The recession, benefits, the safety net, and the learning curve

PasturesNew

Max_Headroom wrote: »

As PN says, it's in my profile now (hopefully).

Does seem odd that there are plenty of other blogs linked in this thread which haven't been removed, and mine which is probably as relevant as can be to it has been.

It's because it's yours and you posted it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Hey I found a really cool blog about just this subject:


http://charliecroker.wordpress.com/

Mx, you should do yours like his. I bet yours will be High End pants in comparison to this guys fluent and compelling writing style.

That's a good one. I've added that to my list.

I also read the Agent Diary and Rentergirl, so was needing something new... I even watched JK today!

PasturesNew

Max_Headroom wrote: »

I always wantedto be one of those bad kidz!

10 JPS and a box of matches please, I'll hide them in my Parka!

Aaah JPS. I used to smoke those. Lovely silky black packet - made me look super cool.

mewbie_2

Come off it, those were for posh people. You were a No.6 addict.. admit it.

lostinrates

Sometimes I miss smoking. As soon as I smell a ciggy I don't want it, but the busyness, the lack of wanting to put calories in my mouth, the efficient masking of the smell of cows and dirt in our local pubs, the ease of flirting when you needed light....the days when we believed in our own immortality were great.

Max_Headroom_3

PasturesNew wrote: »

Aaah JPS. I used to smoke those. Lovely silky black packet - made me look super cool.

Not just cool, also just like a F1 racing driver!

Max_Headroom_3

lostinrates wrote: »

Sometimes I miss smoking. As soon as I smell a ciggy I don't want it, but the busyness, the lack of wanting to put calories in my mouth, the efficient masking of the smell of cows and dirt in our local pubs, the ease of flirting when you needed light....the days when we believed in our own immortality were great.

Alcohol always tasted better accompanied by a ciggie too.

And driving with the windows down, fag on. Heaven... :cool:

Happy days.

nearlynew

PasturesNew wrote: »

Aaah JPS. I used to smoke those. Lovely silky black packet - made me look super cool.

And you used to be able to buy them in singles.

Before the rise of the nanny state, of course.

PasturesNew

mewbie wrote: »

Come off it, those were for posh people. You were a No.6 addict.. admit it.

No, my mum smoked No 6 though ... back in the days when I was 10-12 and allowed to go to the shops and buy them for her and the shopkeepers sold them to me... because that's how we did things back then.

PasturesNew

Max_Headroom wrote: »

Not just cool, also just like a F1 racing driver!

My first moped was a Puch Maxi, JPS Special Edition. It was black, with narrow gold piping along all the framework parts - and the black wheels had a narrow band of red.

Had to buy that - I smoked the fags, needed the moped!