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My house has been invaded by scary people! (decorators come to make the spare room Sunshine Yellow.)

Had P2 today. Twas easy. Naath found a link for 'Pern/Discworld crossover slash' by searching for 'discworld "slash fanfiction"'. We didn't check it out because fanfiction.net is filtered from school, and she'd promised not to read lots of slash in front of me anyway.

Uhm, that's about it for life right now.

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[firinel.livejournal.com]

decorators, or just painters?

The us/uk distinction frustrated someone else. I hate painting walls a flat colour, and he'd say 'but I thought you want to be a decorator?!' and I'd say 'decorators don't actually do the painting! they charge far too much to have them doing mundane things such as handeling paint rollers!'

here, decorators are high-paid skilled labour, where as house painting is something college students get summer jobs doing. The decorator tells you/suggests what colour is painted - the painters actually apply it.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Fortunatly[1] 'decorators' as you describe them are almost entirely unheard of in this country (there are some on the TV. They blatently lack taste).

Neil

[1] I suspect some of you are going to object to that choice of word, however it's what I mean, and if you don't like it, that's your problem.

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[firinel.livejournal.com]

If you think a decorator lacks taste its one of two things:
1) you have no taste, or
2) you've got the wrong decorator.

or wait, there's a third:

3) you didn't season her/him properly before you cooked them.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm afraid my cooking still isn't great, I'll have to practice more. Thanks for the seasons tip.

(lemma: Case 2 always applies.
This is a trivial corrolary of the theorum that all decorators have bad taste[1]).

Neil

[1] No, I refuse to let 'bad taste' not being well defined stop me. Yes, that does make it all gibberish.

Err, I haven't left myself a leg to stand on have I?

(In my defence: I didn't get to bed very early last night).

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Painters. Definately painters. (Who can't even keep doors shut when taking the last coat of paint/wallpaper off, and hence shower the entire house with white dust, grr.) We were choosing the colour this teatime. It was called 'Dehli Bazaar', which is silly, because really it's buttercup yellow.