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May be you will sleep well tonight too after looking and running and taking care of children.
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If I'd only had the patience I could have been a brain surgeon. Now I'm just a has-bean.
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« Reply #1535 on: 16:04:11, 04-06-2007 » |
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No one is has bee, even me. Once my teacher thought I was promising, but I did not amount to anything. And nevertheless, I am not have been.
Many people here are retired, but they are not have beens. People have so many lives now it is even strange.
My friend-doctor is now for the moment a house wife. She has 20 plus years of experience, was a nurse and then a doctor (in hospital and then general physician). She is not has been. She is talented house-wife.
People have many talents. Doctor-housewife-plants specialist-designer. I don't have as many talents, but I am trying.
I never met have been yet. I don't even know how they look like. I think they are extinct species.
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You are right, t-p....you are what you are NOW, not what you were THEN. Be proud of who you are. I am happy beacuse this time next week I could be on this beach...  Although there is more likelihood I will be on one of these...   Gorgeous...I cant wait to get there ! x Jan x ps my carbon footprint is becoming rather grubby, in fact large lumps of soot are falling off it....ooops! |
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global warming can not be stopped go on zillions of holidays Lord Byron is correct - we cannot stop it! Only the politicians (in their infinite conceit) think we either could or should. They enjoy making us all feel guilty because we have used the fossil fuels they have created for us, and levied extortionate taxes upon us to use. (It's like smoking! - we "mustn't" do it, but they rely upon us still to do so in order to levy the extortionate taxes needed for the economy - in other words, it's all OUR fault [and not {perish the thought!}theirs]). They are the masters - we the mere servants. Don't vote for them - it merely encourages them! My view is this: we have certainly not actually "helped" (no thanks to the politicians!) in safeguarding the planet; but in reality our intervention has been puny and (ultimately) inconsequential. Only the politicians could seriously have us believe that "man" is powerful and big enough to wreak such havoc upon the cosmos (when, instead, we should be taught how for millennia the life of the sun, and its interaction with the life of the Earth, has caused a natural oscillation between periods of warmth and cold). But it suits them all (rotters!) to make us feel guilty. We mustn't - we've done nothing wrong. But what a wonderful "political" opportunity has been converted here: microchips in wheely-bins (to measure and tax our waste); £100 fines for those who fail to make their rubbish ready for collection on the "right" day; Congestion Charges in cities; surcharges on aeroplane travel...etc. etc. etc. The sun does what it does (and has been doing for 4.5 billion years!) - who do we think we can possibly be to presume to stop it!? AARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Baz  |
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global warming can not be stopped go on zillions of holidays Lord Byron is correct - we cannot stop it! Only the politicians (in their infinite conceit) think we either could or should. They enjoy making us all feel guilty because we have used the fossil fuels they have created for us, and levied extortionate taxes upon us to use. (It's like smoking! - we "mustn't" do it, but they rely upon us still to do so in order to levy the extortionate taxes needed for the economy - in other words, it's all OUR fault [and not {perish the thought!}theirs]). They are the masters - we the mere servants. Don't vote for them - it merely encourages them! My view is this: we have certainly not actually "helped" (no thanks to the politicians!) in safeguarding the planet; but in reality our intervention has been puny and (ultimately) inconsequential. Only the politicians could seriously have us believe that "man" is powerful and big enough to wreak such havoc upon the cosmos (when, instead, we should be taught how for millennia the life of the sun, and its interaction with the life of the Earth, has caused a natural oscillation between periods of warmth and cold). But it suits them all (rotters!) to make us feel guilty. We mustn't - we've done nothing wrong. But what a wonderful "political" opportunity has been converted here: microchips in wheely-bins (to measure and tax our waste); £100 fines for those who fail to make their rubbish ready for collection on the "right" day; Congestion Charges in cities; surcharges on aeroplane travel...etc. etc. etc. The sun does what it does (and has been doing for 4.5 billion years!) - who do we think we can possibly be to presume to stop it!? AARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Baz Hear hear! Jan, if you see any good shells.... |
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Re: global warming. The science is unproven, but it looks very much like burning fuels and our hedonistic lifestyles have an impact on the climate. As someone with a 4 year old son, I won't take the risk of carrying on such an extravagant lifestyle...... If you have children, perhaps consider the same?
Anyway, just popped in to say that for the first time ever I have found some beauty in London. All you have to do is look up 6 ft higher than normal. That has helped me find some lovely buildings, and even a garden (Pheonix Gardens).
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« Reply #1541 on: 19:31:36, 04-06-2007 » |
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global warming can not be stopped go on zillions of holidays Lord Byron is correct - we cannot stop it! Only the politicians (in their infinite conceit) think we either could or should. They enjoy making us all feel guilty because we have used the fossil fuels they have created for us, and levied extortionate taxes upon us to use. (It's like smoking! - we "mustn't" do it, but they rely upon us still to do so in order to levy the extortionate taxes needed for the economy - in other words, it's all OUR fault [and not {perish the thought!}theirs]). They are the masters - we the mere servants. Don't vote for them - it merely encourages them! Small niggle on behalf of politicians everywhere: they didn't create the fossil fuels for us, and for the most part they didn't encourage us to use them. If any blame should be apportioned it should be to the scientists who (in their well-meaning way) identified the possibilities of fossil fuels and the industrialists who seized the opportunity to encourage us to abandon the work involved in keeping horses and carriages (to say nothing of the horse pollution ensuing) in favour of nice, clean gasoline engines.  Of course, the politicians have also been lobbied by the industrialists to give their interests serious consideration when it comes to election time. |
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The idea of gasoline engines being nice and clean seems ludicrous to us now but we forget how dirty and smelly the roads were when horses trod them and how few such motor cars there were then anyway.
We should not allow the antics of politicians to get in the way of the arguments. I personally believe that the climate change is just part of a cycle: it's a well-know fact that it was warmer in this country until it all started getting colder in the 1300s. But whatever the facts and causes, saving energy and cutting down on pollution are good ideas regardless.
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