BS: Hairy or shaved armpits

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 11:19 AM

I'm allergic to deodorants, but it's all right as long as I remember to wash once a month.
John

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 11:17 AM

unbelievable, and totally representative of what some people complain about this forum that this thread is now at 51 messages long! let it die, for god's sake, don't you people have anything more interesting or pertinent to music to say? I haven't even read the messages, just noticed that from 4 it is today at 50 threads. incredible!

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Peg
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 11:01 AM

I shave my legs, not my underarms...
if you bathe each day and use a good natural deodorant, the odor is not a problem...hot days are a different story, but that's true for people that use anti-perspirants too. the human body needs to sweat; plugging up the pores with alumnium is not a good idea. Besides, it's not sweat that stinks; it's bacteria. a deodorant with tea tree, lavender or bergamot works great. (I use Jason's tea tree, or aromarant from Lush)

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:53 AM

Dave, to answer your questions - I am of the female gender, and will be trying to let my pits grow.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:26 AM

Give what a try - shaving or letting them stay hairy ? I don't think you've actually declared your gender.

A remark on another thread, prompts me to point out that Linda (Essex Girl) is not naturally very hirsute anyway. Her belief is that shaving only makes the hair coarser and that therefore it's self-defeating.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST,Razor
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:15 AM

Thanks for all the comments I'm being educated by the minute and becoming less confused. A quick summary - coalitus, female body hair is considered erotic, plat your pit, must be bloody uncomfortable, haven't shaved my pits for years, shaved the bits the sun don't see, half an orange as a contraceptive device, pumice stone from volcanic lava rather than shaving daily, stop the turkey shit sticking, incision was torture but the stubble nearly reduced me to tears, Hobbit toes, specialised website for non-pit shavers, hairy palms, Armpit hair like genital hair, Pheramones, Pink Floyd's The Wall etc etc - keep it coming folks facinating stuff...i've even decided to give it a try.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Homeless
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 10:02 AM

Ms Lemon, the answer to your question, "so why do men prefer shaved pits?" is "social conditioning" or possibly "peer pressure." There is no rational reason. Many men who are able to think for themselves don't have a preference one way or another.
Read Sweetfia's post above for an example of social conditioning. What reason is there to be embarrassed that your pits aren't shaved?

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Madame P At Work
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 07:21 AM

My brother once shaved his eyebrows off after watching Pink Floyd's The Wall, just to see what it would look like.

He can't have looked that different 'cos it took my Mum a week and a severe telling off, for her to notice what he'd done. It was quite amusing to watch. My mother grabed the front of my brother's shirt to drag him down to her level (to emphasise a point, as it were) and just stopped in her tracks. Then she exploded with "Why ent you got no eyebrows?" at the top of her lungs. She proceeded to berate him for his lack of cranial caterpillars and then she demanded that I tell him why he shouldn't shave them off! It all lost steam when my brother started laughing and my Mum kept losing track of where she was in her diatribe.

Thanks to my inheriting my hair colouration from my Dad, I don't have to shave anyway. The few hairs I have are really pale and they just don't show up against my skin. My Mother was a bit put out about that too, come to think of it, as she has black body hair.

I did shave my legs once, just to see what it was like. I decide that the itching alone was enough to drive me insane, so I didn't do that ever again and thanked the powers that be for my good fortune....

TTFN Lady P.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST,G String
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 06:32 AM

You could platt your pits !!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Sweetfia
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 06:27 AM

Eeeeewww! This could be a generation thing but as if ya don't shave ya armpits! I would find it really embarrassing if i wore a strap top n i hadn't.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 06:21 AM

I didn't shave for years. I did notice my customers looking when I was making the lemonade, but it never affected sales! I do shave now because I have noticed that the hair hangs on to odours. I suppose that's why they are there... to attract the opposite sex. Pheramones etc, so why do men prefer shaved pits? Don't you like us to smell all natural like? In some areas I know you do!

Sal

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST,G String
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 06:14 AM

"Blue cliky thing" problem - but a google search found this interesting site www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/7977/ from a lady who's dived deep into the pits in the name of research

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 05:33 AM

Armpit hair like genital hair, arrives at puberty and is therefore pubic hair and a sign of sexual maturity. While I can understand a woman feeling that excessively hirsute arms or legs might look unfeminine, I would generally prefer a lady not to shave or depilate her armpits - Linda never does. The same goes for "the bits the sun don't see" although as Linda and I do enjoy naturism now and again, perhaps Liz's description isn't so accurate. As mentioned on another thread, I find mature ladies (esp Essex Girl) very sexy, and don't want them to look like pre-pubescent girls.

I've definitely never felt any desire to remove any of my (admittedly sparse) body hair, and the only time that I have shaved my beard off in the last 30-odd years was for a stage role.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 05:04 AM

I wonder if they shaved the orange first.
Do the turkeys have time to shave ?

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 04:14 AM

They used half an orange!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eeeeeeek!

Ella

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: SueB
Date: 15 Jan 04 - 02:33 AM

jOhn, I agree completely about turkeys. They are absolute rubbish, and I hate them too. My husband has one that I've been trying to run down with the car for months now.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 11:39 PM

Sorcha, I do believe that B-W-L is yanking your chain (or his own) with that remark about hairy palms. Or was that Rosy. . .

;->

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Justa Picker
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 11:19 PM

You do mow the lawn occasionally though .... right Sorch? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 11:10 PM

No, not shaving eyebrows...and palms are one of the few places on the human body that do NOT have hair.....and, So solly, harpgirl....LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 09:55 PM

Armpits, shmarmpits!!! I wanna hear about shavin' TOES!!! Who's got hairy damned Hobbit toes and can't wear open-toed sandals without shavin' first?

Eyebrows??? Anybody shave their eyebrows off and paint them back on???

How'bout PALMS??? Anybody here shave their palms???



Just curious...

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 09:29 PM

and how to kill them = slit there throat, and its not cruel, it serves them right, turkeys are rubbish, and you should kilm them, and diffent ways to do it, you can slicing there neck, or chop them heads off, [ that is machine doing it, but you haf to watch the msachine, in case it stops etc], and if it stops, you hsve to kill them youself, thats wyjh you have a sharp knife in your poickiet.
and pigs as well, [but most of them killed by gas nowadays, its not cruel any,mmore, they changed the law.john

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 09:09 PM

ebbie-i yoused to work in an abbatoir, amd kill turkeys, amnd wehn you kill them, they shit allover you, and people thinjk turkeys are nice, but they not, tyhey evil, [and some of them are really big, and can break your arm], i hate turkeys, and some of then try to run aeway, and tyheyt come to the slaughrt house in big trucks, and some of them are dead already, anbmnd serve tghem right , becuase turkeys are rubbishh.john

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 09:04 PM

Liz - you just reminded me of a very funny scene. Post surgery, I was encouraged to walk as much and as soon as possible. The incision was torture but the stubble nearly reduced me to tears. So I am hobbling bow legged down the corridor dragging an IV when a nurse runs over to me and says "You shouldn't be in this much pain! What's wrong?" I responded icily "Five O'clock shadow."

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:52 PM

Why Do You Bob Your Hair, Girls

and why don't you bind your feet and wear corsets & bustles, too? And why don't you pierce various parts and stick jewelry....
oh...never mind...

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:52 PM

Oops--that one wasn't anonymous--but it was still silly.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:51 PM

greg--not taboo, just inane. I would sarcastically suggest any number of other thread topics except that some visiting einstein might decide to make his Mudcat debut with a thread on why toilet paper sometimes sticks to his butt. (Hmmm. Maybe that one has already been done. Should I do a search on 'spaw's threads? Or LH's Blind Drunk in Blind River?) Kevin was right, the remark probably would have been made even if a mudcatter started the thread. But the anonymous guests are easy targets when silly stuff turns up.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:47 PM

I still don't see how someone else's preference is any business of yours?

Why does it matter?

If ya wanna shave... shave... if ya don't... then don't...

Why is it even a discussion?

Which is better? Please... give yer head a shake...

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Ebbie
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:46 PM

Don't leave us in suspense, jOhn from Hull.

I read this thread as Harry and Ethel Armpits. I guess, because I know a Harry and Ethel.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:41 PM

And?

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:09 PM

helo, i nevdr shaved my arm pits, but i saheved my arms one time, because i thought it might stop the turkey shit sticking to them,.

Subject: Lyr Add: HAIR
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 08:03 PM

She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy.
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright.
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know.
It's not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead.
Darlin'

Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair.
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen.
Give me down to there hair, shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, ev'rywhere, daddy, daddy.

hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair.Flow it, show it,long as God can grow it, my hair.

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees, give a home to the fleas in my hair.
A home for fleas (yeah) a hive for bees (yeah),
a nest for birds, there ain't no words for the beauty, the splendor, the wonder of my:

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it,long as God can grow it, my hair

I want long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty,
oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen,
knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided,
powered, flowered and confettied, bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied.

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair.Flow it, show it,
long as God can grow it, my hair

They'll be ga-ga at the go-go when they see me in my toga,
my toga made of blond, brilliantined, biblical hair.
My hair like Jesus wore it, Hallelujah I adore it, Hallelujah Mary loved her son,why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
long as God can grow it, my hair

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
long as God can grow it, my hair

HAIR

But not a mention of armpits, is there?

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: harpgirl
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:50 PM

Scorch...I DID NOT NEED to know that!

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:45 PM

Romans used to use pumice stone from volcanic lava rather than shaving daily, I believe. Must have felt a bit strange after Pompeii...

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:43 PM

Roman ladies used to pluck their unwanted hair out..... try to imagine that, without wincing!

Mind you, they used half an orange as a contraceptive device so what did they know?!

Just another one of those things the Romans did for us.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:39 PM

It's been years since I shaved my armpits OR legs. Friggin' electric razor damn near electrocuted me one day in the bath, so I stopped.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:25 PM

Been there, done that, twice with 2 kids....oh well. It grows out. Finally. Can't say as I really care much, one way or the other, but I'm lazy....can't be bothered to shave much....waaaayyyy too much trubble.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 07:18 PM

Stubble rash is bad enough under arms (or, so I'm told on, faces), but the worst was when I had a surgical procedure and they shaved the bits the sun don't see.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 06:56 PM

But in both cases many people seem to share this strange concept that shaving hair, rather than just letting it grow, is somehow the more natural thing to do.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: greg stephens
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 06:48 PM

Interesting that this is such a taboo subject that some people feel actively uncomfortable about discussing it. Which is quite odd, beard discussion aren't considered unmentionable.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: paddymac
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 06:20 PM

Ah, the silliness of self-righteousness.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 04:56 PM

Was it covered or uncoverd though?

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Cluin
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 04:46 PM

Didn't this topic get covered a little while ago here?
It was stupid then and it's stupid now.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Sorcha
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 04:45 PM

Haven't shaved my pits for years...just lazy and it doesn't bother me..went about 5 years w/o shaving my legs.....didn't bother me but felt weird in the bath. Now, I shave legs about q month except in summer. Just lazy.

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 04:44 PM

That wasn't a case of a GUEST being abused as a GUEST. If a named member had started this thread, with the same post, I am sure that Stilly River Sage would have made the same comment.

Must be bloody uncomfortable, that's all I can think. Shaving faces is bad enough, which is one reason I gave it up long ago, but doing your armpits doesn't bear thinking about...

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST,Geno
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 03:43 PM

Sorry; should've had a comma after "c'mon". It's me nerves...

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST,Geno
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 03:41 PM

Don't you people have anything better to do with your time than abuse guests? C'mon, there have been plenty of threads dedicated to guest-bashing already; what do you want, blood?

comma added--Joe Clone

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 03:00 PM

Some people like hair... some like shaved...
Some like up... some like down...
Some like in... some like out...
Some tall... some short...
Some fat... some skinny...
Some different... some same...

Can we delete this stupid useless thread now?

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 02:54 PM

Maybe he means, "why complain?" In some cultures, female body hair is considered erotic.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 11:14 AM

when we went down pits we always shaved cos you could get coalitus

Subject: RE: BS: Hairy or shaved armpits
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jan 04 - 11:00 AM

Is there another line on the page below which we can put this thread? Some kind of sub-BS category? Geez. Another stupid guest thread.