That's precisely what I mean, she implies, but if ever challenged she can say of course I meant I was training to apply I never said I was a fire fighter DID I!!
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I think you make this point really eloquently. Many people would (boringly) describe me as posh and I have had many many opportunities that my relative privilege has afforded me, and I’m exceptionally lucky and grateful for all of them. I’ve also had some struggles with mental health and I have found anxiety/depression has stopped me reaching out to my very kind parents for help, and for a time I was in a privileged but very difficult situation financially. An ex once referenced the Pulp song “If you called your dad, he could stop this all”.
Jack can get in the ducking sea but I agree that not everyone can seek help when they’re in trouble. As you say though, I would never seek to tell others about my short period of problems and I certainly wouldn’t consider myself a spokesperson for anyone else. But maybe that’s because I’m not a massive narcissist lying cockwomble - just saying.
When I was 15 I was called a beached whale when I was a mere size 12.
Reader, I married him. Thankfully I saw senses a mere 15 years later! I wish I’d had the hindsight to kick him in the shins rather than say I do
i don’t know but I feel like there’s an element in them that can be fixed. Have a look for a local fixing person first could be a cheap fix
Doesn't matter how many cats she's got
She's still, she's still Jackie from the block.
I like how we're calling her Jackie now. That won't annoy her at all 
I don’t know whether it’s the reference to sausages or the fact that someone else finds Kevin Bridges attractive but this is actually the funniest thread since I joined these boards.
Just to say. For all the people who made folks feel bad at school. Shame on them. I was bullied at school for being a teachers daughter. For being posh which is ridiculous as I’m not. That makes me laugh so much. The last thing I have ever been in my entire life is posh. I was clever as well. Also targeted over that. I actually loved and hated school in equal measure. I did six years at high school so the pluses outweighed the minuses. My best pal at school who also played in the band was also bullied for the same reason. Posh. Which is mad. She lived 10 doors away from me on a council estate.
And for playing in the school band.
It’s amazing the reasons people pick on you.
Just to say. For all the people who made folks feel bad at school. Shame on them. I was bullied at school for being a teachers daughter. For being posh which is ridiculous as I’m not. That makes me laugh so much. The last thing I have ever been in my entire life is posh. I was clever as well. Also targeted over that. I actually loved and hated school in equal measure. I did six years at high school so the pluses outweighed the minuses. My best pal at school who also played in the band was also bullied for the same reason. Posh. Which is mad. She lived 10 doors away from me on a council estate.
And for playing in the school band.
It’s amazing the reasons people pick on you.
Same. I was the only child in my parents marriage, (my dad had my much older half brother in his previous) and it took them quite a while and a struggle to conceive me. My dad made no secret of the fact he wished I was a boy and my mum had post natal depression which then turned into a general disinterest/resentment so I was saddled with short hair (my dad refused to let me grow it as a child and right through my teens) and also a sense that the fact I'm a girl caused endless disappointment. My dad and I ended up being really close in adulthood ironically, but that feeling of being a disappointment has never really left me I don't think.I used to get that a lot. My mum and dad were planning on travelling after my sisters had left home. They are 15 and 16 years older than me. And then I came along. Add that in with the fact that my dad pinned his hopes on finally getting the son he wanted and then out popped another girl, I definitely felt like a disappointment at times when I was younger
I really have trouble when she takes such umbrage with being labelled as Middle Class - the lady doth protest too much, methinks
That pisstaking of being poor is absolutely what middleclass snobs do when their privilege is pointed out to them.
Because you don't bang out £6.95 on a jar of paste or £14.60 for 250g of sausage (Amazon) if you don't know whether you like them when you can't afford to get a new pair of shoes or a winter coat - but you do if it's just a quick 'I wonder what that's like?' in Waitrose whilst you're picking up a coffee to drink whilst your kid is at her ballet lesson.
I'd never tried an olive until I was 30. Because I couldn't afford to take the risk of not liking them. Artichokes (both types) took until I was 40. Not because I was fussy, but because I simply couldn't afford the risk.
So, in the language of my people, one I learned long before I extended my vocabulary through reading (and that changed my accent because I hadn't heard the words before, so had no reference other than what was said in books/dictionaries) - Why don't you just duck off, you po faced prick?
Because you don't bang out £6.95 on a jar of paste or £14.60 for 250g of sausage (Amazon) if you don't know whether you like them when you can't afford to get a new pair of shoes or a winter coat - but you do if it's just a quick 'I wonder what that's like?' in Waitrose whilst you're picking up a coffee to drink whilst your kid is at her ballet lesson.
I'd never tried an olive until I was 30. Because I couldn't afford to take the risk of not liking them. Artichokes (both types) took until I was 40. Not because I was fussy, but because I simply couldn't afford the risk.
So, in the language of my people, one I learned long before I extended my vocabulary through reading (and that changed my accent because I hadn't heard the words before, so had no reference other than what was said in books/dictionaries) - Why don't you just duck off, you po faced prick?
Babe, same! (Except the area was poor). It’s shocking that someone said that to you, like kids don’t have filters but surely they have some idea what sounds incredibly dickish?! These things stay with us longer than the speakers imagine
I remember sitting next to a boy in class, a wannabe edgy type. We had some banter back and forth until he called me the n word. Incredibly confused, and also ignorant myself, I retorted “but I’m not black!”. After arguing that I was, he held his arm against mine to show the contrast between our skin colours. Up to that point, I’d never properly realised how different I looked
In hindsight I should have told him to bog off as he had clearly never seen a black person before, which was for the best considering what he’d said
I was lucky though. The school was relatively small so everyone had to get along
I think it’s because much like everything she tries her hand in, she thinks she’s hilarious. Smug.
Babe, same other than I got into the grammar parents wanted but had places at a couple of private schools in South London lined up just in case (one was where my mum taught maths so dodged a bullet there). First husband came from Lewisham, picked up his accent a bit and even now I veer between Bianca from Eastenders and a BBC announcer from the 50s
She’s smeg smug.
@Silver Linings Thank you a million times for the spider warning. Even just reading your post made me feel a bit blegh, so I might’ve cried if I’d actually clicked 
I haaaate the little bastards.
@Harold I can’t imagine you with long ginger hair, as to me you either look like your profile pic or like Harold from Neighbours back in the day.
I haaaate the little bastards.@Harold I can’t imagine you with long ginger hair, as to me you either look like your profile pic or like Harold from Neighbours back in the day.
I’ve been looking at new ovens. Big range in price!
Now I remember why I never watched any of those live
. Does she even know there’s a camera there? And don’t even get me started on that gallop on....She’s a fanny!
It stays with you. I always knew I was unplanned, I always knew mum really didn't want me, so I turned to my nan who lived with us, I adored her. It was only years later that mum admitted trying to get rid of me my drinking gin in a scalding hot bath. It hurt, but it confirmed what I already felt.
She just is MC though, there’s no denying it.
I was bullied for being brown. But I’m still a white person, fancy that Jack!
Also for triangulation I have a fat face and am allergic to perfume
I was bullied for being brown. But I’m still a white person, fancy that Jack!
Also for triangulation I have a fat face and am allergic to perfume
I actually don't know the name in English! I started getting Brazilian blowdries about 10 years ago (back when it was a multi-day affair and you couldn't wash your hair or put it in a ponytail or behind your ears for 3 days), but the technology has been advancing a lot.
The one I get now is fairly quick and doesn't even make my eyes water from the fumes, which is quite something. It looks a little flat the first couple of days post-treatment, but not as bad as other treatments used to leave it, and it soon settles. I don't speak to my hairdresser in English though, so not sure what I'd ask for if I moved away...
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