[reiner]

I think it gets downright comical when people alter their bodies so much that they visibly appear less and less real and more plastic. To me, it becomes less attractive. Plus, I just don't look highly upon people who place their physical appearance as such a high priority. in teh end, that skin is just holding in all the bones and guts.

[SimeSublime]

Well, there's a fine line between sucky scars and cool scars. For instance, cool scars can include: ...scar from a broken heart...

Open heart surgery. Twice. Well, actually three times, but they opend the same place twice, so only two scars. The are awesome.

[Amber-Nicole]

Among sucky scars: Chicken pox scars

[Helena]

Plus, I just don't look highly upon people who place their physical appearance as such a high priority.  in teh end, that skin is just holding in all the bones and guts.

True, but that's easy to say when you don't have experience of living with a noticable physical disfigurement (I'm assuming you don't.) I took enough flak as a kid just for having red hair - I can't imagine what it must be like for people with actual disfigurements. It's easy to say that 'society should change' to become more accepting, but the reality is that this simply isn't going to happen - reactions of disgust to things that look 'abnormal' are deeply inbuilt in most people.

Of course, it's slightly different when normal-looking people choose to have plastic surgery to enhance their attractiveness. There you might argue that they're just being vain - although in some professions, such as acting, this might almost be considered a necessity.

[Amber-Nicole]

What? Teased about red hair? But red hair is so hawt! You know what they say about red heads! ~_^

[Jane Sherwood]

Even More Sucky Scars: three-inch long appendectomy scars (like mine), large scars from run-of-the-mill scrapes (I have a pale purplish one on the side of my ankle from where I scraped my leg up falling in a ditch), and little thin lines or speckle-like things that are so old or just seem to pop up suddenly for no reason that you don't even remember how you got them.

[SimeSublime]

I like to tell people that I got my scars in knife fights and see how long it takes them to call me a bullshitter.

[reiner]

I don't have a horrible disfigurement, no, but I was harassed a lot about my weight and being so short. Plastic surgery for corrective purposes is just fine though. I wouldn't want anyone to have to live with something horrible caused by a birth defect or accident. What I was referring to were people who only develop their appearance as a means to be recognized. I've always thought it was more worthwhile to develop yourself mentally or physically as then you would have some value in society (although some of the smartest and most fit are worthless to society).

[SimeSublime]

Sportsmen/women, for example. What good have they ever done.

[Amber-Nicole]

Sports are dumb.

It absolutely drives me crazy that entertainers make so much money, but don't really do anything that's all that great.

[Zerahsedai]

I can understand wanting to go under the knife to correct a physical disfigurement, but most of the plastic surgery you hear of (at least in the USA) is not concerned with correcting a clef palate or whatever. They've got TV shows on several channels that glorify the choice to cut up your body soley for cosmetic reasons. I think that is vain, shallow, and stupid. Those people who do have surgery for cosmetic reasons will have to suffer my scorn, but I doubt they care.

I mean, I wanted to puke after watching part of that celebrity makeover show on MTV. Those people do not look attractive.


Oh, and I have some awesome scars on the back of my leg from when my cat attacked me one night, an incident which finally convinced me to get them "altered" a.k.a. have their balls cut off. Anyway, my scars are claw marks about 4 inches long and a strange dark purple color- it looks like I got swiped by a crazy jungle animal or something. As a matter of fact, I should start telling people that...

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[Amber-Nicole]

My little baby cousin just had surgery to correct a cleft pallete. I don't think that qualifies as "cosmetic" surgery. My aunt adopted her from Guatemala when she was a year old. She had no roof to her mouth, and when she ate, the food would come out her nose. She would have died of malnutrition had she not been adopted.

[Jane Sherwood]

Anyway, my scars are claw marks about 4 inches long and a strange dark purple color- it looks like I got swiped by a crazy jungle animal or something. As a matter of fact, I should start telling people that...

Claw marks? Are there three or four of them? I was thinking if there are four, you could make shameless references to Freddy Krueger anytime someone asks about how you got them.

“Whoa…how did you get those scars on your leg?”
“Have you ever seen those Nightmare on Elm Street movies?”
“Yeah.”
(*deadly serious exp​ression*) “Well there you go.”

Of course, that's just what I would do...

[barend]

i only have three scars that i am aware of...

one on my forehead from being hit with a glass door at a squash court (it opened while i was running), i was about five or six when i got it...
it was quite big when i was a kid but it didn't grow with me so it's small, and usually takes a while to find.

second under my lip, a slight skin fold from falling down concrete stairs when i was three or four, i lost alot of blood that day.
(i once met a girl - the cutest girl in the world in fact - who had the same scar but just above the top lip)
damn! i had such a thing for her, and had till now forgotten about her...
great, now i'll be depressed for a week!

and third is more of an acidental tatoo... a green dot in my palm, from acidentally stabbing myself with a pen that had a nib 0.1mm thick.
i was holding it from above letting go and catching it from above, then on one catch it fell out of its lid and out of reflex i went to catch it but it landed on the table pointing up and i slammed my hand into it driving it into my palm, and it just hung there when i lifted my hand up...

i have never been scared from a knife fight though... i guess i'm just too quick, although i haven't been in a full fledged knife fight... but someone once pulled a butterfly knive on me and i disaramed him and threatened his 'manhood' with it... i was very proud of that manouver.

however i once had a fork fight with a biker who stabed me in the hand. but no scar...

[Deven]

I only have four scars (well, four sources anyway) . . .

Two scars on my leg from a dog bite
A bunch of scars on my knuckles from when an airbag deployed in a car accident
A small dot in my cheek just below my left eye where I lost a tug of war over a pencil and got the business end
And assorted burns from cigarettes (you seriously can NOT go to a club that allows smoking without getting burned at least once or twice -- it's obscene).


PS, does this remind anyone else of that scene in Jaws where Quint and Cooper are comparing scars on the boat?