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Do lip fillers make you mask exempt?

129 replies

LindaBlinda · 07/12/2021 17:18

Because I'm in Sarf East London and it feels as if the only people I see around here now not in masks are young women with very large filled lips.

Do masks damage the filler? Or hurt?

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Haffiana · 07/12/2021 17:25

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Sparklfairy · 07/12/2021 17:26

Round here it's normally the trackie wearers with that distinctive swagger that says, "you can't tell me what to fackin do, fackin try it bruv".

ILoveHuskies · 07/12/2021 17:28

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Soontobe60 · 07/12/2021 17:29

@LindaBlinda

Because I'm in Sarf East London and it feels as if the only people I see around here now not in masks are young women with very large filled lips.

Do masks damage the filler? Or hurt?

They probably think that they’ve paid so much for them that they want to get their money’s worth. Also vanity.
Duxiejhrhrvjz · 07/12/2021 17:30

Lady without mask in the busy post office yesterday.
Moaning about how the NHS weren’t doing enough for her friends mum, explaining her friends mums personal health information, talking about how “they are taking over everywhere now” as the post office has recently been bought by an Indian family. Angry

GreenFingersWouldBeHandy · 07/12/2021 17:44

@ILoveHuskies

Or maybe they have a reason why they are exempt ?

Don't be so damn judgemental.

If you are exempt you can get a lanyard explaining this. It's not difficult.

PinkAndPurpleClouds · 07/12/2021 17:46

Yep they don't wear a mask coz they can't show off their hooooj lips full of filler!

nothingcanhurtmewithmyeyesshut · 07/12/2021 17:47

Lanyards are not required by law. I don't wear one.

I wore one for work and got asked so many times what my exemption was that I took it off. Its nobody's business.

MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry · 07/12/2021 17:50

Saw a man yesterday with his mask tucked under his chin frothing and spitting over a woman as he gave off about all the people inside Lidl with no Masks on. No idea if he’s had fillers.

Chely · 07/12/2021 17:51

Most of the shop staff don't wear them round our neck of the woods

SivvyPlath · 07/12/2021 17:52
Hmm
Illequiped · 07/12/2021 17:55

I once knew someone who wouldn't wear the glasses she needed to read text on her computer screen unless absolutely forced to (eg to read the screen!) because of vanity. I have a lower level of short sightedness and always wear mine. I can't fathom deliberately not being able to see where I'm walking or who I'm talking too, much less the mild blur I get without. I like being able to see!

Perhaps some of these lip filler people feel the same 🤷🏻‍♀️

amusedbush · 07/12/2021 18:01

If you are exempt you can get a lanyard explaining this. It's not difficult.

Please don't use the sunflower lanyard to get out of wearing a mask, even if you're legitimately exempt. That's not what it's for and anti-maskers have basically made the entire premise of it worthless.

It was started for people with hidden disabilities to show staff in shops/train stations/airports that they might need extra help but now when I wear mine with a mask, people either glare at me or confront me.

People now see the lanyard and assume that the wearer is faking.

WhenSepEnds · 07/12/2021 18:03

@LindaBlinda

Because I'm in Sarf East London and it feels as if the only people I see around here now not in masks are young women with very large filled lips.

Do masks damage the filler? Or hurt?

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Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 07/12/2021 18:04

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Doyouwantcoffee · 07/12/2021 18:10

I’m not wearing a lanyard around for the same reason my Jewish husband doesn’t wear a Star of David

Are you seriously comparing the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany with a requirement to wear a mask to stop the spread of a potentially fatal disease. Hopefully your DH can explain how offensive that comparison is. Angry

HelplesslyHoping · 07/12/2021 18:11

Anyone without a mask around here is wearing the sunflower lanyard saying "mask exempt". Clearly they don't have brains if they think that's what the lanyard are for so I don't question if it's the lip filler or the empty skull

ILoveHuskies · 07/12/2021 18:12

[quote GreenFingersWouldBeHandy]@ILoveHuskies

Or maybe they have a reason why they are exempt ?

Don't be so damn judgemental.

If you are exempt you can get a lanyard explaining this. It's not difficult.[/quote]
Lanyards aren't required by law 🤷‍♀️

MrsTerryPratchett · 07/12/2021 18:12

@Justheretoaskaquestion91

I’m not wearing a lanyard around for the same reason my Jewish husband doesn’t wear a Star of David. Honestly wtf is wrong with people?!
Does your DH know you use the systematic persecution of his people as a point score about masks?

Also Godwins Law.

Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 07/12/2021 18:15

Are you seriously comparing the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany with a requirement to wear a mask to stop the spread of a potentially fatal disease. Hopefully your DH can explain how offensive that comparison is

My DH and I have discussed this at length, thanks. He’s in agreement; it’s a pretty fucking slippery slope forcing people to wear signs to show why they aren’t adhering to a mandatory policy. Bit like how some countries are about to make the vaccination mandatory. Lots of erosion of civil liberties. Sorry you can’t see that! It’s no ones fucking business why someone can’t or isn’t wearing a mask. Forcing someone to identify why (and why is usually a disability is it not) is just wrong.

Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 07/12/2021 18:16

@MrsTerryPratchett

It’s not about the persecution as a whole though, is it? It’s about the fact that Jews were made to identify themselves. A bit like how disabled people or those with problems requiring them not to wear a mask are forced to identify/justify themselves using a fucking lanyard

DroopyClematis · 07/12/2021 18:16

@Justheretoaskaquestion91

I’m not wearing a lanyard around for the same reason my Jewish husband doesn’t wear a Star of David. Honestly wtf is wrong with people?!
Did you actually think about your response before you typed it ?
SnekkinOnDown · 07/12/2021 18:16

[quote GreenFingersWouldBeHandy]@ILoveHuskies

Or maybe they have a reason why they are exempt ?

Don't be so damn judgemental.

If you are exempt you can get a lanyard explaining this. It's not difficult.[/quote]
I don't need a lanyard to say I'm exempt, the lack of mask when I walking with mask wearers surely suggests that I am indeed exempt. Why, WHY would I want or have to wear a lanyard that is for hidden disabilities just bastard I was raped and abused my sisters godfather as a child? I'm not disabled. I'm a rape survivor.

Why not just give exempt people clackers to walk around with? Or just ban them from public ?

WakeUpLockie · 07/12/2021 18:19

Heh. I saw someone without a mask the last few days at school and today noticed her child has a hearing aid. Felt so bad for questioning it (in my head)! People with no reason to not wear a mask have made us jump to conclusions about everyone.

Justheretoaskaquestion91 · 07/12/2021 18:20

I don't need a lanyard to say I'm exempt, the lack of mask when I walking with mask wearers surely suggests that I am indeed exempt. Why, WHY would I want or have to wear a lanyard that is for hidden disabilities just bastard I was raped and abused my sisters godfather as a child? I'm not disabled. I'm a rape survivor

This is exactly what I am talking about. I am also exempt and I have a doctor’s email that I had to obtain for travel to explain it but I am in no way going to wear anything around to show that to people because it’s awful IMO to expect that.

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