Robert Poste's Child

Shabby chic.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Robert Poste's Child Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Anything 'pop-up'. > > Toasters? Not toasters, unless they come in the form of a pop-up event, cafe etc.

Anything 'pop-up'. Nachos. McDonalds. Guinness. Craft beer. Cable TV.

Agree about Facebook. Exploits narcissism. Also Twitter - 99% white noise. False eyelashes and tranny shoes.

That should be an 'or' perhaps.

Dickens. Tom Cruise. CGI. Coffee, bacon and cheese.

So was the girl I was talking about. Probably why he put up with it for so long as he liked his trophies.

I'm sure that's not unusual, Otta. I once shared a house with a couple where the woman would periodically go for the man, first verbally and then physically, including once or twice apparently picking up a knife. She seemed to be trying to provoke him into some kind of a reaction, perhaps because she came from a more fiery culture whereas he was undemonstrative. A few times he did push her away, which was her trigger to call the police, who assumed he was in the wrong. Once they took him away for the night, but that was actually because he was drunk and said something arrogant to the police. Can't say I felt that sympathetic to him as he was a devious sod and I certainly felt the impulse to thump him myself on occasion, but I could see how helpless he felt once she started, and how the threat of it over time made him back off saying or doing anything she didn't like. (Obviously I'm not implying this is true of you, Otta!)

You could give them away via the Wanted section. There's bound to be someone out there who'd like a working radio despite the CD bit.

The new edition of Charlie Hebdo will be available here when it comes out tomorrow. Will you be buying it?

Sounds lovely, HP, but I really want to get a companion sorted before I go this time. I'd ask my stalker but he'd only take it the wrong way and by the time I put him straight I might as well have gone with a toddler. You know how sulky they get.

Good suggestion but right now I want to plan something warm.

We-ell, that's a very kind offer, LadyD, but I'm thinking more Scottish islands or possibly the Amalfi coast or Greece, springtime, light walking, picnic lunch on a hilltop, bit of cycling kinda thing. Glowing rather than sweating, you might say.

That's the problem, LadyD - if I knew anyone I could stand one on one for a fortnight without wanting to offer them violence I'd probably marry them.

My favourite so far on triptogether is Dieter, who dreams of visiting Germany. Dieter is German and lives in Germany. He's living the dream already.

People who STILL put things in the wrong section. And don't get me started on the teaser headlines.

Just looked at triptogether.com and had an urge to shoot myself. Surely those women are looking for husbands rather than someone to go hiking with? Sorry, that sounds ungrateful. May have to fall back on LadyD's suggestion - under another name though.

Thanks, raasaygirl. They look great (is the girl on the home page of helpx.net wearing a bra?) and a friend of mine has done that kind of thing and raved about it, but I'm looking for someone to go with rather than destinations or activities at the moment as I have a few ideas already about where to go. Thanks for the suggestions, though.

I still feel the cartoon was more of a pretext. I keep thinking about the nature of faith and how the mind handles it. A belief is an idea that you hold to be true: you act as if it is true and invest in it emotionally. As I understand it, once that happens the ego takes over to protect it along with the rest of your meaning structure and no longer differentiates between facts and ideas. Under attack it seems that in many people the ego will go to any lengths to avoid having to revise the meaning structure, so attacking a religion would just entrench it further among those with the strongest convictions, even if it enlightens or dissuades those with weaker beliefs. In a theocracy, like Afghanistan or Pakistan, this becomes a collective thing and individuals validate and reinforce each other's actions in support of its defence (so a caliphate in Nigeria would be a disaster if shaped and led by Boko Haram extremists), and any attack on the belief system ?justifies? what seems to outsiders like a disproportionate response. To me, Nazi Germany was quite different. One factor was that in German culture people tend to support a decision once it's made (unlike us in perfidious Albion). PS: I wonder if some people outside the West look us and feel much the same about the way we think and act? Liberalisation and the effects of post-colonialism have softened things in the UK to the point where we believe it's a secular society, but our legal system is based in Christianity, our head of state is head of the Church of England, the heir to the throne may not marry outside the faith and still rule ? even our literature and art is shot through with Christian themes and motifs.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I say Jeez Christ > regularly but don't consider myself a Christian. Fair to say nor would a practising Christian!

I'm aware of that - I just think it's impractical and it would still need to be enforced by the pool attendant anyway, so why make the thing more complicated than it has to be?

Could be an uphill struggle give the fatwa against snowmen today. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/11339641/Saudi-Arabia-fatwa-over-building-of-snowmen.html

...leading to an empty fast lane and 25 in the slow lane! And do you honestly expect everyone to time themselves?

On top of that, according to the records, as soon as Evans joined in the other guy left the room and sat in reception for a few minutes before leaving. Evans called his friend after a few minutes and then himself abandoned the girl in the room, apparently to catch up with him. The report says there was no DNA evidence for rape as neither guy finished what they were doing (paraphrasing slightly but you know what I mean). I wonder if to the jury it may have appeared that Evans interrupted a fairly straightforward, if drunk, encounter and turned it into something nastier. The court report is interesting reading.

The most recent thread on this was the 'one-heeled lady hobbling down Lordship Lane' one which I think is in the main ED section.