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Powder. Pens. Clothes. Gary. Last year's camp or this year's kitsch?

Or just plain cool?

― Graham, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud as it is mostly sprayed on 21 year old Romford bird patrolling clubs with pink drink in hand looking for a tosser in training suit chugging guiness by the gallon (or liter). I am making up this nightmare.

Oh starry starry night.

― nathalie, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nathalie is being wrong. Obviously, living very near Romford, I would know. Glitter is the preserve of irritating indie gurls who still think Nicky Wire is fit.

― DG, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, you're both right - so a point each.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Super dud! I think burlap is glamorous (sp?).

― 1 1 2 3 5, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

good five years ago. whether this is to do with the transitory nature of fashion or my distain for styles of my past i wouldn't like to venture.

― matthew james, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Romford girls do not wear glitter. They wear too much foundation and dresses a size too small for them, and drink Bacardi Breezers.

― DG, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Would any of them be interested in coming to Club Sussed?

My only experience of glitter was making Christmas Cards for my parents. I would get it all over everything - schoolbooks, bag, under my nails - but I still loved it.

― Tom, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glitter's way cool when you're 4. How cool would a Billy Bragg remake of "Romford Girls" be with DG's updated facts? "Romford Girls make love with too much foundation on" etc. What was that band called anyway? Something shit that's been used by an AOR band. Tiger Tails?

― Greg, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Glitter is the preserve of irritating indie gurls who still think Nicky Wire is fit."

That made me laugh out loud at my computer screen. It's so true.

― Mascara, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It would appear you've hit a DG nerve here.
The definitive DG guide to Romford Gurl Stereotypes - Part One:
1) Too much foundation.
2) Bacardi Breezer, Smirnoff Ice or Metz in one hand, Nokia 3210 in the other.
3)Car of choice - Ford Fiesta (post 1995 model) or Nissan Micra (after the bubbly redesign)
4) No, and I mean NO white stilletos - the stereotype persists, but these days it's more likely to be gold sandals or snakeskin loafers. [more pointers when I can think of them]

― DG, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I somehow got glitter on my face this weekend. It was awful. Glitter is for 13 year old girls. Everyone else should be done with that fad. Shimmer is a different matter though.

― Ally, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So damn true that. I have this sheeny 'body mousse' moisturizer stuff that I put on my legs when I wear skirts (which is often) and it's just excellent. Real glitter is a dud. It gets everywhere and has a freaky 'boomerang' effect so that even months after you've worn it, it will find you again and someone will point out that you have a shiny speck of it sitting conspicously on the end of your nose or some such place.

― Kim, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bleh...is my typo 'conspicous' enough?

― Kim, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yeah, I put the sheeny stuff on my legs, mixed with lotion, when I have a dying tan or a lot of bruises or something, the light reflection actually masks little things like that very well. So I actually do it a lot. But GLITTER on the other hand should've never been invented. I hate it that being a Manics fan has me branded as a glitter girl for the rest of my life by those who don't know me. Anyone who's met me can vouch for me: I AM NOT A GLITTER GIRL.

― Ally, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am a material girl. Reduce me seduce me dress me up in GUCCI.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I was hoping this thread would be about Mariah Carey's new movie.

― Tim, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Ally! You are a Manics Fan. Manics Fans = Glitter, therefore Ally = Glitter Girl. There you go, proven by science.

― DG, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have realised that with my Nokia phone and fondness for Bacardi Breezers I am in fact from Essex. My parents must've adopted me from a Romford orphanage and despite their efforts to raise me properly the Essex in me has forced its way to the surface.

― Emma, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have clear but glittery toes. But this could be because it amuses me to take off DULL WORK SHOES and see something sparkle. It's an amusing shock! Good gosh! I also have Clear But Glittery Nails because I want to stop biting them. People who think glitter is a religion - TOTAL DUD!

I am allowed to say this as my glitter days are OVER.

My phone is a SIEMENS. Curse Nokias with their fancy bastarding ring tones. They have the added bonus of confusing Nokia people though, so I'm all about the "soft key" interface. HA HA!

― Sarah, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What's with that all over glitter look that makes girls look like they're sweating like a pig?

― Nick, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I have now passed through my glitter phase. It is true that whenever we used to go out my hilarious male chums would say 'Oh Emma you look a bit sweaty'. However I got the last laugh as the glitter magically glues itself to anyone who comes within 10 miles of me so chums would have to go and play football on a Sunday covered in my glitter. Tee hee.

― Emma, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Having girl's glitter stuck to you when playing football = CLASSIC. Either your teammates think you've had some girl action or else they think you're sweating like a pig and admire your work rate. Either way, it's all good.

― Nick, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My glitter period was about 93-95 (coinciding with the height of my Manics period, sorry) although I kept a little jar and dug it out every now and again until a couple of years ago. My rule of glitter is the bigger the bits, the worse it is. Some glitter is so darn big that if you're facing away from the light and it doesn't reflect anything, it looks like you're covered in bits of dirt.

Shimmery make-up, however, is fantastic and hides a bazillion blemishes. Without my YSL Touche Eclat I would be a thousand times uglier. Really.

― Madchen, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But Ally! You are a Manics Fan. Manics Fans = Glitter, therefore Ally = Glitter Girl. There you go, proven by science.

This is officially the worst science I've ever heard of in my life. I HATE GLITTER. I DO NOT WEAR FEATHER BOAS (USUALLY). I DO NOT WEAR BAD PURPLE EYELINER AND FLOUNCY BIG GIRL BLOUSES WITH SLOGANS SPRAYED ON THEM. I AM NOT MR. PRICE.

(I do wear a crucifix and black eyeliner though. Oh dear)

― Ally, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was really worried that this thread was about the mariah carey movie.

― maura, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

CLASSIC! At least for 16 year old girls who missed out on it when they were 13.

― Lyra, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

um, i like glitter

― gareth, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally can't take it that she's been beaten by science.

― DG, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It was the worst science ever.

― Ally, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicky D - so which was it?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Neither: I live in a fantasy world. LOOK - I answered a question of yours!

― Nick, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

All science is good science. You are beaten.

― DG, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What is a Romford Girl? Is it anything like a Trixie ?

― Kerry, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

THAT SCIENCE SUCKED. I HATE SCIENCE.

― Ally, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kerry: Billy Bragg had a go at defining Romford girls, but his observations are a bit out of date, so look a bit further up this thread. As for Romford itself, look here, and scroll down to the 'worst things', they're mostly true. And what's more, I only live a couple of miles up the road from this place. Yuck.
Ally, ALL SCIENCE IS GOOD SCIENCE, as proven by science.

― DG, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Your brand of science is just you say things, therefore they are true. That's not science, this is not the 1600s!

― Ally, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

No no no Ally, I have my very own laboratory in which I test my hypotheses to destruction. How else could I claim things were proven by science?

― DG, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

See, this is how I know you are lying:

Ally = Wears no glitter.

DG = Claims Ally wears glitter, proven by science.

Science = not right.

There you go.

― Ally, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally = claims not to wera glitter but is a manics fan.
Manics fans = proven by science to be GLITTER JUNKIES.
Therefore my purpose built machine for detecting glitter wearers identifies you, scientifically, to be a GLITTER GURL WHO NOT ONLY THINKS NICKY WIRE IS FIT BUT THAT RICHEY IS STILL ALIVE AND BUSKING IN GOA (BEING A HIPPY) AND THEREFORE IS A HIPPY TOO. Sorry, you can't argue, science has the last word.

― DG, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But this is the WORST SCIENCE I EVER HEARD.

Here are the fact for all to decide:

Ally = decidedly non-glitter wearing Manics fan, being as she lives in America and has no exposure to Manics Culture, not wearing glitter is sensible and explanable in that she didn't know that Manics fans wore glitter until well late, and was glad to not be part of it, being very anti-glitter. Also = thinks Nicky Wire has never been fit, and indeed in a list of Fittest Manics All Time it would go:

1. Richey

2. James

3. Sean

4. Nicky

Richey = Still alive because there is no body, this is sensible science. Plus, he lives in Goa and thus cannot be dead because otherwise one would say "He's dead in Goa".

Hippies = crap.

This is science, not that rubbish you're going on about.

― Ally, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I note with grate satisfaction that you chose not to attempt to refute the SCIENCE FACT that you fancy hippies.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But...it's another SCIENCE FACT that Manics wear glitter, it's in the genes. Manics fans, genetically, have more in common with crabs.

― DG, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do not fancy hippies. Hippies = crap. Richey isn't a hippie, he's a confused goth! The Goa thing is a result of his well documented psychosis. If you put him back on his Prozac he'd come back to Wales and do Welsh things, certainly. Non-hippy things.

― Ally, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's not any sort of genetic thing to make one cover oneself in glitter. I am using the word "one" a lot to please the grammar masses.

I never did the glitter thing! I confess to the following Manics fan evil:

- Wearing too much eyeliner

- Wearing crucifixes while not Christian (this is also a Madonna fan transgression)

- Wearing leopard print

- Wearing ridiculous fuzzy purple scarf thing

- Wearing clothes from Army-Navy store with crucifix and black goth eyeliner

But NEVER glitter, damnit. I have just announced all my fashion transgressions, Manics-related, to the world. Do you see glitter? No!

― Ally, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes I do. You have to read between the lines, but you can find the word 'glitter' written down the bullet points. Perhaps you're trying to tell us the truth?

― DG, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well now you are just lying because I have beaten your science with glamourous military clothing.

― Ally, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glamourous military clothing = invented by science, therefore I win.

― DG, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sp: glamorous. Miss Selfridge calls glamorous military clothing Glamoflage.

― Emma, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How was it invented by science?

― Ally, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The word "science" has been used 27 times in this thread by my count. DG has "proven by science" that if you use it enough times (i.e. more than about once a week) it stops being funny.

― Greg, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Greg has proven by science that he is a miserable bugger.

― DG, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is DG trying to prove by science that he'd like a good, unfunny, northern kicking?

― Greg, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DG will happily prove with science that you couldn't give me a kicking even if you had 15 legs.

― DG, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jesus Christ, I leave for the weekend and you lads go off like a bunch of kindergarteners, I'll have to hit you both up.

― Ally, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He started it!

― DG, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So why couldn't you be the bigger man and walk away from him, hmmm?

― Ally, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Handicap match. Or is that offensive to handicapped people?

― Greg, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably. At least you didn't say "eskimos".

― Ally, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Someone else said 'eskimo' the other day, in some kind of official capacity. Who was it, Madchen - you're the one who told me.

― Nick, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Usage Note: Eskimo has come under strong attack in recent years for its supposed offensiveness, and many Americans today either avoid this term or feel uneasy using it. It is widely known that Inuit, a term of ethnic pride, offers an acceptable alternative, but it is less well understood that Inuit cannot substitute for Eskimo in all cases, being restricted in usage to the Inuit-speaking peoples of Arctic Canada and parts of Greenland. In Alaska and Arctic Siberia, where Inuit is not spoken, the comparable terms are Inupiaq and Yupik, neither of which has gained as wide a currency in English as Inuit. While use of these terms is often preferable when speaking of the appropriate linguistic group, none of them can be used of the Eskimoan peoples as a whole; the only inclusive term remains Eskimo. ·The claim that Eskimo is offensive is based primarily on a popular but disputed etymology tracing its origin to an Abenaki word meaning “eaters of raw meat.” Though modern linguists speculate that the term actually derives from a Montagnais word referring to the manner of lacing a snowshoe, the matter remains undecided, and meanwhile many English speakers have learned to perceive Eskimo as a derogatory term invented by unfriendly outsiders in scornful reference to their neighbors' unsophisticated eating habits." -- American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language

― Greg, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Intriuging.

― Ally, Thursday, 23 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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