Ugly mug ball

[Ed]

I was looking at this website ealier, and found these unfortunate souls

This guy probably wouldn't have chosen to wear this T-shirt if he'd know he was going to get arrested that day - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/jmattesonmug1.html

Sniffing paint will make you look stupid to your friends, assuming you have any, and to everybody else, judging by what this guy looks like http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/tribettmug1.html

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

lmao 

[JoyceCarter]

Can you imagine choosing to wear that T-shirt ANY day, though?!

[Ed]

Can you imagine choosing to wear that T-shirt ANY day, though?!

He might as well have chosen one that said, "I am a cretinous pervert."

[JoyceCarter]

Someone gave my husband a T-shirt from the band 'Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine'.  I'm glad to say he's only ever worn it in cold weather like a vest, UNDER other clothes!

[Ed]

I once went into a store and had a damn good rant at the returns desk, trying to get some satisfaction over a faulty piece of equipment, but to no avail.  The assistants weren't taking me seriously at all.  It wasn't until I went to get into my car, feeling quite annoyed and dejected, that I noticed my reflection in the car window - I was wearing a Far Side T-shirt, depicting a bear in a hunter's crosshairs, frantically pointing to another bear.  Then I made the connection

[JoyceCarter]

Back when my children were at home, it was a bit of a dash around in our house to get them moving and get myself washed, dressed and breakfasted and off to work 20 miles away.  One morning I was called to the phone in the middle of it all - a colleague's car had broken down, and she was begging a lift.

So we had breakfast, the children and I got in the car, we went and picked up the other woman, I dropped them, she and I went into the school where we worked, I talked to several people in the staff room, I went to my classroom and got the children sorted out and took the register, then we went to the hall and I did assembly.  Then I did two lessons, and THEN, in break, I went to the Ladies', saw myself in the mirror, and nearly had a fit.  I'd been half way through doing my face when I had the phone call, and had never gone back to it.  I had two diagonal streaks of green eye-shadow across each eyelid, and a line of blusher on each cheek, not blended in at all - it was like war-paint!  I later asked various people why on earth they hadn't said anything.  My family, the lift, and the children in my class had totally failed to notice anything different.  One of my colleagues said she had seen, but 'thought it was a new fashion'. 

[Ed]

It's disconcerting in one way, but strangely reassuring in another, how people who know you well don't really 'see' you.  I shaved my beard off one day, after having it for at least ten years, and it was mid afternoon before anybody noticed at work.  Even then it was only one person who said anything.  Once he'd said it, the others said, "Yeah, I thought there was something different about you today, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was."

I thought I looked massively different   Not in a good way either - looked like Mr Potatohead

[JoyceCarter]

I had the opposite experience.  I went from having straight hair with a side parting to an all-over bubbly perm, went into school, and had people I'd worked closely with for years saying, 'Who is that woman?' and 'Can I help you?'  This convinces me I could get away with murder!  (heh heh)

Except... in a school where my husband used to work (yes, we're both escapees of the teaching profession), they had a fancy dress day for charity.  He hired a gorilla suit.  He changed into it in the staff area, then walked out into the school hall, and the first child he met said, 'Good morning, Mr Carter'!