Introverts, how is your day?

[Pseudonym]

Mostly, but since a lot of our parcels go to other countries it becomes a game of pass the parcel through multiple countries and just keeping your fingers crossed no one messes up along the way. 

I'm covered in ink, just had an absolute nightmare with the printer not working and had to disassemble it to get out the printhead. :S On the plus side it *seems* to have worked. I was getting mega stressed trying to get courier labels printed before the couriers actually turned up, I ended up using a massive plan printer to print an A6 label. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

You can't just address the labels by hand?

[Pseudonym]

No they have barcodes on them that the couriers scan with PDAs when they pick them up. 

[Arcadia]

On ‎7‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 11:29 AM, Pseudonym said:

Weird creepy noise in one of my spare bedrooms, something clicking in the ceiling. 😱

In our house, that would be a bat.  

On ‎7‎/‎15‎/‎2018 at 9:52 PM, Van Buren Supernova said:

Anyway, this picture from a swimming pool in China is such a nightmare to me.

Good god, why would anyone go there. Gah, the crowd, is there even water or space? In the article it's actually a wave pool, showing the wave come and all those people move up and down but we couldn't see the water. How if someone is trapped below, it looks like it's very possible to die among those inflatables. Anyway, YIKES!! I'd rather be everywhere else.

Holee sweet ….. no no no no no!!!!!! The crowd is bad enough, but in a crowd IN WATER???? Aaaiiiiiieeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pseudonym]

I agreed to meet an old school friend after work for coffee on Friday. Wish I hadn't. 

[Van Buren Supernova]

4 hours ago, Arcadia said:

Holee sweet ….. no no no no no!!!!!! The crowd is bad enough, but in a crowd IN WATER???? Aaaiiiiiieeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, imagine the hygiene, people being so close to you, the skin, ughhh byekk, the water must be freaking warm and who would bet some people or kids couldn't get out on time to relieve their bladders? What I can't understand, this is considered recreation, people pay and willingly go there. I don't think it's impossible for them to find somewhere else. Beach, or a tub of water at home or just lay motionless on the floor (it helps me when I need to cool down XD) Any other recreational thing beats this.

57 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

I agreed to meet an old school friend after work for coffee on Friday. Wish I hadn't.

I did that two Fridays ago and regretted it all the way. All because we are having very bad times at office and the remaining of us tried to hang on together, so I agreed on their invitations. Mostly I regret it because I think they would have a better time without me. I suppose XD.

Hope yours turn out well, or someone cancels.

 

[Pseudonym]

The thing that grosses me out the most about public pools is people blowing their noses and globs of snot floating on the surface. The two things I have the most trouble coping with are snot and sleep in the eyes. Bleurgh. My sister in law once wanted me to kiss my nephew good bye and when I looked at him his nose was running. I was nearly sick. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

I agree about snot.  When I was in school, the person I mostly hung out with, due to similar interests, was a boy with a perpetually snotty nose.  Not just runny, snotty.  I enjoyed chatting with him at lunch, but couldn't eat while looking at his snotty nose.  So I invented an invisible friend who always sat across from me.

[Pseudonym]

Just the thought makes me feel queasy. 😮

[Pseudonym]

Oh dear, I gave in to an evening nap, trying to sleep tonight is going to be fun. :S

When it was super hot a couple of weeks ago I bought a maxi dress, I've always wanted one, thinking something loose, flowing and easy to throw on would be just the ticket on days it was too hot to move. It fits me perfectly, rare since I'm so short, but the back is quite open, a loose lace up. I'm not sure whether to wear it with a bralet, which would be fully on show, or just go braless. I'm paranoid about being braless even though I'm small chested enough to pull it off easily. The fabric is crepey and lined so it shouldn't show any nips... don't know why I'm so wary, just conditioned into it? Anyone else paranoid about this kind of thing?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I used to be accustomed to wearing a bra, so I know what you're talking about, but I gradually conditioned myself out of it, because the darn things are so uncomfortable.

Sounds like you have two reasonable choices: either find a bra that's an exact match to one of the colors in the dress so it'll look like it was meant to go together, or don't wear one.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Snot....

I don't think I've ever go braless. Wore a backless dresses before, but it was a custom made dresses, and there were built-in cups.

I'm not comfortable being braless. I think I saw special bra strap that loop into the neck and waist before and it looks pretty nice, but never bought or tried one. Or there are type with just cups and some kind of adhesive.

[Pseudonym]

It's black so finding a match would be easy!

I go braless in the winter a lot when I'm wearing a thick jumper but not in the summer. Aside from the stick on ones I don't think anything else will stay hidden enough, so braless it is. 

When I was younger there was a TV show here that did garden make-overs. There was a token woman, who in all honesty was very plain, but there was a lot of leering in the media about how hot she was... because her thing was that she used to wear a fairly tight t-shirt with no bra and they'd always have her digging or doing something else that would make her chest jiggle as much as possible.

[Van Buren Supernova]

1 hour ago, Pseudonym said:

Aside from the stick on ones I don't think anything else will stay hidden enough, so braless it is. 

And with that solution, you sure something will stay hidden?

[Pseudonym]

Yea, I'm pretty flat chested so there's nothing to fall out!

[Arcadia]

According to my niece, who is shapely but not, um, large, bras are a relic of more oppressive times. 

However, I went without for decades, for the reason Carol mentions, until several people started remarking on it. I am not shapely and am rather, um, large, so I gave in to societal pressure and wear one whenever in public. Usually.

No point to any of this, just thought I'd share. 😁

And we wonder why there are so few men on this forum......

[Pseudonym]

I wonder if the environment we're raised in has an effect. 

A friend of mine was raised in a wholly female environment and has always been almost cringingly open. She's also the type to casually whip off her clothes right in front of you whilst getting changed and is comfortable sitting with her boob completely out in public whilst getting ready to breast feed. Not that I'm saying those things are wrong, or that she shouldn't, but she's really blase about it. 

I was raised in a more male environment, having my dad around along with two older brothers. I always hid away 'female stuff' as something only to be discussed in hushed voices with my mother. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

9 minutes ago, Arcadia said:

I went without for decades, for the reason Carol mentions, until several people started remarking on it.

That strikes me as downright rude.  Well, unless they were women politely inquiring as to your reason, possibly trying to work up the courage to try it themselves.  (Which I doubt, judging by your reaction.)

I agree with your niece, it's all a matter of societal conventions.  Can you imagine how "nice" ladies reacted to the first women who wore bras?  "Shameless hussies!  Propping themselves up like that for everyone to see!"

[Carol the Dabbler]

13 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

I wonder if the environment we're raised in has an effect. 

Oh, I'm sure it does -- not only male vs female, but also the attitudes of those males or females.

[Pseudonym]

Didn't they essentially evolve from corsets? So it's be more a case of, 'look at those hussies not covering their bodies properly'?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'm not sure of the exact sequence, but it's my impression from watching period dramas that early corsets flattened the bosom.  In which case, the shocked reaction I was talking about may have been to the first women who wore corsets that supported the bosom, rather than to bras as such.  But that reaction must have occurred at some point.  Or perhaps at several points, as fashions came and went.

[Pseudonym]

My nan wore a corset until the day she died, even when she wasn't going anywhere or planning to see anyone. When I'm at home I just wear a thin baggy t-shirt and knickers!

[Van Buren Supernova]

Look at us talking about bras and tutu!

Same with Pseud, I grew up in male environment, and outside family, male chauvinist pig environment. Leering, cat call, comments happened even when I wore loose (is this right usage @Arcadia ) clothing. Not to mention male teachers who peeped on cleavages or commented on your looks when we were in Junior grade (12-15 years old, which makes it very creepy now that I think about it), so I had never gone out without a bra actually. Even when I had shortage of cloths, stranded in a hotel for couple of days when there was a natural disaster that resulted in airport closure, I didn't feel comfortable lounging just in bathrobe. I think I never feel safe when I'm alone outside, regardless how safe the hotel reputation is.

Back then I worked in big office cubicle style, the aircon was so damn cold and I noticed that something were showing , I don't like padded bra so they are up and about visibly. Good god, I had to put tissues and since then, wore jacket or coat at all times. Luckily there is something comfortable like T-shirt bra that helps in this kind of situation too.

Okay, now we have to kill every male member of this forum.

 

P.S. I have tons and tons of work to do, my colleagues went back early, and I'm alone in the office, good old days. So should I work? Nahhhhhhhhh.... I'm hating my work place now it feels good slacking off once in a while.

[Arcadia]

30 minutes ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

That strikes me as downright rude.  Well, unless they were women politely inquiring as to your reason, possibly trying to work up the courage to try it themselves.  (Which I doubt, judging by your reaction.)

So did I, but it happened often enough to make me self-conscious about it. So I conformed. Some fights ain't worth fighting.

[Carol the Dabbler]

12 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

My nan wore a corset until the day she died, even when she wasn't going anywhere or planning to see anyone.

It's presumably all a matter of what people are used to.  When I was in college, it was understood that "nice girls wear a girdle" (apparently in lieu of a chastity belt).  But I was so skinny that I never wore one.  Don't recall anyone ever commenting on it, though.  Dunno what I'd have done if they had.