u/prehistoryfein

Okay so i thought the places humans had body hair was originally (like with homo erectus and other early humans) was to keep people warm? so hair like, on legs and arms makes a lot of sense to me. so my question is: How come armpit hair stayed, and chest hair is less common?? is there another use for underarm hair? because that area of the body is warm enough i think, but exposed areas like the chest are way more likely to get cold. and is hair like eyebrows and just normal hair on your head purely visual?

okay so this might already exist, idk, but i think gum that tastes like actual food should exist. cause sometimes i want that flavour or just to chew something and im not *actually* hungry, but i dont want mint or sweet gum, so i end up eating chips or something. but if there was like, spaghetti flavoured gum, or ramen, or popular chip flavours like doritos, takis, pringles, sour cream and onion, etc. and i know that fruit gum is a thing, but it never tastes like actual fruit. its always too sweet. but if someone wanted sweet food, how about cake flavoured gum? ice cream? cookie? i feel like this should exist 😋

(also i just feel like i should say, this is not meant to be for people who are actually hungry and just dont want to eat, its for people who just want flavor in their mouth but arent in need of food!!)

Im in marching band front ensemble (members from my section or band might see this so um hi! if you do… dont mention it please!)  and this is my second year, and last year we had the same uniforms as everyone else minus shakoes. But it was the pants, and the nice jackets with gauntlets and sashes and everything. 

This year, apparently we have too many people in the marching band, and there was a chance none of the uniforms would fit us. So, my band director bought screen print shirts for pit. Originally he was gonna but the whole drumline in them, but theres something weird about the drum harnesses so that doesnt work. And so now, pit is the only section in the screen print uniforms. And we've all come together and agreed that they make us feel: less than, different, separated, and frumpy. The screenprint uniforms are genuinely so unattractive. And we dont get gauntlets nor a sash.

 We've expressed our concerns to the director about how we already felt separated, so he sat us down and has a conversation with us today. When he was in band, he was in pit the whole time. So he knows how it feels to be in pit, and feel different and separate. He got the uniforms because he wanted them to fit everyone, and he argues that from the audience, no one can tell theyre different. But none the less, my whole section still isnt very fond of the new uniforms. He gave us 3 options: 1, everyone in pit wears the screenprint uniforms. 2, pit gets re fitted with the left over uniforms, and some of us have the nice jackets, and others are in the new ones. Or 3, pit wears color guard uniforms.

Personally, the 2nd option is my favourite, as not everyone in pit really cares about the uniforms. Theres at least 3 who i know are fine with the new ones. And some people just feel way more confident and connected in the old uniforms. Color guard uniforms are a horrible idea, as theyre usually very feminine and theres only 4 out of 11 girls in pit. (my section leader said he doesnt want them because they usually look unatractive on guys, and i also dont want them because im in pit. Not the guard, and im a very proud pit dweller, and i feel like at competitions and stuff id get confused as a guard member unless i was with my vibraphone) And theres only 1 rookie in pit this year, so its unfair that all the vets in pit essentially got their uniforms taken from them, so that the new rookies on the field can have them. In my opinion, if the audience cant tell the difference, the rookies and 8th graders should get the screenprint uniforms.

Im not sure. I see where my director is coming from, but i also think i (and the other members in my section) have a good reason to be upset. If anyone sees this, id love to hear your thoughts and ideas. Thank you! (also, my band director does not want to do the show theme uniform trend, but to get good scores we might have to in future years, and i really hope we dont. I love showing off who WE are as a band, not what our show happens to be.)