I want a 'no idea' option as I would never spend any of my precious time to listen to a lying thieving bastard like Osborn and I haven't caught any discussions about my specific circumstances.
I'd also like GNV and Starlight to stop bickering. It disrupts the thread for those who want to discuss the original subject and it's childish and unpleasant to have to scroll through to get to the next sensible post.
Just to start a discussion - please, please don't turn it into a slanging match.
What does equality look like to you?
For me - in a more or less ideal world:
Equality is not about treating everyone the same. It is about treating everyone appropriately.
It is about ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to support themselves and their families and then the opportunity to work towards their dreams. It is about giving those that need it a single hand-up to independence or a life-time of support - or something in between, whichever is needed.
Any thoughts?
Seems perfectly sensible. That and the arm raising thing. I would certainly ask a member of my family to smile or do the other checks if I thought they were having a stroke. Better to ask an apparently silly question than delay intervention and increase the resultant damage.
The worrying thing is that people are given power and a say in the world stage just because they are leaders of some religious group or other. Why does anyone outside the Catholic Church give a toss what the new fella thinks?
The problem is, of course, is that they can only, must only push their own beliefs on the rest of us. Which is inherently wrong in a secular government or secularly governed society. Religious rules cannot and must not be applied to people who are not members of that specific sect. It's like the thing about keeping shops shut on Sundays. It was never to protect the workers - it was to match the ridiculous and hypocritical rules of the Christian Church. Hypocritical cos their own staff - vicars etc - are the ones working on a Sunday FFS. Protecting the workers only required working days in contracts to be limited to 5 or 6 a week (or out of any given 7) and which days are taken off is agreed with the business.
A regular problem that we get - not just here, it was the same in Germany last week - is perfectly drivable snow packing down and then freezing overnight to a white, lumpy ice-rink. I have a solution. A removable fitting on a gritting lorry or just about any snow-friendly large, heavy vehicle, that comprises a rigid roller, wrapped in a thick layer of resilient material - such as dense rubber - into which short, blunt metal studs are fitted. The studs will flex into the rubber without damaging the road surface and break up the packed snow. This allows the salt to work its way in and the rest of the traffic to work the broken pieces into slush. It would roll at its own speed, it doesn't need a drive-gear of any kind and could be on an adjustable frame that would cope with 2 to 12 inches of depth.
Any entrepreneurs out there fancy making this happen?
The problem we have with gritters and "councils not reacting correctly" is that in a hard snowfall the grit is simply buried and takes ages to have any effect from underneath. Gritting onto a few inches of loose snow isn't much better. It has most effect if it goes down onto/before frost or onto clear road before a steady snowfall that gives it time to melt the snow before it gets overwhelmed.
What you are discussing is the sexualisation of the officially sanctioned physical abuse of children. That may be your fantasy - but I'd keep it to yourself if I were you.
I have some formal qualifications and a brain full of what is often useless unless I am in some weird pub-quiz. Like knowing how most sweets are made. What the hell use is that since I don't work in the confectionery industry?
I really do love knowing how things are made and how they work. From engineering to food to languages.
I also love sharing info and often forget that people may not be as interested as I am in a particular subject. So apologies to all those that have had a brain-dump off me.
I'm not answering (as I am an atheist) but I would like to comment that I find such questions very interesting.
There is something called (I think) cognitive dissonance which describes the ability to hold mutually exclusive or conflicting opinions/feelings. Humans are fascinating and complex creatures, aren't they?
My son was bullied very badly. He was physically thrown of the school bus. I had letters from the school complaining that he had hit someone - I found out from the other children that he had been fighting off a group of bigger lads who, every day that week, had taken his school bag and emptied it over the outside steps. Did I get a letter about this or what they were going to do about it? Did I buggery.
The school's answer was to put HIM under the school psych person trying to teach him how to cope with the bullies (which meant to accept what they were doing to him without making a fuss that the teachers would have to actually deal with). No bully was EVER punished for their violence to my son. No, in that school nothing had changed in the last 30 years at all. They have an anti-bullying policy and if you complain that your child is bullied, they will send you a copy. That, apparently, concluded their responsibility. Do I sound bitter? Are you surprised? It took him learning Judo, growing 6 inches and decking the bullies a few times for them to lay off the physical stuff. The emotional bullying continued.
I'm going to have to walk away from this thread - it's too upsetting. If you feel that forcing children to conform, conform, conform is good for them, fine - I don't.
I rarely like 'porn' films. I like well produced actual sex with real people not swollen mouthed, fake-everything, orange-tanned bimbos pouting all over the place.
I also like erotic 'actual' films such as Dirty Dancing, Ghost and Game of Thrones - plenty there.
What I really like is well written erotic fiction. THAT really gets me warm around the ears. I've had a go myself and really enjoyed writing it - to the point of having to have a lie down once or twice during the process. :giggle:
It's not abuse. It IS crap English. Granted that doesn't matter to a lot of people - I treat bad English the same as others treat poorly filled out profile - ignore the content and move on. It's also factually incorrect. This is NOT a site just 'for couples to have fun and meet'. It is a site for any adult - single, couple or otherwise, to use whether it is without communicating with others, or to communicate with others or to meet - whatever is their personal choice. There are no criteria about pleasing others and having to comply with random strangers' assumptions about how you should use the site.
What seems clear is that YOU are not using the site according to THEIR wishes - well stuff 'em. You're not on here to please random people that have never bothered to say hello.
Is it possible you are suffering from interference? Is there a transmitter or electricity sub-station between you and the exchange?
Horatio Cain in CSI Miami is always flapping his jacket and putting his sunglasses on 'significantly'. One time works - every 5 minutes looks affected and stupid.
But whether sunglasses on other people looks cool or not depends on the style and the situation. Indoors is always silly. The clue is in the name - the sun rarely shines inside.
I'm not sure they should be allowed to. If a religion is based on a book that is supposed to be their god's word how can any human decide that one or more bits of it cn be ignored or changed?
I'm not for one second promoting the harming of gay people but the christian book says gay men must be stoned to death. If this is the word of their god then they should still be at least attempting to stone gay men. Picking and choosing the bits they like and ignoring the less savoury instructions is surely wrong by their own definition of what the book is - god's word. Take it all or you can't be of that religion (in this example christian).
I loathe buying clothes and would struggle to remember what I bought last week on the grounds of forgetting traumatic experiences. The only thing I can buy easily is pyjamas which I get at least 2 sizes too big (from maybe 2 shops in town) cos I like them roomy. Other clothes are too small, too see through, too expensive, too small, can't machine wash, don't suit me, did I mention too small?
Even thinking about shopping for clothes raises my stress levels by about 5 points.
Kids love playing cops and robbers - it doesn't mean they will grow up to be robbers. The same applies to Playmobil - I assume the set includes a policeman - who is he supposed to arrest? Are these people really that stupid?
