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miserable ageing chat - no fuckers welcome

569 replies

NoahDear · 20/09/2009 14:07

only us

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PacificDogwood · 22/09/2009 17:35

Gawd, I am just back from town and now I know again exactly WHY I hate shopping sooooo much!!
Lots of crap, the nice stuff too dear, all shop assisstants are 12, size 2 and oh so bored....

ScaredOfCows · 22/09/2009 17:39

PacificDogwood - I know just what you mean - plus the humiliation of having to view yourself in shop mirrors (are they distorting?) and having to dodge all the teeny weeny teenage girls lurking at the mirrors in the shops - just strategically placed there to make me feel even older and frumpier!

orangina · 22/09/2009 17:45

But, take home, try on in privacy of own room, return.

Its a rhythm I've got into recently and I'm much happier for it.......

DillyTantay · 22/09/2009 17:56

i think that if a cosmetics company R and D team were reading this,,, they might want to do a mass sample of a product.,

mebbe

Ok fuckers
i Have been to work where I avoided being in a group photo - major points there!

I havent done anything novel today but did get a compliment on my magenta top.

as you were

ScaredOfCows · 22/09/2009 18:03

Top marks for the avoidance of being in a group photo

monkeysavingexpertdotcom · 22/09/2009 18:05

What would the prduct be, Dilly? Beard concealer? Jeggings incinerator? OR "Misery Away - does exactly what it says on the tin!"

monkeysavingexpertdotcom · 22/09/2009 18:08

Past caring what shop assistants think. Pathetically, when I looked better than most shop assistants I cared when they sneered. Now I just think pompous uncharitable thoughts about how I've got a better job than they have and I bet their boyfriend is a git.

DillyTantay · 22/09/2009 18:26

I knd of am and kind of am not
in New look when i bought my foil legginggs( fancy dress) i DIDNT say they were for that in a moment of amazing emanciaption

they dont care i KNOW that from working in a shop myself

DillyTantay · 22/09/2009 18:26

the assistants in kew are SO nice and also tactfully honest..

CybilLiberty · 22/09/2009 18:27

Novel thing...wore veh little eye make up and a strong lipstick (in case the builders were still onsite at work

Am still chanelling Amish eating habits

Tried to sleep on back so MAJOR eye crevice/wrinkle was not so apparent. I think it worked

hunlet · 22/09/2009 18:29

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CybilLiberty · 22/09/2009 18:31

I reckon I'd still get crevices

ahundredtimes · 22/09/2009 18:34

I don't understand this crevice / crease problem.

Have been contemplating miserable ageing looking at photographs of Bridgitte Bardot, as she was, as she is now she's 75. Hmmm.

However I did wear a white shirt with collars and big theatrical cuffs in honour of this thread, with a tank top. I felt structured. Also brushed my hair.

Yes! Cos! Do you know I marched up to a woman just the other day and said 'where is your dress from? I want it' - 'Cos' she cried, 'I love it there.'

Cos is us.

CybilLiberty · 22/09/2009 18:35

You obviously have no crevices or creases

PacificDogwood · 22/09/2009 18:36

It is not so much that I care terribly what shop assisstants think of me (not a lot anyway...) but they could at least pretend to be interested in my quest to find the jewellery department to get stupid battery in farking watch changed! I realise it is not most interesting question they will have been asked all day, but surely if you do not like dealing with the great unwashed public then you should not be on a shop floor?? And if being a shop assisstant is beneath you then f* off and study astrophysics or summat or find somebody who agrees with you that you are fabulous and will put you on a catwalk in Milan, FFS!!

LOL @ Cybil and slap for builder: they really don't care, love

ahundredtimes · 22/09/2009 18:37

No, I mean, I don't think I understand it re sleeping. Do you mean your face squishes up, or that you wake with waffle pillowcase embedded on your face?

CybilLiberty · 22/09/2009 18:37

Yeah but I like to pretend I could still turn a burly builders head

CybilLiberty · 22/09/2009 18:39

Ohh, no I sleep on my left side and somehow I rumple my cheek upwards, till I am left with a vertical crevice running from the outer corner of my eye down to just below it.

Looks bloody awful and is impossible to conceal. I'm wondering if the old Joany Collins trick of a couple of stout elastic bands under a wig might pull it taught.

PacificDogwood · 22/09/2009 18:40

Re sleeping: no amount of silk/high thread count pillow cases counteract gravity. I usually wake up lying on my side which leaves me with not lovely crease between nose and eye where my face was squashed into the pillow. Why do sleep creases on darling sons look cute and awful on me ??

hunlet · 22/09/2009 18:41

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CatIsSleepy · 22/09/2009 18:50

blimey
have just looked at the cos website
everything's long and pointy and and a bit weird
can normal people wear that stuff?

i just want nice tops
is that too much to ask?

DillyTantay · 22/09/2009 18:57

they all loook grafivationally challenged / going ot a funeral

will go and look when next in lunnon

ahundredtimes · 22/09/2009 19:14

Is H&M for 40 y-olds

not that I've ever actually bought anything there, of course.

i never buy anything.

ahundredtimes · 22/09/2009 19:18

And I am v. fond of the going to a funeral look too

ahundredtimes · 22/09/2009 19:22

I tried this on the other day

and NO, I didn't buy it, and YES it's a lot of money and NO I wouldn't buy it for that much money and YES it was lovely and NO it wasn't worth the £ as I didn't look like lovely, odd ingenue, just like mad old lady in dressing up clothes.