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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,279 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    How come men's minds always remember the technical words?

    Men have a pointer that helps them find their way around, too.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • silvercar
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Men have a pointer that helps them find their way around, too.

    Technical word for that is sat nav.

    I can read maps, properly.:)
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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Technical word for that is sat nav.

    I can read maps, properly.:)


    Actually, I find it quite funny that after years of jokes about women turning the map to reflect which way they are facing we get.....the satnav which does exactly the same thing.
  • sss555s
    sss555s Posts: 3,175 Forumite
    silvercar wrote: »
    Technical word for that is sat nav.

    I can read maps, properly.:)


    Surely not while driving :eek:


    Do any of you wimen do this?....


    2u71741.jpg


    :undecided
  • silvercar
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    sss555s wrote: »
    Surely not while driving :eek:


    Do any of you wimen do this?....


    :undecided

    NO......

    I wouldn't leave the house without my make-up on!;)
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  • silvercar
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    GDB2222 wrote: »
    Round here, nearly all the houses were built in the 1910s-1930s, and the garages are too small to park a modern car in. I don't think I've ever parked my car in a garage.

    We worked out we could fit the Aygo in the garage, if we de-junked, folded the wing mirrors in and drove really carefully. Not sure if we could close the garage door.

    Our garage was built in 2004.
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  • michaels
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    Our garage is about 18 x 16 - we could get both cars in but I am hoping we can have the junk, the bikes and a table tennis table in and still use it for 1 car.

    Nicely avoided the smutty joke with the sat nav comment; we need PN to lower the tone properly.
    I think....
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    In my youth I made up in the car. For some reason I was extraordinarily proud of being able to apply perfect liquid eyeliner while driving along with everything else. I can't do it reliably first time at home with a solid survice for my elbow and a magnifying mirror these days. I might occasionally smear a lipstick/gloss in a traffice jam though.
  • LydiaJ
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    sss555s wrote: »
    Surely not while driving :eek:

    Do any of you wimen do this?....
    :undecided

    Usually only when the car is parked, and definitely only with handbrake on and car in neutral, but yes. My priority in the morning is to get my kids out of the door on time for school. If I only achieve that by not putting my make-up on until I'm in the car park at work, so be it.

    I do have some strengths - punctuality isn't one of them. :o
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    Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
    Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.     :)
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    lostinrates wrote: »
    In my youth I made up in the car.

    Really? In my youth I made out in mine:o
    Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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