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« Reply #2475 on: 09:59:47, 15-07-2007 » |
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Please spare a thought if you will this week for the 14,000 or so denizens of the sleepy seaside burgh of Carnoustie as we are invaded by up to 180,000 visitors for the Open Golf Championship. You can already hardly get into town (car parks suspended and public transport awash) or, for that matter, out (there's a complicated one-way system in operation up to the main dual carriageway to Dundee, and that's temporarily subjected to a 40mph limit). So it's either stay in the house all day or get out very early in the morning and not come back till late (which will rather depend on the weather). So you'll either be seeing a lot of me on this site in the next few days, or nothing at all.....  |
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« Reply #2476 on: 10:05:50, 15-07-2007 » |
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Always a bad sign when you start the day with a grump, Ron. Hope people stop liking hold as a spectator sport and stay away.
Actually, what is the appeal of watching a little white dot fly through the sky?
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #2477 on: 10:27:03, 15-07-2007 » |
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Golf is one of the more baffling sports. I know I'm a hopelessly prejudiced sports-hater, but really....if you really want to see whether someone can hit a little ball into a hole, I'd have thought it would be much easier to see on television.
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« Reply #2478 on: 11:15:02, 15-07-2007 » |
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Well, Ron, from what I have gleaned here about the comprehensiveness and quantity of the Dough listening archive, I would imagine that many people would be delighted to be trapped in your house for the next few days....weeks....  |
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« Reply #2479 on: 11:19:09, 15-07-2007 » |
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There's also a nutty woman in the US who claims she eats nothing (except when she's on planes etc.)
Totally barking...
Is it some weird religion or something? How do people come up with these ideas? So dangerous! They're called Breatharians - the principal exponent was Australian and enjoyed notoriety in the 1990s before getting found out - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inedia |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #2480 on: 13:42:50, 15-07-2007 » |
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Not having much of a life, I got stuck worrying about the first sentence in the Wiki article: "Inedia is the alleged ability to live without food."
Does that mean that 'inedia' actually means 'the alleged ability to live without food', which suggests that there ought to be another (undivulged) word which means 'the actual ability to live without food'?
Are these Breatharian people genuine, bona fide inediacs (in that they are indeed "alleged to live without food", but just happen not to)? Or are they just alleged inediacs?
I think we should be told.
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« Reply #2481 on: 14:59:47, 15-07-2007 » |
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Just reading the Wiki article and am trying not to laugh at the poor woman who "inadvertently killed herself " trying to follow the fresh air diet. I don't think "inadvertently" is the right word really. I'd never heard of Breatharianists before. There's one gullible idiot born every minute it seems. I can't go much more than 2 hours without a drink of some kind. Where on earth do people get these ideas? The Hindu life force "prana" was quoted but I'm not sure it was ever meant to be the only thing to keep you going. I expect there'll be some yogis out there who will tell me otherwise. I'll only take notice of the one with the piccanic basket.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #2482 on: 18:20:14, 15-07-2007 » |
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All of this talk about statistics, specifically as they relate to breasts (did you know that the average woman has less than two breasts?) and cancer (a major cause of statistics), combined rather irritatingly with a command from a senior member of my household to clean the kitchen yesterday. The thing being, that I haven't really used the kitchen much recently, and generally the only time I asked to clean the kitchen is when I've not been using it much at all. Anyway, I was made quite grumpy upon seeing this notice, looking around, thinkgin "there's only a small amount of stuff lying about that I have anything to do with". Of course, anything about 25% (there are four of us) would render me culpable. So I cleaned up both the kitchen and the bathroom. I'm still rather inclined to think that I do a lot more cleaning about the house than anyone else. Oh how I yearn to go back to the times before we abandoned our cleaning roster, when it was EASY to see who was pulling their weight.
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« Reply #2483 on: 22:41:23, 15-07-2007 » |
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Dare I say it, in this house it's pretty clear who's pulling their weight, and where they've pulled it to. Before they lost their cat, they had to set off a bug bomb to fumigate the place. It's tempting to suggest that the cat was just following the rats off the ship.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #2484 on: 00:26:47, 16-07-2007 » |
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I remember these battles so well Increpatio, it makes me shudder-years ago I was given a black eye over
an alleged granule of spaghetti on the kitchen floor, and the seething can be almost equivalent. Its much groovier with two, and I commend you to get out of there as soon as you can.
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #2485 on: 01:18:29, 16-07-2007 » |
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I remember these battles so well Increpatio, it makes me shudder-years ago I was given a black eye over
an alleged granule of spaghetti on the kitchen floor, and the seething can be almost equivalent. Its much groovier with two, and I commend you to get out of there as soon as you can.
Oh no, it's a great place, and I generally get on quite well with my house-mates (though we don't socialize together); have been there for almost two years and, given that I've invested in a flower box, have no intention of moving out any time soon. Just have to weather this one out mentally I think, and be more forceful when we're all back come autumn (live with a primary-school teacher who's fecked off down the country for the time-being). I understand the appeal of two though! |
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« Reply #2486 on: 11:06:31, 17-07-2007 » |
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What's going on with the Proms Listen Again??? There's only three items on there at the moment and none of them work. And yet at every opportunity the announcers spout out the nonsense about every concert being available for seven days. I don't suppose it's their responsibility to check these things. They're manikins.
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« Reply #2487 on: 15:34:14, 18-07-2007 » |
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Oh you passers by, do you know what is in my soul?
Rain, rain, rain and bitter music.
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #2488 on: 15:36:00, 18-07-2007 » |
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Rain, rain, rain and bitter music.
Think you've got yourself another title there, hh...... |
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« Reply #2489 on: 15:37:16, 18-07-2007 » |
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Too bad it was a quote from Harry Partch's diary of his peregrinations: Bitter Music!
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