The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

bugslet

chris_m wrote: »

My eyebrows are still brown, my beard's gone thoroughly pepper and salt - but my hair's simply gone


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I've often wondered if you are male or female and that answers that! Unless you are a bearded lady, which is fine if you are;)

silvercar wrote: »

I meant I didn't even have the patience to sit in the hairdressers for hours!

My hair is a miserable shade of grey so I get it coloured. Depresses me every time I go to the hairdressers, just not my natural habitat.

GDB2222 wrote: »

Here's an interesting tale for the family tree experts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42256465

Robin was 13 when he found out he was adopted. Later he was told he had been abandoned - left in a box on London's Oxford Street. Now 74, he has spent most of his life wondering who left him and why. But thanks to DNA, and the dogged detective work of one of his daughters, he finally has some answers.

That was interesting, but quite sad - I don't think he'll ever get to find out why he was left.

chris_m

GDB2222 wrote: »

Here's an interesting tale for the family tree experts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42256465

Robin was 13 when he found out he was adopted. Later he was told he had been abandoned - left in a box on London's Oxford Street. Now 74, he has spent most of his life wondering who left him and why. But thanks to DNA, and the dogged detective work of one of his daughters, he finally has some answers.

That's one heck of a story - amazing that they managed to dig down deep enough to actually find living full relatives !!

bugslet wrote: »

I've often wondered if you are male or female and that answers that! Unless you are a bearded lady, which is fine if you are;)

LOL - the name "Chris" isn't much of a clue is it

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

Lydia People will be thinking your hair looks nice and wondering if you've "done something to it" or not, but not liking to ask

Yes, and when the sun shines on it, the highlights will glint!





Bugslet, there are loads of people on MSE that I originally thought were male and turned out to be female!

However, it was sometime back that chris somehow confirmed he was male.... I forget how.
It was michaels that threw me for ages! I kept vacillating between male and female for a while until he, too , confirmed he was male!
He is still plural to me though! :rotfl:

I think that's what's so nice about this forum........ you don't necessarily start off with any preconceived ideas about whom you're talking to!
Even where a name seems female, it doesn't necessarily follow that the poster is female.....proven by Donnajunkie.

A while back, a couple of people thought I was male! Since then I've said a lot of things which confirm that I can't possibly be!

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

However, it was sometime back that chris somehow confirmed he was male.... I forget how.

Could it have been when I finished making some jam last year and declared that that was quite enough domesticity for the time being so I was off to do something more blokeish like watching the Formula One Grand Prix?

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Could it have been when I finished making some jam last year and declared that that was quite enough domesticity for the time being so I was off to do something more blokeish like watching the Formula One Grand Prix?

Nah! Women like formula 1 too!

Some women.

LydiaJ

Pyxis wrote: »

Nah! Women like formula 1 too!

Some women.

Quite a lot of the women who like formula 1 don't describe it as blokeish, though.

vivatifosi

Pyxis wrote: »

Nah! Women like formula 1 too!

Some women.

Yes, some of them even allude to the team that they support in their username :whistle:

vivatifosi

Just watching Amazing Spaces from Norway. Loved the house made out of the oil storage tank. All of the buildings are so inventive.

bugslet

chris_m wrote: »

Could it have been when I finished making some jam last year and declared that that was quite enough domesticity for the time being so I was off to do something more blokeish like watching the Formula One Grand Prix?

You see I could easily day that I've finished.....you know I'm not domesticated and am off to YouTube some truck racing. Can't think why people mistake me for a chap!

I 've always thought of you as female and Michaels as male.

If it goes quiet in the office, I may have to watch that on demand, I love the things people do to make a home out of the most unprepossessing exteriors.

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Here's an interesting tale for the family tree experts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-42256465

Robin was 13 when he found out he was adopted. Later he was told he had been abandoned - left in a box on London's Oxford Street. Now 74, he has spent most of his life wondering who left him and why. But thanks to DNA, and the dogged detective work of one of his daughters, he finally has some answers.

I've suggested to somebody they do that, their mother's father was an "unknown GI". Although they have the desire to know, they haven't ever had that open/frank discussion between themselves to nail it with DNA. It's the elephant in the room I bet; both know they could do it .... but haven't said the words to each other. No doubt her mum will die and in 20 years' time she'll have done it/found out ... and will wish she'd done it while her mother was alive.

She did her dad's tree for his birthday, but couldn't do her mums.... I doubt they speak of it and pushing it forward at all...