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Sep. 13th, 2005 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickIf I were a less conceited certain person, I would be more distressed by the fact that when I decide that I'd like to read about the new gay cowboy movie and I hit up google for information, the screen of results that appeareth before mine eyen looketh thusly...
I want to read about it, and voila, there it is to be read about. (My life works like this a lot of the time. Like I said, it's something I would worry about if I were less certain of the unbearable rightness of being. :)
Also, mostly for the chicks in the audience, it's time for a little audience participation...
Do you, personally, shave your armpits and/or legs? What can you tell me (No googling, please. I already googled. I'm up to speed. I want to see if you're up to speed.) about why most women in the United States shave these areas and when they started doing so?
*sigh* And yeah, I'll participate.
I shave my pits when I'm tired of looking at the fur and/or when I might be exposing them to other people via tanktops and similar. I shave my legs to the knee if other people are going to see them, mostly because I have thick, dark, highly-visible hair on my shins and I don't really want more people asking me if I'm a lesbian than already do. (It's not something I expect people to ask unless they have an actual need-to-know. If you're asking with no intention of inviting me to bed depending on my answer, you shouldn't be asking.) If you're a very, very good friend and you ask quite nicely, I'll shave from my feet to my bellybutton... but you have to ask very nicely indeed. Also, in the wintertime, I don't shave my legs. Wintertime is from about the end of October to when I decide to start wearing shorts.
Why are we talking about this? Because I want a lovely red horse trailer. Isn't it cute? It's exactly the sort of horse trailer I want to have. Now, people who know me fairly well in real life are up to speed on how utterly important having the right thing is for me. For the rest of you, the right thing is more important than you think it is. (If you're careful, your head won't explode around that concept. Recursion is not for novices...) Anyway, this trailer is the right thing and as such, it is an object of desire for me and I'm swimming in that most entertaining of the seven deadlies. (That'd be lust even though the mood is covetousness. I figured putting "lust" for the mood would give people the wrong idea. Odd as it may sound, this ain't a wank blog which is why I don't post about how much fun I'm having with my newelectric train set large rainbow-striped dildo. The seven deadlies, for our FSM and/or atheist readers, are Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Greed aka Covetousness, and Sloth. Collect 'em all!)
As a member of our advanced and modern civilization, I've mostly moved beyond the pleasures of the flesh these days. I generally blow my wad wholeheartedly adoring consumer goods and services. (Yes, entendre intended. It's all part of the quality handcrafted goodness you've come to expect from these posts.) The only reason I have any money at all is that usually, thinking about having said goods and services is sufficient to slake my lust [Er. Lust is slaked, right? I mean, I know thirst is slaked, but does it apply to lust as well? Well, m-w.com (I use them because they agree with me and because I can tolerate their website. I'm not using them because of the inherent authority they totally don't have. Also, they backed me up the other day on "gravid" meaning pregnant when it came up vis a vis the employee Ed.) says "satisfy, quench" in an archaic sense. They use the thirst example, but they also use a different one, so I guess you can use it for things other than thirst. I'd bet that I generally see sate more in regard to lust except that mostly I get blank looks from the illiterate with sate. Slake might work better. What the hell does Geoffry-bad-pirate-Barbossa say in PoTC when he's talking about lust? Anyone? Bueller? Aha! Yes. HE says "... slake our lust". Right. So it's okay then. Lust is slaked. Hollywood would never, ever steer me wrong because fantasy pirate movies are the definitive linguistic reference for these, our modern times.] so that I can gloss over the actual having part. My consumerist orgies are pretty inexpensive most of the time. Anyway, I am kind of hoping that if I wait a while, the urge will pass. Talking about shaving is what I'm doing while waiting for the urge to pass.
The preceding was atest of the emergency broadcast system demonstration of how my mind actually works. Usually I edit the hell out of things so that the posts are more readable for normal people, but just in case you wanted to see behind the curtain, now you have.
I want to read about it, and voila, there it is to be read about. (My life works like this a lot of the time. Like I said, it's something I would worry about if I were less certain of the unbearable rightness of being. :)
Also, mostly for the chicks in the audience, it's time for a little audience participation...
Do you, personally, shave your armpits and/or legs? What can you tell me (No googling, please. I already googled. I'm up to speed. I want to see if you're up to speed.) about why most women in the United States shave these areas and when they started doing so?
*sigh* And yeah, I'll participate.
I shave my pits when I'm tired of looking at the fur and/or when I might be exposing them to other people via tanktops and similar. I shave my legs to the knee if other people are going to see them, mostly because I have thick, dark, highly-visible hair on my shins and I don't really want more people asking me if I'm a lesbian than already do. (It's not something I expect people to ask unless they have an actual need-to-know. If you're asking with no intention of inviting me to bed depending on my answer, you shouldn't be asking.) If you're a very, very good friend and you ask quite nicely, I'll shave from my feet to my bellybutton... but you have to ask very nicely indeed. Also, in the wintertime, I don't shave my legs. Wintertime is from about the end of October to when I decide to start wearing shorts.
Why are we talking about this? Because I want a lovely red horse trailer. Isn't it cute? It's exactly the sort of horse trailer I want to have. Now, people who know me fairly well in real life are up to speed on how utterly important having the right thing is for me. For the rest of you, the right thing is more important than you think it is. (If you're careful, your head won't explode around that concept. Recursion is not for novices...) Anyway, this trailer is the right thing and as such, it is an object of desire for me and I'm swimming in that most entertaining of the seven deadlies. (That'd be lust even though the mood is covetousness. I figured putting "lust" for the mood would give people the wrong idea. Odd as it may sound, this ain't a wank blog which is why I don't post about how much fun I'm having with my new
As a member of our advanced and modern civilization, I've mostly moved beyond the pleasures of the flesh these days. I generally blow my wad wholeheartedly adoring consumer goods and services. (Yes, entendre intended. It's all part of the quality handcrafted goodness you've come to expect from these posts.) The only reason I have any money at all is that usually, thinking about having said goods and services is sufficient to slake my lust [Er. Lust is slaked, right? I mean, I know thirst is slaked, but does it apply to lust as well? Well, m-w.com (I use them because they agree with me and because I can tolerate their website. I'm not using them because of the inherent authority they totally don't have. Also, they backed me up the other day on "gravid" meaning pregnant when it came up vis a vis the employee Ed.) says "satisfy, quench" in an archaic sense. They use the thirst example, but they also use a different one, so I guess you can use it for things other than thirst. I'd bet that I generally see sate more in regard to lust except that mostly I get blank looks from the illiterate with sate. Slake might work better. What the hell does Geoffry-bad-pirate-Barbossa say in PoTC when he's talking about lust? Anyone? Bueller? Aha! Yes. HE says "... slake our lust". Right. So it's okay then. Lust is slaked. Hollywood would never, ever steer me wrong because fantasy pirate movies are the definitive linguistic reference for these, our modern times.] so that I can gloss over the actual having part. My consumerist orgies are pretty inexpensive most of the time. Anyway, I am kind of hoping that if I wait a while, the urge will pass. Talking about shaving is what I'm doing while waiting for the urge to pass.
The preceding was a
