Lola at the Coffee House

The truth, to you, FF, is an unpleasant incident. Whoda thunk such a thing.

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We're driving down to Wales today, to Betws-y-Coed to be precise, so could I have a latte to go? And two of your lovely sticky buns.

A picture perhaps after McTag?

The Masters is my least favorite tournament of the year, but this was an exciting one. The controversy over Tiger's screw-up was enormous...and showed up at the course yesterday from the moment we opened. Amazing the various reactions. And the ending...with two very decent guys battling it out with almost identical shots was a joy to watch. Either guy could have won and delighted the majority of fans.

Good to see a golf-loving country like Oz with a Green Jacket.

All the experts said Woods should have been disqualified. As he wasn't all the players below him lost prize money and those immediately below him lost about $80,000 each.

As I understand things there is a new rule by which a committee can waive the rules if it is in the committee's interest to do so as it was in this case. The implication is that Media is running golf. Which is fair enough considering Media runs elections.

I saw Fred Couples say that it took him an hour to play one hole.

I saw one shot of a gallery and the only person in long pants was a lady.

I have no idea whether that statistic is true or not or whether, if it is, it can be justified, but even if it is partially true I think it is important to debate it and not hide away from it.

When cake decor takes precedence over matters of that nature there is a sense of voluntary self-lobotomy being in operation.

Read Persuasion JT and see the attitude taken to Captain Wentworth who is portrayed as becoming rich, and thus sexy, from government sponsored piracy.

Admiral Croft looks forward to another war so that naval officers can all get rich.

The Marquis de Sade uses war profiteers as his worst villains and Bernard Shaw raised the same issue in relation to armament manufacture.

Dylan says somewhere that "Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid."

Make sure the gammas look like gammas I suppose. Which they did.

The landlord in my last pub tried to put the bar staff into uniform. We blew him away in three days.

So who went to jail for the murder?

We argue here fm. We have no guns. If you want to carry a gun you have to join the army. You can't buy machismo at a swap meet in a civilised country. And we don't put caddies in those sort of uniforms either. That's almost as bad as having a catalogue number tattooed on the forehead.

Are they a bit patrician down in Georgia?

What's ADD? I've asked you already and you have not replied. You used the acronym. Are you not paying attention?

If Joe asserts I'm not paying attention it doesn't mean I'm not. It only means that Joe asserted I'm not, presumably because he could then sit back complacently smirking at his own wit after having done so.

I sometimes think that Americans have companions because they feel a bit silly talking to themselves.

It's what Americans call ADHD, and it's just as wrong as fannies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder

problemwith you is that you attempt to use American vernacular and dont know of what you speak. "Blown away" has a limited number of meanings in our urban parlance,trying to draw gun ownership into the discussion is a panicky attempt by you to correct your misuse of US jargon. Thats ok, just understand that we have trouble with your slang also, but usually we will ask first if we misunderstand.


"Whats ADD has been answered several times by others--do you not read? or are you just interested in your own recitations.?

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (ADD)
There was an interesting CBC series on "ADD and Loving It"--it noted the fact that , when we write, a quick turn of phrase with disconnected subject insertions (without proper transitions), is symptomatic of ADD. Thats why I called your attention to your habit of quickly jumping from one phrase to another, both with different subjects and points, (And often one or more being totally disjointed). According to the Drs on the CBC, this is also symptomatic.

Spendi was using British vernacular, blown away means just what he said it does, in the UK at least.

two civilizations separated by a common language

He didn't say what it meant.

Well, you don't say what you mean when talking to us, there's just an assumption we'll understand. Why should we behave any differently?

Someone used the phase 'drank the koolaid' when talking about Blair, and someone else is very fond of using the term 'pablum,' both phrases are meaningless over here. Neither product is available outside of specialist shops.

Jesus H. Christ, so we have to have all this hatefulness in the coffee shop?

I'd like a mug of strong coffee, cream and sugar, and some biscuits and red-eye gravy.