"You've let yourself go"

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What do you understand by etc etc

Some clues:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/3044667.stm

(Caution the man in this story is Calum R.)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 22 May 2003 09:27 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my best friends said "you've really let yourself go" last night. I think this is due to my hair. as usual.

I suspect "really" is often stuck in the middle.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 09:30 (twenty-two years ago)

So I guess aswell as meaning "you are making no effort", it can also mean "you are really going a bit over the top there".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 May 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

What is to her stop deliberately eating fifty cream cakes, drinking twelve pints a day and chain smoking in an attempt to get that payout at some point in the future? Does that constitute insurance fraud?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 May 2003 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

It's horrible to think that we should all be living our lives under some sort of self-enforced restraint.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 22 May 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

story = hoax surely?

giveaway: "a panel of ten builders"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Typically this phrase is said by a man in an egg-stained wife beater barely covering a huge protruding belly to his unfortunate wife who isn't bothering to put on as much make-up as when she met him first.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 22 May 2003 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i felt so sad reading that story. the lines "he hated it when i was pregnant" and "but I've had a baby now and my figure isn't what it was before" are awful. so much for unconditional love and for self-esteem.

― angela (angela), Thursday, 22 May 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

That's awful, self-respect needed!!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 May 2003 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Being in a long-distance relationship makes this a scary prospect. I am convinced I have ballooned since I last saw my honey, and that her thoughts of bedroom fun will be well and truly popped by the site of me lugging my several new chins through customs.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 22 May 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)

unless you have ballooned since *i* last saw you mark c you are worrying abt nothing

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

C stands for Chodder.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 22 May 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Tico Tico is king of picking out popular phrases for discussion:

"You're a man of the world"
"You've let yourself go"
"Only a bit of fun"

What else?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"all small creatures should wear bows in their tails"

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

:-(

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Political Correctness gone mad"

It's 'beasts' not 'creatures' surely.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 22 May 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking about the "Political Correctness gone mad" thing, but wasn't sure if you were the first person to isolate it. Anyway, yes. In the Evening Times on Monday a parent was complaining about a school trying out 'activity-based' competitions for sports day in place of traditional games like the sack race.

Rob Busst, 43, said "This is Polical Correctness gone mad.
"Children don't become scared for life because they lose the three-legged race."

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 22 May 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Theme song for this thread is 'The Same Things It Took To Get Me', in its peerless duet version by Joe Tex and Mable John - a couple moaning at each other on this basis.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 22 May 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

that woman is quite ugly already.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

oh here we go

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 23 May 2003 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure I wasn't - I think John M did the first BBC news google search on it among ppl I know - an enlightening pastime anyway. And yes I saw the sack race thing too, dear oh dear.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 23 May 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/3039553.stm

That sports day story in full. Unfortunately the BBC have decided not to post my comment regarding my sports day responding to the quote: 'Children don't become scarred for life because they lose the egg and spoon race'

When I was a child I tripped up on a divot whilst competing int he egg and spoon race, somehow getting the spoon lodged betwixt my lip and inner gum, splitting the lip causing a considerable scar which I have had for life. Mr Busst should think before he makes flippant comments about scarring for life.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:32 (twenty-two years ago)

They obviously know your email by now Pete.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete = Keith Flett of the BBC comment pages?

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 23 May 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

my mum won the mother's race three years in a row (possibly more)

*scars weep anew*

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 23 May 2003 10:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah - I meant 'scarred', not 'scared'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 23 May 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

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