Today I'm angry about.....

[thebish]

Pissed off, really.

... at me, M&S, designers, me,

I bought a jumper yesterday. In the sale, still £35. From the M&S Italian 'Collezione' range. In cotton & cashmere. Navy blue base, with a red overlay .... just very nice and feels like the sort of thing you could just stroke forever.

Get it home, take a proper look and it has PATCHES on the elbows. Big, long oval shaped, unmistakable, blue patches. In fact they aren't even fckg patches ... they are just an area around the elbow where the red overlay ceases and so it's all navy blue at that point. A FALSE patch !!

Why would anyone do that ??

Really !! Why ??

Why did I not notice ?

Why was I not mugged and have it stolen from me ?


Well, THAT's going back.

[Dujon]

Aye Dujon. Both p-n-p and n-p-n are transistor configurations. I could only imagine he was on about two positive channels and a negative channel which requires an extra push to allow electron flow, so greater effort perhaps. Apart from that I reckon the bloke was a twot of the highest order.

G'day, GD, it's good to see you're still around the site.
Yes, a pillock with dishonour and bar. If that was his meaning then it's a pretty obscure reference when directed to a group of business men who, in all probability, wouldn't have had a clue as to his techno-babble. Any way I won't bang on about it. I had enough of it myself when I was in the finance industry.

LLS has my sympathy for having to sit through such rubbish.

[Dujon]

I can't see a problem with patches per se, bobo. Faux patches though are different. Many years ago my wife knitted a lovely woollen jumper (actually it was a cardigan) for me. Like any bespoke piece of apparel it fitted perfectly and was as comfortable as one could hope. I wore it for a season or two and then realised that the elbows were wearing a bit. I liked that jumper so I asked her if she could sew a leather patch on each elbow. She was a bit dubious to start with but finally agreed. I have no idea as to the leather she used - it could have been beef, venison, lamb or pork for all I know - and they turned out a treat. I wore that cardigan for about three decades. It did eventually wear out, but not at the elbows.

Proper elbow patches are practical. They do not detract from the appearance of the garment. They are good things to have.

All in favour say 'Aye'.

[bobo the clown]

They are very 'geography teacher' over here Dujon. ... & though I have a good sense of direction I'm not a geography teacher. All those correys, the skree and rainfall levels.

But worse still ... they are bogus. Not even real.

Unbelievable.

[Lord Kangana]

I have patches on my M&S sweaters Bobo. And I'm proud of them. Us middle class have got to stick together, otherwise what the bloody hell will become of this country? Doesn't bare (bear?) thinking about.

[bobo the clown]

Get thee behind me Satan.

(are they REAL patches ... and were they there at the moment of purchase ?)

[Montreal Wanderer]

I have patches on my M&S sweaters Bobo. And I'm proud of them. Us middle class have got to stick together, otherwise what the bloody hell will become of this country? Doesn't bare (bear?) thinking about.

Bear if you are thinking, bare if you have no sweaters or other clothes.

[Prufrock]

Put what about the right to bare arms?

[William the White]

They are very 'geography teacher' over here Dujon. ... & though I have a good sense of direction I'm not a geography teacher. All those correys, the skree and rainfall levels.

But worse still ... they are bogus. Not even real.

Unbelievable.

The teaching of geography is a noble calling. Even in these satnav days.

[bobo the clown]

They are very 'geography teacher' over here Dujon. ... & though I have a good sense of direction I'm not a geography teacher. All those correys, the skree and rainfall levels.

But worse still ... they are bogus. Not even real.

Unbelievable.

The teaching of geography is a noble calling. Even in these satnav days.

I inferred nothing less ... simply that they have a penchant for elbow patches of the very worst kind.

Though in my day, admittedly some considerable time ago, their obsession with levels of rainfall in different "climes" made it a contradictorily dry subject.

[thebish]

ox-bow lakes... that's all i remember! oh - and "slash and burn"* agriculture! information that has always served me well..

*not to be confused with the symptoms of the clap...

[William the White]

They are very 'geography teacher' over here Dujon. ... & though I have a good sense of direction I'm not a geography teacher. All those correys, the skree and rainfall levels.

But worse still ... they are bogus. Not even real.

Unbelievable.

The teaching of geography is a noble calling. Even in these satnav days.

I inferred nothing less ... simply that they have a penchant for elbow patches of the very worst kind.

Though in my day, admittedly some considerable time ago, their obsession with levels of rainfall in different "climes" made it a contradictorily dry subject.

The volcano lessons were pretty hot though...

[Athers]

I used to love drawing the destructive plate boundaries or clouds and stuff. What let it down was the 'human geography' on things like the impact of building the Trafford Centre (can I do that in economics please?) or walking round a town colouring in what's a house and what's a shop.

[bobo the clown]

They are very 'geography teacher' over here Dujon. ... & though I have a good sense of direction I'm not a geography teacher. All those correys, the skree and rainfall levels.

But worse still ... they are bogus. Not even real.

Unbelievable.

The teaching of geography is a noble calling. Even in these satnav days.

I inferred nothing less ... simply that they have a penchant for elbow patches of the very worst kind.

Though in my day, admittedly some considerable time ago, their obsession with levels of rainfall in different "climes" made it a contradictorily dry subject.

The volcano lessons were pretty hot though...

They spouted a lot of hot air ... as they meandered along ...

[thebish]

i have also remembered going out on the street and counting how many cars drove past. ace!

[William the White]

I used to love drawing the destructive plate boundaries or clouds and stuff. What let it down was the 'human geography' on things like the impact of building the Trafford Centre (can I do that in economics please?) or walking round a town colouring in what's a house and what's a shop.

I nearly did geography A level. But after two classes changed to Economics.

[bobo the clown]

I used to love drawing the destructive plate boundaries or clouds and stuff. What let it down was the 'human geography' on things like the impact of building the Trafford Centre (can I do that in economics please?) or walking round a town colouring in what's a house and what's a shop.

I nearly did geography A level. But after two classes changed to Economics.

..... did you get lost ??

[Athers]

A-level economics was great because of Lauren's Curves*





*Lorenz

[Bruce Rioja]

ox-bow lakes... that's all i remember! oh - and "slash and burn"* agriculture! information that has always served me well..

*not to be confused with the symptoms of the clap...

And corries too (whatever one is).

[LeverEnd]

ox-bow lakes... that's all i remember! oh - and "slash and burn"* agriculture! information that has always served me well..

*not to be confused with the symptoms of the clap...

And corries too (whatever one is).

Some kid described the increasingly detached island of hair at the front of my head as being in an ox-bow lake formation. So they're obviously still teaching that shit!