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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 12:15 pm:   

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20110210/tuk-cosmetic-op-death-girl-wanted-fame-dba16 18.html
This is terrible all round. What's going on, folks? at least when we got depressed about our appearances in the past there wasn't a way in dealing with it that might get us killed. What a sad, Dickensian and sordid pic this paints.
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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec

Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 04:05 pm:   

I saw this too, Tony, and was saddened. She was only in her 20s, wasn't she? It's a sad state of affairs when youngsters are so worried about their appearance that they resort to these kinds of drastic actions.

It doesn't help when "celebs" are in the news looking like skin stretched over skeletons and that's considered to be beautiful. Young girls get obsessed about being like these people, and that's when we get things like anorexia and so on. Also, I think there's more pressure on women to look good for men.

Having said that, I think it's sometimes as bad for men too - but we don't see it happening so much. I chanced across a message forum a while ago (when I was looking for something else - honest!). I just *had* to read some of the posts. It was a bodybuilding site (yes, I really had been looking for something else - please believe me ) and these guys were talking about all the steroids and stuff they were taking to make themselves look good. Horrendous! I can't understand this mentality at all.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.153.144.35
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 04:15 pm:   

It does us good to see how these people speak. My youngest has all these kids as friends on facebook and they shock me with their views and the way they speak. And yesterday I let him play Galaxy radio and it struck me how emotional the lyrics were, not shallow. Kids don't seem as happy as we think.
This girl died in a tatty hotel room, miles from home. And it's awful the parents might have paid for the op. God, I can't imagine how that must feel.
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 05:08 pm:   

I was looking at the face book page of the son of a friend of mine (13 year old) and he had a link to 2 girls one cup on his wall...

There are times I think parents really should be monitoring what their kids are doing
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Weber (Weber_gregston)
Username: Weber_gregston

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.56
Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 05:09 pm:   

My friend's son is 13, not my friend. just thought I'd make that clear. I do not have a 13 year old friend who has a son with a facebook page with links to the most infamous scat video of recent times.

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