Les Parisiennes des Mamansnet: Ce n'est pas bon de faire du lèche-vitrines avec de l'argent en poche

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From my observation as a non Brit, it seems like there's a lot of rules, spoken and unspoken, in British society. It's not that Brits like a lot of rules but they do seem function to keep everyone in their place, and some seem to derive a perverse pleasure from enforcing them on others to point out how wrong they are. The colour rules enforcers do seem to be that.

There is a lot to colour theory but the easiest way to narrow it down, if it works in nature it's not a colour combination that will feel unharmonious to us and therefore should work regardless of 'rules'. There is some truth that certain man made colours don't always work well together, but in this day and age that's rarely ever the case any more. The nuance in undertones is more key to colour combinations than 'colour x and y' as they're not really singular colours. Undertones are becoming more and more sophisticated though, so even their importance and ability to 'read' them is fading.

The no blue and green edict was still around when I was a child but the only times I've heard it since have been on Style and Beauty. Make of that what you will.

Ah well, MN is a rather odd microcosm with a lot of rules being thrown around by posters (ironically the talk guidelines are very vague and succinct). I'm still recovering from the berating and judgement a poor OP on here got for admitting they held their knife like a pen because they were unable to otherwise.

I remember getting into a row on S&B once over whether the original saying was about blue and green or red and green.
In my defence, I was probably over-caffeined.

I think those colour rules are old, my grandmother used to say them. Blue and green - I could never work that out they look pretty harmonious together. I also remember lots of comments about colours clashing, like pink and red, orange and pink or red etc. that I would just think are on similar places on the colour wheel. bo is right that colours are much better now, so maybe the older, bright man made colours just looked too garish together. I can also remember some other "rules" that would be considered very inappropriate now "only gypsies wear earrings" and "it's common to wear no tights with shoes", tbh they were pretty shocking when I was a child in the 70s!

flo, I think I remember that thread.

It got very heated as I recall

There was a similar one about whether the root of 'Primarni' was Marni or Armani. Happy days.

I remember that one too .

Which side were you on?

I remember being on a room 101 S&B thread that was all light hearted, condemning Crocs, Uggs, and sundry until a whole group of posters suddenly felt personally attacked and it turned mental. See also; posters who spot a bare legged Royal flitting about, you'd think they're committing treason with the reaction that elicits.

At the risk of reviving a Armani/Marni fight, surely it's Armani, Marni is such a niche brand that isn't well known enough with the masses and weren't the men's suits supposed to be really great at Primark? Meanwhile, since it's called Penneys in Ireland (which I find a much better name) I always assumed it was American and part of JC Penney's which it's not...

I was team Marni It was first coined - OK I'll amend that, I first heard it coined - when Marni was hot and chasing the young fashionista market while Armani was mainly associated with well cut chinos and polo shirts. I think it was a specific Marni collection that they (Primark) were said to have knocked off.

I spend way too much time on here, don't I?

There's worse places to waste time on the internet, Flo

I know but I could be out there instead, changing lives, working for world peace.
Although I'd probably only get into a row if I did

World peace pffft, you'll just end up pissing someone off and they'll just continually piss on your chips. Is soggy chips worth world peace? Changing lives is overrated, everyone is resistant to change anyhow, they all revert back, disappointingly. (Now I don't mean you lovely posters who have professed their lives have been changed by this thread, you lovely people have been changed forever).

Anyhow, speaking of worse places to waste time on, Urban Dictionary does seem to settle the Marni/Armani debate with some finality:

www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=primarni&amp=true

They're wrong.

Soz, there was meant to be a on the end!

There goes your nomination for Middle East envoy Flo on the up side, no soggy chips.

Can you imagine what I'd have been like if I'd ever got the hang of religion?

Same, very happy to have been raised atheist as I'd be a menace otherwise. I always warn, never give me too much power, you will deeply regret it

I don't think I joined in that one, though, flo, I just read and ran .

We were raised pretty much heathens too, not christened, not church goers though school in the 70s was very Christian with Bible stories and hymns. Didn't do me any good, though . Those kind of religious arguments just remind me of Life of Brian with those who follow the gourd and those who follow the sandal.

Mostly, s&b is pretty good but occasionally it can get nasty. There was a similar 101 thread for property/DIY with people getting upset because things they like were being derided. It would be very boring if we all liked the same thing.

I think there are people who use religion to make sense of life and for whom it is a positive force and, in some ways, I envy them that. And then there are those whom religion turns into monsters. I think I would probably be in the second category.

And now I've blown my chances of ever being nominated as a peace keeping envoy, I had better go and do some work.

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What can I say, this thread is like buses ... oh another English saying

About religion, the thing that did it for me was when I started asking ‘difficult’ questions to my catholic priest , I was 13. Instead of answers I got sent to pray for forgiveness for having such thoughts (how can a virgin give birth? What came first dinosaurs or Adam and Eve? Etc etc)... 100s of prayers ...
so I decided from that time on that I would stop following religion to the absolute shock and horror of my relatives, friends and neighbours

I love Cranmer's liturgy, the buildings and the sung services, but I don't believe a word of what they are saying. I tried very hard, and have known and held in high personal regard a handful of churchmen as people. The rest, not so much.

We prepped early, so have the basics to quarantine us three and XingDog if necessary. It helps that a lot of our fresh produce, including eggs, is bought from the farm gate and the farm shop. There's not a lot of new fresh green leafy stuff yet, and the root veg are starting to tax my culinary ingenuity. I like leeks, but not every day!

I do love a lot of the hymns and carols, but I think that's because the music is often beautiful and it is heavily sprinkled with nostalgia for me. I appreciate that religion gives meaning and solace to some, but while it is interesting what others believe, it's not for me.

bo.

I am a lurker but am delurking just for this - I thought with the fashion advice discussion, you all might appreciate my grandmother's fashion advice (I may not have the phrasing exactly right as I always ignored it )

Do not show your décolletage after 30 years of age or before 8pm

If only she could see me now