31-03-2019, 05:12 AM
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Re: You're So Vain
Originally Posted by Realist
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Maybe it's just me but I can't help but feel that these people all need a healthy dose of humility and realism.
The outright vanity of someone criticising other people for the way they dress or look astounds me.
31-03-2019, 10:28 AM
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Re: You're So Vain
Originally Posted by Baz46
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I do wonder how much of this can be attributed to the posing for mobile phone 'selfies' with the stupid pose and equally stupid, pouting lips? How ridiculous some of these people look! 
31-03-2019, 11:24 AM
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Re: You're So Vain
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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You have a good point there, when we were young we took pictures of places and scenery so we had memories to look back on now the camera is constantly pointed inward to the picture taker. Now that's vanity thinking all anyone will ever want to see is your face and not the beauty around you.
31-03-2019, 11:51 AM
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Re: You're So Vain
Originally Posted by Tachyon
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The first two pics show "bodybuilders" who very likely used steroids to get like that. I may well be wrong, but I think the odds are in my favour. The third pic is of a guy from somewhere like Brazil, if memory serves, and he gave himself fake muscles by injecting himself with Synthol - you'd have to be nuts to risk doing that.
It is I fear a form of mental illness. Anyone with such a self obsession over their body is harbouring unresolved problems and deficiencies elsewhere. It is surely a form of coping mechanism. One can not successfully get through society and most of life's challenges whilst being wholly concerned just with oneself and how you look. That mentality spills over into all areas of live. In business managers generally want to employ people with good people skills and who intergrate well with others in a team capacity. Uber vain people simply are not generally good candidates because they don't have much capacity to empathise with others or consider their needs. They are only concerned with their own egos. Give me a "plain Jane" any day as she will work well and provide great input into a wider team.
I agree with you about the steroid/synthol users. As with all drug addictions it's just ludicrous and a path to destruction and later health issues.
Just being natural is imho the best way.
31-03-2019, 12:29 PM
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[QUOTE=Realist;1673986]Correct Tachyon, but note I DID label all 3 pictures under the heading of "Steroid/Synthol Freaks".It is I fear a form of mental illness. Anyone with such a self obsession over their body is harbouring unresolved problems and deficiencies elsewhere. It is surely a form of coping mechanism. They are only concerned with their own egos. Give me a "plain Jane" any day as she will work well and provide great input into a wider team.
. As with all drug addictions it's just ludicrous and a path to destruction and later health issues.
Have you ever had a form of mental illness?...off topic,I will start a thread about it.
31-03-2019, 12:34 PM
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Re: You're So Vain
Originally Posted by Baz46
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In those days every photo taken also had considerable cost attached to it so what to take was chosen carefully. Nowadays with mobile phones the cost is a monthly payment so a person could take 1,000s of photos whenever they wish and the cost really is minimal. This also makes each one of less importance, I also doubt many people who take these 'selfies' look back on them. It's what is in the 'here and now' which appears to more important to some people today.
31-03-2019, 01:23 PM
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Re: You're So Vain
Originally Posted by ruthio
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Watched a lovely gentle drama/comedy with Larry Lamb and Hayley Mills recently.Both in their 70s, both attractive and charismatic...Hayley still lovely and no flipping surgery!!
Another one for me, the lovely Rene Russo
From 1996
And still lovely in 2019
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