(Yes, but maybe if we talk about it enough, Tom will *want* to go and then I can get my toes done too. Um, my motives might be entirely selfish here.)
Yes, there is. There's a hurry, Xander. I'm dying...I may have as few as fifty years left.
Anya ,'Same Time, Same Place'
F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.
Cass - Sep 30, 2009 7:23:02 pm PDT #3822 of 12706
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Hil R. - Sep 30, 2009 7:30:34 pm PDT #3823 of 12706
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I was in middle school or so, I bought a book of graphs showing all kinds of weird statistics about the US population. One of them, which I for some reason quoted for years, was that 6% of rural heterosexual men wear nail polish.
(I cannot remember the title of this book, or any of the other statistics. The only other one that I remember was a poll of men, asking them, if they went into a public bathroom that had three stalls, and someone was in one of the end stalls, would they go to the middle one or the other end, and southern men were much more likely to say the middle one.)
(What was that book called? It had a yellow cover.)
Fred Pete - Oct 01, 2009 4:33:06 am PDT #3824 of 12706
Ann, that's a ferret.
All I said was I didn't think it was a Tom thing.
Depends on why it isn't a Tom thing. If he has any "men shouldn't get pedicures" attitude, counterexamples should help. Of course, it doesn't help if he has other reasons.
I get a monthly manicure and pedicure. Biting of fingernails has been down more than 95% since I started. No nail polish.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 01, 2009 5:36:19 am PDT #3825 of 12706
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I like having cuticles, and the idea of having them intentionally clipped and pushed back into the nailbed skeeves me out to no end. (It always annoyed me whan that happened naturally sculpting with clay, and I couldn't wait for them to grow back out again.)
juliana - Oct 01, 2009 6:43:02 am PDT #3826 of 12706
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
6% of rural heterosexual men wear nail polish
Assuming it's not the fabled Rural Heterosexual Drag Queen, I'm guessing that the (presumably) clear polish helps protect the nails when outside or performing hand-intensive tasks.
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2009 8:16:52 am PDT #3827 of 12706
I look more rad than Lutheranism
the fabled Rural Heterosexual Drag Queen
Beautiful plumage.
smonster - Oct 01, 2009 8:20:57 am PDT #3828 of 12706
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
the fabled Rural Heterosexual Drag Queen
Oy remembah when oy spotted one in Lizahd Lick, Noyth Carolinah in '92. Crikey! The boots on that sheila. What a lookah!
/poor croc hunter impression
javachik - Oct 01, 2009 9:40:09 am PDT #3829 of 12706
Our wings are not tired.
Matt, the better salons do not trim cuticles. Lotion is applied, and they're pushed back a bit, but they're not trimmed.
Incidentally, I received the worst mani-pedi ever today here in Barcelona, and it was a little under $100. A very expensive mistake. I will actually have to remove the nail polish on my toes it's so sloppy and lumpy, and re-apply myself. Thankfully the rest of the trip has been too good for me to care all that much. But still.
Jessica - Oct 01, 2009 9:40:50 am PDT #3830 of 12706
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Lotion is applied, and they're pushed back a bit, but they're not trimmed.
Mine are, but that's because I pick at them and my cuticles are pretty nasty.
Calli - Oct 01, 2009 9:43:17 am PDT #3831 of 12706
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I had a wonderful pedicure in Fira, Santorini. After days of tromping around Crete the pedicurist had to haul out actual power-tools to deal with my feet. But they felt wonderful afterward.