Those of us who use the mobile version of the site can't identify faceless posters without clicking on their profile, or scrolling down to match up a named quote with a post we've just read.
Also, if we scroll down before the page is fully loaded the page sticks enough so that the scrolling action becomes a tap...the post turns blue and takes you to the poster's profile. If you happen to be a prolific poster the chances of this happening are pretty high.
Someone did a thread recently including a quote which went something like:
"Don't assume that people are always thinking about you."
I see how my mother's experience of war has affected me. I see how I have in turn passed learned thoughts and behaviours (and perhaps genetic predosposition) on to my daughter. Maybe in time I will see things in my granddaughter and great-grandchildren.
I think of all the refugees, all the suffering, all the survival strategies of the Syrian people and I see the how it may effect the generations to come.
War doesn't end with the ceasefire. It's so much bigger than that.
Do you need a heart to recognise another human being? Surely, half a neurone will do the trick!
I've just finished reading On The Other Side by Mathilde Wolff-Moenckeberg.
It consists of letters she wrote to her adult children overseas during WWII, but couldn't send because of their honest content. Her and her husband Emil Wolf would likely have been shot, or sent to a concentration camp had they ever been discovered.
The images that you have posted, Life, mirror the images the author conjures of the destruction of Hamburg. I can only surmise there is some similarity in the respective peoples' experience - the fear, the starvation, the illnesses, the fleeing, the oppression, the losses and grieving for loved ones, the depression, the lethargy, the fight to survive each day, each moment, to name but a few.
Lest we forget? I am continually enraged by this phrase and feelings of my own impotence.
Well, I reckon I can trump all of you on the length of singledom, and possible single for longer than the lot of you put together, so I'm the ugliest fekker of them all!
Then you misunderstand the word 'argument' in this context.
It is a technical term used in the fields of logic, philosophy, discussion, debate, etc. I wasn't referring to the common meaning of bickering, or rowing.
I've not heard of this saying, but it sounds similar to 'he gives with one hand and takes with the other'.
It describes an untrustworthy, or manipulative person; someone who gains trust and then abuses that trust for personal gain.
The phrase which you describe seems to be the reverse. It describes someone who tries to regain trust after abusing it, but there is an implication that the giving of the flower isn't genuine and they will strike again.
Your grandparents would be correct. It would have been inappropriate to ask the waitress serving you out on a date.
It would still be inappropriate if you were on your own.
She's at work, she's being paid to serve you and be nice to you. She has to conduct herself according to a set of employment based social rules.
You should conduct yourself according to the social rules of being a customer. It's disrespectful to cross those boundaries.
You didn't miss out on getting a girlfriend. You didn't even miss out on an opportunity to ask her out. You wisely chose to not take the opportunity to be creepy.
Girlfriends are women you meet and get to know in social situations, then ask out, then date, then mutually agree to be in a relationship with.
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RE: New Zealand school abolishes gendered uniforms
That'll be because you've got so much hair, Galrads.