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What do you think looks, or is, trashy? In terms of appearance AND character?

242 replies

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:05

Interested in reading a wide range of opinions. Not intended as a goady thread - I've posted to widen my own perspective.

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lnks · 05/04/2025 11:48

MummytoE · 05/04/2025 11:46

She literally didn't, you quoted her incorrectly. She said " what do you think looks trashy....? I could say for example I think it LOOKS trashy when someone has 4 kids by 4 partners... Nothing to do with that person's appearance. She does obviously go on to say appearance so it's a moot point

Do you understand the “in terms of appearance” bit?

Edited to add: the second part of your reply completely contradicts the first part.

HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:49

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:23

Excessive small talk and not much else.

Men (and women) with a history multiple partners/spouses.

Father's who choose not to abandon their DC.

Women who degrade themselves online for male attention and money, and the men who pay for it.

Politicians who flouted lockdown 'rules'.

Fake breasts, Only Fans and lipfillers.

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Inner City Sumo

Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank

Monkey Tennis

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:50

Foughtabadgerandwon · 05/04/2025 11:43

I do judge people's choices and especially behaviour though.

Being loud and obnoxious IS trashy.

I don't judge someone for their natural appearance, just what they've chosen to do with it.

And just cause I think fillers and fake tan look shit doesn't mean anyone has to agree. If they feel they make them look amazing that's also a valid opinion.

Absolutely.

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HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:51

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:29

Perhaps I should have used the word 'scumm' as that is what I perceive the word trashy to mean.

I don't know how that would have helped seeing as how 'scumm' isn't a word.

Foughtabadgerandwon · 05/04/2025 11:52

Maitri108 · 05/04/2025 11:47

Yet you're not aware of that person's background or character. It's considered wrong to judge on appearance.

Dolly Parton looks 'trashy' yet she's a kind, generous soul and incredibly talented recording artist.

You're going to miss out on so much if you reject on appearance.

Yes, you're right about Dolly.

She herself says she looks trashy but as you say she is an amazing person.

I would say I judge more on behaviour than appearance to be honest.

But most of us make split second assumptions.

Personally, I'm happy to be challenged on them and will always treat people well until they do something to change my opinion.

Nousernamesleftatall · 05/04/2025 11:52

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:35

Please explain the irony.

Sentence one. Missing the word of.
Sentence two. It’s fathers not father’s… not that it makes any sense anyway.

Maitri108 · 05/04/2025 11:52

HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:49

Inner City Sumo

Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank

Monkey Tennis

Smell my cheese!

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:53

HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:51

I don't know how that would have helped seeing as how 'scumm' isn't a word.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/scummy

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BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:53

Nousernamesleftatall · 05/04/2025 11:52

Sentence one. Missing the word of.
Sentence two. It’s fathers not father’s… not that it makes any sense anyway.

Predictive text.

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HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:53

Maitri108 · 05/04/2025 11:52

Smell my cheese!

JURASSIC PARK

TorroFerney · 05/04/2025 11:54

HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:49

Inner City Sumo

Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank

Monkey Tennis

I think with Monkey Tennis it very much depends on the attire and attitude of the individual monkeys, it's not right to write off the whole sport. Others I agree with.

lnks · 05/04/2025 11:54

Scum isn’t a word

WhoisRebecca · 05/04/2025 11:54

I think denigrating people’s characters and appearance based on them making different, but morally neutral choices to you is trashy.

Maitri108 · 05/04/2025 11:55

Foughtabadgerandwon · 05/04/2025 11:52

Yes, you're right about Dolly.

She herself says she looks trashy but as you say she is an amazing person.

I would say I judge more on behaviour than appearance to be honest.

But most of us make split second assumptions.

Personally, I'm happy to be challenged on them and will always treat people well until they do something to change my opinion.

Even if you judge on behaviour, you'll miss out. Just because someone wipes their nose on their sleeve or chews gum, doesn't mean they lack value as a human being.

Cherrysoup · 05/04/2025 11:56

My opinion, so no pile on, but I hate big blingy diamanté/diamond studs on boys. No nose studs, I really dislike them (again, just my opinion) and massive fake nails, especially on young girls, year 7 seem to have an epidemic although they’re supposed to be banned at school.

I think pandora bracelets are so popular now that they’ve become trashy.

In terms of character, I agree, being loud and obnoxious is so horrible, I avoid people who are verbally aggressive, makes me cringe, possibly related to the neighbour who attacked me being like this.

hostleg · 05/04/2025 11:56

Those stupid headbands that some parents put on their baby DDs. Especially the ones with the big bows. Why do they need them?

Babies have died as the band slips over their nose.

MummytoE · 05/04/2025 11:57

lnks · 05/04/2025 11:48

Do you understand the “in terms of appearance” bit?

Edited to add: the second part of your reply completely contradicts the first part.

Edited

Yes I no, i was just pointing out what she ACTUALLY said. Doesn't matter, her intentions are obvious

TorroFerney · 05/04/2025 11:57

That isn't helping, scumm is not the singular of scummy. Think about mum and mummy , similar approach.

HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:57

TorroFerney · 05/04/2025 11:54

I think with Monkey Tennis it very much depends on the attire and attitude of the individual monkeys, it's not right to write off the whole sport. Others I agree with.

Is a monkey in a thong more or less trashy than a naked monkey?

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:58

Foughtabadgerandwon · 05/04/2025 11:52

Yes, you're right about Dolly.

She herself says she looks trashy but as you say she is an amazing person.

I would say I judge more on behaviour than appearance to be honest.

But most of us make split second assumptions.

Personally, I'm happy to be challenged on them and will always treat people well until they do something to change my opinion.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I judge first on character, not appearance. While tattoos are obviously not character defect, I do however, draw the line at facial tattoos and body modifications such as amputation.

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HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 11:59

If you're amputating, always best to draw a line ime.

Azureshores · 05/04/2025 11:59

Father's who choose not to abandon their DC.

You think fathers who choose not to abandon their dc are trashy?

TokyoKyoto · 05/04/2025 11:59

I don't know about trashy, I am sure some of them are not trashy at all, but I'm absolutely baffled by the way women - especially influencers - on Instagram have sort of merged to look identical. Like there's a uniform for the face and hair. And out in the real world you see young girls emulating this look. (Pretty badly, often.)
It didn't exist a decade ago. Where has it come from? What is it for? Why does it have to be so time-consuming? Who is applying the peer pressure? Do the women not realise it's a bit weird to have eyebrows and eyelashes and lips like that? Or that wearing that much make-up is extreme? I understand grooming but I don't understand this excessive grooming, en masse, to all look the same.

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:59

BlahPottery · 05/04/2025 11:29

Perhaps I should have used the word 'scumm' as that is what I perceive the word trashy to mean.

Ah, I misspelled the word 'scummy' for 'scumm'. HTH

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HauntedBungalow · 05/04/2025 12:01

Azureshores · 05/04/2025 11:59

Father's who choose not to abandon their DC.

You think fathers who choose not to abandon their dc are trashy?

They should be down the old Bull and Bush as nature intended. Not stuck indoors wearing thongs with Chris Eubank.

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