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Original poster

to think using FRENCH bags for life is poncery?

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:06

in the Uk natch.

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cumbria81 · 10/12/2009 14:06

I have a french bag for life . but I used to live there and brought it with me. is that ok?

itsmeolord · 10/12/2009 14:07

Yes. Poncery. Much like those people I see on the tube with their "Big Brown Bag" or "little Brown Bag" etc etc.

Berrie · 10/12/2009 14:08

I've got one that we got while camping in France. A bag is a bag! Snigger!

thelunar66 · 10/12/2009 14:09

Oh yes.. totally poncery... but I'd do it anyway (if I actually had a french bag)

ClaireDeLoon · 10/12/2009 14:09

I have a couple of french bags for life in the back of the car that have sat there since our holiday in Sept am a ponce obv

I don't use them much though as I get shopping delivered. So I'm an occasional ponce.

MrsBadger · 10/12/2009 14:09

oh yes absolutely, we should bin all those ones we had to buy in Fr and buy brand new waitrose ones

er no

AboardtheAxiom · 10/12/2009 14:10

this thread title made me chuckle

It is a bit 'look at me' isn't it.

ClaireDeLoon · 10/12/2009 14:10

lunar66 would you like me to send you one of mine?

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:10

its very county imo
just saw someoen in waitrose and i htough oh fgs

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thelunar66 · 10/12/2009 14:11

You know what Claire? I'm almost tempted by your offer.

SixtyFootDoll · 10/12/2009 14:11

I have two french bags for life
as I bought them on holiday to use there, and as they are 'bags for life' brought them back with me to use here.
I also have a Somerfield bag for life so that surelly cancels out any poncery from moi?!

GetOrfMoiLand · 10/12/2009 14:11

I want one.

What do French bags for life say?

Sac pour la vie?

Can't be doing with those bags for life anyway. My gran had one of those from British Home Stores in the 80s. Grim.

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:12

ffs, we have a cople with wellies in them though - not like this poncery

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ShutUpandDrinkYourMulledWine · 10/12/2009 14:12

i have one from when I lived there

but i am a well-known ponce in these parts

Berrie · 10/12/2009 14:12

Mmmm, need a bag...Tesco?...Asda? No I must search for the French one so that everyone will look at me.

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:12

my mum hasa british museum bag for life

very U3a

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GetOrfMoiLand · 10/12/2009 14:13

Oh it would be in Waitrose.

I love Waitrose. I saw a toothsome pair of women in jodphurs in there on Saturday debating between krug and Dom Perignon.

Jodphur wearers in Waitrose in Cheltenham. How much more middle class smug can you get?

HugeBaublesWhatDidISayRoy · 10/12/2009 14:14

am clearly a ponce. All my bags for life are from france. Got them on hols and use them for the supermarche here

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 10/12/2009 14:15

I have a French bag for life. I love poncing around Waitrose with it.

Its a Sherpa bag and says something about "Les montagnes".

Actually its in English one side and French the other so does that make me only haLf a poce. I do always make sure the French side is on display though so everyone notices it and thinks wow!

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SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:15

PONCE

i bought some savrain with mango on it or somesuch ( for drinky nibbles) and they had champagne on sample

and everyone wore natural fibres

tres bien

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GetOrfMoiLand · 10/12/2009 14:16

It is like ladies of a certain age carrying putting their St Michael purchases into a bottle green Harrods bag for life.

Or, younger women who carry those Big Brown Bag bloomingdales bags. Ooh look at me I have been to New York and am a sophisticate (no you're not, you're carrying your sandwiches in a beige oilcloth bag in Bristol, Carrie Bradshaw you aint).

MrsBadger · 10/12/2009 14:16

ok ebay one v poncey

ours our manky plastic ones from Leclerc or similar, nowhere near as poncey as the Waitrose sustainable-hessian sort

Original poster
SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:16

tell em
what is wrong with a marks turtle bag?

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Original poster
SCargot · 10/12/2009 14:17

et voila - knot it up and shove in your handbag

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NorbertDentressAngel · 10/12/2009 14:18

MIL has a few as they spend about 3 months of the year in France, Spain, Belgium.

Some of the bags are much nicer than ours though -colourful close-up photos of peppers etc rather than huge crap smug slogans about the fact you're doing your bit for the environment.