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RE: What makes something funny?

The Moab one sounded interesting, though, what was it?

I never heard psalm 109 before, David must have been quite grouchy that day There's some good pithy stuff in those there psalms, like some Shakespeare, you just load, point and fire

RE: Has the Creator abandoned us?

Harb, don't bring me into your needle match with Bek. He's still open to other points of view, you slam the door on all beliefs and that sort of includes me so - don't bring me in. There can be no debate where there is no agreed common ground at all

RE: Has the Creator abandoned us?

"Biff is a fool or a charlatan?" Well thanks very much. Huh.

RE: What makes something funny?

Who's Moab? Did I quote the wrong psalm?

No, I think he did what he wanted to do off his own bat, because I don't think he's been thwarted much in his life. Maybe what he should have had was a good old-fashioned English nanny No lying, Master Donald. Stop grabbing other children's toys. Play nicely. Spit spot off to bed with you until you stop throwing tantrums and calling people names ...



He may have been a bit brilliant recently, frankly, the right man in the right place at the right time to pull off something that no other politician in US history could have done, because none come from his background. Time will tell

RE: What makes something funny?

Yes, it was apparently used for the last potus as well.

Still, do you think if I sent it to BC she'd check before she used it as a bumper sticker?

RE: What makes something funny?

I found this Trump bumper sticker funny, but it will be wasted on you, sadly

This prayer for Trump - psalm 109, verse 8

if you were born a boy or a girl, what are you now ...

Meet the Amazing Hosepipe Man!
See his plucked earlobes!

Robrt, you're a true nut

if you were born a boy or a girl, what are you now ...

haha Robrt you reminded me of that complaint 'when I was a kid, kids were seen and not heard, now I'm older the kids talk all the time and I'm supposed to shut up and listen, I lost out both ends'

Did you ever flirt with the idea of being a girl? My generation didn't, we knew boys had it all, more fun, more freedom, better toys, more interesting games and, when they grew up, more of a range of jobs with WAY better salaries. PLUS being able to pee standing up

if you were born a boy or a girl, what are you now ...

Usha, you are completely right, we're all unique but I sometimes think that is less accepted than it ever was, if someone doesn't fit into a box with a label you can't let them be themselves, it is vital to create a new box with a new label, AND then find others that can be put into it. Don't be different. Weirder things indeed.

if you were born a boy or a girl, what are you now ...

Molly, I only know one (that I know of) who was a friend's cousin in a family of 4 boys and always knew she wasn't supposed to have been a boy. She can't even remember the first time she realized it, it was so early on. The family were ok with having a son who wasn't like the others, and never pressured her to conform, but absolutely horrified by her adult decision to change to being a girl. They never really accepted it, even my friend was shocked although they became much closer later when the shock wore off. She's been officially female now for over 30 years, married twice, never been troubled by her decision which she saw as a mistake being rectified.

But because I only knew of one, in all the thousands of people I have met or heard personal stuff about in my life, I thought it was fairly unusual, not as mainstream as this story indicates.

RE: What makes something funny?

Harb, you are long overdue a bellylaugh

I don't roll around nearly a fraction as often as I use the emoji but I re-learned a few years ago to laugh out loud. May not happen often but it feels great

if you were born a boy or a girl, what are you now ...

Palm, are you suggesting people be reasonable?

RE: OK, this is definitely an odd news story

Serene, I Googled it too



A good news story, and if it was a way of setting up a new business and he / she will, uh, come clean shortly, full marks for the most unusual marketing strategy EVER

RE: Tender Loving Care

Ysa, is the date right? You posted on May 22 saying it will be on May 12

RE: Tender Loving Care

Ooh Mimi how exciting!

I have my residency appointment in July

RE: How do you tell someone....

You can tell them as much as you like. They won't remember.

Daears is right, driving is a conditioned reflex, like reading. You can't forget it because it isn't memory, so only when the reflexes themselves are destroyed are you unable to do it. Unable to reach the car unaided by that point anyway

I know it is possible to switch off access to things without a password (keep your kids out of your browsing history, for example) so I guess it must be possible to make buying online dementia-proof as easily as child-proof?

No idea how to stop him physically removing and hiding bits, though.

RE: flying

Red, at least one pilot usually does at least one saunter down the aisle to make the female passengers (and in this day and age, some of the male ) feel all fluttery. Plus flight crews walk openly through the airports to board, always clumps of them moving around, they aren't smuggled in through the back. Well, I hope they aren't Would be hilarious if the ones in the airports were models hired to make their airlines look good

Zman, I cannot believe you made that comment about women parking

Unless you were talking about Spanish women, then okay, letting it pass

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

Oops my last comment was to Z, didn't expect an intervening comment.

Chat I completely agree harsh negative comments should be monitored because spite or professional jealousy can be very destructive. But negatives, if they exist, have to be pointed out or there's no value in reviews at all.

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

M4, me too. I've been guilty before now of falling for that 'this offer lasts an hour' or 'stocks are running low' approach, placing my order and THEN going looking for reviews cancelling those orders is a struggle of note usually the product is kosher enough but the price is 5 or 10 times more than you should be paying!

Thank heavens for 'buyers remorse' legislation

Million dollar question to you too - if you've bought something that is either great or pretty rubbish, do you review?

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

Abagail, how about those website photos taken on wide angle lens, looks like you are booking a ballroom and reality is a broom closet ...

Eek about your dinner were the family still assuring you of how great it was while you were picking doubtfully at your food??

Million dollar question, if you find you don't agree with the reviews of a place, do you post one of your own with the facts? Many companies still go with the paid puff reviews, gambling that few people will bother to correct the fake impression but just shrug and cross the place off their list for return visits.

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

Harbal, that incident did come across as more personal friction than dispassionate review jmo.

RE: flying

After WW2, by 1950, air travel was becoming a norm available to the masses and most of those new planes were flown by WW2 fighter pilots as they were the bulk of the trained pilots around. Ok many by then would have been mid and late 20s but they learned in their late teens

Modern flying is so instrument based we are not that far off the joke of space travel being done by a man and a dog, the man is there to feed the dog and the dog is there to bite the man if he tries to touch the controls

So, your question. Young drivers are high-risk, ask any insurance company, because anyone can apply for a driving licence. I'm hoping pilots are screened for suitability and I know they have to pass spot checks for alcohol and drug levels. Ideal world, all the youngsters have to fly second seat until they've notched up their 1000 hours, and after that, why not? Age is no guarantee of ability, there are as many old fools as young ones, and 1000 hours is enough experience.

(I've flown on tons of budget flights in the last 5 years, never been struck by how young the pilots were )

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

Molly, I was thinking of this because someone on Twitter was saying their Airbnb host had asked for a 5* review to support their new endeavour, but she felt pressured. There had been what she called hiccups. I said not to review at all and she felt honesty was more important.

She did say the host had done everything they could to sort out the problems immediately but ... problems there had been. Will they happen again? Who knows.

Eish

RE: Be Careful With Fire

Darwin Awards all round

RE: My Visitor

Good night Harb.

Look out for ghoulies and ghosties and things that go bump in the night

RE: My Visitor

Molly, switch off the light and you can see the glow.

If you tread in it by mistake, though, you will leave glowing footprints. That's hard to explain when you have a special someone over, the lights go down, and he's suddenly wondering if you're radioactive

RE: My Visitor

Molly, ghosts make better pets, even picking up their ectoplasm is less of a chore.

RE: CFM---clinical fetus murder......

It's certainly boiling up into an excellent smoke-and-mirrors distraction to who knows what behind the scenes.

Still, I'll play. May I add a scenario to the debate?

Picture it, a lovely young lass, bright as a button, 17 and already accepted for medical school, the pride and joy of her small community, is set upon by a subnormal moron who is tattooed all over with devil worship signs, beaten severely, and impregnated brutally in pain and terror. The troglodyte is pursued and shot to the general relief of all as he is the last of an utterly degenerate family with not a redeeming feature shared between them in the last three or four generations. She is doing okay until she learns she is carrying his foul seed and has to give up her future to give birth to another generation of monster. She sinks into a near catatonic depression.

Save her life and future? Or throw away the candy wrapper as being ruined beyond redemption, and focus on the bright new life she must by law bring into the world?

RE: My Visitor

All the ghosties I've met have been recognisable and chatty.

Reviews ... and why we read them ...

Fay, you're the ideal kind. I know enough about you now, though, to know if you can't say something nice you'd rather not say anything at all, do you ever write warning reviews? I don't very often, unless there have been dozens of rave reviews and the product is really bad! They should put that review budget into improving the product instead

By the way anyone thinking ooh reviews can be paid? You'd have to write a lot, for very little money per each, and keep changing email addresses and ouch the fines can hurt if / when you are caught ... even doing friendly reviews as a favour can backfire as the product can be delisted if it looks as though it is being puffed.