Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't lie, I go a funny colour, stutter and am blindingly obvious
I'd also never remember who I told what to.

I wasn't suggesting you could lie but just wondering whether you could understand why others would want to or try to?

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

AIUI he's still a very rich man, just not as rich as he was.

That Vegas one nearly lost him everything. Bank wanted to bankrupt it - he wouldn't let them.... false placed arrogance....

He nearly lost the lot. Everything. He said "I built the first one, re-mortgaged, built the next... and the next... I should have stopped at 15 ..." he knew he'd been greedy and the penny had only just dropped that he actually owned nothing. He knew if he'd stopped at 15 he could have owned them all outright.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I wasn't suggesting you could lie but just wondering whether you could understand why others would want to or try to?

No. It doesn't make sense.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

Musee D'Orsay, Pre raphealite and Anthony Gormley are all a holiday for my head but I cannot get anything allegorical.

I have absolutely no idea what this sentence means....

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Spirit my camera is working again so I am trying to work out how to take a picture of dh's cap from his 'doge' outfit. (we also call it wee willy winky garb).

I have tried aiming the camera at the top of my head and it doesn't work.

Edit: Obviously not me in the pic



I made the outfit. The hat can be worn in different ways but wNted the button in the pic. As its not afull length shot you cannot see the wonder of a man in a floor length 'doge suit'. Keeps him warm though!

LiR. I am truly impressed by the workmanship. Making a hat and putting in those sleeves. Overall it is very dramatic...and a little shocking.It is very novel - to me. I would have been less surprised if he had been in his birthday suit.

I confess to being somewhat interested in how this came about. Is it live action role play? Do you find this outfit cute or sexy? What does it mean to him? Who designed it? Did he request it or did you surpise him with it?

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

That Vegas one nearly lost him everything. Bank wanted to bankrupt it - he wouldn't let them.... false placed arrogance....

He nearly lost the lot. Everything. He said "I built the first one, re-mortgaged, built the next... and the next... I should have stopped at 15 ..." he knew he'd been greedy and the penny had only just dropped that he actually owned nothing. He knew if he'd stopped at 15 he could have owned them all outright.

Thanks, have stuck it in to record. It is on again late Thurs BBC4 if anyone else would like to see.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have absolutely no idea what this sentence means....

When I go to the [named places] or see work by [named artists] it helps me switch off...very quickly. It just does, to me they are amazing and fill my mind.

Allegory in art.....Any painting that includes things intended by the artist to represent/symbolise or reference something else is meaningless to me. I only see it for what it is...sort of "ooh that's a nice lamb" when it is meant to mean something else.

To me they are sort of artists/intellectuals in jokes that were never meant for the likes sof me to understand.

I do get metaphors though. Words are easier.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

LiR. I am truly impressed by the workmanship. Making a hat and putting in those sleeves. Overall it is very dramatic...and a little shocking.It is very novel - to me. I would have been less surprised if he had been in his birthday suit.

I confess to being somewhat interested in how this came about. Is it live action role play? Lol, no we are not larpers:DDo you find this outfit cute or sexy? :rotfl::rotfl:NopeWhat does it mean to him? He likes itWho designed it? Well, I made up the hat, but it's very simple, a circle and a rectangle for the headband. The actual 'suite' is, a pattern for a men's nightshirt, but I just left it longer...Did he request it or did you surpise him with it?

he has a thing about Albert finney as Scrooge. He loves that film. He said he wanted a night shirt with the 'funny hat' and I thought it would be fun to get hima. Night short for christmas. They are quite hard to find! So I thought I would make one, and then my mother said I should make it in fleece so it was warmer.......at which point it became something entirely different and I found the brilliant buttons and felt a man in floor length vestments needed little adornemnt in the way of other colour, buit that the hat, as per original wish, was a must.

I think he was a little taken a back at first. Now he wears it like a dressing gown, or sometimes like a jumper. Struts out to put hens away in it or check the horses, or relaxes on the sofa in it.


We also made each other Christmas stockings. They are amazing. Tbh, the one dh made me is better.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

When I go to the [named places] or see work by [named artists] it helps me switch off...very quickly. It just does, to me they are amazing and fill my mind.

Allegory in art.....Any painting that includes things intended by the artist to represent/symbolise or reference something else is meaningless to me. I only see it for what it is...sort of "ooh that's a nice lamb" when it is meant to mean something else.

To me they are sort of artists/intellectuals in jokes that were never meant for the likes sof me to understand.

I do get metaphors though. Words are easier.

Whoosh.

I've never been to an art gallery. I've been dragged into some well over-priced shops with some pictures for sale, that call themselves a gallery in name. Never been to a proper one though, like a museum.

I "don't get" pictures.

silvercar

michaels wrote: »

Just what I was about to say - I wasn't coupled with kids till I was much older than you are now and I think settling down too soon is a big mistake.

Having met my soulmate young (ish), I would disagree:)