to find a man who coudlnt drive UTTERLy unattractive

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and rather pathetic

yadaydayd meddical expcetiosn etc

lol threadie - that's exactly who I'm modelling myself on for this thread.

Swedes, I don't know anyone in middle management who can't drive. I thought middle management were practically defined by attachment to their cars.

I can only think of three men of my acquaintance who don't drive and they are all artists of one kind or another as it happens. I don't fancy any of them but it has nothing to do with their unwillingness to drive.

Iorek - "I don't fancy any of them ...." Is it because they are minging?

No I just don't like artists.

Good grief is this thing still going

In a romantic way I mean. I don't dislike them in general of course. But this is all beside the point. Middle Management Martin is far more likely to be crawling up the M42 in his horrible car with his horrible suit hanging in the back than taking the train like a civilised person.

Please describe his suit?

Swedes, you know perfectly well what type of suit it is.

LOL - this thread has gone from strength to strength.

I just went to the supermarket- it took an hour instead of two.

I am making up for it later by buying my meat from the butchers that has just opened at the end of my road. Bucking a national trend which has kept anxious Sunday broadsheet readers occupied for some time. Meat is all free range, too.

Are we all agreed, at least, that amongst a plethora of excellent Halloween names, Threadie Krueger is outstanding?

Yes to Threadie Krueger!

Why thank you. I would have gone with ShaunOfTheThread again, but alas my deregistrations would require me to spell it wrongly.

May I offer UQD UnquietDead? Or perhaps that's an old one.

soerry uqd what a dumbkopf I am - that's where you got your bleedin name in the first place.

the terrible threat of the dss growing up to be like Jeremy Clarkson is almost enough to make me agree with UQD. the man who didnt see the point of the 2CV, because its got a small engine! Purleeeease.

one of the few things I liked about ex h, was that he could drive small cars without feeling inadequate.

onebat - indeed!!

So how "arty" and non-suity does one's job need to be for one's non-driving not to be unsexy?... (Too many negatives in there.)

"one of the few things I liked about ex h, was that he could drive small cars without feeling inadequate."

PMSL

Nominate that for Quote of the Week

UQD - It's more complex than that. Middle Management Martin could have an arty job. An artistc person might easily have a job that requires him to wear a suit.

I was on Watercolour Challenge actually.

I was using "suity" in the metonymic sense.

And it's Lucian Freud. Haven't you got your free Grauniad Style Guide?

Apologies for Lucian geffe.

I got a metonymic suit from Burtons. I'll never need a trouser press again.

UQD - We must already know that the objects are related, if the metonymy is to be understood. Metaphor creates the relation between its objects, while metonymy presupposes that relation.

MMM is the suit Teflon coated?

Yes. Apparently they use NASA technology. It's brilliant. I've just driven 400 miles to a conference in Ashby-de-la-Zouch and there's not a crease on it.

So is UnquietDead a popular beat combo (m'lud)?

And btw, can any one tell me why I shuddered when dd2 came home and said they had heard a Christian rock band at school today? I am a Christian, but find the idea of a religious denomination of rock band faintly nauseous. It is a girl band and they are going to talk to dd's R E class next week. How would you react?

Oh but have you got a crackling crotch, crease-free of course?