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Have you ever been busted ogling or leering at someone? What did the object of your objectifying gaze say to you, and how did you react?

― dave q, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not me but a friend who was fixated by a man on the tube wearing tight trousers with a particularly bulging (not tumescent) groin. He got off at her stop and outside the station asked her if she'd got a good look (in an amused way). She was so horrifically embarrassed she had to phone and tell me straight away.

― Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate when I see poeple staring at me out the corner of my eye. How did they get in my head anyways!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

stop fucking looking at me!

― Geoff, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I can get pretty rude when people are obviously checking me out. I alternate between getting very flustered and getting very annoyed. One time a taxi driver kept shouting stupid come ons at me and was too busy harrassing me that he RAN INTO THE CAR IN FRONT OF HIM AT A LIGHT. We had the greatest fucking laugh, "You stop traffic!" etc etc etc. The scariest one since I moved to NYC was a guy on a subway platform with a camera, who aimed it at me until I finally acknowledged he was there (I studiously pretended to ignore him for FIVE MINUTES), and then snapped my picture. He claimed to be a tourist and was taking a picture of the "nicest thing he's seen so far in the city". He wouldn't leave me alone and kept fucking snapping pictures of me. I was terrified that A) I'd go insane and murder him, like some sort of non-monkey female King Kong B) he was going to shove me off the platform. I ended up running out and walking to my destination after telling him to fuck off.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If someone stares at me on a paranoid day I assume I have newsprint on my face or my hair is sticking up funnily. If they stare on a good day I think I must be looking even better than I thought, then it turns out I have newsprint on my face or my hair is sticking up.

― Emma, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've never been called on ogling women, which is odd because I'm by no means guilt-free in that department. I don't say anything or crash any cars or try to take a photo or even stare for very long, though, so I'm probably quite a polite lech as these things go.

― Tom, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

being a boy i never notice if i am being looked at, and then, on the rare occasions i am noticed, my friends'll be like 'dude, that girl was well into you', and i'm like 'who? where?'

― gareth, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and as for looking, well, i'm kind of discreet. ahem

― gareth, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the problem really is that most men are exactly like you guys, polite and nice, whereas the men who are attracted to me are all DANGEROUSLY INSANE. I seem to exclusively attract psuedo- stalkers, nutjobs and paranoids. It's like I have a big sign on my head, "I AM A MENTAL HOSPITAL".

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how can you be king kong and not a monkey?

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gorillas are not monkeys.

― Kris, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They eat bananas= they are monkeys

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I'm not going to explain it.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaking of Monkeys how about that George w!

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've had just about enough of you today. Now listen here, this question isn't about monkeys or George W, it's about creepy men staring at women. If you can't respect that, I'll have to hit you up a bit.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Ally
If Mike's gonna get buck wild
Just go back and hit 'im up style!

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And once again Dan Perry has read my mind.

Seriously, that song has been in my head for WEEKS now, and it's all Ramon's fault. He keeps listening to it and singing it and referencing it. "Oh my god, the IT guys are giving me such trouble at work, my computer is broken, THREE FUCKING DAYS! Can you believe this shit? I am out of comission, I have nothing to do, my work is piling." "Sounds like you gotta hit those IT guys up style!" "Right, you say that again, love, and I will fucking hurt you." This is like every conversation. So far I have to hit up style a bartender I know, my roommate, the IT guys, my boss, three different coworkers, and possibly my mom. The end result is I walk around singing that damned song.

HEY LADIES!! arrrgh.

― Ally, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it's really not hard to look discreetly. i don't know why people do it obviously -- i think they might want their gaze-object to know they're interest.

i never think people are checking me out.

― sundar subramanian, Wednesday, 1 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Most of the time people have to tell me when someone's checking me out. However I have no problem when dirty pervs are doing it.
"What do you think of this necklace?"
"I wasn't looking at the necklace, but something else." Eyes drop a bit lower to check out my breasts.
Rolling my eyes.

The Japanese are amazingly good at checking people out. I think they take special courses. It's all to do with the fact that you're not s'posed to single people out. Checking people out=they are not part of the group but an individual that stands out.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nathalie, the same applies to tshirts with something written across the chest. (peers closely) 'What does that say?'. I used to have a tshirt with an inflatable bit on the chest which some people seemed to think was an invitation to prod me. Dearie me.....

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"interested," sorry.

― sundar subramanian, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That was an inflatable bit? Damn, I might as well have been feeling up a balloon (actually I might as well have been feeling up a balloon anyway - the good it did me).

― Pete, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The accounts of Pete 'n' Emma's relationship seem to be taking an unexpectedly dark turn.

― Nick, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete, I know I may have been rude to you on occasions on the interweb but that is no excuse to dis my breasts. The inflatable bit on this ancient tshirt was smack in the middle of the chest and said 100% Gonflable on it. I am off to find a breast referee now to confirm I do not have balloons up my top.....

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Breast referees actually exist, you know. I remember reading an interview with a man whose job it was to inspect seaside beauty contest entrants for signs of falsies. It was one of those 'Is this the luckiest man in the world?' pieces. Personally, i think you might get a bit boobed out after a while.

― Nick, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Interview in a magazine? Are you sure it wasn't Viz?

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Viz, The Spectator, something like that.

Incidentally, I have never been busted for leering at people in the street, but it has been a long term ambition of mine to write a song that includes the line 'Summer's here and the time is right for ogling in the street'. My fear is that this would be condemned as wordplay of the worst Carter USM kind.

Re: Emma's trouser bulge staring story. I once read (it was probably in the same publication referenced above) that despite rumours to the contrary, the first thing men usually check out is the face, whereas women tend to start with the crotch. Is this true? Thinking about it, it might have been quoting Kathy Lette.

― Nick, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well I never so much as glance at a man's crotch until the third date.

― Emma, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not like you can tell anything anyhow from glancing, they wear such ridiculously large pants now a days.

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's so they can disguise erections in playgrounds. It said so on TV.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

shit none of you lot should go to russia, that fucking sucks for people staring at you.......

everyday for 9 months?

i guess its to be expected, but russians are (in some ways) rude as FUC

― ambrose, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Playgrounds???? Why do children on playgrounds have erections?

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I hate it to break it to you Ally, but boyz got erection almost from infancy. Anyway, I think Tom was talking about paedophiles.

― Nick, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was talking Nonce Sense, Ally.

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, that's disgusting. How the hell do you people walk around with those things?

― Ally, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Three South Africa Decathaltes caused me to drool when i saw them board the train today. God there is so many athletes in the city for the next 12 days...

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven months pass...

I just have to ask which movie the quote "take a picture, it will last longer" is from? I remember hearing in some movie by a guy with a kind of "gay" foreign sounding voice and it was hilarious.

― Marc, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know Pee Wee said it in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure", but I hope you're not implying he's gay-sounding. The very idea.

― Sean, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No I think it's a faily new movie (last decade). It doesn't sound that gay when I think of it. More foreign and sarcasting kind of.

― Marc, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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