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Baroness von Lenska

06:34 / 13.03.08

Football? Sounds more of a kidnapping plot. Poisoning would only ire the suspicions of the police. Best to lay low and wait for the situation to unfold. Maybe cast a few casual Portuguese greetings in the direction of the basement. See what happens.

Shaving is really sort of frivolous, you know. It's a bit like shouting obscenities at body hair from across an intersection. It just becomes by turns curious, then incredulous, and settling at last upon furious. Shaving just pisses body hair off. Relatively painless compared to alternatives, but the scale of effective grooming rises along with the pain.

So, feature. Sigh.

astrojax69

10:28 / 13.03.08

um, so we've moved on from aquarius then?

right-o. wish someone had said, but...

Anna de Logardiere

11:40 / 13.03.08

The problem with this is that I'm not sure what 'a Brazilian' is. Does he want me to play football with him?

Not quite, you see a brazillian is when you stick a football up your... well actually perhaps it's best that I don't describe the method.

Teppichkind

13:38 / 13.03.08

The problem with this is that I'm not sure what 'a Brazilian' is. Does he want me to play football with him?

easy. it's shaving it ALL off. down there. that's the brasilian wax (cheez, no one watches satc anymore, carrie had a brasilian once). i am more for brazilian bikinis (which includes a thong and nothing else)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:01 / 13.03.08

Ah, reminds me of the tasteful joke doing the rounds a couple of years ago about how all the beauty parlours in South London were going out of business because the police were doing Brazilians for nothing...

Lama glama

14:07 / 13.03.08

I find the most comfortable place to shave as a man is in the bathroom.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

14:08 / 13.03.08

i am more for brazilian bikinis (which includes a thong and nothing else)

So do you tuck, dude, or what?

Closed for Business Time

14:28 / 13.03.08

So, Prez, that begs the question, where do you shave as a woman?

Teppichkind

14:49 / 13.03.08

So do you tuck, dude, or what?

cheez, on the ladies i meant. (i play both fields

Lama glama

14:50 / 13.03.08

I'll give that some thought and get right back to you. I suspect my answer might be the same, though, Surah.

Dead Megatron

15:27 / 13.03.08

i am more for brazilian bikinis (which includes a thong and nothing else)

ha, i wish. There is the top side too, y'know...

Ah, reminds me of the tasteful joke doing the rounds a couple of years ago about how all the beauty parlours in South London were going out of business because the police were doing Brazilians for nothing...

That is sick, but made me laugh

And, FYI, Brazilian women rarely do the Brazilian wax. The "Hitler's mustache" thing, however, seems to be the latest trend. I swear to God, that's how they call it.

But let's get back to men ans shaving, if you please...

Evil Scientist

15:39 / 13.03.08

I used to shave my toes. But then realised how freakish my toes are and gave up trying make pretty what is naturally an abomination. Revel in the horror I say, REVEL.

Anna de Logardiere

15:44 / 13.03.08

FYI, Brazilian women rarely do the Brazilian wax.

I suppose you've had the opportunity to "survey" all of the women in Brazil?

Mug Chum

17:11 / 13.03.08

It's true, you know. It's actually all men who have the full-waxed vaginas. The Department for Alluring Sexual Folktales of Outer Lower Regions (Innuendo Intended) -- DASFLOOR(II) -- got it the other way around.

>>>>>>>>(which includes a thong and nothing else)

This bit of porn-consumption confession reminds me of another anedocte on body hair: once you shave the palm of your hand, it grows back 0,9170002351 times thicker and each time with a added color. It does you wonders for carnival.

>>>>>>>>cheez, no one watches satc anymore, carrie had a brasilian once

Please, don't ever conjure that image again.

Dead Megatron

17:37 / 13.03.08

I suppose you've had the opportunity to "survey" all of the women in Brazil?

I'm extrapolating from the fact that I'm a Brazilian who lives in Brazil and almost all women I've ever been with were also Brazilians. The only one who actually had a "brazilian"* was one who lives in Washington D.C.

but hey, my statistical sample could still be biased, who knows?

* let's use lower case for the waxing technique and capital for people, ok?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:40 / 13.03.08

yeah, but let's not forget that Carrie also got a bucket of pigs' blood tipped over her head and as a result wreaked a hideous buffet (and indeed bouquet) of carnage over her schoolmates using her m4d 5k1772.

Erm...

...I think I may have meant a different Carrie than Teppichkind did. But I'm sure mine was best. She had m4d 5k1772 and stuff. It was very.

Not sure whether she waxed, but really, when you have m4d 5k1772 like that, who GIVES a fuck?

Mug Chum

17:44 / 13.03.08

I'll see that film as a prequel for SATC now. God bless you forever.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

21:34 / 13.03.08

For the love of the universe, never-ever-ever agree to wax a partner's anything for them. There are often recriminations.

Selective mutual shaving, well, that can be fun.

Wristwatch Nuke -- the Accomplice also has hair on his toes, but it's sort of cute and wispy as much as he hates it. I applaud you're love for your toe hair.

Anna de Logardiere

10:20 / 14.03.08

I'm extrapolating from the fact that I'm a Brazilian who lives in Brazil and almost all women I've ever been with were also Brazilians. The only one who actually had a "brazilian"* was one who lives in Washington D.C.

but hey, my statistical sample could still be biased, who knows?

What do you mean who knows? Of course it's biased, let's say I live in France and I'm French and I don't pluck my eyebrows, that doesn't mean all of the women in France who are French also don't pluck their eyebrows. You slept with some women who didn't wax in a certain way, that doesn't mean all women from their country/ethnicity also do not wax in that way nor does it mean they personally never will. Don't apply absolutes to a small sample. Even if you looked at the pubic area of a different woman everyday for a year and all of those women were from Brazil that still wouldn't be a representative sample of all of the women in the country.

Dead Megatron

12:23 / 14.03.08

You know I was being sarcastic in that post, right? that I actually am saying it's biased, right? and that all which you just wrote is obvious, right?

And that's why we should get back to the point and talk about men ans shaving.

petunia

12:47 / 14.03.08

Male ant shaving.

Try it. You'll be pleasantly surprised.

Whisky Priestess

13:11 / 14.03.08

Still sounds painful

Bug or feature?

I'm afraid that joke completely escaped me, Haus. Which is unfortnunate, your jokes are usually quite good.

Haus basically means "Bad thing or good thing?" (referring to pain as part of the depilation process)

Natalia, sounds like you've got a sound business plan for invetigating the pubic topiary habits of an entire country there: this sort of valuable scientific survey is the stuff igNobels are made of. I only hope the grants committees see sense for once and sponsor your crucial work with the ladygardens of Brazil!

(I for one would be interested in a copy of the report when your work is complete. Plain brown envelope, usual address).

Whisky Priestess

13:13 / 14.03.08

Oh, and from a personal perspective I think men should shave/wax/sandpaper their backs, and nothing else. Or rather, as D-Megs suggests, get someone else to ...

Dead Megatron

13:29 / 14.03.08

I only hope the grants committees see sense for once and sponsor your crucial work with the ladygardens of Brazil!

I also support that, as long as it does not involve sticking footballs up people's ... well, unfortunatelly I don't know where the method goes from there.

Dead Megatron

13:32 / 14.03.08

Haus basically means "Bad thing or good thing?" (referring to pain as part of the depilation process)

In which case, the answer would be, I guess, "bug". not fun pain, no.

Anna de Logardiere

13:44 / 14.03.08

You know I was being sarcastic in that post, right?

You know that telepathy isn't a human trait, right?

electric monk

14:00 / 14.03.08

No shit. Sarcasm delimiters, D-Meg, if you please!

Dead Megatron

14:33 / 14.03.08

You know that telepathy isn't a human trait, right?

%That's not what the voices in my head tell me.%

As for the sarcasm delimiters, I was wondering about that. I do sort of remember some debate over the matter but was unaware if any conclusion was ever reached. Thanks, Gravitas.

Dead Megatron

14:40 / 14.03.08

I should point out that Natalia was somewhat right about the bias of my experience: I do know for a fact that native/indigenous peoples of Brazil and the Amazon Basin in general, athough already having very little to no bodily hair as an ethnical trait, do have the habit of shaving their pubic areas (both male and female). I'm not sure as to exactly what instrument they use, but I once saw a documentary in which one native woman used a scissor made of piranha mandibles to cut her kids' (head)hair.

So, I stand corrected

All Acting Regiment

15:56 / 14.03.08

Back on topic, some Metrosexuals about town yeaterday:

Mug Chum

16:14 / 14.03.08

Just not manly enough.

Except something about the first one... And I'm not just talking about the rock-hard nipples.

(ps: the second is dead, right? Or is it that baby-root from Pan's Labyrinth?)

Evil Scientist

16:14 / 14.03.08

Go for the face, molerat! Go for the face!

Twice

19:44 / 14.03.08

What is that thing? And doesn't it own tweezers?

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:02 / 14.03.08

I don't know what it is. But statistically, it seems unlikely to be Brazilian.

Tsuga

21:30 / 14.03.08

It's a naked mole rat, made famous in Errol Morris' documentary "Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control".

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