British Pluck

<wipes tea from monitor> Very good

 

This is the most believable pov in this thread so far.

 

If my old man was anything to go by (Aden, Libya, NI, Germany,
Christmas Island, God help us), you're exactly right.

 

I don't quite see your conflation there, but here's why I used the term.
There are many people who are robust, shall we say, on Usenet who would not
behave in the same way if they met people face to face. If I encounter
someone who is behaving in a way I find objectionable I will say so,
regardless of where this happens. So, *if* I met you face to face and you
tried to bully me, I would call you out on it. See?

Ali

 

Thats why you like biking, isn't it... With a helmet on, no-one need
ever know...

 

I think you'll find the modern army is somewhat not like that...

 

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:38:34 GMT, "Beav"

snip

Which is why I'm amazed that the MOD have confirmed the HRH's
likelyhood of serving in Iraq...

 

Fair enough. And I'm not implying you're a wuss in RL, just for clarity.

Ali

 

Hardly.

 

Quite. Parents were buying their own home, so I suppose we were some sort of
vague middle class. Classic thing of not much material show, but no debts
other than the mortgage. And a fair overlay of waste not, want not, whuich
has stuck with me. But I do have a serious shoe addiction. You may point and
laugh now, or otherwise shake heads - at the last count, it was about 160
pairs.

Dvorak New World playing here?

Ali

 

Are they all Dr Martens?

 

Nice bait, but we've had this conversation before. I don't do Sensible
Shoes. In any sense of the word.

I don't think I know *anyone* who wears DMs... a tad passé, imo. Although,
they were favoured by the tonic suit mob at school.

No, I'm a Choo and Blahnik gurl, me. For style, anyhow.

Ali

 

Not with me you deranged bunny boiler ;-)

That's more like it girl. How much do you think you've spent over the
years?

 

I find your thoughts intriguing and wish to subscribe to your
newsletter.

 

<Watches Trying Too Hard To Be A Gurlie Ometer fly off the scale>

Pardon me for asking, but you didn't used to be a man, by any chance?

 

"would you like to know more?"

 

To be fair, I don't think she's particularly stupid.

 

not for a woman, no.

 

Alison Hopkins says...

When I was a kid I never had gloves, so I make up for it now by having
something like 14 pairs of bike gloves and a few pairs of wooly ones.

 

When I was a kid, we were lower middle [1], and I had two pairs of
shoes, school/best and play. Maybe even only one. I think I own four
pairs now, including bike boots, which is a record.

[1] Now, obv, I'm king of the fucking world.