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Why Do My Elementary Boys Wear Nail Polish?

 
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:40 am    Post subject: Why Do My Elementary Boys Wear Nail Polish? Reply with quote

I noticed this last summer vacation, too, most of my elementary boys are coming to the haggie with pierced ears, dyed turd-brown mullets and nail polish on their fingernails.

It's that gross nail polish, too, that reddish stuff that makes it look like they've been boiling their fingertips in the kimchi jjigae pot for too long.

Oh Korean mothers, what hast thou donest?
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not nail poilsh. It's balsam flower crushed into a paste. You seal it around your nails with cling film overnight and it stains your fingers and nails orange. I always thought it looked a little like nicotine stains. Apparently if there's still a little bit still on your finger, as the nail grows out, by the first snowfall of the year you'll find true love.

There you go.
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stevemcgarrett



Joined: 24 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure but my best guess is they're grooming themselves to be much-in-demand metrosexuals when they reach adolescence. Shocked

Either that or they've been watching too many of those Sunkist lemonade commercials on TV. Wink
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's what it is???

I always thought it was a botched-up job. I recall upsetting my middle school female students way back when I asked them what in god's name happened to their nails, thinking that a methylated spirits high had gone terribly, terribly wrong.

So does the true love thing work? I've been looking for a post-op Cambodian to call my own for eons now.
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indytrucks



Joined: 09 Apr 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a popular summertime thing for the kiddies to do whilst they visit Grandma somewhere out in the country. Maybe you've noticed (on boys) it's usually only on the pinky and ring fingers? Girls usually do the whole hand. Moms sometimes do their toes.

As for the true love thing, who knows.
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sojourner1



Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Where meggi swim and 2 wheeled tractors go sput put chug alugg pug pug

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 3:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yea, I noticed orange nail polish on a boy the other day and hair dyed light brown with blond streaks. I don't quite know why.

Why will a macho high strung rude and agressive middle school boy carry a pink Hello Kitty pencil case around that looks like a handbag? I don't quite know why. Ha ha, that's funny as can be.

Why did I see a kid wearing a shirt that said, "I like f*cking." Uh, I am not quite sure why. LOL.

Why do some kids and young women like wearing marijuana leaf themed shirts and jackets? Not sure why, but they don't get high here. Maybe no one knows what that is. Really funny.

Fashion is downright hilarious at times. It says, I am really cool and really different and a walking gawdy status symbol. These things come and go and are always changing.
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One thing I have noticed (I am generalizing here) is that if you spend a lot of time with a Korean family (at their home, for example), is that the mothers are incredibly soft on the kids, while the fathers are pretty harsh, inducing tears pretty easily.

Then again, I've also noticed the opposite, where the mothers wear the pants and call the shots so to speak.

What is my point to this?

Sweet potato is great, so long as I don't have to eat it or smell it.
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LUCRETIA



Joined: 20 Jun 2007

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One of my dirty secrets is that I love a guy who wears nailpolish.

Not orange nailpolish, mind you...
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LUCRETIA wrote:
One of my dirty secrets is that I love a guy who wears nailpolish.

Not orange nailpolish, mind you...


I use nail polish. Makes me nose hairs look like the berries the Smurfs like to eat.

Are you a post-op Cambodian, too, like jaganath69? Oh, how he scorned me for using a toothbrush, the cad!
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mothef#cker what you do when these here little c&nts walk through the door acting like they the sh#t you grab em by the ear.. toss em over a desk and then beat their a#sses till the beg for mercy.

Don't accept none of this pussified god damn metrofagoshit.
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dan The Chainsawman wrote:
Mothef#cker what you do when these here little c&nts walk through the door acting like they the sh#t you grab em by the ear.. toss em over a desk and then beat their a#sses till the beg for mercy.

Don't accept none of this pussified god damn *beep*.


Right! I agree! Full on! Show no mercy! Slaughter of their souls!

Uh, white power?
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Dan The Chainsawman



Joined: 05 May 2005

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I say we round up these puss#fied little K-boy co#k smokers and herd them into re-education camps. Once there we can rewire their cerebal cortexes with chuck norris propoganda.

If that fails we kill them all.
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Yesterday



Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Land of the Morning DongChim (Kancho)

PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

indytrucks wrote:
It's not nail poilsh. It's balsam flower crushed into a paste. You seal it around your nails with cling film overnight and it stains your fingers and nails orange. I always thought it looked a little like nicotine stains. Apparently if there's still a little bit still on your finger, as the nail grows out, by the first snowfall of the year you'll find true love.

There you go.


Yes - and its not a recent thing - i first noticed it years and years ago when I first came here....

Its an old Korean custom - its supposed to keep the "evil spirits'ghosts" away - at night... so it gives the kids a kinda of confidence to sleep in the dark alone - and not be afraid and not wet the bed etc....

its usually done to the kid by the grandparents or parents after the kid had a night with trouble sleeping due to being afraid - or wetting the bed etc...
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