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Sneazles

Map, that sounds like a well-balanced diet to cure all ills

Sneazles

Ish just been chatting to a friend with a streaming cold on Skype and thinking I am soooo glad to be too far away to be expected to pamper anyone haha

I'm so selfish - but actually I don't expect pampering myself. Cups of tea and fresh tissues at regular intervals, throw the occasional bar of chocolate through the door, and I would be extremely grateful and want no more

Sneazles

Lou so far I'm feeling fine, I'm being proactive here after a day spent in a semi-permanent snotty mist. I'm the last man standing in the office, the odds are against me ...

Sneazles

Thanks Z that may be your most useful comment ever Quite apart from the fact I'm female and take about 20 minutes to shop. I've been smoking too many years to hold my breath that long.

I'm amazed I made it this far through the winter without catching the dreaded lurgy so I doubt I'll escape.

RE: If you were to win a week away which would you cho

Z, now that is camping.

RE: Knowledge

Their ability to gain knowledge, yes. Nothing more frustrating than a partner, no matter how attractive, who can't follow the way your mind works, where you have to explain all the time, or who simply isn't interested in the things that interest you.

RE: Wildest Dream

I just wondered why you described an ideal match, and included a last kiss, which implied a parting was part of the perfect romance.

I probably read it wrong.

RE: interracial relationship

Tell me about it. You know how hard it is to be ginger? The bigotry is so hurtful.

RE: If you were to win a week away which would you cho

Well, I was going for a hotel in the centre of New York before you limited it to JHB. CENTRE of Johannesburg. Could I cash the prize in? I'm not the camping type - did it most weekends for 5 years, I've served my time.

I'm the epitome of that old joke - my friends invited me to go camping, and I made a list of what I would need. 1. New friends.

First prize - one week camping trip
Second prize - two week camping trip.

I think you're the camping type. I DID enjoy many, even most, of those weekends. Then. Wouldn't now

RE: Wildest Dream

Oh my

Except for the last kiss. Why do you want a last kiss? Catch me giving up on that

RE: Where/How Do You See Yourself 10 Years From Now?

Better go write that blockbuster.

RE: Where/How Do You See Yourself 10 Years From Now?

I'll be gone or want to know the reason why but before I go I will be rich famous and exceedingly ditzy. Well, certainly the third.

If the plan goes wrong, change the plan, not the goal.

Are you not even 40 yet, Crazy? How nice!

RE: Cat Milk Cheese

I wonder what would happen if you put cheese made from cat milk into a mousetrap ...

RE: A hard man is good to find.

well as I waded through the turgid syrup of verbosity I did spot him doing a good deed. Didn't I?

On second thoughts I probably got that wrong too.

RE: A hard man is good to find.

Un, good point well made. But he has a very big vocabuwotsit knows a lot of words. Coo.

RE: A hard man is good to find.

Well someone had to.

And my claim to fame seems to be having taught you a new word.

RE: A hard man is good to find.

I must be thick, couldn't entirely understand this blog. Very rich mix of words but is the gist that guys should still be guys and women should stop emasculating them?

Yup, agreed.

If I got it wrong, well then I don't know what I just agreed with.

I do like men to be men, but not knuckle-dragging chest-beaters. I do like women to be women but not helpless wivout a big stwong man. The extremes don't appeal, but being interchangeable appeals even less.

And if I missed the point completely, so be it.

RE: reminds me of someone...

I just tried a duck lip selfie. Not a pretty sight, even without the cartoon addition

RE: Don't know why I'm bothering.

Okay, that straightened it all out thanks very much

RE: Women

She sounds like the product of a bygone era, tbh. I remember being told that after WW2 lots of soldiers brought home German wives because they embodied these qualities more than their own countrywomen did.

RE: Don't know why I'm bothering.

Ian, I'm impressed by this side of you.

RE: Don't know why I'm bothering.

I had this dilemma today. On one hand, I vowed I wouldn't read a single blog that looked downbeat, because I'm feeling a little blue. On the other hand, I always read Z's because they're usually tongue-in-cheek. This time I think I missed the joke.

Graduating from CS school

Oh, Ian.

That was going to be one of the highlights of my weekend.

Graduating from CS school

The gnnnnnnn requirement is not only in the Geneva convention, I believe it was in the Treaty of Versailles. Whole wars have been won just during the tuning up, as the opposing army flung down their weapons and bolted.

:quiet pride:

Bagpipes being checked to be pitch-perfect ... the warning drone is only a second or two. But even in friendly surroundings, it has to be there. Law.

Graduating from CS school

Z! being strangled but to a recognizable tune! It's an art form. And no cats are ever hurt during the process, they have usually fled for the hills at the first warning gnnnnnnnnnnn

Graduating from CS school

Ish, sorry, forgot to comment to you because that is all theoretically about to happen with some meetings coming up, your social committee working overtime. To me, for sure, if someone looks worth meeting, I'd always jump at the chance to meet them.

Graduating from CS school

Usha, you are always a popular lecturer!

Cat, write a blog about it, PLEASE

Z, Chrome will be disappointed. He thinks it may be hard to find someone who doesn't thrill to the music of the pipes, but was fairly sure you'd want to lead that team

Graduating from CS school

not as long as Z's acceptance speech.

Have to hit the shops, I may need to wait until I get back to read the speech

Graduating from CS school

Ish, results I have achieved? People who hate me and wish me ill. People who tolerate me. People who think I am a harmless lunatic Oh yeah, I've got a lot still to learn!

Graduating from CS school

Red, that is an AWESOME knife thank you very much!

Z - how's that speech going? I have a lovely photo of a toilet brush award