No one has managed to get my kids to keep a hat on their head in any weather
My OH has a smaller car than me as he uses his just for going to and from work whereas I have to cart the kids, their friends and any visitors around. However, when choosing our cars we rejected Volkswagon because the salesperson (male) was determined he should have the bigger car and not me. But as they say, it is now the female that chooses the family car
Never heard of this rule and I have lived in France for 18 years, done at least 15 years of La Rentrée and activities and never had to give a certificate to my insurance. I do need an attestation for the amount I paid to give to my husband's company as they pay 20% of the price of adhesion. Usually you pay with three cheques that the association cashes over the year so you don't have to pay all at once.
I was '66 entry by sitting an extra exam after 'A' levels for Oxbridge entry, followed by a gruelling interview and various forms of medieval torture. We were less than any measurable percentage and today we are only just a readable percentage. Progress is hundredsfold but then 0 x 100 still equals...
I suppose I can explain the term POSH?
I am sure my erudite friend Brian knows very well, but I love finding origins of words, and this one is related to ocean liners, where the best cabins from the UK (Southampton mainly) were 'Port Out Starboard Home' which in pre air-conditioned days avoided the heat of the day on most runs. Needless to say an option only available to the very rich.
As an aside on my 30-day sea voyage to Australia as a ten-bob migrant, the cabin I shared with three others was all shiny metal with bolts all over the place, and below sea-level. We had straps to keep us in our metal cots, and every day they came and hosed the place out. Somehow seemed apposite to travel to Britain's largest open-air nick as it used to be? Posh it definitely wasn't.
Exalted educationally what what I really meant - although I do recall that all the junior managers in ICI all seem to come from Eton College (just down the road from Slough) or one of the main Universities. They all had the post accents.
Maybe I was just unlucky or it was company policy, I don't know, but in fairness they all seemed nice people to me, as long as I tugged my forelock (that was also permissible, or should that read 'obligatory', at the time).
Memory can be a dodgy thing but I seem to recollect that the major Universities only started to accept working class students around the early 1960's - would that be about right? Or was that the introduction of 'red brick' universities? Anyway it never involved any of us oiks.
We had to ask the bank if we could increase the amount on our debit card as we ordering items on line for our new gite.
One of my friends son had testicular cancer. He is a professionalolo player, but then none of his polo playing mates had it and they all wear the same tight polo whites.
Regulation issued by the police of Paris 17 november 1799 and still in force: women are not allowed to wear trousers. Execeptions can be granted on medical grounds.
Reference: Le Figaro article
Totally amazing, but then doctors were some of the largest consumers of tobacco and alcohol!
Oh I thought it was OK if you were over 21 and consenting?
If we are being homophonic about it, you could also be a super tanker!
who knows? I believe the condition affects one in three ( males not Gonads )
I wore loons too...never heard of a connection with testicular cancer though..... surely that would have been the same for all those hundreds of young pop singers and their painted on jeans!
LOL
@ Brion
Oddly, I worked on the Oxo account in my early days in advertising....Oxo-ni-on the best stock in the world.
soz didn't mean to jump on the gravy train here.
Oh dear, they have operations to reverse that now you know.
I think that France ensures citizens are treated like children by the state...so many rules and regs...like a clucking parent. I think the Banks could stretch their authority (they already stretch it way too far in my opinion) the rule would be that citizen would be prevented from making any unexpected purchases.... by ensuring everything outside of your allowed weekly spend of say 200 euros a week, has to be agreed by the bank first...not on the phone...but by making an appointment and going in to discuss your purchase and whether its sensible enough to be allowed. Its not a million miles from what our bank does anyway...was horrified when I heard that sometimes a purchase will not go through as youve exceeded your 'normal' spend, despite having funds in your account...outrageous!
Listen mate, after a few months at the aforementioned, an ex-Eton or somewhere like that chappie said of my room mate and myself that, to quote roughly to me "You chaps from London really do drop your 'aitches'" and my room mate from just on the edge of Birmingham "I didn't know that England had accents like that, I thought it was only colonials from Australia and places like that." My friend retorted something like, "But dahnt wooory, we both had baaaths befer we cime becaase we dident wunt to pooot wehrking classs germs on you posh peeeople" (can't write Brum...., so roughly along those lines). The posh bloke looked, gawped, turned on his heels and fled down the corridor. Think it might have been that he picked up 'working class' rather than understand the whole thing! Polluted for life...
......or, dare I say it? I am exonerated?