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Chat thread - come chat, rant, or celebrate, here!

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 23/01/2013 22:48

With thanks to the lovely timetosmile - here's the new and rejuvenated Chat Thread.

Space to yak on, rant, post any of the good and bad stuff ... just basically any chat that you don't feel fits into a specific post. With a side order of reclaiming the word 'gossip'.

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UptoapointLordCopper · 23/04/2013 19:13

I must say I don't tend to notice cellulite on a man or a woman (presumably men have them too!? Now that's a thought. Or maybe not.) I do know people who would comment on it though.

Could have had a good research today at the doctor's waiting room, but the magazines only run to old Yours magazines - no idea what they are but I gathered, after reading a few, that they are for older readers ... These magazines don't seem to be too concerned with cellulite...

And I gave blood today for the first time. Pat on the back for being brave and kick up the backside for having waited so long.

alexpolismum · 23/04/2013 19:09

Well, it's only come up here because of that advert. I have heard the word from time to time, of course, but somehow never really thought about it.

I doubt zebras think about it either.

alexpolismum · 23/04/2013 19:07

My life has clearly been deprived by not reading magazines that are likely to describe cellulite, but I think I know what you mean. That means I've had cellulite for years. I shall tell my dh to divorce me without delay, this is obviously of vital importance and I wonder how he can have failed to notice my lack of sexiness all these years.

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 23/04/2013 19:04

I promise, I have never once looked at a woman and gone 'cor, look at that cellulite'. And you can rarely see what they mean in Heat when they do those crappy red circles on Charlize Theron's thighs.

Maybe someone will come along and tell me it's actually a torment and they're riddled with it, but I suspect it is up there with 'woe is me, my unsightly lower back' as a thing to notice.

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 23/04/2013 19:02

Personally, no, just post a healthy quantity of M&S custard choux buns.

I think the stripes you're thinking of are those ones you get when your skin stretches too fast (I have them too, I'm dead sexy, me).

Cellulite looks kinda like little waves and bumps under the surface and is more deeply textured than stretch marks. Magazines describe it as being like orange peel but I've never seen what they mean.

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alexpolismum · 23/04/2013 19:01

otherwise the only stripy skin springing to mind is a zebra, and I'm pretty sure I'm not a zebra

alexpolismum · 23/04/2013 18:59

You mean like post pregnancy?

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 23/04/2013 18:57

Gah, this keeps falling off my threadsImOn.

I know what it looks like, I've got some, though I'm not sure how well it photographs. It's just vaguely stripy/lumpy-looking skin, innit?

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alexpolismum · 23/04/2013 17:41

Hello,

I haven't popped into FWR for ages, but today I've read several interesting threads, with intelligent discussion.

So of course I have to hide in here and ask my question:

What is cellulite and why are women supposed to worry about it?

This came up because of an advert on tv. It was for a product to make cellulite vanish, or something like that. DH was watching and asked me "what is cellulite anyway?"
"I don't know," I replied. "But apparently I've got loads of it" (in ref to advert)
"I don't know why women worry about it," he said. "I'm sure men don't notice it, whatever it is."
I assured him I've never worried about it, hence me not even knowing what it is exactly. I can tell you how to say it in several different languages, but as to what it is, I haven't a clue.

DaffodilAdams · 22/04/2013 22:29

Congratulations Terraria. Hope you are having lots of newborn cuddles and enough sleep!

Sunnywithshowers · 21/04/2013 15:38

Congratulations Terraria :) xx

TerrariaMum · 21/04/2013 08:09

Isn't it though? I love its simplicity and the way Mei genuinely howls when her mummy isn't coming back from hospital. And Mr. Kusakabe is one of the best film dads ever.

UptoapointLordCopper · 20/04/2013 18:41

Following on talking about HMC DVD, I watched My Neighbour Totoro last night. That is a masterpiece.

UptoapointLordCopper · 20/04/2013 17:23

Congratulations!

TerrariaMum · 20/04/2013 16:52

Thank you. She is a snuggly love.

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 20/04/2013 15:36

Congratulations! Flowers

TerrariaMum · 20/04/2013 14:51

I wished I had HMC the other day when I was in labour with DD2 but we lent it to my friend's niece.

I hope it is ok to announce my pride in having given birth to DD2 on 17 April. DD1 has been insisting the whole of this pregnancy that 'Mummy tummy sisser' and she was right.

UptoapointLordCopper · 16/04/2013 13:32

I was really disappointed in Howl's Moving Castle DVD! The book and the sequels are good. In fact the sequels are nothing as complicated as HMC.

Talking about them makes me want to read them again ...

TerrariaMum · 16/04/2013 13:17

Oooh, Doctrine, let me warn you that the DVD of Howl's Moving Castle is nothing like the book at all. It changes the plot quite significantly. Even Hayao Miyazaki has since admitted that he got it wrong.

Also, with regards to PD James, you can't really blame Kate for fancying Dalgliesh. I rather fancy him myself.

TeiTetua · 16/04/2013 00:27

IIRC, in the books she was just "Poirot's efficient secretary". In the TV series they made her more of a full character, which I thought added some interest, and of course one wants to see more women on screen (except as sexualized figures, but that was never Agatha Christie's style).

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 16/04/2013 00:20

Sounds like a Cluedo misfit!

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 15/04/2013 22:46

Ooh, who was Miss Lemon (hazy memory)?

TeiTetua · 15/04/2013 22:38

Not even Miss Lemon?

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 15/04/2013 22:33

I'm having a PD James fest at the moment. Kate is a good character, even if she does fancy Dalgliesh a bit.

Say what you like about Poirot, at least no-one fancied him.

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 15/04/2013 22:31

Ah, that's reminded me to stick the Howl's Moving Castle DVD on Ds1's birthday list.