We don't have quite the same issues that you are experiencing, but Mrs. DP does have a movement disorder that's set off by touch and posture, amongst other things. She shakes quite violently, which is very unpleasant for her and sometimes quite dangerous for me (I've been head butted a few times).
We tried a set of Loving Angles as a way to avoid putting unneccessary strain on Mrs. DP. The theory looked pretty sound, and there were certainly plenty of possible arangements to try, but they were a bit small and not firm enough to cope with <strike>the combined weight of both of us</strike> my lardy arse.
The only other advice I could give is to experiment and find ways to pleasure each other that work given the constraints you're working under. Talk to each other, take things gently, and just enjoy each other.
Tea
Tobacco
Urban Dead (Massively multiplayer web-based zombie game)
I'm wary of joining in with this thread, having seen how easily Postie got himself ganged up on.
I do have to ask though, have any of you lot ever played Lunch Money - it's a card game based around playground fighting very similar to what seems to be going on here.
There's a folk song called The Parting Glass that we played at my dad's funeral that generally results in me quietly blubing in the corner. Other songs have done that too, possibly because so much of my early musical tastes were based on what I could nick from his collection, and he had cracking taste in music.
I can't say with any certainty what I'll be doing next April, but I'll check Mrs. DP's course schedule and if that's a weekend she's in Brum I'd head down with here and make the additional trek over to Bristol/Cardiff.
I do know a reasonably cheap venue in central Bristol with a 2am licence, that could certainly hold 100 people, not sure what the exact capacity is. It's not exactly salubrious, but I can let you know the details by PM if you like. They regularly host Goth gigs and similar events so a bunch of SH people is unlikely to appear even vaguely weird.
I'm not sure if your powerbook will have Bluetooth built in to it, if it does then given my experiences with Macs it'll probably set itself up. If not then you'll need a USB Bluetooth dongle - they look like USB memory sticks, cost £10-20 and give your computer the ability to talk to Bluetooth devices.
I have a 3/4 pint mug helpfully labelled 'Tea' in case I forget what should be in it.
I generally just go for the biggest mug I can find, preferably at least a pint as I find smaller ones only hold three or four good mouthfuls of tea.
Well I was going to say Tremors, but since that's already been mentioned I'd have to go with Bad Taste (Peter Jackson's first film).
I don't particularly mind penny for the guy in the week or so before bonfire night, but only if they've made a guy and are reasonably polite. I never did it myself, though I do remember a number of guys being consigned to the bonfire over the years, several of actually being Maggie Thatcher in effigy.
It's a pity we don't live anywhere with enough room for a bonfire, as I quite fancy the idea of burning Blair and Bush in effigy. :twisted:
I smoke, but rarely go into pubs anyway since I don't often drink (I had more to drink at the NE munch than I'd had in about the previous two years put together). Ironically, most of the time if I'm going to a pub it's to have a meal, so I suppose I'll be stood outside in the cold having my post-prandial roll up.
I'd have more sympathy for any sort of ban if the scientific body of evidence related to the dangers of smoking could be said to be unbiased and representative. Unfortunately over the past 15 years there has been a huge bias in the funding and reporting of research against anything that says anything other than the medical profession's party line that smoking is really bad and causes pretty much everything that could go wrong with you.
As it is, I feel like I'm being picked on as an easy target for politicians and health campaigners who're too scared to actually tackle problems that might make a real difference to people's health - like industrial and transport pollution, poor housing, poverty, etc. I don't like being picked on and fed propaganda, and thus have no intention of giving up.
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