Metal mental...
When I was an undergrad, I briefly had J as a housemate. She'd been in a fairly long-term relationship with someone whom I shall call "L", since that was his initial. He was a nice guy, inexplicably devoted to J, and could have done a lot better for himself. He would often come across to Hull from Leeds to see her.

The reason why J dumped L in the end was not that she wanted to see other men - her ongoing relationship with him hadn't stopped there being a steady stream of other guys between her fairly chunky thighs. It was that he bought her a gold bracelet.

The inconsiderate bastard ought to have known that she only wore silver. He clearly had it coming.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:08, 12 replies)

Give them bloody names!
Referring people as letters turns stories into algebra problems, dammit.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:12, closed)

Grumpy

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:14, closed)

I'm not just picking on you,
it's just that you used this particular device and I remembered I wanted to rant about it.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:18, closed)

Didn't Enzyme
once complain about this sort of thing?

Or was that you?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:18, closed)

Not me.
I responded to someone else's complaint, defending the convention.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:21, closed)

Do you
want to borrow my handbag?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:18, closed)

if I borrow a handbag on b3ta
it'll be one of rachelswipe's as she has very good taste in handbags.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:18, closed)

I wouldn't borrow hers
I went round one night and did a sex wee in each of them.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:20, closed)

oh GROSS.
I wouldn't have stolen the tissues from them if I'd known that. Let alone rubbed them all over myself when I got home.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:26, closed)

Don't worry
I forgot myself and used her lipstick.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 15:30, closed)

I tend to agree, Enzyme, that names would be better; with names it's easier to keep track of the people in your story as the names show their genders, while the letters don't.
(Musuko, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:24, closed)

aha!
See! So nyah, Dr E.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 16:33, closed)