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"Granny Crabapple" <marrowjam@[reallywild]blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Anyway, Granny, ask youself this (and I'm pretty sure you already
> > have, but anyway), what does your obsessive tidyness and despotic
> > controlling of your sims lives say about the way you are playing the
game
> > and about you? huh?
>
> Oh, I have been hauled over the coals about this before. <grin> On that
> occasion the person decided I was rebelling against my mother, a real tidy
> nut. hmmm. A few years out of date, that idea.
> I would like to live in a tidy, well-ordered world where everything has a
> place and stays there once I am finished with it. In practice, and in this
> dump of a house I cannot accomplish this. But my Sims can. 8))))
>
> What pips me off about people who will insist on giving you thimb-nail
> analeses of your actions is they never allow for your personal likes and
> dislikes and intellect?. No, these likes and dislikes are always the
result
> of the way your mother brought you up. or poppa.
> Dear god...
Oh I couldn't agree more - human behaviour is so much more complex than the
commonplaces of the 'rules' people make from (so-called) social-sciences
research - most of it's cockeyed nonsense if you ask me, especially if you
apply it as some sort of universal truth.
Hmmm, I'm sure it's more to do with making the little pixellated buggers do
as they are told and not what they want. I played Sims1 with free will
permanently turned off and I can feel the temptation to turn it off again
with TS2, especially when they will insist on going off to 'hold youngster'
when I want them to do something else (Just put the bloody thing down, for
God's sake). Maybe it's to do with disturbing your carefully imagined
fantasy with their own ideas of what they want to do. No - that's not
right, we're talking about obsessive cleanliness here, aren't we, not
obsessive control? Hmm, maybe it was your mother ............ (kidding!)
Actually, you say it yourself - you want a tidy, well-ordered world because
the one you're in isn't like that. What's your house like? British housing
can leave a lot to be desired, especially in the cities.
As far as playing trashy houses is concerned, for myself, I think it's to do
with me being so overwhelmingly curious about what happens in people's heads
in different situations. I've never felt I've ever really understood people
properly (this is a very long story) and playing the sims is one way (one
way of several ways, BTW) I have of poking about and seeing how things,
situations and people might function. I have to use my imagination to
answer the question 'what if' because, as you say, we are limited in many
ways by the game mechanics. So, the sims are lab rats on one level.
>> etc.... I can remember doing this as a child, almost.
> >> Way back in school, just before final exams, CGE.. would have been 16,
> >
> > GCE - do you mean O-Levels or are you really younger than I am?
>
> Oh, ay; oh ay, oh. I might be, how old are you? 8))
> I will be sixty this year. Older than the average Simmer, but not the
> oldest herein. Don't we have someone in their seventies? I am sure I
> remember a grandpa complaining that he had to leave his computer because
the
> grandchildren were coming round. Like it.
>
Ah - no, I'm not quite that venerable yet. There are a lot of crumblies
play The Sims. I keep coming across pensioners and grannies and granddads
in various different newsgroups. I like the adult demographic of the game,
it feels like something I can belong to legitimately. Something I can grow
into perhaps (ha ha). However, I have noticed recently a tendancy in myself
of growing towards my mother, particularly regarding clothes. I keep
finding (sim) outfits and thinking 'that's lovely', just like my mother used
to do. The trouble is I can also remember that the things she thought were
lovely were usually utterly ghastly and the last thing I would ever wear.
'Oh, mother! I'm NOT ever, ever, ever going to wear that! Put it away!'
I'm slightly worried. The other thing is all my teenaged girls are forced
into sensible clothing - no sexy underwear or revealing clothes - midriffs
covered if you please. Boys don't have sexy clothing, of course (just like
men, why is that?). I swear we are breeding a generation of women with
kidney problems with the current fashion for cut off tops and low cut jeans.
You notice stuff like that being in a university - yards and yards of
midriff all the way to the library. Even in the middle of winter. Sigh -
now I seem to be completely off topic.
> I am not a real granny, BTW. Granny was a alternative to Prattchet's
Nanny.
> I thought crabapple sounded nice and sour and green.
>
Yes, good choice.
> Someone posted a very nice
> >> creamy-brown and sage green room in the binary group and I related to
it
> > at
> >> once. Very me.
> >
> > Hmm - yes you're right there is a lot of beige and brown. I hate
beige -
> > horrid muddy grey colour.
>
> OH! No-no-no. There are lots of beiges, all different. Like people saying
> 'I hate grey.' Which grey? or, 'I like red.'
> I like most reds. Some reds. Some of them I hate.
>
> I'm warming up to brown as I get older but it
> > used to be the colour of my school uniform. Need I say more?
>
> Oh lor... I had a sudden memory there of long navy blue bloomers and I
hope
> I haven't sent some guy into a strange endocrinal fit.
> I don;t think I would fancy brown. Brown blazer? Doesn;t feel right.
Navy,
> bottle green... maroon at a pinch, or black. brown? Ummmm.
> Striped, if you are terribly, terribly posh.
> We wore maroon with a straw boater in Summer.. <heavy sigh> Who thought up
> straw boaters in a mixed school? Mine used to live in the tops of trees
most
> of the time.
Well, the brown was the sixth form uniform and it was pretty awful. We had
maroon when we were savages. I've never got over that at all. Can't stand
maroon. Thank god I didn't go to a grammar school (one of the new
comprehensives) so we never had boaters. Be glad you didn't get white
cotton gloves as well in summer.
> >
> > Well, husbands are different and it doesn't do to let them be in charge.
> > Mine seems to be turning into Shed Man though. What is it with men and
> > sheds?
> >
>
> Ahhhhhhhh. Sheds. Does the phrase 'old shed arj shed' make sense to you?
> Pork pies? Molishing?
No - I think you're further south than me (!).
>
> My man's shed is in the back bedroom. A shed is a state of mind.
Yes that's right. Mine has an indoor shed as well as the one in the garden.
Perhaps it's because I've allowed him to have two that he's drifting off
into Shed Land.
Best wishes
Maxon
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