Yay :amazed:

Nobody drinks out of a hot water bottle, too much hassle and what happens if you don't stick the lid back on properly?

''Come and drink, come and drink, come and drink, with Jake the Owl, it's a hoot

Available in all good Aldi stores''

..that sounds like a very good idea Vanessa, I'll be around in 5 minutes...

:joker:

Why aren't chocolate apples an all year round thing, that's a great way to make sure kids have one of their five a day

I guess because parents want their kids teeth kept intact

in fact the hot water bottle will have a long straw coming from it which will be attached to the side of you're bed so you just need to lean over and sip away.. i'm onto something here

a bit of chocolate never hurt anybody

Tell that to Augustus Gloop.

that systematically killed the thread

Blame the hot chocolate straw boy over there

Early morning for me, night all

I have to be up early as well, but i'm not sleepy yet. :hugesmile:

Total first world problem and I've been asking people for opinions all day because it's more interesting than doing uni work, let's see what TiBB thinks...

My graduation ball is in the summer and although it's a while away, the planning starts around now and people have been talking about it for the last couple of weeks... my course is very small, about 20 people, so the grad ball will be for everyone who does languages at my university and will comprise maybe 200 people, give or take people bringing dates along etc...

On my course there's a boy who has recently started dressing up as a drag queen, and he's announced that he's going to go to the grad ball in drag (drag ball!) which we're all a bit horrified by and we've all said to each other that none of us want to be sat with him if he's going to come to a formal occasion dressed completely inappropriately (not so much the cross dressing, but more the outrageous camp and attention seeking nature of drag) - does that make us phobic and awful or do you think it's fair to not want to be associated with someone who is trying to pull focus onto themselves at an event that's supposed to be about formal attire and a celebration of everyone attending?

My argument is that I would have the same reaction if one of the girls came in a really slutty dress or one of the guys showed up in a tracksuit - it looks out of place, it brings negative attention to that person and looks awful next to everyone else who has dressed up in formal attire for the occasion... but because this concerns an openly gay man dressing up in drag, I'm fairly certain he'll accuse us of being homophobic if we say anything to his face... and he's the kind of person who just wants to do something even more if someone tells him not to do it, so there's no way of dissuading him...

What do you guys think? Anyone got any suggestions on how to approach the situation without hurting his feelings?

You're not being homophobic, coming in drag isn't suitable attire for the occasion, he's clearly just attention seeking, if he was actually transgendered and dressed as a woman day to day, obviously it's not a problem.

The whole point of a drag act is to be entertaining not to go to special occasion, dressed as the opposite sex dressed as a woman. I think you should just tell him that drag wouldn't be appropriate, and if he says thats homophobic, you can tell him where to get off, because he's not trans he's just attention seeking :shrug:

I would say hello if he speaks to you, and then just circulate somewhere else.
It's your day! damn him for trying to take your sparkle the bitch! ;)

And tell him his bag/shoes clash with his hair/dress

..night, night Jake and Vanessa...

Morning! Last day of work and then three days off! :amazed:

..haha, hello little lady, I just posted goodnight to you and up you popped..LOL...and woooo yay...just one more day Vanessa and then a nice little break...

I'm just having my coffee. Can't wait to watch Hollyoaks tonight. There's going to be a big explosion on the show. :amazed:

..oooo, are characters going to be 'killed off' then Vanessa..?..I haven't watched Downton yet because I was just about to and then suddenly my house was full of people, so I'll catch up with that today..and enjoy your coffee....

yes, a lot of them. I just hope my favourite survives. :bawling:

..aww, big changes then..but you don't know yet who dies..?..Joe always loved Hollyoaks and would try to persuade me to watch it but I never quite got round to it...I'm rubbish at trying to follow soaps/series...