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This 'concentrating on work' lark works okay for a few days, then the pressure builds up and random thoughts start escaping.

Do hamsters share? Usually they're kept singly, so the situation doesn't occur, but what do you do with your social Roborovskis when one is imploringly desperately with its little thin face for more food, and its sister is skulking guiltily at the back of the tank with ginormous full cheek pouches?

When do we stop needing nametags for clothing? They were so important when we were children. My family were a little cheap, and while they did buy nametags they ordered "BM HARDCASTLE SE" so they could fold the end over and use them for me, or the beginning over and use them for my sister.

I dreamt a kingfisher was at my window, tap-tap-tapping to get in. I suspect I was really hearing hamsters.

Vegan week is going okay - am I imagining it, or are Beef and Tomato flavour Pot Noodles okay? I am mostly missing mayonnaise and jaffa cakes.

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We had "R J SPENCER D" so that she could do my brother R J and my brother J and me. Three for the price of two!

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Name tags were for school so you could sort out your own stuff after gym, etc.

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Initials? You were lucky! The boys have to make do with ones that just say 'MONKEY' (well, not exactly, but you can insert the appropriate surname). It's not the expense it's the thought of having to unsew and resew when things get handed down. Though I have just got them a new batch of name stickers. After consultation, these read, "Spider or Squirrel MONKEY".

I have your hamster problem in cat. My efforts to fatten up poor wasting-away Fruitcake go something like this:
Fruitcake: HUNGRY HUNGRY!!1!1! I IZ STARVING!!!1!
Monkey *looks round to check Zil is upstairs, closes kitchen door*
Monkey:OK, sweetie, here's a sardine.
Fruitcake:THANKYOUTHANKYOU! NOM!
*Licks 2.5ml of oil off the sardine, exit in direction of Outside*
Zil *thuds down the stairs and lurks behind closed kitchen door*
Monkey *Makes mug of tea, opens door just wide enough to escape kitchen while blocking Zil with feet and carrying hot tea* (Not always successful)
Zil*goes to sulk/wait in front room*
Monkey *cleverly closes door of front room and goes upstairs to work/lj*

Two hours later
Monkey *returns to kitchen with empty mug*
Fruitcake *rushes in.*
Fruitcake: HUNGRY HUNGRY!!1!1! I IZ STARVING!!!1!
Sardine *is still in bowl*
Unloved dry catfud *is under sardine*
Monkey *does washing up, prepares dinner, trips over frantically begging Fruitcake, swears...* Repeat until
Teen monkeys *Come home from school, storm into kitchen for snax, get told to do homework, go to watch TV instead, leaving kitchen door wide open as the they rush to the front room...
Zil: NOMNOMNOM *expands visibly*
Bowl *is empty except for chewed up fragments left over from Zil eating dry food with half her teeth missing. Nobody eats these. Ever.*
Monkey *shuts kitchen door behind Zil and tops up food bowls just in case...*
Fruitcake(ignoring food bowls): HUNGRY HUNGRY!!1!1! I IZ STARVING!!!1!

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When I mentioned this to a colleage he said A B COLLEAGUE C so 3 people could be done. With a 10 year age gap this must have required detailed advanced planning.

My brother and I had different blue and red tags. I've still got some clothing with them on, indeed I finally wore out some tagged socks this year.

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I think the initials thing (e.g. two or more siblings with similar initials) is fairly common, even without invoking name tapes - my first initials are ML, my elder sister's are LM, and we never used the same name tags. Names tend to get recycled in families, so that (for example) the M in my sister's name is Marcia, I'm Marcus, both due to the same grandparent rather than anyone trying to be cute etc.

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My brother and I shared an initial, so we were both J Surname (neither of us has a middle name). One set of name tags between us. I always thought having your whole name spelt out on your tag, as a few of my friends did, the height of poshness!

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That must get confusing when people start sending you post. (And I did faunch after the tags with the names embroidered in a script font)

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It wasn't too bad, as official things (like banks) normally used to put Mr or Miss or use forenames. Plus I generally got much more post than him, and pretty much all the personal/non-official post was for me, so there was an assumption that anything to J Surname was mine until proven otherwise.

Though there was at least one occasion when one of us paid money into our bank account and it went in the other one's, due to us having similar account numbers (we'd taken our accounts out at the same time, our parents having taken us to see their bank manager who made us feel all grown up and important!). Though this got sorted out immediately, and the first we knew was when the bank statement turned up with Contra on it and we had to ask what that meant.

Faunch is a new one on me! Had to go and look it up.

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You're making me feel all embarrassed for having my whole name on my tags! But then I'm from Aigburth... which will explain all, at least to

bugshaw. :)

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I ended up with most of my name tags being hand-me-downs from my middle cousin with her name folded out. Advantages of a distinctive surname. Quite why there was a surplus of her tags I don't know—maybe as her older sister and younger brother have the same initial they didn't have full names on the tags.

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When do we stop needing nametags for clothing?

When we stop wearing the same uniform as everyone else and can tell our clothes apart!

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Doh! Didn't have much uniform when I were a kid :-)

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In that case, probably when you stopped forgetting where you put your stuff and/or other kids stopped moving things around.

I know Beef and Tomato pot noodles are both vegetarian and dairy free, because against all common sense, I still sometimes feel the need to eat them but I don't think I ever checked on their vegan-ness.

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Er... my BSc hood (full shape, bright fuscia, white fur edging) and gown both have nametags in them, as did my red undergraduate gown. You just never know when you're going to find your stuff in a pile of these things. Although I don't think I ever got around to putting it in the later hoods. :)

Edited Date: 2010-01-15 04:25 pm (UTC)

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Yeah, functionally, that's a uniform though.

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Buy nametags? My mother, and I once old and (semi-)skilled enough, embroidered initials onto labels or seam allowances (yup, my school uniform had decent seam allowances as it was homemade). I still do this.

Cash's nametapes were to my mother the symbol of middle-class profligacy and decadence.

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We had to embroider our initials on our gym shirts and skirts too, although they were always to be somewhere visible and approximately 2 inches high. This tended to be done to first year gym uniform but never again afterwards, so I wonder if part of the reason was to help the teachers learn who was who.

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Yup. We did that, too (shorts, tho', we woz modern). Or were meant to, but I was the only one that had. (Or maybe that was the parental fear of my losing something coming out again.)

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My last nametape was for my college scarf, since obviously everybody else at Merton had exactly the same scarf as me, and I'd never have got it home from the coat rack in hall if it weren't labelled.

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And I wonder if they're useful in the theatre, too. And in the officers' messes where they (used to) iron a shirt for you each morning?

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Didn't it have a space for you to write your name in marker pen on the label? Ours did, and mine still have it filled in. Yes, I do still use one of my uni scarves on a regular basis.

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