Has Botox had its day?

[Hannah Bell]

Clearly the most shocking revelation (in the wikileaks) has been that Muammar Gaddafi – a man who is rivalled only by a basset hound in crumpled complexions – uses Botox.



Botox has been extraordinarily successful at marketing itself as the youth elixir for the vaguely fashionable...Baggy-faced dictators don't fit into that brand image, not because of the dictator issue, of course, but because of the baggy-faced one. If even a man of Gaddafi's resources can't get decent Botox, what hope for the average mother of the bride?

Of course, Gaddafi cannot bring down Botox on his own... But unlike his campaign against the Swiss, in regards to Botox, he has some help...Last weekend, a new TV show entitled Bridalplasty made its deeply painful debut in the US.... There can be no more repulsive depiction of the western world than a TV show in which demented brides compete for Botox and plastic surgery.

Plastic surgery and Botox have never looked so tacky, and that really is saying something about an industry that created the Bride of Wildenstein. They are no longer associated with brittle ladies who lunch, but reality TV stars such as 24-year-old Heidi Montag, who recently had 10 surgeries in a day. But Gaddafi has gone further in suggesting that, even worse than being tacky, they are – horrors! – not very effective.

And that is the worst PR of all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/01/has-botox-day-hadley-freeman

[RandomThoughts]

1. Ignoring the spin in the comment.

For those that don't know. not about the idea in that post, in many articles from opposites he is used as a symbol to try and add to the macro of some labels.


But anyway there is a doctrine. What it says is it is important to have a resistance, but to make them look ineffective, and if they can be seen for being ineffective, then it strengthens the empire.


Heres the thing, all the thousands of inspiring thoughts in so many places, they have given me ways to think and feel on things beyond any possibility of beer and travel money, and that is actually something, but not a material thing.




But the point is, it is what you think winning is, and what you think is important.

For instance if you think winning is what you own, then you can say that much knowledge and feeling does not always add to owning things. If you think winning is the delight of such joy in so many places, and thoughts and feelings on so many things by those that share them, then winning is also sharing them with others.

What if you learned to horde as 'winning' what if you learned to share as winning, by how it feels to you, what would you emulate, what might you give and receive? Truly it is better to give then receive.

Also why in so many stories, the opposites both think they are in a better place, or can't see the other sides 'win' in a different area, why balance also seems to be better.


Side note, I am still due beer and travel money and many experiences :D


Hording thought, he with the most toys at the end wins.

Spiritual thought, you can't take it with you, and that is not really the end.

[LaurenG]

2. Yikes and lol

:D

[demodonkey]

3. My mother, a stroke surivor with spasticity, benefits greatly from being treated with Botox

Botox is not just for faces...........

http://www.healthline.com/hgy-transcripts/spasticity-treatment

http://www.neurotoxininstitute.com/

[Skidmore]

4. He just looks like a Vegas lounge lizard.

[Vinca]

5. Just be thankful he hasn't had his lips done.