Boob Jobs Are The Hot Christmas Gift

[matcom]

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LAST Christmas it was all about the digital camera. The year before that, it was the DVD player. Could this Christmas be the year of the breast implant?

Cosmetic surgery clinics across Queensland have been swamped by people buying their partners procedures in the lead-up to Christmas.

Demand has been so strong that one Gold Coast clinic has had to fly up extra surgeons from Sydney to cope.

Highly popular "gifts" include breast implants, liposuction, penis enlargements and nose reconstructions.

Botox treatments have also been popular as the Christmas party season swings into gear.

Popular television shows such as Nip/Tuck and Extreme Makeover are thought to be behind the boom.

Pamela Noon, who heads the Cosmetic Surgery Report clinic on the Gold Coast, said the number of people having surgery at her clinic had doubled in the past few months.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11542387%255E13762,00.html

[McKenzie]

1. don't do it ladies, please!

silicon implants, enhancements or whatever else is on offer. I prefer you just as nature intended.

[WMliberal]

11. just as long as they're large and perfectly shaped!!!

actually i don't really care. I gawk at Maria Sharapova just as hard as I do some silicone-enhanced porn star.

[tk2kewl]

2. I wish we could get the WH a boob-ectomy

for Christmas

[xchrom]

3. what's next? -- penis enlargement?

:wow: :)

[matcom]

4. no worries

mine "enlarges" itself ;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

17. Rofl! Dude that is just wrong....

[Scrooge]

5. no thanks

If I were given THAT for Christmas, first Id feel insulted and then I would take the money and go someplace warm.

[Spinzonner]

6. When this sort of thing becomes commonplace

you know the civilzation is teatering on the edge of dissolution

[Endangered Specie]

7. Hoe Hoe Hoe!

[Left Is Write]

8. My daughter and I were just talking about boob jobs

this afternoon. She was paging through People magazine, which prompted the conversation.

I told her I thought it was a little sad that so many people have fallen under the plastic surgery spell. People with perfectly normal, nice-looking bodies decide that they aren't good enough and they have to go under general anesthetic, get cut open, and have foreign objects inserted into their bodies. It's also sad to see how many lookalikes there are with the same boobs, the same foreheads, the same lips, and the same teeth. Many, many women who all look the same, like dolls.

Beauty comes in all shapes, all sizes, and all features. I wish modern women could be more accepting of unique differences.

I have no desire whatsoever for a boob job. I *would* like my teeth to be whitened (years of coffee and red wine, plus all the smoking I did between ages 17 and 32), but I wouldn't get a neat row of veneers to accomplish that.

[-..__...]

9. Then there's the scary part.

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/

[JI7]

12. UGH

i would rather just live with the normal wrinkles that come with old age.

[Ima]

10. The Doctors

will have a very merry Xmass.:party:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. I thought you were talking about some other kind of jobs.

Merry Christmas indeed!

[salin]

14. and this news story was a big Christmas present to matcom

right? ;-)

[NoodleBoy]

15. uh... pics?

[sans qualia]

16. Amusing link on that site...

Feral camel explosion in outback