SeanMacGabhann

and not a swearword in sight Brendan!

Didn't they make a documentary about this? Starring Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland I think... Flatliners? ;-)

MelG - presumably that's because you are a practicing Christian and not just because that's teh one thing you can't face? Even as a child I've never quite bought the idea - and the Catholic Church's particular choices of the afterlife is partly what made me realise they couldn't be right The question I can never come close to answering is - "why would there be anything else"? If it's because of some unknowable deity thing then, even if it's true, I'm not interested. Is all of this purely some sort of exam??? Thanks for the option...

On the back of a conversation in another thread... Do people think this (our 4 score years on this earth) is it, or do people believe in anything "beyond" It doesn't have to be religious - although it clearly needs faith! - but it' an interesting question ( © shosh... but maybe not tosh)

ah that'll be another thread...

Indeed Shosh - and when Cassius said it I agreed with her too. It's certainly not an area where there is a right or wrong.. just right or wrong for the individual. Most of the parents on here are excellent examples of what could be - but then I'm not "not wanting" kids because I fear my social life wiil change, or expense or any of that. But I digress... Oh that? I've reconciled myself with that years ago..

Or worse - decending 12 floors in a lift - a clean run to ground floor and then someone stops it on the 1st floor, gets in and goes down one floor - ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha - very good Well obviously cranking out messages in between excel sheets and with a boss hanging over my shoulder is going to hinder good copy. But if I make mistakes, I care about them...

I wonder how much of Tony from the Burbs arguments are never taken on board purely because his approach to layout and punctuation remain so... idiosynchratic I make plenty of typos (and probably upset Michale P with many a split infinitive - I've never got the hang of those) so I try not to pick anyone up on their own mistakes - but if someone is going to go out of the way to make a point that language doesn't reeaaaaaaly matter then I will probably get upset. No matter how you rank yourself in the grammar "league tables", chances are most of what you have achieved/gotten away with in life so far are because of your ability to translate your cunning/ideas/whatever via language. If you wilfully ignore it's benefits then you stand a much greater chance of being ignored yourself. If you want to do better in anything (argue your points on a forum, get a better job, change career completely, woo a partner) then your ability to understand language and use it properly - in the approriate context - will give you an advantage over everyone else after the same thing Some people are better at it than others and people shouldn't be judged on it alone - but anyone who says it doesn't matter is making a rod for their own back IMO

people who care about punctuation are soooo g.... no, no I can't make that joke and not expect the world to implode ;-)

Indeed Jah - they played a blinding headline set at the End of the Road festival a few weeks back too

Lambchop's newbie is on 6th Oct Spot on re: last Lips album btw. Actually, take a bow for the Rev description as well

mebbe mebbe - but then again maybe MG has been with someone for 40 years - not your cup of tea but it would answer the "how the f*** would you know" question

A trifle harsh perhaps Mr Lush?

Absolutely spot on Cassius. I never ever think of parents as "breeders" or different. Some of my best friends etc etc. I just wish people would "get" that not everyone does want childen.

So that's why I have been so hacked off for the last 10 years!!

I'll bet someone mentions "people who post a message in the wrong thread" as a petty annoyance. Not me tho' - I've done it several times

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > neaten to it by Annaj > > Well she is a tidy one. doh!- duly corrected.

Good morning/afternoon Huguenot! Again, true as far as it goes. Apartheid in South Africa didn't end because Jerry Dammers wasn't "gonna play Sun Cit-tay" either.... but in all cases the groundwork had been done. Most could have been refuted if the years previously hadn't been filled with the relevant demands and growing public opinion. It's why whenever an argument about the environment is raised and the point "what we the little guy do is of no consequence - it's only when big business and government do something will there be any real impact" - which is of course true, but it's only when forced by "the little guy" do the big battle-ships slowly turn circle. If the little guy hadn't done his bit, however ineffective, then the behemoths would never even need to think about changing course

Beaten to it by Annaj - Happy Boifday BB

spoilsport!

I feel duty bound to point out to you as well Rebecca that several dozen of us regular forumites will bein teh Magnolia from 8:30 ish on Friday night as part of a monthly sesh if you fancy joining us http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,169037

And indeed your point taken!

I see that the organisers have responded here

ooops - way off topic now. Back to the Mag please...