Please be inclusive and welcoming to everyone, regardless of their background, experience, or opinions.
- Manlobbi
Stocks A to Z / Stocks S / Simon Property Group (SPG)
No. of Recommendations: 4
Dear Gen Z:
Look, I know a little about what it’s like. You’re young, rebellious, you want to show you’re not part of “them”, meaning “those older guys.” Heck, in the 60’s I had hair halfway down my back, and wore it in a ponytail - and was called many things on account of it. OTOH, I worked within the counter-culture, as it was, back in the day. I was a DJ on a free-form radio station in Cambridge, and typically saw musicians, club owners, recording studio types, and similar, so for most of my time I was “in my lane.”
OK. You like nose rings. I’m just saying, when you put them at the bottom of your nose, it looks like you have a piece of snot hanging out. Not the best look, especially if you are in food service.
I didn’t care much about tattoos, or pink hair, or five ear studs, or any of those other trends meant to separate “you” from “the rest of us”, but this “dripping snot” thing is annoying. Please do it at home, not while bringing me a plate of spaghetti.
Thanks.
No. of Recommendations: 3
You like nose rings. I’m just saying, when you put them at the bottom of your nose, it looks like you have a piece of snot hanging out.
This. 100%.
I love my niece dearly but she wears a nose ring shaped like a horseshoe, with a bead at each of the two ends, hanging from two nostrils. What IS that? Why? How can you possibly keep it clean?
Generally, no nasal jewelry please. Or belly button jewelry. Never mind the unmentionable places.
No. of Recommendations: 6
How can I undo an accidental click of the recommendation link?
The kids will be fine. We are on a stock board, so are almost definitionally old and rich. We should aspire to not act bored and cranky, even if this is an open letter forum. Nobody needs to feel bad about how they look or what they find attractive, there are plenty of fish in the sea for everyone.
It isn't a millennial phenomenon, either. there were plenty of lovely people with pierced septums, navels, and unmentionables 30-40 years ago. Even further back per
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nose_piercing, including the literal translation of Ezekiel 16:12 being "a nose-ring on thy nostril"
No. of Recommendations: 2
Nobody needs to feel bad about how they look or what they find attractive, there are plenty of fish in the sea for everyone.
I don’t care if the put things in their earlobes near they eyebrows or toes or armpits, for that matter. I’m talking the nose, which must be used to remove mucous fluids and which the nose rings interfere with, and if they don’t still look like my meal server has snot dripping as he leans over to put my soup on the table.
Do I find any of it attractive? No. Do I care? No, except for the nose. If I want snot in my soup I’ll go to Waffle House.
PS: The Mayans actually squeezed their childrens’ heads to flatten them into absurd shapes, a fashion statement of class and prestige. African tribes used rings to elongate their necks to ridiculous lengths as well. I wouldn’t have like that either, but I’ve never send them a letter telling them so ;)
No. of Recommendations: 4
Late to the convo but what the heck. Does time exist on the internet?
Do I find any of it attractive? No. Do I care? No, except for the nose. If I want snot in my soup I’ll go to Waffle House.
A couple years ago I read a university study that revealed an alarmingly high count of fecal bacteria on beards. Seems that people with facial adornments such as beards, and most likely lip, eyebrow and nasal studs, touch those things frequently.
Not long after reading that study I went to Telluride Bluegrass and so had the opportunity to observe a large number of people with beards and facial piercings and I'll be darned if they didn't touch those things repeatedly.
Chef, don't wipe your hands on your apron!
Waiter, stop touching your facial adornments!
