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What no longer matters? How self -sufficient have you become? What can you not do without?

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hopefully you would very rarely see a Dr. in a white coat nowadays, dirty, germ spreading apparel.
    I started going bald when I was 20, I always said it was a sign of my virility.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Isn't that true then of any outer layer?! So should we see the 'naked Dr' like Jamie Oliver?

    I went part bald and white where there still was hair....no virility excuse either...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Well it may be that she felt pressure to look 'presentable', whereas at home, she felt comfortable without it. It's one thing if everyone is used to seeing a person without makeup, but when that person suddenly goes out without, sometimes people say things like 'oh, you look tired', or some other comment to that effect...Women are judged more on their appearance, even by total strangers. The lippy probably just helped her feel more confident, simple as that. 
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I had to give up the Dusty Springfield eyes many years ago. Too difficult to draw a clean line across the wrinkles  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    The problem with white coats, is that they rub against stuff, picking up germs as the go. Most of us in the more acute specialities took to wearing scrubs and changed them throughout the day.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'm assuming you're female @herbaceous. I don't know why I thought you were a bloke.  I often get the gender wrong on this site. It all adds to the mystery.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Not sure I still follow. My wife went out where she knows no one and felt more confident because she's wearing lippy? Isn't that just circular and back to why/how? Isn't the inference that she does feel more attractive then wearing lippy - but won't admit that even to herself? And she doesn't need to feel attractive at home? What in wearing lippy made her feel confident?
    I find this stuff fascinating and amusing - I think 'man' has an inherent knack of deceiving themselves.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why do men with beards wear aftershave? Do you/ did you comb your hair before you go/ went out?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    I have reached an age @B3 where I am close to being gender neutral  :D 
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    Exactly B3
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