January 2011
Help.
I don’t even know what I’m doing any more. I must’ve taken nearly fifty paracaetamol in a week and haven’t slept at all since 7AM on Sunday morning.
Spell your full name without an...
imjustaromantic:
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theslytherinchiefette:
pottermalfoywank:
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doitdraco:
jacki3burkhart:
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“Flamerinoes - four! Sizzle sizzle wonk!”
– Mick Mannock, V.C, D.S.O and Two Bars, MC and Bar, on entering the mess, after shooting down four German aircraft in one day.
“These are desperate times, Mrs Lovett…
And desperate times call for...”
– Sweeney Todd
I believe the phrase is...
YES! WAHOO! ZING!
… and other such celebratory phrases. The wool-blend that Magnoli Tailors offers is primarily wool anyway, mixed with cashmere and only a tiny bit of terylene. That means I can get an amazing pair of Oxford Bags made for around £90, at most. SUCCESS. Here I come, trousers just as wide at the shoe as they are at my waist.
To my Dear Friend,
I regret being a complete...
Sorry, Andy, but...
I’ve not done the homework you set me. I don’t have an excuse. I also have no inclination to care. As much as I love French as a language, I have no passion for it as a subject whatsoever.
Seeing as my mum’s away tonight, it looks like it’s time for an irresponsible all-nighter. Coffee, tea and God-only-knows what else, here I come!
One day...
I will be a teacher in an Indian international school. My uncle lived there for many years and had a full complement of servants and a large house. He’s also a mad alcoholic, but hey, you can’t have everything in life.
I'm growing more and more disaffected...
with my studies on English law. It’s too soft, too sympathetic, too utterly pathetic.
Aber ja, natürlich Hans nass ist, er steht unter...
Oh no -
I feel ill. That’s never ever a good sign, as I so rarely get ill that anything I do get is, for some reason, utterly utterly awful. It feels like flu.
In the 1930s...
a packet of five Woodbine cigarettes cost 2d, the equivalent of 42p today. I could punch the NHS at times like these. But they also help lots of people, so I suppose it’s fair.
I can’t wait to go to Belgium - proper prices for tobacco, please, Europe.
This is London calling; the vintage bulletin for...
One Edwardian to 1930s gentleman’s walking cane in good condition, £10.
There is no other news tonight.
skardebourg replied to your quote: Is there any knowledge in the world which is so…
Is this aimed at me by any chance? xD
Not directly, my dear Anna! I need to take the book in tomorrow to show my teacher as she loves Bertrand Russell but opened up the first page and *BANG* there was Bertrand Russell saying it best. So perhaps indirectly! :P
“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man...”
– Bertrand Russell, saying it best.
I've just spent a large amount of money...
on some shirts from Germany. They’re modern shirts but are peculiar in their style details - namely, the perfect spear-point collars. I’ll pay tomorrow and Lawd knows when they’ll arrive, but I love them already. I have nowhere near enough point collar shirts.
Nowhere near.
I am honestly terrified...
by what I’ve got to shave with at the moment. Some 14p single blade ‘safety’ razors. One had a disagreement with my chin last week and it’s still not healed properly.
I really need to get a decent vintage razor using double-edged blades.
skardebourg replied to your photo: These are amazing shoes - I want all of them,…
But they’re “husky” and “sporty”. Sounds like Kate Mulgrew playing tennis.
If there are two qualities I do not possess they are huskiness and sportiness.
I turned eighteen yesterday!
WAHOOO!
*ahem*
And now that that silliness is over - I feel remarkably good about it all, although I do wish I would be ID’d by shopkeepers. It’s so irritating - I just want to be able to prove I’m eighteen to them. Amusingly, most’ve been serving me alcohol and cigarettes for the last six or seven months.
It was an amazing birthday weekend - I spent two days eating...
Yesterday...
I bought five classic films, at £1 a piece. I feel happy about this.
And so I’ll put them in a list:
His Girl Friday
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Eternally Yours
Steamboat Bill Jr (Buster Keaton has an odd face.)
Blood on the Sun.
I love pound shops that do random deals on classic films. I watched most of Eternally Yours last night, forfeiting sleep before an exam - it was...
skardebourg replied to your post: skardebourg replied to your post: Where were you…
Yep. Well, une éolienne is a wind turbine. Trivia: Aeolus was the Greek god of the wind. The root is also used in music a lot :)
Protip: Trivia is amazing. Keep it coming at random and possibly even unnecessary moments. Everybody loves classical languages and their references.
skardebourg replied to your post: Where were you today? You missed a lovely chat with Veronique. About electric cars and wind power. Oh yes.
I’d just read yout post about it too. Silly me. I chuckled because she was going on about how difficult éolienne is to say… my WoW hunter is called Aolias. SAME INITIAL PRONUNCIATION, BITCH. This has been a reply.
What on Earth does that mean? Is it wind...
subunit asked: Where were you today? You missed a lovely chat with Veronique. About electric cars and wind power. Oh yes.
subunit asked: Where were you today? You missed a lovely chat with Veronique. About electric cars and wind power. Oh yes.
I love it when life goes like this.
I take a day off college to combine teaching with re-enacting/living history, helping to start off a primary school’s WW2 topic.
I then meet one of the teachers, who lives in my village and who has seen me around who says he has some of his grandad’s 1930s two-tone shoes in his classroom. I say things along the lines of ‘Oh, that’s interesting, very nice!’ and then...
itsdelovely:
i’m such a jealous person, its awful
Anonymous asked: I'm in a bitchy mood. And you're excellent at making rants about people you don't like.
SO- Your opinion on Queen Bee. Brutally honest. I expect at least a decent paragraph. I know you like your essays.
:)
SO- Your opinion on Queen Bee. Brutally honest. I expect at least a decent paragraph. I know you like your essays.
:)
Cambridge have rejected my application.
*Sadface*
Anonymous asked: I'm in a bitchy mood. And you're excellent at making rants about people you don't like.
SO- Your opinion on Queen Bee. Brutally honest. I expect at least a decent paragraph. I know you like your essays.
:)
SO- Your opinion on Queen Bee. Brutally honest. I expect at least a decent paragraph. I know you like your essays.
:)
The Cambridge University letters have been sent...
I find out if I have my offer in a few days. I’m in a terrible panic over the whole thing.
I think I'm losing all sense of balance as I...
I’ve almost fallen down stairs four times today.
skardebourg replied to your photo: Here we have teenage fashions of the 1930s - dated…
Those drawings are ridiculously proportioned xD Look at the femur length of them, especially the girl on the far left! Hehehe.
I think it’s possibly meant to be like that - it’s the effect the clothes designers are going for. Long legs are the order of the day on both men and women it seems,...
skardebourg replied to your photo: Sadly the picture isn’t excellent, but here we…
Chamois is either from the European mountain goat or from the lower layer of sheepskin. The two terms mentioned are interchangable if the Chamois is from the goat.
As ever, the amazing Anna anoints all avec anformation. Oh God - I stretched alliteration way too far there.
After the run away success of that last post...
I think I should post more ladies’ fashion.
Today, I feel the saddest I've felt in a long...
Why? Because for two hours today it felt like being in an ‘ordinary’ family, for what that means.
I’ve been staying at my dad’s for four days over the New Year, with cigars, whisky and old war films. Fine, all fine. Absolutely tip-top.
Today we came home and my dad had to stay to help fix my mum’s laptop and to sort it out with the printers or some such. Because my...