The French for a car's hub cap is "enjoliveur" which basically means a dooberry to "pretty something up". Most of the country folk's vehicles round here have long since lost their's.
Years ago a neighbour had a Citroen, the translation for hub cap in their manual was Wheel Embelisher. We thought it was hilarious, so it is actually close to the truth. (Sorry not very curmudgeonly of me). Hrumph we were trying to help with a wheel removal, awful thing would not budge hence neighbour asking for help.
... what’s wrong with people ... throwing good money after bad .
When I’m in charge it’ll all be different 👸
Because they have the same kind of addiction as alcoholics. I've been saying for years that it's a ticking time bomb, and not as 'visible' as other addictions. I have a friend whose brother has a gambling addiction, although he seems to have got a grip on it now. Even when they lose their job, their wife, family, house and everything else, it still doesn't hit home. They often have a drug addiction too - so that they can stay up all night winning back the money to pay off the debt and make them millionaires..... Desperate - in every way.
w/edges - you're a very naughty boy....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gambling is an odd thing. We despise the bosses for making millions off broken homes, wrecked lives and suicides etc but the money that people can win comes from the same sources and lottery funding for charities is tainted in the same way. It's frightening that so many of the advertising standards around gambling are legal given the problems it causes. Even things as basic as scratch cards not being withdrawn from sale after the max prizes are won aren't mandatory. You'd never get away with things like that in any other business.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Gambling addiction is like any other, & like Alcoholism or drugs it can wreck lives. My mother used to follow the horses on TV but only ever bet on the one day a year they went to Epsom at the old August bank holiday meeting. She always came even or on top with small each way bets it was part of the day out. Sadly too many people lack that degree of self control.
Have to say , I do buy the odd lottery ticket 🎫 which is the only gambling I do Don’t like losing to be honest Unfortunately can be another form of addiction
I used to buy a lottery ticket now and then, but I don't any more. My only gambling is some premium bonds and I think of that as a form of savings (as it's only the interest that is gambled, not the capital).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
A more garden based grump. I had 2 identical saxifrages in pots that were looking great. This is one of them
All those big rosettes will chuck up a tall flower spike in the spring now and will look amazing. This is the other one.
Bleedin' vine weevils ate the lot It looked just like the first one until we had the windy weather a few days ago and the tops just blew away like tumbleweed.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
If you watch 'Ladies Day' at Aintree it's quickly apparent that any bra is much smaller than the content! Also 'Ladies' and 'Aintree' are terms rarely combined in a single conversation.
Is that why you watch it, KT ?
Perhaps they should try the hubcaps instead....
There's an old story about 2 amply proportioned ladies in a cafe in Edinburgh discussing the problems of finding undergarments which fit properly. Trying to be helpful the waitress says "Have you tried Binns?" "Yes" says one of the ladies "but they clatter together when I walk".
Binns was a department store on Princes Street :-)
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I do not even know how to do a lottery ticket.
Years ago a neighbour had a Citroen, the translation for hub cap in their manual was Wheel Embelisher.
We thought it was hilarious, so it is actually close to the truth.
(Sorry not very curmudgeonly of me). Hrumph we were trying to help with a wheel removal, awful thing would not budge hence neighbour asking for help.
I've been saying for years that it's a ticking time bomb, and not as 'visible' as other addictions. I have a friend whose brother has a gambling addiction, although he seems to have got a grip on it now.
Even when they lose their job, their wife, family, house and everything else, it still doesn't hit home. They often have a drug addiction too - so that they can stay up all night winning back the money to pay off the debt and make them millionaires.....
Desperate - in every way.
w/edges - you're a very naughty boy....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Don’t like losing to be honest
Unfortunately can be another form of addiction