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		Spandex, once a vintage ABBA hot chick wardrobe staple, making a comeback. Unfortunately this time around, it's more like sausage casing for American fatasses (npr.org)		174
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namegoeshere

2011-12-11 12:51:35 PM

Newsflash: Spandex makes clothing more comfortable. Film at eleven.

/sounds fat
//isn't
///does, however, prefer stretchy, comfortable jeans
////and slashies

TravisBickle62

2011-12-11 12:53:22 PM

Spandex is a privilege, not an obligation

/I'm talking to you, fat chicks ...

Tourney3p0

2011-12-11 12:54:02 PM

namegoeshere: Newsflash:

Earth to Fark! Amirite?

DaShredda

2011-12-11 12:54:40 PM

I would have a big bone all day if everyone wore spandex.

/likes my women with meat
//skinny chicks are fun to hang with but don't give me big bones
///spandex for everyone!

Quantum Apostrophe

2011-12-11 12:56:17 PM

RY28

2011-12-11 12:56:22 PM

Thats been going on even before ABBA was around . Please let us know when you get some fresh news NPR .

PeriRies

2011-12-11 12:56:57 PM

Yeah, this is a great idea.

Like yoga pants in XXXL...

Colin O'Scopy

2011-12-11 12:57:42 PM

Hope for epic spandex thread increasing...

Need a Dispenser Here

2011-12-11 12:58:04 PM

Hipster chicks have been wearing tights for years. Some look great. Others...

casual disregard

2011-12-11 12:58:28 PM

Can't be bothered to RTFA, but I suspect to what they refer is spandex undergarments.

offmymeds

2011-12-11 01:00:31 PM

Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

Jake Havechek

2011-12-11 01:01:23 PM

Usually the fatasses are the ones with the spandex on.

JasonOfOrillia

2011-12-11 01:01:37 PM

Bike shorts are hitting the mainstream?

TravisBickle62

2011-12-11 01:02:37 PM

offmymeds: Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

No Muffin Top is caused by fat around the waistline, if you try to pretend you have a waist, when in fact you don't, the excess mushrooms over the top of the waistband ... creating Muffin Top

markie_farkie

2011-12-11 01:03:05 PM

PeriRies: Yeah, this is a great idea.

Like yoga pants in XXXL...

They don't make them in XXXL. They just end up that size after several hours of struggling.

CSB time:

A former co-worker insisted she could wear all matter of stretchy, clingy clothing, despite being only about 5 feet tall, and pushing 350.

Her office nickname was "Sausage Pants"

tomWright

2011-12-11 01:03:26 PM

Colin O'Scopy: Hope for epic spandex thread increasing...

Here you go:
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taurusowner

2011-12-11 01:03:37 PM

Muffin top, apple-bottom, fitting that they name these disfigurations after food.

theMagni

2011-12-11 01:05:21 PM

I bike to work, teach spin, and go to the gym so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

offmymeds

2011-12-11 01:05:48 PM

TravisBickle62: offmymeds: Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

No Muffin Top is caused by fat around the waistline, if you try to pretend you have a waist, when in fact you don't, the excess mushrooms over the top of the waistband ... creating Muffin Top

So kind of like a beer belly?

RenegadJew

2011-12-11 01:06:05 PM

CitizenTed

2011-12-11 01:06:41 PM

Whatthefark

2011-12-11 01:06:43 PM

The bad side of spandex...

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and the good side...

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namegoeshere

2011-12-11 01:07:10 PM

casual disregard: Can't be bothered to RTFA, but I suspect to what they refer is spandex undergarments.

Nope. It's the trend of making garments (jeans, ie) with spandex in the fabric, so that they accommodate more body types, and are more comfortable in general.

Colin O'Scopy

2011-12-11 01:08:32 PM

tomWright: Colin O'Scopy: Hope for epic spandex thread increasing...

Here you go:
[28.media.tumblr.com image 500x375]

May an asteroid fall from the sky and land in your crotch as you sleep.

minitrue noram

2011-12-11 01:08:45 PM

just more evidence that Western society will let people believe any delusion they want to without even a social heads-up. maybe we tolerate too many farked up things?

PeriRies

2011-12-11 01:09:03 PM

All right, my pants are off and I have Jergens handy.

Let's light this candle.

StoPPeRmobile

2011-12-11 01:10:08 PM

Teen Wolf Blitzer

2011-12-11 01:11:10 PM

I love Adam Carolla's take on sweatpants and spandex: it's basically like a fishbowl for humans... and you essentially grow as big as your clothing.

casual disregard

2011-12-11 01:11:22 PM

namegoeshere: casual disregard: Can't be bothered to RTFA, but I suspect to what they refer is spandex undergarments.

Nope. It's the trend of making garments (jeans, ie) with spandex in the fabric, so that they accommodate more body types, and are more comfortable in general.

Oh. Well that's still not the visual nightmare people are assuming with King Kong donning his spandex jumpsuit.

ms_lara_croft

2011-12-11 01:11:33 PM

TravisBickle62

2011-12-11 01:11:48 PM

offmymeds: TravisBickle62: offmymeds: Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

No Muffin Top is caused by fat around the waistline, if you try to pretend you have a waist, when in fact you don't, the excess mushrooms over the top of the waistband ... creating Muffin Top

So kind of like a beer belly?

More like Cankles ...

StoPPeRmobile

2011-12-11 01:12:18 PM

namegoeshere: casual disregard: Can't be bothered to RTFA, but I suspect to what they refer is spandex undergarments.

Nope. It's the trend of making garments (jeans, ie) with spandex in the fabric, so that they are cheaper to make. ~~accommodate more body types, and are more comfortable in general.~~
FTFY.

swahnhennessy

2011-12-11 01:12:29 PM

Making?

Atomic Spunk

2011-12-11 01:12:34 PM

CygnusDarius

2011-12-11 01:13:03 PM

As long as they leave the latex and leather suits, fine by me.

elplop.com

/Not that I like BDSM
//NTTAWWT
///I just don't see me as 'master' or 'slave'

vonapathy

2011-12-11 01:13:30 PM

I've recently discovered the joy of jeggings (30% jean material 70% spandex stretchy material) they look like skin tight jeans, but they are sooooo comfortable because of the spandex. The trick is, don't be fat and wear your correct size.

/trick applies to most clothing choices
//can still wear skin tight clothing, yay youth!
///jeggings ftw

ComicBookGuy

2011-12-11 01:14:33 PM

I think it would be cool if ABBA toured, again.

namegoeshere

2011-12-11 01:15:04 PM

Atomic Spunk: offmymeds: TravisBickle62: offmymeds: Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

No Muffin Top is caused by fat around the waistline, if you try to pretend you have a waist, when in fact you don't, the excess mushrooms over the top of the waistband ... creating Muffin Top

So kind of like a beer belly?

No. A muffin top occurs when a woman refuses to accept the fact that her pants are too small for her. A beer belly is just a fat stomach.

And a Dunlop is when the man wears jeans with a waist size much smaller than his gut requires, so he shoves them down low on his hips. His belly dunlop over the top.

JSieverts

2011-12-11 01:15:51 PM

Personal taste can be forgiven...if the 450 pound woman likes the bright orange spandex stretch pants, that is her business, and we should not hold her responsible for that bad fashion choice...

The manufacturer who made the bright orange spandex stretch pants to fit the 450 pound woman should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity

daffy

2011-12-11 01:16:41 PM

offmymeds: Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

No. I think muffi8n top is a fat tummy that hangs over the tight pants. A fat-ass is also known as a bubble-butt.

DaShredda

2011-12-11 01:17:03 PM

vonapathy: I've recently discovered the joy of jeggings (30% jean material 70% spandex stretchy material) they look like skin tight jeans, but they are sooooo comfortable because of the spandex. The trick is, don't be fat and wear your correct size.

/trick applies to most clothing choices
//can still wear skin tight clothing, yay youth!
///jeggings ftw

I think jeggins are friggin' sexy, period.

But I like them on chubbier chicks.

Tired of everyone acting like skinny is the de-facto sexy, lol.

/shields incoming hate
//deflectors up

TravisBickle62

2011-12-11 01:17:26 PM

JSieverts: Personal taste can be forgiven...if the 450 pound woman likes the bright orange spandex stretch pants, that is her business, and we should not hold her responsible for that bad fashion choice...

The manufacturer who made the bright orange spandex stretch pants to fit the 450 pound woman should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity

Nobody put a gun to her head and made her wear the spandex in public

markie_farkie

2011-12-11 01:17:35 PM

JSieverts: The manufacturer who made the bright orange spandex stretch pants to fit the 450 pound woman should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity

They DO NOT manufacture them that large. That's the problem.

JSieverts

2011-12-11 01:17:54 PM

namegoeshere: Atomic Spunk: offmymeds: TravisBickle62: offmymeds: Martha Paschal is a youthful-looking 50-year-old financial consultant with what she calls a "muffin top"...

Heh! "Muffin top". What is that? A polite way of saying "fat-ass"?

No Muffin Top is caused by fat around the waistline, if you try to pretend you have a waist, when in fact you don't, the excess mushrooms over the top of the waistband ... creating Muffin Top

So kind of like a beer belly?

No. A muffin top occurs when a woman refuses to accept the fact that her pants are too small for her. A beer belly is just a fat stomach.

And a Dunlop is when the man wears jeans with a waist size much smaller than his gut requires, so he shoves them down low on his hips. His belly dunlop over the top.

and a dickydoo is when a man's belly sticks out farther than his dickydoo

rohar

2011-12-11 01:18:18 PM