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Post by Greenwood2 on Apr 9, 2024 19:15:39 GMT
A bit of a fashion trend, availability of interesting nail designs, women (who can afford it) treating themselves and the people running the nail bars trying to make a living. And it seems like a lot of the latter barely are making a living. Yes but why is it that generally speaking, women are much more likely to want to get their nails painted and manicured than men? Why not? But actually men do get their nails done much more than they did years ago. Men also get their hair, beard, moustache 'done' rather than just cut these days, is that bad? At times in the past men were more the peacocks times change.
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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 9, 2024 19:35:09 GMT
A bit of a fashion trend, availability of interesting nail designs, women (who can afford it) treating themselves and the people running the nail bars trying to make a living. And it seems like a lot of the latter barely are making a living. Yes but why is it that generally speaking, women are much more likely to want to get their nails painted and manicured than men? Purely cultural norms of the time. Nothing more nor less. Its thought that nail painting may even have started with men. Ancient Babylonian warriors painted their nails before combat. Allegedly. Ancient Egyptians and Chinese painted their nails. Also allegedly (I'm not sure actual nail clippings have been found). Like more recently men used to wear wigs as a fashionable adornment, and dress up like showy peacocks, (assuming you were in the rich upper classes).
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Post by michaelc on Apr 9, 2024 20:07:12 GMT
Yes but why is it that generally speaking, women are much more likely to want to get their nails painted and manicured than men? Why not? But actually men do get their nails done much more than they did years ago. Men also get their hair, beard, moustache 'done' rather than just cut these days, is that bad? At times in the past men were more the peacocks times change. Men don't do it to look "attractive" as such. Some might but generally it is the case that women spend far more time and money in their beauty in order to look "attractive". Or do you disagree and think most women in their 20s and 30s don't care about being "attractive" ?
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Post by michaelc on Apr 9, 2024 20:08:22 GMT
Yes but why is it that generally speaking, women are much more likely to want to get their nails painted and manicured than men? Purely cultural norms of the time. Nothing more nor less. Its thought that nail painting may even have started with men. Ancient Babylonian warriors painted their nails before combat. Allegedly. Ancient Egyptians and Chinese painted their nails. Also allegedly (I'm not sure actual nail clippings have been found). Like more recently men used to wear wigs as a fashionable adornment, and dress up like showy peacocks, (assuming you were in the rich upper classes). The examples you give are more about men showing their wealth or class than about being "attractive" to women. Or do you not agree ?
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Post by james100 on Apr 10, 2024 11:39:57 GMT
Why not? But actually men do get their nails done much more than they did years ago. Men also get their hair, beard, moustache 'done' rather than just cut these days, is that bad? At times in the past men were more the peacocks times change. Men don't do it to look "attractive" as such. Some might but generally it is the case that women spend far more time and money in their beauty in order to look "attractive". Or do you disagree and think most women in their 20s and 30s don't care about being "attractive" ? Not sure it's quite this simple. Take male hair transplants for example. Expensive, painful, time consuming, frequently unsuccessful and an obvious procedure to undergo. Why do men care about losing their hair so much they do this? The vast majority of women couldn't care less about male hair loss or male aging; it's about men doing it for their own comfort or vanity (fine). Also male botox. People can do things just to please themselves, rather than to gain attraction from others. In any case, no man considers painted nails a factor when they 'select' a partner. Sexual attraction yes, general presentation & hygiene yes (assuming personality/goals/values etc). But painting nails is cheap, unskilled and AIUI the act of going to a nail bar was mostly a casual social/self-care act for the price of a starbucks whilst - crucially - someone's already in town. Covid and aftermath temporarily annihilated that and former users who did it 'for the love of nails' learned to DIY with gel/powder/vinyl/UV systems at home. For less time, money, idle chatter and at equal or better quality. So habits changed permanently. Negative publicity around nail bars re human trafficking and money laundering hasn't helped the cause either, but fundamentally the market changed, partly died and evolved. Nail bars are simply the Blockbuster of the beauty industry.
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Post by keitha on Apr 11, 2024 11:45:36 GMT
www.unilad.com/technology/news/suzie-cheikho-fired-keystroke-technology-job-167047-20240409so management looked at 49 days she logged in late on 47 days and finished early on 29, logic therefore says on at least 27 days she started late and to compensate finished early ! on 4 days although she was logged in the system recorded no key strokes ! on average 54 key strokes an hour. Just as an example this post contains 118 words, and took me considerably less that 10 minutes to enter. If you say my average word length is 4 characters then 118 x 4 = 472 Compared to her average of 54 characters per hour I am very hard working, indeed this post represents at least 9 working hours for her.
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Post by captainconfident on Apr 12, 2024 20:04:05 GMT
I had a quick look for a Trump Bible for michaelc , and they are mainly available to preorder on Ebay.com. Or dot con as I accidentally just wrote. The seller of the Bible you might eventually get had more negative feedback than usual, lets take a look. www.ebay.com/fdbk/feedback_profile/jb_collectables_store?commentType=NEGATIVE&user_context=BUYEROf amusement here is the third negative feedback halfway down the page, Ripped off the dybbuk boxWhat's this, you ask?. Well, click the number of the item at the end of the negative comment and look at the item. Scroll down a bit you can see what this seller bought for 65 bucks. Even more amazing, in the positive feedback, countless satisfied purchasers of such wonders.
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Post by keitha on Apr 12, 2024 21:23:39 GMT
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Post by keitha on Apr 12, 2024 21:27:15 GMT
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Post by agent69 on Apr 13, 2024 14:21:40 GMT
Must be a slow news day at DM
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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 14, 2024 18:10:27 GMT
Voluntary donations to pay off national debt reach highest in a decadeJust to put this in perspective, "Members of the public handed almost £700,000 over to the Government through six individual bequests and donations last year,....to help pay off Britain’s £2.65 trillion debt pile" Oh, and the biggest single contribution was £500k, so I'm not sure this is forming much of a trend....
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Post by adrianc on Apr 15, 2024 7:56:46 GMT
Voluntary donations to pay off national debt reach highest in a decadeJust to put this in perspective, "Members of the public handed almost £700,000 over to the Government through six individual bequests and donations last year,....to help pay off Britain’s £2.65 trillion debt pile" Oh, and the biggest single contribution was £500k, so I'm not sure this is forming much of a trend.... "Despite the current state of the public finances, the Treasury does little to advertise the opportunity to donate."Probably because they know damn well they'd be laughed down in seconds flat. Chrissakes, if you don't want your relatives to inherit your money, give it to a bloody charity!
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Post by adrianc on Apr 16, 2024 7:28:01 GMT
Chris Mason, BBC political correspondent, interviews Liz Truss. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hr0km0I haven't listened to the whole thing yet - but from the trails they're giving it on Today, it sounds like this is going to be comedy gold. She's absolutely fruitloop, and heading further into the boonies by the minute. Quote just now - "Liz Truss's public approval rate is currently 10%. That's the same as approve of North Korea."Also - second reading for Sunak's fixed DoB for tobacco purchasing is today. bills.parliament.uk/bills/3703/newsLabour and just about the entire opposition are in support. Truss and Johnson and their acolytes are against. This should be an amusing result.
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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 16, 2024 8:29:29 GMT
Chris Mason, BBC political correspondent, interviews Liz Truss. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0hr0km0I haven't listened to the whole thing yet - but from the trails they're giving it on Today, it sounds like this is going to be comedy gold. She's absolutely fruitloop, and heading further into the boonies by the minute. Quote just now - "Liz Truss's public approval rate is currently 10%. That's the same as approve of North Korea."Also - second reading for Sunak's fixed DoB for tobacco purchasing is today. bills.parliament.uk/bills/3703/news Labour and just about the entire opposition are in support. Truss and Johnson and their acolytes are against. This should be an amusing result.I think morally and politically this is a difficult judgement to call. I'm surprised so many in opposition are supporting this: surely many of those have at the same time - now or in the past - called for liberalisation of drug laws / decriminalisation of drugs. I don't see how the two positions are compatible. I do wonder with the current trajectory of smoking it should just be left to die out of its own accord (pun partially intended). To my mind, a concern is that vaping is becoming a bigger issue. There is increasing evidence that the level of damage from vaping is considerably higher than first thought, and yet it's become an acceptable thing for youngsters to take up - and get addicted to - even as smoking has become almost taboo. As an aid to kicking tobacco, it's no doubt invaluable. As something which has become trendy to take up young - just as smoking once was - its a potential public health disaster in the making.
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Post by bracknellboy on Apr 16, 2024 8:54:39 GMT
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