Comments | startredder: My nose is stuffy

startredder

My nose is stuffy

Nov 03, 2006 09:34

So, Whitney posted something which I read before walking to school this morning, which meant it was in my mind and, as my mind works in that fashion, it transferred to another, similar, but not exactly connected tangent, so I'm posting this rant/query here instead of spamming her comments ... moreso than per usual.

( Compliments ... insert air quotes )

rants

Comments 9

lazulisong November 3 2006, 17:23:59 UTC

I thought you could buy smaller controllers for Xboxes now. I do sort of remember that the controllers are really kind of made for male hands. I don't have tiny hands but they're small-average so I gotta stretch out if I want to hold a regular X-box controller too.

You should get online and distract me when you get a chance.

startredder November 3 2006, 17:41:58 UTC

I remember that a lot of people complained about the controllers, but I also remember that it was genuinely pain-causing for me to try and play with an Xbox the one time I tried, and it left a perpetually negative impression on me, regardless of anything Xbox may have done since.

Also, I believe my brother sold his Xbox in order to use the money for a guitar or less legal things.

relvetica November 3 2006, 18:03:08 UTC

I am nearly thirty and I am regularly -- I mean that, regularly -- mistaken for nearly half that. And it doesn't really bother me that much. People have mistaken me for 16 since I was 11.

startredder November 3 2006, 18:05:48 UTC

You are a stronger woman than I. Or I have issues. Or /both/!

relvetica November 3 2006, 22:34:32 UTC

On the other hand, I have GIGANTIC feet.

Hands are pretty normal, though.

tsukikoushi November 3 2006, 21:18:41 UTC

On the other hand, I've looked thirty years old since I was about fourteen. At thirty-four, I still look thirty. If I still look thirty at forty-five, I win.

... that doesn't help you at all.

startredder November 3 2006, 21:28:00 UTC

These things are totally not equivalents because I have seen photos of you and you have /bitchin' hair/ that no one would assume belonged to a pubescent child.

xen0glossy November 3 2006, 21:35:52 UTC

/delurks

I know what you mean about the "dainty" thing. I get that, too. (I don't care that shoes are "cuter in my size" if any given shoe store only carries about four pairs in said size and they're all too narrow for my feet. In fact, I don't even care whether my shoes are "cute" or not anyway.)

/relurks

peneli November 3 2006, 22:29:03 UTC

*also delurking*

23, get mistaken for 14-16 regularly. I fucking HATE people who say "You'll look great when you're 40." Why would any sane 40 year old woman want to be mistaken for some kid straight out of college? Won't I want to be respected for the years of experience and maturity I've earned then just as much as I do now? Now, I'm not asexual, so the whole "young = attractive" thing I guess they have some reason for saying, but still. I call bullshit.

Also, I have tiny feet and hands (and I'm 4'11"). I know your pain. It only gets worse when you try to shop for professional clothing. Buying out of juniors your whole life stops cutting it when you stop wanting to look like a teenager and want to look like a professional. Gah!