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To think that middle aged women are really a bit pointless?

849 replies

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 12:06

What is the point of them?

Really?

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Hullygully · 21/10/2011 22:55

I think the one with rocket ships and Lady Godiva was our Pag.

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rubyrubyruby · 21/10/2011 22:55

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adamschic · 21/10/2011 22:55

your not 'you'

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 22:56

Peter down the butchers? Just doesn't seem right.

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ColdSancerre · 21/10/2011 22:56

Pag = Killer Queen

Drinks Moët & Chandon etc

SuePurblybiltFromBitsofCorpses · 21/10/2011 22:57

acrobiotic aerobic class hmm
Actual Cats
Address Books
Alan Titchmarsh, Aled Jones, David Essex, Michael Ball and Pip Schofield
All Antique shops
All charity shops (no volunteers you see)
All things remotely to do with golfing
Alphabetised lists
Am dram
Antique Jugs
Any type of peering
apostrophes
Artic rolls and caramac
Babycham, advocat and Dubonnet
Baking lots of pies
Barging small children off the dancefloor while singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping while dancing
Battenburg and Madeira cake
Being concerned about it being The Done Thing
bingo
Birthday Books
Book clubs
Boots No 7
Branflakes
Buying Carnations because they last so well
Cardigans
Cat Ornaments
Cat tea cosies
chicken shaped things
Chiropody
Clapping hands while dancing
Cliff Richard!
Climbing trips
Clothes purchased from Woman's weekly or Telegraph
Coach tours
Coach tours
Coming up with list items which are too long
Complan
country living
Countryfile
Court shoes
Crocheted special list manager cardigans (unless they are for Hully)
Daily M*il
Daniel O'Donnel
Danish spectacles?
David Attenborough programmes
Days out riding rollercoasters with the kids
Doctors on ITV (poss itv altogether)
Dogs
Doing long distance walks.
Doing the above whilst still holding down a full time job
Drinking too much wine with your mates
Dying your grey hair blonde
ecco
Elaine Page
Exclamation marks
Festivals
Fitflops
Fitplops
Flipflops
Footglove shoes
Freddie Mercury's autograph on your bosom
Fun cat cartoons
Fun cat greeting cards
Garden centres
Gin and tonic, scotch on the rocks
Gold stickers with your name on
Golf clubs
Good Housekeeping
Hats on parcel shelves
Having a sustainable garden
High leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
Hillwalking
Holidays in Portugal and Madeira
Homemade birthday cards
Horses
Hot sex with boyfriend without the worry of pregnancy
Hurumphing
Immodium
Imperial Leather soap
J Campbell Kerr
John Barrowman
Judge Judy
kittens
Lakeland
Last night of the proms
Laughing too loud
Lipstick on teeth
List obsession
Lists
Missing The Point
Mumsnet
Musicals staged in local theatres both watching and performing in
Novels with sploshy watercolours on the front cover
Novelty egg cups
odd spec cases
Organiser handbags
parish mags
Past Times
Peachy's MIL
Peering over reading glasses
People who abdicate responsibility for their own lists
People who are unfettered by lists
People who can't spell 'Elaine Paige'
People who don't google J Campbell Kerr
People who don't know what Fitplops are
People who don't know who J Campbell Kerr is
People who know what fitplops are
People who play golf
People who skip
People who take threads like this seriously
People who would fuck the list
Peppermint tea
Per Una
petunias (nasty flowers)
Phillipa Gregory novels
pop socks
pot of tea and a pot of hot water for a top up
Proudnscary (again)
Proudnscary, Pagwatch and other people who don't know how to make lists properly
Quality Street
RHS and NT
Rovers, Volvos and Nissan Notes
Scholls
she
Silly questions
Singing in wavery voices at appropriate times
singing in wavery voicesat inappropriate times
Singing the wrong words while high leg kicking while whooping while clapping hands while dancing
Ski holidays
Slippers
Snorting
Strictly Come Dancing
Storing ONE spoonful of potatoes in tupperware for yer Dad's lunch tomorrow
Sucking
Suepurbly
Swapping winter and summer wardrobe (although that might be a UK thing)
Tapered slacks
Tea cosies
Teenaged children
The Archers (grudgingly)
the rspca
Things that are 'wipe clean'
Things that fold up to go in your handbag like plastic hats and reusable bags
tins of biscuits
tissues shoved up your sleeve
Triumph's bestselling bra: the 'Doreen'
Tutting
Using things up
Voluminous linen outfits
Wafting up voluminous linen skirt and flashing support garments (in beige)...
waitrose
Watching Eggheads
Waterfall cardigans
Weeing a bit on trampolines
Weeing a bit while laughing too loud
Werthers
Westlife
Whooping while clapping hands while dancing
WI
wicker baskets
Womans Own
woollen mill
Zumba

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 22:57

I like "seen you pics etc" it sounds really seedy.

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Pagwatch · 21/10/2011 22:57

Honestly? He was lovely. Really quiet. Just chatty and nice.

But gay.

I lived with friend for a few years but don't se her since she made massive pass at dh Shock

rycooler · 21/10/2011 22:57

I've got Rod Liddle as a Facebook friend - that's as good as it gets for me.

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 22:58

Oh well done 1st Class Asst Deputy List Manager.

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Hullygully · 21/10/2011 22:59

What I can't put together Paggy, is the two pictures I have of you.

  1. One of 11 children living on a farm not very happy with other girl's sandals from the jumble sale.
  1. This one.
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Maryz · 21/10/2011 22:59

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Hullygully · 21/10/2011 23:00

You are a chimera and a MA Woman of Mystery.

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SuePurblybiltFromBitsofCorpses · 21/10/2011 23:00

I do luff The List. I shall miss it when you've all trundled off to HRT island. Unless I am allowed to come too, cos I am MA in spirit and have been since my teenage years. I shall plead my case.

adamschic · 21/10/2011 23:00

Isn't Pags a bit of a babe or have I got her muddled up Grin

Hullygully · 21/10/2011 23:01

I must away. Another one for the list: Sensible Bedtimes.

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ColdSancerre · 21/10/2011 23:01

Was the bicycle song the one with vid of naked ladies on bikes?

SuePurblybiltFromBitsofCorpses · 21/10/2011 23:02

Pag must be either a babe or a man, to have tempted La Mercury.

Fraidylady · 21/10/2011 23:02

Fraidylady goes to cut her wrists in deference to hullygully.

Let it be on your conscience, hully.

Pagwatch · 21/10/2011 23:03

I am an enigma hully. It's true.

I moved to the big city London at 19. I went into the city which was almost entirely male back then and being a) 19 b) easily impressed and c) reasonably easy on the eye I proved very popular and got taken all over the place.

Maryz · 21/10/2011 23:03

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Pagwatch · 21/10/2011 23:04

I must away before dh leaves me.

Night all

mutha2two · 21/10/2011 23:05

I remember dancing to Shalamar in Legends and Stringfellows. Shall we add reminiscences aboiut the eighties to the list? Btw I occasionally see Adam Ant out and about these days and he's almost reverted to his prince charming gorge self of old

SuePurblybiltFromBitsofCorpses · 21/10/2011 23:05

Oh well done Lovely Mary. I am too tired to keep up.
Must Get On. Church Flowers and parish mag to do in the AM. Spit spot.

PrincessFiorimonde · 21/10/2011 23:06

Great thread. Am particularly fond of the outraged folk taking it literally.

I had a mailshot from Saga Holidays the other day. Does this mean I have bypassed middle age and am now Officially Old?