Gone

I cant help thinking I'd want to get off... all that jollility, as the little priest used to say in M*A*S*H, would be come depressing after a while. not to mention the fact that age has not improved my looks. competition i can now do without.

Wow..... what a hunk -- pity about the cake.

Can you put a canopy over the back of the truck and sleep in that? it's great to wake up in the middle of nowhere, rather than in a motel room stinking of the last occupant's cigarettes and BO. Get a good down sleeping bag and you wont be cold. Good on you for hiking, here far too much mollycoddling, humans are becoming degenerate.

An interesting reminder of human diversity, thanks. but...You forgot, "Golden Rain," by I. P. Standing.and "Baby's Revenge" by Norah Titsoff.

I've heard Vista is a mess.... hope it works for you.

At last.... we are returning to the '50's, 60's and 70's when men were proud of their bodies. I'd hate to have been young during the last few years when men's flesh between navel and knees was considered obscene. I thank my lucky stars i was allowed to wear a 'g'string to the beach and pool. Great looking guys -- not fat so can't be Australians or Yanks... wonder where they come from?

Dandelion wine is good. the English name comes fro 'dents de lion' lion's teeth, but in French it's known as pisenlit - piss in the bed... so don't eat too much of them

Were they using north american women or french? i find north americans to be somewhat strident and nasal, whereas the french have attractive low voices... something to do with the vowels i believe, and the fact that french women have been 'kept in their place' longer.

Hang on Martin!!! this is exactly what I suggested the other day and you roundly abused me for being anti-gay! I remarked on the fact that gay relationships are more stable than heterosexual ones, and suggested that instead of bringing more children into the world, especially if you are over forty, adoption would be better to the planet and humanity... What's changed your mind?

Damn... I don't have a beer or pepsi drawer. Good one Martin. I was told by a wise man that if I found one true friend in my life, I'd be lucky. He was right.

In New Zealand if a policeman is asked if he is a policeman, then he is legally obliged to respond truthfully.
I do not understand why prostitution is illegal... that merely makes it a health hazard. Nor do i understand why flashing a penis is worse than many of the faces, the fat guts, the double chins... or the foul breath, unpleasant behaviour, rowdyism and so on that is tolerated. All anyone has to do to a flasher is laugh and tell him to shove it. As for prison... it isn't a joke. After China and a couple of other countries with appalling human rights records, the USA has more people in Gaol than any other country. Prisons are expensive ways to train expert criminals, or to send sensitive people mad. they have no useful purpose, and no decent society uses them except as a last resort to restrain people who are a present and direct danger to society.

this is a telling statistic."Actually, of the 250 or so couples we have helped, all but about four are still together, a less than two percent break up rate, as opposed to the national average of 50 percent," he said.
but, who would want to bring a child into the world now??? Even the mildest predictions have seas rising and inundating the east coast of the USA by the time these kids are middle aged. there are millions starving now. the water wars have already begun..... it seems cruel to me... by all means adopt a disadvantaged orphan... and even worse... what child of twelve wants a fifty-two year old father??? what use is he? forty year-olds should accept the fact they're too old to make a parent their kid will be proud to show off to his mates, and stick to fostering

Smacks a little of Marcus Aurelius. "Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.... " Surely Kissinger was among the most deceitful? as someone once remarked... 'How do you tell if a politician's lying? Their mouth is open.'

This is brilliant... But what a country to allow bullying and intimidation in schools... don't you guys have a constitution that prohibits that sort of thing?Why aren't the police there to prevent such harassment?

And I want to ban the word Gay... lots of people feel gay without being queer... and i also want to ban the word homosexual... lots of us no longer have sex... and i want to ban the word queer, it means deformed and lots of deformed people aren't same-sex-oriented... and i want to ban... everything i dislike! so there! BTW... our federal government has just introduced laws to remove 170 laws that discriminate against gay couples... but still marriage is between a man and a woman...... utterly sacred.