<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">What's wrong with a nose piercing? That's tame.</span><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Y'all come off as a bunch of reactionaries.</div>will</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Piercings don't disgust me at all. Mostly I find them funny - different generations have to do stupid things to show that they are not like the oldies. Yeah, we did stupid things too - swallowing goldfish, stuffing phone booths, etc. And some I find really sad - these people are often desperate to be noticed and deemed different from the rest, and then they just do what all the others are doing - conforming to nonconformity in the same old ways. Trying too hard.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I repeat my idea: if you want to be, or at least seem to be, really different, don't do anything to your body at all, like the women in the Aveeno ads - no visible makeup at all - very attractive. Or at the other end: asymmetrical facial hair. And for women: shaved heads. But that's not new. Now I do have to admit a slight disgust with arm pit hair - leg hair not so bad. I'll have to think some more about what women just won't do to attract people, but I think nobody will ever have an answer to that. OK, women, now attack!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Spike, just stare at them for a few seconds and then shake your head sadly. They will love you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:33 AM, Will Steinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">What's wrong with a nose piercing? That's tame.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Y'all come off as a bunch of reactionaries. Do you really forget what it was like to have older adults naysay the trends you were taking part in, only to have those trends become the mainstream?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The world's greatest scientific geniuses, from Newton to Einstein, were spiritual people. Science itself emerged from philosophy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Yet the scientific community today is often obsessed with believing their models are reality, even though the only constant this whole time has been the disproving of past models.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Maybe that's why you guys only produced a Hawking, not a Newton or Einstein. Thank god for the youth.</div></div>
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