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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30302

    Originally posted by RichardB View Post
    Most of whom?
    Perhaps:

    a) People here on this forum

    b) People round here where I live

    c) People in general, in the world.
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • Dave2002
      Full Member
      • Dec 2010
      • 18021

      Originally posted by RichardB View Post
      Most of whom?
      When did you last use a dog to herd sheep, or fetch a bird which you'd shot? Or even train a cat - if that's possible, to kill birds and bring them back as food?

      Dogs are useful for some disabled people, and certainly can be trained to be helpful.

      Cats - and also some snakes - are useful in some parts of the world for catching rats and mice. Helpful in some farming areas.

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      • Dave2002
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 18021

        Want to be critical of new tech? Here's an interesting article:

        She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

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        • Old Grumpy
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 3617

          Good things about summer (wrong thread I know): warm, dry, festivals

          Grumbles about summer: too hot, too dry, exhausting, flies, wasps, men (and women) showing too much flesh... (I could go on)

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          • Serial_Apologist
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 37696

            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
            Good things about summer (wrong thread I know): warm, dry, festivals

            Grumbles about summer: too hot, too dry, exhausting, flies, wasps, men (and women) showing too much flesh... (I could go on)
            During hot weather I have no objection to women showing too much flesh, so long as it is not TOO much flesh!

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            • Old Grumpy
              Full Member
              • Jan 2011
              • 3617

              Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
              During hot weather I have no objection to women showing too much flesh, so long as it is not TOO much flesh!
              , yep, I getcha

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                Good things about summer (wrong thread I know): warm, dry, festivals

                Grumbles about summer: too hot, too dry, exhausting, flies, wasps, men (and women) showing too much flesh... (I could go on)
                So naturism's not your bag, eh?

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                • Serial_Apologist
                  Full Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 37696

                  Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                  So naturism's not your bag, eh?
                  For me that depends on where people hang out!

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                  • Joseph K
                    Banned
                    • Oct 2017
                    • 7765

                    My nose has been blocked up to varying degrees all day. Unsure if it's: a) a cold b) hay fever (which I've heard and to some extent experienced is particularly bad this year) or either of these exacerbated by dusting yesterday.

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                    • Alison
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 6459

                      My first contribution to this thread: I don’t like really white teeth

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                      • Bryn
                        Banned
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 24688

                        Originally posted by Alison View Post
                        My first contribution to this thread: I don’t like really white teeth
                        In the mouth or as earings?
                        Last edited by Bryn; 23-06-22, 20:37. Reason: Ouch! Typo.

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                        • Joseph K
                          Banned
                          • Oct 2017
                          • 7765

                          A moth with teeth is a scary thought.

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                          • ahinton
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 16123

                            Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                            A moth with teeth is a scary thought.
                            What might Harri B have thought about that?

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                            • Petrushka
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 12254

                              Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                              My nose has been blocked up to varying degrees all day. Unsure if it's: a) a cold b) hay fever (which I've heard and to some extent experienced is particularly bad this year) or either of these exacerbated by dusting yesterday.
                              Dusting plays havoc with my nose, giving an unpleasant burning smell on top of the blockage. I usually wear one of my covid masks when dusting but even they don't eliminate it altogether.
                              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                              • Nick Armstrong
                                Host
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 26538

                                Originally posted by Alison View Post
                                I don’t like really white teeth

                                Absolutely.

                                When accompanied by other attempted cosmetic “improvements”, the word ‘grotesque’ doesn’t begin to cover it…

                                "...the isle is full of noises,
                                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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