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How much do you spend on the weekly shop?
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Re: How much do you spend on the weekly shop?
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
Well, I don't eat meat, so that saves a lot. However, the price of produce is very high here, and it isn't anything new. I moved to the Boston area last August, and the price of fruits and veggies has been high from th…
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Tea-drinkers (in the US primarily): a survey on what kind of tea shop you'd like
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Re: Tea-drinkers (in the US primarily): a survey on what kind of tea shop you'd like
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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I think that there are two parts to having a good tea shop: know your tea and know your customers. You can have a financially successful (if not good) tea shop even without the first one, but the second one is key. Wha…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> I expect another of the usual suspects
> will be along in a minute to harangue and
> lecture too.
I hope you are not referring to me, as I will disappoint you. I'm afraid this "usual suspect" is too busy drink…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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I read the first one for a class and thought it suffered from very poorly conceived and developed characters. The plot was what I expected, and as long as you go in understanding that it is a *fictional* account of how …
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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The Road is a stunning and horrifying post-apocalyptic father and son journey. As with all of McCarthy's work, the prose is almost otherworldly in its beauty and breathtakingingly concise (unlike this longwinded sentenc…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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Brutality and our sensibilities aside, to determine effectiveness, we would have to first understand what the goal was. If the idea was to ultimately root out heresy and nip it in the bud, then it failed, evidenced toda…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
> Grant that those whose lives were spared
> may live so that the lives lost here
> may not have been lost in vain.
This is good.
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Another shoe question: do you wear them at home?
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Re: Another shoe question: do you wear them at home?
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
Up until this year, I would have said that I take them off. Unfortunately, my current roommates are slobs, and around December I got really tired of playing maid all the time, so now we have dirty floors until I decide …
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
> What I don't understand is why men find it
> attractive. Is it because women in porn
> normally have completely bald nether
> regions?
This is a good question. I've often wondered about hair removal and cult…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> OK, enlighten me. Why would you have hair
> removed from a painful and initmate area?
> I'm not being rude or sarcastic, I
> seriously want to know why anyone would do
> that, other than to appeal to a man. I'v…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> Incidentally, I think men preferring women
> who are de-fuzzed are a bit creepy. Why
> would a normal man you want a grown woman
> to look like a child down there?
Meh. I think it's more the allure of the dif…
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
I say give it some thought. Bikini waxing for an 8 year old (that doesn't even have pubic hair!) is bizarre, but removing facial hair for a pre-teen really isn't that weird. I didn't go in for any professional waxing, …
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Creationists kind of miss the point... LOL!!!
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Re: Hinerangi steps up to the rostrum, humbly adjusting her laurel wreath, and smil
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> There is an important lesson here in
> challenging people's "belief systems" or
> in this case "non-belief systems".
I'm glad someone appreciates the irony of this thread.
Off to my fundamentalism course, w…
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: Dear me, LadyofLight & FancyHorse. That quote is from a post
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> As is the claim that it's not possible to
> separate the faithful Christian person
> from some particular official Christian
> dogma
I sometimes get the feeling that nobody reads my posts.
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: Time of day
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
> It's 3:39pm where I am. (Hee, hee)
Oh, you ;-)
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: Dear me, LadyofLight & FancyHorse. That quote is from a post
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> You seemed to have missed the purpose of
> the thread you were citing.
No, I can't imagine why I got the perception that I was being talked down to.
Just for the record, I read the thread, and I have excellent …
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: Dear me, LadyofLight & FancyHorse. That quote is from a post
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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I'm going to try this one more time, and then I'm going to stop because surely there is some sort of bandwith limit or something (moem?) and I am taking up space repeating myself. I do not think that criticizing, ridicu…
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: Dear me, LadyofLight & FancyHorse. That quote is from a post
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> That whole thread is all about making fun
> of religion. It's all up front, clearly
> labeled with glowing neon letters, for
> cryin' out loud. If you can't stand
> ridicule of religion, don't go there/read
>…
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: Dear me, LadyofLight & FancyHorse. That quote is from a post
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> Actually I asked a couple of people, who
> said that they had felt victimised, to
> come up with examples of where they,
> personally, had been bashed or insulted on
> account of their faith. Hinerangi's posts,…
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I Don't Beleive in Atheists - book by Chris Hedges
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Re: Off topic, but much more interesting
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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> Steven Pinker's Blank Slate The Modern
> Denial of Human Nature? It is a book long
> attack on the nonsense that a human comes
> into the world an "empty vessel" to be
> filled by whatever she or he is exposed …
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I Don't Beleive in Atheists - book by Chris Hedges
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Re: Although I think he has a point about Dawkins et al. I think the name of his
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
Ok, ok, I'm not really interested in a snarky tit-for-tat. If we can't critique each other's ideas and accept critiques of our own ideas in a thoughtful, at least quasi-reflective manner, then I'll respectfully bow out.…
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Sorry Im really upset by this and I want to ask if as a group we could not
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Re: A 'fight night'? I'd take issue with that!
ladyoflight
16 yrs ago
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I did wonder about everyone classifying this thread as a cat fight, etc. Maybe there has been some tit-for-tat, but I would say that it has mostly been an adult conversation. Goodness knows that I disagree with you, Mo…
