What are we wearing as we're POSTING, part UNO

[Kirbstone]

Depends what kind of flooring. We built what we're occupying in 2003-4 and I laid most of the floors myself...T&G over battens or sub-joists & rockwool, Tiles over concrete in places. The upstairs was done by the builder. What he did brought tears to my eyes more than once and I eventually had to sack him.
I have to admit that torn jeans are the ticket for this time of year. In more clement weather when grovelling on my knees I favour shorts. They have pockets for nails and roll measures &c. Skirts don't.

[Mugs-n-such]

Some skirts have pockets. Those are the kind I really like too.

[Big and Bashful]

Got the hearing on <snip>

So we won't need to SHOUT then?

[Big and Bashful]

Depends what kind of flooring. We built what we're occupying in 2003-4 and I laid most of the floors myself...T&G over battens or sub-joists & rockwool, Tiles over concrete in places. The upstairs was done by the builder. What he did brought tears to my eyes more than once and I eventually had to sack him.
I have to admit that torn jeans are the ticket for this time of year. In more clement weather when grovelling on my knees I favour shorts. They have pockets for nails and roll measures &c. Skirts don't.

We replaced the first (upstairs) floor joists, flooring laid yesterday is 22mm chipboard tongue in groove sheets. I was referring to laying, as in eggs, but chipboard sheets have more corners!
After completing the rest of the dwangs we need the new bathroom suite to find the height of the floor (governed by the lavatory outflow level which must match the existing pipework. Once that is known we will add secondary joists over the new joists to sort the level and then finish the floor then fit the bathroom, then do the same sort of exercise to the ground floor.
Why the secondary bathroom joists? The joists have all been replaced now, but the wall sockets are low (160 years old house with old mortar and rubble walls, things sagged), so the floor joists are now sound but not quite level.
Back on topic, Currently wearing better T shirt and good jeans, just home from nightshift, about to have breakfast then go to bed before more flooring later, followed by nightshift again. Bed will involve warm and toasty nightshirt from Noghts in white Flannel. Mmmm!

[Kirbstone]

We bought a derelict small farmhouse deep in Co. Kerry overlooking a spectacular kaleidoscope of islands, headlands, inlets, mountains & sea in 1974, which is still our Spring/Summer/Autumn and sometimes Christmas residence.
When I first visited it with my then 3-year-old son we ventured upstairs and he fell right through the floor up to his elbows!!
Apart from some roof rafters everything wooden in that house was chucked out & burned. Needless to say a whole set of new joists had to go in there.
Where we are in the Midlands near my work we built a big barn using massive steel trusses...(A bit like the Forth Bridge! ) We joisted the upstairs out between these and floored the lot in 8 X 4 T&G chipboard. It gets you a lot of good floor very fast. At the time we hadn't got planning permission for a house on the site, and the learned planners were being, shall we say, unhelpful, so we built the barn big in case we would end up living in it. My wife is a firm believer in Parkinson's Law, and practices that faith regularly. Where I could once drive my Merc. in, swing right, reverse once, and drive right out again inside it, you now need to plan a climbing expedition into the interior preferably armed with a map of where she last left the garden spade, or whatever.

[Since1982]

One wonders if we should have a separate thread for all the nudists to line up their "nothing, nothing, nothing,nothing, nothing, nothing,nothing, nothing, nothing, sweet nothings at??? I've always thought that if I wanted to see a male wearing NOTHING I could just look in the mirror after the shower. We've got about 6 regulars now that whenever they see this thread up, they think it's cute to keep saying "nothing" For my part, it's getting old. Just my opinion.

[crfriend]

One wonders if we should have a separate thread for all the nudists to line up their "nothing, nothing, nothing,nothing, nothing, nothing,nothing, nothing, nothing, sweet nothings at???

Interestingly, that's the precise reason why "what are you wearing when you post" topics have been "frowned upon" since the early 1990s when "The September that Never Ended" began on USENET -- and the migration into more "compelling" media hasn't helped matters. Sooner or later somebody will breach protocol and etiquette and post something off-colour. That's why I wince every time I see a thread so entitled, and that's just as a forum participant not a moderator!

[Since1982]

Ok..I've run this thread about 5 times now and this is the first time that not only was "nothing" used, but used repeatedly by the same people. I won't run it again after it's removed, if it gets so raunchy it has to BE removed. I expected people to have more respect of their fellow posters, I guess I was wrong. My bad.

[Ray]

Got the hearing on <snip>

So we won't need to SHOUT then?

My spelling is getting worse, I swear. Or is that whisper?

[Ray]

Skip, Carl, I promise you I will always be wearing something as I post! It's frankly too cold to do anything else for one thing....

[crfriend]

Skip, Carl, I promise you I will always be wearing something as I post! It's frankly too cold to do anything else for one thing....

I don't care if you're starkers when you post, and likely nobody here does either, but there's just no point in bragging about it. That was my point.

It's right up there with "what are you wearing under your [fill in the blank]?" -- what's the point.

Now, from a completely practical perspective I understand that there may be honest questions to be posed, but aside from the purely practical matters of "management" most can be answered by application of common sense and by experiment. (OK, so one does not wish to experiment on a $100 skirt. Contemplate the experiment for a few minutes.)

[Milfmog]

One wonders if we should have a separate thread for all the nudists to line up their "nothing, nothing, nothing,nothing, nothing, nothing,nothing, nothing, nothing, sweet nothings at??? I've always thought that if I wanted to see a male wearing NOTHING I could just look in the mirror after the shower. We've got about 6 regulars now that whenever they see this thread up, they think it's cute to keep saying "nothing" For my part, it's getting old. Just my opinion.

I read this and it did not really align very well with my memory of this thread, so I went back and checked; this is what I found:

45 posts saying "I'm in a skirt" (or dress, gown...)
9 posts saying "I'm in trousers"
4 posts saying "I'm naked"
8 posts responding to "I'm naked" posts
20 posts that did not mention what was being worn

I also counted the six regulars who posted that they were naked (in just four posts?). You guessed it, the six turned out to be two. And don't forget that the four posts they made have generated (before this post) twice as many responses. Perhaps if those four posts were ignored they'd stop?

What does all this mean? well I'm just presenting some data, I'll let you decide for yourself, but it is a nice example of confirmation bias.

My opinion tends towards "What are you wearing right now?" being the wrong question for a board such as this. Who really cares what is being worn in an individuals private space? Nobody will see them and it does little if anything to support the aims of the forum. I'd much rather know what people wore last time they were out in public or at work or some other place where they might reasonably expect to interact with others.

Sorry Skip, this is not intended as a dig at you, it's just a stream of consciousness that probably reveals far too much of how the gloopy jelly inside my skull performs.

Have fun,


Ian.

PS Almost forgot to add the relevant on topic bit: Still early here so I'm in my sleeping stuff and a warm toasty dressing gown while I decide what to wear when I head off to the shops in half an hour or so.

[TomH]

I see that Ian has time to look back and use facts. Good. I have to respond a little to Carl, I don't think people are 'bragging' as much as being 'honest'...

I expect Skip wanted honest answers to his question, so why is there a problem about getting them?

I also agree that what we wear in the 'privacy' of our home is not important to anyone else. The question of what we wear out has much more to do with forwarding our cause of being able to wear what we want. It doesn't complete it, but obviously, all here don't want to hear about that. We are a well rounded group and that to me is a good thing...

All with open minds, please take a bow.

TomH

[couyalair]

I'm not envious couyalair, I WOULD like to see the posted picture though.

Some people seem to contradict themselves!!!

Since I appear to have offended, I will in future refrain from answering any questions here.

My reason for answering that day was the relief and pleasure I felt when, early in the morning, the sun heated the veranda enough for me not to have to pile on layer upon layer of clothes, as I had done the previous days; a short-lived pleasure, knowing that as the day wore on, it would be back to pullovers and overcoat as well as, of course, my thinkest woolen kilt.

I don't like winter. I don't like the restriction of trousers. I don't like the restriction of lots of heavy clothes, but when there's no sun, there's no choice.

Martin

[Big and Bashful]

I for one wasn't offended, slightly jealous maybe! definitely not offended.