Posted on 07/08/2015 1:22:11 PM PDT by rickmichaels
In 1999, America’s sweetheart Julia Roberts attended the London premiere of her film Notting Hill, and for a split second lifted up her arm to wave to her fans, inadvertently revealing a dark undergrowth of hair. Roberts’ fuzzy pits triggered reactions of unspeakable disgust — a writer from Britain’s Mirror likened them to “two clumps of seaweed,” while The Independent ran a debate on the pros and cons of Roberts’ personal hygiene habits. Assessing the backlash, Roberts later said, “You would’ve thought I had a chinchilla under there.”
It was around the same time that I was undergoing the routine humiliation of middle school when I overheard some of the girls in my grade speaking in hushed tones about a fellow student who – to their shock and dismay – braided her armpit hair. By refusing to shave after the onset of puberty, she was breaking the law by adolescent girl social codes, and deemed particularly ripe for ostracization.
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Oh, well...seems par for the course for this thread!
Hubby’s cousin never shaved anything; pits, legs, anything. Her husband passed away a few years ago. When we visited her a couple weeks ago, I noticed she’s now shaving all the normal female areas (at least the visible ones). I told Hubby she must be ready to start dating again, and he said she mentioned she has started to date. I found that greatly amusing.
Far be it for me to rain on the mutual parade of you adolescent comic book readers and telephone heavy breathers. You really do deserve a thread of your own every once in while.
Please carry on!
Leni
" Far be it for me to rain on the mutual parade of you adolescent comic book readers and telephone heavy breathers. "
Actually, I'm over the hill. I may have ordered a pizza or two to someone's house back then, but never made an obscene call to anyone, anytime, anywhere. Comics, well not interested now, but used to enjoy "Archie." Quite innocuous.
There's a little bit of a kid in all of us. That's not a bad thing. Look at people who write stories, make cartoons, create theme parks and all kinds of imaginative things. They have the gift of seeing the world through a child's eyes. They bring joy and laughter to a hard and difficult world, just as did the escapist movies made during our country's Great Depression.
You really do deserve a thread of your own every once in while.
Please carry on!
Leni "
Laughter should be shared. I hope you change your mind. Read my tag line, if you would. There are times in a person's life when you treasure every opportunity for a good, clean laugh- especially about something with which just about all of us can identify.
May God give you peace, and joy, and laughter- for those are some of the gifts He gives us to help us in the struggle of our daily lives, and that of the world around us!
Sincerely,
Grateful
My objection to that photo on FR stands.
Leni
Now I know which photo you meant... When I first saw it, it took me several minutes and a few turns of my phone before I realized that it was an underarm!
Thank you, Leni, for the compliment, and may God bless you!
Grateful
Sophia has an excuse - she’s Italian.
“....fashion accessory...
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I get tired of all this artificiality such as false eyelashes and false boobs. If God had wanted us to have hair under our arms, God would have given us hair under our arms.
/sarc
Why not? Women have beer bellies, fart and burp in public, tats, and other manly characteristics. Might as well go for the hairy legs and pits.
I don’t care who you are...that’s funny right there
Praise is always good.
Hell, the later the better lol.
two bits.
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