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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 10:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
5 days is nothing! How do they expect to find homes for these poor babies?

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 8:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's my gripe.....why in the Stepford Wives, the women who are unappealing to their husbands, brunettes, but then when they become "perfect" they are blondes?????????!!!!!


hmm..now in further rumination..does that mean that brunettes think for themselves and blondes don't??????? hmmm...maybe I should cancel this gripe?/!!!

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 9:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Texannie, I hear you. It always griped me when very pretty and successful women became blond. Like Kathy Lee Gifford, Christina Ferrarre, and others. I called it the blonding of America. In Hollywood it was said that you couldn't be too rich, too thin, or too blond.

I hated that America was being told that blond was prettier, sexier, and just better...not too mention "more fun."

I refused to consider changing my hair color. I have a collection of angels with dark hair...because it was often hard to find them.

To answer your question, I think it's because blond hair was thought to be more feminine while dark hair was perceived to be more masculine.

Mamie316
Member

07-08-2003

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 9:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Isn't that just wrong?! Why do we stereotype everything in our culture?

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 11:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yikes....I do just the opposite. I'm a natural blonde and try to maintain a brown but it won't stay that way. The sun, the water, or the combo of the two just makes it get lighter and lighter. Hell, I'm almost as toe headed now as I was when I was little. Oops....wait a minute...maybe that's gray.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I know when I went gray, everyone said go blonde..well, that is just not me! Plus I looked terrible!
But I have never gotten the get successful go blonde thing.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Crapola, I thought they said go blue.

Jujublue

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Back to the sprinkling. Before I go any further I do not advocate sprinkling on toilet seats. BUT....I had a roommate who hovered over every toilet but the one in our apartment. If she sprinkled she wiped it up. My thinking on this - I think I'd rather know there was somebody else's urine on the toilet seat instead of somebody just wiping it off with toilet paper [unless they carried a disenfectant around] and me thinking it was urine free. I never hovered until I saw Gloria wiping up her urine. It got me thinking if she did it then others did and I didn't want to sit where their urine was. Now I try not to use public restrooms unless I have to and if I have to I hover. FTR I have perfected the process of hovering and I don't sprinkle!!!!!! Off topic but did you ever wonder why Lil' won the last immunity challenge? It's because she had hovered her whole life and she built up the muscles in her legs!

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ROLF!! Juju!

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Monday, June 14, 2004 - 12:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
lol Juju....tooo funny!!
Serate.... I can totally see Lil hovering...hehe

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 2:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hate it when people don't completely flush in public, and every restroom for that matter. Don't leave your TP and your waste floating around in there for the next person to lose their lunch over, it is just RUDE. Take the extra 5 seconds to make sure it's been flushed, double flush if you have too!!

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As a brunette I have to say that when I went blond it was NOT fun. I don't know how true blonds put up with the belittling attitude that comes their way. It was not my cup of tea and I dyed my hair raven dark after my short episode for 'Nevermore'.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Escapee, I'm with you on bathroom etiquette.

Spy, when I was young my mother built our first three-hole butt-hut. Her generation taught us to hover in public restrooms to protect us from the diseases associated with contact. Practice makes perfect. Apparently a lot of women don't practice.

And what is it with the modernized rooms that have automatic flushers, automatic water faucets that splatter all over the counter, and no paper towels just blow dryers. You still have touch the soap dispenser and the door as you go out behind the women who don't wash their hands.

Yes, I hate public restrooms, but don't want to end up having the kind used in foreign countries, either. No peeing down the leg or hovering over a hole in the ground for me, thank you.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 3:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Gracie, I grew up in Europe where blonde is not an immediate condemnation to the dunce farm. Wisecracks here in North America are answered with one of those deadly "don't even think about messing with me" looks.
I did volunteer work once, where an elderly man came up to the reception protesting that a previous volunteer had sent him down the garden path. "Some ditzy blonde told me....." Wanna see an old man blush? He didn't even realise my hair was light blonde until I gave him that endearing gaze.

Texasdeb
Member

05-23-2003

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 4:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I like my med. brown hair so much that now that I have to "hide" a little grey, I get my whole head my "real" color with using Pref. by Loreal dark ash blonde. I was so happy when I finally found my perfect match in a hair color (you know, the color that even when it grows out an inch, the growth matched almost exactly to what else is there.) My gripe is: If I have med. brown hair, why do I have to use a hair color that says "blonde" to keep my hair brown? If I use med. brown (or any brown) I get awful almost black results. I've found out though that if you want to keep your hair brown, you've got to use a blonde hair color that says "ash". What gives?

Escapee
Member

06-15-2004

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My hair has always been med brown with a lot of reddish tones, naturally. So to heighten and enhance it a bit, we did some highlights. It's great for summer and adds a little dimension. If I use any dyes on my hair that say golden, they turn it red, but if I use an ash, it stays more true to brown. It looks natural, but sometimes ash can give it a greenish/gray tone, so be careful. If your hair has no reddish tone in it, try a golden blonde to heighten the color. Ever try highlighting Texasdeb? Works with your natural tones, and brings out brighter tones, all the while, covering gray. I was born with a birthmark on my head, the hair grows white, and won't dye, but the lighter colors help to blend it a bit better.

Texasdeb
Member

05-23-2003

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 5:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yip - highlights are good too. I don't have them right now but will prob. get them within a few wks. Got my mid back layered hair chopped off to the same style only the longest part just brushes the tops of my shoulders. When I cut a bunch off (which I usually do this time of yr) the hair seems to grow so much faster & that's why I've decided to wait on the hi-lights.

Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 6:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yay, Lumbele!

I've always been blonde but it wasn't 'til the early 90s, when those lame-o 'blonde' jokes started making the rounds that people now feel "entitled" to make fun.

Yes, it's supposed to be humour but in a way it's a form of discrimination.

(down off my trusty soap box...thenkew)

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am ticked! Not really the word I want to use but I'll be nice.

Two years ago we recieved a letter from our school that stated because there had been new houses built in the neighborhood the school was in, there wasn't enough room for the kids in our neighborhood anymore and we were going to be transferred to a new school. We were ok with that, the school we were transferred to was a good school, had fewer students, had been completely renovate, and we were assured that our bus service would continue.

Today kids come home with a note from the transportation agency that takes care of our bus route. They have pulled our neighborhood (two stops) off their list for next year. We will no longer have bus service! Our school is a mile and a half away. Most of the kids in this neighborhood are younger, we only have a few who will be in 4th and 5th grade next year. There are two major intersections to cross to get to the school and now they're taking our bus away??? I can take the kids to school and pick them up, I can even take the little girl across the street because her parents depend on the bus. What's bothering me is that well, we all know how reliable my car is. There are times I have to depend on the bus. Then there's parents who work full time during the day. They have older kids who are home when the younger ones get home, they rely on the bus. There's no way my kids are walking to school by themselves. And I know I'm not the only parent in the neighborhood to feel this way!

This note didn't even have a phone number to call for problems or complaints, lol. I'll be at the school tomorrow and have to run to the office to pick up Dakota's inhaler so I'm going to talk to the principal. I know she'll tell me to talk to the transportation agency, who will in turn tell me to talk to the school. Maybe I'm naive, but they promised us when we changed schools we wouldn't lose our buses! I am pissed about this.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
War, While you're at school tomorrow ask for a copy of the transportation guidelines. Ours say that if it is more than a mile from the school, bus service must be provided.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Call your administration, too. You may want to visit with a school board member.

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Do they work during the summer? That's part of my anger right there is that they waited til the day before the last day of school (which is a minimum day) to hand out these notes. I'll be talking to whoever will listen.

I can't wait to hear what my neighbor has to say. When they changed our school, we had a meeting with the school and administrators about it. 26 kids in the neighborhood who were affected by the change, 3 parents showed up. Neighbor was the one who questioned over and over about the busses because his wife does not drive and he works during the day. Even though he knows I'll take his little girl to school, he's going to be furious about it because the only reason they changed schools was because of the bus service.

I'm not sure what the distance is for the elementary and jr high schools, but I do know that used to if the kids had to cross a major intersection, buses had to be provided.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
War, Go to your school district's website, it should list all the board members and at least email addresses to contact them. I'd fire off a few emails tonight. Tomorrow you may want to stop by the superintendent's office, you may need to make an appointment but if you show up s/he may see you right then.

Just try to stay calm and list the facts (ie. major intersections, age of children, etc.). Your school will have a grievance process, you just need to find out what the chain of command is. They MUST give you the paperwork for a Grievance Stage 1, fill out the paperwork and take it from there.

If you need any more details, just PM me and I'll walk you through it.

{{{War}}}

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Jmm. I've been searching through the school districts website, it's fairly useless. No email address listed for anyone.

I have to go in at 8 tomorrow since I'm volunteering for Kota's class. My first stop is the office to sign in and pick up her inhaler, I'm going to try to catch the principal. She usually spends alot of time out of the office going classroom to classroom, but I should be able to catch her at some point and be able to get phone numbers, emails, or whatever I need from her.

And thank you, I probably will be bugging you or someone else more knowledgeble about this stuff soon.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Thursday, June 17, 2004 - 10:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Not a problem, if you want to send me the website addy I'll see if I can find the rules and regs that might give us more information.