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12-03-2009, 11:18 AM
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Do you look like yourself? (NSFW)
I just read the title by Cynthetiq Do you like to look at yourself in the mirror as Do you look like yourself in the mirror.
Do you look like yourself in the mirror? Do you look the same to yourself each day? What about in pics? Do you look like you think you look? One day this past summer I passed a mirror and said, "I look like a turtle." I had no idea.
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12-03-2009, 11:48 AM
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Junkie
Location: Near Raleigh, NC
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Don't know why but the question reminded me of:
Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me But when I looked around the hall I couldn’t see him there at all! Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more! Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door Last night I saw upon the stair A little man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today Oh, how I wish he’d go away "Antigonish" (1899)[2] William Hughes Mearns I always look different than I expected, but everyone else recognizes me...
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12-03-2009, 12:19 PM
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Riding the Ocean Spray
Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa
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When I was much younger, like still adolescent, I often had thoughts about not looking like how I felt I looked. In hindsight, I think that was mostly some insecurity and not comfortable yet with who I was. I was also somewhat overweight back then, right up until the year I got out of college, and my self-confidence was compromised by my feelings about being overweight. Then when I lost that weight I got all pumped up and positively psyched about my "new look" and I rode that positive wave for many years.
Now adays, I'm mostly happy with who I am and I usually look at myself and think I look like me/like how I feel. An occasional exception...I would like to loose a few pounds again and sometimes I notice that more than at other times. I recently decided to join the local health club which I'll do this week and I plan to get in better shape than I've been in many many years. |
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12-03-2009, 12:45 PM
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comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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i think i still look like me...
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12-03-2009, 01:14 PM
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Paladin of the Palate
Location: Redneckville, NC
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I look like Unclephil, but with hair
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12-03-2009, 01:49 PM
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comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
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12-03-2009, 04:09 PM
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Leaning against the -Sun-
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Location: on the other side
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I guess now this is in nonsense the sky's the limit.
But I actually thought the thread title would be interesting to discuss. As soon as I read it I thought 'great question'. I know what I look like and I equate that with how I feel I look. But I totally have moments where I don't feel I look the way I do. Sometimes I feel I look far more interesting than I do, and others I feel I look far worse than I do. How do I know the difference? I don't know, people tell me, or I look at photos of the moment and think I look quite different than what I felt at the time. /threadjack back to the shenanigans...
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Whether we write or speak or do but look We are ever unapparent. What we are Cannot be transfused into word or book. Our soul from us is infinitely far. However much we give our thoughts the will To be our soul and gesture it abroad, Our hearts are incommunicable still. In what we show ourselves we are ignored. The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged By any skill of thought or trick of seeming. Unto our very selves we are abridged When we would utter to our thought our being. We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams, And each to each other dreams of others' dreams. Fernando Pessoa, 1918 |
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12-03-2009, 04:53 PM
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Riding the Ocean Spray
Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa
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On a highly related note, this was sort of fun: about a week ago the people I work with started a "wall of shame" wherein they found photos of celebrities who look like all the employees and those were posted on a bulletin board with the employees name on the respective pic. After a couple of revisions due to some people not being happy with who they were said to look like, most employees are now happy with their celebrity alter egos.
So I'm happy to report that I now work with Halle Berry, Tommy Chong, Victoria Principal, and many other beautiful people. I was determined to look most like John Larroquette, or depending on my mood, hair, and look of the day, like Pres. Bill Clinton. Over the years quite a few times I had people obviously looking at me in restaurants and other public places and commenting to themselves and when they notice me noticing many times they've come up to me and said "OMG, you look just like..." and it's always been Bill Clinton or John Larroquette. |
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12-03-2009, 06:06 PM
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Sitting in a tree
Location: Atlanta
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I get Kirstie Alley a lot lol. Well damn, this could be a new thread - what celebrity do you look like, or something.
Anyways, no. I don't look like I think I do. I'm reminded of this with candid photos. If I'm not aware that a photo's being taken of me, I end up looking horrible. Otherwise, I'm pretty photogenic lol. |
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12-03-2009, 07:47 PM
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Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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I'm sure she was kidding. ________ I'm never surprised by what I look like. I have a firm grasp on my appearance and am quite pleased with it. My voice is a different story. Every time I hear my voice in a recording I'm like, "That's what I sound like?!" Not that I take any issue with my voice; I just sound very different to myself...
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12-03-2009, 08:09 PM
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Une petite chou
Location: With All Your Base
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I don't think I look like I think I should.
And i get Jodie Foster a lot. Hmmmphf.
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12-03-2009, 11:38 PM
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Crazy
Location: Tupelo, MS
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good question
when I look in the mirror, I usually feel like my reflection is pretty accurate to the person that I associate myself as being but it is rare that I actually like a close up photo of myself - in fact I usually hate taking pictures, because its almost like I don't feel I am as accurately represented kinda funny really, cause you would think they would be close to the same thing... |
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12-04-2009, 06:37 AM
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Riding the Ocean Spray
Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa
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if you find a good photographer who is willing to work with "you" ...it's simply amazing to me how some of them can capture the best impressions of a person. I have done it accidentally. If I take a hundred shots one might be a stand out.
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12-11-2009, 10:44 AM
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sufferable
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Sometimes I look in the mirror and think I should look older, other times younger.
Sometimes I think, "Wait, I look nothing like Sonia Braga in the Milagro Bean Field War!" Darn it!
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As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons...be cheerful; strive for happiness - Desiderata |
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12-11-2009, 01:06 PM
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comfortably numb...
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Location: upstate
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what a great book, gd...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done." - Robert S. McNamara ----------------------------------------- "We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches... We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles." - Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message" ----------------------------------------- never wrestle with a pig. you both get dirty; the pig likes it. |
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12-11-2009, 03:34 PM
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Getting it.
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Location: Lion City
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The only time I've not looked like myself was when my face was swollen so much I looked like an alien.
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12-11-2009, 09:58 PM
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She's Actual Size
Location: Central Republic of Where-in-the-Hell
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Not at all. I'm really a tall, slim redhead, but sadly, the mirror does not show that.
Hmph.
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12-14-2009, 01:02 AM
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Upright
Location: an igloo
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I tend to look a lot stupider in the mirror than I thought I looked before I looked (right...) and there was one memorable occasion when I mistook myself for someone else as I passed a darkened room, but I think generally my mood informs the details I notice when I see my own face. Sometimes I remind people of Molly Ringwald, but I think that's just my hair talking. |
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12-19-2009, 11:55 PM
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Master Thief. Master Criminal. Masturbator.
Location: Windiwana
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I've spent some face time with some of the people i've met online. i always get told i look exactly the same as i do in my photos.
i guess it's because i dont use photoshop to make myself look super-awesome. (yes, people do this. i know, i was shocked too.) the mirror, on the other hand, can fuck off and die. the things a filthy liar.
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12-20-2009, 07:47 AM
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Tired
Location: Florida
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I have no use for such nonsense. Vampires can't see their reflections.
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12-20-2009, 09:00 AM
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Tired
Location: Florida
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Oh you.
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From a head full of pressure rests the senses that I clutch Made a date with Divinity, but she wouldn't let me fuck I got touched by a hazy shaded, God help me change Caught a rush on the floor from the life in my veins |
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01-05-2010, 09:44 PM
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loving the curves
Location: my Lady's manor
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I'm all handsome and such.
On the other hand, I've seen a shitload of pictures of this thick-bellied, turkey-necked, wrinkly-faced fellow with little pouchy eyes who always wears the same stuff I do, and he is hanging out with my kids, my dog and my Lady. WTF?
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01-06-2010, 04:24 PM
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Crazy
Location: north carolina
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01-06-2010, 04:29 PM
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We work alone
Location: Cake Town
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I've never been compared to anyone other than my dad.
I like it that way. There can only be one of me.
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