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Joey goes to the salon and because he's
a man and a manly man at that he feels a
little bit insecure about being there so
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alright let's get to it
hey yeah I'm here for my eyebrow
equipment name Chandler Bing
but have a seat right over here mr. Bing
and son you'll be right with you okay
thanks
[Music]
[Laughter]
I touch the stuff Thanks so do you uh do
you get a lot of guys in here oh
absolutely
oh good yeah you're looking to meet
somebody all right let's just do this
we'll get to the wax in a minute first I
want to tweeze some of the strays okay
and this may sting just please an
extremely high threshold oh my my my
just a a bit of shock is all but I'll be
fine you can go again I'm okay
[Laughter]
hey I need your help
well it seems serious what seems to be
the problem Ashley Judd look I'm getting
new headshots taken all right so I want
to get my eyebrows shaped I'm sorry
moment to make fun of that please maybe
but I'll still pound you into the ground
all right look it hurts so bad I could
only let her do one eyebrow and now they
don't match
[Laughter]
it's like a baby caterpillar chasing its
mama okay look I have a magic marker I
want you to fill in the skinny one so I
don't look stupid for my pictures okay
first of all this is green all right I
will help you out but you have to
promise me you will not tell anyone what
I'm about to tell you what what okay you
know how most kids get their allowance
from mowing the lawn or taking out the
garbage
well I earn mine by plucking the
eyebrows of my father and his business
partners I guess you don't need my help
Victor Victoria I do I need your help
but Chandler I don't know if I can take
any more pluck and it hurts so bad
Oh with my combination of Ice Cube's
aloe vera and my gentle self-loathing
touch
[Music]
and done oh my god I didn't feel a thing
hey are you still looking for a job
because you could tweeze circles around
that sadistic [ __ ] at the salon thank
you want to see what it looks like yeah
yeah they totally match yeah I think it
looks pretty good I was a little bit
worried that I was uncovering a
birthmark right about there but it
turned out to be a little piece of
chocolate okay Chandler thank you so
much no problem listen uh that's a
pretty girly hour we just spent we
should probably do some manly makeup for
it yeah
copilot yeah I'm here for my eyebrow
appointment eyebrows line of hair that
grows over your eye appointment an
agreement to meet with someone at a
particular time especially in a
professional sense example I have an
appointment with the dentist tomorrow
morning okay very good
have a seat right over here mr. Bing and
Sonya we'll be right with you she'll be
right with you we can insert right into
some phrases to say that something will
happen immediately she'll be right with
you
means that she will be with him in a few
seconds the phrase I'll be right back I
mean someone will return in the brief
moment you can also express the same
idea with right after as in I got a job
right after I arrived in the city you're
looking to meet somebody
you're looking to meet somebody you're
looking to to want or try to do
something example we're looking to move
out next month this part was funny as
Joey asks if many men go to the salon
because he's insecure about doing
something feminine like waxing his
eyebrows however the woman assumes
because he is there in this lawn he must
be gay and believes he is asking for a
date this only adds to Joey's
insecurities get to the wax in a minute
first I want to tweeze some of the
strays okay wax a substance used to
remove hair wax is also a verb as people
often wax different parts of their body
to remove hair tweets to pluck for
example to remove individual hairs with
the tweezer Straight by a stray she
means a stray hair which is an
individual hair that sticks out from the
rest of the hair or is not in its proper
place other common collocations are a
stray bullet a bullet that was supposed
to go somewhere else and a stray dog a
dog that has no home this may sting
please an extremely high to sting if
something stings it causes a quick sharp
pain like a bee sting threshold the
point or level at which something starts
to have an effect your pain threshold is
the point at which pain is tolerable for
you a person with a high pain threshold
tolerates a lot of pain Joey was
starting to say that he has an extremely
high threshold for pain as it turns out
though his threshold wasn't nearly as
high as he thought just a a bit of shock
dissolve shock a strong and usually
unpleasant feeling of surprise
the hair plucking came as a shock to
Joey because he wasn't expecting it to
hurt so much you could say he was in
shock or in a state of shock example I'm
still in shock the movie didn't get any
Oscar Awards look I've getting new
headshots taken all right so I'm going
to get my eyebrows shaped I'm getting
new headshots taken a headshot is a
picture of someone's face and for actors
they're the portrait used as a part of
their resume to get work the structure
in this verb phrase get or have plus
something plus past participle verb is
very common
in English to talk about something
someone did for us for example we say I
got my haircut or I got my car fix which
would be different from saying I cut my
hair or I fixed my car both of which
cases would mean you yourself did that
action when Joey says I'm getting my
headshots taken you means someone will
take a headshot of him maybe a [ __ ] but
I'll still pound you into the ground
[ __ ] this word is used in a negative
way to referred someone with a cowardly
attitude but also speaking and acting
like a girl or in other words being
girly I'll still pound you into the
ground literally to hit something really
hard pound is to repeatedly hit until it
goes into the ground figuratively
Joey's saying that he can be Chandler in
a fight example I pounded the nail with
this hammer but it didn't going to the
wall alright look it hurts so bad I
could only let her do one eyebrow and
now they don't match so bad
used after certain verbs to mean very
much common collocations are to want
something so bad or to miss someone so
bad
whether the correct word to use in such
a way is badly but natives usually break
this rule it's like a baby caterpillar
chasing its mama caterpillar a small
worm like creature that changes into a
butterfly
Chandler jokes about Joey's eyebrows
looking like a small caterpillar next to
its larger mother look I have a magic
marker I want you to fill in the skinny
one so I don't look stupid for my
picture skinny very thin example you
better eat more he's a skinny boy
[Music]
he's supposed to to do what is normal
common or expected in a specific
situation for example when you're at the
movies you're supposed to turn off your
cell phone
example she was supposed to meet me in
3:00 but she was 45 minutes late you
know how most kids get their allowance
from mowing the lawn or taking out the
garbage
well iron mine by plucking the eyebrows
of my father and his business partners
allowance a small amount of money that
is regularly given to children by the
parents in exchange for chores or simple
jobs example my father gave me an
allowance of five dollars a week
mow the lawn the lawn is the grassy area
in front of or behind a house
we cut or mow it with a lawn woman cluck
to pull something with your fingers in
order to remove it from where it grows
out of we say to plug a hair to pluck a
feather from a bird to pluck the petals
off of a flower or to pluck a fruit from
a tree his business partners Chandler
does air quotes or quotes with his
fingers air quotes draws attention to
the fact that what you put quotes around
is not really true
in the case of Chandler's father's
business partners with air quotes if you
follow friends you know that Chandler's
dad was secretly a transvestite a man
who dresses like woman and his business
partners may refer to other
transvestites from his show a
transvestite might plug his eyebrows to
appear more feminine I guess you don't
need my help Victor Victoria Victor
Victoria a famous musical comedy
starring a cross-dressing man or a man
who dresses like a woman it hurts so bad
can't take it anymore
yeah like Joey in this scene you can't
take something it means you can't
tolerate or withstand it example I used
to be okay with her negative attitude
but I can't take it anymore
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every single week all right let's get
back into the lesson Oh with my
combination of Ice Cube's aloe vera and
my gentle self-loathing touch
self-loathing touch loathing comes from
the verb to loathe which means to hate
for example I vote this city's climate
his turn the South lobe describes a
person who hates or strongly dislikes
him or herself
Chandler might hate or loathe himself
because he's very embarrassed about his
a surprising talents which many would
consider womanly I didn't feel a thing
a thing is a colloquial and emphatic way
to say nothing as in the example I
didn't learn a thing in that course I
didn't say a thing
hey are you still looking for a job
because you could tweeze circles around
that sadistic [ __ ] it's a so we already
learned what tweeze means but when we
say to do something circles around
somebody we're saying that you do it a
lot better than the competition for
example if someone is a fast runner
they run circles around other runners or
in this case saying Chandler can tweeze
circles around that woman means that
he's a lot better
sadistic enjoyment that someone gets
from causing pain someone that was a
little bit worried that I was uncovering
a birthmark right about there birthmark
a mark on the skin produced from the
time before someone was born I would do
some manly oh you some manly I would do
some manly that's a pretty girly hour we
just spent we should probably do some
manly makeup for us girl a manly these
words refer to activities or attitudes
that are characteristic of females or
males respectively while polishing nails
would be considered girly playing a
contact sport like rugby is generally
considered a manly activity make up for
something to make a bad situation better
by compensating or replacing something
bad with something good example you had
to work overtime to make up for being
late komai left yeah curl my eyelashes
to curl referring to hair is the
opposite of to straighten eyelashes our
hairs attached the eyelid many women use
an eyelash curler to make their eyes pop
out more
hey yeah I'm here for my eyebrow
appointment name Chandler Bing okay very
good have a seat right over here mr.
Bing and Sonya we'll be right with you
okay thanks I touch the stuff Thanks so
do you uh do you get a lot of guys in
here oh absolutely
oh good yeah you're looking to meet
somebody all right let's just do this
well get to the wax in a minute first I
want to tweeze some of the strays okay
and this may sting it please I have
extremely high threshold
ha oh my my my
just stay a bit of shock is all but I'll
be fine you can go again I'm okay
hey I need your help
well it seems serious what seems to be
the problem Ashley Judd look I'm getting
new headshots taken all right so I went
to get my eyebrows shaped I'm sorry
moment to make fun of that please maybe
a [ __ ] but I'll still pound you into
the ground
all right look it hurts so bad I could
only let her do one eyebrow and now they
don't match
[Laughter]
it's like a baby caterpillar chasing its
mama okay look I have a magic marker I
want you to fill in the skinny one so I
don't look stupid for my pictures okay
first of all this is green all right I
will help you out but you have to
promise me you will not tell anyone what
I'm about to tell you what what okay you
know how most kids get their allowance
from mowing the lawn or taking out the
garbage
well I earn mine by plucking the
eyebrows of my father and his business
partners oh my god I guess you don't
need my help Victor Victoria I do I need
your help but Chandler I don't know if I
can take any more plucking it hurts so
bad
Oh with my combination of Ice Cube's
aloe vera and my gentle self-loathing
touch
[Music]
and done oh my god
I didn't feel a thing hey are you still
looking for a job because you could
tweeze circles around that sadistic
[ __ ] at the salon
thank you want to see what it looks like
yeah hey they totally match great are
you doing yeah I think it looks pretty
good I was a little bit worried that I
was uncovering a birthmark right about
there but it turned out to be a little
piece of chocolate okay Chandler thank
you so much no problem
listen uh that's a pretty girly hour we
just spent we should probably do some
manly makeup for it yeah go my Island
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