Rate it: how good are you at complaining?

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

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It was while I was sitting in a salon last week, watching the hairdresser pressing the zillion degree heat of the blowdryer directly on to my hair without moving it at all, that I thought “Jesus why do I put up with this crap.”

I was desperately late for a meeting and panicking - but she didn’t know that. In fact we had had no conversation whatsoever since the shampoo girl had scrubbed my hair together while washing it - the worst thing you can do to wet hair. And now here was the second worst thing - applying intense heat onto the hair while it’s wet. You know the way the you’re told that you should keep the hairdryer constantly moving and keep it a good few inches from the hair? Well hairdressers never bother to keep the hairdryer any distance from the hair (it takes too long). But they at least move it around and up and down a bit usually. But only when a section was dryer than the Sahara did this lady move on.

Sure I may as well have butchered it with cheap shampoo myself at home and GHDed it when it was wet. I couldn’t honestly have caused as much damage as they did.

So in the end it was done and I ran out of the place in a tearing hurry cos I was so late. The hair actually felt like it would snap the next day, it was so fried.

And the third worst thing was: I even left a tip.

I said not a word at any stage to indicate displeasure, I didn’t by the merest shrug of my shoulders let them know that I was unhappy - but the fact of the matter was they did their job really badly. And I said nothing.

I was a completely unassertive wimp.

Do you, by any chance have a similar tale?

Rate it: best celebrity spot

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

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Last week we had momentous news of the McNulty underwear moment plus Kirstie being Very Impressed with the arse on Keith Duffy.

So now we want to know what was your favourite celebrity spot moment? Give yourself marks out of ten. How good was it? How big a celebrity are they? For example give yourself:

  • 0/10 for any Aslan moment;
  • 10/10 for snogging Johnathon Rhys Myers or anyone on the 50 Fine Things list. Which er is anyone on the Irish Rugby Team.
  • Give points for sightings (more if they’re a huge international star - say Pat Kenny) and add value if you actually spoke to or had any contact with said celeb without them calling guards or similar. Points can even be given for common or garden occurrances such as Colin Farrell asking for the phone number of your friend who met him one night in Lillies (but then he never rang, even though she had written it on the back of his hand in biro.)
  • Nul points for stalking celebrities on Twitter (this does not mean they are your actual mates); once seeing Bono in the VIP area of a nightclub; visiting the same hairdresser who knows another hairdresser who once was going to do Grainne Seoige’s blowdry, but then it was cancelled at the last minute.

I rate my Colin Firth moment as 6/10 by the way. Points for actually meeting him, getting a photo taken, him being ridiculously handsome in real life and also for being Mr Darcy. Points deducted on the other hand for me being reduced to a blithering eejit and not being able to think of anything to say to him. At all.

Roisin gets -10/10 for McNulty knicker drawer incident and Kirstie gets 2/10 for Keith Duffy (explanation: she only saw him in BT and no contact was made whatsoever - arse or otherwise).

Six month braces: have you tried them?

Friday, November 14th, 2008

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I had braces when I was younger and now I think my teeth have moved back a bit. In fact they look a lot like this guy on the Six Month Braces site.

Without the tache made from grass and lips so dry they might burst though.

Well okay they don’t look that bad. But it’s made me curious. Six months - I could put up with that. I know there’s been a lot of ongoing discussion about braces on this post and I’m wondering who has experience of the six month type?

I remember my braces were really sore when they got tightened before and if the whole procedure is accelerated is that not agony?

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