It’s not just the body fat, it’s all the rest of it, isn’t it? Now I haven’t chosen a pic of older women or the overly obese – just people you would see any evening – is this as good as it gets?
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Another old one, very appropriate for the current conditions – December 8: 6:00 PM. It started to snow. The first snow of the season and the wife and I took our cocktails and sat for hours by the window watching the huge soft flakes drift down from heaven. It looked like a Grandma Moses Print. [...]
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The traitors [in no particular order] 1. Blair – for decimating the country, introducing a fascist state and selling us out to the EU. 2. Heath – for his deceiving the people and signing away the country.
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Unfortunately, JD has supplied two songs which are embedding disabled, hence they don’t appear below. Rather than delete JD’s post, the youtubes will be hyperlinked and you can view them there: Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa Bob Dylan – The Night Before Christmas [I've just discovered that this vid has been withdrawn] Not the [...]
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Throughout the counterargument by the gnostics and their apologists, is the usage of evidence which any Christian would actually agree with and yet it has no effect on the Christian argument whatever. Part of those arguments involve the Crusades and the Inquisition but inevitably, they are sheeted home to the Pontiff of Rome. Take the [...]
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I find most shop bought mincemeat to be rather sweet and I don’t have to time or inclination to make my own. And if I make my own sweet shortcrust pastry I can add things like ground almonds or some grated orange zest to liven things up a bit. I use a muffin tin to [...]
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This suicide in New York is intriguing, if that is the right word – it’s tragic, of course. It looks, on the surface, to be one of how many suicides every day? For the media, the fact that she was a high-flyer and pretty was sufficient to make good copy – everyone loves discussing a [...]
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How about this one: A teacher told Year Three students they should “f— off and go home”, according to evidence presented to a tribunal. Former Queensland state school physical education teacher David Doherty, 49 of Wondal, was also under scrutiny for snapping a Year Seven girl’s bra strap and joking about a Year Nine boy’s [...]
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This is a post by Rossa, with embellishments by James Higham. _________________________ Are you aware that a Lunar eclipse and the Winter Solstice are to coincide on 21-12-10, at 6:33 a.m.? Make sure not to miss it. How often do you get to witness an event that has not been seen since the year 1378? [...]
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Joyeux Noël Noel des enfants du Monde
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Crimbo is coming Crimbo is coming The rich are getting fat The poor are getting even less
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The trifle is reputed to have appeared in England in Tudor times. It started out as a flavoured thick cream rather like a fruit fool and over the years has developed into a layered pudding comprising of cake or biscuits usually soaked with alcohol, an egg custard either soft or set and topped off with [...]
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If you visit for long enough, you get trapped into one of these comments thingies. Trooper Thompson set out his stall some time back and it’s pretty clear what he’s about: After being slain in a shoot-out with Nol Cromwell’s mercenaries back in 1649, I have rested fitfully these last 300 and three score years. [...]
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Photo: Courtesy of Christian Lacroix, via NY Mag Don’t you just love the description by NY Mag: Every princess-in-waiting wants to look like a stuffed pillowcase whose hat vomits fireflies. And he’s probably not that far off from what she’ll end up with. Still, better than if Lagerfield gets to her. He wants high boots [...]
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Dialogue [well, more a monologue really] set in a world some years from now [but not all that many]: ‘In 1980, the UN report on the environment quoted Alice Bailey who comes into this again later. In 1982, the UN tried to get religious leaders to come into the environmental issue, using committees and meetings.
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You might have expected the commenter below to come from Liverpool, where the average intelligence quotient, apparently, is interesting: “Expats, at least the British variety, are the most insufferable bores on the planet. They didn’t fit into Britain and being unable to assimilate into their adopted country they huddle together and pat each other on [...]
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Dearieme, whom I thought had gone into hibernation, popped up today with some jazz numbers but I’d already loaded in a couple of Papa Haydn’s and so we’ll keep the jazz till next time, if he doesn’t mind:
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From the late 2000s on, I’ve been able to explore things I’d always wanted to know about and the improvement in the knowledge base on the net, plus youtube, has greatly helped in that.
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Chuckles opens his account.
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In Russia, Christmas is on January 7th and to me, that is the perfect day for a celebration. The very notion of finishing up the working year tired, cold and in need of rest and then, on top of that, having to traipse around shop after shop, buying, buying, buying at greatly inflated prices, jostling [...]
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I’ve been asked by a commenter, TomSmith, if I have a baked rice pudding recipe. I don’t usually bake my rice puds because unless you get the temperature right, and every oven is different, I find it can burn in places. And I’m not a fan of the thick skin it creates. Even on the [...]
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“I’m afraid of it, Barker. It’s a little strong and it could be misinterpreted.” Where Ayn Rand goes wrong is not so much in observing a truism, postulated by Lord T:
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This one’s from downunder but is none the less interesting, for all that. The parallels with our situation are uncanny. A Reasonable Man, Pushed too Far By Jim Schembri May 13, 2005 For years I’ve been quietly fuming about the inefficiencies of our wretched, run-down, asinine public transport ticketing system, which is officially known as [...]
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Nat King Cole & Natalie Cole – The Christmas Song
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Ian opens with the latest defence cuts and mentions that elephant in the room again – the EU, only in this case, the EU Defence Forces. Now this was interesting:
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