Anything which requires amounts of self-inflicted pain and tribulation to relieve it in an otherwise healthy organism which is comfortably esconsed in luxury and contentment. Packing a suitcase being medium severe pain. Finding it very severe.
Is that a guide to the last questioner?
Not everyone travels out of boredom; sometimes it's curiosity. And sometimes you want to visit someone, n'est-ce pas? Or your heard about something (Oktoberfest, an opera in Verona, the bull thing in Pamplona) and you want to experience it.
Is that so hard to understand?
It would be for Spendi, get past 2 and 2 and he has difficulties.
Aren't you at your pub Spendi?
Not at the moment.
I have just returned and am now having to suffer that terrible hiatus which the Government has legislated into being through which I have to wade in order to earn the right to return there tomorrow night whilst maintaining my dignity.
How can 22 measly hours seem so long and far away with only a Test Match first day,two good books, A2K, some frantic ****-shifting and the biological urge satisfactions to help it pass painlessly?
Because none of any of that holds a candle to that niced buzzed feeling you get after a few drinks and a couple of hours in the pub.
Did you call me an "American lady living in rural England?"
Is that honestly how you think of me?
*I just checked out that ID thread you keep talking about. Interesting. My real question is what exactly is your stance on Intelligent Design. (I learned more about what you think about Dylan than ID in my short time reading).
In a nutshell it is what has been called that "oceanic feeling" one gets sometimes, and which one can conjure up with practice, wherein certainties dissolve thus leaving the intelligent designer triumphant; the alternatives, with all their boring rules and laws, having been eliminated according to the basic principles of logical positivism.
Stepping on a thistle when gambolling naked across a meadow to welcome a warm spring morning liquidates the feeling instantaneously which suggests that anti-IDers feel like thistle-stepping feet all the time and can only relieve the pain by casting themselves into the role of the intelligent designer of their own and everybody else's life.
Do you think pubs should be subsidised by the government?
So, you're pro-ID because it's more comfortable than any of the alternatives?
Doesn't the government (in a manner of speaking, through taxpayers) subsidize pubs by levying taxes on the products sold within the pub?
Do I think they should? Probably not. But it's business - right?
And business shouldn't be subsidised, I agree. Especially big business, which happens in the US and here too.
Do you think it's right that my great nephew has a free taxi to take him to school when his father could drive him, and they have chosen to move to a rural area from a town? (His great grandmother says he should walk, since it's only 2 miles)
That sounds kind of out of the ordinary. In our little village, if you live less than two miles from the school you are responsible for your own transportation. More than two miles and you get a pass for a school bus. Those who live less than two miles and want to pay for the bus, can.
Is there no bus that goes to the school in the village? (I think he should walk too - or ride his bike or the bus- that free taxi thing is going to give him a real sense of entitlement).
No, there isn't a bus, only the taxi service. He's big and strong and old enough to walk but that doesn't seem to be done these days. Ah well.
Do you have a good bus service to the city or do you rely entirely on car transport?
We do have bus service that runs right by our drive actually. The kids use it more than I do- I'm always running late - you know how it is - so it's a lot easier to run out and jump in the car- no stops-no waiting.
Do you live right in town?
No I don't, but I do live on a bus route in the event my car was not working.
Do you pick up hitchhikers?
No, but I'm always tempted to. I wish I felt safe enough to help them out, but I don't.
Do you (pick up hitchhikers?)
If I feel like it, I do. I trust my instincts.
Do you live in a 'safe' neighbourhood?
Yes, nobody would dare walk about round here at night.
You would like to live in your own utopia?
No. I have no confidence in my ability to design a utopia. I would much rather have a utopia designed by an agreed consensus.
Would you class yourself as a narcissist?
Not at all, when one is surrounded with love, there is a natural tendency to be complacent regarding one's popularity and keep it reserved.
Is your life akin to being in solitary confinement?
There are significant similarities.
Would you deny that?
I would speak the truth and say I wish it was at times.
Don't you answer your mobile at least 200 times a day, land-line about twenty, not counting the Indian Continent courtesy calls or the double glazing guy from Nairobi, then there are the visitor's, in laws, friends of friends, associates and worse of all, idiots delivering stuff, you know for the garden.
They turn up in a scruffy old wagon dripping oil all over the place ask you a silly question like do you want it here Guv? Then dawdle about so you end up unloading it yourself and they want a bloody tip.
Is it any wonder my patience is stretched at times?
Don't make excuses for your mood swings Mathos.
Am I the only person in the whole world who doesn't have a mobil/cell phone?
