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I'd like some toast though. Shame I don't have any bread. Maybe I could go and get some bread. I'll need to shower first though. By which point I probably won't want any toast any more. So that's that problem solved.
A curious party wonders: why would you need to shower before going out to grab a loaf of bread? Why not just fling on the necessary layers, go out, purchase, come back, return to pyjamas, eat, shower then? (Perhaps with some other intermediate steps.) Is that not done across the Channel? |
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« Reply #4682 on: 09:05:12, 15-09-2008 » |
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Mmm, fantasy cheese on toast. Nothing quite like it, is there?  (I do honestly find fantasy fish on chips to be superior to the real thing in almost every way. Price, nutrition, cleanliness of fingers, non-depletion of endangered fish stocks, carbohydrate non-overload, absence of that feeling of 'oh god, I'm never doing that again'... Am I alone in this?) |
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« Reply #4683 on: 09:09:53, 15-09-2008 » |
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Is that not done across the Channel?
It is done. Just not by me. And yes, that does worry me. It indicates that my vanity has reached the stage that would cause me to pout if someone else tried to use this as an excuse. (I do honestly find fantasy fish on chips to be superior to the real thing in almost every way. Price, nutrition, cleanliness of fingers, non-depletion of endangered fish stocks, carbohydrate non-overload, absence of that feeling of 'oh god, I'm never doing that again'... Am I alone in this?)
There is always the taste... Those first few mouthfuls. A shame that so often the rest disappoints but those first few mouthfuls... [drool] Oh I see what you mean. I'm the same with fried bacon I suppose. Which is why I prefer to grill it. |
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« Reply #4684 on: 09:11:13, 15-09-2008 » |
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Don't do fish in any form ollie, but I have to say I prefer 'real' food any day!!!! My fantasies are usually about other things A |
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« Reply #4685 on: 09:15:08, 15-09-2008 » |
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Is that not done across the Channel?
It is done. Just not by me. And yes, that does worry me. It indicates that my vanity has reached the stage that would cause me to pout if someone else tried to use this as an excuse. Use your vanity to your advantage! Cultivate that just-out-of-bed look by going to the shops when just out of bed. Wet your hair to give just the right degree of tousle. Have a specially-prepared set of casual Bohemian just-going-down-to-the-shops-before-breakfast clothes at the ready. With perhaps a beret, a faux (should really be fausse, shouldn't it?) baguette and a French striped sailor top thingy. |
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« Reply #4686 on: 09:16:28, 15-09-2008 » |
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They too can obviously be superior to the real thing (Not in MY case of course, no, perish the thought, just I've heard stories you understand, poor things, don't know how they cope...) |
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« Reply #4687 on: 09:53:15, 15-09-2008 » |
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Cultivate that just-out-of-bed look Is 'bed-raggled' the word you are looking for, Mr S?  |
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« Reply #4688 on: 09:55:26, 15-09-2008 » |
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Ah, is that what you Englanders call it? My gel says für langanhaltenden Strubbel-Look, wie «frisch aufgestanden», den ganzen Tag lang. |
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« Reply #4689 on: 09:58:57, 15-09-2008 » |
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Thinking about this in the shower (no composition in the shower this morning for some reason), it occurs to me that it's not just vanity. I still feel out of place in the centre of this city, and going out unprepared still feels like being unnecessarily vulnerable. So there is a connection with certain friends of mine who refuse to leave the house without makeup... Cultivate that just-out-of-bed look Is 'bed-raggled' the word you are looking for, Mr S? The phrase that I've heard used is 'bed-head'. I have variable success with that look. My hair's a bit too long for it to work at the moment (to my own satisfaction you understand). |
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« Reply #4690 on: 10:03:29, 15-09-2008 » |
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The phrase that I've heard used is 'bed-head'. I have variable success with that look. My hair's a bit too long for it to work at the moment (to my own satisfaction you understand).
My better half's version of it I can only describe as distinctly Leningrad Cowboys. Not, I hasten to add, at all her preferred street look. |
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The phrase that I've heard used is 'bed-head'. I have variable success with that look. My hair's a bit too long for it to work at the moment (to my own satisfaction you understand).
My better half's version of it I can only describe as distinctly Leningrad Cowboys. Not, I hasten to add, at all her preferred street look. Blimey.  It would take a bit more than 'wetting my hair' to make it do that! |
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« Reply #4692 on: 10:12:25, 15-09-2008 » |
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I hasten (perhaps too slowly) to add that that's the straight out of bed look before any conscious intervention has taken place.
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« Reply #4693 on: 14:09:21, 15-09-2008 » |
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The doctor's surgery is shut today so I'll have to make an appointment tomorrow.
I suppose this should go in the GOR room but the initial conversation about me going to the doctor was here.
I really don't understand Edinburgh holidays. I should really get someone to explain it to me.
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« Reply #4694 on: 14:18:26, 15-09-2008 » |
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At least you made the effort. Please try again tomorrow. The Scots do have different bank holidays and such-like, to ourselves. I only know because they always put them in the desk diary that I buy.
I suppose I could have told you!
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