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15th February 2019, 04:48 AM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
#9... Even worse to have black hair on the palms of your hand Rob. Especially after washing your head hair if. You have any , must think even that’s deserting you. Cheers JS
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15th February 2019, 05:39 AM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
#9... Even worse to have black hair on the palms of your hand Rob. Especially after washing your head hair if. You have any , must think even that’s deserting you. Cheers JS
No John, hairs on the palm of your hands, black or otherwise, is what your mother told you would happen if you did not stop it.
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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15th February 2019, 07:27 AM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
My Dad also told be to beware of strange women as well. Plenty of them today but hard to tell what sex they are. As regards hands as descriptive of a person, used to like that one ... he had hands like shovels. Or ... Every finger a marlin spike. There was always fingers missing on the old sailormen lost mainly disappearing in the sheave of a block. Some had to use two hands when gesturing to the barmaid for the numbers in a round. In another post someone on here knew a bloke I knew very well he sailed with him on Runciman Shipping , I sailed with him in Moor line when he was mate, going into one of the. Bristol Channel ports in the locks he lost the tip off his thumb, the old man one of Cappys favourites phoned me down aft to go and find it on the focsle . Some basket had kicked it over the side. Saw him six months later in Liverpool after coming out of cinema to see the film of the first release of Dr. No. a bellow from the other side of the road and this figure holding in the air the remnants of a thumb, shouting it’s growing again. Don’t know what passers by thought who cared. Maybe the wife did, must have thought I was showing her up again. Cheers JS
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15th February 2019, 12:58 PM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
[QUOTE=robpage;327696]
Originally Posted by
Keith at Tregenna
The thread title say's much:
Being confused is the start.
Always told early on black
hair on the back of your
hands was a first sign.
Thank you for the information Keith I never knew men with hairy hands with a sign of them being a transvestite I've never looked for it but I shall be weary now I have that advice
Uncertain as to the fascination with transvestites, not a term I use, the people I have known were just called Bob / Sue etc. Looking for hairs was an old wives tale regarding confusion / madness.
K.
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15th February 2019, 02:19 PM
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15th February 2019, 02:43 PM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
Again more confusion as I believed finding hairs on the palms of the hands
was more about spotting a werewolf, but nothing a little regular waxing
can’t hide.
K.
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15th February 2019, 03:08 PM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
Well has Mr Miyagi said wax on wax off
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 )
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15th February 2019, 08:31 PM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
On the Jeremy Vine show this morning one of the panel suggested and was accepted by all panel members that Birth Certificates should be changed.
Current Birth Certificates show the names of the Mothers and Fathers, the proposal was that certificates should now be Parent ! and Parent 2.
How long before this becomes standard?
Vic
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15th February 2019, 09:26 PM
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It is yet again a damned good example of the Noisy minority wings Over the silent majority
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 )
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16th February 2019, 12:09 AM
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Re: OK so now I'm confused
Problem with that is, who is parent one and who is parent two, and what if there had been a threesome, or a gay circle, the mind boggles as to what could come out in the future.
Des
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