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Post by Moose on Sept 12, 2015 18:05:15 GMT
Oh God that bathroom is BAD:P. I realise that tastes were different then but surely from an objective standpoint no-one could ever have looked at that and thought that it was aesthetically pleasing.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 20:56:00 GMT
Oh God that bathroom is BAD:P. I realise that tastes were different then but surely from an objective standpoint no-one could ever have looked at that and thought that it was aesthetically pleasing. You should see some of the rooms in the house that my sister and her husband bought. It's next to my parents' house. The previous owners died a few years ago and some of the rooms in the house are very obviously from the 70s and almost as bad as that bathroom. Frank posted a picture of the wallpaper on Facebook.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2015 20:57:31 GMT
Actually, the bathroom in my parents' house used to look similar before they renovated it.
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 16, 2015 4:48:28 GMT
Completely happy with the era I'm in. But I love technology, so the future is more exciting. I'm ready for space ships, androids, homes that are so advanced they operate like the Jetsons.... Until the robots lock me in my room, the house locks the windows and the automatic doors, the spaceship gets over run by a terrorust that beams me to outer siberia, and the pizza company knows what my health needs so I can't order what I want. Then I'll wish for the seventies or eighties. Lol
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Post by kingedmund on Sept 16, 2015 4:51:03 GMT
That's awful color for the bathroom. If I woke up to that in the morning, I would have though i had died and went to hell or either the LSD hadn't worn off from that massage party the night before.
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Post by Moose on Sept 27, 2015 22:06:24 GMT
I hope you didn't really take LSD *makes stern face*
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2015 22:04:46 GMT
Maybe it will become cool again, like so many other things. The bathroom, not the LSD.
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Post by Moose on Oct 8, 2015 22:39:42 GMT
That leads to an interesting question about .. not sure how to phrase it but about aesthetic relativism (did I just coin a new phrase there?!). I mean, let's be honest, that bathroom is hideous. If it ever becomes fashionable again does that make it less hideous or does it just mean that we've collectively gone nuts again?
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Post by jayme on Oct 8, 2015 22:52:34 GMT
Yeah. Aesthetic relativism might also explain why we thought we looked good in the eighties with all that big hair and shoulder pads. I like that term.
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Post by Alvamiga on Oct 9, 2015 8:35:08 GMT
I like it! It's exactly the bathroom I would choose! I think there's a happy medium there somewhere. I find all the blank colours everywhere these days to be dull and soulless!
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Post by Moose on Oct 9, 2015 17:36:59 GMT
God yes eighties fashion was just ... ugly. The thing is that no-one seemed to notice at the time. Which makes me wonder whether our current fashions - not that I follow them - are ugly too and we just won't realise for another quarter of a century.
That said, some decades had genuinely great fashion - I find twenties style clothing - for women anyway - and hairstyles very attractive.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2015 7:32:03 GMT
I find the fashion of the 2000s quite ugly now, even though I was wearing these things as well. The worst thing were low-cut jeans and short jumpers and jackets, so in the middle of winter, women exposed some naked skin to the cold. I was never able to do that. I can't even wear tops that reveal a bit of cleavage because that bit of naked skin makes me feel cold.
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Post by Mari on Oct 10, 2015 8:55:17 GMT
That is unfortunately still "in". I have too many teenage girls showing belly buttons in class. I want it banned, but school is not ready for that debate yet. *sigh*
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2015 21:32:06 GMT
That is unfortunately still "in". I have too many teenage girls showing belly buttons in class. I want it banned, but school is not ready for that debate yet. *sigh* I hardly see any girls showing belly buttons when I tutor kids. And I don't know how they do it without feeling horribly cold. I never figured that out, so showing more than was appropriate would never have been possible for me.
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Post by Moose on Oct 11, 2015 22:13:35 GMT
I don't see a problem with girls showing belly buttons
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 9:14:38 GMT
I don't see a problem with girls showing belly buttons The problem is that it gets cold in winter. I don't get how they are coping.
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Post by juju on Oct 18, 2015 22:59:04 GMT
I've always thought aesthetic relativism is weird. The fact is we *don't* find fashions ugly at the time, only in retrospect.
Wait though... those drawn-on eyebrows girls do these days. And duckface selfies. And being orange.
Yep. They're already ugly.
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Post by Moose on Oct 19, 2015 1:39:27 GMT
Orangeist I thought the duckface thing was fairly new though .. unless I am just behind the times which is entirely possible. Yes, it looks silly. And I did! I did coin a new phrase!
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Post by juju on Oct 19, 2015 6:00:05 GMT
The duckface thing is fairly new (well, ever since selfies, really), but that's my point - we don't need to look at something in retrospect to think it's ugly or silly - some things are ugly and silly straight away.
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Post by tangent on Oct 19, 2015 19:19:53 GMT
What's a duckface selfie?
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Post by juju on Oct 19, 2015 19:30:26 GMT
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Post by tangent on Oct 19, 2015 19:37:13 GMT
Hm, okay. Is that by choice?
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Post by juju on Oct 19, 2015 19:43:28 GMT
Oh yes. It's meant to be pouting I think (ie sexy) but mostly it just looks like they're sucking up invisible spaghetti. Google 'duckface' and you'll see how ubiquitous it has become.
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Post by tangent on Oct 19, 2015 22:30:55 GMT
Oh dear, you learn something new every day... sadly.
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Post by Moose on Nov 6, 2015 0:31:08 GMT
I used to pull that face sometimes in the entirely misguided belief that it might make my cheekbones stand out - assuming that I have such. I desisted when a boyfriend told me how stupid I looked.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2015 16:58:57 GMT
I found the duckface funny, but never tried it myself. But I find selfies a bit odd as well. Selfies with other people I like because you don't need to ask anyone else to take a picture, but I never got these albums full of a dozen selfies on Facebook.
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Post by Moose on Nov 9, 2015 17:41:27 GMT
I hate having pics taken of me generally. I've got a bit more relaxed about it since I've lost some weight but I never think that I look nice. If I were more attractive I would not mind the selfie thing though
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2015 20:11:09 GMT
I don't think it really has anything to do with being attractive. Admittedly, that might be hard for me to tell since I'm not attractive either, but even if I wasn't ugly, I don't think I would get the selfies thing
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Post by Moose on Nov 15, 2015 21:16:21 GMT
Heh you are beautiful .. I wish you realised it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2015 23:20:18 GMT
Actually, even if I was I'd find the excessive selfie thing a but weird - it would seem somewhat vain to do it, like I think I'm si amazingly beautiful I have to take a dozen pictures of my face. I did take them for my student ID since passport photos were a little too big and it said it could be any picture of our face. Those I had were often too small, so I often took a quick selfie and printed it out in passport size and if I had done the photo right, it fitted the space on the ID perfectly. And thanks, Jo. I do feel a bit more attractive when I'm physically feeling better, but my constant tension headaches and back, shoulder and neck pain make me feel old and stiff.
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