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If you're lucky you may not have seen the latest craze going on Facebook, where women are posting pictures of themselves to "raise awareness of cancer"
Now, is it me? Or does this do bugger all to "raise awareness"?! And is mostly attention seeking?
I only came across it yesterday when my girlfriend was tagged and nominated. We both ranted at how stupid it was and that no one was posting any useful information about cancer checks you can do or links to sites where you can donate.
She then posted links to information about self checks and promised to post a picture once some money was raised
Yes I can see the argument about Movemeber being similar, but at least that raises money. In my opinion the no make up selfies are just a way of getting attention and compliments from your friends
Am I right or am I wrong?
You've started a thread talking about cancer. Seems to be working.
It would be more useful as a way to point out to my teenage niece that you can leave the house without the need for a garden trowel and some paint.
Sorry, but I can't see the difference between this and Movember either. I'm sure that most guys taking part in that don't actually raise any money and, though I've yet to see any of these selfies, the fact that you've posted this has already "raised awareness".
Anyway, wasn't this just an excuse to post the words "my girlfriend"?
Agreed, but in all honesty it is no more pointless than 90% of the other stuff on facebook.
I am about 1 stupid comment away from deleting my account all together but not sure what i will do when taking a dump at work without facebook on my phone 😆
And is mostly attention seeking?
Quite unlike your post of course.
😉
'Girlfriend' or 'alter-ego'?
My wife has just done one.
A lot of them I've seen are also including links for how to check yourself, so hopefully that will raise awareness of how to check for breast cancer properly..
It's awareness not a fund raiser. Judging by the flood of posts on my Facebook page then it's certainly being made aware, whether that has an effect or not is not measurable.
I'd completely forgotten about cancer until now. Oh, wait, no I hadn't.
Also, doesn't this reinforce the idea that women should otherwise be wearing make-up if ever there is a chance they'll be photographed? So glad that I married someone who never wear make-up.
I never new it was happening but I don't use "lookatmebook", so it seems to me you are in a very secular group who are "in the know".
I'd stay that way 😉
Prostate Cancer I support, Bill Bailey does something similar I hear.
I think "awareness" of cancer issues for women was raised a long time ago, it isn't an issue where non specific awareness campaigns are of any real use anymore.
The movember thing looked at what happened with breast cancer campaigns 20-30 years ago and tried to emulate that in raising awareness of male cancer. But even in that it now needs to take the campaign and start focusing more on the information it spreads rather than just being a non specific mustache parade.
Also, doesn't this reinforce the idea that women should otherwise be wearing make-up if ever there is a chance they'll be photographed? So glad that I married someone who never wear make-up.
It's a good thing if it raises awareness of the subtle-yet-insidious reasons that women do feel compelled to wear make-up then, eh? Which it just has obviously.
So perhaps it actually undermines the idea of make-up being compulsory. This is a much more interesting topic than cancer awareness.
And is mostly attention seeking?
Women, attention seeking 😯
how stupid it was and that no one was posting any useful information about cancer checks you can do
Perhaps we should begin a nut-nominate trend?
*caution, contains important testicle checking footage - mods, hope this is OK given the importance of the subject
Indeed, why DO Women wear make up?
Where in thier manual did/does it say "at the age of 12 you will start to apply pollyfilla"
Eh?
Genuine question that.
Ooh, I must go on Facebook and check this out!
On second thoughts, maybe not.
It is, I believe, a spin-off from the Sophie Jones case. The original point was a campaign to try and get the lower age limit for smear tests reduced. (Which, whilst emotive and well-meaning, is ill-conceived as the reason smear tests have an age limit is because they don't work reliably on younger women.)
Where in thier manual did/does it say "at the age of 12 you will start to apply pollyfilla"
It's in wimmin's "fashion" magazines; you know, the ones that say "you're fat and ugly unless you buy our fad diets and magic creams."
Every time you 'like' a charity awareness post on mememebook you can be safe in the knowledge that you have made a difference.
why DO Women wear make up?
Why do women wear make-up and perfume? Because they're ugly and they stink.
My niece is a very pretty young woman. She recently had eyelash (I dunno what they are to be honest!) eyelash enhancements? (semi-permanently glued on).. now all you can see when you look at her is these effin great bushy eyelashes. Weird.
Getting back to the original point; what is this 'cancer' thing that they're trying to raise awareness of? Never heard of it. Is it an advanced, untreatable form of narcissism?
Why do girls wear make-up and perfume?
Because they're ugly and they smell.
😉 , obviously.
Oh, and to all the "ooh, young girls these days wear too much make-up" brigade, you do realise that middle-aged peple have been saying that for, basically, ever. I bet you think that the music they listen to is rubbish too, and their manners are terrible and you'd never have got away with that sort of thing when you were young. And, aren't policemen getting younger?
Indeed, why DO Women wear make up?
Why don't you find one and ask? 💡
Wierder still, long eyelashes are a male trait, one of those strange things that society learnt rather than evolution/instinct
[url= http://humour360.com/2013/06/93-pornstars-with-and-without-make-up/ ]Porn stars without makeup...[/url]
Some of them look far better without.
Looks like Millhouse has had a sex change then
It's made me aware, aware of how mingling some of my mates are without their makeup 😉
Joking aside, it's not hurting anyone (apart from my eyes) and it is raising awareness despite not being a fundraiser.
[i]Porn stars without makeup...[/i]
Certainly are some...erm, odd looking ladies in that lot!
when my girlfriend
This is just a thread to raise awareness of you finally having a girlfriend, right?
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I have a Woman, it's called MrsBouy, she doesn't wear makeup, she doesn't need it.
I don't think she's ever opened a "wiminz" mag in her life, yet she has all the class and style of... me 😉
I had, recently, a niece stay here in Shiney Town, 16th birthday treat it was, first time in That Lonjon, ever. So we mapped out places we thought she'd like to go, Shoreditch Markets, Brick Lane, Clerkenwell, Borough Market, TrafSq/LeicSq/Soho/CovGdn, you get the picture... all she wanted to see was "the furry solders" It took us about 1/2hr to figure out what it was she meant..
Turned out it was Changing of the Guard.
Ohhh how we pointed and laughed.. 16yr olds.... not a clue 🙄
From Facebook,
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Some of them look far better without.
Most don't.
😯
[i]From Facebook,[/i]
that's not even a selfie!
I use facebook on my phone (android) and quite like it to catch up general stuff, have some chat and banter with friends etc, I'm not really friends with anyone I don't know on there, bar a few rally drivers and teams I follow.
But, I hate the functionality, appearance and general feel of the actual facebook website if I have to use it on a PC. Anyone else feel the same? I'm tempted to delete all of my information, photo albums etc and just use it more like twitter.
p.s. don't see how photo's of women without make up is doing anything at all to raise awareness, just saying that's what you're doing doesn't make it so. I already know cancer exists (jeez, half my family have got it or were killed by it), and what charities there are, a picture of some chick's pasty mug does nothing.
Now, if they did a "donate a fiver and I'll do a pic of my boobs"......
Now, if they did a "donate a fiver and I'll do a pic of my [s]b[/s]moobs"......
#strangest
I'd always assumed "awareness" was just a less vulgar way of saying "money", being all British about it and that.
After all, I'm fairly sure everyone knows cancer exists, and yet the Race For Life still generates millions of pounds of "awareness".
This (much like Movember for most) is utter bollocks.
Another sad attempt at how much yer average face booker will do to appear interesting.
Sorry, but I can't see the difference between this and Movember either. I'm sure that most guys taking part in that don't actually raise any money and, though I've yet to see any of these selfies, the fact that you've posted this has already "raised awareness".
I know lots of people who put in a lot of effort to raise cash at Movember, a few of us raised a grand last year, gift aided too.
[i]Since its humble beginnings in 2003 in Melbourne, Australia, when 30 Mo Bros first grew moustaches, Movember has grown to become a truly global movement inspiring more than 4 million Mo Bros and Mo Sistas to participate across 21 countries worldwide. Movember is also aware of Mo Bros and Mo Sistas supporting the campaign and men’s health causes from across the globe, from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro, and everywhere in between. Together these selfless Mo Bros and Mo Sistas have raised £276 million which are funding 577 projects aimed at achieving our vision of having an everlasting impact on the face men's health[/i]
you may be 'sure' but I know you're wrong for the people I know who did it.
[url] http://uk.movember.com/about [/url]
If they were posting on r/gonewild I might donate to charity..... 
I think Cougar has it. Just prior to this there was a photo going around of this girl looking all done up next to one of her looking like death in a hospital bed. So I think this is a gesture of solidarity with her and other sufferers.
To understand why this is important you have to understand how many women feel about their appearance. To them, make-up is like clothes - they feel as naked without it as you would without your trousers. It's ignominious at best.
If they were posting on r/gonewild I might donate to charity.....
What sort of deposit would Sir be making?
I'm going with attention seeking, all the ones doing it on my feed are the ones who don't need makeup. The comments are along the lines of..."ohhh wow baaabez you look amaazhin wivout makeup...I'm so jelous x".
They're the girls who want attention but can't quite pluck up the courage to post on reddit. I'm not really complaining though, it makes a change from having to look at my ugly mates.
What sort of deposit would Sir be making?
as always, Doug Stanhope hit's the nail on the head
Whatever your cause, your charity, or your drive, your effort: audit it.Because so much of it is symbolism over substance, where people think they're helping by doing nothing. Audit all the time and effort, and see if you're actually effecting change. Rather than just,
"Oh, we're gonna have a 10K Fun Run for the Cure!"
"Come on down on Sunday; it's a 10K Fun Run for the Cure!"
Why? Why! When has running ever cured anything?
I don't understand the cause and effect on this. Is that how Jonas Salk cured [sic] polio, by speed walking around the track down at St. Mary's High School with a wife-beater on and a paper number safety-pinned to his back?
"Oh, we're doing it for the cure!"
How are you curing anything?
"Well, what I do is, I get sponsors, and every time I go around the track another time, my sponsor gives me another quarter for the cure!"
Are your friends that sick and sadomasochistic that they wouldn't just cut you a check outright for the cure? They make you do weird [crap] first?
"Larry, you know my daughter was born with cerebral palsy, and we're trying to get a big fundraiser going..."
"Really? Yeah...how many hard boiled eggs will ya eat? Come on! You love your kid right, come on!"
No, they would cut you a check outright, but you're that much of a megalomaniac that you have to make the cure about you. You need the spotlight in this. You could just get a check, but no one's gonna be,
"Ya know, the truth is I do the same speed walk at St. Mary's every morning at 6:30 before work with my labrador Sheeba. I'm trying to shed a few pounds, ya know? But no one claps for me then and calls me heroic, so I'm gonna do it on Sunday afternoon for the cure, and everyone's gonna go, 'Go Ray go!'"
It's a 10K fun run about you, you megalomaniac. Stop it. You know you're not doing [crap]. You could just get the check from your friend and then actually do something that means something other than running.
Put that time and effort and money into something that's calculated that actually helps.
"We're gonna knit a SARS quilt! It's gonna take all summer long!"
"We're gonna have a prayer circle.""We're gonna have a candle light vigil at midnight!"
Could you do less??
Mathematically, ask your accountant if there's any way you could do any less than that...
"Well, we are raising awareness!"
Raising awareness is another form of doing nothing.
Only now, you're making me aware that the nothing that I've been doing is not up to par with the nothing that you're doing for such a noble cause. Why don't you do my nothing for your cause? We'll watch Storage Wars for the cure! Then we'll both be happy in our impotence...and we'll find out what's in that safe!
We all win!
Raising awareness is me standing next to a drainage ditch where a guy just hit a goat with his moped on the highway, and now they're in the ditch, laying in the muck with compound fractures, and the dude's got a bone sticking through his leg, and the [freaking] goat's got a bone sticking through his fur. They're both laying there in agony, and I'm raising awareness by standing above them shouting down an empty highway,
"LOOOOOOOK! LOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOK! EWWWWWWWWWWWWW! EW, LOOOOOK!"
And they're going, "No, HEEEEEEEEELP!"
"No, no, no! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!"
It's way easier to just say, "LOOOOOOOOOK!"
Ha! Love the Stanhope
I'm so jelous x".
I think you'll find it's "weljel" these days.
Sadly, campaigns to raise awareness are like trying to fill a bath using an eyedropper when the people you're trying to make aware have the same mental capacity as your average bunch of begonias.
I just saw the text on my facebook saying 'I'm going bare!' and the word 'breast'.....took me a good while to work out why there's just a picture of a face.
Can I have a prize for never having taken a selfie.
So many people get cancer, why do people need awareness raising?
Off the top of my head... My mam's best friend died on Sunday - breast cancer. A former colleague died last month - pancreatic cancer. A friend's dad died last year - lung cancer. My previous boss died a couple of years ago - lung cancer. My wife's grandma died two years ago - lung cancer. Going back further, my 6th form college tutor died in my final year - brain tumor. My grandma died when I was ten - lung cancer.
How is it possible to be unaware of cancer? (Unless I'm unwittingly carcinogenic, and this is an unusual experience?)
I think as with much charity work, it has more to do with making individuals feel good about themselves .
I'm going to get involved in something, maybe even organise something in an effort to increase my sense of self worth.. I know, I'll pick a charitable cause to attach my actions to, to legitimise my plan and to increase my good feelings about myself..
Fair enough then
Surely of all the selfish things people are capable of, this sort of thing is the least we should be concerned about
If you're genuinely upset by it I think you should probably be having very stern words with yourself, perhaps utilising a sharp implement to press the message home
Do any of you bastards spend half as much time making the world a better place as you do whining about other people's attempts?
so make-up gives you cancer.
interesting
miketually - MemberHow is it possible to be unaware of cancer?
It's not about being unaware- it's really about thinking about it. Mmm what's that lump/mole/cough? Ah probably nothing. All the improvements in cancer treatment haven't changed the fact that the best thing you can do to increase your survival rate is get diagnosed earlier.
Know quite a few girls at work have donated and seems to be raising money
http://home.bt.com/news/uknews/selfie-windfall-for-cancer-charity-11363885889908
Got to agree with konabunny - stop whingeing, you moaning sods.
Do any of you bastards spend half as much time making the world a better place as you do whining about other people's attempts?
Well I try to with donations to various charities and have just helped my lad raise around a grand for a charity.
Unlike many of family and work colleagues who have pretty much all just posted on Facebook and hit like; to most of them it's just a giggle and a dare like the drinking game a few weeks ago.
Judging by that porn star link earlier, I think it's fair to say that the theory that a face full of 'Chef's Special Sauce' is good for the complexion can now be safely disproved...
I made a noise like *argggg* this morning when I saw a picture of the girl we all fancied at school (20 years ago) with no make up on.
Noooooooooooooo..... I want to remember her as she was 🙁
Despite that, I'm with Konabunny and NW - it can't hurt, so why the haterz?
Nut sack nominate and cock in a sock are doing the rounds next
Nut sack nominate and cock in a sock are doing the rounds next
Anyone up for an internet wide game of cock or ball to raise awareness of ball cancer?
so make-up gives you cancer.interesting
See, if they hadn't stopped us testing it on animals, this could have been avoided!
Just seen a fully naked no make up selfie (from an angle where nothing much was revealed)...
It was deleted by facebook within a few minutes but I think we should ride out this craze and see where it goes...
I'm assuming most ladies post a picture of themselves and then hope that they get lots of messages saying that they still look beautiful.
Posted this already in response to something on FB but hey ho:
If they have links in to relevant information or stuff about donating then fair enough.
Just saying 'post selfies because cancer' with no further information isn't helping anyone though.
I think everyone is fairly aware of cancer already.
Do any of you bastards spend half as much time making the world a better place as you do whining about other people's attempts?
Well, I clicked like on a picture of a dove with the text "like this if you support the fight against cancer" on facebook yesterday. So I don't see how it can be humanly possible to be any more proactive in saving the world.
D'you know what, I like it. Maybe it's not going to make a difference, but maybe one person's going to go "look, another no makeup selfie - I really should get that bump checked out" in which case that's job done. some good advice has been posted too. Fair play.
I do naturally tend towards the cynical but I can't see any harm in this and knowing people who view their make up as their "face " for some it is an act of some determination to post without make up. The "campaign " is generating a debate which as this thread shows includes discussion about donation so the trend of it can only be posative.
Crankgirl has not done it but I would say 80% percent of all photos of her would qualify anyway.
My wife had a mastectomy as a result of breast cancer just over a year ago. She has been fairly irritated by the early selfies with no info on how people help beat cancer. Her irritation has been soothed since Cancer Research got involved.
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Seems appropriate for many taking part in this latest #selfie craze
I just saw this:
Cancer Research UK says it's received "tens of thousands" more donations than usual in the last 24 hours. It's after thousands of women posted a ?#?makeupfreeselfie? on social media before nominating other friends to do the same to raise awareness about cancer.
So it seems not all bad?
Anyone seen the socks on cocks selfies to raise awareness of testicular cancer..
Cancer Research UK says it's received "tens of thousands" more donations than usual in the last 24 hours. It's after thousands of women posted a ?#?makeupfreeselfie? on social media before nominating other friends to do the same to raise awareness about cancer.
Yeah just think of all the extra animal testing they can do now. 😛
No make up "selfies" are like soooo over.
selloptapeselfies are where it's at these days.
[i]Anyone seen the socks on cocks selfies to raise awareness of testicular cancer..[/i]
Ooh, no! Got a link?
Socks on Cocks??
Most Excellent idea, anyone got a sock 3ft long? 😉
Socks on Cocks??
Who's going to admit to being a cock? 😉