Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Cold, crips, dry, still autumn mornings.

Britain at her finest

(for TK, today is most definately a bushy park day)

That's the beauty of Britain. You could choose any season and say its Britain at her finest, and you'd be right.

I have a special love for the mornings you describe though Guy. I remember when I was a little boy, watching smoke from a camp-fire rise straight up into the cold still air like thick rope. Magic.

[Laxie]

Now I'm really confused

What about, weddings or holocausts?

The who's who part with regard to the holocaust links.  Politics/religion to me are maths to you.  Will have to sit down with a cuppa and have a proper read to catch up.

[tikay]

Cold, crips, dry, still autumn mornings.

Britain at her finest

(for TK, today is most definately a bushy park day)

That's the beauty of Britain. You could choose any season and say its Britain at her finest, and you'd be right.

I have a special love for the mornings you describe though Guy. I remember when I was a little boy, watching smoke from a camp-fire rise straight up into the cold still air like thick rope. Magic.

Reminded me of this extraordinary piece of footage from FP.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B0iU19JdG8

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Now I'm really confused

What about, weddings or holocausts?

The who's who part with regard to the holocaust links.  Politics/religion to me are maths to you.  Will have to sit down with a cuppa and have a proper read to catch up.

Oh I'm with you Dawn. I don't understand it either.

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Cold, crips, dry, still autumn mornings.

Britain at her finest

(for TK, today is most definately a bushy park day)

That's the beauty of Britain. You could choose any season and say its Britain at her finest, and you'd be right.

I have a special love for the mornings you describe though Guy. I remember when I was a little boy, watching smoke from a camp-fire rise straight up into the cold still air like thick rope. Magic.

Reminded me of this extraordinary piece of footage from FP.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B0iU19JdG8

What a truly astonishing event that is, and just how privileged are we to be able to witness it?

[tikay]

Cold, crips, dry, still autumn mornings.

Britain at her finest

(for TK, today is most definately a bushy park day)

That's the beauty of Britain. You could choose any season and say its Britain at her finest, and you'd be right.

I have a special love for the mornings you describe though Guy. I remember when I was a little boy, watching smoke from a camp-fire rise straight up into the cold still air like thick rope. Magic.

Reminded me of this extraordinary piece of footage from FP.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B0iU19JdG8

What a truly astonishing event that is, and just how privileged are we to be able to witness it?

I could never have begun to imagine such a thing. And who would have imagined such a diversity of marine life in such a hostile aquatic environment? - all those starfish thingies & sponge scurrying about! Until the ice got them, anyway.

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Now they're just taking the piss.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15923438

[boldie]

Now they're just taking the piss.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15923438

Maybe now men would take as long as women to go to the loo.

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Some fantastic puns though. my favourite is "Urethra Moment"

[Rod Paradise]

Now they're just taking the piss.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15923438

Blame the Dutch - they started it with their fly stickers in the urinals at Schippol Airport.

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Now they're just taking the piss.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15923438

Blame the Dutch - they started it with their fly stickers in the urinals at Schippol Airport.

For a moment there I thought you had quoted the holocaust link.

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I've just got home. Mrs Red is in the bedroom, trying on clothes and singing Connie Francis numbers.

What does it mean

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I know it's a delicate subject, but I'm on Mr Nicklinson's side here.

I can't really see a good argument against allowing someone who is demonstrably of sound mind the right to end their life at a time of their choosing. If they need assistance to do that, then so be it.

We can't prevent an able bodied person from taking their own life. To do so with a disabled person is surely discriminatory.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paralysed-man-ask-die-145011788.html

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It goes dark here at 4pm and doesn't get light again until 8am (That's 1600 hrs and 0800 hrs if Tony is reading)

Anyway, that means that licle tiny Dicky birds have to spend 16 hours at a stretch clinging to a branch in the darkness.

How do they manage to stay alive for so long without eating, and during storms or really cold snaps, when the temperature plummets to way below zero, how do they manage not to freeze to death?

It must be even worse for the smaller ones, they have the majority of their body mass on the outside.

[kinboshi]

I know it's a delicate subject, but I'm on Mr Nicklinson's side here.

I can't really see a good argument against allowing someone who is demonstrably of sound mind the right to end their life at a time of their choosing. If they need assistance to do that, then so be it.

We can't prevent an able bodied person from taking their own life. To do so with a disabled person is surely discriminatory.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/paralysed-man-ask-die-145011788.html

Virtually everyone agrees that people should have the right to live their life as they wish.  Why this doesn't extend to how they wish to end their life as well I do not understand.  It's my life, I'll live it how I choose, if I want it to end, that should be my choice.

The 'grey' area is when/if people are pressured into ending their lives.  If they feel as though they're a burden to others or something like that.  But that's more of a 'technical' issue than something that goes against the principle of allowing someone the right to end their life.  The issue of assisted-suicide (when the person is unable to take their own life) needs the correct rules put in place to ensure that murders aren't committed, but that people who genuinely want to die are helped to do so.

I watched a documentary about Dignitas, and it was both upsetting and overwhelmingly positive at the same time.  Much like this story, which as the daughter says was "a beautiful thing"  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/switzerland/4947065/Dignitas-Suicide-Couple-Parents-did-a-beautiful-thing-says-daughter.html