There again, CV means constant velocity in engineering parlence...but that wouldn't fit.
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There again, CV means constant velocity in engineering parlence...but that wouldn't fit.
ohhh, do we have another engineer in the house?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
No a sheep farmer:D
(But then what's the difference)
This is a great subject on its own, but every forum around has permanent bans available and in use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sindel
Forum management always has a difficult enough time, with just about every moderator everywhere being a volunteer, that some people end up taking up a lot more time than they're worth and the answer is to ban them.
Is it fair? I think so - forum owners don't get rich off them, they own the place, why shouldn't they just say, "Go away and never come back"? Then hit the permenent ip ban button and presto, problem over.
Yes, I'm aware of the esteem in which all things French are held in USA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Well, since I recruit mostly engineers, and some of them only move at "dead slow", it mightn't be a bad idea!Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
That's true.:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
OOOoh Ive always wanted to work on a sheep farm :eek2: I don't suppose yu need anyone to talk to the sheep/ recommoned books forthem to read?Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
:brow:
they stand for Curriculum Vitae or something close to it.
What like the Baaachester ChroniclesQuote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Now tell me you play them Baaach in the shearing shed. Or does that get them worried about the dogs?
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Originally Posted by The Atheist
Funny you should say that because here is George Shearing playing 'The Shadow of Your Smile', and actually finishing with a touch of Bach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnLgdGmrW4
:lol:Man these are some terrible jokes
They prefer something they can dance the Lambada to.
(sorry)
I'll get me coat.....
Man these really are terrible jokes.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
hahaha
Which would explain why the idea to call them "Freedom Fries" when the war first started never really caught on too wellQuote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
We just love our McDonald's french fries way too much.
i almost like 'bad' jokes better than good ones.
I thought you guys (Brian in particular) might get a kick out of these:
http://www.oddee.com/item_96674.aspx
Sexist vintage adds. Ah how political correctness and feminism have changed the face of advertisement
Hmm, I hope you ladies at the Coffee thread are buying the right sort of coffee. Or "woe be unto you.":lol:
I dunno. I looked back at that ad and the lady doesn't seem entirely distressed by the spanking. Naughty housewife. She did it on purpose for a bit of fun from her hubby :PQuote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
This brings to mind a conversation I had some years ago with a young lady of my acquaintance. She was discussing marriage ( don't they all?) and I was trying to explain that the difference in our characters would mean that I would be upset by her behaviour from time to time. and she replied with an expectant smile "Would you beat me?" If I had said yes , I would have been finished so I said that I could never beat a woman and, consequently, have remained blessedly single.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stargazer86
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Originally Posted by Brian Bean
I don't quite follow. Why would saying you could never beat a woman keep you single?
Did you look at those ads? I think you may enjoy them :lol:
The implication being that some women expect to be beaten as part of the marriage contract, although in the case I am referring to, the woman concerned wasn't of western origin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stargazer86
Yes, I saw the ads and they are indidcative of past attitudes to womans' position within society as a whole. However, the whole problem with the feminist approach is how, given females inherent superiority (think of your mother here) , do we continue to retain a semblance of superiority in the face of a resurgent feminism?
I was thinking more along the line of The sheep who changed the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sheep-Who-Ch...3555735&sr=8-6
I love that book have yet to read it all but I get a quick page or pargraph when I am shelving the general fiction As or the Historical Ss.
Doesnt everyone preffer bad jokes?Quote:
Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
:confused:
There's a small group in USA, whose details I won't divulge here for reasons which will become obvious, whose membership are practitioners of spanking and assorted corpral punishments, not as a fetish, but as an agreed "club" method of keeping one's womenfolk on the straight and narrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
One of the club's premises was that women should be given a good spanking weekly just to let them know who's boss. Many of the women complained about their husbands not giving them their weekly discipline.
It's not just non-westerners...
wow. I want those women's phone numbers... and not for liscivious or dating purposes.
I would love to sue the crap out of their husbands. I would bet I could get a jury to squeeze them of what they are worth.
and now that I'm thinking of it, I bet you could get them to garnish the full 50% of their wages from the divorce.
Yeah, they keep a very low profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
I bet it is a fetish really. :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
Wait you are a lawyer? .. or just someone after the monies, 'cause I don't understand how you would get it otherwise.Quote:
Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
Not so low, one of the couples was on TV, a couple of years a go. Channel 4 or Five documentray. About western marriages where women stay home do all the house work and still run around pamering the men . Because and I quote ( not this bit but just to say God bless semi photographic memories :rolleyes: )Quote:
Originally Posted by The Atheist
" A man should be master of his own home. I used to think the way you peobably do, but I have learnt better. Sometimes its like having 4 babies, but a man desreves to be come home and not have to do anything."
I got very annoyed and continued out of the room at that point. But you could tel the guy was very annoyed by the 4 babies comment, his wife made. Also her English family were not amused.
The documnetray came on folowing the annoying rise to popularity of that Domestic Goddes woman, can't rember what she is called, but she goes around telling people how to fold their sheets.
The moment a man gets married, he ceases to be master in his own home. What beats me, however, is why aren't we masters in our own thread?:(
Maybe you should move to Stepford...
OOOh wasnt theer a second version of that where all the men were 'perfect' husbands?
Long before the film was made, I was talking to a female colleague one day and she said that it would be wonderful if women could take a man out of a box when they needed one and put him back in it when they didn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I told her it was strange that she should say that because that is exactly the way men feel about women but that women would probably spend more time in the box than men.
Well, there are such "women", you know.
That is tragic about those women being like that.
I'm no avid femenist and can joke around about some stuff, but the beating thing and the women expecting it is insane.
Honestly, guys, would you even want to be with a woman like that? One who expects you to be her master and who is that insecure? That sounds like that would be an unhappy union on both ends. If I ever had a guy that insecure or clingy or overly dependent, I would be out of that situation in a heartbeat. That's not to say there's anything wrong with cooking, keeping house, and doing nice things for my daughter's dad. I enjoy doing that and I know a lot of other women who enjoy that as well. But the expecting and wanting to be beaten thing...whoa. Sounds like trouble...
I wouldn't and i don't think it's all that common. We are not talking about women who tend to choose abusive men. Whatever is going on there, they are not looking forward to abuse. I have never met any woman that wanted to be beat for, for what the pleasure of it? Are we talking about S&M here? I don't know of any and I wouldn't want to have a relationship like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stargazer86
So I have heard but, apparently, they wear out a lot quicker than the genuine article.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
This was in reference to the posts about the Stepford wives. I don't necissarily mean with the woman getting beaten, although *points up to one of Brian's posts about a former acquantance of his* was part of the question. I mean more like with the traditional subservient "woman" role with the man being the "master" of the house. cooking and cleaning is one thing, but living your life solely to please another? I think that novelty would wear off quickly for your average man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Virgil
I would agree. There is a certain amount of submission that needs to go both ways...but isn't that true for any friendship/relationship? If two people live in the same house, you have to do things for each other, or else there will be strife...even mere roommates need to keep the other in mind.
Nothing like a spot of wife-beating to get the subject on track!
Now, I'll put a link to this in, because it's relevant in terms of discrimination and people's attitudes towards it. There are 100 warnings before you can view it, but is a public service ad, and there's not even any bad language - I can't get my head around why there are any warnings at all.
Link
And I've finally got a bit of time to make a few comments.
Busy taking over Australia, doncherknow.
Ity doesn't start out that way, as biblical reasons are [of course] used as the basis for it all, but I found it fascinating that it did become fetish-like for the women while the men ended up seeing it as a chore.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Sounds similar, but it'll be a different group; the one I sneaked into was ultra-cautious about publicity and wouldn't have appeared anywhere in the media. In the end, that's how they found out who I really was - I'd started writing about it and they twigged that I was not their friend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
Only if you marry the wrong woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
The wrong woman, which is the one that almost all blokes on the planet are married to, is the one who needs to be the boss herself, who doesn't understand the meaning of the word "partnership". Mind you, almost no blokes do either, so it keeps the divorce lawyers in work.
:D
Ah, but we are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
The women are here at our forebearance, because being good, hardworking men we can just pack up our club and walk away.
There's no greeater mastery than that.
I'll have Parker bring you a Horlicks.
:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I think we need to devise a suitability test for humans. Even birds manage to keep lifelong partners quite happily, and they're dumber than dirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Big deal; you just get a new one. Look at Hugh Hefner, he's had a lot of boxes through his place, so I hear.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Did you know that 1,000s of women are battered in the United States every year...the rest of them are eaten plain...