Gilly I've no kids but like to think I'm in touch, except technology, got lost in 2000.
In my view everyone is entitled to do what they like with their bodies I personally don't like tattoos, can't get beyond what was done to the Jews, so maybe I'm now of the older generation.
Tina I hate that earlobe thing, and strongly dislike facial piercings, but I do have pierced ears. That made my father so cross, mutilation in his view, but after I'd had mine done at 18, Mum and younger sister did the same.
Everyone to their own and I think if you are a good and kind person ( and a gardener) then life is too short to judge others, or to care what others think. So endeth my lesson...
On the subject of tattoos, I think some of them are really good, a chap I know on a different internet forum has one on his forearm that looks like bits of the skin have been peeled back to reveal bits of a terminator (rather than bone). They do look awful when they're several years old and fading to blue, you can have the colour re-injected to keep the colour.
The ones that baffle me are the ones that are chinese writing. How on earth do you know you've really been tattooed 'angel' or 'dove' or anything similar, and not 'bitch' or 'soup' (you have to watch big bang theory to get that one).
On the subject of heavily pregnant ladies, they should be allowed to wear what the hell they want. Having had my first at the end of August, I spent the entire last month of my pregnancy in just a T-shirt, camped out in front of the portable air-conditioner. If I had to go out, I pulled on an old pair of jodphurs, or the lovely maternity leggings. If anyone had pointed out my lack of sartorial elegance, I would have hit them with the nearest hard object! Personally I've always steered clear of anything clingy, especially when I'd got a bun in the oven, the baggier the better. If I do wear anything that's even reasonably tailored, men of a certain age and upbringing talk to my chest, not to me. I dress for comfort most of the time, can't understand women that totter around on stilettos, they probably can't understand why I like to spend most of my time in boots (like the purple Dr Marten's boots I smuggled into my sister-in -law's evening 'do' when I was her bridesmaid). Each to their own, I leave the silly clothes to the Stepford wives.
What I don't like to see is young children with pierced ears - and you now see babies/toddlers with them. Isn't that child abuse?.. Becoming very difficult if you have children because peer pressure means that 7 and 8yr olds are harrassing their parents to let them get their ears pierced. Glad I'm past all that stuff!
Re tattoos - there was a story on one of the comedy quiz shows (HIGNFY I think) a while back about a woman who got her husband to do a huge tattoo on her back. He did - covering her whole back - and she assumed it was a lovely picture as it took ages. What she didn't know was: he knew she was having an affair, so he had tattooed a huge t**d complete with buzzing flies .....
Now that's revenge!!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I can't say I like tattoos but if that's what young people want to do, then so be it. I don't take any notice any more because I know they are still the same pleasant people, just got a marble loose. There's a lot of money to be made in the tatoo business because it's so popular and doesn't seem to be on the decrease.
I was 21 before I had my ears pierced, daughter 13 and granddaughter has been told she can't have hers done until she's at senior school, much to her disgust, being as all her school friends have had them done for years.
Sara, how can a Boy Band have an amazing life history, they will be barely out of nappies and still fighting for the fourth fish finger in their sandwich. I read autobiographies although the writers are often long gone and have had a life, I am retired yet would still not consider my life interesting to others apart from family and they would probably be bored to tears, maybe why we oldies do not talk about it? Amazing history? I wonder if they ever heard of Sir Winston Churchill, maybe not.
Sara I cringe at some of the answers given to quiz questions and wonder what they are learning in school. Apart from Google there are plenty of history books out there, probably most of them in Charity shops unused unopened unloved, I would give them a home on my book shelves. Sue, History is in the eye of the beholder or so I found when reading the written report of a Patrol we did, nothing like what actually happened, written up by a clerk in the office, bare bones and short on facts. I spend a lot of time on the local history board and correct a lot of the hearsay stuff they get in as true, saw it with my own eye's stuff as with one who remembered the Bombs dropping on Norton, he was two at the time???
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Gilly I've no kids but like to think I'm in touch, except technology, got lost in 2000.
In my view everyone is entitled to do what they like with their bodies I personally don't like tattoos, can't get beyond what was done to the Jews, so maybe I'm now of the older generation.
Tina I hate that earlobe thing, and strongly dislike facial piercings, but I do have pierced ears. That made my father so cross, mutilation in his view, but after I'd had mine done at 18, Mum and younger sister did the same.
Everyone to their own and I think if you are a good and kind person ( and a gardener
) then life is too short to judge others, or to care what others think. So endeth my lesson...
Well said KEF topic closed.
On the subject of tattoos, I think some of them are really good, a chap I know on a different internet forum has one on his forearm that looks like bits of the skin have been peeled back to reveal bits of a terminator (rather than bone). They do look awful when they're several years old and fading to blue, you can have the colour re-injected to keep the colour.
The ones that baffle me are the ones that are chinese writing. How on earth do you know you've really been tattooed 'angel' or 'dove' or anything similar, and not 'bitch' or 'soup' (you have to watch big bang theory to get that one).
On the subject of heavily pregnant ladies, they should be allowed to wear what the hell they want. Having had my first at the end of August, I spent the entire last month of my pregnancy in just a T-shirt, camped out in front of the portable air-conditioner. If I had to go out, I pulled on an old pair of jodphurs, or the lovely maternity leggings. If anyone had pointed out my lack of sartorial elegance, I would have hit them with the nearest hard object! Personally I've always steered clear of anything clingy, especially when I'd got a bun in the oven, the baggier the better. If I do wear anything that's even reasonably tailored, men of a certain age and upbringing talk to my chest, not to me. I dress for comfort most of the time, can't understand women that totter around on stilettos, they probably can't understand why I like to spend most of my time in boots (like the purple Dr Marten's boots I smuggled into my sister-in -law's evening 'do' when I was her bridesmaid). Each to their own, I leave the silly clothes to the Stepford wives.
What I don't like to see is young children with pierced ears - and you now see babies/toddlers with them. Isn't that child abuse?..
Becoming very difficult if you have children because peer pressure means that 7 and 8yr olds are harrassing their parents to let them get their ears pierced. Glad I'm past all that stuff!
Re tattoos - there was a story on one of the comedy quiz shows (HIGNFY I think) a while back about a woman who got her husband to do a huge tattoo on her back. He did - covering her whole back - and she assumed it was a lovely picture as it took ages. What she didn't know was: he knew she was having an affair, so he had tattooed a huge t**d complete with buzzing flies .....
Now that's revenge!!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I can't say I like tattoos but if that's what young people want to do, then so be it. I don't take any notice any more because I know they are still the same pleasant people, just got a marble loose.
There's a lot of money to be made in the tatoo business because it's so popular and doesn't seem to be on the decrease.
I was 21 before I had my ears pierced, daughter 13 and granddaughter has been told she can't have hers done until she's at senior school, much to her disgust, being as all her school friends have had them done for years.
This is the place to moan about anything
Big rant. What Boy band? I am not getting any of that, is this some kind of favouritism???
Frank.
Sara, how can a Boy Band have an amazing life history, they will be barely out of nappies and still fighting for the fourth fish finger in their sandwich.
I read autobiographies although the writers are often long gone and have had a life, I am retired yet would still not consider my life interesting to others apart from family and they would probably be bored to tears, maybe why we oldies do not talk about it?
Amazing history? I wonder if they ever heard of Sir Winston Churchill, maybe not.
Frank.
I've read a lot of histories on here, some are interesting, some not so!
Sara I cringe at some of the answers given to quiz questions and wonder what they are learning in school. Apart from Google there are plenty of history books out there, probably most of them in Charity shops unused unopened unloved, I would give them a home on my book shelves.
Sue, History is in the eye of the beholder or so I found when reading the written report of a Patrol we did, nothing like what actually happened, written up by a clerk in the office, bare bones and short on facts.
I spend a lot of time on the local history board and correct a lot of the hearsay stuff they get in as true, saw it with my own eye's stuff as with one who remembered the Bombs dropping on Norton, he was two at the time???
Frank.