The Off Topic Topic

[Eddie Teach]

The fundamental problem with gender dynamics is that you can ask just about anything but not for someone to adopt a better appearance. I don't get it. It would help me if people would shame me into running or dressing better.

The vast majority of the time you point out a problem with somebody's appearance, they already fucking know it.

[Caliga]

Heh, the administrative assistant who sits opposite my office (not, alas, the one I work with) is the MILF-yist MILF who ever MILFed.  Living proof that a woman with kids in her mid-40s can still be very hot indeed.

I get on very well with her, but would not dare to make personal remarks about her appearance. Though I think she would just laugh if I did. 

My admin looks very good for someone in her late 50s/early 60s, but our relationship has always been totally professional.

[Caliga]

I've worked with most of my girls the whole ten years I've been here.  Pretty much everything gets discussed but I still keep my guard up to a certain degree.

I think part of this is probably a Southern thing.  People down here are often a bit too friendly.  I've obviously not spent as much time in Cinci as you but it basically seems culturally southern to me.

[Caliga]

...aaaand on a related note I just was informed someone is down a dress size. 

[Ed Anger]

I took a shit and I'm down a pants size.

[Caliga]

I took a shit and I'm down a pants size.

NICE.

[Admiral Yi]

Makeup compliment.

[Ed Anger]

I also look good in a dress

[DGuller]

The fundamental problem with gender dynamics is that you can ask just about anything but not for someone to adopt a better appearance. I don't get it. It would help me if people would shame me into running or dressing better.

The vast majority of the time you point out a problem with somebody's appearance, they already fucking know it.

My bet is people are in general in denial about problems with their appearance, or at least the magnitude of it.

[Valmy]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

[DGuller]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

Mirror images still need to be interpreted by the brain, and that's where self-deception occurs.  I see a lot more hair on my head when I look in the mirror compared to when I look at a photo of myself.

[Malthus]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

Mirror images still need to be interpreted by the brain, and that's where self-deception occurs.  I see a lot more hair on my head when I look in the mirror compared to when I look at a photo of myself.

Well, there is also the issue of being anxious about it. I'd probably be a lot more anxious about my appearance - and so prone to self-deception - if I was actively looking for partners, rather than being married for 20 years. 

[derspiess]

Like vampires it is best for us to avoid mirrors.

Pfft.  I spend all day posting selfies.  Then I sit there and wait for the Likes and "OMG U R beautiful girl!!" comments.  My self-esteem is like 100% dependent upon that.

[Admiral Yi]

You're a stunner Speesh.  Total knockout.

[derspiess]

  :glamorgirl: