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why don't more chaps paint their nails?

i've had an urge to do this today, but i'd get stabbed. I've probably just answered my own question there, but if i lived in Camden or somewhere where the average age of fatherhood was more than fifteen and most people are massive try-hard muppets then i'd paint my nails and probably wear eyeliner, definitely bust a pink shirt every now and again, maybe get one of them crazy indie haircuts, and all that.



  • A friend of mine painted one nail black

    until he learnt now to bite his nails.

    Then he stopped.

  • I paint mine clear

  • :D

    I would sometimes on a night out or something, but i can't be arsed really.

  • To be honest

    painting your nails is a pain and time consuming and really pointless.

    Eyeliner is great though - I know people who've managed to do it in quite a 'manly' way.

  • Not too long ago

    I fell asleep in the living room and woke up with painted nails. Red. I liked it. A lot.

  • Come again?

    For some reason i deem eyeliner acceptable, yet nail painting not so. I must be missing something.

    • I did colour my nails in

      with black permanent marker when i bored once, though. I don't know whether that counts.

  • more tempted with mascara

    as I've stupidly long eyelashes for a man.

    • i bite my nails all the time

      if i painted them with jam then maybe i'd be happy.

  • Sub - question

    Is being a girl who puts make-up and nail varnish on men...

    a. deeply annoying
    b. fun

    • depends if there's a sexual reward....

    • Quite annoying

      • Cool

        I haven't actually done it for years. Last time was over 3 years ago when I plucked my boyfriends eyebrows, (he asked me to).

    • Normally, a little bit annoying but sometimes fun, if I'm bored enough.

      With your most recent man? Possibly the best thing I think you could do.

    • b. fun

      because then we have an excuse

  • I shut my thumb in a safe door about 6 weeks ago.

    My nail's still black. I've grown quite accustomed to it.

    • That doesn't sound like a very safe door to me.

  • A pink shirt

    is an intensely manly thing to wear. City types wear them all the time and they are all aggro and macho.

  • A: Because it makes you look like a twat

  • I don't get this whole

    "oh I live in a kind of poor area so I can't express any sort of inviduality lest polite society in it take offence in the most violent way possible." Morrissey grew up in Hulme, and the Butthole Surfers are from Texas, for Christs sake. MTFU.

    • Just to clarify:

      that Butthole Surfers thing is a reference that bit in 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' where Gibby almost gets killed in a fast food restaurant for, you know, looking weird, or something.

    • My grandad used to live in Hulme.

      It was very nice, probably the most elite part of Manchester until the early 80s, by which time Morrissey no longer lived there. There's manning the fuck up and then just being sensible. I'm not giving it the 'I've lived in dead 'ard places wuts worse than Beirut' but you're risking a stabbing at best by bringing extra attention onto yourself.

      • ^ this

        i live in slough and having hair or wearing jeans makes you a great big poof

  • because it's so 'papa roach'

    and it totally sucks.

  • I like painting my nails

    Especially red. It makes me feel like I've just shoved my fingers into some guy's innards and his blood has stained my fingers forever.

    My mum says I look like a faggot though :(

    • I wouldn't get a crazy indie haircut though

      or a pink shirt. I like my greaser haircut. And I hate pink

      • i have a crazy indie haircut

        that turns into a greaser haircut according to how i wear my fringe. good win?

        • do you want to bring back the greaser look with me?

          it's such a cool look and i've been waging that war solo for so long

          • i know

            i love speedo and stuff, and i hadn't had a real haircut for years cos i cut it myself (like in my profile), so my girlfriend cut it like kenickie. now i can be cool

            • you can be cool

              just like me

              not to sound too homo but... your hair is cool in your profile picture. i miss my longish hair :(

              • i thought it looked sick at the time

                the front did anyway, but it was eventually compared to gilly from hollyoaks

                • which one is gilly?

                  and do you mean this picture: http://discover.drownedinsound.com/images/38608.jpeg

                  ?

                  i'm not in my current profile picture although i totally could. my current profile picture is of harry & the potters. because i'm a saddo :(

                  • yeahh that one!

                    http://tinyurl.com/6s7ydj <- gilly

                    don't fancy looking like him.

                    http://tinyurl.com/6dsqna <- more like it

                    • :D the Black Flag tee always wins it

                      but yeah, you're much better looking than gilly, if i'm honest.

                      in other news: my penpal sent me a new letter and mix cd. she included "our song" Courtship Dating in the cd. isn't that cool?

                      • yes!

                        girls that like good music are awesome. she your new lady friend?

                        and thank you for the compliment!

                        • pretty much

                          but she stays in new york. she's invited me to visit her during the week of my 21st birthday, though. she said i can stay in her apt. and she'll make me all kinds of food.

                          i'm going to book my flight tomorrow :D

                          • new york is FAR

                            is she english/scottish?? it'll be amazing to go to new york though

                            • she's new yorkish :(

                              i don't think i'll come home and just live in a brooklyn bliss with her forever. soundtracked by cc

          • btw

            are you in your profile picture? you had a sick one before where you had some greaser action going on

  • because it looks shit

    .

  • I'd probably get chased by toddlers

    weilding sticks.

  • cos if i would get censured

    by society and work, and my sons would act all embarrised

  • the toe nails on my left foot are currently green

    those on my right foot are purple.

    For some reason* i agreed to let someone do this to me while on holiday 4 weeks ago, and they're still the same.





    *the reason i agreed is that i secretly quite like it

  • I paint my toe nails

    And I like it. Can't paint my finger nails though, work already think a beard is a bit much.

    • I once turned up to work

      rocking a beard and crimson nail varnish combo. Once her laughter had subsided, the chief sub told me I looked like a German pervert. I don't know why she felt the need to specify a nationality, but anyway.

      • Crimson:

        The colour for all discerning German perverts

  • I haven't done this since I was at school

    THAT was a stupid idea and no mistake.

  • well, it's a bit gay

    wouldn't really fancy explaining painted fingernails to my parents. Not that I'd have them painted anyway, because it would just look shit.

  • Stop this

    at once.

  • I

    wouldn't go to junior school in the mornings when I was younger until my mum had painted my thumbnails, I remember that much

  • I went through a phase of doing this

    after a while, it just seemed a bit pointless really.