thought I'd bring back High Hair Lady

[fflo]

Maybe her posture will rub off on me.

Holly's grandmother was taught to sit as if her spine was fused to an iron rod. I pictured one of those pieces of metal with little semi-scored divisions that you see at construction sites---I think they put them inside concrete to reinforce it. Kinda like long Tootsie rolls.

Hmmm... we haven't had a poll here in a while:

[Poll #464633]

Comments

[windswept.livejournal.com]

I've made NY resolutions about my posture, bought books for posture exercises, etc., but I never have followed through. :^(

I know I look disgusting, so I really wish I had some old-school teacher who'd whack me with a cane whenever she saw me slouching.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not going to be able to resist chiding you for "I look disgusting"---c'mon, crazyp: disgusting? For me, anyway, the issue isn't one of appearance. (At least not unless/until it means me being an old lady, should I make it that far, who's slumped over all the time.) I do buy that alignment is good for the ol' physiog, though, and I too wish there were some old-school reminder teacher lurking about.

Maybe someone can successfully market the Posture Policer (or, better, a name that doesn't involve law enforcement): a battery-powered desktop figurine of a stern elder that either detects slouching & reacts with a rebuke (I'd prefer a verbal one to caning, m'self) or just spouts off a chastising reminder every so many minutes. Of course these days it could just be a computer desktop buddy, done by programming.

[atleastdefiant.livejournal.com]

No you don't. Then you'd be like me and unable to slouch. I usually look really unnatural on pictures because I do the military thing: shoulders back! spine straight! chin raised! Slouching causes me pain. Plus, the nuns told me i would get scoliosis if I didn't stand straight, but as a kid I confused that with osteoporosis, so when I slouch it seems I can feel my bones weakening.