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rinueScarlett has recently been marathoning documentaries and reality shows about people with uncommon mental illnesses, which has led to a game where I overhear of a line of a program and try to guess the compulsion.
R: Treadmill hoarder?
S: Exercises 18 hours a day.
The subjects of these inquiries typically have disastrous hair, which may be the true rubbernecking attraction. Exercise woman, for instance, has a double row of gelled bangs - bangs that stick up several inches, and behind that a second, higher ridge of bangs. This must be difficult to style while jogging in place.
(Scarlett actually watches for the same reason she watches horror movies; the people are usually easy enough to identify with, extreme versions of tendencies we all have to some degree, that it's less like point-at-the-freak than "I need to be careful I don't let this get out of hand.")
R: Treadmill hoarder?
S: Exercises 18 hours a day.
The subjects of these inquiries typically have disastrous hair, which may be the true rubbernecking attraction. Exercise woman, for instance, has a double row of gelled bangs - bangs that stick up several inches, and behind that a second, higher ridge of bangs. This must be difficult to style while jogging in place.
(Scarlett actually watches for the same reason she watches horror movies; the people are usually easy enough to identify with, extreme versions of tendencies we all have to some degree, that it's less like point-at-the-freak than "I need to be careful I don't let this get out of hand.")
