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.
Sounds like a contagious psychosis. Similar in its communicabilty to the current out break of irrational psychotic hated among segments of the political progressives.
I am not a troll. Just because you disagree with me on something doesn’t automatically make me a troll. Grow up.
catch his act in the thread about the kid that started the fire.
this guy is all liberals’ stereotypes and fake news headlines.
I see that now.
Deeply saddened.
Here's a young woman who set up her own mermaid business:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27gxQ7SyRW4
The tails are 30 - 65 lbs.
If they looked like Daryl Hannah in Splash I’d say let them be as crazy as they want to be.......
I was trying to figure out what you were talking about right up to “end-zone.”
Why does Caitlin wear a seashell brassiere?
Because she’s too big for a B shell and too small for a ..... zzzzzzzzzz
Hey whoa!
You may not be a troll, but I can smell your noob goodness over the fishy mermaid aroma.
Welcome to Free Republic!
Yeas, football is rather offputting when couched in those terms.
Lighten up, comrade. They’re no threat to western civilization.
Anyway, the animal rights wackos have put poor old Orca the Killer Whale out of a job.
At least these mermaids can form a union and fight back. ;-)
I love the smell of ozone in the morning.
Retread. Tres obvious.
So, is mermaid an occupation? If so what’s the pay like?
If not a job it must be the next letter in the LGBTQFUALLTOHECK.
” say we throw a rubber suit on them from the waist down release them into the wild at low tide and then...sit back and watch.”
I suspect we’d be seeing blue lips and chattering teeth at this time o year.
A great bit of preserved Old Florida!
Cypress Gardens and Silver Springs
Shell roads
US 19, 41, 27, 441,98,90,1,301
All the old concrete clickety clack US highways to come and go into Florida
Tourist courts
Orange Stands And Coconut Indian heads
The panhandle was wilderness outside PCB and Pensacola Beach and Fort Walton
No Mouse
Orlando had 360,000 people
Original sunshine skyway steel bridge was two lane
Pensacola hwy 90 was two lane
Most of Florida still spoke southern
Orange groves as far north as Gainesville
Coppertone billboards
A long gone but good era of Florida I preferred
Only high rises were Miami Beach
The Don Cesar was a stand alone landmark
Stop picking on Marco Rubio!
No, they’re not violent. They’re just insane. Therefore they do not feel bound by the rules of sane behavior, which means they can at any moment act insanely and harm someone. They should be locked up until they are cured of their delusions and brought back to reality.
Maybe it’s just a more individualized form of insanity rather than the collective madness of football. Or maybe the guys running around in spandex are doing it because they’re paid oodles of money to do it, which is a logical motive, rather than the insane delusion that one is a mythical sea creature.
The latter are mentally ill and part of their delusion is that they don’t realize it. They need to be brought back to reality before the delusion turns destructive.
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