Tom and I know where we are going for our holiday this year and it'll be to places we already know well. However, musing last night, there are places I have never seen but that sound so romantic. What about...?
Samarkand? I don't really know where it is (Russia, I think) but it makes me think of samovars, mint tea and spices. Russian Dancers
Katmandoo? Green-eyed yellow idols (Kipling?). Mountain Men.
Timbuctoo? Blue men, camel caravans carrying pillars of salt (Lot's wife) and ancient libraries.
Baghdad? Well, romantic until the last few years - maybe not now. But romance from childhood with Scheherazade and Arabian Nights and Forty Thieves and so on.
Kalamazoo. Glen Miller?
But then I mused on places not quite so romantic. A few years ago we swapped addresses with a very nice couple. When the the man gave me the name of his town I said "Uh?" and he said "I'm not saying it again, I'll spell it," and he did. T W A T T. Last night I looked it up in my road atlas and there are two places in Britain spelled like that.
But so many romantic sounding places I have never been to. Yet.
Mollie
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I'm truly surprised that anybody can answer these questions nowadays. I bet our 15 yr olds nowadays can't. I've no idea whether the answerw given are right but ice seems pretty confident.
So, definitley the last one:
A ladder AB, 50 ft long has its end A on horizonal ground and rests at a point C on the ladder against the top of a vertical wall 25ft high, so that the end A makes and angle of 50 degrees with the ground. The end A is now moved 9ft towards the wall along the ground. What will be the height of end B above ground level? (Give your answer to the nearest foot)
I truly can't imagine our kids being able to do things like this
Mollie
So, definitley the last one:
A ladder AB, 50 ft long has its end A on horizonal ground and rests at a point C on the ladder against the top of a vertical wall 25ft high, so that the end A makes and angle of 50 degrees with the ground. The end A is now moved 9ft towards the wall along the ground. What will be the height of end B above ground level? (Give your answer to the nearest foot)
I truly can't imagine our kids being able to do things like this
Mollie
A guy with a PhD initially said this was a trick question. But confronted by the paper itself - aimed at 15 year olds came up with the one inch answer.
Like another from the same paper?
A party of men agree to pay equally for the use of a boat and each pays one and threepence (that's 15 pence). If there had been two moe men in the party each would have paid tenpence (I don't know what that is now) Calculate the number of men in the party and the cost of the hire of the boat.
Mollie
Like another from the same paper?
A party of men agree to pay equally for the use of a boat and each pays one and threepence (that's 15 pence). If there had been two moe men in the party each would have paid tenpence (I don't know what that is now) Calculate the number of men in the party and the cost of the hire of the boat.
Mollie
Tom's dad has some Examination Papers from 1960. Anybody care to try this one? Can anybody under 50 answer this one? The paper is full of them.
"A rectangular tank is 4ft 6 ins long and 3 ft 4 ins wide and contains water. A solid weighing 2 cwt 3qtr 12 lb is totally immersed in the water. Find how many inches the level of the water in the tank rises given that 1 cu ft of the solid weiighs 256 lb."
The paper is full of stuff like this and had to be completed in an hour and a half.
Nothing to do with swinging. Sorry. But how many people can do this sort of thing nowadays?
Mollie
"A rectangular tank is 4ft 6 ins long and 3 ft 4 ins wide and contains water. A solid weighing 2 cwt 3qtr 12 lb is totally immersed in the water. Find how many inches the level of the water in the tank rises given that 1 cu ft of the solid weiighs 256 lb."
The paper is full of stuff like this and had to be completed in an hour and a half.
Nothing to do with swinging. Sorry. But how many people can do this sort of thing nowadays?
Mollie
It gets easier.
In my case the physical withdrawal symptoms, hand tremors, stomach cramps and probably other things I can't remember, were over in about three days. The mental cravings took longer but they were easier to resist.
It gets easier but there is a danger point. It didn't happen to me but I have known ex-smokers who thought they were over the addiction so they could have just one cigarette. Maybe at a special occasion like Christmas. And then found that they couldn't have just one and were back on the habit again.
Day Two? You're nearly there. Keep at it.
Mollie
In my case the physical withdrawal symptoms, hand tremors, stomach cramps and probably other things I can't remember, were over in about three days. The mental cravings took longer but they were easier to resist.
It gets easier but there is a danger point. It didn't happen to me but I have known ex-smokers who thought they were over the addiction so they could have just one cigarette. Maybe at a special occasion like Christmas. And then found that they couldn't have just one and were back on the habit again.
Day Two? You're nearly there. Keep at it.
Mollie
This might help.
My last cigarette was 21st November 1980 - I don't know if every ex-smoker knows the date of their last.
But I never gave up. I just found the will-power to give up for a little while. So on 22nd November 1980, I put off having one until lunch-time. Then I put off until tea-time. Then I put off until bed-time. Then I put off until the morning. And so it went on.
The physical craving, mainly nervousness and a bit of trembling were over in about three days. The need to have something to do with my hands and the loss of a cigarette after meals, and other things, took a long time to get over - maybe six months or more. I carried a packet of cigarettes with me for at least six months and the cravings were worst when I didn't have any with me.
Hope this helps
Mollie
My last cigarette was 21st November 1980 - I don't know if every ex-smoker knows the date of their last.
But I never gave up. I just found the will-power to give up for a little while. So on 22nd November 1980, I put off having one until lunch-time. Then I put off until tea-time. Then I put off until bed-time. Then I put off until the morning. And so it went on.
The physical craving, mainly nervousness and a bit of trembling were over in about three days. The need to have something to do with my hands and the loss of a cigarette after meals, and other things, took a long time to get over - maybe six months or more. I carried a packet of cigarettes with me for at least six months and the cravings were worst when I didn't have any with me.
Hope this helps
Mollie
I thought I was hard done by till I read some of these. One of my backgate posts had a massive ivy growth on it. It looked like something out of Doctor Who and that was my nickname for it. I was wakened by a massive thump at some awful hour of the morning and had to get up to have a look. The gate post had been turned over. Sandstone, torn out and smashed into three pieces.
Just as well I have a couple of big strong guys to clear up for me - the post must weigh a ton.
Mollie
Just as well I have a couple of big strong guys to clear up for me - the post must weigh a ton.
Mollie
This will probably kill the thread now but I've just one more thing to say.
I have never fantasised about being but I do sometimes like feeling vulnerable. I am involved in a threesome (two men) and I sometimes feel vulnerable but at the same time I feel very safe with them. I also feel powerful and in charge. It's a very strong mixture of emotions and I wish I could express them better.
Mollie
I have never fantasised about being but I do sometimes like feeling vulnerable. I am involved in a threesome (two men) and I sometimes feel vulnerable but at the same time I feel very safe with them. I also feel powerful and in charge. It's a very strong mixture of emotions and I wish I could express them better.
Mollie
The Nancy Friday books about Fantasies were discussed in a thread recently. I t seems that in fantasies - anything goes. I know I have fantasies that I enjoy that I would never tolerate in real life.
I have only one Nancy Friday book - "My Secret Garden" and my edition was published in 1975 and the flyleaf copyrights it at 1973 so she's probably recording fantasies from late 60's or early 70's. Now that means that she's recording fantasies from women who are now, perhaps, in their seventies or maybe even eighties.
I would really like to know if our fantasies have changed. Certainly 30 or 35 years ago fantasies were used by many women
Mollie
I have only one Nancy Friday book - "My Secret Garden" and my edition was published in 1975 and the flyleaf copyrights it at 1973 so she's probably recording fantasies from late 60's or early 70's. Now that means that she's recording fantasies from women who are now, perhaps, in their seventies or maybe even eighties.
I would really like to know if our fantasies have changed. Certainly 30 or 35 years ago fantasies were used by many women
Mollie
I've just been to my bookshelf to look at "My Secret Garden" and the edition I have was published in 1975. Skimming through the fantasies, I realise that quite a few are mine
I think it's time someone like Nancy Friday started a new collection. Or, in thirty years have our fantasies never moved on? Are we still the same people we were thirty years ago? Do today's young women still have the same fantasies as their mothers had. Do our daughters still think the same thoughts?
Do you know, I think that probably nothing has changed except maybe that maybe our perceptions of what is acceptable change.
Same fantasies, different attitutude to them. Maybe.
I think it's time someone like Nancy Friday started a new collection. Or, in thirty years have our fantasies never moved on? Are we still the same people we were thirty years ago? Do today's young women still have the same fantasies as their mothers had. Do our daughters still think the same thoughts?
Do you know, I think that probably nothing has changed except maybe that maybe our perceptions of what is acceptable change.
Same fantasies, different attitutude to them. Maybe.
Thanks Blue - I was trying to sneak in under the wire. I'll do a proper introduction in a week or two.
If I was asked for my favourite film, one of them would have to be "The Importance of being Earnest" with Redgrave, Edith Evans and Margaret Rutherford. It never loses freshness and originality however many times I watch it.
Evans says "A HANDBAG?" and it's just as funny every time. Actually, if it's a quiet night tonight I might just dig out the tape and watch it again.
How one man could pack so many one liners into the one story is marvellous. There's not one every minute but every twenty seconds.
Maid
If I was asked for my favourite film, one of them would have to be "The Importance of being Earnest" with Redgrave, Edith Evans and Margaret Rutherford. It never loses freshness and originality however many times I watch it.
Evans says "A HANDBAG?" and it's just as funny every time. Actually, if it's a quiet night tonight I might just dig out the tape and watch it again.
How one man could pack so many one liners into the one story is marvellous. There's not one every minute but every twenty seconds.
Maid
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later to be found out.
Time is a waste of money.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
and my favourite:
I can resist anything but temptation
MIH
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later to be found out.
Time is a waste of money.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
and my favourite:
I can resist anything but temptation
MIH
