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Deceased..........

Last night my mum asked my dad to go and make her some toast. He went upstairs to the kitchen to do as he was asked. He must have fallen over in the kitchen. He bashed his head. A neighbour found him shortly afterwards. He was dead.

There are many members of CS who met and knew my dad. Some came over on a lunch from Malta and went round to the villa and met him and my mum.

Other CS members came from other countries and met him - ok, they might have come to meet me but they found my dad more interesting to talk to!

You may be aware that I can't post in forums, but I DO have the email facility if anybody wishes to contact me.

I'll fly back to Malta in the next few days - not sure when the funeral will be but you if you knew him you'll be welcome to come ......the one thing I do know is that he does NOT want any flowers - he has always prefered money to be spent on the living rather than the dead.
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How to spot a British tourist..............

How hard is it to spot a tourist from a particular country?

A few years ago it was really easy to spot an English tourist in a hot climate; well it was easy to spot an inexperienced one who had only been in a hot mediterranean country for a couple of days!

'Only ever been on holiday to Blackpool' types would tend to be rather large people who'd never been exposed to the sun before - let alone 'strong' foreign beers. They would spend all day in the sun on their first day and get really sunburnt. Then they'd drink far too much beer and then they'd pass out and get eaten alive overnight by mossies!

The next day their large bodies would look like over-ripe tomatoes and covered in dozens of nasty bites - not a nice way to start a holiday. Yikes!

Getting on a public bus in a tourist area can be fun if you try and work out all the different nationalities. Can you guess somebody's nationality before they speak? How many different nationalities can you count on a journey? I think I've been on a bus with about 50 people 'on board' and been able to determine individuals from at least eight different countries... I think it's wonderful that people get to travel so much more these days!
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Georgia..........

Aren't 'we' lucky that some large country is in the process of invading our country?

I've had a friend from Georgia (the country, not the peanut and peaches and pecan nut place former President Carter of the USA hails from) for many years. A friend via the internet whom I have never met. A friend whose career I've followed with interest. A friend who has met people in real life that I also know in real life.

We've exchanged gifts. I sent boxes of chocolates via a friend (visiting Dubai on a 'University Fair'). My friend sent back gifts - an arab headress for me, and a pashmani shawl for my now ex wife.

Funny, isn't it? We get to know some people over the internet that we never get to meet.

Georgia - there are lots of facts you can look up about Georgia if you take the time. It's a 'small' country of less than 5 million people. Most people are fairly poor (an average GDP of only about $2,500 per annum). The life expectancy has been quite good up to now - about 76 years; a lot higher than in Russia!

I'm not going to waffle on about whether it was right of Georgia to respond to the arming of Ossetian dissidents who had been given Russian passports; it's kinda like saying should Scotland get independence from the rest of the UK - there is no 'right' answer.

Two points though:

1.) I doubt that either Abkhazia or Ossetia will be 'independent' under the nice warm, loving embrace of mother Russia.

2.) I had an ironical thought - a few years back Russian soldiers, naval types and airmen were not getting paid for months at a time and almost starving unless they moonlighted or found some sort of scam to survive. Now, what has changed?

WE, in the west, are indirectly paying for Russia's armed forces! All the lovely money we give to the Russians in exchange for their gas and oil is allowing Russia to pay their servicemen.

Iraq was/is all about oil - probably, and why not?

Georgia all about creating a stranglehold on the 'evil' west by taking over pipelines that were bypassing Russia's sphere of influence? Russia invades to send a message to countries like Ukraine to back off from talks with the EU and NATO? Seem quite logical explanations to me.

I just feel sorry for my friend on a personal level. Parents living in Georgia in a town near Turkey, but still being bombed by the Russians (the other side of Georgia from Ossetia). A brother who could be called up to defend his country.

We live in an unstable world.

Those of us who live in peace are the lucky ones. let's hope this scenario doesn't escalate into another possible world war; the Balkans, at one point, made me fear for the worse and I get the same feeling again today.
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The rain in Wales.........

The rain in Wales seems to fall mainly all through the so-called 'summer'!

It's bloody depressing!

I want to go back to go Gozo (Malta)!

I'm flying back out there at the beginning of September; hopefully it'll still be warm enough to go swimming every day for a couple of weeks.

The village I live in has it's special festa on the 8th September; I'll be back in time for that - most of the streets will be decorated, loads of 'fun' things to do for a whole week leading up to the 8th - and a big firework display at the end (same as all the other festas but each village naturally likes to think that THEIR festa is the best!).

It'll be nice to be back and see old friends (and I mean old as many people are retired out there) and all the people one meets when shopping - the local vegetable man selling from his truck, the butcher, the mini market, the cake shop owner and his new wife who've been on honeymoon in Dubai and the Maldives etc.

To sit in the square and sip a bottle of the local beer called 'Cisk' and eat a ham and cheese and tomato roll about 10 a.m. as a late breakfast - wonderful!
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Life is Good!

The sun is shining in the verdant rain-soaked valleys of Wales, UK!

I forgot what the sun felt like! The warmth - even a touch of life-giving heat.....it's wonderful!

Oh well, a young Scottish guy put up a good fight at Wimbledon yesterday........... he faced defeat being two sets down but he clawed his way back (the match lasted over 4 hours!).

He's Scottish, as I said - he doesn't like Englishmen, but he's a Brit (because we say so)! Anyway he won, and has made it to the quarter finals - good man. ~smiles~

The fans didn't like him - he wasn't 'nice' like Tim Henman; the great English girlie tennis player who let his emotions (and lack of a hankie to blow his nose on in between shots) come in the way of greatness.

They like this young Scotsman now - the fans were with him as he snarled and fought his guts out to win - for Queen and country?

Nah..... he fought 'cos he's aggressive and a man and wanted to kill the other guy rather than lose!

See?

Nice people don't win Wimbledon - do they?


Life is good!

The sun is shining. Tomorrow I start a journey to Germany.

Yup - the Germans aren't 'nice' either...........but then zey can be 'vunderbah' - yah?


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Lost and found! :grin:

My youngest son shall be 19 on 3rd July this year.

I've never met him, not even seen a photograph...... BUT a friend managed to speak to him today!

Wow!

The friend telephoned my ex wife who said my son was with his 'father'.

The friend got the 'father's' telephone number, rang through and got to speak to my son!

Wow!

We'll see what transpires...... maybe we'll meet soon, who knows?

I know my son's only surviving grandparents (my parents) are still alive (only just mind you) and he has another brother (my eldest son) and several cousins (although my brother died last year and his youngest son the year before that at the tender age of 21).......

It would be so nice for my mum and dad to see their youngest grandchild before they die - I never dreamed they'd live this long, but theyn I didn't think my brother and my youngest nephew would already be dead by now either.

Life is strange, isn't it?

Well, I live in hope - that's all I can do, because (as far as I know) my youngest son doesn't want to meet his legitimate father....... and that's me!

I couldn't imagine it myself - not wanting to meet your own father - but I guess we are all different and maybe he hates the father he has never known.... his mother had 18 years to put her opinion across to him as she got rid of me cleanly and efficiently when five months pregnant back in 1989..... wow, how time passes so quickly - one day you're happy and positive and a young man and before you know it you wake up all alone and 'rusty'!

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Unacceptable behaviour........

The CS staff were perfectly right in banning me from public forums as my behaviour was unacceptable.

I apologised privately to the lady who had called me a liar; I did not recognise her at first (either she had assumed a new id but certainly had removed her lovely pic from her profile).

My statement regarding our meeting was accurate if impolite........ however I met the lady recently at a Salsa dancing evening and I must compliment her on her dancing skills which were far better than mine.

I see no reason to apologise to everybody; especially to people who have manipulated a situation to goad me into even worse behaviour with their taunts and slanders.

I repeat that the CS staff are right to have banned me - their rules were broken. It is a shame that individuals who get great pleasure from bravely castigating me in public (and seem to get away with it with almost 100% impunity) are privately cowards who have blocked me from quietly putting them stright in private.

The CS rules are quite clear - that one should not insult other people in public and keep the forums a happy place to visit and post.

The gentleman who revels in playing with his 'slippery nipples' is no gentleman and he knows it!

To castigate another person who cannot reply is really quite hypocritical in my opinion.

The CS staff wrote to another CS member stating they would like to allow me back once things had 'calmed down'; I do not think that things have yet calmed down sufficiently to allow me back in the public forums.

I do NOT set out to upset other people!

Most of the time I have posted reasonably nice and sometimes witty, and even serious, informative posts.

I have made many friends in CS and even loved some of the wonderful female members in a literal, mutually enjoyable physical sense.

I am NOT some evil twisted person in desperate need of expert psychiatric counselling; in fact I'm really quite an ordinary guy just like many other CS members.

I hope you are all enjoying the summer....... even those of you who are impoverished artists driving around in their girlfriend's sports cars!

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The meek Shall Inherit The Earth..........

So, what happened to the American Dream?

I was thinking the other day about the most powerful country on this planet (at the time of writing cutie-pie President/Prime Minister Putin it about or Ayatollah Nuclear Thingy with a nice beard and soft loving eyes has not yet usurped the USA as number one world 'we know what's best for you' country) and thought to myself:

'What does it take to make a country a great country?'

Is the the huge natural resources of land and minerals and fresh flowing water or the leaders or the people?

Take a little piece of land like Hong Kong - no natural resources and not even any water of it's own to speak of - yet the people are so industrious that they have prospered....... yet they are not big or powerful enough in any way to become a world power.

Likewise, a country that has very strict laws and a kind of democratic but stern government like Singapore.

South Korea? Imagine South and North Korea being united - how many of us 'oldies' thought East and West Germany would be reunited in our lifetimes?

India, China and even Brazil have been touted for decades now as being the next world power, yet in the past few years Russia has become more and more powerful as its huge energy resources bring it back the power it once had. Russian businessmen and women are found everywhere these days - and there is no doubt that really rich Russians are as rich as any 'western' memeber of the elite and powerful club of 'movers and shakers'.

It's been so sad, in many ways, to see the American dream falter these past couple of decades - what real chance do most young Americans from poor families really have of making 'The American Dream' come true?

There is now far less social mobility in the USA than in Europe where many American ancestors fled from either persecution or lack of opportunity.

Are we heading for an enlightened age where democracy spreads throughout the world (including the vast and forever suffering continent of Africa)? -

Or, are we destroying ourselves as our kind of culture spreads like a plague of locusts - stripping the earth and the water and the very air we breathe of all its goodness?

I think we could have the best of both worlds - a planet that sustained itself and breathed new life into itself each day where the air was purified and the clean purified waters of life bubbled joyously each day from fresh springs.

How could we achieve this and still have the high standard of lifestyle (in a technological sense) that some of enjoy today?

Although we can theortically feed our huge population I believe there are just way too many of us on this planet.

We belong at the top of the biological tree, but we only deserve to be there by using our resources wisely - and we can do that only if we do NOT become a plague of enormous locusts consuming everything in our path.

A locust is probably quite a cute insect; it doesn't eat that much - nor do a handful several locusts. It is only when they swarm in billions and make the land dark with the beating of their wings does the land cry out in despair as they strip the land bare.

We need less people.

How can we have less people without a terrible world war or some global disease that would make AIDS seem like a little cold?

Shall the meek inherit the world?

What meekness shall that be? Meek, humble and wise human beings or scurrying cockroaches?
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"Dumped Again"

I was talking to my best friend yesterday.

She was feeling really miserable after having split up with her latest boyfriend a little over a week ago.

I tried to cheer her up.

She laughed at a few of my inane jokes, and then said she wondered why she'd never met the right man.

I said I could write a book about her experiences with men and she laughed and said how about calling the book:

"Dumped Again!"

We laughed; however, I think it would make a good title - we've mostly all of us been there at one time or another in our lives.......right?

Personally, I think it's nicer for a gentleman to engineer a split-up in such a way that the lady thinks she has dumped him; that way she can feel better about herself, and 'move on' with the minimum of angst (while the man can cry crocodile tears of pretended abject misery)!

Hmmmmmm.......... what do you reckon?

Good title?

Is it better to be dumped than the dumper?

Is the price of gasoline too low?

~smiles~

Have a good day!

This blog comes to you from ye olde Uncle Rusty Bollocks - post your intimate, heart rendering problems here for a sympathetic ear (and so that we can have a good laugh at your terribly sad situation!)

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Freedom of speach...........

This is NOT a free public site.

This site is privately owned and the people who own it have the perfect right to make their own rules.

I'd guess that their revenue is from advertising.

Fair enough - nothing in life is totally free and we have the use of this site 'free' if we are prepared to be made aware of various adverts that are related to single people - I think that's fair enough.

To make the site profitable the owners need to attract a certain niche market.

This site is perceived to be for 'normal' decent people who don't make a habit of foul language and making other people feel uncomfortable.

This makes the site profitable because the owners can tell potential advertisers who privide revenue that the people who use this site are genuinely 'nice' people who are attractive to other genuinely nice people and they are a good market to target specific advertising to.

Right?

I got banned for not obeying the rules. This site is not owned by me; however unfair I might think it is for me to publicly react to people who attack ME publicly it is the right of the owners to ban ME and not those people who started any 'nastiness' - I mean to say if six people gang up on one member it makes financial sense to ban the one member than the six - right?

Life isn't always 'fair', but the people who decide what is fair and what is not fair are the people who run CS and that is THEIR RIGHT.

I hope that I shall soon be allowed to post again in the forums; 90+% of what I post is (I believe) both entertaining and NOT offensive - however, the posts that I write that ARE perceived as being offensive are intolerable and I must pay the price.

I feel thankful that I am allowed (maybe by accident) to post blogs. I am also allowed to send and receive emails; so if anybody wishes to be entertained by my viciously funny mind please feel free to email me - I can't even post a comment on my own blog!

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Saturday, 14th June 2008

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm..........

So some of you took my advice and you are still alive and survived Friday 13th.

Wonderful!

One small problem.

14 is an unlucky number if you are Chinese!

Oh bugger!

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'Unlimited' Energy..........

I believe we should use as much energy as we like.

The way I'd plan things we could use as much as we wanted WITHOUT destroying our planet AND have fantastic life styles with all our needs AND physical material wants met.

A few decades ago everybody was worried about population growth.

Then we discovered we could grow enough food to feed everybody - even with a population growing by BILLIONS!!!!!!!!!!

Think about the basic premises of Economics:

'Limited resources but with unlimited wants'

Is the above really true.

I DO NOT BELIEVE I HAVE UNLIMITED WANTS.

Take cars for example. I do not want to own 1,000 cars; heck - I can only drive one car at a time. What's the point of owning a fantastic car if when you take it out for a drive you are caught in gridlock?

What's the point of owning five different homes if you can only live in one at a time?

Ok, so we can feed a huge population.

I say it'd be better to have a smaller population, not worry about economic growth but develop technology so we don't need to employ young people to look after the growing percentage of 'oldies'.

So - I'd prefer a half-naked beautiful female servant to bathe my old rusty bits, but if it meant a better quality of life for everybody I'd be happy to use a robot to bathe me - as long as it wasn't programmed to take away too many layers of skin when giving me a quick scrub!

In an ideal world we'd be able to use what energy arrived on the planet without having to find extra energy from elsewhere.

'X' billion people consume way too much energy in my opinion. Look at it this way, if there were only 10 people on the planet we'd never have to worry about running out of fuel, would we?

What we need to do is to plan our population so that we have enough people to produce all the goodies we'd like to consume but no more than that minimum and also be able efficiently recycle 'stuff' so we won't need to travel so far.

How large is the minimum 99% self-sufficent community. I have no idea, but I'd guess you'd need at least 30,000 people to produce all the food and services you'd want to fulfill all your material needs and desires - from food, to housing to manufactured goods to entertainment etc.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
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