You might be surprised that most forms of diabetes are actually hereditary, and not solely diet-related... Has anyone in your family suffered from it [even going back a generation or two], Dennis?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharos
Marco.
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You might be surprised that most forms of diabetes are actually hereditary, and not solely diet-related... Has anyone in your family suffered from it [even going back a generation or two], Dennis?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pharos
Marco.
Only just read your post Russell...
I'm so sorry you've had to endure such an ordeal
I hope you make a speedy and complete recovery.. ;)
A few days recuperating in a hospital hammock with Nurse Bev on call (with her thumb ring)...that'll see you right :) Even if it makes things worse it may still be worth it. I've heard she looks a bit like Joanne Whalley in "The Singing Detective" :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninanina
:rfl:
You got me there Steve... ..Nurse Bev... now that sounds quite nice... I'm a very caring person so maybe that'd quite suit me... my minds working overtime with that thought
I did get the hammock put together today in-between the rain and it's a lovely thing... actually not difficult getting in & out of as I thought it might be... Colin gave me some gentle rocking like being at sea and it's great... one of my better purchases I reckon..;)
Don't think I especially look like Joanne but do have dark hair like her... mind you I've got about 3 colours in my hair at the moment.. all quite subtle though
You seem to have a 'thing' about thumb rings.. I've worn one for years and I like it :eyebrows: as does....
Did I give that impression? :D I will eventually get over it, as my 'things' do change over the years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninanina
I'll tell you something I've never said out loud before - when I was younger I had a 'thing' for women in flip-flop type sandals, that slapping noise they made I think. But then years of seeing women going round Morrisons doing their big shop in flip-flops, but also wearing leggings that made their legs look like two piles of burnt crumpets ruined it for me :(
Oh god no, that's a horrible sound. And I hate feet anyway. Well, apart from my own, rather useful and I'm quite attached to them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Agreed! I can't imagine it would do anything for foot fetishists.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex_UK
Don’t need to get over it Steve... I know why you like them, probably much the same reason as I do..I think
I happen to really dislike the flip-flop sound... I am wearing sandals that look a bit like flip-flops, with the toe bit, but mine have a bit on the heel as well so they don’t make that horrible sound...
Leggings of any kind are just nasty things... I maybe wore them when I was much younger but wouldn’t be seen dead in them now. Shortish skirts are my thing, especially if we ever get some sort of summer... I’m still wearing them though just in case... you have to be prepared :lol:
I’m not so keen on feet but have a bit of a thing for hands and fingers....;)
My wife wears flip-flops. She makes an almighty racket when exercising with her skipping rope in the garden. :D
Who mentioned foot fetishists? I'll have you know I'm completely normal me.
I once made an almighty racket, but I was still shit at tennis :( Sorry about that, time for a break I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
You are not 'normal' Steve... hope you don't mind me saying.... :lol:
Don't know what you mean - Alan Firebottle has met me and thinks I'm completely normal. Then again he does wear them pants...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninanina
"Them pants" ? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Normal is boring... Long live life's extroverts, and also lovable loons, like Steve!:D
Marco.
Oh yes, I have more that haven't seen the hi-fi circuit yet. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ninanina
Now I'm intrigued Alan... are you allowed to tell us more ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Firebottle
What, you mean you can plug them into your amp? Do they light up? I'd pay good money for a pair of those :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Firebottle
I do have a thing for feet. No, I don’t want to suck toes or any of that weird stuff. But I do appreciate a woman with attractive, petite feet. And I honestly cannot deal with a woman who has big feet! That to me is a real turn off. There was a woman years ago who followed the band, and she wasn’t too hard to look at, but she had huge bony feet! And her second toe was the longest one, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t do it. In town it’s like nearly all women wear flip flops, standard uniform. Personally, I like to see a woman in heels, a woman with nice feet, in a pair of heels, is very fetching in my book.
Russell
Russell, you would have loved this girl I briefly dated :eyebrows: back in '73 when I was fifteen. She spent the whole of that summer in just a bikini top and cut-off denims (think Brigit Fonda in "Jackie Brown" and you're somewhere close).
But her feet! She never wore shoes, and the soles of her feet were so hard she could (and did) use them to put out cigarettes. I've dated classier women since then, ones with better impulse control, but most weren't nearly as much fun :)
Lol - I'm sure she was fun, but I can't think of anything more unattractive!:spew:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I like women who look after their feet (and everything else), and keep them soft and supple - no yellowy hard skin, cracked heels, fungal nail infections (lol, puke) bunions or any shit like that... If a women goes barefoot (or for that matter wears sandals, etc), then she should at least ensure that her feet look pretty - all over! :exactly:
Marco.
Away with you! I was fifteen, and not overly bothered about her feet, not when everything else was just as it should be, and then some. Next you'll be telling me that you find birds who can burp the alphabet to be unattractive :(
Better if they could fanny-fart it:D
Anyway, the most important things about 1970s burds was how they handled a Cadbury's Flake!:eyebrows:
Marco.
Yes I remember the type! I grew up in the county, where it was cool to be country. Lots of people went barefoot, including myself at times. My ex wife was always barefoot, she would walk outside in the snow in bare feet if only to the mailbox. But, she had small feet, size 6 in the US, (I’m not sure what size that is in Europe?) and when it was time to dress up, she knew how. And could walk in heels very naturally, not clomping around like a Clydesdale, as so many women today who never learned to walk in heels. But when we dated I was 17, she was 18, and barefoot in jeans was her everyday look. The 70’s were a great time to be young! We were very lucky to have been there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Russell
Thank you Russell, nice to hear from a kindred spirit! I know nostalgia plays a part, but yeah I loved the seventies, that was when all the good things started happening for me.
Marco wouldn't get it, he grew up in the decade that gave us shoulder pads and phones the size of a house brick :ner:
Oh and I think US size 6 is equivalent to size 5 in UK, so pretty petitey :)
Uh-oh, I can hear the sound of Marco's size 13s (UK size) approaching, so I'm gonna get some stick over that shoulder pads dig... :( Just stand still, he can't see us if we stand still.
70's had lots of downsides too... 3 day weeks, strikes power cuts etc
And tank tops .........:D
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/aa/09...90691c38f4.jpg
but on a positive side we got shorter ones of these
My lasting impressions from the late sixties and early seventies were wondering how it was possible to feel so fit and strong and also wondering how it was possible to have so much sex and being constantly amazed at how good the music was!
Great times, helped along with some hugely entertaining recreational substance abuse!! :peace:
(the young people today don't have the vaguest idea of the fun they missed out on)
were certainly different times; a feeling of freedom, even if it wasnt really there.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
+1
And the bushes were bushier back then......:D
Oh yes, those three birds in the above picture would have enough between them to make a Ray Dorset wig...Quote:
Originally Posted by thingfish
Didn't matter if it wasn't really there, I wasn't all there either :) :) :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Still ain't [emoji23]Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yeah, I would never have worn one of those - they'd make you look like your mum dressed you. I pretty much pleased myself, with no allegiances. One day my Harrington jacket, the next my Afghan coatQuote:
Originally Posted by thingfish
Tank tops? Thought they were just vests or singlets.
In that context they were just woolly jumpers with no sleeves. And it was quite popular to have a big number on the front.
I did also like my Ben Sherman shirts with the button down collars. Less keen on the 'penny round' collars tho
Wooly vests. Lol. I remember wooly waistcoats
That would be a sleeveless cardigan. Proper mummy's boy attire.
Ha - indeed, but I still remember most of the 70s with some fondness!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
The nice thing about being a young child then, in a comfortably off environment, was that you weren't exposed to any of the hardships of the 70s (such as Grant mentioned), had you been an adult having to work in some of the bollox conditions, dealing with strikes, etc. I never experienced ANY of that, only the good things (of which there was plenty during that era, if you knew where to look and weren't short of a few bob).
Marco.
Someone say 70s? Tank tops? (Worse still, knitted by your granny with all her wool leftovers?)
https://i.imgur.com/lsW4CZ5.jpg
Bordering on child cruelty! :lol:
Lol.... When women looked like WOMEN!! Not tomboys or 'ladettes', with almost zero femininity, going around in tracksuits/joggers and trainers, like today:doh:Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Del's still got dresses like that (original 60s/70s ones, handed down by her mum, who was equally as petite), and which she occasionally wears during the summer months. Being a little thing, and a size 10, they really suit her; indeed she can still get into her Brownie uniform!:eyebrows:
Oi - stop those thoughts now...;)
Marco.
I know it has been said before, but when you're in the middle of it, you don't notice it so much, when everyone around you is experiencing the same. Not so good for those who were already suffering real hardships though.
Indeed... As I said, I never experienced any of that, as a) I was way too young, and b) my dad at the time was running his own very successful business, so we were shielded from a lot of the stuff others had to go through.
Marco.
I think you mean girl guides - brownies are aged 7-10 years. God I feel like a right perv looking that up!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marco
Haha... Yes girl guides, Lol... I knew it was one of them!:D
It's brown and yellow anyway, with a scarf!:eyebrows:
Marco.
Yeah it must be a guide's scarf - you can't tie anyone up with a brownie's scarf, they're too shortQuote:
Originally Posted by Marco