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Ron Johnson
QUOTE (Tamar G @ May 4 2005, 07:44 AM)
can men get their faces waxed or would it cause too much redness?

I have no idea, but something about it tells me no.

Daisy
QUOTE (Tamar G @ May 4 2005, 08:44 AM)
can men get their faces waxed or would it cause too much redness?

Redness of the beet hue I imagine. It would be sooo painful, too. Tamar, if you've ever had your legs waxed how could you even ask that question? blink.gif wink.gif
Tamar G
QUOTE (Daisy @ May 4 2005, 02:29 PM)
QUOTE (Tamar G @ May 4 2005, 08:44 AM)
can men get their faces waxed or would it cause too much redness?

Redness of the beet hue I imagine. It would be sooo painful, too. Tamar, if you've ever had your legs waxed how could you even ask that question? blink.gif wink.gif

never had my legs waxed, and other places I have waxed (which I would think would be pretty darn high on the sensitive scale) aren't so bad- it pinches and then it's over.

I'm not suggesting this for you Ron, I'm just curious as to why this has never been a possibility for men. Don't women get their lips and eyebrows waxed without any problems?
Wilfrid
QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ May 4 2005, 07:37 AM)
Shaving. I hate it. Right now it feels like someone took a power sander to my neck.

I assume you've tried obvious strategies like using an oil before applying soap?
omnivorette
Problem is with waxing, the hair has to grow for a while in order for there to be something for the wax to grab onto.

What about Nair for the face? That would make sense, right?
StephanieL
@#$#@ jaw still aching, and work is hell. I wish I had some things to put in the "Reasons to be Cheerful" thread to balance all the Annoyance postings I've done lately.
flyfish
QUOTE (omnivorette @ May 4 2005, 10:48 AM)
Problem is with waxing, the hair has to grow for a while in order for there to be something for the wax to grab onto.

What about Nair for the face? That would make sense, right?

Nads

(Name is apparently less funny in Australia)

There is a section on their site "For Men".

Disclaimer: never used this

Fly
winesonoma
Fuckin rain angry.gif
Daisy
It is absolutely freezing in my office. This is a 24/7/365 condition but insult was added to injury when I moved downstairs several months ago and discovered that my new desk sits directly under an a/c vent. The a/c was turned on several weeks ago. Why, you may ask, when yesterday morning it was 45 F? When I complained about the chill to the office manager she gave me a portable heater. She has them on hand which leads me to believe the thermostat is turned too low for almost everyone. Well, my feet are nice and toasty but I'm still wearing a coat inside. angry.gif
bloviatrix
I seem to be coming down with yet another cold. angry.gif
mongo_jones
students who did not drop their papers off by the deadline and a full day later haven't yet bothered to let their professor know if they're going to (grades for the semester are due tomorrow). i am tempted to give them an "f" as my syllabus says i will in such circumstances. but then i recall my own history with deadlines.

GG Mora
New front & rear brakes for the Subaru – calipers, rotors and everything: $950. That's $950 I won't be spending on perennials this spring.
g.johnson
QUOTE (mongo_jones @ May 4 2005, 02:46 PM)
students who did not drop their papers off by the deadline and a full day later haven't yet bothered to let their professor know if they're going to (grades for the semester are due tomorrow). i am tempted to give them an "f" as my syllabus says i will in such circumstances. but then i recall my own history with deadlines.

You and Yvonne should have "Things I explicitly told my students that they should not do that the fuckwits subsequently did" thread where you could compare notes.
StephanieL
QUOTE (flyfish @ May 4 2005, 12:35 PM)
QUOTE (omnivorette @ May 4 2005, 10:48 AM)
Problem is with waxing, the hair has to grow for a while in order for there to be something for the wax to grab onto.

What about Nair for the face?  That would make sense, right?

Nads

(Name is apparently less funny in Australia)

There is a section on their site "For Men".

Disclaimer: never used this

Fly

I think you'll like Stomp Tokyo's snarky take on it.

Nads Infomercial
Adam
QUOTE (flyfish @ May 2 2005, 02:35 PM)
QUOTE (omnivorette @ May 4 2005, 10:48 AM)
Problem is with waxing, the hair has to grow for a while in order for there to be something for the wax to grab onto.

What about Nair for the face?  That would make sense, right?

Nads

(Name is apparently less funny in Australia)

There is a section on their site "For Men".

Disclaimer: never used this

Fly

If you mean scrotum/testicles, then yes it means the same thing.
NeroW
Do NOT use Nads, whatever you do. Go to a professional.
Orik
QUOTE (akiko @ Apr 18 2005, 05:50 AM)
QUOTE
Does someone have a gun I can borrow to get rid of those squirrels? I've been considerting a stakeout to find who is giving them nuts... maybe the gun would be handy there too. 


I've been enjoying the fact that the tree outside my window has started to bud (that and the trees being in blossom in London makes me think that the weather might be about to get nicer - wishful thinking, I know). And I was horrified to see this morning that a squirrel was busily running from branch to branch EATING ALL THE LEAF BUDS!!! I didn't know they did that. What pests, if that tree looks anything less than its usual magnificent green self this summer, I am going to have to look into squirrel poison ninja.gif

The neighbor just set up an electric fence (after they ate all the buds off his rose bushes), which means we get twice as many visits. I think this means we'll have to set one up too - I wonder what they would think if they knew they've started an arms race.

But we are closing in on whoever is feeding them. The super (constantly intoxicated guy from down the block, who worries me when he's handling power tools), identified him as being someone from the next building.
akiko
QUOTE
But we are closing in on whoever is feeding them. The super (constantly intoxicated guy from down the block, who worries me when he's handling power tools), identified him as being someone from the next building.


In the park behind our flat we have an enormous flock of pigeons that fly in circles every morning and finally settle at the west end of the green. I've finally figured out why, there is a man who comes and feeds them HUGE bags of bread every morning at like 8:00. I want to tell him to STOP THIS doesn't he know that pigeons are just rats with wings?

Except that he is this little old man who always comes immaculately dressed and I have to wonder about all the trouble he's gone through to get bread and come to the little park to feed the pigeons and my imagination goes into overdrive about how this may be his one pleasure of the day....

So I just watch him from our balcony while I'm drinking my coffee feeling like a wimp because I can't say anything.
NeroW
Friends who are cheating on other friends who use your building as a rendezvous point because they know that you are the soul of discretion.

With no thought as to the kind of position they are putting you in.
MyKong
Tell them you have no interest in what they do but please don't use your building to do whatever it is... it is only fair to you. Sorry.
omnivorette
I can't think of a single place to go dancing where we actually want to go.
Steven Dilley
QUOTE (omnivorette @ May 6 2005, 01:58 PM)
I can't think of a single place to go dancing where we actually want to go.

You strike me as a bit of a Rainbow Room gal. Well, at least when it was in its prime.

Eyebrows likes to dance, eh?
omnivorette
Oh oh oh. Well yes of course there's the Rainbow Room kind of dancing, and yes I love that more than anything. The Cotton Club still has that kind of evening on Mondays. But I was talking about shaking my booty kind of dancing. The Copacabana is a possiblity. Look at the dress code:

Dress to impress! Dress Jeans OK, if worn fashionably
(no baggies). NO Sneakers or Boots. Buttoned-Down Long Sleeve Collared Shirts. No Gold Chains for Gentlemen.
Accepted Age for Admission: 21 and Over. Must Have Official State ID or Passport

Eyebrows will certainly shake his booty with me, but cannot ballroom or salsa to save his life.
Tamar G

How about Belle Epoque just south of union square? I've never been on a Friday night but I think Fridays are tango.
omnivorette
Yes I've been there a few times on salsa nights...I like it. But that's not the kind of thing I meant for this time.

What I really want is what the Roxy was in the 80s...sigh.

I love partner dancing of all kinds...but Eyebrows doesn't enjoy it...so we want to go non-partner dancing.
tanabutler
Canon promised me a brand-new camera to replace the lemon they sold me that's been in the shop three times.

It arrived yesterday. "Refurbished."

I'm going to court and the BBB.
GG Mora
Tana, that suck-uck-ucks.
JPW
The twin incompetencies of my HR department and my HMO.
Kikujiro
Wimbledon. Why?
monkeymay
Ugh. All the crackheads want to talk to me today.
clb
QUOTE (Kikujiro @ May 9 2005, 06:15 PM)
Wimbledon. Why?

The suburb? The tournament? Both seem fairly pointless to me, but I thought I'd check...

clb
mongo_jones
the football team?
flyfish
The movie?
Ron Johnson
QUOTE (monkeymay @ May 9 2005, 12:20 PM)
Ugh. All the crackheads want to talk to me today.

How did my clients get your number?

omnivorette
I think it was that "for a good time call Ron" you wrote in your bourbon haze over the weekend...
Ron Johnson
QUOTE (omnivorette @ May 9 2005, 03:34 PM)
I think it was that "for a good time call Ron" you wrote in your bourbon haze over the weekend...

Not my number, her number.
monkeymay
QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ May 9 2005, 12:15 PM)
QUOTE (monkeymay @ May 9 2005, 12:20 PM)
Ugh. All the crackheads want to talk to me today.

How did my clients get your number?

biggrin.gif Don't know but please tell them to stop calling

Somedays it's so hard down here. I have seen some truly extraordinary images of life on the streets. Open hardcore drug usage. Public defecation. People having sex in refrigerator boxes. Around the corner from the cafe is a lingerie shop with manequins outfitted in all sorts of frivolous underthings. The other morning as I was heading into work, I saw a man kneeling in front of the display window, licking it. On the other side directly in front was the bottom half of a torso clad in a g-string. The guy was going down on a mannequin through the window.
When I stopped and asked what he was doing, he looked at me very honestly and said,"it's been a long time since I had any." I said "me too brother" and went on my way...
Kikujiro
QUOTE (clb @ May 9 2005, 06:32 PM)
QUOTE (Kikujiro @ May 9 2005, 06:15 PM)
Wimbledon. Why?

The suburb? The tournament? Both seem fairly pointless to me, but I thought I'd check...

The suburb. (And by association everything else.)
winesonoma
You people live in a weird place.
Robert Schonfeld
QUOTE (monkeymay @ May 9 2005, 04:07 PM)
Around the corner from the cafe is a lingerie shop with manequins outfitted in all sorts of frivolous underthings. The other morning as I was heading into work, I saw a man kneeling in front of the display window, licking it. On the other side directly in front was the bottom half of a torso clad in a g-string. The guy was going down on a mannequin through the window.
When I stopped and asked what he was doing, he looked at me very honestly and said,"it's been a long time since I had any." I said "me too brother" and went on my way...

A strong image, well-described. You can't make this stuff up.
hollywood
QUOTE (Robert Schonfeld @ May 9 2005, 04:02 PM)
QUOTE (monkeymay @ May 9 2005, 04:07 PM)
Around the corner from the cafe is a lingerie shop with manequins outfitted in all sorts of frivolous underthings. The other morning as I was heading into work, I saw a man kneeling in front of the display window, licking it. On the other side directly in front was the bottom half of a torso clad in a g-string. The guy was going down on a mannequin  through the window.
When I stopped and asked what he was doing, he looked at me very honestly and said,"it's been a long time since I had any." I said "me too brother" and went on my way...

A strong image, well-described. You can't make this stuff up.

I'm thinking this should have been posted under the surrealism of everyday (well, hopefully not everyday) life.
macrosan
QUOTE (mongo_jones @ May 9 2005, 08:03 PM)
the football team?

Not any more. They're the MK Dons now laugh.gif
NeroW
There are two squirrels having sex in the yard right next to where I am trying to tan. Do they have no shame? They sound like monkeys.
Daisy
A co-worker has his toddler, who is reciting her ABCs, on the speaker phone.
Ron Johnson
QUOTE (Daisy @ May 10 2005, 03:46 PM)
A co-worker has his toddler, who is reciting her ABCs, on the speaker phone.

laugh.gif laugh.gif
NeroW
QUOTE (Ron Johnson @ May 10 2005, 08:59 PM)
QUOTE (Daisy @ May 10 2005, 03:46 PM)
A co-worker has his toddler, who is reciting her ABCs, on the speaker phone.

laugh.gif laugh.gif

I could start a whole thread about this, but I'm not going to! wink.gif
srhcb
It annoys me that this Topic has more posts than "Reasons To Be Cheerful" .

SB angry.gif (posted two messages on the subject there)
Daisy
Security, or rather the lack thereof, at the Time Warner Center. I had actually thought on previous vists to Cafe Grey that the vast lobby spaces full of unsuspecting out of towners are a mugger's paradise. The other night as we were leaving Per Se my party was dogged down four flights of escalator by someone who was obviously,obviously a pickpocket. He was practically inside my coat with me at one point. I observed him, after his lack of success with us, reenter the building and sprint up the escalator for what I assumed to be another pass at someone's wallet.
Blondie
Daisy, did you notify security?
Daisy
There was none visible and I was dead on my feet and not about to search them out. I have noticed security people in the TWC in the past, usually parked in twos in the center of the lobbies on various floors.
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