I should never have briefly parked my spaceship near your cave.
You've been blasting about it ever since and have nearly blown my cover.
PS. I like dogs. That's why they didn't bark. That and the fact that the exhaust fumes from my state of the art craft (albeit Jackson Pollack genre) smell like farts.
Drop her a line to point out that she may have overlooked that on your profile, but you wanted to say thankyou/it was great fun to find the 'like' all the same/whatever.
Edit your profile back again to 'separated'.
If she then chooses to mail you, you should be able to mail her back without changing your settings.
If she doesn't, then you've had a smile in your day and hopefully she has, too.
My mother always said psychiatrists should be on their own couches.
I've come to realise that's not just about her perception that they were likely all as bonkers as a bag of badgers.
We could all take the trouble to be on our own couches, for perhaps only through humility, self-awareness and a damn good, analytical look at everything from every possible perspective, may we begin to see ourselves interwoven in the things we prefer to externalism from ourselves.
I agree wholeheartedly: the language we use is a crucial part of that.
For one thing I'm using my phone and can't see it properly and for another, relying on 'self-explanatory' gets us into hot water with interpreting from our own value framework again.
As for talking about two different things can you outline what they are and why they are separate?
When you fly over my house on your way to St. Athen, Mike, do a couple of loop the loops drawing a pair of knockers with your contrails so I know it's you.
Would this be an opportune moment to point out that I don't recall Riz ever claiming to be a professor.
I don't think I'm the only one who remembers you claiming to have been a professor at an English University, though. English, I think was your stated subject, but you never did specify the area of your research.
Sorry LJ, I didn't mean to interrupt. Carry on with what you were saying about credibility.
You make some good points, Pasta, about discriminatory behaviour, but what I'm hearing from you is that you draw the line somewhere.
I'm still not clear where you draw that line.
I think Nonsmoker made a nice point about confronting things you view as discriminatory, as and when you see them. Only then does it become clear where you think the line should be drawn and why.
If you would prefer a more abstract discussion on the subject, then it maybe requires more precise and definitive language to describe the issues you wish to tackle. Maybe some fictitious examples might help.
I've been here for years and I don't know who John is.
I'm not sure what you're objecting to either, Pasta.
Is it the banter, or when some men have a strop about how awful we women are?
Either way, we can all choose what to read and respond to.
And sometimes this place can be a good medium for personal growth, so maybe at times we might be patient for a bit before we judge, or challenge harshly.
The fire started via a faulty fridge, I think on the 8th floor, Rob.
There hadn't been any previously recorded issues with the make and model of the fridge, but the company set up a hotline for consumers to contact them. I'm not sure what other action the company took.
The issue wasn't really the fridge, anyway. A fire inside one flat should have been containable for approximately an hour - plenty of time for the fire services to extinguish it.
You might be interested that it has been reported in the British press that thousands of buildings have been found to be unsafe in Australia due to similar issues as those at Grenfell.
jac_the_gripper Forum Posts (5,363)
RE: a big mistake
I hear ya, Moose.A hot climate and dog farts don't go well together.