So here are some facts.
My body hair.
My back is so hairy I was out swimming with a friend and she rushed over me to tell me that she had spotted another person in the pool who had a hairier back than me. I have spent many an evening painfully plucking it back over my shoulders. I would go get it waxed just so I could live a normal life, but the rest of me is also so hairy that it would be a noticeable bald spot and frankly look weird.
During the summer a couple of years ago I spotted someone at the beach with a hairy chest (like mine) but his back had no hair on it! Frankly I thought he must be some kind of supermodel.
Also I worry that if I shave it (or any other body part, you may as well know) it will only grow back...more powerful than ever before! But in the meantime (and I know this from experience) if one does shave one's gentleman's area it will grow back as stubble. The horror of that doesn't bare thinking about. It's the same with nostril hair. Once I plucked a nostril hair out (which was a painful enough experience in itself) that about about 2 inches long.
Once on a drunk dare I had the hair around my nipple scorched with a lighter. I think the others at the party make a bigger deal of this than is necessary, but then I always did party hard. It was a good party!
My feet.
Two of my friends are horrified at my big toe-nails because they are are much more curved than your average toe-nails (which I know because when you're not looking, I am inspecting your toe-nails and comparing). They don't freak me out as they've always been like that. During my college years I had a nasty pain that sprung up in my right foot that felt like, I imagine, the bone that runs along from your large toe back to your ankle had a crack in the middle widthways and occasionally separated. Anyway it was quite painful but it's stopped now.
On another note, a friend of mine just asked my advice on this matter (in confidence): "There's this girl I'm speaking yo on tinder. Really pretty, but all face shot. Where's the line at if I ask her how much she weighs?"
It was a tough one...on the one hand she might be very offended then my friend has probably messed up his chance with this. But on the other, we all know there's only one reason for full-face shots, and the last thing I wanted to do was pressure my friend into asking her for a date only for him to be very upset when she isn't the supermodel he's hoping.
Then again, what I actually said was "put yourself in her shoes", which I know is a bit of a cliché but let's think about it. Imagine for one moment, guys, that you're this girl on tinder. If you're a girl, imagine you're a different girl on tinder. Some guy you've never met has just asked how much you weigh. How would you feel?
Obviously my friend fell to his knees at this epiphany and swore to change his womanising ways.
Before I end this blog I'd like to big up a musician I've become a big fan of. His name's Jamie Knox and he's from Brighton. He's on iTunes I'd recommend his stuff highly!