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Braces here are free! surprised Unless it's purely cosmetic. 3nodding I had to have those horrific band things to fix a cross bite, they gave me such horrible headaches. I never want braces again, I don't care if my teeth arn't perfect, I don't want my teeth ruined thankyouverymuch. mad My little sister had to have some major work to get her jaw to expand, it was too small, and would cause major problems later on in life, but the wire that went round her teeth damaged them a bit. crying

Oh stupid media. That's why I ignore it, and would suggest everyone else to. It's just one huge corrupt generalization. Some people just have a very slooow metabolism (sp?) and don't use up much energy at all. I have a pretty medium/slow one I think, because I have to watch what I eat quite carefully. Not because I want to look slim, but because I feel so damn unhealthy and a little ill when I'm overweight, not that I ever have been by alot. But then there's my sister, who's as slim as a rake, and eats things like a sandwich, a packet of crisps, a HUGE cornish pasty, a slice of cake and some grapes for lunch. And yes, that's an actual example... sweatdrop

Aww, KSTU, you should come live with me! I reckon America's media is obsessed with people looking slim, even more so than the english one. I think that's got alot to do with the large percentage of "ethnic minoritys" particularly where I live, who look even more beautiful when "overweight" by the media's standards. Hah.

As for clothes, have you ever thought of making them yourself? I've found that most stuff in the shops isn't very good for me at all, because of my figure. It's all made for an model's shape, and I'm most definately not... xd For instance, most of the shorts and trousers are cut like a man's now; straight down from the waistline. I mean, come on, this is for women? confused So I make a few things that I can wear with other stuff, to make them look better. Like the long waistcoat thing I'm planning on making. Plus, you can get exactly what you want, and it fits just to you. You'd be amazed at how nice it feels when wearing something that you know no-one else can ever wear, because it's one of a kind. biggrin

Try something crazy once in a while. Dye the ends of you hair to match your eyes/top/trousers one day, wear multi-coloured socks and figerless gloves, come to school in a huge black coat and hat so you're all hidden, and swirl around causing mayhem... xd Whatever you like. As long as you know you're beautiful, everyone else will too.

xd I could never make barbie doll clothes; it's much harder on a smaller scale. I did make one of my dolls a dress though, she's quite big. I never really played with my barbies much either... dolls are better... xd

Hehee, if you do that, show us pictures of the chaos! If you get a big enough hat, I bet teachers will stop you on the way in... ninja Just wear anything! Customize! People here do things like cutting off the feet on tights, and wearing them under crops, with sandals. Or cutting the feet off socks, and wearing them on thier arms, or getting an old jacket from the charity shop, and ripping of the arms, and using the arms to put patches on a pair of trousers so they match. Bwargh, cutting up clothes is theraputic, speshly when you know they only cost like 50p... razz

Like rainbow lollipops?

Old Navy has some really retro commercials.

I like Old Navy's ad campgain a bit, the Coke and Pepsi ad wars, and the Target ads. 3nodding

Coke is all about the old classic times, and Pepsi is the new exciting thing. I love watching their commercials and contrasting and compairing. It's fun. 4laugh

that's why Coke has commericals of people skating in the old fasioned four wheel roller stakes and not the inline roller blades. 3nodding And they have that classic songs and guitar stuffs. The whole, "lets get along and have fun" kinda thing.

Pepsi is all about he new hip thing. The celeberties and all hip teens dancing and the lables that are like "whoosh!'

Coke has the classic red and white. They also like to keep their glass bottled coke as a sort of symbol of the old good days. Pepsi has all that blue red and white with the graphics and stuff behind the logo. They're always up with the times and have the latest music playing in their commercials.

XD the stereotype I always thought had rainbows were hippies.

I didn't realize that, KSTU. Now it's really obvious. whee
I love, love, love the Coke commercial with all the people singing.

"I'd like to buy the world a Coke,
Take time to stop and smile.
I'd like to world a Coke,
And chill with it a while.
It's a simple thing!"

Have you seen the original from the hippie days? Ah, it makes me have chicken skin every time I see it. It's really touching to me.

Misty, I like the sound of your commercial, too. We had a similar one. This lady was singing and passing out Cokes to random people. It was really cool.

Rainbow stereotypes are baaadd. Our university had a big debate over their "mascot." We still use rainbows but the logos for sports and such have changed from this:



To this:


All because some stupid schools were calling us gay. What's up with that?! HOMOPHOBES!! mad

I like the old logo waaaaay better.

Eww, the first one is much prettier!