Do-gooding clique thread

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Thanks for the name dozie

I'm pretty sure you need a totally different wardrobe to be a master villain on a cruise ship.

I mean, I've heard, I don't know.

Oh heck I've already just purchased my cruise wear!

Ok so what kind of gear do you need to be master villain on a cruise?

Stain resistant

YY. And disposable.

He definately looks suspicious, in his tangerine jumper.....who wears a jumper and shorts anyway??

Hmm, have i spelt definitely wrong???

He looks like he has just thrown somebody over board!

Not the second time, Clash.

Who is he?

Lots of Aussies wear jumpers and shorts - some of them don't even own a long pair of trousers of any kind, I'm sure!

As a complete aside, the Orient Express used to go through my town station every now and then - it was wonderful to see it! Much better when it was the steam train and not the diesel though. I lived very close to the station, so would have time to whizz out when I heard the steam whistle and leg it round the corner to the level crossing just in time [saddo I am]

Yes I was bemused by the jumpers/shorts thing but just assumed everyone was more organised than me and carried zip on trouser legs

Steam trains are worth looking at. I travelled in a proper corridor compartment on a steam train last month - so elegant. We nearly got shunted to the depot though because DD was completely befuddled by the lean out window to open door concept. I was befuddled that she was befuddled. We all stood there, train started to move off

When I told her I used to commute into London Victoria on slam door trains, she looked at me as if realisation of my fossil status had finally dawned

Oh I'm a fossil too - I had to commute from Waterloo to London Bridge for a while (over 20y ago) and they still had the slam-door trains there too!

See my immediate reaction the was to say 'oh mine was not quite that long ago'. But it was

I have literally no idea how that is possible.

Ah well I got IDed for a bottle of Cava last week, bright side and all that

I know! How did those couple of decades just disappear?!

xpost - that's excellent!

I suppose we were doing stuff?

I read a theory that the way to slow the perception of time passing is to make significant changes regularly which breaks the time into chunks. So you're ahead of me with your hemisphere swapping stuff.

It was until I took my (prescription) sunglasses off to slot my driving licence back in its fiddly holder and the 18 yr old who had demanded it said "oh I can see your age now without those"

Little sod

How rude of him!

I know and in a really friendly conversational tone

Damn him and his youthful statements of "fact"! He probably never grew out of the small child habit of saying things as they see them without any thought as to how that might be perceived by the other person!

LIke my Ds1 at Christmas - "Mummy, are you having another baby? You look like you have one in your tummy"
No son, it's just chocolate. But thanks for that.

I hope (for his sake) he's not 23

Haha.

I have also reached the age where I'm really chuffed if I get ID'd - it doesn't happen much anymore, sadly.

The worse thing is when I'm going out with my DN who's 21 - she invariably gets ID'd and they're like - nope, you're OK. I wouldn't mind but I'm only six years older, so not quite geriatric yet.

Mind you, I didn't get ID'd much between the ages of 15 til 21. I don't know if they've only recently got much stricter or I just have a really really old face.

I got ID'd in Asda last year buying wine. It was one of the best days of my life. I'm not going to say how old I am but it's over 35

no, DS1 is 6! If he was 23 he'd have got a far more rough answer!

I used to get asked for ID quite regularly up until I was around 24/25 - but it can start to get a bit insulting. The worst one was when I was at work and some teacher came by - we had 2 children in from a local school on work experience - and the teacher came up and said "Are you F? (the girl pupil)" Taking the piss a little - I definitely didn't look 15! I was also a bit that they sent a teacher out who didn't even know the children on placement.