Originally Posted by lunacrout (Post 8057111)

I'm a 'laydee' :o :D

(my pic's on my profile but I can't work out how to make it appear on the forum page :confused:)


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Originally Posted by lunacrout (Post 8057111)

(my pic's on my profile but I can't work out how to make it appear on the forum page :confused:)
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Originally Posted by Fortaleza (Post 8057119)

Profuse apologies. I added you after I wrote the sentence but forgot to change the corresponding pronoun. My bad:o

Originally Posted by jdr (Post 8057127)

Have you been to Alhuarin for a holiday ?

Originally Posted by Fortaleza (Post 8057128)

...... uh............ no :confused:

Originally Posted by jdr (Post 8056565)

It begins with G, but I will have to check one of my tickets for the name. lol

Just checked me receipt, Poligino Guadalhorce.

Originally Posted by jdr (Post 8057122)

Find a better pic and I will tell you how to do it. ;-))

Originally Posted by Fortaleza (Post 8057119)

Profuse apologies. I added you after I wrote the sentence but forgot to change the corresponding pronoun. My bad:o

Originally Posted by Fortaleza (Post 8057125)

I think you need to make it an avatar and in the menu there is an option for Edit Avatar, then Add avatar and so on....

Originally Posted by Fortaleza (Post 8056981)

Depends on your area. Yes, in many areas it is to indicate drug sale, but in other areas it is also used to demark 'gang' (and not just the criminal type) territories with the shoes' colours distinguishing between the gangs - something apparently copied from the gangs in the USA.

As with many things though, original intention has been lost, with young 'rebels' thinking it is fun to mark their neighbourhood as a drug or a gang zone when it is nothing of the sort.

However it seems that the whole shoe throwing thing as has been described here is a hijacking of previous more innocent reasons behind it. Each village has its own folklore behind it but one I've heard and quite like is that decades ago, putting shoes out like that meant that during a particularly hot or dry spell, they were asking for rain - and should the rain come, they always know where to find their shoes!!!!

Other villages use it to denote villagers who have passed away (usually before their time), others use it as a celebration (graduation, wedding etc), but the best I've heard is that some jokers simply love putting them up so that people like us will scratch our heads wondering what the significance is of hanging shoes from the phone lines!!!!!!

Originally Posted by chulo (Post 8057907)

I couldn`t believe this was Madrid when i first watched these idiots.
Shocking.

Originally Posted by chulo (Post 8057907)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=q2-LuJvQ3Dg&NR=1

I couldn`t believe this was Madrid when i first watched these idiots.

Shocking.