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England
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England
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Degree
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Software Engineer
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pyjama boy's Top (2) Replies by other users' votes
- (1 vote) Do guys notice/care about a little bit of a belly?
Guy’s - and this may suprise you - are just like girls, in that they all think differently. Some may be put off (and these are the sort of dorks to avoid at all costs) and most, the ones that are interesting and matter at all, wouldn’t notice if you had a small wombat strapped to your head. Also - don’t assume that all guy’s are ‘perfect’ have no ‘defects’ and are therefore in any kind of position to judge.
To be fair, I think that most people’s (men or women) stomachs ‘relax’ a little when they sit down. If you want to minimise it then trying doing what the adults around you used to say when you were growing up - sit up straight! Think about it: if you sit with your shoulders hunched (like I do) then your skin is going to be relaxed in your stomach area (because instead of being stretched, like when you stand up, it’s in a slight curve). If you sit up straight (shoulders back a little) then some of that slack will be taken in. Although personally I just say sod it and slouch to my heart’s content. :) :)
- written 2 months, 3 weeks ago – voted for by flickrfaeri - (1 vote) There is so much corruption and evil on this planet, and I don’t know that it can be overcome.
Question is, how do you define ‘evil’ and ‘corruption’? To different people they mean different things - especially between people from different cultures.
My view is that for every terrible thing that is happening in the world today there are many more good things and thousands more run of the mill, everyday things. The media (papers, tv, etc) focus on the bad things because they make interesting stories. How many people would turn on their telly to watch the latest breaking report of a famly having a meal together? of a paramedic reviving a pateient? of someone being cured of an illness? of a pensioner having a life-changing hip replacement? of an eldery relative’s 90th birthday? of a joke that friends are sharing? of a birth? of someone smiling? of a parent sacrificing even the tiniest thing (sleep, a film) for their child? of people getting engaged or married? of someone stopping at a red traffic light? Let’s be honest, pretty much no-one after the first night.
So all we talk about is the rot and corruption because it’s more interesting and passes the time. It doesn’t mean that the world in an entirely bad place full of bad people, it just means we talk about the few rather than the many (remember that the media only exists to sell and market itself, regardless of what they claim about truth and justice, and only print the stories that will sell).
Do what I do for a while: start beliving what you see and experience, not what you hear. Fold up the paper, turn off the TV, switch off the radio and see what happens…. nothing. Amazing isn’t it? The world doesn’t suddenly explode, we aren’t suddenly overrun by hoards of vikings, things just carry on as normal, but devoid of the cynicism and paper-selling hype that most people seem to thrive off.
Next time you walk down the road look carefully and you will see hundreds of good or everyday things happening that aren’t evil or corrupt and people who are quite average and ordinary.
- written 5 months ago – voted for by mwsmit