fornite floss dance for me.

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    Lip injections. Not once has looking like you just got hit in the mouth with a hockey puck helped someone look better.

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      Not that I think it’s a good idea, but to be fair, you’re only noticing the bad and extreme cases. There are subtle and fine cases too that just don’t draws attention to them.

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        The thing is, some of the really bad cases still get modeling jobs, which says that someone thinks the bad cases actually look good.

        Even some of the subtler cases look off to me, giving a certain distinctive artificial look. I don’t doubt that if you see it enough it starts to look natural, but to me that just makes it worse.

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      The thing is some group of people must like it or people wouldn’t do it.

      Chances are this is a “you aren’t the target audience” type deal.

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        I feel like most of them havent seen it in real life though, only on social media. Its just another level of strange seeing it for real

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      It can look okay but its a very small group of people who look good with it and a small group of doctors that do it well. They do not consistently pair up.

      Same with buccal fat (cheek fat basically) removal. For most they just look hollowed out, like they did meth for a while. Erin Moriarty (Annie/Starlight on The Boys) is rumored to have had it, and it shows.

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    If we go back in history, there was a point in time, after radioactivity was discovered but before nuclear weapons were developed, where there was a trend of putting radium and other radioactive substances in health and beauty products, because I guess people thought that because it possesed some form of energy that it must be good for you. In hindsight that seems far more stupid than some embarrassing dance or something.

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    The thumbnail of a person with their mouth wide open used in every YouTube video

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    This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.

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        I’m actually glad I’ve had so much poverty because it’s allowed me to find the things that actually affect my mood in a consistent and reliable way.

        I only was able to find those things because I was forced to manage my mood with almost zero money.

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      A situation where the poor people are trying to keep up is not a “potlatch”. That would be the rich kids trying to outdo each other to see how many shirts they can give to the poor kids.

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        I may have an outdated sense of what a potlatch was. I was using the term in the sense of destroying value, per this kind of definition:

        “A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader’s wealth and power. “

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        1. One of the crowning moments of performative parenting. I don’t think anyone was killed, but there were arrests and injuries reported.

        The toy was released in July of that year with an initial run of 400,000 units, and sold well. Rosie O’Donnell showed the toy on her show that October, and Black Friday that year they suddenly sold out. Another production run of 600,000 units was started, but the “shopping frenzy” had begun.

        Tickle Me Elmo retailed for just under $30 at the time; scalpers sold them for thousands of dollars apiece, one sold at auction for $18,000. Two women in Chicago were arrested for fighting over one. People chased delivery trucks after the toys, a retail clerk was trampled by a crowd rushing down an aisle to claim theirs, suffering, according to Wikipedia: “a pulled hamstring, injuries to his back, jaw and knee, a broken rib and a concussion”.

        Similar phenomena have occurred before and since; Cabbage Patch Kids, the Playstation 2 and Nintendo Wii saw similar “shopping frenzies” but I don’t think any were quite as loud as Tickle Me Elmo. A toy which I’m sure their children got minutes of mild enjoyment from.

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    Someone mentioned the explosion of radium…everything that took place between the discovery of radium and the discovery that radiation is bad for you. Well I’ve got another deadly stupid historic fad: Scheele’s Green.

    Scheele’s Green is a pigment invented in 1775 by Carl Wilhelm Sheele. I’s a vivid slightly yellowish green color, which became all the rage throughout Europe in the early 19th century. It was used in paints, candles, wallpaper, to dye cotton and linen, even to paint children’s toys and as a food dye.

    Scheele’s Green is acidic copper arsenite. CuHASO3. It’s very toxic. Numerous reports exist of children “wasting away” in “bright green rooms,” women “swooning” wearing green dresses, and instances of acute poisoning around burning green candles. The publicity of the 1861 death of a 19 year old named Matilda Scheueur as a result of her job painting artificial plants with the dye, along with her autopsy showing her eyes and fingernails were turning green from the pigment, led to its decline.

    Scheele’s Green was used as an insecticide in the 1930’s.

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    Guys wearing florescent orange or yellow knee high socks with Adidas slides and shorts that was all over a few years ago.

    Dudes setting flat billed hats on top of their head way too high.

    Yeti stickers on trucks. Glad you like your cooler dude.

    Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn’t the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube. Seeing Oakley gear kills me, I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley’s aren’t even good glasses. You paid too much for the privilege of looking like a tool.

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      I have very in depth inside knowledge of the optical industry, and Oakley’s aren’t even good glasses.

      Please elaborate, because so do I and not only disagree with you, I have data to prove that Oakley are better. And I don’t even own any, nor care to buy them.

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        I’m a licensed advanced optician that owns three practices, I’ve designed and manufactured my own line of frames, I’ve helped design progressive lens forms, I have taught classes at eight out of the last 12 vision expo’s. My capture rate of every premium product sale is miles above the national averages.

        The only brand I call in more warranties in on than Oakley is Nike. Their zyl frames use plastic rivets that regularly snap and can’t be tightened. The temples stretch out over time, which is normal and wouldn’t be an issue except the metals use either single bar spring hinges that will keep loosening or monel flat rivets that can’t be replaced.

        They are not the worst brand by any means, but if you think you’re paying for anything other than the name, you’ve been sold.

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          I work in acquisition, and without doxxing myself or violating NDAs, I can see they test their materials to a better standard than Nike or others; their cheap products of course suck by comparison, however their expensive premium lenses are very good compared to other brands. I’m not an Oakley dick rider and own other frames and lenses, just trying to say that there is a lot of hail-corporate/brand loyalty shills here spreading bad info.

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      Repping brands. Like tshirts that say Oakley or under armor on them. Why are you wearing a shirt that says under armour, but isn’t the actual under armour? You paid them to advertise for them you rube

      I don’t wear shirts, t-shirts or other clothes with clearly visible logos or brand names, unless I got the piece for free or even am getting paid to wear it.

      Exceptions are music/band gear, if I like the band, and sports gear, because it is so fucking hard to find decent sports gear without visible logos and brand names.

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        Yeah. Norm core for basics, but I’m generally dressing in layers anyway. I don’t think I’ve worn only a t shirt outside the house in years.

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      I like my Oakleys, but they’re regular prescription glasses. Pretty durable and in the (bland) style I prefer.

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      tshirts that say

      Many of those are promotional giveaways. I hope most, for the reasons you say.

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      Hey, I wear normal Oakley prescription glasses and they’re great. They were the most comfortable frames at the optometrist. Didn’t even know they were Oakley until after I bought them. That being said, I’m not saying you’re wrong.

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        When trying on frame initially, Oakley’s actually will be more comfortable due to their temple style, although after your lenses are made any frame will be adjusted and balanced to be exactly as, if not more comfortable with less squeezing. (Unless the place selling the glasses doesn’t care about fitting, which is more common than you’d think)

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          Interesting, that’s good input. I had that issue the time before my last visit when I bought new frames. They did not do anything with fitting and just gave me the frames off the shelf. I did not know that wasn’t a common practice until last time. They took time to do a fitting. Still ended up with Oakley though, maybe not next time.

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    NFTs.

    Cryptocurrency was already a bad idea overall, but at least it had some function and purpose compared to rent-seeking ledger slots that are associated with ugly cartoons.

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      Looks like we’re coming up on the anniversary of the Royal Fistula Drainage of 1686.

      Might need to get an Anal Fistula just for the occasion.