nourishing obscurity

Posting and visiting might be light until tomorrow evening – working tomorrow and preparing this evening.

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There’s a danger, isn’t there, in taking a high moral stance and I’ve always thought it easier for libertarians and libertines who don’t pronounce on what people are doing but just let it roll. On the other hand, there is Edmund Burke and the saying about good men doing nothing.  It seems to me that [...]

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Most men are clearly fazed by the range of fragrances [don’t call them perfumes] available at the counters. Don’t be worried. Introduce it sometime in a discussion with your wife or not-wife and find out what her personal tastes and phobias run to. Below is a starter to get you up and running: Perfume is [...]

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Admittedly, one reads The Mail at one’s own risk but it is more human than the other rags and politically more sane. On the other hand, it certainly works itself up into a lather over anything and the story needs to be checked against other sources before being used, say, in a blogpost.

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To give your brains a rest this evening – some pieces of trivia, rather than a quiz: 1. No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times. 2. In 1810, Peter Durand invented the tin can for preserving food. 3. The word “comet” comes from the Greek word “kometes” meaning long [...]

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The Battle of Britain had many heroic features but it also had negatives which could have ended the defence, had they continued. It’s unfair to single out technical limitations, such as the aircraft and the need for vast ground crews because these things are ongoing but I mean avoidable things such as the lack of [...]

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This one’s a little more difficult. We’ve already had the baddest baddy screen villains, e.g. Hannibal Lecter but this one this evening concentrates more on the actor him/herself. We were discussing this today and my mate pointed out that they’re films,aren’t they? Anyone can be made to look villainous in a film. Hans Gruber is [...]

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Exhibit 1:  Coleen Rooney … Exhibit 2: Ekaterina Ivanova No further words.

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Naturally, it’s women they want in jobs these days Karl: There are two “nightmare” scenarios that I have been concerned about for more than two years.  The first is an equity sell-off that comes with a big selloff in Treasuries.  The second, which we may be seeing the start of, is a selloff that comes [...]

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I’ve been putting together a new template at my old site and I hope you like it.  It’s currently still under construction, so please forgive any missing elements for the nonce.

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Green and pleasant land? Wyrdtimes wrote, in comments on another post: If enough people want an English parliament we will get one. Last survey on the subject had support at 68% in favour. Let’s come back to surveys a bit further on, something which have been the bane of anti-EU forces as well.  For now, [...]

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One from Dearieme: … and one from me. I wanted the VBC version for its purity but the sound quality of the youtubes were poor. 

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Nice There may be little point doing another post on women, as I’ve probably alienated most of my women readers, whilst keeping the even-minded ones.  One such cool babe is Nunyaa who commented on the semi-tongue-in-cheek piece on Femdroids: A mute robot would be the perfect model lol , kidding. She’s so on the money, [...]

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