How many of those teen girls experimented sexually with the family dog?
I like the thesis, but it doesn't really apply to the case of Jared.* I'm pretty sure you can pay minors to have sex with you and look at child pornography while being fat, and even while being pretty poor.
*some rowdy Af-Am teenagers on a train once, years ago, told me that I look exactly like Jared. I have never, ever, been more humiliated in my life.
36% of African-American teenagers are really mean.
3: Compared to 56% of American teenagers that believe themselves to be white.
Jared wasn't, then apparently he was.
2: Wait, so the meat-and-Highland Park diet is going to leave me looking like I eat Subway all the time? Damn. Maybe it isn't worth it.
some rowdy Af-Am teenagers on a train once, years ago, told me that I look exactly like Jared
In my version of this story (not on a train, but in a convenience store), it was local weatherman Bill Reh.
I think the OP's theory is off because it implies that teen boys would have only been happy sexing other teens instead of twenty-somethings.
I used to get--from many people, but especially Af-Am teens--Jim Carrey. Whereas whites of my cohort would say the dude who killed himself in Dead Poets Society. Come to think of it, maybe that was intended as a suggestion.
The prototypical sexual assaulter's strategy of assuming a place of (or reputation for) trust and confidence, then abusing the most vulnerable persons within reach, is enabled on an assembly-line scale by the mass media's enthusiasm for maudlin, kitschy up-close-and-personal tales of weight lost, obstacles overcome, victories at last achieved, speeches made, examples set, audiences inspired, et goddamned cetera. [Sandusky analogy deleted due to ban.]
Conclusion: Humanity is filth. Bring on the scorching firestorm.
On a lighter note, ex-fat kid section, the other day a non-TWYRCL somebody addressed me as "Handsome." Unfortunately, said non-TWYRCL somebody was a giant ex-cop who proceeded for an hour to treat my neck like a soggy towel that needed wringing out, but, you know, small victories in the war on low self-esteem are the only victories to be had.
8: In my version of the story, the Af-Am adult on the bus rejected the claim that white people look like other white people, expressed racial solidarity by pointing out that black people are said to look alike, and added, "You know what people do look alike? Chinese people."
"You know what people do look alike? Lizard people."
who proceeded for an hour to treat my neck like a soggy towel that needed wringing out
As a consensual commercial transaction, one hopes?
I have, on separate occasions, been told I resemble Danger Mouse and Malcolm Gladwell.
I'm told I look like my maternal grandfather.
My dad looks kind of like Gene Hackman.
Only slightly off-topic-ish:the Ashley Madison hack already begins to pay off in laughing at the embarrassment of bad people.
The last time anyone told me I looked like anyone (other than close relatives), I was in college, and a guy I was hanging out with told me I looked like Dana Delany. But my understanding at the time was that this was more hitting on me than any actual indication that he thought there was a resemblance, given that there wasn't much of one.
Since that time, I haven't looked like anyone but Sally, once she got close to my height.
People tell me Leonardo DiCaprio, but I think I look more like Brad Pitt.
AIKIMHB, someone asked me on a bus if I was Tom Friedman. No, he only takes taxis.
I was once told I looked like Emma Peel -- it was a really great dress -- but I hadn't ever seen the show. I suspect I missed an opportunity there.
I got compared to one of the guys from the office, one time. I hope it wasnt Dwight, but I never actually found out which one.
I was once told by a waitress that I looked a little bit like Colin Hanks. I don't see the resemblance personally, but it seemed flattering but not excessively so.
In my early 20s, a guy insisted I looked like Tom Cruise, but he was Japanese and, more to the point, pretty drunk.
I'm pretty sure no one's ever told me I looked like anyone.
I've always been told I don't look like myself, iow, at every given moment my appearance has fallen short of people's recollections and expectations. Took a lot of fucking work to maintain this downhill run for fifty years.
26 may be the saddest comment in the history of Unfogged.
I've frequently been told I look like Asian celebrities whom I do not actually resemble in the slightest. I've gotten Ming Na Wen, Gong Li (I was super flattered, but I think the dude was just hitting on me), Lucy Liu, and memorably, once in a shoe store, a little girl asked me if I was Mulan. Last weekend I was at a party and someone asked me if I and the woman sitting next to me were identical twins. The woman sitting next to me was biracial and looks nothing like me at all.
In short, maybe we do all look same.
Wait, jms, are you Mulan? If so, my children would love a meetup! But yeah, cross-racial comparisons are dire.
Jared once almost hit someone I know while driving carelessly in the early days of his celebrity status. That's all I've got.
Jared's wife just filed for divorce saying she was "disappointed." OK, sure.
If she cites anything but "irreconcilable differences", it means she's at least considering child porn.
You have to work through the stages, oudemia. You can't get to chagrined without being disappointed.
37: her statement seemed a bit stronger than that:
"Obviously, I am extremely shocked and disappointed by the recent developments involving Jared," she said. "I am in the process of seeking a dissolution of the marriage. My focus is exclusively on the well-being of my children."
I was once told I look like Simon Pegg. IMO I resemble Matt Damon*.
* (in The Informant)
When checking in for a flight just now the agent said that when I walked up she thought I might be one of the pilots.
I am not a fan of your pseudonym, Stepin.
27: I got to talk to a real Tom Friedman-esque taxi driver type of guy today at work. Started out totally normal and by 5 minutes into the conversation he was railing against the Mexicans and telling me that people supported Donald Trump because he was the only one talking about doing something for regular people.
Unrelatedly, last week some young Somali guys asked me if I was Paul Blart, I responded in the negative. Then they came back the other way and the funny one said "Goodnight, Paul Blart," so I said "wa-salaam alaikum" and his friends all thought that was pretty humorous.
I had a girl friend who used to say I looked like Dan Aykroyd but I could never see it.
Emma Peel needs to call me.
And there you two were: listing off Gilligan's Island episodes without a trace of irony.
43: I initially thought it was a one-time pseud-as-joke that might have been funny in context.
Nicholas Cage once when clean shaven. Gerard Butler with beard multiple times. Lately Zack Galifinakis. I suspect a Narnian reverse Mulan effect.
Bob Dylan, before my beard. I sorta see it in old pictures.
I've also been compared to a cast member of DPS.
That's the only one, I think. That, and Beaker.
Commander Riker, when I briefly grew a beard in high school. AIMHMHB.
Paul Krugman, to my horror. Dustin Hoffmann, same. A kind soul came up with a guy from SNL who looks like me minus 40 pounds and 15 years and is in any case much hotter than the other two so I'll take it.
Oh sure, "briefly". It's not enough that you could grow facial hair in high school.
As I may have mentioned, Small God Daughter gets "oh, so beautiful, Nicole Kidman!" from passing Narnians quite a lot, despite being a good two feet shorter than Ms Kidman and four decades younger.
Oddly, I'm also often mistaken for Mulan.
Woody Allen when I had archetypal NHS glasses and, when I had long hair, Carlos Valderrama.
Emma Peel needs to call me.
What does she need to call you?
AISIHSHB I look like John Bolton's mini-me.
When I had long hair, I used to get Jon Bon Jovi, or Michael Hutchence a fair bit.
Since then, I've had Jude Law, a few times. Receding haired older Jude Law, obviously. Not Alameida's much loved Jude Law of 'Talented Mr Ripley' era.
I also had someone at work claim I reminded her of John Hannah, but I think that was just some kind of English accent-blindness thing, as she also claimed I sound like him, too. I don't. Except to the extent that I'm Scottish, and don't sound heavily Glaswegian.
Dustin Hoffman or Henry Winkler. once, Jon Stewart. All Jews look the same.
I guess Dustin Hoffman is generic Jew, because I've gotten that too. I'm mistaken for non-celebrities as well -- most recently, a pharmacist at CVS was convinced I was a guy he went to pharmacy school with.
Oh yeah, my wife's best friend used to say I looked like Ben Stiller, which would irritate my wife because she hates him.
65: I used to get doppelgänger accusations (you look just like this guy I know) with disturbing frequency at uni, but it has gone away with age.
If I grew a toothbrush mustache, I'd look like Hitler.
OT: You can now buy hops grown in Nebraska.
I can only remember once in my life getting compared to an actor. It was Tim Robbins.
When I recently clicked over to check on the OtherPlace profile of someone on this thread, I was kinda shocked by how separated-at-birth we looked. (Minus a lot of weight from my side of course)
54: I could kinda see the Krugman if you were 20 years older, gained some weight, squinted real hard, etc. The Dustin Hoffman is just crazy though.
62: Not having seen you in person, it's hard to say, of course I can kinda see the Bon Jovi resemblance, assuming long hair, but the Jude Law doesn't seem to fit with your face at all.
Not a celebrity resemblance, but I have told this story previously.
Some twenty-something at a bar last week said that I had a "dadbod" and was hot. I thought that was just an internet thing but I am not going to turn down compliments.
54: I can see the Krugman resemblance. If someone told me you were a relation I'd believe it.
Think yourself lucky. There are people out there who get mistaken for Tom Friedman. (Among them, bizarrely, Paul Krugman.)
74: She was hinting for to get her a drink.
Jude Law doesn't seem to fit with your face at all
Eyeshape. I totally see it.
AIMHMHB "Virtual Light" has the Separated at Birth software for police use, because they've found that people aren't good at remembering photos but they're great at remembering celebrity resemblance, so instead of showing witnesses your suspect's mugshot you run it through Separated at Birth and then ask witnesses "Did you see a guy who kind of looked like a chunky Tommy Lee Jones?"
At one point they run a picture through of a cravate murder victim and it comes back saying he looks like Rainer Fassbinder. "Don't know who this Fassbinder guy was but he must have been one scary dude."
I guess Dustin Hoffman is generic Jew, because I've gotten that too.
What's the female version?
Some dude who was trying to vibe me out at a crowded surf spot said I looked like Paul Krugman as a mild insult.
80: Some of you may not know she isn't Jewish.
Others of you may have no idea who she is, I'm guessing.
Stronger features than Sarah Silverman. Lisa Edelstein.
If you'll be my bald Jude Law
I will be your Emma Peel
I can call you Krugman
And Krugman when you call me you can call me veal
85 is delightful. Celebrity for an economist is when surfers use your name as a mild insult.
"You stole my wave, dude. Stop being such a Samuelson."
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I know. I couldn't decide whether to punch them or hide in shame.
54
I think Paul Krugman is kind of hot, going from his NYTimes headshot.
I've gotten compared to pretty much any and all blonde actresses, and/or other blonde people. People are *really* bad at seeing much beyond hair color. That and I suspect a fair number of these people are hitting on me in a pretty clumsy fashion. To get all humble braggy, the one person I get compared to the most is probably Cate Blanchett, usually by people not hitting on me. I do see a resemblance, though I am much less hot than she is.
I did once do one of those "what celebrity do you look like?" photo analysis things and it came up with Yasser Arafat.
I used to hear that I resemble Julia Stiles and Drew Barrymore.
There was a guy in college who was repeatedly mistaken for me. (it never went the other way). I finally met him and he said if it kept happening he was planning to start asking for loans.
I had a friend in high school who, with much less resemblance, was repeatedly mistaken for me, including once across a crowded auditorium by my own mother. A picture of the two of us standing in my mom's kitchen heightened the resemblance, so we had a gag of taking pictures of random people posed in the same spot and wound up with a series, all hung in the kitchen, with about two dozen paired shots.
I get Steve Buscemi or Illeana Douglas. In life, I talk like Ian McShane on Deadwood; actually, that would be a good vocal effect to incorporate somehow into the Steve Madden movie.
Maybe a lunchmate's voice, that could become audible during lulls in the shoe discussions.
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I use a Mac at home and have recently started using Office 2007 for Windows at work. I find the ribbon super visually overwhelming. Is there a way to make it look like an older version? I really prefer clicking on a menu and having a text-based option to a picture.
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I'm sure we've had this thread before, and I've reported that I used to get Alyson Hannigan, but I'm sure that was about how I talk (and I never hear it anymore). I do think I sound a fair amount like her.
I have also heard Susan George (starlet from the 70s), Rebecca Hall, and Olivia Williams. There are photos of Susan George when we are young where I agree the resemblance is pretty striking. Once I posted this on one of those "change your Facebook photo to your celeb lookalike" weeks and my best friend said she'd almost believe it was me, were it not for the alien hand. But it's only in some pictures, and Susan George was jowlier than I, and had normal teeth. It makes me happy to have a celebrity lookalike -- like I'm not alone.
Meryl Streep, particularly in Out of Africa.
To the OP: You know who's particularly bummed about this development? Clay Henry.
I find the ribbon super visually overwhelming.
It is annoying how much space it takes up. You can hide it with a little arrow up in the top right. I tend to do that for Word, where I don't use a lot of the buttons. You can customize a much smaller toolbar below the ribbon (that will stay visible) with commands that you use the most often.
Thanks, Blume - You know you're old when you say, it used to be easier to set the line spacing quickly.
The ribbon sucks as an interface, but you do get used to it after a while.
Yeah, I only started using Word frequently after the ribbon was introduced, and at this point I find it pretty easy to use. Definitely takes some getting used to if you're familiar with the old interface, though.
Yeah, I only started using Word frequently after the ribbon was introduced, and at this point I find it pretty easy to use. Definitely takes some getting used to if you're familiar with the old interface, though.
The Unfogged interface, on the other hand...
On a related note, the American terminal at LAX is surprisingly crappy. It does have a fake food truck with pretty good Korean tacos, so there's that I guess.
Pretty good Korean tacos is not nothing!
A fake food truck serviing Korean tacos -- is the the triumph of inauthenticity?
A fake food truck serviing Korean tacos -- is the the triumph of inauthenticity?
In the American terminal, no less.
And I've got a message to give you.
Here come the planes Korean tacos.
They're American fake food truck Korean tacos. Made in the American terminal.
Food trucks are apparently properly known as Special Transitory Food Units: http://www.ewashtenaw.org/government/departments/environmental_health/food_safety/special-transitory-food-units-stfu
On a related note, the American terminal at LAX is surprisingly crappy.
Why surprising? US airport terminals are almost all crappy.
118 -- yes, but LAX takes it to the next level of crapitude (it's been in development regulatory limbo for maybe 25 years now, so they just stopped renovating it. Parts have gotten a little nicer recently).
I find LAX surprisingly crappy.
I haven't been there for 4 or 5 years, though, so maybe it's gotten better. (Aren't all airports under construction at least 80% of the time?)
The Omaha airport is really nice. Godfather's Pizza and KFC.
Now that I'm used to it, I prefer the ribbon to what came before. There are so many other things I hate about Office 2007, the ribbon doesn't even rank.
The Lincoln Airport is very hard to get lost in.
Manchester, NH airport is nice. So is the new terminal at Washington National.
In general, its the larger airports that suck.
Food trucks are apparently properly known as Special Transitory Food Units:
Which the link abbreviates as you would hope.
120: We always try to fly via SFO instead of LAX, despite both being a similar distance from home, because LAX is more prone to flight cancellations. My wife has the worst luck with LAX...
The Omaha airport is really nice. Godfather's Pizza and KFC
Does not compute.
What? SFO is fogged in constantly and is totally unreliable. I try to avoid it even when flying to SF. LAX's terminals are crumbling but it's on the more reliable side as far as major US airports go.
Update: I made it to Boston just fine. Score one the reliability of LAX.
