|
Antheil
|
 |
« Reply #8370 on: 19:34:52, 03-11-2008 » |
|
6-chilli jobs/jabs, onion and garlic soup... I bet everyone's very popular at work.
For lunch I did not have a 6 chilli job (Blimey, Missus!) but a Monteray Jack and exceedingly garlicky mixed beans and pepper salad. My Mother, when we were ocasionally poor sickly infants (due to lack of central heating I do suspect and Jack Frost drawing his name on the windows) used to brew up a wonderful, sustaining, white onion soup (none of your poncey thin brown French onion soup in this house she used to say, them with their airs and graces and foll de rolls and cheese croutons. Cheese has no place in a soup) Oh it were lovely, thick with cream, and as white as a dove's breast. Would love to find the recipe. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
|
|
|
|
martle
|
|
« Reply #8371 on: 19:42:11, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Cheese has no place in a soup Witness that ubiquitous and terribly, terribly gauche brocolli and stilton nonsense. Hang on, this should all be over on another thread, right? |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Green. Always green.
|
|
|
|
Antheil
|
|
« Reply #8372 on: 19:53:33, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Cheese has no place in a soup Witness that ubiquitous and terribly, terribly gauche brocolli and stilton nonsense. Hang on, this should all be over on another thread, right? Goodness Martle, I thought it was only me, but you too find brocolli and stilton so terribly gauche as to be rather NOT the on-dit in Polite Society? Merely an ingenue amongst soups we find? Condemmed to juvenile leads until it is made rather more wholesome in appearance. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
|
|
|
|
richard barrett
|
|
« Reply #8373 on: 19:59:07, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Cheese has no place in a soup Witness that ubiquitous and terribly, terribly gauche brocolli and stilton nonsense. Stilton has no place anywhere. (This is a bone fide Grumpy Old Rant by the way.) ( sorry for the Latin there) |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
perfect wagnerite
|
|
« Reply #8374 on: 20:23:31, 03-11-2008 » |
|
A criticism often levelled by doctors at alternative/complementary practitioners, I am thinking particularly of a Report funded some years back by The King's Fund, is that precisely because practitioners spend time talking with patients and discussing their circumstances, it is impossible to evaluate the therapies properly because of the 1 to 1 input and 'the therapeutic relationship', as though this somehow devalues the treatment. So, on the one hand, it's unlikely the treatment works because it's a load of unproven hokum, or the other hand, well we can't tell if it works or not because there's too much talking and hand holding going on. I've been dealing with this attitude from doctors for years now and I cannot tell you how  it makes me. Particularly when I've seen positive results from my own brand of 'hokum' , where drugs didn't resolve the problem. Curiously enough, there are almost the makings of a credible argument there - but certainly not one that should devalue the treatment. If the healing process is in any way psychological, then time with the therapist will have an impact, and will be part of a mix from which it is very difficult to disentangle any one element of the treatment for evaluation. But if doctors are saying that this means the treatment is not valid, they are simply displaying their ignorance of research methodology. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
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)
|
|
|
|
harmonyharmony
|
|
« Reply #8375 on: 20:33:49, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Stilton has no place anywhere.
... but I like Stilton ... I just bought some too ... Stilton has a place in East Anglia no? Just found out that I wrote: 'Beginning to wish I'd never agreed to right it now' instead of 'write'... Well that's a good expression of how well my day has gone. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
'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 |
|
|
|
Kittybriton
|
|
« Reply #8376 on: 20:46:36, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Richard - I have firsthand experience of the success of homeopathic medicine, which quite surprised me since I hadn't expected "nothing pills" to do anything at all. Keep pressing for a referral.
I’ve never tried homeopathy. Did you try it for the urticaria at all? Since, as I understand it, homeopathic treatment relies heavily on a holistic assessment of the patient, I can't say that I tried it for a particular condition, but the predicted occurrence of symptoms (presumably as a result of the medication) really surprised me. I wasn't expecting any change, but once I recognized the developing symptoms (until I stopped the medication as advised) I had to change my opinion. Perhaps someday I will have a better opportunity to follow up some of the (real) research that has been done. ruminations continuing here |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 20:56:04, 03-11-2008 by Kittybriton »
|
Logged
|
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. |
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #8377 on: 20:50:52, 03-11-2008 » |
|
bone fide ... sorry for the Latin there Your Latin looks a little ossified to me.  'Bona' is in any case not Latin but Polari, as any self-respecting homosexual knows. As in: How bona to vada your jolly old eek! |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
richard barrett
|
|
« Reply #8378 on: 21:02:40, 03-11-2008 » |
|
'Bona' is in any case not Latin but Polari, as any self-respecting homosexual knows Those of a certain age, I would have thought. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
time_is_now
|
|
« Reply #8379 on: 21:11:41, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Those of a certain age, I would have thought.
Restitution is back in this autumn. You can read my post as a Ligeti-horn-trio of gayspeak. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
|
|
|
|
martle
|
|
« Reply #8380 on: 21:44:41, 03-11-2008 » |
|
a Ligeti-horn-trio of gayspeak.
I'm going to remember that phrase, subtly insert it into seminars, and become famous in all the best new-musicological circles. Unless you do so first, tinners. |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Green. Always green.
|
|
|
|
MabelJane
|
|
« Reply #8381 on: 21:48:08, 03-11-2008 » |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
|
|
|
|
Antheil
|
|
« Reply #8382 on: 21:53:04, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Cheese has no place in a soup Witness that ubiquitous and terribly, terribly gauche brocolli and stilton nonsense. Stilton has no place anywhere. (This is a bone fide Grumpy Old Rant by the way.) ( sorry for the Latin there) Oh I could not believe "Other local councils have banned "QED" and "ad hoc", while other typical Latin terms include "bona fide", "ad lib" and "quid pro quo". But the move has been welcomed by the Plain English Campaign which says some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important. A Campaign spokesman said the ban might stop people confusing the Latin abbreviation e.g. with the word "egg"  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
|
|
|
|
Bryn
|
|
« Reply #8383 on: 21:57:39, 03-11-2008 » |
|
Cheese has no place in a soup Witness that ubiquitous and terribly, terribly gauche brocolli and stilton nonsense. Stilton has no place anywhere. (This is a bone fide Grumpy Old Rant by the way.) ( sorry for the Latin there) Oh I could not believe "Other local councils have banned "QED" and "ad hoc", while other typical Latin terms include "bona fide", "ad lib" and "quid pro quo". But the move has been welcomed by the Plain English Campaign which says some officials only use Latin to make themselves feel important. A Campaign spokesman said the ban might stop people confusing the Latin abbreviation e.g. with the word "egg" Q.E.D. [Actually, there was a very good, amusing piece on this matter on the Today Programme this morning. Worth checking out on th iPlayer. I think is was quite near the end of the programme.] |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: 22:00:03, 03-11-2008 by Bryn »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Antheil
|
|
« Reply #8384 on: 22:07:45, 03-11-2008 » |
|
I will check that our Bryn, Thanks. Several local authorities have ruled that phrases like "vice versa", "pro rata", and even "via" should not be used, in speech or in writing.
So I hope the online AA Route Planner has taken notice of this banning of the word "via" ?
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
|
|
|
|
