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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    But at least nowadays she has friends to support her WE, back in the day disapproval from older women would have been the least of her worries.  Many attitudes have changed thank goodness.

    My mother was from the NE where 'certain' words were/are never spoken, I can't tell you how many unfinished sentences I had to endure when I was a teenager


    Sounds like the Les Dawson "Cissie and Ada" sketches.  Always mouthing words rather than saying them.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    What pretentious nonsense:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52557291

    Just because your parents are rich and " celebrities " doesn't mean you have to be lumbered with an unprouncable name which can't even be typed on a normal keyboard.
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Got it in one @KT53 !  That was my Mum exactly, except she didn't mouth the words (at least that would have been a clue) she just pursed her lips and shrugged.  I am ashamed to admit that once I became a little more wordly wise I used to bait her
     
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What an A1-Pra/ett!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • OmoriOmori Posts: 1,674
    They’re both giant (mouths words). 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Just because you have rich / famous parents doesn't mean you wont be bullied or have the mickey taken out of you. 
    Devon.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Zowie Bowie to Duncan Jones.
    Rutland, England
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Just a tiny, tiny, first world peeve.... I haven't been able to get hold of my favourite breakfast cereal for the last six weeks - has anybody seen either Kellogs or Sainsbury's own Fruit & Fibre cereal anywhere? 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I haven't been able to get oat bran.  Suspect they're concentrating on keeping core products stocked. How they decide what is "core" is beyond me. I was able to get own-brand frosties for OH and there were plenty of other sugary junk cereals available.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That's more of less what I thought Jenny, Sainsbury's have delivered every other permutation of cereal they can think of, bar the one I really, really want!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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