no thanks, I’ll stick to classical music/Christian hymns/Sinatra.
I now have have the mental image of Warb doing robotic dancing to Come Fly With Me and There is a Green Hill Far Away. It’s a happy image.
Yesterday was one of my fast days so I woke up pretty hungry and I needed to go out and vote and then go off to Alloa so I thought I would just finish off the contents of the tin of beans in the fridge with the last of the bread.
Some way into my breakfast I noticed how the beans tasted a bit icky and then I noticed a pork sausage.
I’ve been Vegetarian since 16… I’m nearly 46 but I’m also frugal and hate to waste food.
So I picked out and rolled the sausages into the compost bin and finished the beans on toast but it really tasted and felt rank.I spent the whole morning feeling kind of sick and sort of contaminated.
My partner had purchased pork and beans in a tin in error, he meant to get veggie sausages and thought that’s what they were when he ate them while I starved.
No amount of toothbrush or mouth wash action could purge the weirdness.
to be honest, this made me LOL.
Don’t worry Warb I sometimes laugh at the misfortune of others. I’m pretty evil really 😄
I went over to see a friend of mine who has had a really bad time recently, He had to go for a run and left me in his kitchen for a bit so I thought I’d do the washing up seeing as he was depressed and the dishwasher was broken.I then uncovered the sheer magnitude of the mankiness of the place. Under all the pans and pots the hob of his very expensive and posh oven was swimming in a good inch of oil and old onions. There was a glass full of teabags that had sprouted and the sprouted plant had died and things had lived in the dried corpse of the sprouted thing and they had died it was just surreal beyond surreal.
It took me a good three hours to get on top of it as he didn’t have bleach or kitchen roll. Slopping out the greasy oniony gloop was really icky.
Darth Id said:
Post-Abortive Stress Syndrom[e]That would be PASS.
Oo! That actually works really well!
I said it b4 & I’ll say it again: Thank You, Jeebus!!!Do I PASS?
Double post, double posted.
When I left you I was but the thesis, now I am the author.
I believe they cloned Rex Harrison expressly for this purpose.
I somehow missed the Caroline Aherne’s call to glory. To get cancer three times in one life is a feckin pain in the arse. https://youtu.be/OzSQwnZ8N-s
Slanderous? I think not.
I propose the formation of a committee to investigate the validity of these claims.
Earwigs – earwigs everywhere.
I like earwigs. They chew up the stuff I stick in the compost bin and make compost. Millipedes and Centipedes are also cool. I love squiggly wigglies of all kinds.
Autocorrect for Winterfell?
There are a heck if a lot of Georges,😂. List is autocorrect for Lost.
at first, I though you were talking about William IV, but he wasn’t George III’s brother, he was his son. So what does George III’s brother have to do with this?
He was George 4th brother and George 3rd’s son he who list to George Washington who was the first president and not George Clinton who was just in charge of parliament.
What?
You’re all clear kid, let’s blow this thing and go home!
The Prince Regent was so unpopular that with a bit of help from Napoleon England might have become a republic. William just walked around Brighton unguarded, saying hello to anyone that greeted him. Just a really nice guy who liked the odd flutter on the horses. Most people forget him.
Just so you know, I don’t hate people in the UK. My ancestors were born in the UK. However there is that ancestor of your Queen . . .
George the 3rd and his brother William were actually rather nice.
He had a rather nasty illness but compared to his potty brained son he was rather decent. If you guys could have waited a bit you could have bolted the the Empire under the Regency and much of the Empire would have joined you.
The institution of monarchy is pretty daft but not that much dafter than electing one of two or three rich people who have never had a day of financial hardship in their life and are probably only in a position to be chosen because they are the spouse, brother or son of a previous head of state. I wouldn’t call Trump a breath of fresh air but he does pong differently 😄
However the people of America, the UK or wherever you find yourself are far more interesting and give far more value and character to their place of origin or adoption than the heads of state, may we be Independent of them all.
They had a cigarette, rolled over… probably farted in their sleep.
Every country has an unfortunate aspect to it and hopefully you will give that a moment’s thought too while the red rockets glare.
I think about that more often than you realize.
I have no preconception of how you think. I can only respond to what you say and my comment wasn’t directed at you but all Americans celebrating Independence from the weirdly hatted people over the pond.
If the Bible was held as an excitingly strange book of myth as we now see Homer or Sophocles I wouldn’t have a problem with picking up a copy and just enjoying it as a piece of literature past and all (in fact this is how I see most religious films and I get a lot enjoyment out of them generally).
But as a guide book on how to run a modern society (which it is often seen as) I am less generous with it or the devotees that use it in this way.
People are very protective of scripture of all kinds because a large sway of the religious communities that use them see them as the unalterable and true testament of God or the Gods. It has a weight for them of being even higher than a scientific treaties or a political manifesto and as such is used to restrict the freedoms of people who don’t and will never believe this to be true.
So it’s fair to contextualise the time in which it was written, what then benefits of the rituals once were and how it’s highly probably not literally true just to counter the toxic effect of people who do fall for the whole shabang. And I would include scriptures of all kinds there including the oldest Hindu Veda to the most modern alien exorcism pamphlet from Church of BadScienceFictonology.org.
To not address what is going on in Coruscant is daft. The Republic being one one easy to destroy mega city would have been weak so while there was something quite daring in leading us to believe Hosnia was that big important PT location I’m glad in a way they didn’t demolish it but if the original Jedi temple exists it would have resonance for either the heroes or the villains to take ownership of the place where Anakin took his first steps into a much larger world, even if it does remind us of how boring and stupid and weird the mechanisms of the old republic were before the Emperor swept them away.
As much as I think Nationalism is a dangerous religion the American people have furnished the world with great philosophy, fine cuisine, beautiful and valuable art, generous charitable contributions and some of the nicest people I have ever met.
It is gifted with landscape of astonishing epic sweep and grandeur and I wish all American’s reading this a very happy collective birthday.
I still hope for an Independence day for my home patch, not for the flag or the dancing or the other local oddities but just to bring democracy closer to home.
Every country has an unfortunate aspect to it and hopefully you will give that a moment’s thought too while the red rockets glare.
Keep your pets in and handle your gunpowder safely and let the festivities be fun.
If you want to argue about war, do it in another thread.
Warb each year you start another thread on this subject but the truth remains. While wars happen people will unnecessarily die. Not necessarily to defend freedom but because someone else orders it. That’s not heroic. It’s tragic. It should stop and if you want to build a shrine to the victims of war build it geographically or on a website without comment. This is a discussion forum and you can’t discuss the memory of the victims of war without discussing the morality or lack of morality of war.
Remembrance of war doesn’t ever make me happy. It makes me angry and sad and depressed.
Maybe war is necessary for us.
It’s not necessary for me so please find another rock to do it on.
So it’s “love the sinner, hate the sin,” which has been identified as hypocritical and bigoted on this forum.
Considering the source is a group that has a tradition going back centuries of punishing the sinners with torture and death when the founding principle is being without sin before casting a stone and removing the plank from your own eye, it’s sort of odd to be used as retort against people who like some of the individuals who might say it but dislike aspects of the organisation that prompts them to.
Honestly just ditch the torture porn in your holy books denounce the torture, past, present and future and get on with being happy on Sunday or whatever day is special to you.
As a member of society If something someone is doing has a negative impact on society in general, it does hurt me so I can go through the legal process or lobby for legal change by all the means legally available to me.
But if I can’t see how it can effect society in general or myself specifically what right have I to even comment beyond general enquiry? It’s interesting to learn new things about people so asking questions is the best way to avoid prejudice which I personally find morally and ethically indefensible.
I have no objection to Orson Scott Card’s religious beliefs (they aren’t and never will be mine but if he finds comfort and value in them they are his and I would defend his right to keep them) and I liked his books until they were tainted by his bizarre political comments and political lobbying (which he is in his right to do as he would argue that ‘promoting’ homosexuality is bad for society in general of which he is a member) but I as a member and a former customer have every right as the injured party to act against him in the same manner. To protect my freedoms, express my disappointment and disgust to allocate my limited money to exciting new non-bigotted authors.
Sorry to repeat this is one example of how I balance morals, ethics and the legal rights of protest and withholding of future payment but it’s a good example I think of how my mind makes those sorts of judgements. Dead artists can neither be quizzed or slandered so it’s very difficult to gauge what they thought back then or how they would react in a modern contest. Ghosts can’t change their mind, sadly. They can’t personally benefit from my pocket money either so despite the rumours about HP Lovecraft I have no problem buying his books (especially from a charity shop). Thrift is a moral and ethical practise I approve of.
But no, GL just had to replace the voice. It was so incredibly important and necessary!!!
They’re his movies and he can do what he wants to with them.
(crosses arms stubbornly)
So if I buy the declaration of Independence I can eat it the fourth of July?