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STATS!!! Oh no she said stats! *laying on the floor twitching as memory stats class torments her*
Yeah, that. I'll take advanced engineering mathematics any day over stats...Which is why I can't remember the percentages that fit under the normal curve.
I find the oft-repeated "I don't care what other people think" quite intriguing, because it begs a revealing test question: since you claim that you "don't care what other people's perceptions of you are", do you therefore pass gas in public? Say, during dinner at a nice quiet restaurant? On the elevator at work? During prayer at church? Or do you refrain from doing so because of what people might perceive about you?
The bottom line: *of course* perceptions matter, and all people with control of their mental and/or physical faculties care, at some level, what people's perceptions are.
I don't even know where to begin with this post. Its so absolutely ridiculous to me. I have only one philosophy and that is to treat people how I want to be treated. Do I want to get on an elevator and hear a symphony of farts from the people on there, no. Same for your other "examples". The way you choose to carry yourself has nothing to do with caring about what others think. Its more influenced by the way you're raised. So if you're taught that farting in the elevator is rude, you won't do it. Anyway, choosing to be courteous to others doesn't mean you care what they think. I personally do not like rude people, so if someone holds the door open for me I say thank you, not because I care what they think but because its the right thing to do. Your example confuses doing the right thing with caring what others think.
Yes, it is 2008 but I still think there is a small taboo about a guy with long hair.
I do double takes these days when I see a guy with long hair too, even though I had long hair back in the early 90s (and a goatee). It's 2008, not 1988 ... guys with long hair look as odd to me as guys who were sporting bell bottoms and elvis sideburns in the late 80s did. I don't know when long hair went out of fashion, but think about it ... when was the last time you have seen a guy with truly long hair, like past the shoulders? People are probably looking at you oddly not because you are violating some kind of taboo .. they're probably just thinking -- wow, it's been ages. If you like it and your wife like it, cool... party on.
I do double takes these days when I see a guy with long hair too, even though I had long hair back in the early 90s (and a goatee). It's 2008, not 1988 ... guys with long hair look as odd to me as guys who were sporting bell bottoms and elvis sideburns in the late 80s did. I don't know when long hair went out of fashion, but think about it ... when was the last time you have seen a guy with truly long hair, like past the shoulders? People are probably looking at you oddly not because you are violating some kind of taboo .. they're probably just thinking -- wow, it's been ages. If you like it and your wife like it, cool... party on.
It's time for long hair for men to come back in style. Btw there are lots of men with long hair. But I live in LA, the land of anything goes.
Sheesh guys...it's only hair! Who cares?? If Chow likes it what does it matter?
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