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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2017 23:20:51 GMT
Yes, I know, but the iconic packaging is the point, (it is an excercise in nostalgia, after all). I'm not even allowed to light one up on stage, the non-smoking laws are so strict. There's a complicated joke involving the song, "Ta Cigarette Après L'Amour" and the inability to light one up.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 14, 2017 23:50:28 GMT
I can't bear to look at those packages, and I've never smoked cigarettes (and a mere handful of shared joints - despite being in a very dope-positive milieu). Simply because of childhood trauma.
I never particularly thought of Gauloises or Gitanes as "feminine" brands.
Speaking of substance abuse, doesn't that guy Bannon look like a gutter drunk? Yes, I know other things can cause such a skin condition...
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Post by rikita on Feb 15, 2017 8:33:55 GMT
agnes does not yet seem to realize that the pictures are meant to be off-putting - she saw a pack of cigarettes without photo once and was quite disappointed it didn't have a picture ...
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 15, 2017 18:18:33 GMT
Mama's little scientist! LaGatta, re: yucky Bannon ~ a friend says its his hatefulness showing on the surface.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 21:15:40 GMT
I was rooting around in my closets today looking for travel clothing, and I discovered that I have not one mink coat but two of them and also a mink jacket, not to mention a stole. (My mother got into a weird period at the end of the 1960's when she had her new adoring husband who bought her absolutely anything that she had ever admired or desired.) I tell myself every year that I will take them to a consignment shop and accept whatever I can get (most people have said that you're lucky to get 100 euros for such an evil item these days). As awful as they are, there is no way that I can just throw them away, and I don't think they would be appropriate in the charity bins. The trouble is, I would have to remember to do something around September or October and I always forget. In March, it is much too late...
I have to admit that the fur feels really nice when I touch it. So sorry about the harmless little animals who were slaughtered for this. I don't think any of these items were worn more than about 5 times.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 11, 2017 21:35:14 GMT
Kerouac, I would think that in your neighborhood you could find a seamstress or tailor who could turn the stole into a pillow or bolster and the two coats into a great throw for the bed. It would be a lovely & even practical way to keep them My mother had a mink stole when I was a kid & I remember sneaking brushes with my face against it in church. Yes, soft!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2017 21:44:26 GMT
I held on to my mother's black mink coat in pristine condition for about two years here in NOLA. I did not have it properly stored in any kind of way and it was just a matter of time before it disintegrated.
So, I took it to a consignment shop in my neighborhood, the proprietress,( straight out of Tennessee Williams), Miss Kaye swooned over it and assured me she could easily get $2,500 for it so I said go for it. A couple of months later she phoned me to say she had indeed sold it and although her commission was way steep (50%), I didn't care because I knew she was cash strapped and was a fixture in this neighborhood.
We both did well.
Sadly, her shop closed down some months later as rents escalated. I miss her still
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Post by bjd on Mar 12, 2017 7:28:48 GMT
Kerouac, take them to a consignment shop in the 8th,16th or Neuilly. They will store them properly at least and probably sell them too. It would probably fund a few nights in a fancy hotel during your trip.
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Post by chexbres on Mar 12, 2017 8:23:55 GMT
kerouac - take them and the other items of value to "Ma Tante" and get them to give you a price. You won't come out ahead in a consignment shop.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 15:23:55 GMT
I don't know if they have charity shops there but you may want to donate them to a particular one. Maybe a charity that your mother would be supportive of.
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Post by Kimby on Mar 12, 2017 15:31:04 GMT
Try a donation to a theater company's costume department. Great Gatsby is making the rounds again...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 15:43:51 GMT
Try a donation to a theater company's costume department. Great Gatsby is making the rounds again... Great idea Kimby!!!
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Post by Kimby on Mar 12, 2017 17:22:06 GMT
That's where my prom dresses and bridesmaid dress ended up...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2017 18:05:28 GMT
That's where my prom dresses and bridesmaid dress ended up... Yeah, I know. Before offering them to me...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 25, 2017 13:07:02 GMT
Today my OH was up in the attic SORTING OUT because we have too much up there. He was throwing down old blankets, quilts, pillows, soft toys, rugs, books, clothes, games and boxes of nick-nacks noticeably domestic stuff or MY bits and bobs....he has old radios,record players etc up there too but they stayed put (for now)
So the local RSPCA animal shelter got all the bedding, towels and rugs...they use them in the cages. The charity shop has some of the teddy bears, clothing, books and games...and the little girls next door have had the nicer toys. I made him put some of the stuff back in the loft....I don't want to get rid of ALL my stuff!
We only got through about a third of what's up there! We even have two suitcases full of the letters that we wrote to each other when he worked away from home in the seventies and eighties...
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 25, 2017 15:08:19 GMT
Oh nice, Cheery! Not only did you makes some space, but others benefited. And that's a great reminder that animal shelters are always looking for bedding, etc.
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Post by spindrift1 on Aug 25, 2017 17:40:06 GMT
Is anybody admitting to owning their own fur coats? It used not to be considered 'wrong' way back in the seventies ! I remember buying a nice red fox jacket when I lived in Sydney. This was during 1971.
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Post by mich64 on Aug 25, 2017 19:45:20 GMT
I have never owned a fur coat but on my wedding day (1983) a friend lent me two. We were married in November (the first major snow storm of that year happened the day before our wedding, actually ended up being quite beautiful) but I had not thought of what I would wear over my dress to the church and over my going away dress at the reception. She had a beautiful 3/4 length silver fox that I wore over my shoulders in and out of the church and a white rabbit cape over the dress I changed into half way through the reception.
I seen a few fur coats last winter, I had not seen any for decades.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 26, 2017 12:41:09 GMT
In Paris, you still see fur coats on a few women going to private events, such as in big hotels. I don't think anybody dares to walk out on the street with them except for a few Middle Eastern dowagers who think it is 1960.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 26, 2017 13:03:57 GMT
My motherinlaw had a full length dark mink coat and a shorter silver mink stole. (Plus a little mink scarf with head, tail and feet.) She kept them in their condo in Wisconsin and dutifully paid the insurance rider of over $7,000 valuation. We could not give them away, much less sell them. Even theatre companies don't want them.
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Post by questa on Aug 26, 2017 13:37:35 GMT
In Oz rabbits have caused terrible destruction of the land since they were introduced by early colonists. When I was 14 and living on a farm I had a trap-line of 12 traps which I checked twice a day. After cleaning them, the skins were stretched over a V shaped wire and left on an ants' nest for final close-up cleaning. A chap would call in every few weeks and buy them...a shilling for summer coat and a shilling and sixpence for winter coat. ( 10 shillings=au $1) The skins were used to make the iconic Akubra hats.
later years I bought from an Op-shop a beautiful rabbit skin 3/4 length coat. This in the early days of PETA. I made up a round badge to wear on the lapel. It said, "the only good rabbit is a dead rabbit".
edited to correct...I have been reminded that my badge said "the only good bunny is a dead bunny"
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Post by spindrift1 on Aug 26, 2017 14:30:22 GMT
I've had several other fur coats in the way distant past but I wouldn't dream of wearing them now; although nothing compares to the warmth of fur in a freezing climate! I'm no longer a meat-eater either. My husband bought a farm when we married and the keeping of animals shocked me (apart from my hens - they had a good life).
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Post by lagatta on Aug 26, 2017 16:21:21 GMT
The only fur coat I ever had was rabbit. Warm, but not very long-lasting. People in the countryside and backwoods here snare them. They eat the meat and use the fur to LINE winter garments.
My mother had a beautiful black seal coat (no, not baby seal). They were affordable for war workers in Ottawa - probably the store had some kind of payment plan, because they didn't make much money, though it was steady work .. as long as the war lasted. It was bloody cold back then.
There is a lot of fur trim on Canada Goose and similar brand parkas now. I'd rather not have any, but it does provide extra warmth around the face.
It is a different matter for Northern Indigenous peoples, of course.
I've pretty much stopped eating red meat, though I'll eat most anything if invited by friends. However I find it difficult to be fully vegetarian. I am slowly adding more legumes to my diet, and seem to be tolerating them a bit better. They caused me acute digestive distress, and I don't mean just burping and tooting. What do you do for protein, spindrift?
I do eat poultry and fish, and always use the poultry carcass for soup. But fish are getting... overfished, and clobbered by plastic and other pollution.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Aug 26, 2017 18:24:40 GMT
I had a moth eaten fur jacket, I think that one of my sisters gave it to me. Mid thigh length with pockets...it was tan coloured and I have no idea what sort of animal it came from. I wore it at a time when we were skint (skintier than the skintest skintee on the planet Skinto)in the early years of our marriage. It was beautiful but I was glad to pass it on when we could afford a nice inexpensive kagool.
Our son is a vegetarian and has been for about 18 months. I often cook vegetarian meals but I still eat meat and poultry 2-3 times a week, Im allergic to shellfish and only eat fish occasionally...usually shark, snapper, grouper or cod. Son eats red kidney beans, lentils and products containing quorn, cheese and soya for his protein.
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2017 7:27:22 GMT
Recently I found two old bed pillows stored in a corner of the closet, where they had been for at least 15 years. What was I thinking? That there might be a pillow emergency some day and that they might come in handy? Obviously these pillows had more than done their time and I wouldn't have wanted to put my head on one of them again, even protected by a pillowcase. Why on earth do we hang on to totally useless things?
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Post by bjd on Aug 27, 2017 11:35:05 GMT
ça peut toujours servir?
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 27, 2017 11:48:42 GMT
Maybe as a dog bed.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 27, 2017 12:58:03 GMT
That means you'll have to get a dog. I couldn't see you posting them to Bixa's three in Oaxaca. Morever you'd have to buy a third one. And which puppy gets the clean, new one?
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Post by spindrift1 on Aug 28, 2017 17:16:26 GMT
Soon I'll have to face the task of emptying my bedroom cupboards and choosing what to keep and what to give away. I'm ashamed to say that these cupboards are stuffed full and I wonder why I sometimes chose to buy different colours of the same item. My daughter has the bright idea of introducing me to one of her friends (who has time and energy) who likes to sell at car boot sales. Whatever isn't sold is given to charity. I think this is an excellent idea and I'll be forced into clearing my shelves.
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Post by lagatta on Aug 28, 2017 22:50:52 GMT
I have to keep divesting myself of clothing, books and other things. My bedroom and hall cupboards aren't overstuffed though. I do deliberately buy different colours of the same item because I like the fit and the neck opening - I can't stand high necks, and also avoid plunging necklines, and I want clothing to be fairly plain. Though not quite as much in uniform as Jane Birkin.
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