Just thinking, there are not enough women called 'Jean'..... or put another way, i have never dated anyone called 'Jean'.... maybe thats just me, but then again, i havn't dated a lot of women with all sorts of names....
Just be carefull where you use them, like not at the rotary club dinner or at job interviews (unless its for private eye magazine, in which case it would be a definate advantage)....
Music has been in steady decline for the last 30 years, the 70s was the last decade to have a broad enough pallate of music where just about every genre shared chart space (in england anyway)... The 90s and 00s died at the hands of boy bands and 'musical impressarios', though i know strictly speaking the beatles were the first genre 'boy band' and 70s duo, chinny/chap (nicky chin and mike chapman, the walsh and cowell of the 70s) were pushing bands like sweet and mud, and of course we had the bay city rollers of the 70s, but there was enough choice back in the day to offset the weaker material....
The lottery is a tax on the hopes and dreams of the poor, I did it for a year and got nothing, it didn't take me too long to cop on....Yeah, money cant but you 'REAL' love, but it can buy everything else.......
Money, simple as.... Id happily do a few days a week voluntary, doing what i feel works for me (thats not greed but practical)...and as much time as i like doing study (music theory) and recording.... I dont relish just doing a 'mc job' for the rest of my life, so i keep it cheap and manage on the bare minimum....Piles of cash would liberate me and just improve my already good life....
Another cost to the already cash strapped paying public, effectively making all of us 'private healthcare users', no get out clauses as yet, but subsidies for the needy are in discussion... Another tax?, this amount will get you a minimum care package and its projected as 1,600 euro per citizen of a contribution age, money that will be deducted at source, pay or benefit (at the moment free healthcare is to be offered to children up to age 5 i think, you can google the exact age if you want).... I also heard yesterday, the health service is charging private heath insurance companies over 800 euro a night for HS beds in hospitals....I hang my head in dispare........ You can discuss this among yourselves....
buy those socks with high tog ratings, not cheap though, (E6 a pair) and buy all the same colour so when one goes to the sock 4th dimention (a far flung corner of the washing machine) or gets holed, you can 'mix em up'....
...how nice it is to have 2 WOYM threads to choose from, the family friendly 18 and the 'mad as a lorry' 19... Perhaps we might even use 'whats NOT on your mind 20016' as a whacky altenative...
My advice would be to go for something local, that way you can intergrate with the local community, also, its handy to know a bit about the charity or organisation your intending to support, its funding, and strutcture [in the light of recent charity ceo pay scandals]...I might be being a bit on the warey side there, but i digress... Regarding to my own situation, my voluntary and work contributions (within the care sector) are local enough for me to track and keep up with the progress of the service users and recipients which is good for me and a comfort for them...
It really is very simple, ask yourself what chariatable organisation most closely fits your concern set, google that charity, and contact them for a press pack and sponsership details...thats how i went about getting my work placement, same rules apply...good luck...
The kernel of truth, absolutely, and im not in dispute with the facts that there have been and continue to be cases where men have been unjustly accused of offences against womem, and there are some women who have successfully played the victim and the system, and i dont think for one moment anybody out there would be in any doubt of that fact...but i would make an educated guess that the 'inflammitory' content of which you mention is the thorn in the side of many.... I will stand correction, but were there not recently videos being put up showing men slapping women, the reasoning for such a post is lost on me, whats conclusion am i to draw from such a video?.... You do hit the nail on the head in respact of the cohort, and again, what conclusion are we to draw from those who play an active role directly inside the feminisim detraction collective?... Ill posset a guess based on my own life experience.... As a young lad, i could not get a girlfriend for lovin or money, for 7 long years i carried the bitterness around with me and learnt the word 'mysogeny' and pretty much lived the life, I blamed women for not finding me interesting or attractive, not for a moment thinking of, and seeing myself as, 'ugly in, ugly out', I dont know what my wife saw in me back then, but whatever it was, it changed me and probably saved me from myself...The popular conception is women haters have had a bad hand somewhere in life, mother, girlfriend, wife, someone has put these men on a high alert so they are far more pre-disposed to see the negative potential and not the possitive that so many of us see almost all of the time... Interesting you close with the 'untold stuff', I doubt we will ever find out what life experiences direct an OP's posts and content [and in fairness, its not our business, but it might help us understand motives a bit more].... Anyways, im not going to write chapters on here about this, i'd say my thoughts are clear enough, and whether people think i have a simplistic view or not is for them to decide...Ill leave this for folks to debate if they wish.......
Is this the 'only game in town'?.... One has to wonder if this is the case...
Many times over the last long while I have seen the rake of threads on feminism in the CS forums, the evils of the feminist in society and the denigration of the people who have the temerity to stick up for women whether they be forthright and opinionated or not....I ask, what more is there to be gained by milking this subject?... Evedently, the men who post this material believe in what they post, for only a fool would post threads of inflamitory content ad-nausiam and expect us all to have some kind of 'epiphany' upon reading these same posts!... But wait....I see the replies, the counter threads [which i freely admit to having contributed to], the 'fall out' from the feminism threads is fuel in itself for keeping the CS forum fires burning, in much the same way as 'Sofar' threads animated the forums and got people 'tuned in' to the next great installment, is the 'feminisim road show' just a sideways step in car crash entertainment?, surely not, are we the ones keeping the feminism threads alive simply by contributing in any way, shape or form by side threads on the topic [i say this knowing the irony of my own post].... I would not be harranged by any subject that made its point veciforously [via the OP's genuine interest and concern] and then gracefully declined when the topic had been thouroughly dissected and discussed, and therein [as the bard said] 'lies the rub'.... Feminisim threading seems less discussed than dictated...The OP's cannot expect to present subject matter of a sensitive nature and not expect people to get 'riled', particularly women, to whom the very tone of these posts is morally offensive, and I should add, a great many men who are enlightened enough to not see women as a threat around every corner of lifes events... The principal OP [and i will out of CS ruling not call names] is very evidently an intelegent, and id hazzard a guess, well read person, I feel it a great waste of time and intelegence to ceaselessly push the feminism arguement when plainly, there is nothing let to glean, and nobody left to care about the subject, in effect, all that comes of these threads now is threads about the threads....(erm!)..... Me, Im just on the outside looking inside, and perhaps if the feminism threads ended tomorrow our 'reason detre' would be gone also, but id like to think we all have a little something in the tank to add to the forums and perhaps make it challenging and interesting without being offensive, confrontational and built on point scoring and internet reserch [thats assuming you have internet worth a damn].... Like I said in the title, this is an open letter, my opinion, your right to reply, you can comment, agree. dis-agree, give me a hard time or completely ignore me, but if you have read this, then my work here is done [well, up to a point].........
what season?....last id seen, they had just about lost the prison enclave to that guy with the eye-patch...just finished a re-run of season one...cracking good series, but have to rely on dvd's of it...
Thanks Stan, a perfect antidote to my dissolusionment, indeed, when i cited sport, i was thinking of guys in the hurling tradition and some of the lads in rugby, sports people who do it for the love of the game and not wanton personal agrandisment (footballers again), and yes indeed, we can openly celebrate those who give freely of themselves and their time in the service of others, but its my experience that many of these un-sung heros are that by choice, they dont make a fanfare of their contributions to society, they are private citizens, many, making a small but very significant difference, and i would respect each and every one of them (just as a side observation)....
Another throw away question... Unless you really want to air a view...
When I was a kid there were people we looked up to, not just the great and good, but contemporaries of our parents... I look now and see very few real role models, particularly male... Men it seems now are homogenised and apart from some sportsmen of integrity (I hardly list football vampires in the elite) its getting harder to find the likes of a 'Frank Taylor', a 'Ken Bonham' or a 'Harold Minns'.... Kids need strong men in their lives, the above three were my teachers, and I think of them with great fondness as educators, men of substance and people to whom we can aspire to emulate... But it didn't end with my teachers, we had heros in a wide range of disciplines, in sports, in mucic and the arts, even in politics... Im not worldly wise enough to say about female role models outside of my own personal experience set, but look, this is just inward commentary running through my head, perhaps you have thoughts, perhaps you dont...
...and finally, a little music to connect the theme (sure, i was looking for an excuse to play this)....
...oh, and Sharon Stone, the quick and the dead / total recall / casino / and that other paul verhoven - shane black movie with the ice pick murder....
Oh im quite aware of that, but the voices in my head screamed at me to put some kind of artistic balance in there........ Id say that apart from Deniese Richards (bond film) and Pammy (tommy lee's playmate) the rest are pretty much unknown to me....
Wait till it comes out on freeview, unlike its predecessor of 25 years ago, this has no humour and plays to a serious socio polictical orthodoxy that fails to ignite any form of interest or involvment in either characters or story... Ed Neumiers character creations and Paul Verhovens visceral direction made the original a sci fi parody tour de force, this re-booted version will please some im sure, particularly those unfamilier with the source material, but to others of a certain age and persuasion, this will just be seen as another film remake that rather like 'total recall', need never have been green lit....
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RE: What's on your mind..part 18
Just thinking, there are not enough women called 'Jean'.....or put another way, i have never dated anyone called 'Jean'....
maybe thats just me, but then again, i havn't dated a lot of women with all sorts of names....