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Old 01-02-2011, 01:34 PM   #7
Sundae
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West Yorkshire
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Part of it is to do with our climate.
Only a limited amount of people can live an outdoor life in this country.
You don't get British beach volleyball players. Well, not ones that can play year round.

Complexion also has to do with my Farmer pigeonholing.
She could be a hippy with an allotment I suppose.

And Mum was a bit mean of me.
She looks miserable, tired and harrassed
And the sort to take her kids to the supermarket in order to shout at them and smack them. She looks like she has hard hands too.
But she's not a traditional chav, which is our version of redneck (urban rather than rural and on benefits rather than self-sufficient) because she's not wearing knock-off designer gear and cheap jewellery.

Tourist again is climate. Perhaps people in Devon/ Cornwall would identify her as such (they call them grackles), but to me she's just someone who sat in the pub garden all afternoon, wearing too many labels.
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