here is an article about a thought provoking experiment.... .
http://www.physorg.com/news67694761.html.
survival of the selfless - scientists find cheats don't always prosper .
Oh, selfless orgasms definately are better than selfish orgasms...
As for shellfish orgasms, well, they've clammed-up about it... gone all crabby I think... of course, if it's limp it isn't possible... and I'm sure the smallest winkles don't give good ones...
ok so when i was leaving i wanted to check out the local y and do some classes but i was always warned by so many people and articles in the w&a that they were tied in with churches and paying for a membership would be like giving money to other churches.
i tried to look up that info from the quotes in older w&a's and couldn't even find the book that was quoted.
i even grilled the people at the y and repeatedly asked if it was or ever had been affiliated with a particular church.
Before I moved to the Netherlands I actually LIVED at the YWCA in Exeter; it ran a block of flats and allowed male tenants, and was convenient and cheap.
I think they had a Christian in reception, at least I assume he was as he had a wispy beard, wore glasses and a sleevless pull-over and sandels, and was always very polite...
Sadly there were no girl-girl orgies I could help out with... cheap apartment though...
are you afraid of the power of occultists and satanists?
do you think their magical arts can truly harm people?
or are you confident that their power can easily be neutralised by reciting biblical verses or by wearing a crucifix?
I think the only people who worry about Satanists (for the sake of argument let's assume they're 'real' Satanists as opposed to Goths, Metallers or other Freaks who just like the imagery but no more believe or worship Satan than they do the tooth-fairy) are those, who like 'real' Satanists, have an entirely fanciful and unsupported set of beliefs.
It's a bit like people speculating whether Melchester Rovers or Oldcastle United are better teams - they're both made-up football teams from a comic, but that wouldn't stop people who've immersed themselves in the belief structure from debating their individual merits or powers as though they were real.
It is just like kids will argue about whether Snealsels or Snorlax (Pokemon) are more powerful, or whether Lickety Split, or Wind Whistler is the 'best' My Little Pony... I mean, would Darth Maul beat Luke Skywalker in a light-sabre duel? Would a P-51 Mustang beat a Supermarine Spitfire in a dogfight - oh, hang on, silly me, Mustangs and Spitfires actually exisited... but that question can never be answered as a dogfight between the two never took place...
Real.... imaginary.... DIFFERENT
Of course, anyone having proof of god OR Stan (as Satan's friends call him) can post it here, making sure they specify which god they're proving...
here's an excerpt from a bbc.co.uk article i just read:.
"the holy koran recognises jesus as a prophet.
what the book says is an insult to both christians and muslims," maulana mansoor ali khan, general secretary of the all-india sunni jamiyat-ul-ulema, told the reuters news agency.
Funny how people will object to nigger but endorse rag-head.
But hell, Muslim whacking is easy and popular, and the mods seem quite happy to just read the threads.
I these muslims spent as much time living for thier faith insteads of dying for it the world would probably be more tolerant of thier disgusting practices
Actually the vast majority of Muslims live peaceful lives and would often if questioned doubt whether the 'bad guys' are really Muslims. I heard an Iman on BBC World Service saying just that today. The 'bad guys' also count an awful lot of ordinary Muslims as 'fair game' in their attempt at Jihad, as the 'bad guys' claim they are the real Muslims. Fortunately peaceful Muslims far far out-number the 'bad guys'.
Obviously a lot of the peaceful Muslims are socially backward, with human rights conditions similar to that of many Western countries a few generations back.
Just like China is 20 years behind in the Space Race, but won't take 20 years to catch up, so too Muslim countries will catch up with regard to Human Rights.
But you can no more convince your great-grand father that blacks are equal and women deserve the vote by giving him a mobile phone and Addidas than you can many people in the Muslim world today.
We forget how quickly our society has changed; it was only in the Sixties that it became acceptable for a woman to go to a pub and be seen drinking in public (in England). Any idot can see their socially backwards, just as we were. But it doesn't change overnight; it comes with the change of genertion and the education of the generation that replaces it.
But no, let's not have a nice sensible discussion, let's just use racist terms and lump almost 1.3 billion into a catagory only 2 or 300 million fit at the very BROADEST definiton. Bigotry and ignorance in one blow, well done, do you feel proud yet?
As for Muslims objecting to the DaVinchi Code, why should we be surprised Islamic religious idiots are as stupid as Christian religious idiots?
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i remember a post a while back that talked about some people on an island or something that worshipped planes or something because they used to drop off packages with parachutes during a war or something.
can anyone link me to that thread or refresh my memory as to who those people are?
I worship the Crotch Rocket made by William's Biological Hardware...
But yeah, cargo cults. Funny what people believe in, eh?
half way through the songs, and my vote is with latvia.
fantastic acapella song.
beautiful.. nice country song from germany.. lithuania - i dont know what to say!!!!
I love Eurovison...
I rarely hear anything I'd normally consider listening too, but that's not the point.
The voting in itself is hilarious; it used to be by a jury in each country. Then they moved to telephone voting; the results were still as partisan. Ukraine obviously want to have gas next winer as they gave Russia 12 points! If you share a border or share a language, give extra points. Turkey were given 12 points by both the Netherlands and Germany due to canny voting by the large Turkish populations in those countries.
The UK attemp was a bit crass; pseudo-St. Trinian's school-girl fetish with the ultimate anathema; a white guy rapping. How more bad can you get?
Lots of classic Euro-pop like Sweden, getting lots of votes like always.
Lativia were really good, as was Bosnia-H.
But Finland; I'd heard it before and thought it rather jolly, liking that sort of shit. But I had no idea what they looked like - my jaw quite literally dropped, and I'm glad they won.
It was quite fab; and they won because of the 'rock triangle' and Scandinavian solidarity; they got 10 or 12 points from all other Nordic countries and any country in the 'rock triangle' (start in the Balkans, draw a line to Norway, and then to Russia before going back to the Balkans) gave them good points. You would not believe the unreconstructed rock music that is still loved there, from poodle hair to Spinal Tap to Death Metal.
I think accusations they're Satanists would come as a surprise to the band members - it's a band okay? Eurovision is about theatrical music; it's not about a song you hear a few second of and are entranced by (like when we turned over at the end and caught the end-titles of something with some beautifully ethereal girl singing with a guitar as end music).
Expect too much and you'll be disappointed; it's a $ucking laugh, that's what it is, but no more an indication of musical qaulity than winning Pop-Idol.
The Finnish entry are actually an established proper band, it wasn't some get-up for the night. I love it... and the fact the Finns voted for it to represent them is even funnier... shit like that restores my faith in human nature...
some politicians are saying this would be "racist".
Ken P
some politicians are saying this would be "racist".
Ken P
some politicians are saying this would be "racist".
MinsterAmos
BASQUE Spain where Arabic is the official language
I think you're mixing up today's Basques, who speak Esqueran, with the Moorish Spain run by Muslims in the early centuries of the second millenium. That's where Spanish gets it Arabic loan words from, although it is still largely a Romanse language, i.e. a dialect of Latin that has become a language.
I think rather than making English the offical language (not that it would be then, you guys speak American in all its glorious forms, which is a dialect of English, like what we British people speak, in'it?), they should ensure everyone has a decent enough education they learn to speak, read and write in English no matter what their cradle-tounge is.
If everyone CAN speak English (which is what this is trying to achieve by proclamation), there's no need to make it official.
A live in Holland. People are stupidly multi-lingual here. Most people (60%+) are trilingual, Dutch (obviously) with English, and either French or German or another language at conversational or near-conversational levels. Around 30% are quadralinguals. Luxembourgers also get to speak Luxemburgish, and are actually taught in different languages at different points of their education.
I'm struggling with two...
any comments appreciated because i can't think clearly right now!
here's the story.... .
hubby and i married 5-1/2 years ago.
Gregor
I travel on business maybe six times a year, and also to see my kids. I take along my fiance as her schedule (she's a teacher so can't just take days off anytime) permits, as she basically goes for free on business trips apart from what she eats - and even then if I have to have a meal in the evening with a client, it's normally cool for her to come along for free. My clients get taken to nice places, LOL. Likewise when I go back to the UK to see my kids, except sometimes it's the extra cost that rules it out.
I like being places by myself, but it's also great fun with her along, and there's places I've been to without her (the US, Romania, Tunisia, Spain, Scotland, Ireland) I'd love to take her to too share the fun. SHe's mad keen for it so I can understand your frustration (maybe not quite the right word but you know what I mean).
Kate and I are a little freakishly together - I realise not every couple are the same without it devaluging the relationship - but to not go and string someone along is just not nice.
