Posted on 01/19/2017 6:50:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
A group of women have quit their jobs to become permanent mermaids.
A community of people in Seattle, Washington, have decided to switch their life on land to live like the sea beings under water permanently, despite being "laughed" at for their lifelong ambition as a child.
Caitlin Nielsen - who was a biology graduate - has put her plan into action as she has set up a workshop where she handcrafts silicone tails, which she feels "awkward" when she isn't wearing the attachment.
Speaking to The Mirror Online, the 32-year-old said: "When I was in kindergarten and the teacher asked everyone to go around and say what they wanted to be when they grew up, I said 'a mermaid.'
"Everyone laughed at me and now here I am - I'm a mermaid. I'm literally a real life mermaid.
"Ever since I saw Disney's 'Little Mermaid' when I was very young and I also watched the movie 'Splash' with Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah.
"Both of my parents are marine biologists, so I grew up knowing a lot about the oceans, spending a lot of time at the sea shores and really feeling like I was meant to be in the ocean, so when I saw mermaid movies it sort of resonated with me.
"I do feel like my tail is a part of me, and I do actually feel like it is a prosthetic limb. I sometimes joke that I wear a prosthetic because I was born with a terrible birth defect - which is legs. When my tail is off I feel a little bit awkward. Suddenly I have legs and I don't know what to do with them. I feel extremely clumsy."
Caitlin isn't the only person to switch lifestyle as her friends Ed Brown, Tessie LaMourea and Morgan Caldwell have claimed they are the mystical creature.
I went to college with a girl who went to work for Weeki Wachee Springs. She was very athletic and also a cheerleader.
We live in the age of the enablers of the mentally disordered.
I’d throw ‘em back
‘cept maybe the one on the right. Might have to fillet her.
Looney Tunes has openings for those who think that they are a mermaid.....
Okay.. Now you’re a Mermaid! Good for you. And the next step is to do ...what?
Merman...Mer-MAN
This freak show should be illegal. Maybe it will be tomorrow after the inauguration
drown, I would wager. those tails are more decorative than functional.
I want to know if the “tails” really work. Can these women swim faster when wearing them?
I’ve met a few mermaids from there as well. Very athletic and very nice young ladies. None of them believed they were mermaids, though. They all appeared quite sane.
uh, what sort of law would you write for that one?
1. Ich weiß nicht
was soll es bedeuten
daß ich so traurig bin;
ein Märchen aus uralten Zeiten
das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Die Luft ist kühl
und es dunkelt
und ruhig fließet der Rhein;
der Gipfel des Berges
funkelt im Abendsonnenschein.
2. Die schönste Jungfrau sitzet
dort oben wunderbar
ihr goldnes Geschmeide blitzet
sie kämmt ihr goldenes Haar.
Sie kämmt es mit goldenem Kamme
und singt ein Lied dabei;
das hat eine wundersame
gewaltige Melodei.
3. Den Schiffer im kleinen Schiffe
ergreift es mit wildem Weh;
er schaut nicht die Felsenriffe
er schaut nur hinauf in die Höh.
Ich glaube
die Wellen verschlingen
am Ende Schiffer und Kahn;
und das hat mit ihrem Singen
die Lorelei getan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdOUWbYnsFA
nicely done. the nfl has indeed become much more spectacle than sport.
if FR had a “like” button, I’d click it.
A law enforcing the kinds of clothes you can wear. That would solve a multitude of other societal problems too
The two on the right don’t look too bad. At least they’re smiling. The two on the left look kind of scary.
ah. even more insane than I anticipated.
uh, what sort of punishment would you recommend for violating this clothing law? you would you want that clothing law to be state or federal?
You and your unassailable, factual comments can just shut the heck up!
They have no place in this thread about a group of women mermaids, who may be hot and/or scantily clad.
This girl was pretty and not large but there is a photo of her in the annual, holding a basketball player in her arms. He was not one of the big ones tho.
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