That wasn't me, spendi - I rather like traditional Celtic music, particularly Irish - not the maudlin pop stuff, or the neo-Celtic "Atmospheric", new age-y crap, but the authentic old-form folk music of the Celtic culture. Clannad and The Chieftans are among my favorite groups.
No sweat timber-
Feel free to say anything you want about the dear man.It won't make any difference to him or to me.
I don't know about anybody else.I suppose it's possible that my admiration for him would be less strongly conveyed if there were to be negative comments to balance it out and a few young men would have it pass them by as a result.Probably a good thing too.We wouldn't want any young lads learning anything useful now would we?It's better if they just pass the trousers across without a murmur really.
It's okay is Irish music.All music is okay in a way.
You couldn't listen to a lot of though.
The suggestion that there is anything useful to be learned by reading Flaubert nearly had me choking on my dinner . . .
Timber, I consider Clannad as new age elevator music. The Chieftans I like , mostly because they ARE NOT traditional. Hell their last two CDs had cuts with Sting Bono The Stones and Ry Cooder.
Their music starts, gets to a point , and then ends. The Irish music I cannot stand is the interminable chorus after chorus about bloody red this, or "My loves own song" or stuff like that. IT never ends. Among the perps of the crime of singing Irish folk songs are Kilfenora, The Clancy Brothers, Sean O/neill and some others that I would rather forget .
Id rather poke my eye out with a stick than listen to Irish folk music. I have the same opinion about Gus.
Will Mcaull Smith did a 2 paragraph summary of madame de Bovary in Setswana and it was hilarious.
fm-
Come on.Lets see it in translation.It's sounds great.
Don't ask me to do one in English though.I could do it in one sentence actually as long as I'm allowed to include "sap","stoat" and "snake".Which is wriggling alitereration in case you need it pointing out.
Setanta wrote:The suggestion that there is anything useful to be learned by reading Flaubert nearly had me choking on my dinner . . .
Well I'm very sorry to hear that Set, try digesting slower...
And digesting slower is facilitated by masticating longer which is itself a function of impatience according to the formula S=pi r cubed where pi is the number of cherries and r is the number of small pototoes you can swallow without your Adam's apple popping your front shirt stud and S is,as everybody knows,your Stupidity Quoitient.
How's it going Steve?
Damned good job, spendi- I'm impressed - finally somebody has managed to distill the entre body of science behind Creationism/ID-iocy into a mere few words - looks like you've mathematecally nailed every point there is to the proposition.
spendius wrote:And digesting slower is facilitated by masticating longer which is itself a function of impatience according to the formula S=pi r cubed where pi is the number of cherries and r is the number of small pototoes you can swallow without your Adam's apple popping your front shirt stud and S is,as everybody knows,your Stupidity Quoitient.
How's it going Steve?
not bad at all thanks Spendi. Only one or two bits I've found hard to swallow.
Like winning the toss and getting battered.
spendius wrote:Like winning the toss and getting battered.
well if Flintoff had not to get up in the middle of the night because he won a prize or something, things would be different. Bloody disgrace if you ask me. I mean, who's game is this? They should be damned grateful we taught them the rules, and let us win. And that applies to Pakistan too.
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Technical foul
Improper use of metaphor in a thread about DIESEL OIL.
10 PARAGRAPH PENALTY.
strictly speaking that should have been
Against whom is the penalty?
youm.
I cant do anything to spendi till he sobers up.
farmerman wrote:youm.
I cant do anything to spendi till he sobers up.
damn
how long have I got for the 10 paragraphs?
George wrote-
It depends on whether you go for the Wal-Mart version or the poetic intellectuallism of European headbangers.
Have you ever been in a Walmart? (I have not.)
The verse is from Yeats.
George asked-
Quote:Have you ever been in a Walmart? (I have not.)
No.But I once went into a Tesco's which I gather is a bit similar though probably smaller as are most things here compared to what you have.My contact with retail outlets is practically non-existent due to arrangements I made many years ago and is confined to pubs where the beer is a mere adjunct to argumentative disputations mainly concerning sports or the predatory nature of the female sex,manifestations of which being readily available for direct inspection in such places.The general disorientation probably renders the male of the species easier to sneak up on and capture after which,he is never seen again.It is surprising that David Attenborough has never made a film directly of the process obviously preferring a more obtuse approach.
