Chinagirl Forum Posts (181)

RE: HANGOVER CURES!!

Hiya C

Can you get 'Lifeline' in the pharmacy there?
Haven't tried it yet myself but I've been told it really works.

RE: Morgan Freeman

Wow, that's unbelievable, it was reported earlier as a horrendous crash.
Hope he'll be ok, he's in a class of his own.
Have to agree with LM too, his voice is like velvet.

RE: Happy Birthday Catherinedevinue

Happy Birthday !! Hope the celebrations are still underway

RE: Slan agud beannacht...........Bye and God bless......

Geenie, absent a day or 2 here and you miss loads !!

Power to the people I say ....I sincerely hope Minx was persuaded NOT to leave us. I'd miss her too, great craic & not afraid to speak her mind, esp on the controversial issues.
A song comes to mind...'Baby Come Back'

RE: is 50 the 'new' 30???

Hiya Crystal, how are you after those workmen trampling all over your house this past week? Takes another week to clean up after them But I bet it all looks lovely now.

Ah Catherine, I'm a redhead so the sun just turns me a mad shade of pink, then it peels and I'm back to white, with a few new freckles
But you may be onto something there...maybe I need to get out more, really let my hair down, do something wild for a change. I'd just be afraid I might like it too much

RE: is 50 the 'new' 30???

Catherine girl, you look Hot Hot Hot !! You deffo need to share your 'secrets' with me.
By the way, I just LOVE the idea of 50 being the new 30...that's a concept worth spreading !!

RE: Giving up smoking!

OOoops, Forgot to add Fair Play to Mini and Jim for having the self discipline to do it !! Well Done !!

RE: Giving up smoking!

Yeah, I'm still puffin away too. Have never managed to totally give them up. I even have my box of 'spares' in case I run out. Am a real hopeless case

RE: Songs that make you emotional

In the Arms of the Angels....was released when my Dad died & still think of it as 'his song'.

RE: Slow songs

Oooh yeah, great choice....his voice esp in the spoken section gives me the ol' butterflies

RE: Slow songs

Yes it was 10CC, big fan here, love Dreadlock Holiday too

RE: Slow songs

Can't remember artist's name -

Gonna write a classic,
Gonna write it in an attic...

RE: Slow songs

Yeah, maybe Kiss You All Over is more suitable for horizontal dancing!!
(Swoon)
Another one... Santana's Black Magic Woman...can feel my hips swaying just thinking of it

RE: Slow songs

You do something to me.

Oops, sorry for delay, got caught up in the knicker thread.

Another oldie, wonder does anyone here remember it..... Kiss You All Over by Exile

RE: Slow songs

Lots of lovely smoochies mentioned here, LOVE the Paul Weller song, but for me the bestest has to be Moooooove Closer

RE: going south

I was always told it's rude to speak with your mouth full

RE: Is nostalgia coming back?

Yeah, should have kept all my 80s gear, though they may not fit so well now

Was watching Gok's Fix It last night and he said the bum bags are coming back too. He had a brown leather one with a tassel, looked exactly like one I had way back when. And the jeans with the huge flares are more like what we had in the 70s before the 'drainpipes' came in.
Actually I love 70s music, prefer it to 80s, but it's rarely played on radio stations now

RE: sad day

Oh my gosh that's just heartbreaking, taken so young !
And his little girl, God love her, learning a harsh life lesson so early in her life. Very sad time for all who knew and loved him.

RE: Should Women Ask Men Out on First Dates?

.....but i remember when i was in my teens you would get your friend to go over to the lad and say "me mate wants to know will ya go with her"

Wow Nuala but that expression brought back a rush of memories.. and if you fancied someone, you said you were 'onto so&so'

RE: Should Women Ask Men Out on First Dates?

Geenie Mac but love is really in the air here lately !! How many recent hook-ups is that anyway??
Sigh, am delighted as always to read about people finding each other, gives lotsa hope !!

Methinks he's home early cos she's a LADY

RE: Speeding

what happens if its a ban garda

Then you're busted

RE: what do you think

In my opinion, that's waaayy too soon.
He still doesn't know whether he's coming or going, is carrying way too much emotional baggage from the split and many men embark on a series of fruitless relationships to boost their bruised ego in a bid to prove to themselves that they 'still have it'.
Be a friend to him if you want, but you really cannot expect this man to be in any frame of mind to form a relationship with you.

RE: who are the greatest men and women that ever lived ? and why ? tell us about them !

Re the native German people - undoubtedly there are question marks over where and how all of Europe came to be populated. But it seems that the Celts were a warrior nomadic band of people, yet highly intelligent, skilled and had a language of their own. They invaded countries at will, took over large areas of land, settled their own people but they had huge armies who were constantly on the move.

RE: who are the greatest men and women that ever lived ? and why ? tell us about them !

I will check my notes again Emigre, it's a while since I read all that. But the 300 BC I was pretty sure was accurate from my memory. I do remember reading that in that 1,000 BC period, the Celts had invaded Rome on 2 occasions. But the native people in Germany took the opportunity to attack the Celts from behind on that occasion in 300BC and that's how they were eventually beaten.

RE: who are the greatest men and women that ever lived ? and why ? tell us about them !

I know this is slightly off tangent here, but I was trying to find info on Queen Scotia whose grave is in a wooded hill just outside Tralee town. I found very little on her save that she was originally an Egyptian princess who had to flee Egypt with a few followers and she married a King in Spain.
He was of a group called the Milesians, and they were the tail end of the Celts who'd made all of Europe their home for about 1,000 yrs til they were beaten back by the Romans c. 300 BC and they retreated into splinter groups.
He had 8 sons and it seems he made a few 'trips' to Ireland (then known as Scota) and 3 of his sons settled here, one in Kerry and 2 split the North and Northwest between them. Another son, called Ir was killed in battle and his children were given the Northeast. As the King was elderly, the Queen came over to avenge her son's death & I'm guessing that's how she ended up being buried in Kerry.
And apparently the name 'Scota' petered out as the land of Ir (or Ireland) was used more.
Intertwined through the above were accounts of the Tuatha de Danann and the Fir Bolg and the reigning High Kings. The story goes that one of those High Kings, Conn, had a stone implanted in his skull for many years after a battle with the Fir Bolg. He was told the story of the healing man who was king of his people and had been crucified for it and became so upset by the story that the stone emerged from his skull and he dropped dead.
I know that these stories were handed down from one generation to the next by word of mouth and some story tellers probably took artistic licence for entertainment purposes. But the fact that the story of Jesus became an integral part of the life (& death)of Conn struck a chord with me. The old 'no smoke without fire' type of thing.
Apart from all that, I have to say I found the story of the Celts fascinating.
In case ye hadn't guessed !!

RE: Dublin Get-Together Pics, July 5

Thanks Kayt....are these the censored version ??

RE: i think a 'thank you' to me is in order!!!!

Haha Jampet, but that's cos you already look great !
After a (good) few Captain Morgans I feel light as a feather and even my love handles have disappeared !!

RE: i think a 'thank you' to me is in order!!!!

No need to build an enormous machine, just enter a standard run of the mill Irish pub and stay there for a few hours...by then most of our fantasies have become realities !
We look like Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt (whichever applies)
We sing like our fave artist.
We got better dance floor moves than a professional dancer.
We got the hots for that cutie across the room and from the way they're looking over, he/she finds us irresistible.

RE: i think a 'thank you' to me is in order!!!!

I know hun, that's why I'm glad to see you cheery & chirpy

RE: i think a 'thank you' to me is in order!!!!

Glad to see you so happy Crystal !!