Page 16 | ADs and their gratuitous pussy pictures

BogRollBOGOF · 2021-01-28T22:10:34+00:00

Welcome in ADs. Snuggle up hygge-style 'cause there ain't much going on out there for a while... except rain. I haven't got a pussy of my own for gratuitous showing off, so I shall pretend to be Dr Evil with Mr Biggleswade [grin] Link to previous thread: [[https://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/4138531-ADs-and-their-pampered-poodles?pg=40]]

bakingcupcakes · 02/02/2021 15:04

[quote justasking111]@SirSamuelVimes so true, my reading habits have been upended, I buy special offers on my kindle, keep skipping over stuff I bought a year ago and go for fantasy every time. Into witchy mystical stuff now.[/quote]
Have you read any Kelley Armstrong? She does some good fantasy/witch based stuff. The Otherworld series is my favourite series of books ever. The Cainsville series by her is good too. It's about Omens and the Welsh hunt.

I read A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness the other week and had high hopes for it (as it's now on Sky) but it didn't do much for me. Not a patch on Kelley Armstrong anyway.

bakingcupcakes · 02/02/2021 15:05

I passed 4 (I kid you not) Look into my eyes posters on the way back from work today. I hate them so much.

Pleasedontdothat · 02/02/2021 15:21

Ouch @DWPmisery1972 at least you know what it is and you’re getting proper treatment (and be pain relief) but it sounds very sore ...

I loathe those ‘look into his/her eyes’ posters - so emotionally manipulative especially as for most people who aren’t working from home it’s not actually their choice .... grrr

When are they going to stop blaming the public and start taking some responsibility

LadyCounterblast · 02/02/2021 15:24

I really need to get back into my Pratchett. Wyrd Sisters, Guards Guards, Reaper Man and Witches Abroad saved me when I was a teenager.

I like Kelley Armstrong, she's a good writer. She sometimes gets bundled in with some of the urban erotic fantasy authors but I think her stuff is more sophisticated than that.

I also enjoyed the Genevieve Cogman/Invisible Library series recently. They threaten to go a bit 'my handsome and muscly young male assistant is incredibly handsome and muscly isn't he' but she just about swerves that for the most part and creates a captivating world with multiple story threads.

I quite liked A Discovery of Witches when I read it, but I've never been moved to read the rest of the trilogy, so I don't think it made a huge impression.

LadyCounterblast · 02/02/2021 15:25

I'd quite happily look into his eyes and tell him that I need to be where I am but then I'd be taking to a bus shelter. And no good comes of that.

LadyCounterblast · 02/02/2021 15:25

taking = talking

smallandimperfectlyformed · 02/02/2021 15:38

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55890779 no idea how to do the link things other people do but this is about female runners being harassed in Wales. Honestly it is all just so rubbish isn't it?

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BogRollBOGOF · 02/02/2021 16:32

First Minister Mark Drakeford said the decision was "partly" because they had heard from women that "in the dark, cold and wet of January they don't feel safe going out to exercise alone".

No shit Sherlock.
Especially with people shuffling around in poor weather with hoods down and masks up so you can't assess the people around you.

Unfortunately women being harrassed while running is nothing new. I've had a couple of dumb comments, but I run substantially off road. I also suspect that not being busty helps a certain calibre of male to not pay attention.

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TooManyPlatesInMotion · 02/02/2021 16:40

@smallandimperfectlyformed

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55890779 no idea how to do the link things other people do but this is about female runners being harassed in Wales. Honestly it is all just so rubbish isn't it?

Disgraceful, yet totally unsurprising. I run 3 or 4 times a week, alone and mostly in the evenings due to work and kids. I have found that the harassment has lessened in lockdown, maybe because there are more people (men and women) out running and walking. Though nothing beats the time I ran past a local pub and a bloke stood outside having a fag shouted, "Wibble wobble, wibble wobble, jelly on a plate". Repeatedly.

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BogRollBOGOF · 02/02/2021 17:06

I'll bet he was no adonis. They usually aren't. Knobs.

I find it really sad each autumn when women's running groups get the regular posts about not going out in the dark, and it's not usually difficult country lanes/ trails that are the issue.

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Iheartmysmart · 02/02/2021 18:09

One of my friends is a triathlete and invited a catcaller to join her on her run. I don’t think he’ll do it again. Apparently she left a shaking, sweaty heap back at the pub in front of his mates.

NeedWineNow · 02/02/2021 18:18

I'm also getting the rage with the adverts on the radio

' Can you look into the eyes of the bus driver' 'Can you look in the eyes of an ITU nurse' etc.....

YES I CAN!!!!!

Iheartmysmart · 02/02/2021 18:35

Those bloody ads keep popping up on Pinterest as well. I’m obeying the poxy bastard rules so can they just piss off and let me look at nice things in peace please. Apologies for the language, tendency to get a bit sweary when cross.

Curlygirl06 · 02/02/2021 18:39

@bakingcupcakes

I passed 4 (I kid you not) Look into my eyes posters on the way back from work today. I hate them so much.

I bloody hate it when people tell me to "stay safe." Do I look like the type to go swimming with sharks in my break? Bungee jumping with no rope after I've filled the cigarette display? I'm not 2, bloody annoys me!

Jourdain11 · 02/02/2021 18:44

@DWPmisery1972 poor you! Big hugs (gentle ones) and lots of sympathy.

Feel like I'm about to cry, honestly. Have been having a terrible day (and night) with DD1. She is in a state like never before and spent the night screaming like a banshee. DH got no sleep at all (and the poor bloke is at school today too and has an extra training this evening!) and I got about 2 hours. The other two slept through it all like logs, lucky things. And today has been like anxiety central: self-harm, tics, panic attacks, crying, urine everywhere but the toilet (sorry tmi...!). Honestly, I just feel hopeless and helpless and totally exhausted. She'll probably be better in a few days, but I don't know how we can go on like this. It is awful for her and exhausting for everyone else!

Buzzinwithbez · 02/02/2021 18:58

@bakingcupcakes

I passed 4 (I kid you not) Look into my eyes posters on the way back from work today. I hate them so much.

Were you walking? When I'm driving I don't notice street furniture. People who travel by public transport ( lots of workers who have no choice?) are being disproportionately lectured to.

CruCru · 02/02/2021 19:10

Hi all

I’ve been off these threads for a couple of days. Yes please to an AD festival. Can we drink cider and sit on hay bales and listen to mad music? Or drink wine in lovely restaurants if you like?

I’ve been on some of the rest of the site. There’s one thread where people are saying that they’re unhappy (one person said she was dead inside) and people have come on to tell her that she’d feel worse if her children brought disease home from school. I think that dementors just can’t help themselves.

bakingcupcakes · 02/02/2021 19:10

A mix of walking and driving. I saw 2 walking through the town centre to the car park and 2 more at bus stops whilst waiting at 2 different sets of lights trying to get out of the town centre.

@Jourdain11 That sounds incredibly difficult. I've got no helpful suggestions but I really feel for you.

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BogRollBOGOF · 02/02/2021 19:45

My area is wonderfully devoid of billboards, and being the end of the bus route, the bus stops are pretty minimalist.

The council has wasted money on stickers for the bins. I haven't actually paid attention to the messages on them.
You can tell from the belegured verfes that people are keeping sensible distances from each other.

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DrRamsesEmerson · 02/02/2021 20:18

@CruCru

Hi all

I’ve been off these threads for a couple of days. Yes please to an AD festival. Can we drink cider and sit on hay bales and listen to mad music? Or drink wine in lovely restaurants if you like?

I’ve been on some of the rest of the site. There’s one thread where people are saying that they’re unhappy (one person said she was dead inside) and people have come on to tell her that she’d feel worse if her children brought disease home from school. I think that dementors just can’t help themselves.

I vote for drinking wine in lovely restaurants, but would be happy with the hay bales too. (I'd be happy with anything provided there were other non-dementory humans involved.)

I ventured onto another thread and regretted it earlier. Really, I should learn.

DrRamsesEmerson · 02/02/2021 20:19

Sorry, @Jourdain11, I posted without seeing your message - I'm so sorry, that sounds awful .

TooManyPlatesInMotion · 02/02/2021 20:37

@jourdain11 sorry. Sounds extremely hard. I hope she is better soon and you manage some sleep tonight.

wanderings · 02/02/2021 20:39

I'm still plotting to amend a few "look me in the eyes" posters: I'm waiting until I have insomnia so that I can sneak out in the dead of night to do it.
"Look me in the eyes, while I swear that war in Iraq was the right thing to do. (Blair)
"Look me in the eyes, while I swear that I obeyed the rules." (Cummings)
"Look me in the eyes, while I swear that the wholesale destruction of your jobs, economy, education and mental health is the right thing to do." (Johnson)
"Look me in the eyes, while I swear that I am God." (Hancock, or possibly Professor Ferguson)

justasking111 · 02/02/2021 21:20

I think I told you about the elderly lady and all her problems, falls, the neighbours talked the sons into coming down things had got so bad. So son 1 came on Saturday car parked in drive, today son two arrived his car parked in drive. He came from Manchester. Well here is the odd thing. We live in a cul de sac of ten homes, well away from the main drag in the village where the police have been cruising in a loop all day for a few days. A police car came down to the bottom where the neighbour lives, stopped and looked around. checking vehicles.
Now the elderly lady would have the same surname as the son if they had done a check on the car. She lives alone he is her official care organiser. They did not do anything but did an awkward three point turn and left.

So has someone snitched in the cul de sac?

SirSamuelVimes · 02/02/2021 21:29

@justasking111

I think I told you about the elderly lady and all her problems, falls, the neighbours talked the sons into coming down things had got so bad. So son 1 came on Saturday car parked in drive, today son two arrived his car parked in drive. He came from Manchester. Well here is the odd thing. We live in a cul de sac of ten homes, well away from the main drag in the village where the police have been cruising in a loop all day for a few days. A police car came down to the bottom where the neighbour lives, stopped and looked around. checking vehicles. Now the elderly lady would have the same surname as the son if they had done a check on the car. She lives alone he is her official care organiser. They did not do anything but did an awkward three point turn and left.

So has someone snitched in the cul de sac?

Sounds like you have neighbours who have dobbed your old lady in to the fuzz. That's abysmal.