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Ah, this is the humanity I'm used to. Twin Cities resident decides $2700 silicone injection treatments are too expensive and hey, what do docs know anyway? So she buys $10 of silicone lubricant online, gets a syringe and injects her face with it.
Amazingly the results were not what she expected.
Amazingly the results were not what she expected.
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But still, yeah: dumbass.
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And I was expecting something worse, too, but maybe the face-transplant stories have raised the bar for me.
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How does one sleep through *56* tattoos?
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Despite that, he's offering to split the cost of laser removal with her.
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While I can see a face full of stars being a major employment drawback, I don't know that white star-shaped patches all over her face from the laser removal will be any better. She might be better off living with the tattoos.
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You look up "doing it wrong" in the dictionary, that's the picture you're going to see.
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holy CRAP
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Also, a good chunk of the MST3K cast feels the same way. Kevin Murphy's book might as well be titled, "I hate Minnesotans."
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I don't know what city you were in or what non-Uni people you ran into that caused you to formulate the opinion you did, but I could say some things about DC if I wanted, for that matter...though I'd rather not sink to similarly painting a whole area of the US with a broad brush.
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You have to realize that outside of Minnesota, the state is bascially considered the Arkansas of the midwest by the majority of the US, mainly because whenever Minnesota hits the national news it's generally for something completely insane or legenday in the WTF'ness.. Things like the fact MN has more merging accidents than the other 49 states combined,the bridge collapse, the current senate debacle that still rages and so on.
That's not to say that Minnesota is awful (except for the mosquitos), but when most residents of the state don't get that the term "Minnesota Nice" doesn't mean people think they are friendly but that they passive agressive people that fear confrontation and honesty it's a bit alarming. Add in the fact that the general populace is generally naive about the world in general, rarely leaves the state they were born in and has a state government's history is considered almost as corrupt as Chicago's, you can begin to see why the populace is given such a general negative stereotype.
I'd suggest actually getting some cultural anthropological or sociological studies on Minnesota cultural traits. It's actually quite fascinating, although often times quite hard for a resident to read since they're generally laced with a level of brutal honesty the area is known for eschewing. Of course, that's true about anyone reading about their own culture as often times the negative aspects of where we live are known to everyone but those residents. Heh, I actually nearly married a British girl who was quite worldly and yet had never heard the stereotypes about British teeth.
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I do realize that there are many who think of Minnesota (and the entire midwest, really) as being hick-ish, and the people who do are clearly extremely ignorant, and generally naive and unknowledgeable about any of the US beyond their own coast. And you seem to have bought into it yourself.
I don't know what the bridge collapse has to do with anything. It's not like we're the only state in the nation with bridges labeled structurally deficient, yet had repairs long delayed due to lack of funds...there are thousands, we just had one collapse first. What yokels we are. And a close political race that required a time-consuming recount...no, that would never happen elsewhere.
I'd also like to see your source on the "more mergining accidents than all other states combined." Not that I disagree that a lot of people here drive like assholes, but people drive like assholes in L.A. and plenty of other places. Your little factoid sounds at the very least heavily exaggerated, and slightly more possibly just something you pulled out of your ass because it sounded good.
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I also don't disagree with the Bridge collaps could have happened elsewhere but the way the national media portrayed the accident it made the local government look really inept and everyone blaming everyone else instead of taking responsibility didn't help the state's appearance either.
As for the election, a recount would happen - just not to this degree of comedy gold. The things Coleman and Franken have been saying and doing have been so unintentionally hilarious it's been a big black eye on MN. Oddly enough Ventura's Gov. reign was considered one of the most positive aspects of MN politics (from an outsider perspective) and yet from reading the Tribune and Press one would think he was the antichrist when in office.
Speaking of the Tribune, that's where I pulled the merge accident statistic. It was 2005-6 when the paper ran with that and all of my friends living in Minneapolis at the time had a field day trying to figure out how that was remotely possible. My conjecture was that it was because there was nothing to hit in the majority of Minnesota since it is so barren and then everyone moves to Minneapolis to experience "big city life" and we all learn the hard way these people have never experienced multilane highway driving. :-)
If I still had my old LJ I'd link you to the article in the Tribune's archive.
Anyway, as an ex-resident of Minnesota I have to say Minnesota's reputation as a "hickish," as you put it, state is largely earned simply because Minneapolis-St. Paul is the exception to the state with its awesome theatres and museums (I used to have season tickets to the Orchestra and the National Geographic events) and I loved my house on LotI. The rest of the state though? It's very small town filled, very religious, very conservative, and reminds people from the coasts of 1950's life. Very Donna Reed/My Three Sons with threshing festivals and other farmland community events. The people I've encountered there, including my relatives tend to be a bit thick, largely xenophobic, somewhat racist, and pretty ignorant of the rest of the world. I mean, Detroit Lakes and WEFest (is that still around) are not the bastion of culture and cuisine after all.
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