B!TC# IT OUT!

I know this probably doesn't seem like that big of a deal but i'm just super upset about it.
so my other hair dresser the one from the other salon, not the salon where my hair got ruined, told my mom that i need to cut off MOST of the length of my hair. i am NOT happy about this, mostly because i hate short hair on myself and because i don't want anyone to touch my hair. my hair almost reaches the end of my shoulder blades and its in dire need of being trimmed MAYBE about an inch and a half or two inches because my hair is so scraggly and dry and damaged from the terrible bleach job the other lady did on my hair(6 hour at the salon in one day to remove the Splat hair dye that stained my hair). i'm honestly still so shattered and broken from my horrible experience at the other salon i'm starting to refuse to let anyone to touch my hair, except my mom. Thinking about cutting off most of my hair makes me close to tears.:crying:

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Originally Posted by KellyMermaid

I know this probably doesn't seem like that big of a deal but i'm just super upset about it.
so my other hair dresser the one from the other salon, not the salon where my hair got ruined, told my mom that i need to cut off MOST of the length of my hair. i am NOT happy about this, mostly because i hate short hair on myself and because i don't want anyone to touch my hair. my hair almost reaches the end of my shoulder blades and its in dire need of being trimmed MAYBE about an inch and a half or two inches because my hair is so scraggly and dry and damaged from the terrible bleach job the other lady did on my hair(6 hour at the salon in one day to remove the Splat hair dye that stained my hair). i'm honestly still so shattered and broken from my horrible experience at the other salon i'm starting to refuse to let anyone to touch my hair, except my mom. Thinking about cutting off most of my hair makes me close to tears.:crying:

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hun, if you can make it down to San Francisco, my hair dresser was able to save a TON of my hair after a bleach/splat/other color/bleach debacle (seriously, it was hairmageddon). It took a whole freaking day but they did a ton of specialty organic treatments but the results were totally worth it

I have a KILLER hairdresser in Campbell who might be able to save your hair. seriously she's a miracle worker.

it's 9:30 PM, I have a Marilyn Manson concert that I've been waiting MONTHS for and have been keeping myself well only so I can go to the concert. my mom comes in and starts SCREAMING at me about a paper that I didn't turn in today because it wasn't due today. she tells me that I'm cutting class and I'm going to fail out of high school and tells me I can't go to the concert. why does she have to start shit.

You didn't do the work that wasn't due yet. Sounds like you are now an adult . Good, take some of the heat off the rest of us.

I did the work I just haven't turned it in because it wasn't due

Did you proverbially slap the paper in her face? My parents used to do that to me all the freaking time

High school is such a useless churning of crap that doesn't matter in the big scheme of things...Sorry you're dealing with it.

class was canceled today. ugh.

email the essay to your teacher. that way you are covered.
if emailing essays are allowed in college and university this should be ok.

there should be some teachers drop box in the office as well. for good measure, print 3 copies and leave it in the office drop box.

at my highschool there was a teacher's office for specific departments (math, english, drama, music, sciences, art...) so you can hand the third one in to the department.

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Originally Posted by Merman Dylan

...I'm so happy I don't have long hair. My hair is funky because my hair has three places where it grows a certain way that I have to put a paste or gel in my hair to get it to lay down. The hair spirals on the back of my head in two places and it has something it does funky at the front. I don't think hair crowns or whorls are the words they used, but I heard this, I don't think I'm spelling it right but here it is, calak.
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It's actually 'cowlick'. Like a cow licked you across the head, making your hair lay in a different direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowlick

I want to knit my friend's cobra a sweater but my loom is too big :/

Cobras are cold blooded and a sweater would only annoy it.

yeah I know, but he said he wants one and I offered to try even though I have no idea what I'm doing. it's a tolerant cobra, sometimes he wears hats.

Hahaha! Cut the toe off of a tube sock. Instant sweater! I'd love to see a cobra in a top hat.

How does he deal with the whole 'poisonous snake' thing?

Did you know that you don't need a high school degree to go to college. Many electrical engineers I've worked with left high school after 10th grade and went straight to college and shave two years off their school life.

yeah but some of us dont want to be electrical engineers.
some college courses require highschool prerequisite classes. for instance, my librarian program required me to finish 4 years of highschool english. the pharmacy program i wanted to go into required that you pass grade 11 and 12 physics and biology with an average of 80% (didnt work out for me)

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Originally Posted by PearlieMae

Hahaha! Cut the toe off of a tube sock. Instant sweater! I'd love to see a cobra in a top hat.

How does he deal with the whole 'poisonous snake' thing?

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he has tons of venomous species and one venomoid king cobra. the venomoid's glands were removed but they appear to be growing back. he's a herpetologist I think, which is totally cool. his Instagram is @chrisweeet if you want to check out his collection, he's got some fuzzy things too. and he has been bitten lots of times, but the only full bite was from a pit viper, which totally rotted his finger. he's a pretty cool dude!

I've heard it enough that I don't even correct it anymore lol

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yeah but some of us dont want to be electrical engineers.

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How many years to be a train engineer? Woo woo! ;)

Just had drama explode on my introductory post on the "Mermaids are the best :D" group (I don't even know why I joined, that entire group is a freaking mess) because a 12-year-old kid decided to use my post to try to advertise his new "tail shop" and try to get customers... When he has no examples of his "copywrited" tails, says he and his friends have done LOTS of research to make the best tails ever but can't say what materials his tails use (just "swim fabric mostly"), at first he says he's got tails already made but then later on says that his tails aren't even finished, he has no website because "the site glitched" and had to be sent off to his "dad's friend who majored in computers," later says it's a "payed profeshinal" fixing everything up, even though... his parents don't know he's a "copywited disigner of a company" and don't know about his interest in mermaiding at all so where is he getting the money to get this fixed up????????? And the business email he plastered on my stupid post doesn't even work (I tried sending an email off to it but gmail said the email doesn't even exist)

and then the kid flips out in caps lock because YOU'RE ALL JUST LIKE THE OTHER KIDS AT SCHOOL, YOU THINK JUST BECAUSE I'M A KID I CAN'T DO THIS and it's like... ugh.

Everything he says is a contradiction of everything else he says and COPYRIGHT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY, THERE'S NO BUSINESS HERE, YOU'RE A KID YOU CAN'T LEGALLY ENGAGE IN BUSINESS DEALINGS LIKE THIS, TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THIS, UUUGGGHHH.

CHILDREN.

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Originally Posted by Tieri

Just had drama explode on my introductory post on the "Mermaids are the best :D" group (I don't even know why I joined, that entire group is a freaking mess) because a 12-year-old kid decided to use my post to try to advertise his new "tail shop" and try to get customers... When he has no examples of his "copywrited" tails, says he and his friends have done LOTS of research to make the best tails ever but can't say what materials his tails use (just "swim fabric mostly"), at first he says he's got tails already made but then later on says that his tails aren't even finished, he has no website because "the site glitched" and had to be sent off to his "dad's friend who majored in computers," later says it's a "payed profeshinal" fixing everything up, even though... his parents don't know he's a "copywited disigner of a company" and don't know about his interest in mermaiding at all so where is he getting the money to get this fixed up????????? And the business email he plastered on my stupid post doesn't even work (I tried sending an email off to it but gmail said the email doesn't even exist)

and then the kid flips out in caps lock because YOU'RE ALL JUST LIKE THE OTHER KIDS AT SCHOOL, YOU THINK JUST BECAUSE I'M A KID I CAN'T DO THIS and it's like... ugh.

Everything he says is a contradiction of everything else he says and COPYRIGHT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY, THERE'S NO BUSINESS HERE, YOU'RE A KID YOU CAN'T LEGALLY ENGAGE IN BUSINESS DEALINGS LIKE THIS, TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THIS, UUUGGGHHH.

CHILDREN.

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Oh Facebook :(
Sorry you had to deal with that, Tieri. It always sucks when you think you've found a place that's safe from the bs...but the few bad eggs want to *introduce* themselves right away.

@ Tieri

I just read the post.
Forgive me for saying this but you are not helpful at all by being nice to this kid. What he's doing is a fucking mess and someone has to tell him to let it go and give up whatever he was trying to pull off. He's not fooling anybody. The fact that he's hiding all this from a lot of people including his parents is very irresponsible. I also confess I'm kind of baffled that you just wrote a post bitching about what just happened and his attitude, YET in the group, you responded to him with one last message which was encouraging and loving with a heart emoticone.

I honestly don't get that. I apologize for my honesty right here.

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@ Tieri

I just read the post.
Forgive me for saying this but you are not helpful at all by being nice to this kid. What he's doing is a fucking mess and someone has to tell him to let it go and give up whatever he was trying to pull off. He's not fooling anybody. I also confess I'm kind of baffled that you just wrote a post bitching about what just happened and his attitude, YET in the group, you responded to him with one last message which was encouraging and loving with a heart emoticone.

I honestly don't get that. I apologize for my honesty right here.

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Nah, I totally get what you mean. Honestly I find the whole situation frustrating as hell, but at the same time I'd feel like a huge asshole just straight-up telling a kid on the internet to give up his apparent dream. Not to mention he was pretty obviously freaking the hell out after it was pointed out to him that he had zero clue what he was doing. So once I realized he was just a dumb kid with good intentions I tried to give him some positive advice to help him figure shit out better, in case he really is serious about starting a tail business.

I'm really weird when it comes to these situations with kids. I don't know how to handle them at all-- Normally I'd just take on my usual to-the-point, kind-of-aggressive approach with explaining what's wrong like I do with older people here on the forum, but I didn't wanna like... Make a kid cry??

Basically, the whole thread was super stupid and everything about it ground on my every nerve, but I'm not really capable of being a dick to kids or shooting down their "dream" or whatever. I mean, Jazz was around the same age or something when she started making tails, right? x.o Ugh, I have no idea if I'm making any sense.

@Tieri

I get it now. Don't worry :)
Kids sure make things hard for us sometimes.

I almost punched a kid at work the other day, but refrained. So I can completely understand how kids make our lives difficult.

(For the record, yes, he absolutely would have deserved it.)

(Pearlie can vouch for the deservingness)

I'm at the concert and I look like a total dork but you know I'm fifteen and not totally decked out in goth attire and my piercings closed up lmao

these seats have me in tears

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Originally Posted by Tieri

Just had drama explode on my introductory post on the "Mermaids are the best :D" group (I don't even know why I joined, that entire group is a freaking mess) because a 12-year-old kid decided to use my post to try to advertise his new "tail shop" and try to get customers... When he has no examples of his "copywrited" tails, says he and his friends have done LOTS of research to make the best tails ever but can't say what materials his tails use (just "swim fabric mostly"), at first he says he's got tails already made but then later on says that his tails aren't even finished, he has no website because "the site glitched" and had to be sent off to his "dad's friend who majored in computers," later says it's a "payed profeshinal" fixing everything up, even though... his parents don't know he's a "copywited disigner of a company" and don't know about his interest in mermaiding at all so where is he getting the money to get this fixed up????????? And the business email he plastered on my stupid post doesn't even work (I tried sending an email off to it but gmail said the email doesn't even exist)

and then the kid flips out in caps lock because YOU'RE ALL JUST LIKE THE OTHER KIDS AT SCHOOL, YOU THINK JUST BECAUSE I'M A KID I CAN'T DO THIS and it's like... ugh.

Everything he says is a contradiction of everything else he says and COPYRIGHT DOESN'T WORK THIS WAY, THERE'S NO BUSINESS HERE, YOU'RE A KID YOU CAN'T LEGALLY ENGAGE IN BUSINESS DEALINGS LIKE THIS, TECHNOLOGY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THIS, UUUGGGHHH.

CHILDREN.

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oh goodness, I just read that post. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. :(

honestly I wish you guys would just drag the kid but I'm also a horrible person

Normally I'd be aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllll about dragging people, and I almost did before I realized just how freakin' young this kid is. From what little I could make out on his Facebook, I don't think he's even 13 yet. I can be a pretty shitty person to lots of people, but I can't bring myself to rip into a kid no matter how stupid they're being.

Plus, I reeeeeeeeaaaaaaally didn't want to drag the drama out further on my own thread. x.o

I'm screaming I thought this guy was Marilyn Manson until he started spitting shit rhymes and now everyone knows I'm a weeb

I was CERTAIN because he sounds like Manson and his hair was in his face and the dad bod but no omg I'm embarrassed af

I can hear his voice I'm in tears

I can't breathe

I've had a very positive experience to be honest. it could be better but he can be nice. I kinda hate how everyone treats people when they say theyre getting a mertailor tail. it's like trying to stop someone from jumping off a building. it's understandable, but let them live. not all his work is horrendous.

also the concert was great and my mom should've left me there because I want him to adopt me. we didn't stay for smashing pumpkins.

I think honestly, what makes people react that way when discussing Mertailor is the fact that it's such an expensive risk to take when there are plenty of tailmakers out there who will take that money and turn it into a guaranteed great product. And also, in all honesty, I think part of it is that people are sick of hearing the complaints after purchases, and they don't want him to stay in business when he's giving out shoddy work and treating customers like second class citizens. That's my theory anyway. Not to rain on anyone's parade.

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I'm at the concert and I look like a total dork but you know I'm fifteen and not totally decked out in goth attire and my piercings closed up lmao

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these seats have me in tears

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honestly I wish you guys would just drag the kid but I'm also a horrible person

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I'm screaming I thought this guy was Marilyn Manson until he started spitting shit rhymes and now everyone knows I'm a weeb

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I was CERTAIN because he sounds like Manson and his hair was in his face and the dad bod but no omg I'm embarrassed af

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I can hear his voice I'm in tears

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I can't breathe

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I've had a very positive experience to be honest. it could be better but he can be nice. I kinda hate how everyone treats people when they say theyre getting a mertailor tail. it's like trying to stop someone from jumping off a building. it's understandable, but let them live. not all his work is horrendous.

also the concert was great and my mom should've left me there because I want him to adopt me. we didn't stay for smashing pumpkins.

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PLEASE! This isn't Facebook. Posting crap like this is something I'M bitching about.

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Originally Posted by mermaidofthelabyrinth

I've had a very positive experience to be honest. it could be better but he can be nice. I kinda hate how everyone treats people when they say theyre getting a mertailor tail. it's like trying to stop someone from jumping off a building. it's understandable, but let them live. not all his work is horrendous.

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Thank you. It alienates a lot of merfolk from Mernetwork. He does make a ton of decent tails and donates tails to Project Mermaids to support ocean conservation. I've personally been a part of it and seen them. (That's where his new silver/blue striped one and the clownfish one have gone) I'm not going to debate anyone's opinion of him, it just gets tiring seeing him referred to as "youknowwho", "he who shall not be named", etc. and makes those of us with Mertailor tails feel like we're not really welcome here on the forum.


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Originally Posted by PearlieMae

PLEASE! This isn't Facebook. Posting crap like this is something I'M bitching about.

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I know I should've posted some of that in a different thread but some of it is from my whole social anxiety point of view plus I was just having a panic attack the other night about how I wasn't going to the concert and I've been asked how I'm doing and wanted everyone to know I was okay.