Why the need to remark on someones personal appearance?

[WishfulSpirit]

Film society theater

Was it the Bluebird or the Filmore?

from the Molsacks and Leaderal area near Horsey Stadium. Always great to see another denizen of the Mile High City, even if you were just passing through. Or do you live here? We should find Mr. Hero and go play on the 15 + 1 Street Mall or something.

[EricKei]

"Shin" can mean several things depending on the kanji character used, but most commonly, "true" or "dead" -- The movie poster spells it out phonetically rather than using kanji, so I'm fairly certain that they're using it to mean "The One Real/True Gojira" (implying "The True King of the Monsters") in this case The latter would only make sense if they made a zombie kaiju out of him/her/it...which would actually be kinda awesome. Imagine how much harder the Big G would be to take out as an undead...

[Valentinian]

I got a bunch of streaks put in my hair yesterday... bright, BRIGHT red. The hairdressers were delighted that someone was doing, quote, "something fun with their hair for a change! Everyone just does blonde or light brown, it's boring."

[Lace Neil Singer]

My hair is short, bright red, with two blonde streaks in front. I often get customers commenting on my hair, but only in a positive way.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Off Topic:

There's a new Godzilla movie out, called ShinGodzilla. I forget what shin means in Japanese. My hubby went and saw it in Denver, at some kind of film society's theater. IIRC* its made by Toho!

*which is dubious, since 4 concussions, and a mini-stroke, have made it worse and worse. :-(

If it's a Godzilla movie, it is either made by or has approval from Toho.

And yes, Shin Godzilla is made by Toho.

[paxillated]

Off Topic:

There's a new Godzilla movie out, called ShinGodzilla. I forget what shin means in Japanese. My hubby went and saw it in Denver, at some kind of film society's theater. IIRC* its made by Toho!

*which is dubious, since 4 concussions, and a mini-stroke, have made it worse and worse. :-(

[Slave to the Phone]

Updates since I last posted...I was able to "positively" comment on someone's appearance today. One of my clients had the most ugly ever (to me) tattoo on his neck and side of his face. As we were doing the interview, he mentioned that it was new* and asked how I liked it. I looked him over and then said "Dude, if that is the look you are going for...you totally rock it."

Your hair sounds beautiful, AyreBiskits. I would be a silent admirer because I don't know you personally, but I certainly would tell my sweetie and my friends about the lady I saw with the amazing hair.

As an aside...earl, I looked at your link. I'm an old woman and I still had to fan myself after looking at the snapshots. Of course you just watched them for the genre. I'm a fan of grade B movies myself, but I like the ones that have monsters stomping cities better. I can watch them while listening to Godzilla


*which I could tell by the fresh scabs. That he scratched all the time he was in my cube Lots of bleach wipes were used after he left my cube.

[AyreBiskits]

i've been dying my hair blue for 2 years now and i've never had anybody say anything bad about it. you can't miss it, long wavy royal blue hair, in the sunlight it's almost neon. i've gotten lots of compliments on it and a few have said they wished they could do it but their work wouldn't allow it. i did ask my work for approval first before i colored it and they didn't have a problem with it. i don't think i could ever go back to a natural color now

[earl colby pottinger]

1970's

I grew up watching the British TV show U.F.O. in the 1970's so I find it strange that someone in the year 2016 would be commenting on hair colour.

See: https://www.google.ca/search?q=ufo+t...mmDqMQ_AUIBygC


PS. I watched it because I loved SF shows not for the girls in short dresses .... really!

[RootedPhoenix]

For other customers, I think it's more of how you're not supposed to have a life outside of work.

Yeah, that's the bit that gets to me. Workers have lives/opinions too.

If I like someone's hair, or necklace, or something, I say so. Otherwise, I don't say anything.

[XCashier]

Frankly I wish I had the nerve to go pastel with my hair. If I ever strip out all of the color, maybe I will!

I see more and more gray in my hair if I go too long without dyeing it. I guess it's naturally stripping its own color!

[Pagan]

If you don't like them, say nothing unless the person involved asks AND if you are in the sort of relationship with them to be brutally honest, the best sort of thing to say is something like "Its not something that I would do, but if you are happy, that is all that matters."

To quote Tim Gunn - "Well, if that's the look you want, you sure have a good one."

One of my former neighbors, who was an EMT, had frequently changing hair color. My only issue with that is it's hard on your hair.

My hair is in the darker strawberry blonde range. But, because I spend so much time outside, it's got a lot of streaky blonde highlights, and there's a lot of copper streaks, too. I've had several people not believe me that it's all natural.

[EricKei]

People in my family have a strong tendency to have bright, bright blonde hair as children, almost to the point of it appearing white in the right lighting; an aunt of mine, in particular, bypassed the "almost" part entirely; it darkens by puberty for all of us. On the opposite side of the spectrum -- a teacher I had in high school, who was at least in his 70's at the time, had a naturally shock-white, full head of short curly hair.

[WishfulSpirit]

It's because by dying your hair you're asserting personal identity. They don't like that. It reminds them we're human beings, not robotic representatives of the company we work for who are here to be screamed at about things beyond our control. I suspect the only reason we're even allowed to make eye contact with our customers is because in most Western countries, looking at someone's face when you speak to them is a sign of respect. Otherwise we'd have to keep our eyes down like the good little peons we are.

What, me bitter? No way!

/me grabs cookies and goes to in corner.

[Slave to the Phone]

"Thank you for taking the time to offer feedback on human number 6,384,917,185. This model was delivered with factory settings but has been since modified by its end user, and as such we no longer offer factory replacement skins for this particular unit. Thank you for your inquiry, and have a nice day."

Love it

I agree that if someone has body mods that you like, its usually OK to say something. If you don't like them, say nothing unless the person involved asks AND if you are in the sort of relationship with them to be brutally honest, the best sort of thing to say is something like "Its not something that I would do, but if you are happy, that is all that matters."

I'm old. I really admire some of the things that people are doing to themselves. I'm always worried about saying something to a younger stranger. I'[m afraid that she or he will think "Oh S***!!! That old lady thinks my hair is wonderful. If it makes old people happy, I must be doing something wrong! I think I'll go home and shave my head!".