How vain are you?
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conspiracy theorists have always fascinated me purely because I want to know how their brains work. On the other hand I joke about how I believe carrying my cell phone in my bra for 5 years gave me breast cancer. Sometimes once my brain gets spinning for a while I start to think maybe it's not so crazy. Wasn't there a study some years ago about policemen getting cancer from keeping their radar guns in their laps? Who's knows, but I sure am scared of where we are going as a society.
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I was wondering, does anyone remember when being a "celebrity" for being a celebrity started? It seems so outrageous. I don't even KNOW who most of these people are. But I certainly don't remember it from when I kind of was paying more attention to the "common culture" - maybe 20 years ago?
Think it's so sad what a "celebrity" culture most of the world has become, probably led by the USA
Well, I much prefer the days when someone was "known" for a talent, or achievement. Guess that dates me. -
Dave Barry, the humorist, on the Kardashians:
So I came out concluding that I will never understand women."
That includes the Kardashians.
"They are the cockroaches of celebrities," Barry said. "They are adaptable. When the earth has gone too close to the sun, there will be cockroaches and Kardashians."
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*snorting-tea-all-over-my-keyboard*
Blessings... L.O.V.E.I.T.
Spent my lunch hour reading up on cancer conspiracy theories. May I say "wow". I am now convinced, more than ever, that the human race is going to hell-in-a-hand-basket.
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blessings - thank you for reminding me how much I love dave barry ;-))) His annual New of The Year, which I rad in the Washington Post is always fabulous.
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funny comments!
Going back to the how vain I am or the little diva in me: I went to Macy's yesterday and got the cutest bras, finally! Also at VS. love them!
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Oooooo! What do you think of the "balconette" bras?
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Hee, hee...I used to love pretty bras. My implants, although natural looking, don't really need any support. I have a few pretty bras but mostly wear rather plain (though I have a variety of colors) stretchy bras just for professional propriety.
Caryn
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i find them nice. I actually got two of them. I also got strapless. I live in South Florida and wear lots of summer dresses so the less the bra shows the better.
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The less bra that shows the better. I agree!! So when did it become so fashionable to let a bra strap SHOW??? I would have died of embarrassment if my bra strap even peeked out from a t-shirt - now girls wear tanks with bras of different colours to show off!
Who are the Kardashians? Saw a People cover just now in the grocery store with a guy on it and a bunch of typing that never said his name! Why do they assume we know who it is? My DH lifted it out of the holder and it was Matthew McConaghy (sp?). Who is that that he doesn't need his name mentioned sooner in the type?
I don't follow celebrities or bands. Never did, never will. Nor sports teams or sit-coms. I don't get it. They're just people too. Doing crazy stupid things like the rest of us....
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I may be a fan of an artist, author, musician, actor etc. but I am not a FAN in the sense that I don't care at all about their personal lives, just their work.
Caryn
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Exactly Caryn!! I'm a fan of a number of artists, that I CAN say. I I show my appreciation by buying their CDs, not by tattooing their name or face on my body somewhere. I mean, seriously, Elvis is DEAD.
And yep, 4 grands under 4 - I'll be 56 in May.
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although I am young. I constantly gripe about missing he days of when astronauts were important "celebrities" and the president didn't feel the need to go on a talk show or share his basketball brackets. Sad times... Oh and also even though this was not in my lifetime - when Ethel told Lucy she could not go with her on the subway because she was wearing blue jeans!
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I have watched every episode of "I Love Lucy" and don't recall a subway OR jeans!! Ever! What/when did I miss this? I didn't get blue jeans until I was in grade 9 in 1971. I had to beg.......
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TeeHee. My mother was scandalized that I wanted jeans. I had to beg too! She called them dungarees.
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it was the episode when she had the loving cup stuck on her head and was supposed to be on television that night. Lol. Don't ask me how I remember that. It may have been years since I've seen that one.
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I grew up on I Love Lucy! OMG, I am really going to age myself, except for the fact that you all know how old I am already,
, but I remember being required to wear hose, clipped to girdles, and dresses to school. The idea of pants, much less jeans, would have been considered scandalous! And our hair! I was tormented all night for years with spiked hair curlers. Then the teasing each morning until everything looked "just right." That all changed, thank Gawd, when the hippie movement began and we all grew our hair out to the middle of our backs, and started wearing jeans and granny skirts. My mother was temporarily horrified by all the changes, although she finally had to admit we all looked much better without the implements of torture.
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My Mother couldn't handle my straight hair so she decided I would have perms! From a very early age I was subjected to perming solution and then the torturous hair curlers at night. I hated my corkscrew curls and couldn't wait to grow up! When the 70's arrived I had hair half way down my back, which I would iron on my Mother's ironing board, covered in brown paper to prevent scorching.
Jeans were a no go, as were those tight black 7/8th stretch trousers that Mary Tyler Moore made look fabulous with a man's shirt and a headband with flicked up hair and cats eye liner ooooh and pale lips..I loved it, but I wasn't allowed to have it till I was much older. The divine Audrey Hepburn owned a similar look! Gorgeous!
I occasionally wear 7/8th pants and a crisp white shirt with little suede ballet slippers, even now, I love that look.
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How completely apropos: I was at a social gathering yesterday. An acquaintance who also has cancer was there, and he was with a friend, a slightly strange old dude. So they accosted me (they knew I had cancer) and tell me with great seriousness that drinking a glass of water with lemon and brewer's yeast every morning can cure cancer. I nod and say that I have heard that too. So the guy asks point blank if I believe it, and I tell him I do not. I do tell him that exercise and keeping blood sugar staple have been associated with better survival in breast cancer. He nods and adds, "and PH, you have to keep PH staple." I tell him that the PH stuff is BS, just like the lemon business. So, he says that there is a famous doc who was given the Nobel for proving that cancer is a fungus (this is the crazy Italian, popular on quack sites, and he most certainly does not have a Nobel). So I tell him that, sadly, this too is total BS. Now a bit put out, he counters with, "well, it certainly IS a fact that big pharma is keeping the cure secret" (one of the claims described in the Times article). Ack!
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OMG Momine!! That guy ran the Trifecta for you!! He was his own hat trick!!! A GROWN man? Run, don't walk, far, far away!! What did your friend do while this guy was spewing- did he nod?
Perms!!! I've had them all my life and sadly will still do them. My avatar is a perm and I have one now! They help dry out my hair so it doesn't need washing every day and gives at least some body. My hair is so straight that bangs don't even curve over my forehead. BUT, OMG, those perms in the '60s were SO toxic!!! Everyone had to leave the house while my mom gave me one and the smell lingered for days. I recall quite vividly lying on the kitchen counter with my head dangling over the sink and tears streaming from my eyes....
When my hair is short it just hangs, even with product. So I've been fighting it all my life. I've had it as short as 1" and loved it! In fact, I had my DH cut it really short for me under my instructions and a hand mirror in my hand!
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"...The less bra that shows the better. I agree!! So when did it become so fashionable to let a bra strap SHOW??? ..."
Barbe...Thank YOU! I thought I was the only one of the planet (other than my mother) who thought that the visible bra strap thang was tacky. I mean, please! Many bras nowadays have that thingee at the back that lets you convert the straps so that they won't show when wearing a racer-back tank, so there is really no excuse. However, the worst I ever saw was a young girl who showed up at her father's company picnic, wearing a skimpy tube top (bad enough in itself) WITH A BRA ON underneath. Say, what?
Other "fashionable" and "trendy" things I find cringe-worthy, are wearing a black bra under a white shirt. Everyone here seems to be doing it from university students to corporate women. The purpose - I'm told - is to let the bra show through... deliberately! What happened to the days when lingerie was supposed to be pretty, feminine and invisible? Another thing (yes, I'm on a rant), at my husband's Christmas party last year, there were a number of really, really pretty girls and women who showed up in skin-tight (and I mean pour-yourself-into-it) slinky dresses - which is fine, I'm all for vamp if it's done right - and, then, did not wear the proper undergarments. Talk about visible-panty-line and muffin tops. ACK!!! Didn't they look at themselves in the mirror?
And flip-flops. Don't get me started. (Too late! I'm on a roll ...) When did they become acceptable footwear for wearing in public? I'm not talking about slide sandles or pretty mules which are shoes with a heel and sole, and totally acceptable for summer wear, I'm talking about the rubber thongs that we would wear to the pool and beach when we were young. PEOPLE WEAR THEM TO WORK. And (on to my next pet peeve), they WEAR THEM TO WORK WITHOUT A PROPER PEDICURE. GAH!!!
Sweat pants. Pajama pants. In public. I can't tell you how often I see people walking to the coffee shop in the morning wearing the clothes they wore to bed. 'Nuff said.
Jeans... my father was a police officer, one of the first criminal profilers in the country. Like most police officers, he had a rather puritanical outlook, especially when it came to women. I was not allowed to wear blue jeans because only "hoodlums" and "delinquents" , and "sluts" wore them. When I, finally, bought my first pair at the age of twenty, he was aghast. Make-up was also a bone of contention; thankfully, my mother was on my side about that one, although I was inspected every morning before I went to school. Sometimes, I was even sent back to do it again. My father would roll in his grave if he could see my shoe collection. High heels were, also, a sign of degenerate behaviour.
Momine... I hear you. I can't tell you how many people have told me to: 1) eat wheatgrass; 2) drink a teaspoon of lemon juice daily; 3) only eat "acid" foods; 4) do twice-daily coffee enemas; and 5) drink yak's milk (no, I kid you not). They're well-meaning, but the level of ignorance is appalling. Like orac says, "... the stupid, it burns..."
Kayb... yep. Sometimes I read with my mouth hanging open. Purely medieval, some of it.
Okay... that's it for today. Better sign off; I've been a raging insomniac for about two weeks now and the lack of sleep is making me combative, bitchy, short-tempered and I feel my snark level rising. Email me if anything interesting happens...
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Perms, something I can't relate to
For almost 30 years, I felt like I was cursed by my curls. I did terrible things, but never chemical, to get it be straight. By age 30 I'd had it and started wearing it curly. Although thick and curly, my hair is not coarse, so my curls are soft and fine. They have become part of who I am. I have occasionally flat ironed it, but it doesn't feel like " me" . Caryn
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Selena, I adore it when your snark rises!
People will believe all kinds of things and try to make you believe it, too. I have a cousin who is a vegan and thinks I would be cured if I would be one, too. Sigh. Ain't gonna happen. He said it's harder to cure cancer with a vegan diet than to prevent it and thinks he'll never get cancer. Since he's probably got the same crappy genes that I do I hope he's right. He's got enough problems - he became a quadriplegic about 10 years ago in an accident.
Someone posted something on FB from Buzzfeed - "77Facts That Sound Like Huge Lies But Are Actually Completely True". I thought it would be fun so I started to read the list. #5 said, "The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play "The Merchant of Venice". Not true. Jessica is the English equivalent of the Hebrew name Yiska, which is a Biblical name. Sorta predates ol' Bill. So I didn't bother to read the rest of the list.
Leah
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Leah, too funny! I've heard the name Wendy was made up by the guy who wrote Peter Pan. Dunno. Haven't bothered to get that one checked out. Too funny when "new worlds" think they've invented something that has been around for a couple thousand years!
Selena, at my DH's Christmas party we see the same thing!!! The girls are always pulling down their skin-tight dresses to cover their ass-butts only to reveal panty lines!! Seriously?????
Years ago I LOVED my female boss (who worked in another building) but then one day she showed up with a bustier (black and sexy!!) OVER her white blouse. The other guys and I were speechless and couldn't look at each other!!!
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I sometimes look at people and wonder if they own a mirror.
Leah
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Selena - maybe I missed my calling and should have been raising yaks though don't think they would do well in 110 degree Texas August temps. As an aside once had to help a friend (took 3 of us) shave her llama. Much calling for yak milk in Canada???
I too have mostly stick straight hair though has an occas. wave take hold. I had long permed hair when we moved to Hawaii when I was 9. I really don't remember much but think DM cut it mighty quick and no perms during that time.
Speaking of bras I need a good beige bra. Why are they the 1st to sell out in my size? Have a couple decent white ones. Bra shopping rates right up there with swimsuit which I haven't needed in years. Have been buying my jeans at Goodwill recently, my other bane of shopping. They always have to be hemmed so I figure the cheaper the better. I actually got a lovely denim jumper this week. It came from Dillards on par here with Macys. 'Twas a bit of a time waster waiting for doc. app.
I own 2 pair of flip flops for walking out to mailbox on wet warm mornings. I don't like thingies between my toes and feet are not high on my beauty attributes if anything is.
Anybody tried any of those body slimmers for muffin tops? Forewarned I wear at least at size 16 sometimes 18 in tops. I think we talked about getting stuck in clothes - ?Barbe. Would be worried I would get stuck in one.
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luvmygoats... I have two "body shapers"; one that looks for all the world like a pair of cycling shorts and the other is high-waisted (comes up under my bra). They are made of soft, beige knit material and are easy to get in- and out of. I find them invaluable when wearing anything made out of a slinky material.
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Selena - I know your prob. at work but do you know the brand names? I guess I need to make a stop one of these days at Lane Bryant's companion lingerie store. Edit to add: Thanks!
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Both of mine are by Jockey Shapewear...
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Hello ladies, I have to admit that as I have aged, I have "relaxed" my look significantly. I remember having to wear nylons/garter belts to school No jeans, no slacks. In the early 70's, I remember my employer gently relaxing the dress code so women could wear pant suits.....but they had a stiff definition about what a pant suit was and you were sent home to change if you violated their sensibilities.. Fast forward about 40 years and here we are in Las Vegas...the casual capital of the world. At my place of employment, it is just about anything goes and the hotter it gets here, the more muffin tops, bra straps and all other unmentionable things we get to see. (Aaaargh!)
I do admit I love flip flops. I have a wardrobe of them and all the designers are making them now and they are so cute. But.....I religiously get my pedicure all year round. Wearing flip flops with snaggly, unpolished toes or dry flakey toes and heels is just plain gross!
I love body shapers and I wear them almost every day. I only like the body suit type where you can wear your own bra. They have a hook and eye closure at the crotch and slimming all the way up to the midriff...with straps that keep everything from moving. I'm not overweight, but I have what I call "wobbly parts" and the shaper, just smoothes it all out the way I like.
I never thought I was vain until I started reading this thread, but here I am.
MsP
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