Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Our diet was Lord Tennyson when at school to instill standards of steadfastness and give us back bone.

The Charge of the Light Brigade:

Instead, it made many of us question authority and those that thought of themselves as leaders,thinking their pupils would follow the idiots orders in the name of the Queen and Country.

The likes of Tony Blair still send the Country to War, convinced they are great leaders but these days many are not willing to be thrown into battle and become cattle fodder, just to be remembered in a Poem that portrays them as hero`s.

War is evil. Power corrupts.

My Mam wouldn't let me play with Polly Garter.

I tried to change my name to Willy Wee!

The life of a No 10 dog.

The Army's new recruitment campaign - Body bags don't discriminate.

KidA - that is why religion is used as a tool of power, be it Christian or any other religion, its used to indoctrinate those that are weak minded, in the belief they will go to a better place once they have sacrificed their body (and taken others with them) for the aims of their leaders, whom use the foot soldiers to uphold their power.

Agreed about religion and more besides.

Agreed about not stupidly following stupid orders, too.

I haven't tried this myself because we don't have a cat - but I do have a car. Have just replaced all my socks too.

How to make a homemade car dehumidifier

Foggy windscreens can take ages to clear when your heater is warming up. Here’s a quick and easy fix.

You will need:

An old sock
Some cat litter

Fill a sock with clean cat litter, and tie a knot in the sock. Put it on the dashboard next to the windscreen. The cat litter soaks up the moisture in the air, which means your windscreen won’t be foggy and coated in condensation in the mornings.

Brilliant idea. Just need to get a cat.
Probably easier to throw all that worthless junk out of the garage and put that expensive motor in instead.

Whenever I have had a pussy in my car, all the windows steam up, not just the dashboard.

My 'steaming up the car windows' days are over, too - fortunately and unfortunately.

Great memories, though!

Maybe instead of cat litter, you could use dog poo from a litter bin.

79841 - a popular MISquotatation ....... the whole is actually "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men" though the last sentence is generally omitted


79845 - does your soft diatribe (over-generalised bollocks anyway) apply to the Quakers? ..... i think not

Other shitholes; Fratton Park and the area around F1 Interlagos.

Maybe we will get decent reporting if we airdrop some celebrities into Yemen or have Gazza retweet about Myanmar.

Nice one Iturama....ha ha...

Alexander the great is viewed as Alexander the curse in Iran.....

cynic, I do not agree that the post you refer too was a bitter or forceful attack - rather than just general comment.

As for Quakers they are but The Society of Friends that promoted humane treatment for the mentally ill among other matters, so I would give Quakers credit for confronting established churches and their leaders etc. and their deceitful practices in the past but each to their own as long as they do no harm to others.

more to the point, i said, "your soft diatribe (over-generalised bollocks anyway)"

Anyone know how often Quakers get their oats?

great scott!
what a question to ask!!
:-)

Cynic - In your opinion it was "over-generalised bollocks anyway" and you know I value your opinion as much as I like Oats except when I`m getting mine. :-)