I loved South Park but most of the time I couldn't tell what they said but it didn't really matter because I can laugh at anything which is dealing with what wankers grown-ups are.And really serious persons like,say,the plaintiffs in the Dover trial,just render one into jelly,unless,of course,they are on a money scam,in which case I can be much more understanding and even sympathise.
If I was a cichlid (is that correct?) and my mum and dad had been complaining about how I was being brought up I would imagine I would think that they had lost the plot.Or that they were using me to pull off some stunt or other which was beyond my comprehension.
Ah, LMAO, rooledonthefloorpeeininmypants
Don't put them in the dryer for f***'s sake.
Bernie asked me-
Quote: Do you take the odd weekend and go grouse hunting in Ireland?
I sometimes,in the summer,spend many minutes of my valuable time ushering bluebottles and wasps which have,through no fault of their own,found themselves trapped within my residence.I usually accompany success with a "bon voyage" or a "go get 'em boy".
You don't think I would shoot anything so beautiful as a grouse do you.
spendie
As a young fella, I nailed a seagull in flight with a thrown stone. It didn't seem to affect his equanimity in even the slightest measure and, as there was appropriate cause for personal elation at my throwing skill, it was a wonderful hunting experience all around. Some years later, I terminated a robin's existence with a BB gun. The act crushed me immediately. That's it for my hunting stories.
Bernie-
I dont suppose you have read Alan Clark's diaries but in there he relates a story about shooting a heron which was taking his expensive fish from the ornamental pond at the castle.He said he had a sort of nervous breakdown.Flaubert (I think) has a tale about that sort of thing.Clark's book is worth a read.
When I was in short pants I used to go on the pheasant shoot with my old man without batting an eye but I once saw a two pigs I had help feed slaughtered and butchered and that did it for me.And I've seen the mass kill of turkeys for Kwissmas which had a production line of young girls in horrible aprons.That was a real Naked Lunch.
Aren't we bloody ghastly underneath that cute veneer?
Bernie wrote-
Quote: You must have seen that wonderful Brit documentary of the on-going study where kids, some in private school and some in public school, are interviewed and filmed at seven year intervals in their lives beginning at age seven?
Yeah-I've seen bits of it and read stuff about it.Such things disgust me.Distorting kids lives like that just to make an effing programme.What happened to the dancing girls and the jugglers and the clowns.Can you imagine the self-important twit who thought it up as if it was a stroke of genius.You don't see people at seven year intervals.What you see are people making a TV programme at seven year intervals and there's a hell of a difference.
spendie
Do I understand correctly in thinking you were with the Brit units in Ireland? If so, would you prefer the subject to remain undiscussed or tempered in some manner?
How typical of the Mountie, to show such a delicate sensibility for those who casually slaughtered the Irish with little to no evidence of the individual guilt of any who got in their way. By all means, let us not upset Spendi if he were a career SAS assassin . . .
LOL...I'm delicate on almost all matters, but that one hadn't occured to me. I shall rephrase my previous post.
spendie
Are you as much of a consciousless shitheel as my friend setanta suspects? Did you, in fact, gut any northerners? Please forward all confessions - notarized, of course - to my mother.
The SAS usually relied either upon a clean bullet at range, or stirring up the Prods--you know, the UDF? The narco-terrorists in Norn Iron today are Merry Old's proudest production in Ireland . . .
Yup. I like spendius a lot. Rather as I like you a lot. Two utterly bizarre and interesting humans I've had the pleasure to talk with here.
I seem to recall that he served, and my assumption was that it must have been up north. And he's a gentle guy - a drink-sodden lover of words and women like yourself and equally ready to throw a mince pie in an argument - so I wondered, given the earlier notes on our mutual distaste for slaughter, how he might have experienced the sort of environment wherein I would be simpering 24 hours a day.
Bernie-
Never been to Ireland.Don't know anything about it.I leave that stuff to people who know what they are talking about.It has nothing to do with me.People fight over money.People fight-people get killed.That's okay.But blowing kids up isn't okay and I don't care whose kids.
Can't figure where your pal's coming from.Probably an armchair by the sound of it.Can't do words either.No idea.
If I told you I would have another pin through me in the display cabinet but it was mostly sleeping and eating and drinking and cards and swimming and sunbathing and reading three day old papers retailing shite to "the good folks back home" who voted for defence cuts and got us here now.You won't see me with a 20c poppy on my shirt.
And I'm not in the least bizarre and it isn't "women"-it's English Roses.Unornamented birthday suit jobs whose lips go upwards at the corners.
Did you see the movie?It makes you wonder what Dylan has in his locker room.Picasso had a mountain of stuff hidden.
did not get to see it...going to try again tonight
Quote:Are conservatives evolving?
Is that noise we hear from Dover the sound of the Republican Party tearing itself to pieces? It's probably wishful thinking to imagine that some kind of tipping point was reached when voters in that Pennsylvania town booted eight fans of intelligent design off the local school board. But a look through the Op-Ed pages to see what conservatives are saying in the last couple of days about science and religion sure seems to suggest that trouble is brewing.
First up, George Will, who wrote in his column this week that "it is injurious, and unneighborly, when zealots try to compel public education to infuse theism into scientific education."
Not only that, but it could lead to a far, far worse sin: Republicans could lose power!
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/11/18/intelligent_design/index.html
excuse me while I enjoy this.........
Lola-
Trouble is always brewing.We are trouble incarnated.The issues are irrelevant.Can't you snuggle up on a soft sofa with a glass of wine and a good book and let the river flow?
Vatican says intelligent design isn't science
VATICAN CITY
11/18/05
The Vatican's chief astronomer said Friday that "intelligent design" isn't science and doesn't belong in science classrooms, the latest high-ranking Roman Catholic official to enter the evolution debate in the United States.
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
BBB, thanks for that. The Church is finally wising up. The Catholic Church has learned not to hitch their theological wagon to psudo-scientific positions that the science of the moment cannot repudiate--such as the age of the earth. Now, they realize that fundamentalist protestantism in the U.S., in its attack on evolutionary theory, is exposing itself to future humiliation (as evolutionary science progresses and ID does not). Inevitably, in the future the Church will survive the humiliation of the protestant anti-evolutionists. Smart move, if you ask me.
Here we see politico-theological variation within the Church, and it's to be expected that Coyne, with his scientific training, should take a position more rational (and progressive?) than that of the conservative Schoenborn.
