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style/image v substance ... what do you think ?

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:36:29 GMT

if it were a bald either or thing then without doubt I'd go with substance ..... = ..... absolutely

:womanvery-happy:

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:42:56 GMT

Always substance, without doubt. Having said that, I can't deny I'm a touch vain too. Only a bit, not in an annoying or disturbing way - if you could see the state of my hair right now (appointment with the hairdresser heavily overdue) you'd agree

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:47:00 GMT

Hi there @Anonymous It certainly seems that in the modern world image is everything - and TV and the visual media have an incredible influence on all our live whether we beleive it or not. And image without substance is the foundation on which fashion is founded. But when shove come to push in the important areas of life unless you have substance you have nothing. Unless your brand new shiny mobile/tablet/laptop or whatever actually works reliably it does not matter how it is packaged. Though having said that I did once buy a car simply because I liked the rather upmarket upholstery (well I never did understand anything under the bonnet anyway).

Gerry

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:48:08 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
if you could see the state of my hair right now

Well -post us a selfie @Anonymous

Gerry

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:52:44 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Well -post us a selfie @Anonymous

Gerry

Oh, gosh, no way! It's bad enough going around with it, I'm not sharing it on the interweb!*

* I did say that I'm vain.

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 15:58:02 GMT

Ah @Anonymous - you disappoint me.

Don't know what that has to do with anything - but I thought it was funny.

Gerry

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Cleoriff — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:07:22 GMT

I would have to say substance, though I am also a fan of style and image. Not stupid styles and trends though.

I like individual styles and admire people who have the courage (or brass neck) to stand out in a crowd, confident that their image suits them.

In my 'youth' I liked to set my own trends and style, purely because 75% of my life was spent conforming to

a strict dress code in my nursing uniform

Off duty was the time to change all that....and I did it with a vengeance

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:12:58 GMT

Life's too short IMO to be guided by either.

By the time one stands back and takes a breath thinking why am I bothered about how someone percieves me on sight, ones life could be close to over.

Happy days.

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Cleoriff — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 16:32:27 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Life's too short IMO to be guided by either.

By the time one stands back and takes a breath thinking why am I bothered about how someone percieves me on sight, ones life could be close to over.

Happy days.

I have no intention of being 'bothered' about how anyone perceives me on sight. Its how I perceive myself that is the issue.

I think Wispa was just asking which of those we would choose...

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:25:17 GMT

Many of us say, and I am sure we believe it, that we don't much care how others perceive us but in practice that is not true. There are many professions where appearance is quite rightly important if for no other reason than to give customers, patients, those in need of rescue etc confidence. And I don't know anyone who would be deliberately careless of their appearance if going for a job interview or (select few) going to meet HMQ to receive Knighthood or other honour.

Gerry

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Cleoriff — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:59:12 GMT

I would have to agree with that @Anonymous I think I was trying to explain how I was a person of two images

'back in the day'

The nursing uniform did away with any type of undividuality....therefore it was probably par for the course that when I was off duty I would style myself completely differently.

(I have met many ex patients when off duty, who have said 'Blimey, I didn't recognise you out of uniform'.)..

Good job... I thought ...as I knocked back my 3rd pint of the night

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:12:11 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Ah @Anonymous - you disappoint me.

Don't know what that has to do with anything - but I thought it was funny.

Gerry

I thought it was funny too @Anonymous ..... & their style is Edwardian ..... & even better the sweet little old lady in purple has a white, long-haired cat sitting on her lap ..... = ..... with a pretty pink bow in its fur

* Proud to be a Crazy Cat Lady on O2C *

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Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:44:21 GMT

You are very observant @Anonymous I was so engrossed in the text I never noticed the cat or your favourite purple.

Gerry

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Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:59:43 GMT

na then @Anonymous oh Gerry

lst my favourite colour isn't purple

2nd my favourite colour is scarlet red

3rd I do know someone whose favourite colours are purple & red here on O2C

4th has the proverbial penny dropped yet my 'friend' ?

btw I said Edwardian going off the style of the dresses which is known as Empire Line ..... = ..... very flattering to us girls with an ample bosom, but not so hot in the waistline department ..... so ..... Edwardian is incorrect ?!

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Cleoriff — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:10:05 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
na then @Anonymous oh Gerry
lst my favourite colour isn't purple
2nd my favourite colour is scarlet red
3rd I do know someone whose favourite colours are purple & red here on O2C
4th has the proverbial penny dropped yet my 'friend' ?

Now then @Anonymous to save @Anonymous racking his brain, Let's tell him who it is
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Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:37:22 GMT

Good Morning @Anonymous ..... = ..... you're an eejit !:smileywink:

do you, like me suffer with short term retentive memory problems ?

betcha your favourite colour is Emerald Green ..... = ..... boring !

tease over ..... (for the moment anyway)

A: you've mixed up you're 2 favourite girls here on O2C

congrats on your O2CJune Reward ..... = ..... well deserved as your mates here have said ..... = ..... imho you're a good all-rounder

offski now to get 2 Frenchsticks & other French goodies from early morning bakery on way to an official appointment ..... 'cos its going to be busy in the town in which I live due to le grand depart of the tour de France coming through it tomorrow

* don't hide your light under a bushel *

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Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:08:03 GMT

And good mornin' to your good self @Anonymous
Congratulations! I tested your powers of observation and you passed. Of course I knew your favourite colour wasn't purple.( That is my story and I am sticking to it.)
You are of course right. I am an eejit but my fav colour is not emerald. I think you may have been stereotyping me. I am not Irish - but you were not to know that.

Enjoy your day and be careful you do not get knocked down by a bicycle.
Hope Marty is recovering satisfactorily.

Gerry

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Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:18:24 GMT

moocho apologies for stereotyping you as Irish :womanembarrassed:

I don't like being stereotyped myself

what's your style eg of dress ?

thank you for enquiring about my cat Marty's health ..... = ..... he is not limping anymore = whoopie-do :womanvery-happy: ..... & ..... like all the cats I've had he has slept himself better as-it-were ..... re..... lump under tongue that's to be decided upon, by me mainly ..... imho ..... 4 weeks before checking on said lump again ..... = ..... growing at the rate it is, it will be marble sized by the time vet wants me to take him in again for a check-up :womanfrustrated:

* do what makes you happy *

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Anonymous — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:19:26 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
moocho apologies for stereotyping you as Irish :womanembarrassed:
      Not a problem at all.
what's your style eg of dress ?
    Now that is a very difficult one. I suppose "casual going on shabby" with a touch of "pulledthrough a hedge backwards" would get close.
thank you for enquiring about my cat Marty's health ..... = ..... he is not limping anymore
   Delighted to hear there is some improvement. Cats do seem to have a great capacity for self-healing.

Have a pleasant weekend!

GERRY

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jonsie — Fri, 04 Jul 2014 14:56:17 GMT

....and speaking of beloved pets @Cleoriff any news on your missing cat?