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🦃 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XIX 🦃

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    Fingers very crossed for you all @raisingirl 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
    Sending you the most pet positivity possible  @raisingirl x
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I don't like tattoos and wouldn't have one at any price, but can still admire the quality of some of the artwork.  I agree that some people with tattoos can look intimidating, and some will intend to look that way.
    A mate of mine had an eagle tattooed on his shoulder and wasn't happy when I referred to it as 'the budgie'.  His missus loved the description as she didn't want him to have it in the first place.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Get them if you want but some visible ones make the person unemplyable. Maybe that's the idea.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I don't find tattoos intimidating.   Just plain ugly.
    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
  • When my son lived at home he got a tattoo. The first I knew was when he asked if I could apply some cream to his back as he couldn't reach. Fair enough. Then he took his shirt off!

    Below the neckline, all the way down. Abstract design.

    He hadn't needed parental consent and paid for it out of his wages.

    I told him I would have preferred that he hadn't had it done but also not to tell his dad.
    My OH found out a couple of years later when it casually came up in conversation. Me - well I was just as surprised!
    Southampton 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Under your shirt, it's entirely a private matter. Up the side of your neck or across your forehead or  love hate tattooed on your knuckles, that's something else entirely.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Get them if you want but some visible ones make the person unemplyable. Maybe that's the idea.

    At one time police officers weren't allowed visible tattoos but that is no longer the case.  Probably infringes their 'oomun rytes'
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    On a completely different subject: I am probably woefully out of date, but I can't think of any situation where golden wallpaper could be considered tasteful. Fair enough, he wasn't elected for aesthetic reasons, but  come on! If he found the decor unacceptable, a tin of two of magnolia would have brightened the place up a bit. In any case, as he seems to spend most of his time in the garden, the money would have been better spent on a few plants.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That most probably wasn't his choice, it was his wife's. And you don't say no to a much younger wife, no matter how much it costs or how god awful the end result.

    In actual fact though, golden hued paper can reflect light quite well.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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