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Yes, if I'm not mistaken as well - I don't have any close experience with them, but really looks like oneLinna Heartlistener wrote:baby cockatiel, I think!! Am I right effy?
I actually raised them when I was a teen.
My family insisted that the lady who owned a pet shop and I were the only ones who found them cute at this stage.
That is awesome! I wants one!deer of the dawn wrote:
Sorus wrote:Terry Pratchett wrote:The question seldom addressed is where Medusa had snakes. Underarm hair is an even more embarrassing problem when it keeps biting the top of the deodorant bottle.
womanviews.com wrote:The earliest reference we have regarding women shaving is the ancient Babylonians, more than one thousand years before the birth of Christ who developed depilatories to remove unwanted body hairs. Julius Caesar reported that early Britons “had long flowing hairs and shaved every part of their bodies except the head and upper lip”, but this passage may refer only to men. We do know that barbers removed surplus hair from the eyebrows, nostrils, arms, and legs from male customers around this time.
The first direct reference to the specific topic at hand is contained in Ovid’s Art of Love, written just before the birth of Christ: “Shall I warn you to keep the rank goat out of your armpits? Warn you to keep your legs free of coarse bristling hair?”
In Chaucer’s day (the fourteenth century), the mere sight of any hair was thought of as erotic. Women were obliged to wear head coverings; caps were worn indoors and out by woman of all ages. These earliest experiences envisage our contemporary duality about body hair on women. On the one hand, underarm hair is thought to be unattractive and unhygienic, and yet on the other, sexy and natural.
The earliest reports regarding women shaving concerned prostitutes during the gold rush days in California. The theory was that prostitutes shaved their underarms to prove that they have no body lice, which were widespread in the old West.
Historian C.F. “Charley” Eckhardt of Seguin, Texas, has actually studied his family records regarding women and shaving. My paternal grandmother, he says, born in 1873, and my maternal grandmother, born in 1882, did not shave their armpits. My wife’s maternal grandmother (1898), my mother (1914), and my mother-in-law (1921) all did or do.
Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic studies of the nude human figure in motion and Hillaire Belloc’s photographs of New Orleans prostitutes, all taken before or immediately after the turn of the century, show hairy armpits, as do nude photos of prostitutes known to have been taken in El Paso, Texas, prior to 1915.
So what caused these women to start shaving their armpits around 1915? We do know that flappers of the Roaring Twenties adopted sleeveless clothing. Advertisers began marketing their razor blades to women to exploit this new trend. Naturally the legs followed. And today it’s pretty much a free for all!
