We all look great now. Very uniform-ready.

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• Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I shit thee not, this actually happened to me.

  I applied for cosmetology class when I was in high school. No one questioned it at all because not only was I a blatantly obvious nerd but I was also the only openly gay guy in the school. First day I’m told to meet in a room I didn’t even know existed. Fucking mirrors everywhere. Circular tables around the mirrors with decapitated heads for as far as the eye could see, all with horrific hairstyles and blank, expressionless faces. Went in. Sat down. Realized I was the only one in the room with a set of testicles and started to slowly piece together where I done majorly goofed.

  Class was surprisingly good. I can french braid now. I did fail however because the teacher hated me. Not only was I gay, which she didn’t like, but I wasn’t a “stereotypical” gay guy which she somehow found more infuriating. A dude who didn’t come off as particularly effeminate but was comfortable enough doing peoples hair. 2 weeks before the final class she ‘lost’ my module and expected me to make up the entirety of the semesters work in 2 weeks. All worked out. She broke her ankle the next year after someone got berated so hard they pissed themselves. Janitor was on the way to clean it up, she wasn’t looking where she was going, and slipped in it and fell down a nearby set of stairs.

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  • kaitco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fucking mirrors everywhere. Circular tables around the mirrors with decapitated heads for as far as the eye could see, all with horrific hairstyles and blank, expressionless faces.

    This is the best description of cosmetology school that’s ever been written! 😂

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was trying to convey the existential horror of walking into a room to see heads staring back at you, eyes like that of the ghosts of damned victorian children. Whole place needed to be purified in holy phaser fire.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Omg, that’s absolutely hilarious, but at least you got a great story out of it! I bet you’re not the first. I could easily see someone signing up for it by accident in college too.

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    • Stamets@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A good story and the ability to fuck up peoples hair like it’s no ones business.

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  • Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love this story so much.

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• eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  One of my buddies showed up to a Cosmology class at a CSU and was like “holy cow where are all the cute girls in the rest of my physics classes?”

  Turns out they thought it was Cosmetology and attendance dropped dramatically next session.

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  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As a former astrophysics major, I found that Cosmology had a higher percentage of cute/* girls than in my other physics classes because astro had a higher percentage of women than other physics focuses. Still a fairly low percentage though, and I still ran into them all in other physics classes.

    /* I like nerdy women. YMMV.

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    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you don’t like nerdy women what are you even doing on this planet?

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    • Kichae@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, 4/12 in my astro classes was definitely a significantly better ratio than the same 4 out of 80 in my general physics classes.

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