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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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And white doesn't generally suit white north european women ( assuming you are that demographic!), even with a tan.
I think the second is weird and the first, I like the bottom half, but not the top.
I love white sundresses.
. I have a super one from Oxfam,:D with bright South American (?) embroidery. I love that dress. The thing I think is rarely pulled off that well is white shirts.
I have chucked a long white maxi skirt I loved the idea of but never looked that great though.0 -
Yeah, I'm white north european, without a tan. I don't tan. I don't burn particularly badly - I mean no worse than other people who tan a lot more readily than I do - I just stay pale even if I go out in the sun. I don't look particularly good in white, but that's nothing to how bad I look in black, which makes me look anaemic and causes people to ask me if I'm ill.
PN looked white north european too when I met her. I think lir is an exciting mix of several ethnicities.
Anyway, I have decided I can't put this off any longer. I am OK with jeans but I have too few skirts/trousers that are suitable for work that I still fit into. I need to give in to the change of size and buy some that fit. If I can find any the right shape to fit me, that is, which remains to be seen.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
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.
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Yeah, I'm white north european, without a tan. I don't tan. I don't burn particularly badly - I mean no worse than other people who tan a lot more readily than I do - I just stay pale even if I go out in the sun. I don't look particularly good in white, but that's nothing to how bad I look in black, which makes me look anaemic and causes people to ask me if I'm ill.
PN looked white north european too when I met her. I think lir is an exciting mix of several ethnicities.
Anyway, I have decided I can't put this off any longer. I am OK with jeans but I have too few skirts/trousers that are suitable for work that I still fit into. I need to give in to the change of size and buy some that fit. If I can find any the right shape to fit me, that is, which remains to be seen.
Lir IS mainly of Northern European decent, albeit a huge mixture of this region, but my family were pioneering and got about a bit starting a very long time ago. I don't doubt for a second some of the birth certificates and family trees are a bit smudged where a handsome local might have been involved, and as we got about a bit there are several possible 'influences'. After all, all the family I know are rather....um, well.....not shy about sex. There is a missing direct line I don't know too much about bar the official....but the very fact that that happened (during the war) shows one or both of my ancestors couldn't hang about for years.
Fwiw, though 'hair' is usually pretty spectacular on one side of the family, I am the only real curly for generations. But I missed the red gene:(. It's that beautiful, heavy dark Irish setter red, that goes with creamy beautiful skin often enough. One of my ancestors was the early model on the bottle of a well known brand of shampoo...but her hair couldn't be less like mine.0 -
Other petty language annoyances as using the word 'gender' when you mean 'sex'. The word 'sex' isn't rude and words have a gender, people don't. People have a sex (in mitigation, perhaps HR got fed up with all the "yes please" answers to the question, "Sex?"). Oh and people who correct others incorrectly on the you and I or you and me thing. And people that needlessly correct other people on their grammar or syntax in general basically because they're whatsit heads.
Interesting that a discussion about those two words came up among some people I know IRL so soon after your post about it. They wouldn't agree with your distinction of sex as biological and gender as merely grammatical. They define sex as anatomical and gender as about subjective identity. Which means, I suppose, that for those of us who don't feel any conflict between anatomy and identity, and who speak a language where almost all words are neuter unless they describe something alive that has a sex, then the words will end up getting used interchangeably.
I think my grammar is reasonably good, but it doesn't usually bother me when other people's isn't (apart from bought/brought, which annoys me). I correct my kids' grammar, but not anybody else's.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
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.0 -
And white doesn't generally suit white north european women ( assuming you are that demographic!), even with a tan.
I think the second is weird and the first, I like the bottom half, but not the top.
I disagree. White makes me look as though I have some colour, whereas lemon or beige makes me look washed out.
I have pale skin and light brown hair and grey eyes. Both parents have/ had much darker (but still white) skin with dark brown hair and brown eyes.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0 -
Whiling away an idle hour on RM (it's my day off and I'm too tired to do anything energetic with it) I have come across an odd picture. A big house in an affluent area but is in terrible condition internally - the kitchen and bathroom make it appear pretty much uninhabitable until refurbished - and almost entirely empty of furniture, apart from ... a grand piano. It makes me wonder what the story is behind it.
http://www.leeseandnagle.co.uk/property/157282
Picture 2Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
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.0 -
LJ, in Manchester, it's common to say, ' Can I have a lend of your x...'. Mostly I'm chilled, but that one annoys me!
I did saay generally silvercar, there are some people that it suits, along with black. Neither suit me, I'm far better off with ecru.
Mr Bugslet's first wife was mixed race, must have been quite something back in the late 30s/early 40s when her parents got married. Mr B is very fair and his daughter has ended up with skintone that is a light tan, with very blonde thick hair. I try not to stand too near her, it's depressing for me:p0 -
Whiling away an idle hour on RM (it's my day off and I'm too tired to do anything energetic with it) I have come across an odd picture. A big house in an affluent area but is in terrible condition internally - the kitchen and bathroom make it appear pretty much uninhabitable until refurbished - and almost entirely empty of furniture, apart from ... a grand piano. It makes me wonder what the story is behind it.
http://www.leeseandnagle.co.uk/property/157282
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Wow, that could be a beautiful home.0 -
Wow, that could be a beautiful home.
Indeed. I wonder what it looked like when the family that are now selling it moved in 50 years ago. That carpet in the room with the grand piano looks as though it was beautiful once. Presumably there's been an old person living there getting more and more decrepit and less and less able to look after it over many years. Very sad.
I wonder if michaels or doozer or somebody could give an opinion on how much they thought it would cost to do it up.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
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.0 -
It's a lovely house, Lydia, really nice. Looks like a probate / care home job, I reckon....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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