I'm pretty sure "frayed" was rather fashionable in the 70's - you were obviously a Fashion Influencer before your time @Ergates Some of the female Celebs outfits are certainly worth the thread title too - consist of about 3 strips of material and shoes with heels high enough to defeat any mountaineer. Add large pouty lips and eyelashes long enough to sweep a floor with and you have fashion with a capital F ( aka as Whaaattt !! ). Not that the male equivalent is any better - less expensive tho I suppose as many seem to be perfectly happy to parade about in a thong and not much else
France sends a delegation to the Amazon jungle to look at the logistics of opening a high security prison there. The woman who was part of the group is perfectly dressed for the occasion, don’t you think? I just love the footwear. And the look on her face.
That made me laugh, @Tidemark! When I started college in 1970, female students had just been allowed to wear trousers on the clinics, as long as they were ‘navy blue with a slight flare’! A friend who was at agricultural college was still required to wear a skirt, even though she often had to climb over stiles and farm gates. Thinking back, maybe it was actually deliberate?
On the bus yesterday there was a woman accompanied by the biggest dog I've ever seen. Apparently it's a Rottweiler / St. Bernard cross. She said at just over a year old it's still growing and is expected to be up to 7' tall when standing on its back legs. Thankfully extremely obedient. It was making friends with anybody who spoke to it but sat back with her the moment she called it (on a lead at all times).
@Tidemark the woman in that photo reminds of a TV add where a bunch of women decide to go Glamping. One has high heels, wheely case etc and goes flat in the mud. Also reminds me of my girlfriend many decades ago. We decided to have a holiday in a cabin cruiser on the Thames, and I tried to stress to her to wear 'sensible' footwear. She had platform shoes on when I picked her up and was insistent she would be fine. If I had laughed as much as I wanted to as she tried to walk across a field to the boat I probably wouldn't be alive to type this.
@KT53 it's called a St Weiner supposedly. I met one a few years back and it was 70kg + and not full grown. We also used to walk with someone that had 3 Newfoundlands.
"Garden rooms" is a phrase I find quite annoying. I don't know why it's the must have term nowadays and I don't know why areas has disappeared.
St Weiler apparently; on Google they look huge, you can also cross a Great Dane with a Rottweiler to get a Weiler Dane.
Give me large dogs every time in a dog friendly pub. They sit on the floor quite happily. Owners of little runts allow them to sit on chairs and tables and talk to them in the most stupid voice and let them lick their face. We all know where their tongues have been. Then there is the yapping.
When we lived in Harrow we were members of a riding club out near Rickmansworth. It was social as well as running riding classes and competitions so we'd end up in the bar afterwards and people brought their dogs. The resident dog was a bearded collie and loved to play with the Great Dane one lady brought and the Westie and Jack Russell that two others brought. A Great Dane diving under tables to chase the little 'uns leads to many an upset beer for those who don't react in time.
It's not the size of the dog that determines how it behaves, it's the way it's been trained. Applies to kids too.
Sounds like the women on the bus with the large dog has been socializing the dog a lot. Thats what dogs need to be out and about developing confidence and absorbing normal experiences and interacting with strangers. Had two large GSD in my day, always out and about, going to stores with me etc.
Predictive text definitely doesn't help when it changes Weiler to Weiner. Our first dog was a border collie cross springer spaniel and we just called her a cross breed. Today for some reason they have to have a breed name, probably because it increases the price so much, so she would be classed as a sprollie.
As someone who has had dogs in my life since I've been born, today there are far more badly behaved dogs than ever. It has been really noticeable since lock down when people who shouldn't have, bought dogs, they then weren't socialised or trained properly. There are also more and more people that won't let their dogs even have a sniff of another dog and it's not because they are aggressive, the owners are just miserable.
