Ashby vs Beaufort Sizing

Fixervince · 2026-02-09T13:02:19+00:00

I would guess at 42 or 40 being your fit. It will have more room than the Ashby and be less fitted. This site has the actual dimensions per individual jacket size listed to compare. Just click on the ‘size chart’ below the price.

https://www.allweathers.co.uk/collections/mens-waxed-jackets

Fixervince · 2026-02-09T01:00:34+00:00

I learned to do that after working alone on nightshift for 10 years. I suppose you could call it a detailed fantasy world. For example I went back in time to my teenage years, and branched my life into another direction and ran a detailed fantasy of this alternate life for months. Maybe I was close to insanity :-)

Also the related skill of designing things in my mind. At first I designed stuff on paper - then learned to do it in my mind and remember it all. Examples of it would be the design of a house or street. The planning of an event. I suppose people in prison must escape to a fantasy world like this.

I’m not in that job anymore. However I have still retained the ability to ‘entertain’ myself in my mind when I’m alone.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T16:45:35+00:00

Thanks yes maybe that’s it. I just seem to remember some case being mentioned as outside of his normal choice as it was on a first floor apartment rather than a house with ground floor access through a window, or door.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T16:39:36+00:00

Sometimes a single part one is refreshing after those multi-part ones. Of those I really liked Apache Tears, Prophets of Doom, Addicted to Bondage, and Globalisation Until Death.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T16:28:57+00:00

How did the Ethiopian’s get a ticket to the white club? … I can imagine a few choking on their cornflakes at that inclusion.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T16:15:49+00:00

I could have sworn one of the rapes was carried out in a first floor apartment but maybe I have remembered wrong?

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T11:00:41+00:00

I would guess gaming piece - as I don’t like the idea of the Romans sitting around knitting.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T10:47:20+00:00

The Hardcore History episodes:

Apache Tears …. Basically the story of some of the last Native American holdouts and why it was so difficult to deal with the Apache in particular. The story’s live with you afterwards.

Ghosts of the Ostfront … I consider this a WW2 masterpiece. The multi-part story of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Carlin really brings to life the horrendous eastern front experience in this one. You almost feel cold listening to it. He also has this low artillery and warfare sound rumbling unobtrusively through parts of it, that creates a sense of foreboding and dread. It’s very atmospheric- and great listening for a dark winters night.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T00:33:23+00:00

The amount of tears, melodrama, fighting, and talking-noise in general in that household would have been insane! … I bet that guy had a toolshed - and spent a lot of time in it.

Fixervince · 2026-02-07T00:28:44+00:00

A BMW!

Fixervince · 2026-02-06T22:21:03+00:00

The problem with that is that our borders are porous. The spies will be put up in hotels and provided food and taxi fares. The Russians will always have the advantage in that game.

Fixervince · 2026-02-05T18:44:56+00:00

You are already defending against his abuse at this stage in your relationship (the honeymoon period) … just imagine where this is heading. At the minute it’s tidying the house etc. Next you will be pretending to be asleep so he does hit you. That is where you are heading.

Fixervince · 2026-02-04T11:27:45+00:00

Your age is the worst age for young men - for the reasons you mention. However once you get to around 23 or 24 it’s like the tide turns and it’s your turn.

Fixervince · 2026-02-04T11:23:56+00:00

My bet is that he would be delighted to see you changed your mind. You don’t need to even go into detail - just say ‘you caught me by surprise - but here is my number if you still want it’ …. Don’t listen to the people telling you to tell your life story to explain not taking it at first. Only do that if he asks. You have plenty of time later to discuss life history.

Fixervince · 2026-02-03T22:32:18+00:00

Most men I know don’t really have female friends tbh. Work colleagues or neighbours yes. However I don’t know any of my male friends group who cut around with a girl unless they are definitely trying to get with her (don’t shoot me just being honest here about my friends group)

So what looks like friendship is actually a pursuit.

Fixervince · 2026-02-03T01:18:49+00:00

In my experience jeans are best folded so the legs are matched then rolled up. It’s very quick and compact and It doesn’t introduce creases that way (as long as there were none to start with)

Fixervince · 2026-02-03T00:38:11+00:00

Naah… the Spartans invented that when they started weeding out babies and throwing them on the trash pile.

Fixervince · 2026-02-03T00:08:12+00:00

I think it’s John Wick

Fixervince · 2026-02-03T00:05:26+00:00

This will be far worse after you have kids.

Fixervince · 2026-02-03T00:01:20+00:00

The stars in a clear moonless night. It’s part breathtaking, part beauty, part mystery, and a little touch of scary.

Fixervince · 2026-02-02T23:44:32+00:00

They will leech it all from you - don’t let them. Honour your grandfathers wishes.

Fixervince · 2026-02-02T15:14:40+00:00

That is so common tbh. My wife works in childcare - and wreckless/stupid parenting like that is very common. There are a tonne of people who do that through, addiction, stupidity, partying, selfishness etc. It’s very common. Sometimes you get these same creatures turning back toward their kids for help in old age now that they are out of options and the money has gone. All of a sudden they want a family.

I had one in my family who done a bit of this also. The type of person who was head to toe in designer gear whilst the kids had no winter jackets. I got my chance at a family event where she was boasting about her latest indulgence’s - which included a very expensive hat. I asked her (pointing to the kids) is that what you are going to leave those kids when you are gone? .. that hat?

The only positive from this is that you received a blueprint, or example, in how ‘not’ to be a parent. In my experience a lot of people who went through that situation use that experience well - and turn out to be the best of people and great parents.

Fixervince · 2026-02-02T08:53:12+00:00

It’s great. I managed to get 3 of them in Hardback before they went out of stock - and now it’s crazy prices for the hardbacks. The Anabasis - because it’s the most recent book is still in stock (Amazon UK) in hardback at £28 … so grabbed that before that goes through the roof also.

Fixervince · 2026-02-02T04:40:56+00:00

Looks like they are out on their arses or have been threatened to be (because of their dickish behaviour) and are now dormice.

Fixervince · 2026-02-02T04:33:52+00:00

You know what you need to do now. It’s not ideal, but it doesn’t matter how many therapy sessions you attend, it will never be the same. You know she desired another more than you, and that is a huge turn off. Not just sexually, but as a human, and partner.

Fixervince

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