WouldBe
Dislicksick
Isn't that what anniversaries are for?
The worldwide craze for 'love locks' - New York puts its foot down
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beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
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hiraethified
When the structures of old bridges start to disintegrate under the weight of this nonsense, then it's definitely time for them to go!
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
Lovers want to make a permanent and visible statement of their love, and that's nice.
But a lock is quite a dodgy metaphor to use in matters of love.
A nice alternative might be the old 'deal post' arrangement where people, to record an agreement, would hammer a nail into a marketplace post to fix their contract.
This tradition is found all over the world, east and west, and the Pitt rivers Museum has a couple of South Seas deal posts. If lovers used these, it would at least be permanent and also a wee bit freudian...
(Incidentally, the expression 'clinch a deal' comes from this tradition because a clinch is an old name for a nail..)
But a lock is quite a dodgy metaphor to use in matters of love.
A nice alternative might be the old 'deal post' arrangement where people, to record an agreement, would hammer a nail into a marketplace post to fix their contract.
This tradition is found all over the world, east and west, and the Pitt rivers Museum has a couple of South Seas deal posts. If lovers used these, it would at least be permanent and also a wee bit freudian...
(Incidentally, the expression 'clinch a deal' comes from this tradition because a clinch is an old name for a nail..)
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Maharani
Just like Heaven
Maybe the plastic bags (on my pic) signify suffocation in a relationship...Lovers want to make a permanent and visible statement of their love, and that's nice.
But a lock is quite a dodgy metaphor to use in matters of love.
A nice alternative might be the old 'deal post' arrangement where people, to record an agreement, would hammer a nail into a marketplace post to fix their contract.
This tradition is found all over the world, east and west, and the Pitt rivers Museum has a couple of South Seas deal posts. If lovers used these, it would at least be permanent and also a wee bit freudian...
(Incidentally, the expression 'clinch a deal' comes from this tradition because a clinch is an old name for a nail..)
Treacle Toes
Time
Treacle Toes
Time
The implied cultural normalisation of the concept that every time you are out with someone it is a 'date' is weird. Creeping Americanisation thread that way ------>
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I only went on a 'date' once, and it was with my stalker. I thought an evening with me in a formal setting would convince her I wasn't worth stalking, and I was right
Sirena
Don't monkey with the buzzsaw
Proper oldskool style..
It's a nice metaphor because the tree is alive and beautiful......
Manter
Lunch Mob
Probably an American meme...... 'Cute' 'date'- I think you are safe to have British platonic excursions with friends......carrying knives
Treacle Toes
Time
I always carry a swiss army knife whenever I go to the countryside or camping...Also pocket knives used to be very popular and not for reasons of violence. They were much more accepted than now.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
well if you get a stop search, and you will as a young man at some point, carrying any sort of blade over a certain length is illegal. Think they brought in mandatory sentencing for carrying now as well. So you get out of the habit, or rather, never get into it unless your a keen outdoorsy\fishing person
ska invita
back on the other side
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
It can't go tits up, the whole point of it is that you are now locking your lives together, for ever. If you surveyed everyone who's been divorced you'll find that not one of them has done the love-lock thing. More fool them.
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hiraethified
In the river.
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