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THE BRITISH THREAD II

 
 
spendius
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 01:11 pm
One might presume from that that the perfume commercials, and possibly those for a range of other products, are appealing to, fostering and inflaming the hidden core of the pagan nature of the flower of English womanhood.

Maybe some programmes are also engaged in this sexist propaganda.

Men buying perfume are like turkeys buying Christmas cards.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 01:23 pm
but more expensive
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 02:20 pm
spendius wrote:

Men buying perfume are like turkeys buying Christmas cards.


Very good, that, one for the collection of Spendyisme.

You mean, they get to enjoy the day briefly and then the chopper falls?
Or they are plucked and trussed long before the event?
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 02:25 pm
Dorothy Parker wrote:
McTag wrote:
Bonfires are thrilling, though.

I like them.

Elemental. Timeless. Evocative.


Last bit sounds like a perfume commercial.

Smile


Hey DP there is an article in The Guardian today about Prince, the diminutive musician who does not shoot endangered specie of birds.

Did you see it?
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smorgs
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 03:51 pm
My favourite perfume is Flowerbomb, by Viktor and Rolph...

If anyone wants to buy me some for Crimbo.

It's about 50 squids - that's why I haven't got any.

I'm currently wearing Green Tea, by Elizabeth Arden.

Had a hard day, covering another's diary due to sickness. Did I tell you a customer told me to 'wind my neck in'?

Amused me all day! That and putting Count Dracula on the system as a Jobseeker. Did all the paperwork and everything, had him down as night worker - a phlebotomist and 'networking with the undead' as one of his 'how to look for work' entries.

Was in hysterics by 3.30, when the Incapacity Benefit Advisor (Paul) approached my desk in a Nosferatu stylee. Then I was doing impressions of James Mason in 'Salem's Lot - you won't know it, I know.

Then my manager told me to "stop being a vampire now, Sarah, we'll have complaints". I told her it was essential that I expressed myself, as to suppress may natural exuberance would upset my work/life balance and cause me to seek a 'stress risk' assessment. She told me to "Piss Off".

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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 04:29 pm
Very good.

You are coming along nicely.

Express yourself by all means. Just give me a minute to get behind the nearest wall.

Hey- When I was drying off on the kingy I saw Mr Titchmarsh (how anybody lives with a name like that I'll never know) wading through the sea-side shallows and talking in that "can I have another jam-butty nan-nan" voice he must have developed in his infancy. He stopped and then he crouched down in that position the miners of Wigan are supposed to have learned how to rest in and scooped up a handful of thick mud. Sluch. As he explained something technical about the mud I noticed that there was a straight line between the camera, the fist holding the mud and the seam on his jeans which disappeared from view behind him. As he talked he squeezed the mud in such a way that dollops of it were dropping into the still water and it looked for all the world as if he was taking a dump through a hole on his pants, which were silouhetted against the blue mist in the distance such was the angle of the shot, whilst he cooly went about our further education.

I have always suspected Mr Titchmarsh of taking the piss out of us and now I'm sure.

To confirm it the blonde lady then sat on a rock explaining something or other slightly above camera (30 degrees say) with her legs wide open at 12 o,clock. She was wearing tight almost white finespun denim hotpants and they only left the small details to the imagination which most of the men watching are well capable of filling in for themselves.

When they showed the beautiful patterns the dark cloud of seabirds were making in the sky, (I think they added the music later), I was pondering upon one of the little sardines in the shoal they were stalking and what the cloud looked like to the him.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 04:39 pm
smorgs wrote:
My favourite perfume is Flowerbomb, by Viktor and Rolph...

If anyone wants to buy me some for Crimbo.

It's about 50 squids - that's why I haven't got any.

I'm currently wearing Green Tea, by Elizabeth Arden.
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What do you mean by? Did Vik and Rolph drop the flowerbomb on Elizabeth? You mean made by, or just manufactured by? Like Green Tea is made by Typhoo? How can you wear green tea by elizabeth arden? And who the hell is this Crimbo bloke?

Strange post.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 05:40 pm
Steve 41oo wrote:
smorgs wrote:
My favourite perfume is Flowerbomb, by Viktor and Rolph...

If anyone wants to buy me some for Crimbo.

It's about 50 squids - that's why I haven't got any.

I'm currently wearing Green Tea, by Elizabeth Arden.
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What do you mean by? Did Vik and Rolph drop the flowerbomb on Elizabeth? You mean made by, or just manufactured by? Like Green Tea is made by Typhoo? How can you wear green tea by elizabeth arden? And who the hell is this Crimbo bloke?

Strange post.


I leap to the lady's assistance because I've just come back in from the pub...we didn't have the last round as is our wont, don't know why, the beer did not have its usual allure and the party on the adjacent table were a bit raucous, any road up, we called it Crimbo so that's fine by me.

I went to the pictures again this evening to see Rendition. Quite good, no tears.
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 05:43 pm
"When they showed the beautiful patterns the dark cloud of seabirds were making in the sky, (I think they added the music later), I was pondering upon one of the little sardines in the shoal they were stalking and what the cloud looked like to the him. "

Starlings. Amazing creatures. We used to see them swarming over All Saints. They seem to like an urban or suburban roost, then at this time of year at dusk, they put on an amazing show.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 05:45 pm
Bloody hell mct

You've been to the flicks twice

are reading a book

have bought an amplifier

all in the time its taken me to type this

how do you do it?
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 05:48 pm
'Cause I'm a manwo, m a n w o
I'll say it again....
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McTag
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 05:48 pm
Smorgs might get that one.

Very Happy
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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 06:01 pm
smorgsie wrote-

Quote:
My favourite perfume is Flowerbomb, by Viktor and Rolph...


Have you not tried Pot-pourie by Likter and Gulp?
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 06:01 pm
is that like

Y M C A?

dont tell me I cant dance
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 06:03 pm
spendius wrote:
smorgsie wrote-

Quote:
My favourite perfume is Flowerbomb, by Viktor and Rolph...


Have you not tried Pot-pourie by Likter and Gulp?
Laughing
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spendius
 
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Reply Wed 7 Nov, 2007 06:15 pm
I'm simply amazed that I have not been profusely thanked for sussing out Titchmarsh.

That guy has sold more stuff than any other salesman you could recognise. He doesn't work with individual companies. He works with trade organisations.

It was funny though when he tried his hand at musical appreciation.
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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 12:14 am
McTag wrote:
Smorgs might get that one.

Very Happy


Of course I did...

V funny!

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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 12:15 am
spendius wrote:
smorgsie wrote-

Quote:
My favourite perfume is Flowerbomb, by Viktor and Rolph...


Have you not tried Pot-pourie by Likter and Gulp?


I have. But I don't feel the woody notes suit my personality.

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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 12:16 am
Mornin', you load of ancient codgers!

Up at at 'em!

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smorgs
 
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Reply Thu 8 Nov, 2007 12:18 am
Didn't Titchmarsh (peat be upon him) win one of those 'bad sex in literature' thingies?

I think Edwina got one too.

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