Walsingham

People's fetishes are their own business, man. What a man chooses to do in the privacy of his own ...attic...

*whispering* Mad as a custard hat.

Being a product of my era, my emotional reaction was superbly developed:

GD will correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't many confederates of the opinon that slavery was the wrong point to rally around? My favoured understanding is that most confederates were defending the constitution of the United States as they understood it. Freedom and direct democracy over distant (more so than today, even) abstract waffling. The reason slavery cut is that the Washingtoners were prepared to wreck entire states economies when they themselves weren't affected. I can understand why they marched, tbh.

For my finals I paid a man to come in an throw water over me if I was still in bed at a certain time. I recommend it.

I think my point was that if they're thinking that way then they are most assuredly in no need of soft-minded fools making excuses for them.

It's a shame this thread doesn't have a door....

This conversation reminds me just now that I'd quite like to fly a union jack. But the bloody BNP have 'stolen' the jack for their own sordid purposes. I think the Queen should officially lay claim to the flag as a trademark or something. Then you can only fly it if you aren't a t**t. Officially speaking.

All alarm clocks are sadists. Don't trust them.

Interesting. i wonder if the same holds true in other hardware markets?

In way though, Ros, it only works because other people are such ****s.

Actually I believe he called him spinless. Some sort of rotary prejudice at work? EDIT: Almost forgot. The friends of the fellows in the OP just blew up a Red Cross office. Lot of evil crusaders killing women and children there no doubt. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22711612

Nep, everyone knows that Italian fascism was purely for comic effect. Mussolini was an operatic tenor who took things too far during a performance of Tosca.

It's my fault, because I keep calling everyone a c***.

It's faintly amusing that you're 'tired' of WW2 and all it's baggage. You want to pretend it never happened and won't happen again? I suppose you could argue that the poor little thing has a right not to be used as a symbol of race hatred and organised cruelty. But I don't think it does. I think the absurdity of cursing a few right angles is just one of the many things we need to remind us of what happened so that the World never goes down that road again.

I just finished a project so I'm kicking back for the rest of today and indulging my head cold. Thanks to Bruce I'm also maudlin so I've made myself a pint mug of black coffee and aquavit, while I wait for my curry to cook.

If I may run with your point, I think that pride is something much under-rated and or abused in our culture. I'm not saying that pride isn't a problem taken too far. I'm saying that pride in who you are, what your roots are, your values and standards... that is part of what keeps you solid as a person. Consumerism takes pride away. You are your wallet. People don't sing to a flag or carry one around on their car because it's pretty. They do it because it means something to them. And as I said earlier about context, what it means is very specific to them. Thinking about it a abit more I guess some of those person specific things are common to others. When we recognise those thing sin others it make sus feel part of a community, and we humans are a community animal. It's an essential drive for us.

OK. Everyone has to confuse Bruce now.

Woah, sorry Walsie but I have no idea what this means in relation to flags? ROFL. Wrong thread.

*snipped* *sleepy lunacy*

LOL. I just realised I've been concentrating so hard I just realised I haven't eaten anything since tea yesterday. Hmmm. I think a quick stir fry with plenty of chilli.

...And now I have a bottled example of a cri de coeur I had some good advice a long time ago that it is pointless being in th business of comparing oneself to others. There are always people better off or worse off. I would add that it's even more pointless to worry about other people's opinions of your life. They don't share your objectives, they don't understand your difficulties, and they don't _want_ to believe you can overcome the latter to achieve the former - it would only upset them. EDIT: This doesn't include people working actively alongside you. But they're obviously joined to you by the same objectives.

I didn't like it so much until I slowed down and started paying attention to what was happening in each panel, art wise.

So will that shunt down the price of other cards?