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Chit-Chat » Weird food you can't get enough of » Re: So what are Vegemite and Marmite?
jfaust 19 yrs ago | 3 replies
they are differnt names for the same product which is yeast extract excellent on toast
Chit-Chat » Random acts of horribleness. » Re: Random acts of horribleness.
jfaust 19 yrs ago
Difficult to challenge people like this as they woudl turn it into a fight - which was probably the idea all along Devout cowards like me would let it go
Chit-Chat » Films
jfaust 19 yrs ago | 3 replies
I have a thought about film My proposition is that as a medium it can actually tell us lies I believe this id due to the fact that it strings together images at a rate of 30 per second which our slow minds perceive …
Chit-Chat » Now then... anybody here heard of or from Macclesfield? » Macclesfield
jfaust 19 yrs ago
I know Macc - its a lot nicer than some dumps in teh north west of England Look out for the Oxfam shop in Mill Street if you're into music
Site Watch » Authors and Bookcrossing » it would be totally impractical
jfaust 19 yrs ago
for a publisher to try to stop people doing book crossing It woudl be the same as trying to stop you lending books, or talking about them On balance BC probably increases sales, if anything, (i) a book in circulation …
Chit-Chat » Why do people dislike hearing a person say they are atheist? Does it scare them? » Re: Atheism
jfaust 19 yrs ago
well said I agree with all this Also I would say that history shows that when we do find out something of how the universe works it is far more wonderful than the silly tales peddled by religions
Chit-Chat » What visual artist(s) do you especially like? » Visual artists- Goya, Redon
jfaust 19 yrs ago
Goya or Odilon Redon There's this Redon I specially like of Apollo as the rising sun - a classical quadriga being driven across the sky
Chit-Chat » What visual artist(s) do you especially like? » Visual artists- Goya, Redon
jfaust 19 yrs ago
Goya or Odilon Redon There's this Redon I specially like of Apollo as the rising sun - a classical quadriga being driven across the sky
Book Talk » What's your favourite poetic form? » sestina
jfaust 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
I was just going to nominate the sestina when I read yours I agree Don't know of many in English aside from Auden's - can you enlighten me? jfaust
Chit-Chat » What food do you absolutely hate? » Food I hate
jfaust 19 yrs ago | 1 replies
broccoli, salad, cattle food, cat food
Chit-Chat » Something amazing (to me) to share! » Ryan
jfaust 19 yrs ago
Thats sounds wonderful may be this is a breakthro for Ryan Good luck with the signing Have you read Oliver Sacks' book 'Seeing Voices'? well worth exploring
Chit-Chat » for cat lovers only :( » sympathies
jfaust 19 yrs ago
I've had cats for decades now and taken several for the last trip, most recently my ginger cat Kip who was the best Unlike us they do know when it is their time to go- trsut you r cat and you will do the right thing JF…
Book Talk » Can anyone reccomend a good translation of Homer's "Odyssey" » Oddyssey transaltions
jfaust 19 yrs ago | 2 replies
do check out Seamus Heaney- I think he has translated both Iliad and the Oddysey

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