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  1. Fallacies

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    I heard that all ginger cats are male (along the lines of the colour being sex-linked like torties are all female). Is this true? Is there anyone out there with a female ginger cat?

    Not true :) (sorry if that has already been answered :laugh: :flowers: ) my cat Sparks is ginger and white and a female, she had a litter (accidental obv) and had 4 boys (two ginger and white, one all ginger stripes and one ginger spots) and 2 girls (one ginger and white and one ginger stripes) so there are at least 3 female gingers I know of :laugh:

  2. Ogmore Walk?

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    Lo Fugees :wavey:

     

    What do you think the chances are of fitting in a walk at Ogmore before Xmas?? :unsure: was looking through the photos of last years and Jack loved it (as did I!) we'll be down that way most of Xmas week too so could be after Xmas if thats easier :unsure:

  3. Jack's 3rd Gotcha Day

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    3 years ago this evening I bought home my gorgeous little bundle :wub: :wub: from Sarah & Paul at Wiccaweys (thank you guys :flowers: :wub: )

     

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    Since then he has grown rather a lot :wub:

     

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    Has learnt how to swim :)

     

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    And run on the beach :wub: :wub:

     

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    Every day he makes me smile, laugh and love him even more :wub: he is the teachers pet at agility :laugh: and loves his flyball, has shared his home, mum and toys with several foster dogs and is just perfect :wub:

     

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    Love you baby boy :wub: :wub:

  5. R M F - November 2008

    in Non Animal Chat

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    Morning :wavey:

     

    It is my baby boy's 3rd Gotcha Day today :wub: :wub: :biggrin: he has had porridge for breakfast and we met up with Dee and Lad on our morning walk so he is happy so far :)

     

    Wiggle :wub: you must not pout at the extent of Sirius's wardrobe :laugh:

     

    Mog :GroupHug: feel better soon missus :flowers:

     

    Sam that is a rather strange dream ... maybe it is a hint of what you'll be doing next year??!

  7. Mornings

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    :GroupHug: Steph :GroupHug:

     

    The only helpful thing I know of is one of those alarm clocks that simulate the sunrise so your body gradually wakes up before the alarm goes off so you wake up naturally, they are meant to be fantastic but are upwards of £60/£70 I think :unsure: Alarm Clock Thingy here is one of the cheaper ones :flowers:

     

    Hope you find something helpful soon though hun :flowers:

  10. R M F - November 2008

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    sanrossscot - clever Glen and Tia :wub: :wub:

     

     

    I went onto my work emails to put my out of office on and there was an email from one of our departmental managers asking me if we could talk at 2pm today. I replied informing him that I had taken a day's leave as I had an emergency with one of my dogs and he then sent a snotty reply telling me I should inform him straight away if I am taking emergency leave, which really upset me. I know he doesn't know the full circumstances but even though I work with him on certain project, I don't report to him, I report to his boss, the Director, who I emailed at 7.30 this morning to let him know I wouldn't be in.

    What a pillock :grrr: :GroupHug: :GroupHug:

     

     

    We set off on a lovely frosty morning all full of the joys when we got as far as the second wood down near the lake. Some feckin ba$tards were out shooting And just to put the tin hat on it they are working on the lake foreshore rejuvenation and were making similar bangy noises

     

    George took off, tho he kept coming back when I shouted until there was a really heavy and prolonged volley of shot gun fire. He took off taking Archie with him. I got Archie to come back but no sign of George. I ran as fast as I could, and I am so not built for running, and caught him dodging traffic on the main Borrowdale road : He was highly stressed, drooling, shaking and I thought "oh feck, he's going to fit in the road". I managed to catch him when a driver cornered him using his car (thank you mate ) and got him home.

     

    We are all shaking now. I could cheerfully turn those guns on those t*ats :angry: As long as they are having fun shooting things that 's OK and sod everything else :

     

    Any good thoughts would be appreciated for George :

    :ohmy: thank goodness you caught up with him and some nice person helped :GroupHug:

     

    Lots of good thoughts on the way for George :wub: :GroupHug: :GroupHug:

  14. Night Out Tonight

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    Posted · Edited by sparkle

    Thank you. I expect you're right. :flowers:

     

    (Would that be my whole post, or just parts of it? :unsure: )

     

    I just find it sad as well as funny, I suppose, but it's good to see that women's self-esteem is alive and well - as long as they have a good figure, that is. Hit the larger size clothes rails and they still feel they have to hide away (as some people here have indicated)...hmm...so the half-clad body is ok only if it meets today's standard of beauty? If women were truly confident, it wouldn't matter what shape they were, or what glamorous clothes they wore, or whatever.

     

    As the mother of a student daughter with loads of friends and a busy social life, I can tell you that not all young women share your values, so it isn't just a generational thing.

     

    And now, I'm off, before I say things I may regret. :laugh:

    Sorry, that was rather rude of me, took it from a personal point of view and reacted :blush02: :flowers:

     

    But I think I disagree with all of it ... Winston Churchill's mother as a prime example of dressing provocatively and drinking to excess etc, she also is the reason he became PM ... in any case in my mind it has never been a certain area of society which has dressed to show off their assets so to speak ... I don't fit todays standard of what the figure should look like either, but I never did like people telling me what to do or how I should look :laugh: and as I said earlier I wouldn't go out with it all hanging out, so I do agree with your view there :flowers: its just that I don't think ALL of todays women in society should be tarred with the same brush, as you have said your daughter agrees with you .... and so do I in the respect that I would never go out purely dressed in underwear, but I would and do go out wearing revealing clothes, however I don't feel this detracts from my intelligence (or lack there off when I get emotive :blush02: :flowers: ) plus my education wasn't free and I pay for healthcare :laugh: in any case I am far more proud of my job which I have worked for than my figure which isn't down to me, but that doesn't mean that I can't enjoy both of them does it? or indeed that I should hide my figure because I have a brain? why can't I be appreciated for both?

     

    Hope that is less emotive, am very sorry for being so rude :(

     

    Sparkle that comment is out of order. Have an opinion, disagree with someone elses by all means but stay civil.

    Sorry :flowers: took it personally and reacted as such ...

  16. Night Out Tonight

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    Free healthcare, contraception, education, the vote - yes, hard-won privileges...and what do we do with it? How do we exercise our great new freedoms? That was my point. Our mindset is back where our grandmothers' was (and I said great-grandmother because not everyone is as old as me) - appearance is paramount, being attractive is more important than being intelligent, and so on.

     

    Those women you cite may well be making choices they were unable to make in the past...but certain women always chose to drink, to dress provocatively, to put themselves at risk. It was ever thus - but in the past it wasn't the women with all the social advantages you mention; it was women with little hope of equality, education, independence.

    Sorry but that is complete boll0cks :rolleyes: I am very proud of working in an investment management firm and studying for exmas, I am far more chuffed with a compliment about my intelligence than my figure but I am well aware that I have a good figure and therefore chose to show it off, my best friend is an investment manager, in charge of millions of pounds worth of money, she is gorgeous and dresses fantastically when we're out, other friends are full time mums, lots more people in finance (oddly enough) and we all show our figures off ... why on earth shouldn't we?! We're aware of our intelligence and our looks, why shouldn't we enjoy both?

  17. Night Out Tonight

    in Non Animal Chat

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    I would agree with the buying young girls revealing/suggestive clothing is ridiculous and horrible ... but ... as to flaunting yourself ... well why not?? :unsure: I don't on a daily basis (as everyone on here knows you can't live with a dog - especially one as active and mud bound as Jack! - and not live in jeans it just doesn't work!) but when I do go out I do like to wear clothes that I wouldn't on a daily basis, my fav at the mo is a backless dark purple top as it shows off my whirlwind tattoo, obv can't wear a bra with it and I suppose it is quite revealing but I love it and am comfortable in it so ... again! ... why not? ... I don't feel what I wear means I am letting down myself or women who fought for us to have equal rights ... and as to wearing certain clothes to get noticed well yes some girls do, but on the whole I think they are late teens who are yet to realise what is good attention and what isn't ... I wear clothes for me not for what attention it may or may not get me

     

    I would agree that I wouldn't go out dressed purely in underwear, for a start whatever the time of year it would be too blinking cold! and I wouldn't be comfortable with everything on display, but I do have two lovely corsets which I wear as tops and I think they look good

  20. Night Out Tonight

    in Non Animal Chat

    Posted

    I've gone out wearing a corset several times ... but I've worn them with jeans as I believe in one or t'other - as in boobs or legs out not both at the same time :laugh: - and I think men will hit on you whatever you wear, one particularly cold night I was out in baggy jeans and an ex's HUGE jumper, looked like poo but poor drunken misguided fools still tried it on ... bless them :rolleyes: :laugh:

  25. R M F - November 2008

    in Non Animal Chat

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    :fight: Haka and we're off to yet another success,Ds are already cowering at the volume coming from here

     

     

    Crowd atmosphere is amazing,has to be the very best international Rugby can offer.

    How fricking FANTASTIC was the stand off?!!!

     

    Come on Wales!!!!!!!! :biggrin: :elefant: :elefant:

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