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Condolences papayahead! I, too, would feel cheated! I would probably just buy a purse I wasn't that crazy about just because it's such a good deal! Or at least I would consider doing so. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Second that on the avy!
I'm a little late on this but Motherhubbard's toes are just plain ugly! They really don't have much nails left from all the times the fell off while she was dancing. Once, after a performance, she was so stinking tired so she slept without taking her bloody wrappings off. The next morning when we removed the tape (after a long soaking) all the nails came off with it. She danced that night anyway. It was hard to watch. Her toes might be stubby and ugly, but man can she pinch with them! And she never bends down to pick up anything. She just takes her shoes off and picks it up with her toes.Quote:
Originally Posted by motherhubbard
that tape was stuck to the skin that wasn't really attached any more. I didn't want to tell you because you were always so freeked out about that. I would have had to cut the skin off to get the tape off.
that night my toes bled through my shoes, but I never felt it.
Where did you come from? Really??? Love ya!Quote:
Originally Posted by motherhubbard
from you, momma! where else? You're just a little sissy. If your mother had been as tough on you as you were on me you wouldn't have spit that rabbit out!Quote:
Originally Posted by Granny5
My mamma believed in grocery stores! The rabbit was delicious, really, but I know I've petted that one before...I think her name was Ethel! And I never make you eat Hank or Abe or Sarge...now did I?
I think abe would have been tough, but he sure would have made a big meal!
Abe was a good dog...I think he would have tasted like a big 'ol Christmas ham!
:lol: i'm doing blue; it goes more with my age. Do you remember all of the blue-haired aged ladies before dye came to it present perfection:wave:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Granny5 and motherhubbard, thank you for sharing this loving mother-daughter exchange! :lol:
But motherhubbard, in this day and age, it's just WRONG to eat something that you've named! :bawling:
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Originally Posted by qimissung
hahahah, I agree.
New question:
Say you have a butt load of hair product and promised that you wouldn't buy anymore until you used up the old stuff. Seems like a good idea but what if you don't like the products that you have. Do you 1) suck it up and use the bad product until it's gone or 2) toss out bad product to make way for new product?
I'd definately throw the old hair products out; at least once a year, six months for open hair dye products. It sucks being bald:sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
I'm a major cheapskate, so I'd use the product I already have (unless I really hate it).Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Depends how much I dislike the products... If they are really not helping, I would go and get something new... but first I would do a little soul searching to see if I am just in the mood for some hair product shopping and making excuses.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Throw it out!!!
My hair is my favourite (physical) thing about myself. It gets better quality products than I get quality food.
Speaking of coffee...Starbucks has the seasonal Peppermint Mocha Latte...I want one NOW. Why is Starbucks closed for Thanksgiving. uggh.
If I disliked the hair product, I would throw it out and get something new. But if I disliked that I would probably suck it up and use it. There's only so much throwing out one can do, alas.
And Shalot, I'm sorry Starbucks isn't open today, especially since they are a soulless corporation, having sold their tiny little souls to the devil long ago, probably for less than the price of a seasonal Peppermint Mocha Latte.
It's okay. I'm surprised they weren't open. It used to upset me when I worked in a store that was open on Thanksgiving day. I would be pissed that I had to work. Someone was telling me that Starbucks was actually a good company to work for, in that industry. I was just whining last night - that's all. I'm actually glad Starbucks was closed. The only places that should remain open on Holidays are hospitals, police stations and fire stations. The rest of the world should take time off. Unfortuanately, that's not how it is in 24/7 America.Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
Salon Hair Care Products: Do you feel obligated to buy them? I always get told that I need to use certain salon hair care products when I get my hair done. My hair is too dry so I need to spend $45 on the Bumble and Bumble Creme De Cocoa shampoo and conditioner combo. My hair has been colored so I need to buy "Color Preserve" shampoo and conditioner. I need to buy the volumizing mouse as well....How do you deal with these add-on-sales at the end of a salon visit?
I know that the stylists are probably told that they have to push the product...if they weren't told that then I wouldn't be "prescribed" products every time I went to the salon. But I get to the point where I dread getting my hair done. I have prepared several defense tactics for this. One of them involves not going to the same hair stylist...that way they can't figure out how to counter my reasons for not buying whatever overpriced salon product they're trying to push on me.
I'd state what they are here, but then I'm afraid some hairstylist might read them and then they'd know what to tell clients in advance in response to their excuses as to why they (the clients) don't need to buy what they're pushing.
For instance, I was in the chair and the girl asked me what kind of shampoo I had and I told her that I was using a product that they sold in that salon and that I had just bought it so I had plenty. Then she told me why I needed to not use that product and use a different kind that they also sold in that salon. She said that with my new color it would be best if I used such and such because it would help me maintain the color longer.
Another time, a stylist told me what I was using stripped hair color and and was cheap and that I needed to buy what they were selling.
I just feel pressured every time I go. I'm tired of buying hair products.
Salon Hair Products - Just Say No.
Well, say No, thank you, not this time - with a smile, of course. But then, I was born awkward - if someone tries to push something on me that I don't want, I can dig my heels in and keep on saying 'No': the smile gradually fades, then look out...
Would I throw out stuff that was actually not doing my hair any good? Yes, after giving it another try, just to be sure. :) Same goes for make-up: it is with great regret that the Aloe Vera stuff I bought from the Body Shop a few months back is being gradually pushed binwards - it suddenly seems to be making my skin itch, no visible rash, I just want to scratch it when I've got it on. Has Aloe Vera had the same effect on anyone else? Ah well, back to Boots Botanics.
That's one of the very few drinks that Starbucks makes that I actually like- probably going to get one today :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
Yeah, I think Starbucks offers benefits, which for companies where the people are probably working for minimum wage is very good indeed. I was just trying to be humorous, the idea being that all corporations are soulless.
As to hair care products, I just say "No thanks." It usually works.
I always sound like a dumbass when I get pressured at the hair salon. I always pretend like I don't remember the name of the products I'm using, I'll say something like "I can't remember what I use but it's in a blue bottle and I love it". Perhaps I should be a little more straight forward. Next time I think I'll try "Oh I'm set on hair products, thank you"?
Tell them that you wash your hair with bar soap.
I remember this great hair product back in the 1970's; it made my hair so shiny and gave it so much body. At some point I looked up the ingrediants and found it was made from animal afterbirth:sick:
omigod, when did it become okay to say a*s*s on litnet?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
man, I sound like dumbass pretty much all the time, not just in the salon. What's really dumbass is the hair product "prescription." That just irritates me. I don't know if anyone else has ever encountered a hair products "prescription" but the place I've been going to (for their reasonably priced quality services) has printed out a prescription pad for their stylists to use...oh it's the stupidest thing. the hair stylists take out this little pad and write down what they used on my hair and then they present me with the prescription. If I were a hair stylist, I would feel stupid doing that.
Anyone else here ever receive a "prescription" for hair care products? :rolleyes:
*The Comedian walks in, blindfolded, so as to maintain the modesty of all involved*
So I ask my wife, "Is there anything you want for Christmas?"
She replies: "You don't need to get me anything".
Could any of you translate her reply from "female" into "male"?
Thanks!
Sure, Comedian. no problem, though a lot depends on tone of voice in the actual exchange.
1 You have a lot to think about right now - don't waste your valuable time thinking up something for me.(Careful here - there might be a hint of irony or worse still, sarcasm, in this interpretation...)
2 Look, I know funds are low - just a nominal little something will do.
3 How long have we been together? And you still don't know the sort of thing that will surprise and delight me?? Which leads to:
4 If I tell you, it won't surprise and delight me on The Day.
5 Any little thing that shows you have been taking note of my most casual remark, one that even I have forgotten making, that you have been cherishing to yourself to give me a wonderful surprise when I open it - it's not the content of the gift that matters, it's the fact that you marked and remembered my passing thought.... This could carry the hidden implication '...which clearly you have not done.' And this in turn leads to:
6 What's happened to the time you could read my mind? Aren't we in tune anymore?
7 That question should have read: What would you like for Christmas? (which makes it sound as if you are pampering me and spoiling me by granting my every whim) not What do you want for Christmas? (which makes me sound like a whining, demanding child.)
There are no doubt many other interpretations - personally, I'd go for a combination of 2 and 5. Cultivate the secret, even smug, smile that says 'I was only asking for form's sake - I know just what will please you, my lady...' and make sure you present her with something she would not indulge in for herself, beautifully wrapped, of course.
Easy, isn't it? You make it sound as if we were speaking a different language, or from a different planet. Tsk, men....
Peppermint Mocha Latte???? :eek: they dont have that one here! no fair! We've Gingerbread Latte, Darck Cherry Mocha and a Toffee Nut Latte but no Peppermint one! fancy sending some my way? I'll love you for ever and ever! :angel:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
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Originally Posted by Shalot
Oh goodness, I've never heard of a hair prescription before. Is this an Aveda Salon?
I agree, 2 and 5 combo.Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
The female version is always the direct opposite of the male counterpart.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Comedian
Translation: You really have to get me something...I ain't telling. Go figure it out!
No not Aveda. But if I recall, the Aveda place I went to always pushed products but the girl who did my hair managed to do it in such a way that I didn't feel pressured. I still ended up buying shampoo from her, and I ended up liking what I got so it wasn't totally horrible. She did have to write it down for me on a card, but it didn't say "prescription" on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Really? No peppermint mocha??? that is so unfair. but that Dark Cherry Mocha sounds really good and we don't have that. I'll trade you. We do have the Gingerbread Latte and I'm not a fan. I'm not sure on the Toffee Nut though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
My local Starbucks was advertising Egg Nog Latte yesterday so, remembering another thread here, I ordered one. (You see how influenced I am by what is posted here?) Alas, the lady apologised, I don't have that flavour. But you have it heavily advertised. Yes, but the flavouring hasn't arrived yet. Oh - disappointed - well, what do you recommend? How about the Dark Cherry Mocha, is that nice? Hmm, I'd go for the Toffee Nut myself, it's yummy. So I did - and it is. But I didn't see Peppermint.
Sadly that could be my last trip to that particular Starbucks - it's upstairs in Borders and there's talk of Borders closing. :eek: Where will I go for a quiet browse round a shop that has real books, not virtual, on-line ones? Still I can't say I haven't done my bit to help it stay solvent, especially yesterday in their 20% off, Everything Must Go sale.
*shouts from outside the thread* Wow -- I need to read more Jane Austen to get a better handle on it. This women's talk is complicated stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by kasie
Thanks a bunch for the advice. Now if only I'd paid attention earlier. . . .
Deal!!! :D I'm not sure about the Toffee nut one either. :sick: the Eggnog Latte is to die for! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Shalot
I'm slightly offended by the "different sense of distance" but I'm kinda intrigued by the whole thing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8432887.stm
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A shopping centre in China's Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers.
The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes.
Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park was meant to cater to women's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance".
The parking bays are one metre (3ft) wider than normal spaces, he said.
The Wanxiang-Tiancheng shopping centre had also "installed signs and security monitoring equipment that corresponded more to women's needs", he said.
I see they have the same problem in China. :p And they are not politically correct to admit it. :D
:banana::banana: :wave: Now this is an unusual change; the gentleman have left their caves to visit our "curtain trimmed, chaise lounged domains...I hope Comedian brought us some orchids and beer...What has Virgil come to the coffee house with...something more concrete than enlightened conversation? Perhaps wrapped in a great bow, a belated Christmas gift:santasmil
:D Well, I want to wish all you ladies a wonderful New Year. may all your endeavors come to fruition. And here's my gift: http://www.youtube.com/user/virgil015#p/f/6/YFI0rFFp8j8Quote:
Originally Posted by soundofmusic
That is wonderful, I love Fred, Ginger and Nat........Thank you, VirgilQuote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
So, what did you get your wife, Comedian?
I love my new vacuum!!!!! Love it!!!! It's a little heavy but I just can't help looking at my floors and smiling.
Somebody quick - Are my ovaries showing?