The Neverending "Conversation About Everything" Chain

Yesterday I had a great hamburger- perfectly cooked (by someone else), on a soft floury bun, with a wonderfully fresh and crisp dark, green lettuce leaf and slathered in pesto mayonnaise. It was a joy to behold and consume.

Consume is a word I dislike. It means to waste and not just to eat or drink and I would have preferred you to have said that the fat fest, despite the lettuce veil, was a joy to behold and to get the masticating tackle wrapped around and the salivating taste buds twinkling and then we could have avoided having to think about the word through to the end which is why polite society in the 19th century never discussed food or eating.

Eating this particular hamburger was indeed a 'fat fest'- which is something I find a wonderful indulgence on occasion. Messy little drops of glistening grease adorned the plate by the time I was finished.

Finished products of schools of manners and deportment for English maidens of the better sort are often to be seen displaying their superiority and dignity. But throw a few double gins into them and all that academic effort is set at naught as if by magic.

Magic isn't necessary to help young women throw off the effects of that type of sausage mill. Alcohol is a good tool for the job if intelligently used.

Used by many, alcohol would seem to render magical effects on certain personalities. Actually, it's more a matter of chemistry and physiology - specific stimulus interacting with receptors in each individual brain - producing interesting results -same with love and religion (so I've heard) .

Religion has been found by scientists to have been hardwired into our brains by evolution and atheists shown to be deliberately engaging in effortful work against their natural cognitive dispositions. For a fuller explanation see my last post on wande's Intelligent Design thread which is from the Sunday Times.

Times are tough for some at the moment. It sucks to see people paying the price of others' avarice (or possibly incompetence.)

Incompetence and avarice sink into oblivion when I read in today's paper that Qantas CEO was given a golden handshake of $11 million. It makes my blood boil to know this individual worked only 5 months and sacked hundreds of people.

People are like that Dutchy I'm afraid. It's no use getting into a state over it.

It's a betrayal of yourself to completely accept it, though. There IS a limit to how much money one person can use.

Use of water is very restricted in my State. Hand watering the garden is only permitted for half an hour each week, the result of politicians neglecting our infrastructure for years.