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dbd33 Jul 16th 2008 5:57 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Mikey B (Post 6577716)
No 400/89 is best, although I take consession 5 to bypass cookstown atm with the road works, I much prefer it when Im working in Mississauga or further west as then I have a nice drive up 50 thru Bolton or an even nicer one up Airport road. About as close to decent topography as your gonna get here in ON.

Either way I dont care I get paid by the KM :)

Ah yes, I often take those roads if I'm working downtown. Sometimes I stay on Airport Road past the museum where the OH works and turn left at Mansfield, that road has some exciting bends on it.

Mikey B Jul 16th 2008 6:09 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 6577728)
Ah yes, I often take those roads if I'm working downtown. Sometimes I stay on Airport Road past the museum where the OH works and turn left at Mansfield, that road has some exciting bends on it.

Ahhh I need a nice calm job up north (maybe in a museum) away from the rat race of the city!!!

Jingsamichty Jul 16th 2008 6:48 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 
That's more like it, fellas.

A nice shift from inviting each other round to your house while the OH is away, to safer manly ground like chatting about the best directions or routes to take. A gentle nudge into gas mileages will see you firmly back into appropriate man-talk.

dbd33 Jul 16th 2008 7:18 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 
More manly yet than that, I was in the coolest shop evah yesterday.

Nuts Plus, it's called and they don't just sell nuts but bolts, chains, cutting equipment, sockets, spanners, it's a kind of paradise. I felt my testosterone level soar and half regretted having gone their in the pastel New Beetle. As I left I cast aside the content of the dashboard flower vase.

Rich_007 Jul 16th 2008 7:53 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 6578048)
As I left I cast aside the content of the dashboard flower vase.

Oily rag in the dashboard now ?

You need Princess Auto - land of real men.

R.

dbd33 Jul 16th 2008 7:56 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Rich_007 (Post 6578203)
Oily rag in the dashboard now ?

You need Princess Auto - land of real men.

R.

I wish I had an oily.

Mrs Miggins Jul 16th 2008 9:38 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Mikey B (Post 6577533)
I would like to nominate dbd as a fantastic role model!!! ;)

sick sick puupy.

Mikey B Jul 16th 2008 10:47 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Jingsamichty (Post 6577907)
That's more like it, fellas.

A nice shift from inviting each other round to your house while the OH is away, to safer manly ground like chatting about the best directions or routes to take. A gentle nudge into gas mileages will see you firmly back into appropriate man-talk.

I still like to be in touch with my feminine side ;)

The4BellsLondon Jul 16th 2008 8:45 pm

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Mikey B (Post 6578770)
I still like to be in touch with my feminine side ;)

YOur feminine side, or a nice young ladies feminine side?? ;):p

dbd33 Jul 17th 2008 12:02 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 
Bill, perhaps also Hilary, Clinton.

Mikey B Jul 17th 2008 12:22 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon (Post 6579924)
YOur feminine side, or a nice young ladies feminine side?? ;):p

That would be telling :)

Oakvillian Jul 17th 2008 2:02 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 
Not exactly a role-model yet, but it's refreshing to see on the bbc's website this morning that a plus-size model (mind you, size 16 is hardly plus-size in the real world, but I suppose it is in the rarefied world of modelling) has made the finals of Miss England.

Souvenir Jul 17th 2008 2:14 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 6581034)
Not exactly a role-model yet, but it's refreshing to see on the bbc's website this morning that a plus-size model (mind you, size 16 is hardly plus-size in the real world, but I suppose it is in the rarefied world of modelling) has made the finals of Miss England.

Monroe was a 16.

Oakvillian Jul 17th 2008 2:48 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Souvenir (Post 6581077)
Monroe was a 16.

yes, but that was pre-Shrimpton and Twiggy. The whole stick-thin model thing really started in the late 60s with Jean Shrimpton - "iconic" women before then typically had a little more substance to them. It's long past time for a revival of the fuller figure as fashion icon, IMHO.

Souvenir Jul 17th 2008 3:23 am

Re: Suitable role models?
 

Originally Posted by Oakvillian (Post 6581232)
It's long past time for a revival of the fuller figure as fashion icon, IMHO.

Few women would disagree with you.


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