No grocers' apostrophes round here, please
But platy and molly end in a 'y', unlike 'Jack'.
Oh that is one of my pet hates - inappropriate apostrophes!No grocers' apostrophes round here, please
(I could probably do with remembering that from time to time LOL 
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) about various work collegues, including me. This has resulted in one new employee telling my work partner (who she knows socially) that she "doesnt like" me. My work partner asked how on earth she could get that opinon - she's never met me or worked with me?? The woman replied she'd been told all about me.
That sort of thing happens in this particular work area all the time and it infuriates me because I can't defend myself (my work partner and I work a different shift from the rest of the women - which I find a blessed relief!!). It annoys me that there are people in the world who are so weak-minded that they just listen to what other peope have to say about a person, instead of taking the time to find out for themselves. Then again, if thats the way they are, I doubt I would find much in common with them anyway *sigh*). She replied that I clearly didn't know anything about fashion and that it cost her a lot of money. I told her she got ripped off - if she wanted to impress people with what sort of money she wastes on clothes, she'd be better off leaving the price tag on it. She got huffy about that for some reason 
I regretted hurting her feelings - i'm more tolerant these days of peoples ego needs - but I retain the sentiment: I like REAL people, who dont need symbols, logos or tags to indicate who or what they are. Just BE who and what you are - if people see you in your true light, they are worth your time. If they can't, they're not. There is no one else on the planet like you so why would you want to show how special you are by wearing someone ELSE'S idea of "cool"? My 10yr old son agrees with me but my 8 yr old daughter thinks its just my excuse for not buying her trendy clothes LOL! 
. How to clip a birds wing springs to mind, and I no longer breed or sell my cockatiels because I got sick and tired of going to great pains to explain to the buyer that the young newly fledged and feeding itself bird was parent raised but handled daily, NOT hand raised, IMO this makes a better bird all round as it knows its a bird and doesn't develop all sorts of phyisological issues later. And while I am telling the new owner about their new pet I tell them to not clip the birds wing, it trusts people as it is with its wings intact, and all they need to do is handle the bird in doors daily with the windows and doors closed, ceiling fans off and nothing cooking on the hot plates of the stove. And after doing my best to impart some real useful information I have lost count the number of times around a week later I run into the person again and ask how the bird is going and the stock standard response is " Oh such and such came around and told me to clip its wings grr: 
) so I did ( TRANSLATION I hacked away at all the wing feathers with blunt scissors and freaked the poor bird out no end after never being forcibly restrained in its life before this attack on its plummage), and now the bird attacks me all the time" or the other variation again after doing the wing clipping " my bird is now mutliating itself and pulling at its wing feathers all the time". Honestly it makes me want to slap the person stupid and take a baseball bat to their legs and see how much they would trust me after that. I would bite them too !
For this reason, I make an effort to do people the curtesy (sp?) of getting to know them before deciding. I have recently had a work situation in which new female employees (they're all female in this job) get told stories (which aren't true!!
If someone makes me laugh, is good natured, thoughtful, generous and compassionate then I don't really care if they are wearing a mu-mu and a hoola-hoop. By the same token, I dont take much notice of socially accepted status-tags either. I don't follow labels so if someone is wearing one to show they are fashionable (another pet hate of mine) or wealthy, then it fails to impress me. I remember, when i was 20, seeing a work collegue showing off a white silk scarf with red ticks all over it. She had a little crowd of girls admiring it. I asked what was so special about it? She explained that it was a very expensive label - did i like it? No, I said, I didnt. I thought it was rather ugly (i'm Saggitarian
For this reason, I make an effort to do people the curtesy (sp?) of getting to know them before deciding. I have recently had a work situation in which new female employees (they're all female in this job) get told stories (which aren't true!!
If someone makes me laugh, is good natured, thoughtful, generous and compassionate then I don't really care if they are wearing a mu-mu and a hoola-hoop. By the same token, I dont take much notice of socially accepted status-tags either. I don't follow labels so if someone is wearing one to show they are fashionable (another pet hate of mine) or wealthy, then it fails to impress me. I remember, when i was 20, seeing a work collegue showing off a white silk scarf with red ticks all over it. She had a little crowd of girls admiring it. I asked what was so special about it? She explained that it was a very expensive label - did i like it? No, I said, I didnt. I thought it was rather ugly (i'm Saggitarian
), I refuse to give companies free advertising, why should I they haven't given me anything but a bill to wear their ridiclously expensive clothes. Sadly for my Husband this attitude extends to cars as well, I couldn't care a less if its a porche or a lambigini (and they are the only 2 that spring to mind), honestly all a car needs to do is get you from point A to point B without breaking down, excessively polluting the environment, and keep you dry while traveling in rain and cool in summer and warm in winter. Oh and 1 more use for cars being able to carry mutliple pets to and from vets etc . . I am sick to DEATH of seeing for sale for $$ Moodles and other made up one off cross breeding of two seperate dog breeds for goodness sake people call it what it is a MONGREL, and then maybe the idiots who have to encourage the breeding of these dogs that even the kennel clubs wont recognise will not feel obliged to then waft around shops etc clutching their "dear little doggie" like its some sort of fashion excessory. And I don't even want to start on having people dress the poor dogs in human clothes and nail polish crazy: ) and in some cases jewellery 
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Designer clothes I suppose is all about taste, whether you like it or not. I know some people who would wear nasty looking clothes but wear them anyway just because its smeared with some designers name on it then its seen as acceptable. Don't get me wrong, its not like I don't wear some sort of label every day from my feet to my back but I will not wear something just because it has a label that I wouldn't wear without a label. I like small or hidden labels if I was to wear something.
Same reason I never bought those "designer" Tshirts or purses with the designer's initials or name blazoned across them. Not only was I NOT going to pay their inflated prices for a simple Tshirt, but I'll be darned if I'd advertise for them as well!
This is what I was getting at - there's a difference between "fashion" and "style". Just because it has an expensive, well-advertised label doesnt automatically mean its
A) well crafted
or
B) a look good for you
Proof? Bubble skirts. Kylie Minogue got away with it. The rest of the population can't. I thought those things had died a quick, violent death but I was horrified to see a teenage girl wearing one the other day. They're baaAAAACK!!
I guess my annoyance with the blind following of fashions or labels is that once again, people aren't thinking for themselves. They can't be bothered looking at themselves and saying "actually, I have big shoulders already so maybe not the padded shoulders for me" then looking for something that suits them far better and is different to the general run of clothing and making a style that is their very own. No, they want to just slip on something that "says" a particular thing about them. Speak for yourself, #39####!! Stop relying on other people's ideas to define who you are!!! Be YOU!! *stops to breathe a bit*
And if a particular fashion is "in", can you find a clothing shop that has something different?? NO!! You are forced to buy whatever the fashion gods decide is "in" for the year, whether you like it or it suits you or not
As for signature purses and handbags and jeans and such - I tell people that when KK starts wearing MY initials on THEIR clothes, I'll wear THEIRS
, (or there more correct name Muffin Tops) I hate seeing some rabidly becoming obsese teenage girl mincing around in these horrid shorts with rolls of fat hanging over the top (now do you see the name for Muffin Tops?), a gut protruding like she is 4-6 months pregnant (nothing against pregnant ladies but a girl all of 13 shouldn't be), all to often some sort of belly peircing that is barley anchered in her belly button because of the fat, and then some sort of skimpy tank top that is 3 sizes too small and the girls entire midriff is as white as a ghost, and the top that is waaay to small has some crude sexual inuendo slogan streched to tearing point across the girls body. And then to complete the picture these same girls decide to bend over giving the entire world a front row seat to see their "coin slot" (butt crack), and then the girl ends up having to try and hoik her pants up every 5 minutes. , everytime I see some wonna be crim trying to make a run for it in these stupid pants and tripping up in them making it so much eaiser for the cops to grab them. Ummm maybe there is a use for the super baggy short/ trousers.
Straight red for a good challenge, guess he forgot people dont have handbreaks.
