Pretentious affectations
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Pretentious affectations
I'll only use foreign reusable shopping bags in the UK. I doubt anyone notices but I think it makes me look well traveled and cosmopolitan.
What are yours?
What are yours?
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Re: Pretentious affectations
I don't do pretentious, I am actually better than you.
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I've been using bags I bought in UK supermarkets when shopping over here! But really only because the designs are generally more fun - lots of people have asked me where I got the Star Wars bags and even the unicorn design one
Aside from that I don't do pretentious - I hate VW and love TLs FFS
Aside from that I don't do pretentious - I hate VW and love TLs FFS
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I often see an Italian neighbour whilst out. I always greet him in Italian and then look around to see who has clocked that I'm exotic and wind-swept.
The conversation invariably switches to English due to my poor language skills after three or four sentences, but the passer-by are gone by then, their dreary lives made a little brighter by forrin banter.
The conversation invariably switches to English due to my poor language skills after three or four sentences, but the passer-by are gone by then, their dreary lives made a little brighter by forrin banter.
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Oh lord, yes, same here. The car boots are stuffed with Jodofi & Carrefour bags... It's more for the sentimentality though, honest.
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When walking our mongrel dog in the posher bits of town and when people ask what he is I tell em he's a long legged, long nosed, long tailed Jack Russell.
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A cockerlabrusseladoo?demographic wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:06 pm When walking our mongrel dog in the posher bits of town and when people ask what he is I tell em he's a long legged, long nosed, long tailed Jack Russell.
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gremlin wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 12:28 amDogue de Bordeaux/Staffy father, German Shepherd/Saluki mother but we bought him from a place just past Barnard Castle so I sometimes call him a Barnard Castle Partial Sighthound as well.
Technically it's trus(ish) cos Salukis are sighthounds and he"s 1/4 Saluki but really I'm just taking the piss out of the Domenic Cummings eyetest fiasco.
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When Wilko's been especially good he's called by his Pedigree name - Surfin' Blueberry Muffin...
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