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04-21-2011, 04:22 AM
The Atheist

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

I must admit, the few times I had to do nursing in a maternity ward; I couldn't wait to get out. NOthing like impending delivery to turn a woman into some horrible creature from the depths of hell...I seem to remember I was quite pleasant and chatty; they tell me it was a bit different after they "put me under"...I apparently cursed like a sailor....

I'd love to see a study done of women during childbirth - they all seem to go through identical patterns of lucidity, abuse and crying. There must be some evolutionary reason for it, but I'm damned if I can figure it. No wonder blokes used to stay out of the way!

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

It takes a real man to admit he likes Sesame Street; my hat is off to you...I love Sesame Street...I never quite got Barney and Pee Wee Herman.

Yeah, that Barney is disturbing. Peewee never really made it to screen much here.
04-21-2011, 12:18 PM
prendrelemick

^I was never quite sure what kind of relationship there was between Ernie and Bert.
04-21-2011, 01:14 PM
The Atheist

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

^I was never quite sure what kind of relationship there was between Ernie and Bert.

Compared to Noddy & Big Ears, nothing to worry about.
04-21-2011, 06:58 PM
Calidore

I disagree that one must be a "real man" to admit liking Sesame Street. Quality is quality. Sesame Street had (has) creativity, humor, and Muppets. It teaches without teaching, to paraphrase Bruce Lee.
04-22-2011, 03:42 AM
prendrelemick

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Originally Posted by Calidore

I disagree that one must be a "real man" to admit liking Sesame Street.

Quite right. The lovely Maria was reason enough to tune in.

yet another fantasy figure to ease me through those teenage years, together with Daisy Duke , Emma Peel, the Dr Who assistants, Pans People, Suzi Quattro, Jaqueline Bisset, Jenny Agutter, Paa-ym off Dallas... I,ll stop now.
04-23-2011, 07:44 PM
The Atheist

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

...Jenny Agutter...

I see you and I went to the same school of rating women.

If you haven't seen [all of] her in Walkabout, get a copy.
04-24-2011, 03:40 AM
prendrelemick

Oh I've seen it/her/them.
04-25-2011, 10:51 AM
soundofmusic

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

It's because of Barney that I had to wipe over the TV a few times in the 90's when the kids were young. It used to get attacks of spontaneous vomiting when it came on with that awful song.:puke:

Anyway I'm behind with the new half of the allotment. I've dug a 12 x 3 foot bed for the Kale, but it took me an hour to dig and double rake it to get most of the grass and stuff out of it. Still it was pleasant work.

Fred, the old guy next to me was there, and he gave me a few leeks which was good of him. He still wants to use "Ivy cottage" to store his tools, which is fine.

"Red-Neck Graeme", who has an allotment nearby, but fortunately seperated by a couple of hedges, was talking to me at the weekend. He goes down every day and tipples in his shed. By the end of the morning you can tell he's been supping because every other word is an eff. He couldn't get his effing rotivator going apparently.

We call him "Red Neck Graeme" because of cetain vague racist comments he made to my wife and I in general conversation. He's one of those people who assumes that you think as they do about race, which is annoying, but pointless to follow up because he's been tippling. Having said that, he lends Fred - my allotment neighbour who is an old Afro-Carribean Guy- his hedge trimmer.

I had to laugh a couple of years ago at him. Our neighbours on the old allotment are churchy people - nice but a bit fussy. "Red Neck Graeme" had befriended them, and they though he was wonderful. He is generous, and he had given them some seedlings. He then came onto their allotment later in the morning fairly well tanked up - shouting in a good humured but embarrasing way with all the effing and blinding that goes with it. My wife and I kept our heads down as we sniggered through the scene. :lol:

Red neck sounds like my kind of neighbor haha; exactly what is he prejudiced against? We don't really have finer prejudices over here; It's a thing between different groups of spanish and different groups of blacks and everyone else is considered white...we think we have differences; but the blacks and spanish claim that the difference between irish white and jewish white is not enough to make the curve:grouphug:

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I'd love to see a study done of women during childbirth - they all seem to go through identical patterns of lucidity, abuse and crying. There must be some evolutionary reason for it, but I'm damned if I can figure it. No wonder blokes used to stay out of the way!

Yeah, that Barney is disturbing. Peewee never really made it to screen much here.

Okay, another thing...how about women biting dentists. Yeah, I was under during mouth surgery and my dentist claimed there was something about oversexed women biting dentists...did he make that up...Oh, by the way, he still has teeth marks:rolleyes:
Yeah, I don't think Peewee would travel well:smile5:

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

^I was never quite sure what kind of relationship there was between Ernie and Bert.

They started out as just friends who shared the same bed; later, they had twin beds and fought alot more.

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Originally Posted by Calidore

I disagree that one must be a "real man" to admit liking Sesame Street. Quality is quality. Sesame Street had (has) creativity, humor, and Muppets. It teaches without teaching, to paraphrase Bruce Lee.

Bruce liked Sesame Street; god, I would have loved to see him teaching big bird some moves...and that bird sound.

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Originally Posted by prendrelemick

Quite right. The lovely Maria was reason enough to tune in.

yet another fantasy figure to ease me through those teenage years, together with Daisy Duke , Emma Peel, the Dr Who assistants, Pans People, Suzi Quattro, Jaqueline Bisset, Jenny Agutter, Paa-ym off Dallas... I,ll stop now.

What is it with Maria; all of my men and lesbian friends have the hots for her...:confused:

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I see you and I went to the same school of rating women.

If you haven't seen [all of] her in Walkabout, get a copy.

Still confused, I understand the big boobed blond tennis players; but Maria...got to see this movie. :gnorsi:
04-25-2011, 03:14 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

Red neck sounds like my kind of neighbor haha; exactly what is he prejudiced against? We don't really have finer prejudices over here; It's a thing between different groups of spanish and different groups of blacks and everyone else is considered white...we think we have differences; but the blacks and spanish claim that the difference between irish white and jewish white is not enough to make the curve:grouphug:

I don't know what he's prejudiced against. He's one of the "them coming over here and taking our jobs" types who don't really say anything intelligent or specific, but have a general feeling for racism. My parents were the same. I think they get these kinds of thoughts from certain newspapers and perhaps their peers hearking back to some perceived pre-immigration heaven, (which never existed of course).
04-26-2011, 03:39 PM
The Atheist

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

I think they get these kinds of thoughts from certain newspapers and perhaps their peers hearking back to some perceived pre-immigration heaven, (which never existed of course).

Oh indeed.

If only the great British rose-tinted memories existed.

This has to be an argument in favour of time travel - let the whingers travel back to London, Liverpool and Newcastle in the 1920s and see what paradise was left behind.
04-26-2011, 04:06 PM
Paulclem

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

Oh indeed.

If only the great British rose-tinted memories existed.

This has to be an argument in favour of time travel - let the whingers travel back to London, Liverpool and Newcastle in the 1920s and see what paradise was left behind.

Too right. It's forgotten that the post war years were full of rationing and austerity, and we didn't really begin to prosper until the 70s. Pre-war years were full of hardship for working folk. Those early fights for better pay and conditions really set us up for lter on - and contributed to the economic booms due to the redistribution of wealth.
04-26-2011, 04:15 PM
L€lä RËmØ MÅðçÂ

:angelsad2:EHHH
04-26-2011, 05:00 PM
soundofmusic

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

I don't know what he's prejudiced against. He's one of the "them coming over here and taking our jobs" types who don't really say anything intelligent or specific, but have a general feeling for racism. My parents were the same. I think they get these kinds of thoughts from certain newspapers and perhaps their peers hearking back to some perceived pre-immigration heaven, (which never existed of course).

"They took our jobs; let's go to the county square and go make love...love that South Park. Really, though, here in South Florida, people are starting to all be a sort of yellowish color and speak a sort of mixed language and I'm not sure, they might be taking our jobs...:lol:

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

Oh indeed.

If only the great British rose-tinted memories existed.

This has to be an argument in favour of time travel - let the whingers travel back to London, Liverpool and Newcastle in the 1920s and see what paradise was left behind.

I thought things were pretty good in Europe in the late 20s; before WW2...wasn't that the jazz age, money, money everywhere? I seem to recall we lived pretty good in the 50s and 60s, the 70s got alittle lean; but this is the leanest time I've ever seen.

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Originally Posted by L€lä RËmØ MÅðçÂ

:angelsad2:EHHH

Hi, is that your name...it must have been tough in first grade spelling that one:confused:
04-26-2011, 06:15 PM
The Atheist

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Originally Posted by Paulclem

Too right. It's forgotten that the post war years were full of rationing and austerity, and we didn't really begin to prosper until the 70s. Pre-war years were full of hardship for working folk. Those early fights for better pay and conditions really set us up for lter on - and contributed to the economic booms due to the redistribution of wealth.

I think the yearning for an unreal past happens to us all at some stage. It's why humans don't remember pain very well - we've evolved to block the bad bits out to some degree and people will remember the war spirit but not the rotting corpses.

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

I thought things were pretty good in Europe in the late 20s; before WW2...wasn't that the jazz age, money, money everywhere?

The Great Depression not ringing any bells? Mile-long queues at soup kitchens?

It didn't seem as bad in UK & Europe because they hadn't had the boom USA had, but conditions were pretty inferior across most of the continent and UK.

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Originally Posted by soundofmusic

I seem to recall we lived pretty good in the 50s and 60s, the 70s got alittle lean; but this is the leanest time I've ever seen.

In UK, the 1950s were still quite deprived, with rationing only being phased out, but replaced with super taxes which meant that 90% of every pound earned over an arbitrary figure was taken in tax. That's why most British rock and movie stars moved to USA at that stage - it wasn't worth earning it in Sterling because you'd give it all to the government.

I think the 1980s through to 2000 was reasonably prosperous all round, but we're seeing the fruits of that false economy now.
04-27-2011, 11:49 AM
soundofmusic

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Originally Posted by The Atheist

I think the yearning for an unreal past happens to us all at some stage. It's why humans don't remember pain very well - we've evolved to block the bad bits out to some degree and people will remember the war spirit but not the rotting corpses.

The Great Depression not ringing any bells? Mile-long queues at soup kitchens?

It didn't seem as bad in UK & Europe because they hadn't had the boom USA had, but conditions were pretty inferior across most of the continent and UK.

In UK, the 1950s were still quite deprived, with rationing only being phased out, but replaced with super taxes which meant that 90% of every pound earned over an arbitrary figure was taken in tax. That's why most British rock and movie stars moved to USA at that stage - it wasn't worth earning it in Sterling because you'd give it all to the government.

I think the 1980s through to 2000 was reasonably prosperous all round, but we're seeing the fruits of that false economy now.

Wasn't the time after WW1 and before the stock market crash in '29...it least, it seemed that way when I'm reading my little books of Hemingway, Fitzgerald and stories of the ballet troupes...

What I remember of the 50's was that my parents lived on 1 salary, that of a welder, with 4 children, bought a new home and fairly new car, ate really well and had decent clothing on 75 dollars a week...The '80s to about '99 were also pretty good in the US; it's been all downhill since then economically