The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

Songbird76

Well-Known Member
I’m so glad to hear that you were never assaulted.
My close group of friends looks like the old United Colors of Benetton commercials when we’re all in a photo together.lol. Everyone is from different backgrounds and nationalities...and we all got hit on by the same random creepsters, so I definitely don’t think it matters about a ‘type’.

I agree with you about the hair color thing in other countries..which is strange though, because even the Middle East and Turkey have blonde women. I was so careful about what I wore there.. nothing above knee length, no low cut shirts etc., but I was shocked at how many Turkish women (in Istanbul) had low cut shirts with their stomachs showing, but you’d never see them wear a skirt. It was just something that struck me as odd. Here it was almost the opposite, a lot of women wear skirts/dresses, but not so many extremely low cut tops/stomach exposing shirts...not at that time anyway.
Wow...well, I've never been there, but we do have a LOT of Turkish people in the Netherlands. Both my neighbors are Turkish. Most Turkish women here were long dresses and head coverings...I've never seen anyone wearing belly-bearing shirts or low cut tops at all. My neighbors are not as strict as most Turkish women, they don't wear head coverings, and they wear pants, though on the one family's side, they have extended family here who DO wear the traditional head to toe covering with only the face showing. And my friend from Iran doesn't wear any sort of head covering, but she explained it's a choice, but if her husband asked her to wear one because he knew a particular man tended to have a roaming eye, she would wear one because she trusts his judgment. But it really surprises me to hear that in Turkey, the women might not be so covered, because I've never encountered that here, and I would have thought that they'd be MORE relaxed about it in a country where the covering wasn't the norm. Interesting.
 

Songbird76

Well-Known Member
Indeed!
It was on TCM about a month ago, and I watched it all the way through. A classic book AND movie IMO...!!!

This had nothing to do with the depression, but, both of my folks used to do their school homework by kerosene lamp.
The Rural Electrification Act was signed in 1936, but, it took a while to get to them.
Pop was born on Jan. 1 of '33, and mom on Apr. 15 of '39...mom turns '79 tomorrow...!!!!! :happy:
Happy birthday to your mom! My dad was born in 33, and my mom in 38. My mom talked about air raid drills, and ration stamps, etc. She kept the old ration stamp booklets and I have an album with them and she wrote out some things she remembered from that time.
 

MinnieM123

Premium Member
Indeed!
It was on TCM about a month ago, and I watched it all the way through. A classic book AND movie IMO...!!!

This had nothing to do with the depression, but, both of my folks used to do their school homework by kerosene lamp.
The Rural Electrification Act was signed in 1936, but, it took a while to get to them.
Pop was born on Jan. 1 of '33, and mom on Apr. 15 of '39...mom turns '79 tomorrow...!!!!! :happy:

Now, that is fascinating. I would have thought that kerosene lamps were out of vogue at the time they were going to school, but like you said, it was a rural area--and it took some time for the REA to take effect in their area. This is the stuff I love reading about--individual histories of people who lived back then.
 

ajrwdwgirl

Premium Member
Good! Will it be cleared up by Monday, then? I hope this is it for snow for you!!

The weather person said there might be some lingering snow through Monday but I’m sure we will have school. I am hoping this is the last significant snow. Hubs just got inside from shoveling and said it is heavy snow with ice under it. It is still snowing and blowing.

We are supposed to go to a birthday party today I don’t think we should venture out. The roads still look gross and we live in town the party is out on small country roads.
 

DryerLintFan

Premium Member
The two siblings who haate getting wet clothes went on a water ride because they were hot. Clothes are already dry. :cyclops:

I packed mostly quick drying clothing, and yesterday when the rain was really coming down all my friends were green with jealousy. They were soaking wet all day, but i was dry within fifteen minutes every time.

Except my bra. VS needs a quick drying bra, lol
 

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