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The Grunge look? Say hi back it doesn't cost. — Brooklynian

The Grunge look? Say hi back it doesn't cost.

shake
shake
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff

Subject: The Grunge look? Say hi back it doesn't cost.

I see alot of beautiful woman in my area but they insist on the grunge look, why? Please don't say it's comfortable. NEW RULE- If you stare at someone and get caught and he says hello you have to say hi as well.

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  • em26
    em26
    HA! Ok , about your rule thing , I'm not a stuck up biotch but I sometimes don't say hi when a guy says hi to me when caught doing a walking glance. I try to , I really do , but sometimes I just smile or hear it too late and I already pass him by and I'm not about to turn around cuz then he'll think I'm interested and blah blah blah. I just say hi cuz I don't want to be rude or make someone feel stupid.

    Now , if a lady looks at you and has the chance to say hi back , well then that's kinda rude if she doesn't BUT it is her choice if she wants to or not.
    She doesn't have to say hi , you know , whatever.Maybe they are having a bad day.

    About the grunge look.... I don't think I'm grungy , but I am kinda bummy compared to how some stylish ladies walking around dressed. One reason is cuz IT'S SO COMFORTABLE!! You said you don't wanna hear that excuse but for me that's one of the main reasons. Second , cuz I like it and I really don't have anyone outside of my home to look really really nice for. I do wear makeup most of the time.....does that count? Not today , though. Today , I am makeup-less and bummy all at once. :mrgreen:
  • cool the kid
    cool the kid
    You must be new to NYC

    See greetings to women are like currency and the old man @ the train station, the construction workers, the drunk ex con, these guys are habitual women greeters and they have driven down its value

    Sadly now to actually capture a woman's attention on the street you need
    - incredible looks
    - a Ferrari
    - NY celebrity status (true story i had a friend who was a #1 strokes fan, she saw them on the street and didnt even say hello)

    NY women have built up a defense. If they were to entertain every man who whooped and hollered at them on the street they wouldnt get anywhere.
  • flo
    flo
    LOL. Totally agree. Don't know why anybody dresses like a hobo. Grunge is totally uncomfortable, what with the corsets and bloomers and itchy plaid and also totally retro, which is like, you know, ubiquitous these days.
  • carmen
    carmen
    I dress like a hobo compared to most women in nyc. And, back "home" I was considered very trendy and stylish.

    Luckily, I found a boy who wears slippers out of the house on weekends and only owns 1 pair of paints and 5 teeshirts. We're a good match, and he lives in a glass house so he can't exactly cast stones about the way I dress.
  • sweet tea
    sweet tea
    CtK has definitely got part of the saying Hi story down. the other part (for me, anyway) is this:

    i'm goofily street friendly. if you make friendly eye contact or say hi, i will totally say hi back. if you're on my block a lot, i will say hi to you day after day, year after year, until you give up and start at least nodding at me. (took me 2 years to get some of the stoop sitters around my place; now there's only one hold out.) if, on the other hand, you approach me by looking lower down than my face, i'm thinking you're not mostly interested in what i have to say, you know? my boobs don't have eyes. they cannot see you.

    and if your greeting is on the order of that stupid kissy noise men around here seem to think passes for "good afternoon", then i will act like a well-trained dog and ignore your ass. if, god forbid, your response to that is to tell me to smile, then woe betide you, buddy.

    as for grunge, i don't know that i believe you. i don't care much for the look myself, but i have noticed that a high percentage of the compliments, comments, love songs, free taxi rides, and offers of marriage i have received on the street have come when i am wearing baggy, ugly clothes, whether a work uniform or just my gardening duds. nothing you boys like better than a big ugly parka over baggy khakis, as far as i can tell. it ain't my taste in ladies' wear, but hey, whatever floats your boat. :P
  • shake
    shake
    Carmen, tell me you don't mean that literally. No man should own "1" pair of pants, especially a man that works or has to go out daily. How do they smell, scratch that don't really care. If it's true that's sad. So, Sweet Tea you have gotten marriage proposals, free cab rides that's good. That might just be a case of being hot! Can I hear the love song?
  • carmen
    carmen
    shake wrote: Carmen, tell me you don't mean that literally. No man should own "1" pair of pants, especially a man that works or has to go out daily. How do they smell, scratch that don't really care. If it's true that's sad. So, Sweet Tea you have gotten marriage proposals, free cab rides that's good. That might just be a case of being hot! Can I hear the love song?
    Actually he just bought a second pair because the first pair ripped beyond repair in the crotch (after being sewn up with dental floss numerous times.) So now he has one pair of pants again and one pair of shorts, plus one pair of basketball shorts used when washing the other two pairs of pants.


    He does have 2 pairs of tights...do those count as pants? He has to wear them both 5 days a week at work though...

    yes. he smells periodically...but he cleans up so nicely.
  • opossumqueen
    opossumqueen
    sweet tea wrote: if, god forbid, your response to that is to tell me to smile, then woe betide you, buddy.
    If someone smiles, says "hi", or even just makes eye contact, I usually smile back (shy, so not much of a talker). BUT, I hate getting all the "aw, come on. smile baby." crap. My mouth does not look even close to a smile in it's relaxed position, but say that to me and it looks really unhappy. For some reason having some strange man (and it has always been a man) to smile, is really annoying and weird to me.
  • shake
    shake
    Carmen wrote: [quote=shake]Carmen, tell me you don't mean that literally. No man should own "1" pair of pants, especially a man that works or has to go out daily. How do they smell, scratch that don't really care. If it's true that's sad. So, Sweet Tea you have gotten marriage proposals, free cab rides that's good. That might just be a case of being hot! Can I hear the love song?



    He does have 2 pairs of tights...do those count as pants? He has to wear them both 5 days a week at work though...

    Tights do count. I knew he didn't own 1 pair of pants.
  • anastasia beaverhausen
    anastasia beaverhausen
    I'm buying that boy some pants for Christmas, C. It just ain't right.
  • carmen
    carmen
    shake wrote: [quote=Carmen][quote=shake]Carmen, tell me you don't mean that literally. No man should own "1" pair of pants, especially a man that works or has to go out daily. How do they smell, scratch that don't really care. If it's true that's sad. So, Sweet Tea you have gotten marriage proposals, free cab rides that's good. That might just be a case of being hot! Can I hear the love song?



    He does have 2 pairs of tights...do those count as pants? He has to wear them both 5 days a week at work though...

    Tights do count. I knew he didn't own 1 pair of pants.



    Do they really though? he wears the two tights and one pair of pants every day aside from laundry day.
    Anyway, im not going to argue about how gross my boyfriend is/isnot. Well, not anymore.
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