.
What an asshole.
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2005 6:57:12 am PDT #104 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Two exceptions exist: (1) if I actually ask "Hey, do I look like a manatee today?"
Honestly, maybe not even then. "Yo, do I look fat?" "YES YOU DO." That's not right.
True -- but in accordance with exception #1, if *I* am the one who initiates the question, the other person is allowed to speak of my weight. Though that's a good point -- #1a will be that they're only allowed to say things like "Well, now that you mention it, you do look a little puffy...."
But not like Puffy, because, frankly, that would just be weird.
amych - Aug 22, 2005 6:58:00 am PDT #105 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Fiona, the bath picture is making me very, very dead.
Jesse - Aug 22, 2005 6:58:01 am PDT #106 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
But not like Puffy, because, frankly, that would just be weird.
You mean Diddy, right?
Steph L. - Aug 22, 2005 6:58:33 am PDT #107 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
But not like Puffy, because, frankly, that would just be weird.
You mean Diddy, right?
Mr. Combs, you betcha.
Nilly - Aug 22, 2005 7:00:43 am PDT #108 of 10002
Swouncing
But not like Puffy, because, frankly, that would just be weird.
At first glance I read it as "buffy" and it was really strange.
§ ita § - Aug 22, 2005 7:01:41 am PDT #109 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Honestly, maybe not even then. "Yo, do I look fat?" "YES YOU DO." That's not right.
I understand there are scenarios in which that question is code for "Make me feel better, okay?"
However, you have to know each time you ask it to a new person, they may be naïve or literal enough to think you are to be taken at your word.
I would recommend not asking me that question if you don't want to know. I'm not that sort of a comfort-giver.