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Thanks for the headsup guys I didn't even know there had been one, and yes it is great

Can Biff ask Mimi one question out of curiosity - why does Mimi speak about Mimi in the third person? Is it so that Mimi and Art could both comment on the same profile without causing confusion? Because I think I would have picked that as your childhood, not his ... just sayin' ...



I envy you grandparents. I only had one, and she was bony and a bit scary and didn't much like children.

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IGOR!!

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Mimi if I was a guy I would write poetry to your nose, it is adorable

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I don't mean Iago. I mean the guy who assisted Dr Frankenstein and brought back the wrong brain. Who do I mean?


That's it my brain has officially melted. I'll miss it.

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No, no, he can stay alive. He's first and foremost a roofer, and every year, or every other year, I will need him to nip up and check mine. Without his Iago assistant. And after giving me a written quote signed by a notary.

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Now why would you want to rub noses? Apart from with Mimi, who has a lovely nose!

Most of the time in my teens, those early kisses ended in clashing noses and it never seemed much fun.

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Molly, add the sound of rasping and the image is complete. There's a man who could walk on his hands across broken glass

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Abigail, yup, weird when women adopt the mangle - and painful too, it is usually the women with really skinny fingers

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Molly it was like shaking hands with a mangle built of rough brick

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Wen, I shook on the quote given by my Spanish builder who's a silly girl then.

But I never learn.

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Mimi, noses it is. How odd that two such very different races came up with a similar greeting

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Considered yourself asked, then. Should be extremely interesting

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Blue, I would find that odd too. I'd also wonder if she'd washed her hands really thoroughly between patients, especially patients with communicable illnesses. But then I am a little paranoid.

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Emmy, it sounds exhausting, I'm quite glad I work from home.

I DID find it very odd when my lawyer took my hand then leaned in to kiss my cheek anyway. I counted my ears afterwards. Lawyers being lawyers.

After all they do say if you shake hands with a British lawyer or politician you should count your fingers afterwards.

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Merc, I guess shaking hands with a guy you sort of know where that hand has been. But I'm sure it was washed afterwards.

Right?

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Now I must away to school catch you later

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Daniela, I know, I said in the blog I now live in kissy-kissy land. I am becoming resigned to it

The African handshake is way more fun.

So un-English, except that the UK is also now infested. I like to imagine Harb weighing in with his gobbo instead.

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Harb, Molly is at all times unexpected. Even when she is conventional, it is startling that she is conventional!

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Molly, I really hated hugging and it has become awfully prevalent. I have perfected the swift backward step with or without proffered hand or must grit my teeth and gingerly go for the quick press. On arrival. On departure. Get a GRIP people - but not on me.

When I hug, I mean it. It is the most massive compliment, it says ooh you nice person me like very much. So polite hugs are very confusing.

And yes meeting you lot was fun, didn't mind THOSE hugs

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B, that's quite forward for a first greeting

RE: "Mercy Killing" Is it forbidden?

Yup both my parents signed DNR forms but that's more a case 'do not bring back to life'. I know what you mean about the ICU cases, though, and switching off life-support. I've told my daughter on pain of haunting not to ever let me be kept alive artificially.

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B, we're both in Spain. How about cheeks touching and heavy breathing in the shell-like?

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Harbal, glad I triggered a smiling memory but am wondering what Molly will make of your gobbo

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Bloody, I've spent most of my working life in customer-facing finance so was shaking hands with all sorts every day - and yup, shaking hands with parents, when would you? But I made a deal with my father once and spontaneously offered my hand (uh oh, he was senior, my bad) and was surprised to find he just holds a hand. Firm enough but no squeeze. It was odd. I'd somehow expected our handshakes would be identical. So I shook hands with my mother deliberately soon after and our handshakes were identical

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Conrad, would I be right in guessing you are more mangle than glove?

RE: "Mercy Killing" Is it forbidden?

How sad that CS is a zone where you have to ask people to be civil.

Not going to be asked of many of us. I would suggest trying not to have a witness around if one has to make the choice - OR making a committee decision polling everyone there. Of course in the latter case the person will likely have died before a decision is reached and maybe that's for the best.

Taking a life, mercy or not, is playing God - we do it for our animals, we can't for fellow human beings.

A doctor who was being begged by his patient to put her peacefully to sleep instead gave her six sleeping pills. Fixing his eyes on her he said slowly and carefully, 'do NOT take more than two. They are very powerful, you only need one, do NOT take more than two.'

He returned the next morning and she had obediently taken only two. He said it was a huge lesson to him in what people say they want, and what they really do want.

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The African handshake - clasp, twist, clasp, disconnect. And now the invaluable advice as to what to do with your other hand ...

RE: Politics for dummies

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And wow Map thanks for including me in the group of numpties as 'that lot'

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Ah, okay, so my comment will be deleted too