View Poll Results: Ban Beard Man and Worldismine
Ban them and cast out the zealots
9
33.33%
Dont ban them their amusing in an annoying way
18
66.67%
Voters: 27. You may not vote on this poll
Bans Poll
May 18th 2008, 5:20 pm
#46
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Re: Bans Poll
Disagree SYB,kicking any addictive substance licet or otherwise ain't a walk in the park.Besides I kinda get the impression from reading WIM's posts, thc was the entry level............
Many people take refuge/comfort/strength in/from faith-good luck to them-me? weetabix and irn bru do the trick
Many people take refuge/comfort/strength in/from faith-good luck to them-me? weetabix and irn bru do the trick
I love Weetabix with warm milk and 3 spoons of sugar.
First, woow high expectations. But i will not fail you.
May 18th 2008, 5:27 pm
#47
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Re: Bans Poll
Ooooh, I dunno-sorry for reading too much into it. Just, my experience(not personal) is the curiosity/dabbling factor. Have met a lot of people who started with a halfhalfq of black and progressed to powders fairly swiftly.
Weetabix and blueberry yoghurt-the only way to go!
Good luck with the 1st
May 18th 2008, 5:50 pm
#48
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Re: Bans Poll
Ooooh, I dunno-sorry for reading too much into it. Just, my experience(not personal) is the curiosity/dabbling factor. Have met a lot of people who started with a halfhalfq of black and progressed to powders fairly swiftly.
Weetabix and blueberry yoghurt-the only way to go!
Good luck with the 1st
Weetabix and blueberry yoghurt-the only way to go!
Good luck with the 1st
May 18th 2008, 5:54 pm
#50
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Re: Bans Poll
Haven't eaten weetabix in years, but now you come to mention it i can almost taste the flakes.... but what about that last one in the packet that's turned to powder.... And you gotta eat those suckers quickly before they turn to mush.
4 espresso and 8 camel lights is the only thing that starts my engine in the morning these days....
But, hmm, a full english - what a way to start the day.
{let's see if we can fall out over breakfast menus.....}
4 espresso and 8 camel lights is the only thing that starts my engine in the morning these days....
But, hmm, a full english - what a way to start the day.
{let's see if we can fall out over breakfast menus.....}
May 18th 2008, 6:39 pm
#51
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Re: Bans Poll
Haven't eaten weetabix in years, but now you come to mention it i can almost taste the flakes.... but what about that last one in the packet that's turned to powder.... And you gotta eat those suckers quickly before they turn to mush.
4 espresso and 8 camel lights is the only thing that starts my engine in the morning these days....
But, hmm, a full english - what a way to start the day.
{let's see if we can fall out over breakfast menus.....}
4 espresso and 8 camel lights is the only thing that starts my engine in the morning these days....
But, hmm, a full english - what a way to start the day.
{let's see if we can fall out over breakfast menus.....}
How's the Yoga?
Temple is it that body of yours?
May 18th 2008, 6:57 pm
#52
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Re: Bans Poll
My temple???? Lemme tell ya, Dionysus & Bacchus came around with a host of whirling dervishes, a couple of shamen & the ghost of Jim Morrisson. Trashed the place, totally....
Maybe I could come worship at yours instead?
Maybe I could come worship at yours instead?
May 18th 2008, 7:09 pm
#53
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Re: Bans Poll
Hahahahahahaha- well mine is just being finished off subject to grant aided post Periclean Building Programme.14 tonnes of weetabix to complete it and not a Doric column in sight-or vestal virgins for that matter-coz its a Greek Temple.Tis also a no - smoking temple.Best to bring Bacchus and the boys around me thinks-so long as no spillages-we'll all be singing about Jericho if the weetabix gets spilled on
May 18th 2008, 7:30 pm
#54
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Re: Bans Poll
Hahahahahahaha- well mine is just being finished off subject to grant aided post Periclean Building Programme.14 tonnes of weetabix to complete it and not a Doric column in sight-or vestal virgins for that matter-coz its a Greek Temple.Tis also a no - smoking temple.Best to bring Bacchus and the boys around me thinks-so long as no spillages-we'll all be singing about Jericho if the weetabix gets spilled on
But a gentleman never spills on the weetabix....
May 20th 2008, 4:16 am
#56
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Re: Bans Poll
Would you remind me please. Or even tell me for the first time. I could only ever cope with Descartes because I liked the adjectival form of his name if indeed Cartesian pertained to him. I thought it did so presumably it did.
May 20th 2008, 5:13 am
#57
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Re: Bans Poll
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Though these words are regularly attributed to Voltaire, they were first used by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing under the pseudonym of Stephen G Tallentyre in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summation of Voltaire's beliefs on freedom of thought and expression.
Another possible source for the quote was proposed by Norbert Guterman, editor of "A Book of French Quotations," who noted a letter to M. le Riche (February 6, 1770) in which Voltaire is quoted as saying: "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" ("Monsieur l'abbé, je déteste ce que vous écrivez, mais je donnerai ma vie pour que vous puissiez continuer à écrire"). This remark, however, does not appear in the letter.
Though these words are regularly attributed to Voltaire, they were first used by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing under the pseudonym of Stephen G Tallentyre in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summation of Voltaire's beliefs on freedom of thought and expression.
Another possible source for the quote was proposed by Norbert Guterman, editor of "A Book of French Quotations," who noted a letter to M. le Riche (February 6, 1770) in which Voltaire is quoted as saying: "Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write" ("Monsieur l'abbé, je déteste ce que vous écrivez, mais je donnerai ma vie pour que vous puissiez continuer à écrire"). This remark, however, does not appear in the letter.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire
Last edited by jvr20; May 20th 2008 at 5:14 am. Reason: fix quotes
May 20th 2008, 10:44 am
#58
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Re: Bans Poll
.FWIW - this from John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty":
Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner; if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.
If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
(full text http://www.bartleby.com/people/Mill-JS.html)
May 20th 2008, 12:45 pm
#59
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Re: Bans Poll
I see that the "off with their heads" brigade is catching up at the polls...now only 40:60 in favour of keeping their heads ( was 15:85 early doors)...could be a dead heat.
May 21st 2008, 11:06 am
#60
**** it we'll do it live
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Re: Bans Poll
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