I'm not sure whether I think men or women are better at the whole nosh thing. I'd have to compare and contrast at a single sitting, so to speak.
It has been such a long time since I bothered playing, though, that I doubt I'd even know where to start in a mmf situation - it'd be like an all you can eat buffet with all my favourite things there, but i wouldn't want to appear greedy.
And anyway, by the time this generation hits 70 there are going to be tons of pensioners covered in tattoos. I will be there, sat with my jack daniels and cocoa, looking at my tattoos as if they are a picture book of my life.
My main advice is to know what you want before you go in, avoid the flash on the walls and go to an artist who is able to design something specifically for you, and expect to pay lots of money for a good artist. Ask people who have really cool tats for thier advice, and don't get one on the spur of the moment just because you've plucked up the courage - once you have one, it is hard to get rid of, and covering up or removing bad tattoos is costly and difficult.
I have been dyeing my hair since I was 14. I like unnatural colours. Recently, though, I have been resting it and I actually quite like the grey that is coming through. I may leave it a bit longer.
And a happy one from me, too.
I see NN is avoiding this thread... :>
Not sure Marc has any really big beefy fans...
Squee...
If you would like a definition of that word, there is a comic book by jhonen vasquez called Squee I can recommend - sure to make any teen who hasn't read it feel left out - but it may be a trifle, um... sick.
I do like to panic about what to wear and stuff - and I don't have a ton of grey hair but my natural colour is kind of dirty blonde to shit-house rat (as opposed to mousey) brown, so it's quite a big change from my usual utterly unnatural black, which is probably why I am taking the change so much to heart :>
As for a big hat - i _could_ do that, but then everyone would just think I was a shorter and skinnier version of boy george...
ok. This is probably the entirly wrong place to squeel about this and everything, but I am going to anyway.
Marc Almond is playing in my town in June.
Now, since I absolutely adore Marc and thought i would never see him again after his bike accident, I am, naturally, over excited.
But.
I have no idea what to wear. This is a big occasion to me. Normally, I would just wear whateve fell onto me, and make sure my make-up matched my outfit.
But I need to make an effort, here. Marc may SEE me and possibly fall in love with me or something, so I have to look groovy and hot as sin. Thing is, I have been experimenting with hair cuts and not dyeing my hair so that I can see how grey I really am, and stuff of that ilk, and I feel I am looking pretty crappy of late... but my experiment is not over yet - I do not have a full head of natural coloured hair yet, and won't unless I get a really short cut.
But how, then, can I get to my goal of seeing what I look like without black hair dye, and merge this with dressing up to see Marc - who _will_ spot me in the crowd and fall hopelessly in love with me so long as I look as groovy as all hell?
It' a bit of a conundrum, this...
Did this recently and it was a big mistake. Too many old feeling dredged up and we both ended up worse off.
But the shags were good...
I am not afraid of my own opinions even though often people don't agree with me.
For what it's worth, my opinions on some of the things brought up in this topic go as follows.
The Hijab. If people choose to wear something then I have no right to question them. This goes both ways -they have no right to question what I wear or my reasons for doing so either.
I do have some reservations regarding the apparent patriachal nature of some religions, but peoples religion and culture are thier right. This being a free country, we absolutely should respect the rights of people to dress and act however they like so long as that does not infringe on the liberties of anyone else.
This is where any fundamentalist religious belief can get onto a sticky wicket in a country with freedom of expression - but it is important to allow people freedom of religion and expression even when we don't agree with them.
I know a number of women who wear the hijab, and I like all of them as people, and I like thier husbands, too. I don't claim to fully understand Islam or the reasons for wearing it, but I accept that if that's what they feel they should do, then that's thier choice and I have no call to question that.
I harbour absolutely no religious beliefs whatsoever. and disgree wholeheartedly with an awful lot of what religion stands for, (and agree with a lot of it too - who can argue with, 'Thou Shalt Not Kill'?) - but that's a personal opinion and not one I thrust down anyone elses throat.
Looking after people who choose not to work
While this goes on and is annoying, I am happy to pay my taxes to ensure there is a safety net for those who need it. If some people take the piss, then that is no reason to remove the safety net for those who genuinely cannot work. I don't like the idea of people starving to death, or dying because they can't afford medical treatment. There are people who abuse the system, but there are a lot of people who need it. I would hate to have an American style system where everyone just looks out for themselves and sod anyone who can't afford to look after themselves.
Immigartion and Asylum Seekers
I have a similar point of view. There are those who need sanctuary in this country and there are those that take advantage. But just because there are those who take advantage does not mean we should turn outr backs on those who need us. If we could get it right and refuse asylum and privelegs for those who are taking advantage without making those who are genuine suffer, then I would be all for that. But, unfortunately, the arguments seem to be all or nothing, and given a choice, I'd personally prefer that we helped people who needed help and a few piss takers got through the net, than if we turned everyone away and genuine people suffered because we were afraid of having the mickey taken.
I would post a picture but for several reasons
I have no topless pics
I am too lazy to take one
I am rarely topless
I need more tattoos
I really am very lazy indeed
I am very pale... It takes me a week of sunbathing to get white.
Since I started driving I have stopped cycling and my body has lost definition. I was always skinny but now I am just skinny with no muscle tone. I am going to start working out to get my shape back, small as it was, but I am in negative body image mode at the moment and feeling sorry for myself.
Other stuff.
So topless / nudey pics of me are a few weeks away from even being a possibility. This should come as a relief to most people :>
I have to agree with the people saying he's an idiot, I'm afraid. From the bit of dialogue you posted, I would avoid this bloke like the plague. If someone can't take a simple, 'Not tonight' - for _whatever_ reason, then I'd avoid them. Trying to turn it around to some kind of guilt trip on you just because he has a hard on is ridiculous. You absolutely should put NOTHING on your profile unless you want to. Do not be told what to do! (ignore me telling you not to do what you are told to do as figuring that one out can be a headache...)
Have to say the idea of this really appeals to me but not sure about actually doing it as it is something I have never tried before.
Still, never say never...
I might disappoint in the bronzed adonis stakes - but if you like the Sid Vicious / Iggy Pop type shirtless physique then ask away :>
I really do think if he goes he will be putting the lives of not only his own regiment at even more uneccesary risk than they are already in, but that of all the other British soldiers.
It will be all over the news if he does go, and of course him being there is going to tempt the enemy to attack with even more frequency and ferocity.
All that quite aside from the other two moral dilemas - should our troops be there in the first place, and should we even still have a Royal Family anyway?
Kids in hoodies are the new skinheads. Authorites and journlists too lazy to deal with the very real social issues that are the root cause of anti social behaviour? Blame an easy target.
It's what they wear, it's the films they watch, the video games they play, the books they read, the music they listen to... it can't possibly be anything to do with thier environment, because, er, then the blame wouldn't be on easy targets any more and we might have to do something to make the environment safer and better for everyone.
What Redpantman said - very sound advice, that. It's really difficult but you need to be you and remember that trying to be something else never works - you can't hlp how you feel and there is nothing to be ashamed of in having feelings. Hope the hurt gets better soon.
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Good -
Dressed well and learned how to do make-up that suited me, unlike alternative teenage boys these days who think badly applied thick eyeliner on its own looks great and that it's easy to replicate Marilyn Manson's make-up teams' work with said blunt eyeliner and some white snazzaroo kids face-paint.
Had great taste in music.
Turned up to school occasionally.
Stayed away from illegal drugs completely, never seeing the allure.
( I can still look at photos from that era and think, 'I would still wear that now')
Bad
Started smoking.
Avoided most of school, meaning I had to go back to college later in life and get into debt in order to be able to get a decent job. I should have been more sensible.
Took too long to figure out own sexual identity, and went from gay to straight to gay to straight for years (coming out each time till people were just saying, 'Make your bloody mind up!') before I would admit to being bi.
Discovered sex too early and was too promiscuous once I discovered (and could get into) nightclubs.
Did not figure out how stay safe when being a skinny little freaky looking person in city centres on saturday nights until had taken a few beatings. Solution turned out to be simlple.
Thought my parents had no taste in music - who the hell were the Beatles and the Rolling Stones anyway? Should have just listened to it and realised they were cool people.
Left home too early, thinking a one bedroom flat above an empty shop with rotten floorboards and broken windows and no heating was paradise.
Who ordered the massause?
I hate Nickleback.
Not really - just wanted to make a derogatory comment ;)
It seems that my experience of vanilla parties may not tally with everyone else's, then..
What could be more vanilla than snogging everyone at a party anyway?
I am terrible at taking compliments, always have been, from any source. I'm pretty insecure about most things and use the way I look to disguise that fact. I know I do the look I have well, but underneath that I have no confidence at all most of the time. I'm getting a bit better, but any knock usually sets me back far more than it should. It's an aspect of myself that really annoys me.
Whoa is that a ringwriath in casual dress?