Redhead74

The only thing I stockpile is fabric. I have enough of it on hand that in the case of an emergency I will be able to whip something up and have a new outfit for whatever occasion or situation is at hand. Food is really neither here nor there for me. If I found out that I could live on grass for a substantial period of time I could probably do that quite easily if I had to. Apparently it's quite difficult for humans to digest though and it will quickly wear down your teeth, so I probably won't go there.

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I don't watch television at all, so I don't 'watch' the news by default.

The only 'news' I hear at all is on the radio when I'm driving to work. A 3 minute report at 8am and even then I'm probably scanning my FB newsfeed at the same time so really not paying any attention to it whatsoever.

I once reached into my bag to pick up a book and stuck myself on a mechanical pencil that was recklessly lying loose at the bottom. The lead was actually pushed into my finger underneath my nail, halfway in. I believe I screamed like a little girl. This happened many, many years ago but the lead is still embedded under my nail. Despite all the pain the following days, it is actually quite cool now. If I am kidnapped and my right hand is sent back to my wife for extortion, it is easily identifiable by the black line visible through the nail. And since the lead is very slowly pushed out again, rejected by my flesh, I can sometimes write with my finger. Nah, the last part was a joke. Hahahah.

I once reached into a bag of chocolate chip cookies to grab one and as the light shone directly into the bag I could clearly see a little dead gecko lizard (I was living in Singapore at the time and they were everywhere) completely covered in crumbs. He would have crawled in there sometime earlier and not been able to get out. It was horrifying and put me off choc chip cookies for many years.

I also walked into the bathroom in my apartment (in Singapore) to chance upon a baby gecko lizard in the bottom of the bathtub at the drain hole and he froze completely still. We both gave each other a hell of a fright. That was around midday. At 9pm that night he was still there......I think he had been scared to death. I had to get the BF to remove him, poor little thing.

Uuugh, there's nothing I hate more than a 'side do'.

i went through this thread looking for an example of the above dress.

Not a fan. At all. This or any of its variations. The dresses with like, built in skin windows? Or like, vents on the torso? I think it's one of those things most will look back on years down the road as ridiculous. except me, who sees it as ridiculous now. And of course i'm right. Keep it simple, ladies.

One day, when i've had enough to drink, i'll show you had a real man wears a dress.

Well, it's been a style that has been present in some way, shape or form since the 1940s (40s and 60s were its 'golden years') so I guess it's not viewed as ridiculous as you might think.

The dress I'm wearing for my boyfriend's brother's wedding next week Got me some new heels to stop the skirt trailing on the floor Short people problems...

Reminds me of a wedding dress I've made a tonne over the last 18 months. Just finished one two weeks ago actually. Wedding dresses with black detailing have been really popular over the last 2 seasons. Things are starting to veer away from lace now though, but crazy beading is still popular.

I know that feeling all too well, Gracii! 've spent hours making things to never actually wear them because by the time it's finished I'm lusting for something else and then I'm frantically busy making that..... Hahahaha!!!! Just on Monday I pulled out a dress I made about 3 years ago and haven't worn and I'm loving it all over again so I'm waiting for the weather to get slightly warmer so that I can finally put it to use. Just recently bought some shoes that will go really well with it too.

Get sewing girl!!!!!

You know, if you make a new dress you could actually wear them both and change into the shorter one later in the evening. Might be better for dancing and stuff, you know?

At least sewing my own gives me this luxury, otherwise at this stage I think most women would have paid up and have alternations made.

I'm finding it difficult to justify making another dress, after spending so much time (and so many forum posts!) on the first. But I was always a bit insecure with the first one and have the right to wear a dress I'm happy in. I'll post photos of what I'm aiming to make later today. I've already drafted my pattern and might start making the toile tonight.

I wouldn't worry about the time you've spent making the dress, it's all experience and valuable experience at that. The only real wasted expense is the outlay for your fabric. I have had customers at my work who have bought dresses elsewhere ($2,000 plus) and not been happy with the result after it was made in their size and then come and bought a whole new dress where I work!

So don't feel too bad, consider dress #1 to have been training and practice for your real dress!

Aargh! I've just gotten cold feet over my wedding dress. It's 3 months to go and I now want something completely different. Floor length, in cream, and womanly rather than all that girlish organza.

If you don't see me for a while, I'll be sewing!

I know that feeling all too well, Gracii! 've spent hours making things to never actually wear them because by the time it's finished I'm lusting for something else and then I'm frantically busy making that..... Hahahaha!!!! Just on Monday I pulled out a dress I made about 3 years ago and haven't worn and I'm loving it all over again so I'm waiting for the weather to get slightly warmer so that I can finally put it to use. Just recently bought some shoes that will go really well with it too.

Get sewing girl!!!!!

You know, if you make a new dress you could actually wear them both and change into the shorter one later in the evening. Might be better for dancing and stuff, you know?

That's interesting. You're probably right, weather conditions often play a part in contagious diseases. For instance, malaria and any mosquito related disease is always common to a warm, humid climate. Rats don't like cold and old buildings are rife with pests. I remember when I lived in Amsterdam I lived in the canal houses. One of them dated from the 17th century and we often had mice inside. You couldn't leave a loaf of bread on the kitchen bench (even in a plastic bag) without mice getting to it because the building was so old and there were so many small holes that they could squeeze through. Aaaagghhh! What a nightmare! And this is with modern building and sealing techniques.

You would not need to go back to 17th century England. There were plague pandemics in mid-late 19th century Russia and China. Also, Napoleon's troops caught the disease in Jaffa 1799 - immortalised in a very famous paining by Antoine-Jean Gros (which I had to study for University incidentally)

I didn't know that, but I am particularly fascinated by the 16th and 17th centuries, that's why I wanted to know if I would have been a victim of the disease or not. I fancy it would have been an interesting period in Europe's history to be alive, but not so appealing knowing that you had relatively little control of contracting a disease that kills you brutally, painfully and gruesomely within days.

It's interesting the way the disease has been present in some way, shape or form for all these centuries but has only had momentary periods of serious outbreak where it has wreaked havoc on the worlds population, and then recedes to relatively harmless levels of affect. I can't imagine that hygiene is the sole reason for outbreak since the world has only had proper sewerage, rubbish collection and pest control for the last century or so. Why weren't there devastating outbreaks of the Plague in Paris for instance, before Haussmann had the drains and sewers built underground? The plague existed but it didn't seem to have the tragic affect on the population that it did in other cities over the centuries. Does malnutrition have anything to do with people becoming more susceptible? There were definitely periods of food abundance and food scarcity in Europe over the centuries. Just a thought.

You've been awesome HV. I'm really glad you're still going to be posting, in fact I imagine that you'll have more time to contribute to posting and discussion now that you don't have to be managing anymore. You've done a brilliant job and I wish you all the best for the future. I think it's exciting what lays ahead for you.

Luckily we do have a Plague vaccine. It actually began in China. Do you know that some estimates of the Black Death death toll, during the middle ages, put it as high as 80%? It is believed it caused huge social changes, hastening the end of serfdom in western Europe and seeing to the rise of a new middle 'artisan' class.

We don't have a plague vaccine, because it isn't a virus, it's a bacterial infection.

Then you best get onto Wiki about this..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_vaccine

Incidentally, I was watching a documentary and, at some unspecified (for obvious reasons) lab in England, there it is, yersinia pestis, in a petri dish. They would not even allow the presenter, that public school chap, Dan Snow, handle the thing with gloves passing into one of those screened-off areas, such is its deadliness.

When the plague broke out in London in the 17th Century, people thought cats and dogs were the culprits, so they were all killed, giving the rats free rein and making the epidemic a whole lot worse.

And Pepys buried his favourite cheese when the Great Fire happened.

I'd love to know if I carry the CCR5-Delta 32 gene which makes you immune to catching the Plague. The only people who came into contact with those already infected and who did not contract any symptoms whatsoever apparently all carried the Delta 32 gene. I really wanna know if I was living in the 17th century in England if I'd have been a goner or not?

I guess that most of you have seen or read in the news about these young people who go on vacation to the Spanish coast and their scandals, right?.

Most of them come from UK, Germany and the Nordic countries and every summer we hear the same stories and witness the same erratical behaviours. I´m not saying Spanish people are perfect and quiet but man, those people seem to transform when they come to Spain.

They behave like animals, they are noisy, they shit and pee on the streets, they drink untill they lose their minds, they start fights, they annoy the neighbours, they beat people for no reason, they even have sex in the middle of the street without giving a shit about the people who might see the scene (children included). Some are so desperate for a drink that they do whatever they are asked to, like blow jobs in some bars. Some are so drunk that they jump from the balconies and die or are severely injured.

People think that these things only happen in Majorca and Salou but the truth is that they happen in most of the touristic places around the Mediterranean coast. Some hotels even have lists with the names of the problematic guests and don´t allow them to stay. I live in one of those places and it never ceases to amaze me that they turn so irrational, bad mannered, violent and annoying. They brag of their good manners when they are in their countries but when they come to Spain they transform into beasts. What the fuck is so wrong with them? Don´t they have any alcohol in their countries? Or are they oppressed and censored that they free themselves when they come here?.

This is not new to us, it´s a hot topic right now in the news but this has been happening for years and nobody seemed to care.

What do you guys think about the matter?

What do you mean, they don't behave this way in their own country?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458614/Carnage-student-pub-crawl-Liverpool-city-centre-scene-drunken-behaviour.html

.......Stephanie Seymour, her vicious nasty eyes glaring right into his own. Something unintelligible was coming from her mouth. It sounded like she was mumbling something about witches and Donatella Versace but he couldn't be certain because it all sounded so silly and ridiculous. Her glare was intense and piercing and he was compelled to recoil, despite the fact that she looked smoking hot in a Lanvin black leather haute couture evening dress. He had to look away because he could tell she was trying to cast a spell over him. He looked to the other lavender eyed, raven haired woman who by now was.......

It's purely for her to know whether she was the last person to use the loo or not. If the paper is still there she knows she was the last, in which case she probably just chucks it in the water and goes about her business. If she goes and the seat is clear of paper she knows that someone else has been in the interim and then she REALLY needs to clean the seat assuming that every other person living in the building that uses the facilities might be an unhygienic slob. Sounds like a snob to me. And a weirdo. I think you should mimic her actions so that she misleadingly believes she was the last person there to do something so uncouth as to take a pee or a poo.

Are you being facetious or serious?

Well I'm not serious but I can guarantee that the Polish woman is. I'd never do such a thing, it's weird and quite frankly obsessive compulsive in my opinion. I can't imagine how challenging it must be for that woman to use a public loo. I'm actually surprised she doesn't just choose to squat and hover above the toilet seat. She could have the most athletic thighs in the UK if she just applied herself a bit more.......loser......

It's purely for her to know whether she was the last person to use the loo or not. If the paper is still there she knows she was the last, in which case she probably just chucks it in the water and goes about her business. If she goes and the seat is clear of paper she knows that someone else has been in the interim and then she REALLY needs to clean the seat assuming that every other person living in the building that uses the facilities might be an unhygienic slob. Sounds like a snob to me. And a weirdo. I think you should mimic her actions so that she misleadingly believes she was the last person there to do something so uncouth as to take a pee or a poo.

He's also had terrible struggles with alcohol and depression...

Ah c'mon DOOM, I actually felt sorry for the guy when he tried to make his swimming comeback and didn't even make it to the Olympic team. How could anyone have actually advised him it was a good idea for him to quit swimming and become a Hollywood actor? Swimming and acting have no parallels whatsoever. I'm shocked and disappointed there was not ONE respectable person around him that said this would not be a good idea.

The guy had SERIOUS talent and he ended up packing it in way before his days were numbered. I wish that he had fulfilled his abilities, given that an athlete's career is so short anyway. And now he will suffer for that. He was so young, he couldn't know any better but his management and family should have. If it was his idea so be it, then he has to take the consequences but given how young he is I wonder why he wasn't influenced by someone superior in the sport given his talent and abilities.

This is quite off topic now, but I just had to say that. Mc Coy, don't fall under the sway of alcohol and depression from your recent dilemma. The consequences are pretty tragic and severe. Hang in there, you'll find happiness.

Guys give up on that one. Ian Thorpe has had 'gay' speculations since he was 16. He's just come out now and he's 31.

So based on this rate if McCoy is gay he won't admit it until at least 2029.

Edit: for those who don't know who Ian Thorpe is, he's an Australian Olympic swimmer. Who also has highlights.

At least he got a smelly finger out of proceedings.

What the fuck kind of comment is that dude?

It sounds like you're condoning paedophilia. Get some respect man.

I saw Iggy live last year with the Stooges and it was one of the most intense and electric shows I've ever been to. I think the only show I've seen that was more so was Nine Inch Nails earlier this year. But since they're both very different I don't think a comparison is fair. When it comes atmosphere and audience participation though, Iggy wins hands down.

He did that one song where they let anyone jump over the barrier and get up on stage and it was fucking amazing. The guy is astounding, just how much he gets into rocking with his fans and has no fear of getting up close and personal with them. In fact that's when he was most incredible. Sure, he had a bodyguard checking him, but he didn't seem to give a fuck and just did what he wanted to do with everyone on stage. His safety was the bodyguards problem, not his. This guy has been doing this for a LONG time and I didn't witness any fatigue or blasé attitude whatsoever. This man truly loves music, making it and performing it. He is so lacking pretension or artifice, yet he has been around long enough to warrant it. Let me put that another way, there are bands out there that have achieved success for merely a blip of time in comparison to Iggy, yet they seem to behave in so much more of a conceited manner than Iggy does. He is a true King of punk and rock in general, actually.

This is as close as I got to Iggy last year:

And I gotta say, I don't know how he does it at 67 years of age! I danced around hard that night but not as hard as Iggy and the next morning my back was ACHING!!!! And I didn't have to sing a thing either! He's amazing!!!!

Porno was one a lot of friends and fans were raving about, and I didn't like it for ages. Now it's the track I listen to most. Dat intro.

Sooooo fucking sexy, that song.

And as a sex offender, Harris will almost certainly never graduate to open prison, although eventually they will find him a category C vulnerable prisoner unit where he can reflect on his fall from grace.

Oh yeah," reflect on his fall from grace". Not reflect on the detrimental impact he had on the lives of innocent girls.

Although someone as selfish as that probably will do just that, reflect on his own losses, not anyone else's.

How do you suppose that disdain for a paedophile makes one a harpie?

With the Harris Estate up for grabs, everybody will have been 'raped by Rolf'.

One of the victims in the trial of Rolf Harris eventually consented to sexual activity with the veteran entertainer because she had been "groomed like a pet", a court heard.

Harris faces a total of 12 counts of indecent assault between 1968 and 1986, all of which he denies.

He admits having a consensual affair with the woman, and wrote a letter to her father expressing his regret.

In a reply, thought to have been sent in March 1997, the artist confessed to having a sexual relationship with the woman, but said it had stemmed from "love and friendship" and denied it started when she was 13.

In the letter, he described being in a state of "self loathing" and feeling "sickened" by himself for the misery he had caused her.

Apparently not enough self loathing and sickened feeling to NOT do it to the next vulnerable target.

With the Harris Estate up for grabs, everybody will have been 'raped by Rolf'.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rolf-harris-fortune-shrinks-55million-1857797

Hmmm......coincidence? I think not.

And then this. Interesting, I thought he would actually have been worth more than that but I guess his heyday was well before the time of big contracts.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/rolf-harris-26-million-fortune-could-be-eaten-up-by-legal-bills-and-compensation-claims-from-sexual-abuse-victims/story-fni0cx12-1226975744943?nk=93d5387c17aa7ab4b736117e10b2bb2e

I bet the time he was reducing company profit was at exactly the same time he was deleting kiddie porn from his computer.