have you ever stopped to wonder....

[fayefaye]

- Why people on ads for makeup remover are invariably wearing make-up?
- What would happen if you ACTUALLY walked into the body shop a few weeks later to tell them 'how it's going with their product'? And if they'd really give a damn?
- Standing on the platform of a train station, watching all the people rushing around making their way home or leaving or running away or driving for miles and miles to nowhere--- where they're going and why they're going there?
- Why sitting outside a cafe on an idle Tuesday afternoon there is alwyas somebody smoking withing a 5metre radius... and why it's so strange if there's not......
- What you're doing on this world and where you're going and what's the point of it all anyway and what will happen when you'll die and what you'll leave behind beside 1800 posts at a literature forum, hundreds upon hundreds of photos, a few people with a memory and a stinky old corpse?
- What's the point of rhetorical questions anyway?
- And whatever happened to that annoying weirdo fayefaye?

[fayefaye]

lol.. and why i'm such an awful typist

[fayefaye]

[singing along to a CD] That sugarcane, that tasted good, THAT CINNAMEN, THAT'S HOLLYWOOD......:D

hehe :D :) comeon, come on, no-one can see you crrryyyyiiyyyy come on, come on, no-one can see you crryyyyyyyyyy

lol... are those even the right lyrics?

[ajoe]

- Why people on ads for makeup remover are invariably wearing make-up?

So that they have something (makeup) to get removed?

- What would happen if you ACTUALLY walked into the body shop a few weeks later to tell them 'how it's going with their product'? And if they'd really give a damn?

Depends. If the people in the shop are the owner(s), probably yea, but if they're only workers, probably not.

- Standing on the platform of a train station, watching all the people rushing around making their way home or leaving or running away or driving for miles and miles to nowhere--- where they're going and why they're going there?

Work (for money) or home (for food).

- Why sitting outside a cafe on an idle Tuesday afternoon there is alwyas somebody smoking withing a 5metre radius... and why it's so strange if there's not......

Smokers like to be close to a cafe so that they can have their aftersmoke coffee.

- What you're doing on this world and where you're going and what's the point of it all anyway and what will happen when you'll die and what you'll leave behind beside 1800 posts at a literature forum, hundreds upon hundreds of photos, a few people with a memory and a stinky old corpse?

What I'm doing: polluting the world, depleting the ozone layer even more, and wasting energy (e.g. water) so that future generations would be a miserable bunch
Where I'm going: for now, school. Later on, work.
The point: just making other people miserable, I guess

- What's the point of rhetorical questions anyway?

So that we can ignore them and not look stupid.

- And whatever happened to that annoying weirdo fayefaye?

Still alive, apparently, and asking annoyingly random questions. :p

[ajoe]

Hey, fayefaye, are you in the U.S.? If so I hope not in the west, cause it's abnormally morning here and now. :p

[den]

Welcome back faye!

Of course they're wearing makeup, they're representing that awful cliche that women can never be seen without it!

I love the Body Shop but I hate salespeople buggin' me anyway so they can stay away. I also can't stand it when you go in there and find out they've discontinued something you use.

I know people who commute over 4 hours total, each day, just to get to and from work. They're too busy trying not lose their laptops to think about all that wasted time.

:idea: Yup, I'm usually that one having a cigarette out on an open air patio and still get dirty looks sometimes. But I'm also addicted to a number of Body Shop products so I am actually _quite_ clean. :D

The point of being here is to find the self-respect within you to not be cowed-under by blatant commercialism, to not wear makeup all the time, to find the time to wander off into a sunflower field or get lost in the woods or merely `lose time' so that you don't get so hung up on why you're becoming a mole person. :as-sleep:

[fayefaye]

:) Secretly I think I always seem to subconsciously pick the seat near the person with the cigarette, and I have NO IDEA why....... I think I did that today... and it was blowing all over my mud chocolate muffin and I was sitting there thinkin' this is CrAzY so I moved somewhere with oxygen instead. :D

I have low iron and low blood pressure.... my brain lacks oxygen as is :D (cantcha tell?)

on the up side, the way I figure it, I can eat all the junk food I like without risking a heart attack! :p

I love the body shop... everything about it - I love the smell... I go in there just to inhale. :D lol... I should find better things to do with my time. :P

[crisaor]

Why sitting outside a cafe on an idle Tuesday afternoon there is alwyas somebody smoking withing a 5metre radius... and why it's so strange if there's not......
What I do wonder is why when I'm sitting near a smoker, and the wind is blowing in the exact opposite direction of mine, the smoke will always head towards my direction, no matter what...

[subterranean]

a happy come back for Faye and Den (havent see u much here lately..:)

perhaps those things you mentined are there so a a very thoughtful curious person won't run out anything to wonder about...

i agree with you crisaor..why there's always a smoker to make my unperfect days become more unperfect...

[amuse]

when i first read "body shop" i thought of not the mall chain, but body piercing. silly, hunh. (glug.)
...though letting one's piercer know how your belly or eyebrow is doing is kind of funny.

[fayefaye]

I really want a bellybutton ring but apparently they hurt and get infected and disgusting really easily so maybe not.....

'Ilm looking for answers from the great beyond --- answersssssss' [still singing]

[baddad]

:)

I love the body shop... everything about it - I love the smell... I go in there just to inhale. :D lol... I should find better things to do with my time. :P

I don't think this is a waste of time, but instead is one of those sensous indulgences adding to life's precious stock of priceless enjoyments. Sure, it may be a little seem a little silly to some...........but unless they've had to call Security to remove you...it's not a pathology. In fact, it would make a great little trait for a character in a story, someone living in a large city who must substitute those precious "the best things in life are free" experiences because of a lack of access to the real things. You know, something like instead of "stopping to smell the roses" this person stops to smell a facimile because this is all that is available in the future....
*little voice in my head.."Hmmm...I think these pain killers are working".*

[fayefaye]

I'm the weird girl who sits milling over one drink in a cafe for about... half-hour - hour.... in cafes... and these waiters walking past.. and I'm beginnin' to think 'wait a second... how long DOES it take to drink this?' Strange indeed. The little things become quite artificial. So I stop to smell the stores and the streets lined with food places, where you can smell waffles and noodles, intermingled with car fumes and smoke. :) I guess it's bittersweet :) depending how you're gonna look at it.

[fayefaye]

I loathe car fumes.


Of course they're wearing makeup, they're representing that awful cliche that women can never be seen without it!

no, what I mean is, even AFTER they've used the make up remover, they're actually STILL wearing make up. 'cleans deep into pores to remove all dirt, oil and traces of make up' - but they're OBVIOUSLY still coated in the stuff. I have a theory that they all look really hideous without it. The advertising companies just don't want us to realise.

[Scheherazade]

OK, I know it is me, but I think women look very nice right after removing their make up with a clean, fresh looking skin.

And just for the record, I would like to add here that I don't like double standards of men who go on about how they think women look better without make up but still pop their eyes out at the first sighting of any female species wearing lots of make up like Pamela Anderson and such. :rolleyes:

[den]

That was exactly my point, ;) regardless of the fact that it's a make remover advert, she's still got it slathered on!




no, what I mean is, even AFTER they've used the make up remover, they're actually STILL wearing make up. 'cleans deep into pores to remove all dirt, oil and traces of make up' - but they're OBVIOUSLY still coated in the stuff. I have a theory that they all look really hideous without it. The advertising companies just don't want us to realise.

[verybaddmom]

I really want a bellybutton ring but apparently they hurt and get infected and disgusting really easily so maybe not.....

yes they hurt somewhat, but only for a second. the infections are totally avoidable with good aftercare although, they do require a committment of sorts. and i DO know this, i now have nine body piercings.
if you are seriously considering the piercing check out www.tribalectic.com to find out more about the procedure and aftercare. there is a great forum on there where you can ask questions and learn about the piercing you are considering.
good luck.

[subterranean]

i got some piercings before, but they went awful and i had to take the earings off and got some treatments

:( :(

[den]

:brow: <----- a very cheesy smile huh? :lol:

Thank you sub! Yeah, I've been, uhm, busy ...



a happy come back for Faye and Den (havent see u much here lately..:)

[den]

faye, about piercings... you will never know how you `react' to one until you get one. :blush:

[verybaddmom]

i agree den. every "body" is different and everyone takes care of them differently as well. i wholeheartedly encourage anyone who wants one to try it. just make sure and research both the piercing itself and the piercer. a good piercer is worth his/her weight in gold.





i got some piercings before, but they went awful and i had to take the earings off and got some treatments

:( :(


as far as yours are concerned, Sub, i am going to guess that you had ears pierced with a gun? am i right?
piercing guns are very very evil...stay away from them!

[simon]

Is that because the guns destroy the cartiledge in the ear? All the dirty looking back alley places don't use the guns like the pink coated chain peircing stores do, but it's hard to walk into those slightly unsanitary looking places. Just think though the guy whose going to peirce you has more piercings than you can see, and they are still functioning so they must know what they are doing.

[verybaddmom]

the guns are horrible for so many reasons....
1) the staff in those pink coated chains are not sufficiently trained on piercing
2) the aftercare solution they give you is alcohol based. NOT GOOD
3) the gun CANNOT be sterilized and the microspray of blood from the piercing before you remains on the equipment. ewwwww
4) the piercing implement is blunt, and only punches a hole in your lobe. a professional piercer uses a hollow needle removing a small tunnel of flesh that allows for a clean heal.
5) the gun pushes healthy skin cells into the piercing hole, which eventually may begin to grow (as skin cells will) causing a cyst to form inside the earlobe (this happened to me, abcessed and my lobe swelled until it touched my neck. agonizing pain, let me tell you!)
6) the butterfly backed jewelery doesnt allow for swelling (which will occur with any piercing) nor does it allow for proper air circulation necessary for healing. they are also much harder to clean properly, as the tight back can trap bacteria but not allow it to be rinsed out.
7) the studs used to pierce with a gun are not always the right size for every ear, and and have been known to become completely embedded in the lobe.
8) and yes, if you get gunned in the cartliage area of your ear, you face many more complications. a properly pierced cart takes about a year to heal, due to lack of bloodflow in the area (the only bloodflow is in the skin layer, none in cart at all). there have been many cases of the blunt force trauma of a gun actually collapsing the cartilage. and of course, healing takes way way longer when gunned.
a "dirty back alley" piercer is not an alternative though. you should always be able to find a good, clean reputable piercer. when i moved to calgary i would literally stop people on the streets who had visible piercings and ask them where they had them done. when i talked to enough people that recommended one or two places, i would go and check them out. look for an autoclave, single use, prewrapped needles, a spore test result posted or available, lots of glove changes and a piercer with lots of piercings and/or tattoos. also ask to see a portfolio of HEALED piercings. i found a piercer in Calgary that has done my two most recent (my tongue and an unmentionable) but i am currently on the search for a piercer who does surface piercings...research, reasearch, research.

also, there are many orginizations working to get the guns banned.
for more information see:
http://www.namaii.com/suck/
http://members.aye.net/~asgard/piercinggun.html

does that answer your question simon?
:)

[amuse]

my four cents...i've pierced (ears, cartilage included), to the point where i had repeat customers, the highest volume of piercings - without the most hours - and recommendations. i have also refused to pierce, as well, for reasons such as soccer season beginning. some of us are sufficiently trained. i always took my time, and was a perfectionist. i was extremely sanitary. not all of my co-workers had the same work ethic, however.

...i have also done a botch job on myself - belly - so i don't recommend self-piercing. with or without professional equipment. :D

guns are fine for cartilage, but cartilage has less blood flow than say an ear lobe; they take six weeks to heal. which is why you never sleep on that side, and baby it like hell for 3 months.

never let someone use a gun to pierce a non-ear body part.

[subterranean]

as far as yours are concerned, Sub, i am going to guess that you had ears pierced with a gun? am i right?
piercing guns are very very evil...stay away from them!

true...well i was just a kid and i didnt got clear information about piercing..
so i just went to that gun piercing shop..i know that true piercing artists are againts gun piercing, that a good thing that they spread news and do some indirect campaigns to warn people about gun piercing..