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Question: with all this surrealness and weirdness that I've thrust upon some of you with my inquiry, would it help to use a real pic of me as my avatar? Though I can tell you, in all seriousness, I make THAT exact face a lot. And often when someone won't. just. shut. up.

Though, unlike the avatar, I'm not quite as glammed up, of course.
 
Jennifer said:
Question: with all this surrealness and weirdness that I've thrust upon some of you with my inquiry, would it help to use a real pic of me as my avatar? Though I can tell you, in all seriousness, I make THAT exact face a lot. And often when someone won't. just. shut. up.

Though, unlike the avatar, I'm not quite as glammed up, of course.
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Like all good novelists, you should make us use our imagination...
 
OK, so I have thoroughly perused the SUFC Direct Superstore site and, as far as women's shirts go, nothing jumps out at me. Meaning, nothing is QUITE my style. At least enough to plunk down the equivalent of thirty US dollars (shipping included). Is there any other online retailer you guys recommend for purchasing Blades gear? Maybe one that WON'T charge 15 pounds for shipping a 12.50 pound shirt?
 
Jennifer said:
OK, so I have thoroughly perused the SUFC Direct Superstore site and, as far as women's shirts go, nothing jumps out at me. At least enough to plunk down the equivalent of thirty US dollars (shipping included). Is there any other online retailer you guys recommend for purchasing Blades gear? Maybe one that WON'T charge 15 pounds for shipping a 12.50 pound shirt?
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EBay is better, Jennifer. There's usually lots of Blades memorabilia on there and at good prices. You might get a 1970s style red and white striped shirt with a number 10 on it. When your mates see you wearing it they'll all want one.
 
Jennifer said:
OK, so I have thoroughly perused the SUFC Direct Superstore site and, as far as women's shirts go, nothing jumps out at me. Meaning, nothing is QUITE my style. At least enough to plunk down the equivalent of thirty US dollars (shipping included). Is there any other online retailer you guys recommend for purchasing Blades gear? Maybe one that WON'T charge 15 pounds for shipping a 12.50 pound shirt?
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£16 for a "Blades Legends" shirt from this very website:-

https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/s24s...ctType=813&color=CBCBCB&appearance=231&view=1

It says £3.19 for delivery but I don't know if that includes delivery to the US or not?

Foxy or Linz should be able to advise?
 
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In the early 2000's I met a Blades fan online who, it turned out was a female writer living near Baltimore. Her story was a strange one. As a teenager she'd been taken to London by her parents. Wandering off on her own on a Saturday morning, she'd jumped on a train to Sheffield at random and arrived on a match day. She was befriended by some Blades and taken to the match before being put on the train back down to London. She'd been a Blade ever since, and even got a tattoo of the Blades crest.

I ended up getting someone to design me a literary agent's website, and ended up being her agent for a while. We even managed to get a couple of her books e-published. Being a literary agent also got me a foot into the door in the US with a business visa. If anyone remembers her, it was ECBlade off the old IrC Chat.

Unfortunately the literary agent's website didn't survive, but it was pretty convincing to publishers.
 

Wow, what a story, and a testament to your community that it helped the young lady get back to where she needed to be after receiving her so kindly.

Baltimore is about 6-8 hrs north of me. I am in North Carolina, a stone's throw from the South Carolina border. Still, though I am from here, I've never felt like I was 'from' here, if you get my meaning. My interests and mentality have always been a little different from the general population. All my life it's been this way.
 
Jennifer said:
Wow, what a story, and a testament to your community that it helped the young lady get back to where she needed to be after receiving her so kindly.
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I think they got her drunk for the first time in her life too
 
I know you will also find this borderline unbelievable. But I have never been drunk before in my life. Took too much of my epilepsy meds once, was borderline toxic. But that was purely accidental. Still have a scar on my knee from a nasty carpet burn from that experience.

I have multiple reasons for moderation with spirits. One, the epilepsy meds. Two, there's enough functional alcoholics in my family and I don't want to be like them, genetics and all. Three, if I am going to do something profoundly asinine, I want a pristine memory of it. Not some fuggy, alcohol-induced haze.

Point being, when I make it to Sheffield one day, and any of us gather together, I'll be a one pint and done kind of girl.
 
Jennifer said:
I know you will also find this borderline unbelievable. But I have never been drunk before in my life. Took too much of my epilepsy meds once, was borderline toxic. But that was purely accidental. Still have a scar on my knee from a nasty carpet burn from that experience.

I have multiple reasons for moderation with spirits. One, the epilepsy meds. Two, there's enough functional alcoholics in my family and I don't want to be like them, genetics and all. Three, if I am going to do something profoundly asinine, I want a pristine memory of it. Not some fuggy, alcohol-induced haze.

Point being, when I make it to Sheffield one day, and any of us gather together, I'll be a one pint and done kind of girl.
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Hm, the "Gallon of Magnet" initiation ceremony might prove a bit tough for you then.

Here's my advice about writing, which others may disagree with. Write for yourself, not to get published. Don't have any potential readership in mind, only yourself. Don't try to adopt a particular technique or style. Be unique. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks as long as you think you've created something good.

I've spent a bit of time in the publishing industry, and know that the chances of a new author getting published in the traditional sense and becoming successful are practically zero. Even if your book is published and is moderately successful it won't make you rich. There are Booker-nominated authors who still have to hold down a day job.

However, today it's easier than ever to get published as an e-book, and if you get picked up by one of the big online publishing houses you'll shift a few copies. But imo your main goal should be to do the best work you can.
 
my suspicion is that this "Jennifer " character is a complete fake. But it's hilarious how some of you have fallen over yourselves to help her! Just be clear. There's no sex in it for you. And it's probably a bloke just winding you up.

:D
 
Cerberus Blade said:
my suspicion is that this "Jennifer " character is a complete fake. But it's hilarious how some of you have fallen over yourselves to help her! Just be clear. There's no sex in it for you. And it's probably a bloke just winding you up.

:D
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defo mate. how many have got a semi on trying to chat her up!!
 
Cerberus Blade said:
my suspicion is that this "Jennifer " character is a complete fake. But it's hilarious how some of you have fallen over yourselves to help her! Just be clear. There's no sex in it for you. And it's probably a bloke just winding you up.

:D
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Don't listen to him
He guards the gates of Hell
 
:p
Kenilworth said:
None, I suspect.
It's just interesting to get another perspective and beats umpteen threads about the connotations of re next set of results.
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im joking around, however still say this jennifer is really called Neil, he's 56, divorced from Middlewood. He has a hairy back and a flatulence problem. :p
 
Jennifer said:
Only because the name was huge in the late 1970s. Which meant I was never the only one in my class with that name. I wanted to be the only one. Other than that I have embraced it. Legend has it it is derived from the name Guinevere. And I can handle that.
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It's a sort of joke - it's because you want to live like common people - you want to do whatever common people do,
 
Cerberus Blade said:
my suspicion is that this "Jennifer " character is a complete fake. But it's hilarious how some of you have fallen over yourselves to help her! Just be clear. There's no sex in it for you. And it's probably a bloke just winding you up.

:D
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We had a similar one on Blades mad a few years back - the thread went for the same length with the same horny geek boys spraying their shorts - can't remember 'her' name' but she claimed to live in Upstate New York and disappeared as quickly as she arrived. Now this one might be genuine but it has all the same hallmarks....someone explain please
 
I can't believe that 8 pages have gone by since I last posted on this thread and not a single person has talked any further about the need for the chef to say bastard. This is a really important and integral part of the plot and you lot are not giving my writing credit the acknowledgement that it deserves.

#BastardGate
 
northsomersetblade said:
We had a similar one on Blades mad a few years back - the thread went for the same length with the same horny geek boys spraying their shorts - can't remember 'her' name' but she claimed to live in Upstate New York and disappeared as quickly as she arrived. Now this one might be genuine but it has all the same hallmarks....someone explain please
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Nah, I think she's genuine. Writes like a Yank anyhow.

Come on, who's PM'd her then? (I haven't, I promise)
 

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