| Shall We Have a Bath. - 03.09.05 |
| submitter: | Kevin37uk |
| location: | Luton Road, Chatham, Kent, UK |
| The Bedbase was going to have a bath but the Duvet got there first. |
| category: | Seen Worse |
| comments: | 29 |
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| wim commented on 04.04.05 | | I don't mind my tooting horn, but perhaps my wife does, anyway it is not the sound that is important, it is the ... reluctance |
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| DVD Dan commented on 04.01.05 | | wim I was making a joke about you having gas (flatulence) on your street. BEANO is an enzyme you take when you eat gassy food like beans so you won't be tooting your horn all night. |
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| wim commented on 04.01.05 | | Yes Rebecca, SS does not even have to hunt, just pluck, don't cough too dry |
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| Rebecca commented on 04.01.05 | | I know it. |
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| Vogon3 commented on 04.01.05 | | SS getting quick though watch your back |
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| Rebecca commented on 04.01.05 | | I can easily find 18 mattresses on a good day. |
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| Vogon3 commented on 04.01.05 | | and back as leader |
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| Rebecca commented on 04.01.05 | | I should be walking all over the place by then! |
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| Vogon3 commented on 04.01.05 | | Summer soon |
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| Rebecca commented on 04.01.05 | | Me too! It's been raining a lot here so they're a little harder to find...well it's mostly because I can't walk much I suppose. |
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| Vogon3 commented on 04.01.05 | | good to hear it.. hope to see your matt count increase soon
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| Rebecca commented on 04.01.05 | | Well it's my knee really but thanks for asking. It's improving, I'm learning how to walk right again. |
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| Vogon3 commented on 04.01.05 | | Hows your foot Rebecca |
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| Rebecca commented on 04.01.05 | | That made me laugh so much I coughed for some stupid reason |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | Dan, explain, just spill it out |
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| DVD Dan commented on 03.31.05 | | They have a cure for that now, it's called BEANO. |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | We can only be agnostic in a religic reference |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | we have gas in our street since 2000 |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | We h |
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| Smart Set commented on 03.31.05 | | You're right, FOD. I'd forgotten that we used to call them Continental quilts.
You must have been way out in the sticks not to have got mains gas till '96. |
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| FOD40UK commented on 03.31.05 | | We just had lots n lots of blankets up 'ere in t'frozen north(mainly itchy gray ones that my dad had 'liberated' from the army in his national service days.Continental quilts (duvets) came much later, around 1980, along with colour TV, indoor toilet and lastly a telephone(tho' my mum didn't get central heating until '96 when we finally got mains gas) |
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| Kevin37uk commented on 03.31.05 | | Or should that be Euro-septics? |
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| Smart Set commented on 03.31.05 | | In the UK, people who are against the EU are often called "Euro-sceptics". |
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| Smart Set commented on 03.31.05 | | In winter we would use an eiderdown on top of the sheet, blanket(s) and bedspread, but it didn't have a removable, washable cover. The feathers came out at the corners and it gradually got thinner. I first encountered duvets while in a Swiss hotel on a family summer holiday in the late '60s. They seemed unbearably hot and impractical, as you are unable to regulate the temperature by throwing off a layer of bedding. When I was young, Europe was Europe and GB was GB. I'm ambivalent about being part of Europe, so I probably qualify as a Euro-agnostic, since "agnostic" can mean being non-commital about something. |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | we call it "donsdeken", in French "Eidredon", in German "Eiderdecke" The "Eider" part has to do with the species (or is it "kind" of duck that produces the feathers. So you are a non-european agnostic? I find it very difficult to explain the word "agnostic" to islanders, for some reason or other they cannot accept it. And I am not talking about British people , but also Icelandic |
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| Smart Set commented on 03.31.05 | | It's what you continentals put over you in bed to keep warm - a feather-filled eiderdown or quilt, but very thick and warm. I'm amazed that you don't know the word, as I thought it was a European invention. Duvets are now very popular here, but when I was younger it was sheets and blankets. |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | hey SS, can you tll me what it is, a Duvet? |
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| Smart Set commented on 03.31.05 | | And I bet it took ages in there, too. |
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| wim commented on 03.31.05 | | nice motorweather I imagine, but what is a Duvet? |
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