RootsAir From Costa Rica, joined Feb 2005, 4176 posts, RR: 51 Posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2246 times:
Since last year, rubber bracelets have become a new fashion. It came first with the Yellow Livestrong bracelets and the black&white ones against racism.
Since many types have been done.
Yesterday there was some promotion for Thailand in a restaurant and to my surprise there was a Thai Airways bracelet.
I have been a fan of those bracelets ever since they came out, and I wanted to see what my fellow a.netters thought about them.
Cheers
BM My new Thai bracelet
I still wear this bracelet from the world cup for the Argentina squad
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Sunshine79 From UK - England, joined Jan 2006, 1726 posts, RR: 42 Reply 3, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2225 times:
Quoting TheSorcerer (Reply 2): Quoting Sunshine79 (Reply 1):
we are banned from wearing them.
How come?
Some Airtours resorts have banned reps from wearing them as some people wear one's that aren't supporting a charity, so we were told not to wear them. Some resorts are allowed to wear them though.
Ndebelebev From Sudan, joined Apr 2004, 869 posts, RR: 52 Reply 4, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2225 times:
I have 2 of those bracelets. A pink one for Breast cancer research and a yellow and blue one for Marie Curie. Don't generally wear them anymore but they are visible in my room.
Bev xx
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Aerobalance From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 4600 posts, RR: 53 Reply 5, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2215 times:
Pawsleykat From UK - England, joined Jul 2005, 1958 posts, RR: 16 Reply 6, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2215 times:
I have about 4. A "Make Poverty History" one, a "beat bullying" one, a "cancer research" one and a "stamp out racism" one (which is actually two bands intertwined to show equality between black and white)
JG
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AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 16409 posts, RR: 63 Reply 10, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2167 times:
Order me a few. They appear to be able to work double-duty.
Jpax From United States of America, joined Aug 2006, 986 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2153 times:
Quoting AeroWesty (Reply 10): They're "trendy." Just like those friendship bracelets a few years ago.
For many people, perhaps a majority, they are just a trend.
When I first started wearing one, Livestrong, everyone told me I'll be taking it off in a few months just like they did because it was simple that, a trend.
Little did I know that in the next months, I'd be getting a new one, a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia "Hope" bracelet. This one was in support and my little brother who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor at the age of 9. Everyone in the family wore one, as well as his friends. Yes, they sold for $1, but many people we know paid upwards of $100 just for one to support the cause.
For the proceeding 16 months we all wore them and my brother wore his, too, through all the radiation, chemo, hospital visits, MRIs, etc etc etc. He passed away on April 11 of this year, wearing his, surrounded by his family wearing ours.
To this day I still wear my two bracelets. I have gone through a few of each over the years as they just eventually give out and snap. One day the Livestrong one will come off, but my "Hope" bracelet will stay on me forever because my brother will have his on forever more.
Excuse me for the novel, just giving my perspective on these bracelets.
AeroWesty From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 16409 posts, RR: 63 Reply 16, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 2108 times:
DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 19 Reply 17, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 2071 times:
No I do not wear them. I'll keep my opinion to myself about them.
Adam Carolla was talking about them on his radio show a few weeks ago and said they are starting to show up in porn movies. I'll leave it to your imagination what the brown bracelet is for.
[Edited 2006-08-13 23:25:09]
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MDorBust From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 2037 times:
I wear an olive colored USO/ Support Our Troops one that I have been wearing for quite some time now and have no plans to take off. Generally I'm pretty out on the wristbands since it seems that every piddly thing in the world has a wristband these days.. but I think there are one or two causes worth getting behind.
Mhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5035 posts, RR: 37 Reply 19, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 2032 times:
Nope - When they started it was fine, a decent cause etc... then every cause had a bracelet, and a number of shops started selling ones matching the popular causes but without any proceeds going to them - at this point it was evident that they were becoming a fashion accessory rather than a statement!
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QXatFAT From Israel, joined Feb 2006, 2362 posts, RR: 6 Reply 20, posted (5 years 6 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 2016 times:
I wear a Live Strong yellow bracelet and I wear a Speak Loud bracelet refuring to my Christian faith. Letting my actions be louder then words (it is orange).
25 CastleIsland: No. Never will. What stupid fashion may bring, I'm not gonna be a part of it.
26 MAH4546: I always wear my yellow Livestrong one. I wore a pair of inter-wined blue/white bracelets from Nike supporting Italia in the World Cup.
27 CastleIsland: S12PPL, I have great sympathy for you and your mother (and family); I lost my mother to a heart attack. I have also lost friends to breast cancer and
28 Carmenlu15: I have two, a yellow one (supporting a local cancer fund), and a white-and-blue Argentina one (you know, the World Cup...). However, I don't wear them
29 Monorail: I wear a blue US Airways that I got from their company store. A portion of the sales profit went to a charity, I can't remember which one.
30 Cadet57: After the pic of you and your cat, i think they may be a bit big LOL Tease
31 Longhornmaniac: Get them here. Even though you can only buy them in 10 packs, consider it a $10 donation to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and that way you have som
32 Airwave: CHOP's good people. My condolences for your loss. Yup, same here. The only ones I wear anymore are my orange and black Philadelphia Flyers ones--but
33 Longhornmaniac: Asking the wrong person, considering I don't pay my family's taxes, but after a little digging around on the LAF Store's website, I found this: The L
34 KingAir200: I have a blue Pilots for Kids organization band, a Livestrong band, and a swirled yellow and blue band that says "M Go Blue for Mott" on it, a campaig
35 Airwave: Ah, brilliant, thanks. I wasn't asking you specifically, just quoting you--sorry if it seemed otherwise. Thanks for digging around, though. Airwave
36 Longhornmaniac: Not a problem, sir, and no, I didn't take it as such. I meant to put a winking face in after that, but I forgot once I realized I could probably get
37 RobertNL070: Where? Where? Where? Did I miss something??????
40 WrenchBender: I wear 1, Olive drab with 'Support Our Soldiers/Soutenons Nos Soldats' on it. The money from the sale of these and 'support our troops' car magnets go
41 RobertNL070: Last year I bought one of those white ones: "..... Against Poverty", I think. It smells a bit peculiar [Edited 2006-08-14 16:58:17]
42 GDC2006: As someone has already said there are just too many of them. Or rather there are just too many of them to really earn any individual charity any real
43 SlamClick: The Wolf-Gangwal retirement home, of course.
44 Pope: I'm a big fan! signed by, John F. (for failure) Kerry
45 Outlier: No. I have 5 family members that are cancer survivors. They don't wear them either.
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