RosieH

maxxi, you can join too! hurrah!!!

Jesus wept, Otta, it doesn't matter how many times you ask, you can't be in the clique. You had your chance, and you blew it. It's six years later, move on...

(but if you come round and take my tree down, I'll let you be in my clique - we wear designer headbands and eat ortolan).

Stupid online shopping site hasn't delivered to my chosen delivery address but to an old address they had on file.

Not going to be able to re-order niece's presents in time for Christmas now - any chance anyone knows anyone in the building and might be able to help?

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> > Reiki. WTF is that all about? What a load of

> shit

> > & how can anyone possibly fall for it?

>

> My OH has done reiki on people who claim to have

> felt better afterwards. Come to think of it one of

> them is a GP. My view of it is that if it works it

> must be doing something. If you can buy that our

> bodies are channels of energy which can get

> blocked in times of stress then you can fall for

> it. Didn't Jesus go around healing people by

> putting his hands on them according to the bible?

> This doesn't prove anything and you're entitled to

> call it a load of shit. I happen to think there is

> more to it without particularly wanting to explore

> it.

There is more to it - it's the placebo effect. Scientifically proven.

I think in made-up Jesus land, it wasn't intended to be the placebo effect, it was something quite other - god being omnipotent and all, and Jesus being the son of god, he actually cured people - in the manner of Wolverine actively self-healing, rather than just having some hot hands near him (sadly, not mine).

But I'm enjoying the notion that reiki woo merchants are the messiah in disguise. To paraphrase One Night in Bangkok, One woo's very like another, when your head's down over your patients, brother.

Fabby Daddy (whom I'd occasionally like to punch in the face, but mostly I think is handsome and correct, only don't tell him I said so) goes to Quids of course.

That's Jonny Gowlett.

And his art student chums.

Really, I don't know where they get the audacity.

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> > I must say I'm a fan of Gowlett Johnny. A man,

> > flawed like the rest of us, who bangs to the

> beat

> > of his own drum. He has the nervous spark of

> > entrepreneurial energy that keeps him

> busy....Most

> > recently an old converted double decker bus.

> With

> > a full pizza oven in the back and seating with

> 30

> > odd covers. Love it.

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> The Crust Conductor. Which has now been moved to

> the courtyard of the Brick Brewery. Craft beer and

> bespoke pizza. What's not to like.

God, The Crust Conductor! Pizza on a bus. It's ridiculously hipster.

Come on Jeremy, if it's a thoroughly joyless experience you're after, who needs Harvester when uncleglen's invited us round to his?

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> .....sorry. just morphed into Rosie there for a

> sec. Sorry but both of these guys are monumental

> bellends.

Met 'em. They're nice. And Louisa, they're not from the Home Counties. What a monumental load of parochial cock.

I like what they're doing. They're excited about cereal, it's nice to feel positive about something, eh?

Myself, I'm ambivalent verging on disappointed about cereal, so I'll probably never eat there. But it's nice that they're brothers who had a ridiculous idea, and rather than doing what most of us would do, and boring our mates about it in the pub for years to come, about what could have been and what should have been, they opened a cafe that champions their obsession.

Ah, the season of goodwill. I wonder how your shrivelled little hearts summon up the power to keep beating throughout the day.

My work here is done.

It'd be better if you did more swears.

I'm feeling sweary.

Sheesh Jeremy. That's what I just said. Only I did it with more swears.

Yeah, because Nuno Mendes's Viajante sold food that was WAAAAAYYYY cheaper...

This is a bullshit story, a journalist with not enough stories on his hands, pushing his agenda against a start up business, because he couldn't get in to interview anyone at Town Hall Hotel.

He can cock off. Twat.

Thanks for the link Rolo. Wasn't aware of that. Sterling.

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> Bit quiet in the office this morning. Someone just

> made a cuppa.

Did they insist on talking to you while you drank it?

I'm wearing my Morrissey Christmas jumper. It's gone down less well in the office than anticipated. I feel a vague sense of disappointment.

Provided they've been eating fair trade organic pineapple, it's all good.

I like cheese.

And local businesses.

Mmm, Cheese Block cheese.

Oh yes, I'm aware of that Blah - I'm not disputing for a second the terrible harm done to the planet by an over-reliance on beef and dairy (don't know if anyone's watched Cowspiracy? it's a bit sixth form in outlook, but utterly compelling in its message).

I'm firmly of the belief that people should take responsibility for what they consume - food, clothing, consumer goods, the lot. I'm very far from perfect, but I try to educate myself and do what I can. I know I could do better. But I do find myself getting wound up by people who blithely talk about the suffering of little bitty animals, without for a second thinking about the suffering of the planet or its population in relation to all the other choices they make.

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> RosieH, you suggest that the deforestation of the

> Amazon is because of vegetarians, is that right? I

> don't have any facts to hand but I'd bet you a

> stiff drink it isn't.

Wow, way to twist what I wrote. I said that production of soya causes mass deforestation. If you don't have the facts to hand I suggest you look it up.

Poor Jah.

I guess I wasn't terribly specific, but things like soya causing mass deforestation, our western faddish taste for quinoa (not sure about fake prawns, but I know it's in Linda McCartney's fake scampi) now pricing native bolivians and peruvians out of their own nutritious crop, so they're forced to eat cheap junk food instead, demand for almond milk killing bees and causing drought - this all sticks in my craw a bit when I'm being preached at by vegetarians who eat this stuff.

To be fair, it's only really the OP who's been preachy, but the post put me in mind of high horses and glass houses and black pots and the like.

And surely if you love animals / the planet, people not eating them for even 6 months is preferable to not giving up at all.

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> People will just carry on doing exactly what they

> want to do, adjusting their lifestyles according

> to fads or their own conscience. The fact that

> plastic bags are still being given out willy-nilly

> just goes to prove that no-one cares about

> non-renewable energy for a start let alone abuse

> of animals to satisfy our appetites.

Meh, plastic bags are a red herring - bread and circuses. The environmental impact compared with eating meat or dairy, flying away on holiday, driving a car, keeping a pet, having babies, is really minimal.

Do committed vegatarians / vegans shun quinoa, soya or almond milk, or is it only the animals that matter and not the people or the planet?

The higher the horse, the bigger the bump when you fall on your arse.

Yeah, Jah, that's an unusually unsympathetic response from you, and unwarranted.

It is intimidating. I've intervened in the past when a man was racially abusing a woman on a packed bus. He turned on me and started threatening, at quite some volume, to rape me with his crutch. Which now, with the passage of time, sounds kind of funny it's so preposterous, but at the time I genuinely feared for my safety. The driver did nothing. None of the other passengers did anything. We held our own until eventually he got off the bus, at which point I felt really shaky and tearful, and I'm pretty bolshy.

You never know when it's going to turn nasty. There've been instances of women physically attacked and even killed for rejecting an unknown man's unacceptable behaviour, so not saying something there and then isn't remotely pathetic.

It helps when you can talk about it so you know you're not going mad. And Foxglove, you're not. It's shit. Have a whisky mac and put on some Christmas songs and remember that although there are cunts everywhere you go, most people aren't. The anger and adrenalin will abate, and you'll still be lovely, and he'll still be a cunt

xxx

Perfume smells different on skin from on paper, so something you like the smell of may not smell the same when she wears it.

One question, and I don't mean to be a black hat bastard about things, but has she expressed that she'd like to try a new perfume?

If not, it might be worth getting her the matching parfum (if she has the eau de toilette say) or body lotion. I only say this because perfume's a very personal thing, and I've had people buy me perfume in the past that was perfectly nice, but I never wore because it just wasn't me.

That said, Jo Malone's a good shout. All gorgeous.

Or the guy that spent ?36k on hookers.

I bought a jumpsuit. I was going to buy it anyway, but by buying it today, I have saved myself ?75.

I look awesome in it.