I didnt meant to cause any offence, I hope none was taken. Whatever the meaning of OOBE I am just thankful that she lived and is still here and I am able to share my life with her.
I have not experienced this first hand but it happened to my wife when she was eight and was attacked and almost died. I think it is a survival instinct, removing yourself from severe trauma. Perhaps some people think it has a more spiritual explanation.
I think at some point in the past and the origins of predjudice are self-presevation based.
A gazelle sees a lion. "Those lions, they will kill you and eat you as soon as look at you!"
The way the brain works makes us all predjudiced to a point, you have to play the averages.
If you are spoon fed information by the media constantly about a "certain type" it eventually sticks with a lot of people, because most people are very open to suggestion - letting someone else think for you is much less work than actually making a decision yourself.
A good example is the emergence of "chavs" is everyone in burberry who has a mobile phone a chav, and are they all scum as we are lead to believe, or did I miss something? lol
I like so much different music, but I think the voice that effects me the most and gives me goosebumps of emotion and sadness is Karen Carpenter. Tragic and beautiful.
Great minds thing alike... and fools never differ. lol
This thread is like a broken pencil.
Watch out for Sarge coming down on you like a ton of Bilko.
I'm in a little plastic bubble for a few weeks so I'm safe from the dreaded WORK for now. lol
Different story when my sicknote runs out, but I will burn that bridge when I come to it.
That virus does sound very scary.
I'm sure the street is a nicer place for having trees in it, and they shouldnt be got rid of. Silver birch are beautiful trees too. There are not nearly enough trees around where I live apart from conifers and would love to be able to see one of those on my street.
I've been crying for nearly a week.
One of my friends commited suicide on Wednesday and another friend died on Friday.
Up until this week I have been very lucky and not lost many people I care about, and losing two in three days really knocked me for six, and then another six.
Thanks to everyone in the forum for your posts and keeping me from going mad.
I bet you wish you hadnt asked now. :cry:
You mean an avatar? it should be in your profile settings if you click on the little "profile" button above the board.
50 million people in the UK?
2% of that is a million, half it again for the males (not exact I know).
Take off some for people under 16, then you probably still have about 400,000 men with big willies in this land of hope and glory? LOL
Personally I'm happy to be and be a 6" wonder. LOL. Things could be a lot worse , I might not have beat the odds but the odds didnt beat me either. I'm not one of the millions of men with one under 5".
But its probably not the size of your pencil, but how you write your name anyway, or are the shorties kidding themselves?
I guess I have a lot to answer for, ressurecting this thread. lol