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🦀CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 9 🦀

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Weeks and weeks of the hokey kokey and what do I get ? one mature plant and one sickly  specimen !
    Nice flower, though

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Also back in the 80s, OH and friends insisted I needed a pair of trainers.   Did the whole length of Oxford Street as well as local shops in Harrow looking for a pair with no logo.

    In the noughties, Possum's school friends all had Abercrombie tops and she was desperate to have one.   Superdry soon followed and Kipling bags.  Nightmare.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why do eejits think a handbag is worth hundreds or thousands of pounds? And then there's personalised number plates  and watches - only they're time pieces.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Sometimes I think its about confidence? Often the wearer (if you've got it, flaunt it - such a silly saying) but also potential clients.

    A bookie once told me that however bad business was he always drove an expensive car. Apparently customers want to be sure that when they have that big win he would pay out!
    "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
    A few years back, there was a fashion for leaving the price labels on, but this might have been so that they could return the goods after a couple of wears.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Oh @B3 that just triggered an image of the groom kneeling at the alter!  Don't think that would have been intentional though  :D 
    "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
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The only thing Johnson is good at is writing fiction.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Methinks you should be VERY careful pruning roses in the buff!!

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You might end up with a prickly pear😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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