Dennis Young
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You are on ‘ignore’ from now on. I think its best.Lizzie publicly addressed a public action on your part, DY.
You are on ‘ignore’ from now on. I think its best.Lizzie publicly addressed a public action on your part, DY.
I think that post # 5924 may well be the best post in the history of this forum.
AF
I think that post # 5924 may well be the best post in the history of this forum.
AF
You're still ignoring the fact that it's not just contained here, where it couldn't in the least stretch be considered topical. But thanks for your response.
Mr. JamesPowers would you like to give me the courtesy of a response?
I have just returned from a small group tour around Sussex and Kent, in South East England, visiting the various preserved railways, one line we went on was the Kent & East Sussex, which was good but the staff were angry as the night before one of their stations had been vandalised by the local yobs/school kids who amongst other midless acts, had stolen or damaged some of the old fashioned lamps, which will cost the railway quite alot to get replaced. There is not much chance of catching the blokes that did this and even if they do, there won't be much of a penalty inflicted on them.
Talking about this later on a discussion came up about the general decline in standards and examples shown to children these days compared to 30-40 years ago. The opinion was that these days both parents have to work so leaving kids unsupervised and allowed generally to roam around on their own sometimes unchecked.
In schools too the teachers seem to have to spend far more time doing reports, performance figures, league tables etc and less time teaching the children, also when most of the group were at school the teachers were allowed to give unruly kids lines or dententions etc, (As I remember to my cost!). Now days there does not seem to be any way to keep order. Some of my group were saying that perhaps a return to some of the old ways would not be a bad thing.
We did sound like we should of been on the TV Programme, Grumpy Old Men, especially after the beers had been flowing for a while.
Abolishing grousing about "declining standards" would only channel the grousing into other areas, like grousing about stitch counts and rival manufacturers of overpriced leather jackets. (As if anybody would ever actually grouse about such things.)
Ooweee. I got thru the entire winter here -- including six weeks where the temperature never got above 15 degrees -- wearing a second-hand Harris Tweed coat I got on eBay for twenty bucks.
I have an old sheepskin -- not a coat, just a skin -- out on my porch that the cat likes to use as a bed in the summer. It's shedding a bit, but if it's on the inside of the coat who would notice? What could I get for it?
I have an old sheepskin -- not a coat, just a skin -- out on my porch that the cat likes to use as a bed in the summer. It's shedding a bit, but if it's on the inside of the coat who would notice? What could I get for it?
One of the reasons why I don't believe in corporal punishment is that I don't trust 100% of those that administer it to be 100% level-headed when they do.
I don't think punishment motivated by anger is ever good. I don't think you should punish children when you are angry; it clouds your judgement. Punishment is not about the punisher; it is about correcting wrong behavior. If you spank or otherwise punish your child (or any child) in anger, you are making it about YOU and YOUR FEELINGS not about the "crime" or "correction."
I have an old sheepskin -- not a coat, just a skin -- out on my porch that the cat likes to use as a bed in the summer. It's shedding a bit, but if it's on the inside of the coat who would notice? What could I get for it?
Ooweee. I got thru the entire winter here -- including six weeks where the temperature never got above 15 degrees -- wearing a second-hand Harris Tweed coat I got on eBay for twenty bucks.
Sheeplady is likely a better expert on this than I am, but my understanding is that the quality of fleece is determined in part by the climate where the sheep is from. Those from a damp, chilly climate produce a thicker fleece than, say, a more warm and dry climate.
Presumably less than what you could get for the whole sheep?