Jerky-seeming posts on FB

[Lizard Queen]

Yeah, I should really learn to sew...I mean, I can hand sew stuff a little bit, but...my mom was a really good seamstress, but she refused to work with denim.   Actually, she preferred polyester, so maybe she wasn't that great of s seamstress after all. 

[MJ2.0]

Sept 16, 2016 10:46:35 GMT -5 raeoflyte said:

You can put in your own adjustable waist band inside jeans. It's not terribly difficult, but not exactly the funnest activity either. If you look at how the pre-made ones are done, you can copy that pretty easily and there are tutorials on pinterest.

Newp.

[Deleted]

Some people do post jerky things on Facebook. I feel they use Facebook for the wrong reasons - they use it to start trouble.

[imawino]

Sept 16, 2016 10:35:23 GMT -5 swamp said:

Sept 16, 2016 10:17:21 GMT -5 milee said:

OK, this was several years ago, so what was in the store then is almost certainly not the stuff in the store now...  I was with a friend who has a daughter the same age as my younger son and she wanted to stop by Justice to pick up some clothes for her daughter.  O.M.G.  I'm not even sure I have words to describe the clothes that were in that store that day.  Here's my best effort: if Liberace was a young girl, (s)he would have complained that Justice was a little too tacky and loud.  Picture neon pink leopard print sequined leggings topped with a flashing rainbow LED adorned tank top and that would have been one of the more subtle ensembles.

My eyes hurt just thinking about that memory.  

It's a pretty good description.

My daughther found a t shirt there that has a sequined picture of a squirrel. Right up her alley.

Awwww, a sequined squirrel sounds kind of cute!

For a 9 year old.  Before someone tells me I should not be wearing sequined squirrels on my own person. 

[Cookies Galore]

Sept 16, 2016 15:12:54 GMT -5 imawino said:

Sept 16, 2016 10:35:23 GMT -5 swamp said:

It's a pretty good description.

My daughther found a t shirt there that has a sequined picture of a squirrel. Right up her alley.

Awwww, a sequined squirrel sounds kind of cute!

For a 9 year old.  Before someone tells me I should not be wearing sequined squirrels on my own person. 

You can wear whatever you want!

[imawino]

Sept 16, 2016 15:17:19 GMT -5 Cookies Galore said:

Sept 16, 2016 15:12:54 GMT -5 imawino said:

Awwww, a sequined squirrel sounds kind of cute!

For a 9 year old.  Before someone tells me I should not be wearing sequined squirrels on my own person. 

You can wear whatever you want!

Of course I can!  "Should" might be a slightly different story. 

[Tired Tess]

My daughter went through a "pudgy" stage when she was around 9 yrs old.  I found pants for her in the Jr. dept.  They were crop style pants but on her they fit like regular long pants and they fit her to a T. 

[zibazinski]

DD wears pants that are called Capri length. They fit her without hemming!!

[MJ2.0]

I remember Express having longs in pants.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Sept 16, 2016 19:37:00 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

DD wears pants that are called Capri length. They fit her without hemming!!

I tried that once in high school.  The length worked great but the proportions were all off.   The pockets weren't in the right place and the knee ended several inches above my actual knee.   That was the last time I tried that.

Despite being a petite person I've never been able to wear petite pants they are far too short for me.   I started buying my pants at Vanity which offers them by waist/inseam like men's jeans.   Turns out I am pretty close to a regular in-seam.

29'' is perfect for every pair of shoes I own.   I can wear a 31'' with heels.

Knowing the actual number makes shopping for pants SO MUCH EASIER.  Men's jeans are sold that way why can't makers of women's jeans just cut the crap and put an actual number on the label.  

[NancysSummerSip]

Sept 14, 2016 19:47:25 GMT -5 NoNamePerson said:

Sept 14, 2016 17:58:45 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Well it is kind of sad that that kids come in plus sizes these days...

and in my family the "lightweight" comment would have been 100% teasing joke and is normally followed by examples like having walked to school uphill, barefoot, with a broken leg, in a blizzard - both ways. OK, that's a terrible example and I would have been outright ridiculed by family for posting some so not creative. Coming up with the best excuse or extreme example is part of the game.

I have noticed what I would call drunken posting... like someone is attending a Happy Event at some local restaurant or banquet hall or other place with a picture of smiling people and usually before anyone can comment with a "ah, you all look fantastic!" someone will post a comment about how sucky the restaurant(or banquet hall or other place) is and what a totally HORRIBLE experience they had there. Basically anytime a commenter makes what was posted about themselves - in an unpleasant way -- Not in a nice way like "we did that to! it was fun!" OR makes sez something ugly about someone NOT in the picture but related or sez something ugly about the place the people are. I assume you have to be alittle bit inebriated to bother typing in that kind of stuff.

One reason I do not post on my FB. I do enough drunk and smoke posting here from time to ttime  but you folks don't know me!! 

And in spite of that, we still love ya!

My SIL has gone politically jerky recently. I mean way, way off the deep end. I do not engage or respond to her. The fact that people can be idiots on social media is their right. It does not MAKE them right. The better-minded person knows the difference, uses DELETE accordingly and moves on.

[Lizard Queen]

I don't even see the point of political posts there. You're not going to change anyone's mind, but you do get blocked or unfollowed if people don't agree with you. I only like other's political posts or articles--never write or share, and I suspect that much has gotten me unfollowed by some family. And at that point, why even bother being friends on FB, I wonder?

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

I have a relative whose children actually built up my then-skeletal FB page when I mistakenly left it open on a device at her house.  Until then, I only had a FB page to follow a couple of groups I belonged to.  I had NO intention of getting sucked into FB drama/fights/political crap/videos of cute animals/other life suckers.

So, okay, they created a profile and sent out a bunch of friend requests -- to everyone in our family circle except their mother.

Flash forward a year or so and I am given a "lecture" at a family function by their mother and the children on how to use FB properly because I am not doing it correctly.      To be clear, I was simply posting humorous, tongue-in-cheek, things like "go to the library" on the older child's page who is then a college freshman and posting pics from drunken college parties.  I was posting in fun, as an older relative, trying to tip this kid off that he/she may not want to post that kind of stuff on FB.  I've never started a FB fight, I don't post controversial things, I mostly "like" other people's posts.  Alas, my posts on my younger relatives' pages were taken as creepy.  Remember -- they expanded my FB page and made themselves my friends.  I don't seem to have a problem with any other of my FB friends about my truthfully inconsequential posts.  So, okay...I'll unfollow your kids and move on.  Jeesh.

Six months ago the mother of these children sends me a FB friend request.  I did not accept it because I figure I am bound to break one of *her* FB posting rules sooner, rather than later.     The other night she tried to make a big deal about it in a group text.  I didn't take the bait.  

This is exactly why my FB page was skeletal and limited to the few groups I followed (food allergies, my dog's breeder, my kids' colleges parents' pages).  I am getting too damn old to put up with manufactured drama.  Life is too short to waste any of it on FB crap.  I'm not a jerk.  I try really hard in all aspects of my life to not be a jerk.  But, I suspect, shortly after accepting this person as a FB friend, one of my posts would be taken as a jerky posting -- by HER definition of jerky posting.  So, I am doing EVERYONE a favor and not accepting her friend request.  

Ugh.  

[dannylion]

I guess I don't understand the outrage about stores selling clothing to plus-size kids.  Is there some danger of the imperfect kids not feeling sufficiently humiliated or worthless if they are allowed to have access to fashionable clothing?  Is someone afraid they're contagious and that the acceptable kids will catch fat from them if they are allowed to shop in normal-people stores?   Do perfect people just hate imperfect people so much they don't want to find themselves in the same retail space with them?    

The perfect kids already have plenty of places to shop.  If their phobia about imperfect kids is so profound that they cannot even face the possibility of a chance encounter in a clothing store, they can do all their shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, which prides itself on deliberately excluding those awful, disgusting plus-sized kids and focuses only on the perfect kids. 

[Deleted]

I am truly torn about FB.  I have really seen the beauty of it in that I feel much closer to some folks that I only saw once in a blue moon because we went to the same church but different services, same organization membership but live 20 miles apart, etc.  Some of these folks have opened up new worlds for me in their interests, hobbies, and artistic pursuits.  

The other side is the neighborhood page that I must be on because I am HOA president.  There I have seen the hatred, ignorance and bigotry that makes my life a living hell some days.  I have also seen true compassion and community.  In my role with the HOA, I have to accept the friend requests of folks that I would not go within 500 yards of IRL.  December 31, 2017 (last day in office ) will see a vast reduction in the "friends" from my neighborhood.  I am already getting tired and grumpy about being stalked by political trolls from the 'hood.  For 9 months I haven't posted anything remotely political because of the fallout, but last week I actually "liked" a local Democratic Party event and said I would attend the October meeting of the local Democrat club.  If they want to bring it, I say bring it on!  I'm a volunteer, what are they going to do - fire me?



 

[zibazinski]

Sept 17, 2016 15:07:22 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I guess I don't understand the outrage about stores selling clothing to plus-size kids.  Is there some danger of the imperfect kids not feeling sufficiently humiliated or worthless if they are allowed to have access to fashionable clothing?  Is someone afraid they're contagious and that the acceptable kids will catch fat from them if they are allowed to shop in normal-people stores?   Do perfect people just hate imperfect people so much they don't want to find themselves in the same retail space with them?    

The perfect kids already have plenty of places to shop.  If their phobia about imperfect kids is so profound that they cannot even face the possibility of a chance encounter in a clothing store, they can do all their shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, which prides itself on deliberately excluding those awful, disgusting plus-sized kids and focuses only on the perfect kids. 

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I hope it's more concern about how many there seem to be. I knew one person I'd call FAT in school growing up and she lost the weight in high school. Now I have students who outweighed me. I taught in elementary school. No one should outweigh me, especially kindergarten students.

[dannylion]

Sept 17, 2016 20:38:02 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Sept 17, 2016 15:07:22 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I guess I don't understand the outrage about stores selling clothing to plus-size kids.  Is there some danger of the imperfect kids not feeling sufficiently humiliated or worthless if they are allowed to have access to fashionable clothing?  Is someone afraid they're contagious and that the acceptable kids will catch fat from them if they are allowed to shop in normal-people stores?   Do perfect people just hate imperfect people so much they don't want to find themselves in the same retail space with them?    

The perfect kids already have plenty of places to shop.  If their phobia about imperfect kids is so profound that they cannot even face the possibility of a chance encounter in a clothing store, they can do all their shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, which prides itself on deliberately excluding those awful, disgusting plus-sized kids and focuses only on the perfect kids. 

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I hope it's more concern about how many there seem to be. I knew one person I'd call FAT in school growing up and she lost the weight in high school. Now I have students who outweighed me. I taught in elementary school. No one should outweigh me, especially kindergarten students.

From the description of the FB post, it appeared that the outrage was over the fact that a store carried plus-size clothing for kids as though they should not be able to shop in the same stores the "normal" kids shop in.  Kids aren't fat because stores are selling clothes that fit them.  Denying them access to the same experiences the other kids have isn't going to make the fat kids go away.  It's just going to stigmatize them further and make life even harder for them.  It would seem that the energy being expended by the person who was outraged about plus-size clothing would have been better directed toward devising ways to help kids be healthier, not in making them feel worse by denying them decent clothing.  They get bullied enough already. 

[Lizard Queen]

To clarify, the concern was that kids were fat from eating too many Happy Meals and not being active enough. She was not being so stuck up as to hate having to shop amongst fat kids. There was a comment to her post stating that fat kids needed clothes too, so that angle was covered, but most all other comments agreed with her. The 2 posts weren't completely off-base, but insensitive in their execution, I guess. I don't know, I guess I believe in treading very lightly on FB. It's way too easy to misinterpret things.

[Pants]

I'm at the end of a long hard day. I feel like going to FB and leaving shitty comments all over the place. Like, things I would say if I was being a complete asshole on purpose.

But I won't because I know I would regret it tomorrow, and I'm misplacing my anger into places it shouldn't be.

[Deleted]

Sept 17, 2016 23:21:39 GMT -5 Pants said:

I'm at the end of a long hard day. I feel like going to FB and leaving shitty comments all over the place. Like, things I would say if I was being a complete asshole on purpose.

But I won't because I know I would regret it tomorrow, and I'm misplacing my anger into places it shouldn't be.

Just send it all to your mother since she's the only one deserving of the vitriol. Or send it to me in a PM and I'll edit it and then you can post it. Whatever works.

And I am really sorry your mother is such is an asshat. If I lived anywhere in your vicinity, I'd be more than happy to take a give BSB (Pants) a break shift. Really.

[Deleted]

Sept 17, 2016 15:07:22 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I guess I don't understand the outrage about stores selling clothing to plus-size kids.  Is there some danger of the imperfect kids not feeling sufficiently humiliated or worthless if they are allowed to have access to fashionable clothing?  Is someone afraid they're contagious and that the acceptable kids will catch fat from them if they are allowed to shop in normal-people stores?   Do perfect people just hate imperfect people so much they don't want to find themselves in the same retail space with them?    

The perfect kids already have plenty of places to shop.  If their phobia about imperfect kids is so profound that they cannot even face the possibility of a chance encounter in a clothing store, they can do all their shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, which prides itself on deliberately excluding those awful, disgusting plus-sized kids and focuses only on the perfect kids. 

Thank you!!! I'm fat. Have always been fat, Pretty Plus back in the day. It's genetics for the most part. I was in band and got plenty of exercise during football season. Ok, right now it's also because I drink a lot to forget my job exists. I do love food but am usually too tired to eat due to shitty schedule. Lane Bryant is my friend, my very expensive friend, but nonetheless, my friend.

[mamasita99]

Sept 18, 2016 1:11:36 GMT -5 @empressspunkles said:

Sept 17, 2016 15:07:22 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I guess I don't understand the outrage about stores selling clothing to plus-size kids.  Is there some danger of the imperfect kids not feeling sufficiently humiliated or worthless if they are allowed to have access to fashionable clothing?  Is someone afraid they're contagious and that the acceptable kids will catch fat from them if they are allowed to shop in normal-people stores?   Do perfect people just hate imperfect people so much they don't want to find themselves in the same retail space with them?    

The perfect kids already have plenty of places to shop.  If their phobia about imperfect kids is so profound that they cannot even face the possibility of a chance encounter in a clothing store, they can do all their shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, which prides itself on deliberately excluding those awful, disgusting plus-sized kids and focuses only on the perfect kids. 

Thank you!!! I'm fat. Have always been fat, Pretty Plus back in the day. It's genetics for the most part. I was in band and got plenty of exercise during football season. Ok, right now it's also because I drink a lot to forget my job exists. I do love food but am usually too tired to eat due to shitty schedule. Lane Bryant is my friend, my very expensive friend, but nonetheless, my friend.

   Yes! I had to shop Pretty Plus in JC Penney, when I was in that "too big for kid clothes, too small for juniors" stage. By Jr. high school my growing had evened out. I've been wearing typical sized clothing ever since.

  My youngest daughter had the same issue when she was younger, she had this chubby stage. I made sure she got plenty of exercise and fed her healthy foods, same as her older sister. She just seemed to hold onto her baby fat in early elementary.  As she got a little older she slimmed down a lot (mostly by growing taller!), and now she's a typical sized 13 year-old. She prefers Forever 21 and H&M for her clothes, they have a range of sizes.

  No one in my family has had the "too skinny" problem as a kid, but I know plenty of my friends who have really skinny kids, and it's just how their genetics played out. Kids grow differently. Offering all the kids clothes that fit is just a decent thing to do.  (BTW, IMO a size 00 relative lecturing on FB about plus size kids clothes, that's just tacky). 

[swamp]

Sept 17, 2016 20:38:02 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Sept 17, 2016 15:07:22 GMT -5 dannylion said:

I guess I don't understand the outrage about stores selling clothing to plus-size kids.  Is there some danger of the imperfect kids not feeling sufficiently humiliated or worthless if they are allowed to have access to fashionable clothing?  Is someone afraid they're contagious and that the acceptable kids will catch fat from them if they are allowed to shop in normal-people stores?   Do perfect people just hate imperfect people so much they don't want to find themselves in the same retail space with them?    

The perfect kids already have plenty of places to shop.  If their phobia about imperfect kids is so profound that they cannot even face the possibility of a chance encounter in a clothing store, they can do all their shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch, which prides itself on deliberately excluding those awful, disgusting plus-sized kids and focuses only on the perfect kids. 

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I hope it's more concern about how many there seem to be. I knew one person I'd call FAT in school growing up and she lost the weight in high school. Now I have students who outweighed me. I taught in elementary school. No one should outweigh me, especially kindergarten students.

As the parent of a child who wears plus sized clothes, I would love to know where all these stores are. Right now, I'm pretty much limited to shopping at Justice. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Ugh justice. All I did was walk by that store and my eyeballs started to bleed.

Thank god it's all the way put at west roads so hopefully the girls will never be aware it exists.

Speaking of eyeball hurting stores I wandered into hot topic while Gwen was in dance.

I used to love that store. Now I can't get out fast enough. I'm old.

[zibazinski]

Geez, there was some store that's always getting bad mouthed. Not Abetcrombie, it'll probably come to me the minute I post this. DD took me in there one time, it was dark, reeked of the cologne they sold, and too damn loud for such a small store. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. 

[milee]

Sept 18, 2016 9:01:15 GMT -5 swamp said:

Sept 17, 2016 20:38:02 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

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I hope it's more concern about how many there seem to be. I knew one person I'd call FAT in school growing up and she lost the weight in high school. Now I have students who outweighed me. I taught in elementary school. No one should outweigh me, especially kindergarten students.

As the parent of a child who wears plus sized clothes, I would love to know where all these stores are. Right now, I'm pretty much limited to shopping at Justice. 

That was kind of the point of my post.  It really doesn't matter what size or shape our kids are, we all think the stores have more/better clothes for all the other size/shape kids.     One poster was writing that all the clothes out there were for tall, skinny kids yet I was sure that all the clothes out there were for short, plus sized kids.  The funniest part is that we were probably even shopping at the same stores.  I'm starting to think the clothes out there really don't fit any of the kids.  

Shopping for kids clothes just sucks for everybody, no matter what size or shape their kid is.  I've always thought it must be easier for the parents of girls since there are so many more choices of girls' clothing.  The boys section is always small and with pretty boring (or really offensive and/or ugly) stuff.  The girls section always seems to have a lot more selection and usually some cute things.  But I'm sure the parents of girls think the opposite - it's harder to find girls' clothes than boys.  

[zibazinski]

I'm short, it totally sucks out there for me.

[swamp]

Sept 18, 2016 9:58:13 GMT -5 milee said:

Sept 18, 2016 9:01:15 GMT -5 swamp said:

As the parent of a child who wears plus sized clothes, I would love to know where all these stores are. Right now, I'm pretty much limited to shopping at Justice. 

That was kind of the point of my post.  It really doesn't matter what size or shape our kids are, we all think the stores have more/better clothes for all the other size/shape kids.     One poster was writing that all the clothes out there were for tall, skinny kids yet I was sure that all the clothes out there were for short, plus sized kids.  The funniest part is that we were probably even shopping at the same stores.  I'm starting to think the clothes out there really don't fit any of the kids.  

Shopping for kids clothes just sucks for everybody, no matter what size or shape their kid is.  I've always thought it must be easier for the parents of girls since there are so many more choices of girls' clothing.  The boys section is always small and with pretty boring (or really offensive and/or ugly) stuff.  The girls section always seems to have a lot more selection and usually some cute things.  But I'm sure the parents of girls think the opposite - it's harder to find girls' clothes than boys.  

DS is one of those kids that clothes are made for. He can find clothes anywhere. And yes, boy clothing selection is boring.

[swamp]

Sept 18, 2016 9:14:29 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

Geez, there was some store that's always getting bad mouthed. Not Abetcrombie, it'll probably come to me the minute I post this. DD took me in there one time, it was dark, reeked of the cologne they sold, and too damn loud for such a small store. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. 

Hollister

[milee]

Sept 18, 2016 12:12:27 GMT -5 swamp said:

Sept 18, 2016 9:58:13 GMT -5 milee said:

That was kind of the point of my post.  It really doesn't matter what size or shape our kids are, we all think the stores have more/better clothes for all the other size/shape kids.     One poster was writing that all the clothes out there were for tall, skinny kids yet I was sure that all the clothes out there were for short, plus sized kids.  The funniest part is that we were probably even shopping at the same stores.  I'm starting to think the clothes out there really don't fit any of the kids.  

Shopping for kids clothes just sucks for everybody, no matter what size or shape their kid is.  I've always thought it must be easier for the parents of girls since there are so many more choices of girls' clothing.  The boys section is always small and with pretty boring (or really offensive and/or ugly) stuff.  The girls section always seems to have a lot more selection and usually some cute things.  But I'm sure the parents of girls think the opposite - it's harder to find girls' clothes than boys.  

DS is one of those kids that clothes are made for. He can find clothes anywhere. And yes, boy clothing selection is boring.

He is the elusive "sample size" for boys clothing!!!