Ah - hair. I remember when I had hair....(drifts back nearly 30 years...) I used to have hair almost down to my belt - and our son now does - he's 17. We were working on a shop the other day and he went out to the van to get something. Some random passer by said "You need to get a haircut." Luckily the nice woman over the road who runs the nail bar had previously told him what lovely hair he has - nice comments outnumber the miserable ones by about twenty to one. It's mostly women who seem to like his long hair.
We've got a telly. It's across the room from me now. I'm not sure when we last turned it on - there's just so little worth watching. A few days ago, at least - and that was to watch The Blues Brothers on DVD.
My view is that it's my language, and I'll use it however I damned well please. If I choose to break the rules, the chances are I'm doing it deliberately because it creates the effect I'm looking for[1]. Except, of course, when it happens 'cos I'm careless or tired, or ignorant - and I plead to all three on occasions. [1] For which I am looking. Pet hates? "Utilise" instead of "use". Verbing in general..."He medalled at the Olympics". The loss of useful distinctions, such as insure/ensure.
What a lovely idea....BUT... Cliffs exist because of erosion. The only way something that vertical is there in the first place is because it's constantly crumbling - otherwise it'd be a beach or a swamp or something gentler. The media are full of stories of houses falling into the sea because of costal erosion...and this looks like another, just waiting to happen.
Perspex, usually. They're printed onto retro-reflective film, which is then laminated onto the back of a sheet of perspex. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad, they're horrid.
In the UK we have a splendidly sensible rule. You have to present your vehicle documents to get a new licence plate. Great - so when you're 400 miles from home and hit a fox, leaving your plate in tiny bits (and the fox in on large but limp bit) you're utterly stuffed. You get in trouble for not having a front plate, but can't replace it until you get home. This is supposed to reduce car crime - wheras what it actually does is make life bloody awkward for law abiding people, but the black-hats...simple, they order theirs online from Ireland. Next day delivery.
In my experience, it's the staff and other patients that make hospital bearable. The surroundings can be really grotty as long as there's a witty remark or two flying about. That's true of most things, I guess.
I used to have hair almost down to my belt - and our son now does - he's 17. We were working on a shop the other day and he went out to the van to get something. Some random passer by said "You need to get a haircut."
Luckily the nice woman over the road who runs the nail bar had previously told him what lovely hair he has - nice comments outnumber the miserable ones by about twenty to one. It's mostly women who seem to like his long hair.
I'm not sure when we last turned it on - there's just so little worth watching. A few days ago, at least - and that was to watch The Blues Brothers on DVD.
[1] For which I am looking.
Pet hates? "Utilise" instead of "use". Verbing in general..."He medalled at the Olympics". The loss of useful distinctions, such as insure/ensure.
Cliffs exist because of erosion. The only way something that vertical is there in the first place is because it's constantly crumbling - otherwise it'd be a beach or a swamp or something gentler.
The media are full of stories of houses falling into the sea because of costal erosion...and this looks like another, just waiting to happen.
Great - so when you're 400 miles from home and hit a fox, leaving your plate in tiny bits (and the fox in on large but limp bit) you're utterly stuffed. You get in trouble for not having a front plate, but can't replace it until you get home.
This is supposed to reduce car crime - wheras what it actually does is make life bloody awkward for law abiding people, but the black-hats...simple, they order theirs online from Ireland. Next day delivery.
That's true of most things, I guess.