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What inspired your username?

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Noseynails · 27/06/2019 23:47

Mines was inspired by the fact that I'm very nosy and I love painting my nails.

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WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 28/06/2019 15:36

Because we did build cis city on sexist roles Wink

I always like a nickname thread but wish people would use capitals in their names

I just find them really hard to read sometimes without capitals Blush

Reallybadidea · 28/06/2019 15:38

Because I had one

WeBuiltCisCityOnSexistRoles · 28/06/2019 15:39

Loyaultemelie I like your name. Poor old Richard.

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 28/06/2019 15:43

Jilly Cooper Grin

Isthebigwomanhere · 28/06/2019 15:45

Game of thrones

APurpleSquirrel · 28/06/2019 15:49

Purple squirrel is a term used by employment recruiters to describe a job candidate with precisely the right education, set of experience, and range of qualifications that perfectly fits a job's requirements.

And therefore doesn't exist Grin

herbsmokedchicken · 28/06/2019 15:50

Was time for a name change and the last YouTube video I watched was herb smoked chicken on a bbq

MrHaroldFry · 28/06/2019 16:06

A book.

MissConductUS · 28/06/2019 16:08

but wish people would use capitals in their names

Hear, hear. Grin

Skinandbones · 28/06/2019 16:16

When I was in my teens my dg always told me I was just skin and bones. I'm now over 50 and quite cuddly, OK very cuddly.

ChopinIn10Minuets · 28/06/2019 16:21

A joke Post-It note stuck on the piano.

QueueForCucumber · 28/06/2019 16:21

A customer who was spelling something 'phonetically' to me once and he said "Q for cucumber".

ChopinIn10Minuets · 28/06/2019 16:25

*Purple squirrel is a term used by employment recruiters to describe a job candidate with precisely the right education, set of experience, and range of qualifications that perfectly fits a job's requirements.

And therefore doesn't exist*

You could have fooled me. In the competitive field I qualified in I'm constantly being rejected at interview despite ticking all the boxes and being told I interview well. Sigh.

ChopinIn10Minuets · 28/06/2019 16:27

(Sorry for bold fail - keep forgetting that you have to put asterisks around the paragraphs as well. Grin)

Kashali · 28/06/2019 16:27

it was on a label on a doll mil bought from holiday.
can't remember which though.
I'm racking my brain to remember because when I google I get a boxer. Confused

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