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To make-up or not?

  • 16-07-2011 9:41am
    #1
    ElvisP
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 116 ✭✭


    I just broke up with a girl after finally seeing her without make-up. I feel totally jipped. It took about five dates before we 'slept over' and then saw her in her natural state. Wasn't impressed at all. There should be a law against this...


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  • #2
    Joe1919
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,158 ✭✭✭Joe1919


    ...While [Hercules] stood in doubt as to these roads, he saw two fair women coming toward him, each on a different road. The one who came by the flowery way reached him first, and Hercules saw that she was as beautiful as a summer day.

    Her cheeks were red, her eyes sparkled; she, spoke warm, persuasive words. "O noble youth," she said, "be no longer bowed down with labor and sore trials, but come and follow me, I will lead you into pleasant paths, where there are no storms to disturb and no troubles to annoy. You shall live in ease, with one unending round of music and mirth; and you shall not want for anything that makes life joyous--sparkling wine, or soft couches, or rich robes, or the loving eyes of beautiful maidens. Come with me, and life shall be to you a day-dream of gladness."

    By this time the other fair woman had drawn near, and she now spoke to the lad. "I have nothing to promise you," said she, "save that which you shall win with your own strength. The road upon which I would lead you is uneven and hard, and climbs many a hill, and descends into many a valley and quagmire. The views which you will sometimes get from the hilltops are grand and glorious, but the deep valleys are dark, and the ascent from them is toilsome. Nevertheless, the road leads to the blue mountains of endless fame, which you see far away on the horizon. They cannot be reached without labor; in fact, there is nothing worth having that must not be won by toil. If you would have fruits and flowers, you must plant them and care for them; if you would gain the love of your fellow men, you must love them and suffer for them; if you would enjoy the favor of Heaven, you must make yourself worthy of that favor; if you would have eternal fame, you must not scorn the hard road that leads to it."

    Then Hercules saw that this lady, although she was as beautiful as the other, had a countenance pure and gentle, like the sky on a balmy morning in May....

    The Choice of Hercules, (originally written By Xenophon, 430 - 354 BC)

    http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/9290/


  • #3
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,539 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    ElvisP wrote: »
    I just broke up with a girl after finally seeing her without make-up. I feel totally jipped. It took about five dates before we 'slept over' and then saw her in her natural state. Wasn't impressed at all. There should be a law against this...

    MOD COMMENT:
    This OP will be moved, as it does not appear to be a topic for the Philosophy forum; rather, it may be better placed in PI. It will be locked when moved, in order that the destination forum mods may consider it for appropriateness.


  • #4
    Otis Driftwood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,925 ✭✭✭Otis Driftwood


    Black Swan wrote: »
    MOD COMMENT:
    This OP will be moved, as it does not appear to be a topic for the Philosophy forum; rather, it may be better placed in PI. It will be locked when moved, in order that the destination forum mods may consider it for appropriateness.

    Locked it shall remain.


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