Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[RIRJen]

YES, 100% serious. If you go there and order eggs over easy with bacon & toast... You'll get your eggs over easy, but the bacon is a whole pound, and your toast will practically be loaves themselves. They serve their toast with homemade strawberry jam that is like pie filling and really good. Be prepared to take an army's worth of food home in a doggy bag.

This is a picture I took last fall when I went to Tony's with 2 of my friends (yes, there are eggs hiding under there as well). We ordered 1 breakfast, 1 extra egg & 1 extra toast and shared between all 3 of us, and STILL brought home a whole breakfast's worth in a box.
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bacon.

That is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen...I'm seriously considering making the hour drive there this weekend to order this same plate...and I think I'll show them this picture and be like "I want THAT"

Not trying to be judgmental just saying you can go to far, and not be employable in most areas of employment, Thant said my grand son and daughter have tattoos just not were then can be seen if they need to dress up
The felted hair look, Looks very unclean, ( I know that is not always the case,But....)

Oh, no I know you weren't I wasn't trying to come across in that post as grumpy about it. I've talked to my younger brother about job seeking and his choice of location for tattoos. Unfortunately my younger brother doesn't have to worry about getting a good job because he's on disability because of a neuromuscular atrophy that runs in our family, he will never get better only slowly worse. I agree the dreadlocks are horrible looking for the most part and I would never have them, but to each their own and their inability to get a job because of their appearance is entirely on them. I'm just happy to keep my own family afloat in this economy!

 

[Maah]

That is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen...I'm seriously considering making the hour drive there this weekend to order this same plate...and I think I'll show them this picture and be like "I want THAT"

I think that picture was taken after we divided the food between the 3 of us. Just saying... you'll need to bring a friend along for sure. **raises hand** LOL!

 

[Sara Jayne]

try hughes net its better then att and dial up

 

[ladyrsanti]

One very real thing in life is that we are judged by our appearance. Right or wrong it is a reality. Employers must take that into consideration when hiring. If a customer feels uncomfortable in the presence of a business's employees they are not going to get call that company when they need additional work.

As an employer how many tattoos or piercing an employee has shouldn't be an issue, but how customers react to that employees is. If an individual presents an appearance that others feel uncomfortable around they have made themselves unemployable.

Young people who are considering conspicuous artwork need to consider which is most important, self expression or eating.

Well that's enough pontification. The coffee is hot, the cups are in the cupboard, so help yourself and let's get this day started.

I've heard that one MANY, many times before. But my intended BIL had a job as a line cook, he paid the bills and FED not only himself but his family and so did and does my sister who is also tattooed and pierced (and worked in a tattoo parlor in fact). Better yet, she does it as a single mom, while going back to school to complete her college education. People judge and will continue to judge, purely on looks and stereotypes and all manner of personal opinions but for every one of them (or maybe for every two or three or a hundred in this country) is a person who looks past it and gives *different* a chance. That's all it is, different. There is no rule about how successful a person should be. Success is personal and relative. Not everyone is suit material; not everyone wants to be, can be or should be. He was right where he needed to be for what he wanted out of life and no one could tell him otherwise.

 

[BentoMinion]

I just want to say that I am in the process of cooking a full pound of bacon and hash browns. No eggs, all out and to lazy to tote 4 little ones to the store. I will get them once the older 2 are in school (afternoon preschool)

I cannot say much about piercings and tats other than if you choose them, you need to consider long term and your career goals. I to know some really nice people who are covered in tats and piercing. My ex husband and I (I was the assistant) use to go with the Grand Rapids suspension group to various events and photograph them. They are an interesting group, very nice (sometimes fowl mouthed), but also very loyal. You would not think it, but everyone had a degree, I think 2 of them even had Masters. But they all worked in the tattoo/piercing parlor. They were aware of how it may limit them in the job fields they chose.

I personally like piercings and "odd" colored hair. Ok, I LOVE "odd" colored hair. I would most likely have blue or pink or maybe a rainbow colored hair right now, but I am going to school for Special Education. I know that is not acceptable in the work place. Could I get away with it while I am just in the "observation" stage? Yes. Will I do it? No. Like I said, I know what they prefer and as much as we all hate it, first impressions are everything and our visual appearance is just as important.

Sadly, visual appearance judgments also effect those with disabilities. My SO has cerebral Palsy. It effects his legs and his right hand/arm. Yet he has a double BA and for years was only able to make $9 or $10 an hour. He has a great outlook on life and just kept working hard and making contacts... that is how he got the job with the city. Then he worked his way to accounting with a place that provides camps, housing, adult day care, and transport for the disabled, and then he was let go because of cutbacks. He went back to working several jobs (accounting) to make ends meet. And then one day all the networking and proving his worth paid off. He now works at the Social Security Admin. and he easily does 3X or more the amount of work than his 2 handed coworkers. The regional manager even knows who he is. It took him over 10 years to get that lucky break.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Thanks Daron, I'll take you up on that when we pick up milk and I'm still interested in those eggs too if you can get some. I still owe you some mangel seeds too. Our car situation is dire again this week while my husband attempts to repair brakes himself. I'm housebound.

Sounds good. Sorry about the car issues. My van steering wheel decided not to work when I was leaving work the other day. It was hard trying to drive home. Thankfully It was fixed the next day. Oh, if you are still having trouble hatching BCMs, I have a breeding pair that you can get eggs from. They are really nice birds. Got them from Wynette.

Tony's is in Birch Run. There was a #12 on this... but it had a bit of shock factor. LOL.

Good Morning everyone!!!

 

[Ferrret]

A comment on the 'gauged' ears:
The proper term for it is stretched ears, or ear stretching. Gauge is the measurement, what you're actually doing to the ears (or nose/lip) is stretching the skin.
Many younger people who are getting into that form of body modification take it far too quickly and ruin their ears permanently, many times tearing the lobe apart. It's meant to be a very slow process, allowing the skin to relax and heal between sizes, but a lot of young people are just too impatient, victims of an instant gratification society.
I guess the desire for instant gratification has also led to very poorly thought out tattoos as well, stabbed into their skin by friends or untrained 'artists' working from their home because they didn't want to wait (or pay) for a professional.

While it's easy to pass off the poor judgement of a face, neck, or hand tattoos as 'they weren't thinking ahead', sometimes it's not that way. They may have indeed been thinking ahead, thinking that their dream career would fall into their lap right away. Again, a problem of youth and overzealous idealism.
Piercings can be removed, damage done from stretching the skin can be surgically corrected, and there are even a few lines of makeup made specifically to cover tattoos, if you don't want them laser removed.
There's a video for Dermablend makeup featuring a heavily tattooed young man named Rick Genest, more commonly known as Zombie Boy. If their product wasn't touched up afterwards via computer effects, then they have an amazing concealer for covering tattoos.
For at least a few of the wilder hairstyles, investment in a good wig can make colorful and odd hair unnoticeable.

There are ways around having tattoos and piercings and having the job you want. It may mean giving up your self expression for 8-10 hours a day, but it's better than having no job at all.

 

[RIRJen]

I think that picture was taken after we divided the food between the 3 of us. Just saying... you'll need to bring a friend along for sure. **raises hand** LOL!

Um, ya...you greatly under estimate my ability to eat bacon

 

[kimmie6067]

Sounds like a good reason to plan a day trip... do a bit of outlet mall shopping as well.

Hand hubby whatever you bought him from the mall first, and stuff the chicks in the brooder while he's busy playing with his new toy. Oh, and if you stop at "Tony's" for lunch... they serve a POUND of BACON there as a side. Can't go wrong with bacon... Ever. LOL.

I love Tony's! But they are a heartattack waiting to happen, hahahaahah

 

[kimmie6067]

I got me some little chickies!!!! My hen hatched three eggs so far, boy she is a good mommy. So I went to TSC I know, I know I was told to stay away from there, so I came home with six chicks EE's and put them under my broodie and she was fine with them. She still is sitting on three eggs I wish they would hurry up. I was getting the babies out to show them where the water was because I figured the babies that I bought already have been eating and drinking and needed to boy that was a mistake my hen would not stay put on her nest she was mad! She wanted the babies back, I thought she was going to stomp them to death trying to get them back with her so I put them back in the nest of course they didn't want to stay there now, they are so fast! All has settled down now. I put a heat lamp out where the food and water is so it will warm up so they can get out. I wish she was not so big, JG, she takes up so much room. I have them in a rabbit hutch which is pretty big for a regular chicken, she's a big girl. I will have to take pic's whenever she lets the little's out from under her.