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Does anyone else get attached to oven dishes I wonder? I'm madly in love with one of mine - but she's not interested Andy, Oh dear. Have you tried annointing her with virgin olive oil and gently introducing her into the culinary delights? |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Can anyone explain to me how , when it is a teachers' strike all the world blames them for everything including the attacking of a boy at 4pm on the day of the strike - 'It was because the teachers were on strike' BUT when the people at the oil rig go on strike and cause chaos with petrol in Scotland and elsewhere... it is Gordon Brown's fault? No-one has commented on the fact they shouldn't be striking. A non contributary pension? we should be so lucky!! I am waiting for the petrol crisis to be blamed on the teachers !!!  |
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« Reply #5658 on: 09:49:10, 27-04-2008 » |
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Not the world, just the media (and especially the press) - who in Britain at least are the equivalent of the playground bully looking for someone to kick, preferably someone who can't hit back. It's a technique used against public servants of all descriptions for decades.
I always liked Bill Morris' comment about how every tabloid journalist writing about workshy Britain should be forced to sign a declaration to the effect that they hadn't taken a a long liquid lunch in the past week ...
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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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Not the world, just the media (and especially the press) - who in Britain at least are the equivalent of the playground bully looking for someone to kick.
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Yes, on the way back from London yesterday and only down south, we noticed a number of petrol stations with signs saying "no petrol". It seems much more sensible up here than down there. Apparently there are 70 days worth of supplies so there really is no need to panic.
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I'm having one of the days where I just don't know what I'm doing with myself. staring at the floor, appearing to ignore people when in fact I have no idea they're there. Made the mistake of listening to Winterreise last night which probably has a lot to do with it. Went all the way up to college only to see an assignment waiting for me, with the worst mark I've ever got from the place, admittedly it was done in one night, with a hypothetical concert-budget described as "singularly opaque".  |
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"It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set"
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« Reply #5662 on: 17:10:23, 28-04-2008 » |
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I guess I am just having 'One of those days' euranto.
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« Reply #5663 on: 17:34:56, 28-04-2008 » |
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A - MLC&U thread has a question for you. Tommo
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« Reply #5665 on: 18:57:02, 28-04-2008 » |
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« Reply #5666 on: 19:01:20, 28-04-2008 » |
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WHAT?!! Strina, that sounds beyond ludicrous and indicates that you may not getting the whole story. Perhaps the audience member concerned should avoid any kind of concert with twinkly bits e.g brass sections, percussion, harps (some) and as for those reed instruments!
What on earth happened?
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I'm having one of the days where I just don't know what I'm doing with myself. staring at the floor, appearing to ignore people when in fact I have no idea they're there. Made the mistake of listening to Winterreise last night which probably has a lot to do with it. Went all the way up to college only to see an assignment waiting for me, with the worst mark I've ever got from the place, admittedly it was done in one night, with a hypothetical concert-budget described as "singularly opaque". Speaking as someone whose concluded theyre allergic to most academe, may I interject a paraphrase of Tom Peters,who advocates rewarding failure on the lines of that Beckett quote Reiner mentioned- '..fail again! fail better!' because it evinces original thought. In music conservatoire terms, an old aquaintance of mine met Phil Woods ,the veteran sax man, who opined that U.S. college students are often brilliant at essaying Coltrane or whoever, but not brilliant at expressing original ideas. I think this is sometimes a wrong-headed expectation of classical academe -present tutorial company Very much excepted -as well,so it may be that you are in fact ahead of the game expressively and organisationally. |
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #5668 on: 19:05:17, 28-04-2008 » |
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That complainer sounds oafish and sexist- long may there be twinkling echoing the sparkling sounds therewith. As my ancestor would have said '..Twinkle and be damned(sic), Madam' |
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'...A celebrity is someone who didn't get the attention they needed as an adult'
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« Reply #5669 on: 19:23:36, 28-04-2008 » |
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That sounds absolutely appalling, strina - have you or anyone else spoken to the MU about it?
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