- A quick vent by mouseclick
15 y
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Blog: Truth is an incremental process
This f***ing planet is driving me crazy. We have people getting fatter, consuming all the earth's resources, farting methane, eating dead cows that fart methane before we killed them.
Then we have beautiful people, I mean really beautiful people - both inside and out - that want to be thin. Perhaps they don't want to be like the methane farters. I don't blame them.
And we have doctors, who quite frankly are wankers. When I saw my doc for a scuba medical, he told me I need to be X Kg, but "don't worry, that's what the computer says, most people weigh more".
Then there are the jeans manufacturers, and the TV advertisers, and the other people who see some niche to make money.
I should sell a pill that reduces you from a size 12 dress to a size 10 dress in 2 weeks, and prevents farts and bloating.
Can you imagine the board meeting of XYZ clothing...
"Jason her has an idea, tell it Jason..."
Jason: "OK, we did an exit poll on 10 of our branches and found customers were delighted when they could fit into a smaller dress size. So I think our sales could increase by 15% if we simply added an inch to our jeans waist. We could tell our sales staff to promote the idea - by reinforcing the size angle, such as saying, that size 10 looks great on you"
My current preferred planet is the moon. It has no salesmen, or crap. OK no air. Alright, I prefer earth.
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- Re: A quick vent by mo123
15 y
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Vent on Guy, vent on. I have been venting myself for the last two hours so know how you feel. Just wrote about my sister dying of cancer and the SOB she was married to so understand your frustrations.
Lord, now you have entered the real human race. Two thumbs up.
SARA
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- Re: A quick vent by mouseclick
15 y
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Yeah, without the rose tinted specs. You know what brought that on don't you? It was like the straw that broke the camel's back. Or more appropriately, when you are fed up with everything and having a break, them something sneaks up on you unexpectedly. You let out all your emotions on that little something.
I was so annoyed that someone had deceived me about my butt size, ha ha!
But actually it is a lesson that you can't take anything for granted.
And yes I know what you mean. My parents are in their 80s and suffering from all sorts of things, but they continue to eat biscuits, potato crisps, cakes, meat, dairy, salt, sugar, processed food. Some people won't change, their minds are too closed.
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- Re: A quick vent by Willowley
15 y
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Very funny but also very true.
The sizing thing with clothes has already happened in the US. I don't normally shop for clothes at Walmart but one day I had to go to a meeting but before I did I had to drop my cat off at the vets for surgery. Well by the time I dropped him off my dress was covered in cat hair and I couldn't go to the meeting with clients looking like that and the nearest store was Walmart so I popped in and grabbed a size 10 to try on and it was so small on me I was shocked. I ended up having to buy a size 14.
That really ruined my day thinking I must have gained weight and not noticed it. But I went shopping that weekend to one of my usual stores that was a higher end store and I fit in my normal size 10 surprise, surprise lol.
That tells me that the high end stores target women who spend more money on clothes, women want to feel like they are smaller than they really are so they will spend the extra money. This was many years ago but I have learned through the years it's still that way today. I now buy work clothes at Walmart because they are so much cheaper, I just buy a larger size ha ha. I still buy the things I will have for years at higher end stores and they are still a smaller size.
Deception always sells, I think the saying goes give them what they want and they'll buy it. Sad but true.
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- Re: A quick vent by mouseclick
15 y
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Funny you should say that, but I bought a suit at Asda a few months ago, which is the UK equivalent of Walmart, and it is owned by Walmart. I bought it as a temporary fix because I was changing size. However thr 34 inch trousers I bought with the suit would not fit me, so I had to go back and but a pair of 36" ones as well (they were cheap enough!). I'll just measure them now... and sure enough the 36" ones are 36.5", which is near enough. I think your theory is correct.
Anyway eventually they will be too big for me, but the 34s will extend the life of the suit a little longer.
(edit) Oh and by the way I didn't try them on because I was buying lots of other 34s at the time and they all fitted. In retrospect now I know the Walmart ones were the only ones sized correctly. But I am not sure that is the case after finding this... http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134047
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