First:
Did you watch Survivor last night? If so, please tell me your thoughts. I loved it but it made me a wee bit uncomfortable. The whole racial thing threw me off. Let me ask you this: If I’m white (which I am), is it wrong for me to cheer for the “White” team?? I’m so confused. My un-PC Spidey Sense was going bonkers.
Second:
The Worst School Picture Contest 2006 is going to be held next Friday. That’s means you have one week to dig out your most abominable school picture and email it to me. I’m looking for bad hair, tall hair, feathered hair, spiked hair, blue hair…whatever you got. This year I have a few rules.
1) It has to be a school picture K-12
2) It has to be of you
3) It has to be sent to me no later than Thursday 9/21
4) Focus : Hair
There will be a vote on Friday that will last over the weekend - but I get the final say. Oh yes, I do. And there will be a prize. I haven’t decided on the prize yet but I’m thinking about a $20 amazon gift certificate and a bottle of Rave hairspray. How else could you achieve hair like this?
Yes, that’s me and all my tall hair. Is that a rose growing out of my nose?
You can find my email address up at the top by clicking the word “Mailbox”.
And third:
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Ah drat! My stinking scanner is down! I have a 9th grade photo I like to call “A Very Unfortunate Perm”.
I would have been sooo jealous of that hair in 1990! My hair wouldn’t stay big no matter how hard I tried. It was to fine and heavy so it ws always flat on top and curly on the bottom.
Re: Survivor, I agree. Not too sure about the racial slant (no offense to Puka) It’s like now they all feel like they are representing their people - no pressure there! Isn’t it bad enough they have to starve and smell bad for 39 days? And the girl who let the chicken out? Someone shoulda slapped her. Can’t wait for next Thursday!
Love the rose picture. The hair looks great!
Stinker you! Always hiding your face! So…um.. you’re a rose?
As for Survivor… I couldn’t watch it. Society has come so far & they pull that? For ratings? I know this is horrid to say, but I hope it backfires on them. I used to lurve Survivor! Now I’m just sad.
CRAP! My scanner isn’t working but I have ummm… Rave hair, too. Or was mine White Rain? I remember standing there with the can (of aerosol … you couldn’t get that look with the spritz stuff!) and using the hair dryer.
Ah yes… the 80s.
I’m hoping to get the picture in to you soon! Oh I’ve got some good ones…… :rofl:
I can’t wait to vote!
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Š from da Cool Raggedy one
I don’t have one to conribute..we wore our hair long,
straight, parted down the middle..(I am no fun)
No poofy, No spikes, No colors..boring…
Have a wonderful day!
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Oh. My. God. That. Hair.
Momma K, I think I’m inlove with you!
I loved “Survivor” as usual. But they all look like the same people that always play…..only now they segregated the group???!!! I think you can cheer anyone on and don’t feel weird about it.
About Survivor - I’m wondering how long the segregation will really last… you know how much they “mix things up” around there. I found myself rooting for the hot white guy … not because he’s white, but because he’s a hottie! :giggle:
I think they’re all the same “type cast” as previous seasons… you got the weirdos and whino’s and pot heads and jocks. It’s still very entertaining, I must say!
Shoot! I just brought back all my high school photo albums, but of course, I don’t have any SCHOOL pictures of myself- only candids. And I swear, I’ve got the HIGHEST hair in some you’ve ever seen! I might send you one anyway, just because… :giggle:
Oh my gosh!! How long did it take you to get that look together every morning?
I traveled through Europe with my sister and her AquaNet in 1990. I gag whenever I see that stuff around. Ghastly!
If the focus were on eyebrows, I’d have that one for sure. Ahh, those early days with the tweezers!!
Are you really white? I thought Survivor was-ah, strange. The interesting thing is that, apparently, we tend to stereotype ourselves- or at least that’s what I was seeing as the different groups talked about themselves.
Forget reading, focus on those horse pants. Has Miz S started writing about her vajayjay at Bloggy Gossip? If yes, I’ll go over there. Get back to me on that and your color, please.
I don’t have cable so I can’t comment on Survivor. It seems in very poor taste.
I WAS bad hair in the 80’s! Pictrues to come.
Oh my - the pictures I will have to search out!
My parents disallowed BIG hair on me and gave me monstrous short ‘do’s’that were hideous.
My first perm was really quite atrocious and I had no business walking around afterwards with any sense of pride….
Let me search the coffers of doom to find something haunting….
We don’t have cable either, but Survivor is on “regular” tv. We watch it regularly. As for the hair, for me girls, it was all Aqua Net. You could spray it, and your hair wouldn’t move no matter how windy it was. But did any of you ever get caught in the rain with your hair well-coated with hairspray? And it’s running down your face and burning your eyes, and you have a slick film of hairspray now coating your FACE, and did I mention how bad it tastes?! Oh, memories!
Can I have a flower growing out of my face, too?
You got nothin’ on the girls in L.A. or Jersey. They could get their hair TWICE that high. After a trip to L.A., it completely turned me off from even attempting it.
I think I already GAVE you my worst picture last year. Other than that one, I was a pretty cute child.
*sigh - tosses hair*
Eh-hem. Your nose was blossoming.
I have a photo where my bangs are very crooked. How would I look with a flower on my face?
Anyway, I put a little post up. I wasn’t going to announce it, but you specifically asked me to tell you when I post, so I am. : )
Oh good Lord, if that’s your picture, you must’ve graduated in the eighties or nineties, making you MUCH younger than I thought. No particular reason, except I normally assume people are my age (older than dirt) until I find out differently. I’m sure you were cute as a button under that rose!
On Survivor. When I first heard about the racial thing, I thought it was an awful idea as I posted here . However, now that I have watched it, I didn’t think it was such a big deal. They have divided along gender and age lines already, and no one make a big stink about that. It’s just arbitrary and doesn’t really matter. What I thought was really interesting was that I couldn’t always tell which team people belonged to, which just goes to show how tricky it is to define race. It was also interesting that on the ‘Asian’ team, one of the members even has Hawaiian ancestry, which is definitely not in Asia. It reminded me of when I went to visit the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Apparently they had like 1000 racial designations in people’s passbooks under Apartheid and one person’s ‘race’ could change from year to year depending on who was filling out the forms.
So I didn’t find Survivor nearly as offensive as I thought I would. I mean, it’s just a tv show; it’s not like people are being denied human rights on the basis of their skin colour or hair texture. And I really doubt that the results of the team challenges will be extrapolated to real life. (As in, “black people can’t do puzzles” or some shit like that.)
That photo reminds me of the painting The Son of Man (as seen in the Thomas Crown Affair).
my school pics have gone to that far off place where all good things go that get lost in the hubbub of moving.
I am uncomfortable with the new format for suvivor this year.
I watched Survivor, and I loved it. When I found out about the racial separation of the tribes, I didn’t really see anything wrong with it. Why not split the teams up according to race, when the very nature of a tribe is based on unification of people according to a specific trait or characteristic. There’s a difference between embracing racial identification and being racist. I think Survivor is just trying to explore it on a social level.
Besides, Jeff Probst was on The View and said later in the show they will jumble up the contestants anyway. They’d have to, once so many people get voted off.
And as far as the pictures go: My worst pic is of myself in 5th grade. My mom was obsessed with having my hair French braided. For that picture she also pulled my bangs back into my hair and I look like a boy because of it! Maybe I’ll email it to you anyway!
1. Yes! It’s okay! Mark Burnett has complained for years that Americans are to obsessed with race and political correctness. That he is not aware of it in Australia where he comes from. Americans have complained to him that he does not have enough minorities in survivor. So this is what he did to appease. I agree with the black woman who spoke sunday night. This is awesome! It really gives different minorities a chance to show the world that the comments people make, like “black people can’t swim” and other racial slurs. I’m calling them slurs, my opinion. Aren’t true.
I’m hoping it shows the whole world see’s, we are all the same, just different colors of skin. As Burnett has said over the years. He’s challenging Americans to see this.
So yes it’s okay to go for which ever tribe you want! I personally like the asian tribe, I’m going for them.
2. No way, course we are talking 30 odd years ago for me!
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Re: Survivor - I’ve never seen it and don’t plan to start now. It’s still baseball season, after all!
Thank heavens I don’t think that any of my school pictures still exist. My parents weren’t big on buying them (no money and six kids will do that). I’ll just enjoy everyone else’s bad hair and try to put my own out of memory!
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