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Then I must be living on Mars because here it is an obesity epidemic which of course does affect all people because of the health implications which directly affect our medical system.
Oh obesity is definitely still a serious issue, but I am getting the feeling the younger generation is taking a new attitude toward fitness. I could be wrong, maybe it is just the people with whom I choose to associate myself.
My parents are/were overweight and that has always bothered me. "There's starving children in Ethopia" they would say �� as they cleaned their plates. Watching them, I'm terrified of getting fat. I feel like people treat you as less of a person when you're fat.
Everywhere I go today I see people who look just terrible. It seems like they do everything they can to look unkempt, ugly, ungroomed, and generally nasty. Unlike people who have pride in their appearance, they seem to do everything they can to make themselves look terrible.
Chick on this link below for examples of what I am talking about:
I think it is a lack of feeling any self-worth. It is really sad when someone pays somebody to make them look worse. And to the poster that says you have a mental problem I say you are not the person with a mental problem. Tattoos, piercings all over the place, weird hair dos, etc. are the sign of a mental problem in my opinion. And I hope the men will buy a razor and use it to get all that filthy hair off their faces. Beards have been tested to have as many germs as a toilet seat. Yuk!
Everywhere I go today I see people who look just terrible. It seems like they do everything they can to look unkempt, ugly, ungroomed, and generally nasty. Unlike people who have pride in their appearance, they seem to do everything they can to make themselves look terrible.
Chick on this link below for examples of what I am talking about:
Where in god's name do you live, that "everywhere" you see people who look terrible? I don't see terrible-looking people where I live. And your mug-shot example simply isn't believable. I don't believe you see people who look like that "everywhere", unless for some reason, you're fixating on homeless people. But even they aren't "everywhere"; usually just in a few neighborhoods.
Some of those photos aren't even real; they're photo-shopped. This comes across like a complete troll post. Tell us where you live, and you might gain some credibility.
I agree that mugshots aren't the way to take a barometer of how the public grooms themselves. Most of the people in those mugshots had clear physical deformities, so it's not really fair to chastise them about grooming and dress.
BUT. I am interested, too, in why there is an overall decline in how people groom themselves in public. Fashions have always changed, so I'm not saying there's anything wrong with clothing styles or fashions.
What strikes me is how many people are clearly communicating "I don't care one whit - not one teeny tiny little bit - what anyone thinks about me. I won't even bother to wash my hair or change out of my pajamas."
This is happening to the age group that usually cares the very most about their appearance - jr. high schoolers thru mid 20's. Again, fashions change but the effort put in by this group of people has usually been consistent. They tried VERY hard to have very straight hair, to have their skirts as short as possible but still decent, whatever the fashion was.
I'm seeing girls going to high school literally just rolled out of bed and came to school. I don't think a brush was run through their hair, and they didn't change clothes from their pajamas and are wearing flip flops or slippers. I'm not sure - at all - that their teeth are brushed. ???
And then there's this trend I've seen where young women wear a big t-shirt and ratty panties. A big ugly faded stretched out t-shirt, and faded ratty panties. Oh and flip flops. What the hell? The first time I saw it - it was a group of 4 girls maybe 17 years old. I thought it was maybe a sorority hazing thing or something. But I've seen it other places, since then. And they think nothing of bending all the way over so you have the privilege to see their ratty underwear.
There's this other thing - young women pulling their hair back with an elastic or knit headband, and then tying it up in a "messy ponytail". Um, hello, that's the look for when you're about to wash your face, not when you go out in public. ;D haha
Amazing.
The huge t-shirt and panties sounds like a variation of the oversized baby-doll blouse + panty-style "shorts" fashion that began in Korea with the "Gangnam-style" video, and swept Europe for a couple of years. I saw a German tourist in her 50's, grey hair, wearing that, accompanied by her husband, a few years ago. The t-shirt version sounds like a cheap American adaptation.
I take the pajama trend, and I've seen men wear it, too, as the early 21st Century's version of the hippie 2nd-hand clothing fad, and then in the 90's, it was pre-torn and pre-faded jeans. There will always be those who flout the norms. It's just a phase. Much ado about nothing.
I could not care less how people look. I have my opinions about it, but I try to tend my own garden and mind my business. I like to look nice everyday and I doubt if I get a second thought from any of them.
Ughhhh. Don't remind me. I wear my shapewear approximately once or twice per year for certain events where I have to dress up a lot and I know there will be tons of pictures.
I know a woman who wears her Spanx every day.
Bless her heart!
Lol I couldn't imagine wearing Spanx every day... totally unnecessary!
Rather shallow in my opinion to make fun of people. I'm 64 yrs old and will not leave my house without makeup on but that's me. I don't judge people on looks. Not nice!
Then I must be living on Mars because here it is an obesity epidemic which of course does affect all people because of the health implications which directly affect our medical system.
An epidemic? Like Polio Like, we're going to be telling our Grandkids about it one day?
"How'd you get through it, Grandma?" "Oh, it was horrible Johnny. There was cheesecake and porkchops everywhere."
I got a kick out of the posters who said I should not be concerned and mind my own business. It is my business and yours too! If people do everything they can to look just terrible and it becomes a fad that shows our society is breaking down.
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The t-shirt version sounds like a cheap American adaptation.
