Successful Cambridge Applicants Chat - 2006

never said it wasnt interesting, only that it was killing my buzz

Reply 522

If you want a buzz, go and huff paint :p:

Reply 523

"huff paint" ^o) - is that some sort of scottish thing ( :eek:

), like deep fried mars bars? :p:

(p.s:are they nice?) :cool:

Reply 524

bazlette

With regards to the fat/thin argument.. I dunno. I find it really difficult. I'm 5'10", and weigh 8 stone, and happen to be flatchested - therefore, I look like a bit of a twig. Not deliberately, either - I eat like a horse. And my argument used to be that it is just as bad to be constantly called skinny and have your lack of weight commented on, as it is to be constantly called fat. Also, when there was that big media deal with the pro-curves stuff, continuously saying that men preferred curvy women and making snide comments about slimmer women, I found myself feeling bad about my shape. I'm not saying that I endorse fat-ism (for want of a better word), because I think it's dreadful that ridiculously skinny people are portrayed as attractive and encourage people to try and lose horrendous amounts of weight/have low self-esteem, but I'm just making the point that for natural skinny people there is a flip-side to it.

Reply 525

Toscar

"huff paint" ^o) - is that some sort of scottish thing ( :eek:

), like deep fried mars bars? :p:

(p.s:are they nice?) :cool:

I wouldn't know.

bazlette - I agree, it seems much more socially acceptable to "skinny-bash", as it were - why can't we just leave people alone!

Reply 526

bazlette

Are you sure he doesn't mean, inhale paint? Like, to get a buzz from the fumes? (And if so, why did I get that!??!)

Yeah, because if there's so much "bashing" of each type going on, then surely there's people out there who like all types? Woot!

Reply 527

bazlette

Are you sure he doesn't mean, inhale paint? Like, to get a buzz from the fumes? (And if so, why did I get that!??!)

Yeah, because if there's so much "bashing" of each type going on, then surely there's people out there who like all types? Woot!

(I'm a girl :wink:

)
Yes, I meant inhaling paint and no, not all Scottish people are fat junkies but thanks for the shout out while we're on it.

Talking of people who like all types, has anyone else seen that 'fat girls and feeders' documentary?

Reply 528

panda11

Toscar

"huff paint" ^o) - is that some sort of scottish thing ( :eek:

), like deep fried mars bars? :p:

(p.s:are they nice?) :cool:

I love the placing of deep fried mars bars in the middle of all the posts about dieting... :biggrin:

Ok how about we talk about chocolate instead?

Personally I can't stand Mars bars - weirdly they always taste mouldy to me. Actually since discovering Hotel Chocolat I've gone completely off all Cadbury's chocolate, it's the expensive stuff for me from now on! My mother bought 3 of H.C. left-over Christmas boxes that are only £10 each, so now we have an impossibly huge amount of chocolate lying around our house and our postman keeps making comments about it when he sees us ("Don't worry, think your next batch is on the way." *sneer*) :rolleyes:

Is this better Toscar?

Reply 529

I can't believe there's a Hotel Chocolat AND that fudge shop in Cambo, we'll all be huge! :wink:

Reply 530

panda11

I love the placing of deep fried mars bars in the middle of all the posts about dieting... :biggrin:

Ok how about we talk about chocolate instead?

Personally I can't stand Mars bars - weirdly they always taste mouldy to me. Actually since discovering Hotel Chocolat I've gone completely off all Cadbury's chocolate, it's the expensive stuff for me from now on! My mother bought 3 of H.C. left-over Christmas boxes that are only £10 each, so now we have an impossibly huge amount of chocolate lying around our house and our postman keeps making comments about it when he sees us ("Don't worry, think your next batch is on the way." *sneer*) :rolleyes:

Is this better Toscar?

much !!

personally, i do love a good kit kat....although nestle apparently are involved in some dodgy business in the 3rd world, so i really should make a protest and move onto something else

and Jaffa cakes - not really chocolate, but still counts! does anyone else eat all the chocolate off the sponge/orange, or do you all eat it "normally"

**fudge shop**!! see you there !!!eek ...my buzz is returning!!!

Reply 531

panda11

Toscar

and Jaffa cakes - not really chocolate, but still counts! does anyone else eat all the chocolate off the sponge/orange, or do you all eat it "normally"

**fudge shop**!! see you there !!!eek ...my buzz is returning!!!

Yep I eat Jaffa Cakes that way... you mean there are people that don't?? :eek:

Also eat all the chocolate off Kit Kats first, so I end up with a heap of crumbs in my lap. My sister got a metre long tube filled with Jaffa cakes for Christmas :biggrin:

Glad the buzz is back!

Reply 532

Loocy

panda11

Personally I can't stand Mars bars - weirdly they always taste mouldy to me.

Me too! No-one else I've talked to has ever got that as well before, thank you. :smile:

And on the deep-fried mars bar front - I've never tried one, and I don't think I've ever even been to a place that sells them. :confused:

Reply 533

sassygirl

AND Thorntons.

AND Millie's Cookies.

Bring on the weight gain!

And I must chime in about the body image stuff (sorry Toscar!).

I think the one biggest factor (for me, at least) about self-perception is your peers. When I was in primary school, I was a tomboy and I hung around with loads of other tomboys and loads of boys. Nobody commented about the way I looked, and I frankly didn't care. I think I thought that I was quite pretty, but I wasn't particularly bothered.

Then I went to an all-girl's secondary school, and I made friends with someone who is now widely considered one of the bitchiest (she isn't at my school any more, but she is generally very unpopular now). This girl was pretty, very thin and had long slender legs. Before, I'd never noticed if I had any body flaws. The nearest I got to thinking I had body 'flaws' was that I had 3 freckles on my nose. One day before a biology lesson (when I was about 13 I think) she pointed out that my legs were a lot fatter than hers. And it was a 'look, everybody come round and see! Beibei takes a lot more calcium than me (she was lactose intolerant), and look at our legs [cue laughter]'. The truth is, I do have rather chubby calves and thick ankles (but honestly, everybody has fat calves and thick ankles compared to her). That moment kind of stuck in my head for a while.

I've gotten over it now, but I am still more self-conscious about my legs than any other part of my body. Quite perversely, I tend to wear shorter skirts and show my legs off more than people with nicer legs than mine. I don't know why I do this; I suppose it's a sort of weird rebellion against dressing flatteringly. Also, I think I want to prove to myself that I can mentally raise myself above my own body image hang-ups.

I stopped being friends with that girl after a while. It did take a while though, I must admit. Even though she could be poisonous, she did cling and it took a seriously major argument to break it off with her entirely. But now I'm friends with a group of people who love food as much as I do. We have long MSN conversations about what we want to eat, and always have second helpings with the opportunity arises. It's great. ^^

Reply 534

sassygirl

Thank you! :biggrin:

(edited 1 year ago)

Reply 535

afoneleri

panda11

I love the placing of deep fried mars bars in the middle of all the posts about dieting... :biggrin:

Ok how about we talk about chocolate instead?

Personally I can't stand Mars bars - weirdly they always taste mouldy to me. Actually since discovering Hotel Chocolat I've gone completely off all Cadbury's chocolate, it's the expensive stuff for me from now on! My mother bought 3 of H.C. left-over Christmas boxes that are only £10 each, so now we have an impossibly huge amount of chocolate lying around our house and our postman keeps making comments about it when he sees us ("Don't worry, think your next batch is on the way." *sneer*) :rolleyes:

Is this better Toscar?

Ah chocolate. Nothing beats a bar of good, dark swiss chocolate (and for anyone who says that Belgian chocolate is better than swiss chocolate...they're wrong :p:

). The good thing about living in chocolate land, as it were, is that the good quality chocolate comes fairly cheap here - well, as cheap as anything gets in switzerland.

I don't really like chocolate bars, and I can't stand cadbury's chocolate. And despite my previous endorsement of swiss chocolate, I think German Mozart chocolates, the ones with almond and pistachio paste inside, are the best thing going...

Reply 536

Nickf

I don't think I've replied here but I am slightly addicted to Jaffa Cakes. I eat the sponge, then the chocolate, then the orange. I can't do it any other way...

I also have an offer (AAA) for Physical Natsci at Emma for Oct 06.

Reply 537