Gepflegt - Well Groomed/Well Looked After

Some people are just too well-groomed. That’s both sexes too. Generally we expect women to spend a bit of extra time getting ready for any occasion, and men a bit less - essentially it should all balance out. Some women though spend such an immense amount of time getting so tarted up, the resulting look is often far worse than when they started several hours earlier. That said, it’s pretty much always been that way with women, so we can cut them some slack. However, when guys start taking thirty minutes to get that oh-so-cool I don’t give a shit messy hair look that could have been far more authentically achieved by not actually giving a shit, I begin to worry for society. Seriously, what is the point? In a sane world, whoever that tosser is would be ridiculed for firstly wasting his time styling and grooming himself to attain essentially an un-styled and un-groomed finish. And secondly for throwing his money away on such a cynically promoted product, the adverts for which proclaim such nonsensical statements as (and I’m paraphrasing slightly here) ‘Get that vagrant-slept-in-a-bush-and-shat-on-by-a-badger-look-in-less-than-an-hour’. But no, in modern Britain all the ladies swoon for such a mindless and pretentious prick. I just don’t understand it and probably never will.