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The5thMary
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I don't wear makeup, I have never wanted children, and I don't wear most women's clothing as it's usually frilly or cutesy feminine. I also don't have a feminine hairstyle.
Oh, yeah, I don't drive a car/boat/bus/snowmobile/broom now and I never have.
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Moo
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Originally posted by comet
my eyebrows are au naturale - both in hair amount and color. (whenever someone has painted them I always think I look like an annoyed wolverine).
I love that image.
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la vie en rouge
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Nanny Ogg:
I don't iron bed linen, or towels and I never iron underwear!
Does anyone?
Clearly you have never met my mother ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
(My grandmother used to iron dishcloths ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) )
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Angloid
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I don't watch football, or any sport.
Do have (or rather share) a car but never wash it and rarely drive.
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Curiosity killed ...
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Nanny Ogg:
I don't iron bed linen, or towels and I never iron underwear!
Does anyone?
I worked as a housekeeper at one point. I had to iron socks, knickers (to make sure they didn't scratch delicate behinds) and linen sheets. Linen sheets went through the roller iron. Even there, towels weren't ironed.
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balaam
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Originally posted by leo:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I don't do Tupperware parties. Ever. Never have.
I haven't been to an Ann Summers party!
[TANGENT]There was a ship meet a few years back in York where the room above the pub we used had recently been used for an Ann Summers party, the brochures from the previous night were still in the room, and were passed round. [/TANGENT]
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Bene Gesserit
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I don't drive, but I have been to an Ann Summers party.
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ken
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Nanny Ogg:
I don't iron bed linen, or towels and I never iron underwear!
Does anyone?
I worked as a housekeeper at one point. I had to iron socks, knickers (to make sure they didn't scratch delicate behinds) and linen sheets. Linen sheets went through the roller iron. Even there, towels weren't ironed.
Maybe the question shoudl be does anyone voluntarily iron their own underwear?
After all, I bet most of us who don't drive sometimes pay other people to do it for us.
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Ken
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by leo:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I don't do Tupperware parties. Ever. Never have.
I haven't been to an Ann Summers party!
Like Tupperware, with batteries
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Polly Plummer
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The lady who helped us in Holland after Plummer Minor was born used to iron his nappies.
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Moo
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Originally posted by Polly Plummer:
The lady who helped us in Holland after Plummer Minor was born used to iron his nappies.
In America I met an Englishwoman whose mother insisted that diapers had to be ironed and folded on a sterile sheet. (I don't know how the sheet was sterilized.)
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by comet:
it would be easier, so far, the name the things in this thread I do. good to know I'm in such good company!
my eyebrows are au naturale - both in hair amount and color. (whenever someone has painted them I always think I look like an annoyed wolverine).
I don't do my nails either - except the cut them when they get long.
I don't dye my hair or otherwise do chemical things to it - though I did put black tiger stripes in on a whim a few years ago. didn't look as cool as I thought.
I detest high heels and have worn them so rarely that I look like a newborn giraffe when I try.
I don't own a watch and haven't for years. like, maybe 30.
we occasionally watch videos via netflix, but I'm proud to say that my main living space is a screen-free zone.
I don't listen to commercial radio at all. too many years in the biz - I recognize all the gimmicks and it pisses me off.
I rarely eat anything that has it's origins in a can, a jar, or a box. the exception being coconut milk and coconut oil. kind of hard to get that fresh...
I never really dust. in my defense, it's only dusty here a few months out of the year and I just keep everything open and breezy. I make my bed about 2 times a month, or whenever I change the sheets.
my kids don't have a strict bed time - We go with natural rhythms. I find if you have them on a regular school schedule, they generally fall asleep when they should after a few rough mornings. We do have a "no computer" deadline though, but they can read or quietly play in their rooms until they're ready to sack out.
oh - and I have no curtains. there is no need. the only peekers likely would be Moose and Squirrel™. I have discovered, though, that this really freaks out city visitors. I love gazing outside, both day and night. curtains are a hassle. besides.. the whole dusting thing.
Comet, are you my twin? I don't do any of these things either, bar the hair dye (because my gray looks like tired pencil lead under the fluorescent light crap).
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jbohn
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Comet, are you my twin?
Is the world really ready for two Comets? ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
[ 26. October 2012, 21:51: Message edited by: jbohn ]
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Zacchaeus
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by Nanny Ogg:
I don't iron bed linen, or towels and I never iron underwear!
Does anyone?
I worked as a housekeeper at one point. I had to iron socks, knickers (to make sure they didn't scratch delicate behinds) and linen sheets. Linen sheets went through the roller iron. Even there, towels weren't ironed.
Maybe the question shoudl be does anyone voluntarily iron their own underwear?
After all, I bet most of us who don't drive sometimes pay other people to do it for us.
I once had a flatmate who ironed everything that she washed. Socks, dishcloths, towels, bras, absolutely everything..
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no prophet's flag is set so...
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I don't eat cilantro (coriander), which tastes like soap, what I imagine poop tasting like from the smell, combined with a piece of tinfoil contacting a tooth filling.
I don't eat yoghurt which has a glairigenous consistency and a nasty twang of tongue biting retch-worthy bile.
(I suspect my personal hell would be a place where I must eat cilantro flavoured yoghurt and listen to country gospel music while shivering.)
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Sioni Sais
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Along with many of you I don't drive and never have done. You should all be very grateful: there are bad driving genes on my paternal side, as anyone who was ever a passenger with my sainted Aunt T can testify.
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Edgeman
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-I don't go to movies, I own a TV for three or four shows and watch nothing else
-I also would have no curtains were I not sharing a house. It only ends up that they're open most of the time
-I can't drive and likely never will learn to.
- I don't know how to send a text message, Skype, use an e-reader or an ipad. I don't own a smart phone and don't want one, too complicated for me.
-I haven't listened to the radio since I was 14, and that wasn't voluntary anyway.
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Dennis the Menace
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I don't do sport of any kind, never have never will. Much to my late father's disgust!!
I certainly don't iron underwear but have been known to iron sheets, love to get into crisp, sheets freshly ironed straight from the line. Must be pure cotton, no polyester mixture.
Don't have children as I have never had sex with a woman!!
I don't ride a motor cycle.
I don't drink fizzy, sweet drinks.
I don't garden on my own initiative, only mow the lawns under 'instruction' from WHMBO.
I don't dye my hair but used to have it permed back in th 80's.
I don't walk/exercise as much as I should.
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ExclamationMark
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I don't like football
I never use the words "you guys"
I don't like late nights (after 10 pm)
I don't wear jeans or shorts. Ever.
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Doublethink.
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Why don't you wear jeans and shorts ?
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comet
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Posted
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Originally posted by jbohn:
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Comet, are you my twin?
Is the world really ready for two Comets?
our small, select inner circle of comets will soon take over the world. Don't worry - we'll actually run things correctly. without curtains. or bedtimes.
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by ExclamationMark:
I never use the words "you guys"
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Haydee
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No smart phone and I’m on pay as you go – I do have a camera and some games, but only because a friend gave me the handset when he upgraded.
I don’t wear a watch – mine broke and I never got round to fixing it.
I can easily not go on Facebook for weeks on end. It’s a great way of sharing photos, especially as an ex-pat, but somehow my friends manage to cope without constant updates of what’s on my mind…
I don’t have a dishwasher or tumble dryer. I do have a vacuum cleaner but use it perhaps 1-2 times per year – I just sweep with a broom which is quicker and uses less electricity.
I somehow manage to see my daughters as my own children (and myself as their ‘real’ mother) despite not being related in any way except by love – it’s amazing how many people find that mystifying. Not to mention expecting me to answer the most personal questions from complete strangers. (The best occasion was when a cleaner in some public toilets asked me if they were my daughters. I said yes. She then asked me if their father was black, trying to work out how a white woman could have black children. I told her both their fathers are black. Her eyes nearly burst out of her head, and I had a little snigger to myself…)
I use public transport wherever possible, despite dire predictions of robbery rape and murder from many white South Africans. The worst experience I have had has been of people preaching and ‘healing’ at the top of their voices when I’m trying to read a good book (not The Good Book).
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Uncle Pete
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
And my cell phone is a simple, pay-as-you-go one for emergencies only -- no camera, no internet. It's never turned on, and no one has the number. [/QB]
Me too almost. I do have a plan, though it is minimal.... and six free numbers I call often (taxi, public transportation, two of my best friends) When I am out of town, I use it to keep in touch with the locals I am visiting. And short text messages, both sent and received. Unless I need to , it is never on.
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que sais-je
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Never thought I'd have anything original to contribute but don't think anyone else has admitted to this: I don't buy new clothes (except sock/under-pants). In a big city there are so many charity shops and the ones in posh parts of town have good stuff. I could afford new stuff but I like charity shops and I can't cope with the range of choice in 'proper shops'.
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Chorister
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I don't own a mobile phone, dishwasher or microwave, tending towards a phobia of gadgetry of any kind. It's a miracle I know how to use a computer really, although it would be hard to get a job nowadays without some sort of understanding in that field.
And I really, really don't do dinner parties. (We'll go halves on a takeaway if you like.)
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Lamb Chopped
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Originally posted by Haydee:
(The best occasion was when a cleaner in some public toilets asked me if they were my daughters. I said yes. She then asked me if their father was black, trying to work out how a white woman could have black children. I told her both their fathers are black. Her eyes nearly burst out of her head, and I had a little snigger to myself…)
You are evil.
I like you.
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Pigwidgeon
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Sorry to continue the tangent, but a caucasian friend of mine and her husband adopted a baby from Korea. A total stranger in a grocery store asked her if the baby's father was Korean. My friend answered, "As far as I know!"
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by leo:
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Originally posted by Lothlorien:
I don't do Tupperware parties. Ever. Never have.
I haven't been to an Ann Summers party!
[TANGENT]There was a ship meet a few years back in York where the room above the pub we used had recently been used for an Ann Summers party, the brochures from the previous night were still in the room, and were passed round. [/TANGENT]
Terribly pedestrian, aren't they? You need to go to the website for anything vaguely interesting.
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LutheranChik
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I don't drive in urban areas -- for my sake and for the sake of the drivers around me.;-) And fortunately for me I don't have to.(DP is an avid driver and former urban-dweller who considers fast-paced city driving an exciting challenge. She in turn isn't always happy driving in the remoter parts of the countryside, which I'm happy to do.)
I only wear makeup under duress.
I don't shop in a recreational way.
I don't play video games.
I don't watch popular network television shows, and am generally pretty ignorant of currently popular celebs.
I don't golf.
I don't play cards. (It's not some prissy scruple; I seem to be cognitively unable to process the rules of most card games, no matter how hard I try to learn.)
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Zappa
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I'm fascinated how many, I suspect disproportionately, non-drivers there are on the Ship. Driving is the love of my life - even more than sex (well maybe not ... it normally lasts longer, especially my 3-day-each-way drives to Melbourne). I average 100 kms per day, and that is climbing since being in The Middle of the Top. Though it may have been higher still in Wankydilla days.
I'm not telling you my sexual average. I don't think I could last 36 hours though. Even with coffee breaks. Or even 36 minutes, I fear!
I do not do parties. If possible. I do not will not could not do Reality TV. In fact, the news aside, I barely do TV (though I made an exception last night for Inspector Rex because he's such a cute dog. And Dr Who, but it's stopped again in Oz).
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Haydee
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
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Originally posted by Haydee:
(The best occasion was when a cleaner in some public toilets asked me if they were my daughters. I said yes. She then asked me if their father was black, trying to work out how a white woman could have black children. I told her both their fathers are black. Her eyes nearly burst out of her head, and I had a little snigger to myself…)
You are evil.
I like you.
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mrs whibley
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Originally posted by no prophet:
I don't eat cilantro (coriander), which tastes like soap, what I imagine poop tasting like from the smell, combined with a piece of tinfoil contacting a tooth filling.
My husband describes the taste as 'like earwax'. I'm not sure how he knows...
Myself, I love it!
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Albertus
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Blokes know these things, believe me.
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