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» 9/09/2009 10:09:29 PM Pied P. - Where've I been? Ahh - well you might not be aware of this, but I've been in Chi.....
» 7/09/2009 11:50:03 AM Wow, Graham, that's a whole lot of opinions you are canvassing for so I shan't seek to add.....
» 7/09/2009 11:01:52 AM I'm really glad that this article has appeared - albeit somewhat tardily. Albeit also in a.....
» 19/08/2009 4:28:51 PM I think this article is every bit as “enraging” as the question to Ms. Clinton which promp.....
» 19/07/2009 9:34:23 AM “Very few students pay for their education, so in essence, it is free to them.” If that is.....
» 17/07/2009 1:09:19 PM Fractelle - as many as can can-can on the head of a pine? How about Samba on a sewing need.....
» 17/07/2009 12:50:26 PM Rehctub’s repeated statements regarding equal opportunity for failure are a common theme. .....
» 12/07/2009 12:16:35 PM Hey, PP, Did you read Pynchme's links to xy? I know you're pressed for time but, if nothi.....
» 12/07/2009 9:48:16 AM Along with Curmudgeon, I remain confused about the actual premise of a "transition to.....
» 6/07/2009 1:55:36 PM Divine_msn - I think that the operative words in your post were "For me.." and &.....
» 3/07/2009 7:57:49 PM Yep. But it works, doesn't it?.....
» 1/07/2009 10:34:46 AM Brian - I don't consider your article to be waffle. The more one gets to know about, and t.....
» 30/06/2009 1:01:26 AM No. No. No! I am gonna stamp my little foot and categorically refuse to join the conga lin.....
» 30/06/2009 12:29:37 AM Sheesh! And I think you ought to go to an Art Gallery or look at magazines from pre-1960's.....
» 29/06/2009 12:57:05 AM Hey Ceej - did you mean to post two web addresses that were the same? Both deal with the t.....
» 24/06/2009 12:21:21 PM Ah come on, Anti, old son. 'Fess up. You're bored, aren't you? There's been nothing on OL.....
» 23/06/2009 9:59:01 AM Oh Antiseptic, Just when I think how drear and repetitive things are getting on OLO along.....
» 17/06/2009 3:37:11 AM Beefyboy, I consider your point "I think this reflects more of our drinking culture a.....
» 7/06/2009 12:38:01 AM Pete Plantagenet, Why on earth should I have "loyalty" to mainland China? And w.....
» 5/06/2009 3:25:45 AM There is no way that anyone could possibly condone the events in Tiananmet Square which wi.....
» 31/05/2009 2:22:46 AM Otokonoko, O.M.G! How dumb am I? Thanks for pointing that out: I honestly was not aware t.....
» 30/05/2009 1:43:13 PM Bodgyalo, I find your post a little confusing. In fact “millions and millions” of Chinese .....
» 30/05/2009 12:57:35 PM “I can only imagine what would happen if a large population of Westerners moved en masse i.....
» 29/05/2009 12:49:52 PM VK Yeah,I consider the family-thing is a far more interesting and enduring Chinese const.....
» 28/05/2009 12:51:32 PM Jin’s argument that China should be ready for democracy in 2011 is, I consider, unrealisti.....
» 28/05/2009 1:49:34 AM Jewely, Yeah, you're exactly right about why the Chinese don't say please and thank you to.....
» 26/05/2009 10:01:08 AM The language in which there is no word for "please" (or for thank you) is Zulu w.....
» 24/05/2009 4:18:05 AM "It could well be that the circle I run in may just not like me." Painful as it .....
» 20/05/2009 10:42:25 AM Yes, I'm on Maximilion's team. I have no regrets either, after a similarly "interesti.....
» 19/05/2009 3:34:06 PM Antiseptic - "As I understand the post of yours you refer to, it was all about ".....
» 17/05/2009 4:44:03 PM Antiseptic – First off, let me sort this: “it is unworthy of you to ty to use such a stupi.....
» 17/05/2009 10:51:12 AM Antiseptic – “no one here has ever said that a violent rape is anything other than a terri.....
» 13/05/2009 11:51:12 PM Protagoras - Thank you very much for trusting us all enough to share your post with us. I.....
» 13/05/2009 4:05:24 PM Jewly - yeah, see: I twigged it a while ago, girl. All this Columbus-like stuff about how .....
» 13/05/2009 10:49:37 AM Jewely - Um-ahhh,why do you want to shake me? Mind you, its been done many times before, s.....
» 13/05/2009 10:24:09 AM Jewely - as it seems the actual thread is finished am gonna take this opportunity to ask s.....
» 13/05/2009 9:20:14 AM Sadly, a lot of these language problems do originate from Universities. From '02 to '06 .....
» 13/05/2009 3:13:45 AM Uh-oh. Remember that big weight that lifted from shoulders for about three hours? Its back.....
» 12/05/2009 9:40:17 AM I once assumed that I had reached the pinncale of existance when I finally mastered the ar.....
» 12/05/2009 9:15:26 AM Foxy, Yeah, thanks for elucidating. See, I had got the part about you realising the big p.....
» 12/05/2009 8:41:44 AM Jewely First off: gotta say I am enjoying your posts more and more as you continue to pos.....
» 12/05/2009 1:23:40 AM Sharkfin's post really got me thinking. I was once offered the chance of an 'open' marria.....
» 10/05/2009 11:15:29 AM "I remind you that the veneer of society is rather thin, as we saw in say New Orleans.....
» 10/05/2009 10:40:35 AM I agree with those who believe that the "Peak" for artists of all kinds, is subj.....
» 9/05/2009 11:12:59 PM Examinater - By and large it seems my BP is pretty much like yours. But experience has tau.....
» 9/05/2009 10:35:09 PM Could I live without the Net? Short answer: no. Longer answer - well of course I could ac.....
» 9/05/2009 10:14:51 PM I kind of go along with Examintor here. But then again, I have always thought that I am t.....
» 7/05/2009 3:43:31 PM Its getting a bit embarrassing now, isn’t it?. I’ve always disregarded Houllebecqu as mer.....
» 4/05/2009 12:49:22 PM Sorry guys, for ducking off on this one - after initially saying it was a topic that inter.....
» 4/05/2009 1:20:30 AM Stevenl, Sorry: I'm having an horrific time with this site to-night so have only been abl.....
» 3/05/2009 2:29:56 PM I've been following this thread but not contributing to it - as I guess many do. The rea.....
» 1/05/2009 6:37:58 PM Examinator - "fascinating" yes. Illuminating, humbling, embarrassing, vastly am.....
» 1/05/2009 5:42:38 PM Cornflower, This journal is an Australian one. It originates in Australia and its main re.....
» 1/05/2009 12:13:55 PM Davidf, "A boat trip up the Murray". I am envious. I remember standing on the b.....
» 1/05/2009 11:23:19 AM I agree with the premise behind this article: there IS not such thing as being "just .....
» 30/04/2009 11:12:25 AM Fractelle & Davidf - I am really pleased you looked up Mad Madge (her nickname which I c.....
» 30/04/2009 2:40:35 AM Steele writes: “What has interested me is the power of poetry or literature over philosoph.....
» 29/04/2009 4:45:22 PM I'm fascinated by your family tales: it would be great to sit down and listen to more of t.....
» 29/04/2009 10:22:00 AM Davidf, I was waiting till I had a chance to read your links before I replied and I'm gla.....
» 29/04/2009 9:10:34 AM Brian - Thank goodness! A genuine attempt - minus agendum, inflammatory rhetoric or pande.....
» 28/04/2009 12:52:00 AM Bronwyn - "I'm curious, but I won't pressure you to reveal more than you have. It mig.....
» 27/04/2009 6:51:04 PM Psychopant, After observing your work on a couple of threads, I now get it. Clever......
» 27/04/2009 6:29:30 PM I don't work regular 9 to 5 hours and, as the academic year waxes and wanes, have periods .....
» 27/04/2009 6:13:52 PM DavidF - " Writing in a religious and patriotic time he had to mask his feelings much.....
» 27/04/2009 2:54:48 AM Arjay, I find the question of the value of the Internet a very interesting one. There is.....
» 26/04/2009 11:10:41 PM Examinator, Fractelle:- Damn right. Horrifyingly, somewhere Col gave his recipe for his p.....
» 26/04/2009 10:49:07 PM Antonios: - (I hope its o.k. to use your first name?), Thank you for your comment. You ar.....
» 26/04/2009 10:26:31 PM Foxy - As it appears that Palimpset doesn't actually mean to engage with this thread perh.....
» 26/04/2009 3:40:22 AM Foxy - you misunderstood - or I wasn't being clear. I meant does the fact that I, personal.....
» 25/04/2009 11:34:29 PM I'm a little disconcerted that the title of this thread is "Graham's Challenge 3.&quo.....
» 25/04/2009 11:07:28 PM I guess my interpretation of trolling fits pretty much into all of the definitions people .....
» 25/04/2009 9:44:14 PM Yabby, Yabby, Yabby, - steady on, ole son. How on earth did you extrapolate this "But.....
» 25/04/2009 3:30:58 AM I've been thinking about the mens magazines/womens magazines thing and wondering if there .....
» 20/04/2009 10:30:55 PM Yay! Examinator and Ginx back in one thread.Frabjous indeed is the day......
» 18/04/2009 12:52:51 AM Bronwyn & Banjo, I'm not sure that the current cyber-script is so very damaging, though I.....
» 17/04/2009 1:57:02 AM Philo, I'm well and truly intrigued by this:- "When Australia was founded the Father.....
» 17/04/2009 1:42:34 AM Banjo - I very much suspect that Rouge is not a native English speaker. In which case she .....
» 16/04/2009 10:30:06 AM Perhaps one of the most obvious comments about the report mentioned was that, commissioned.....
» 15/04/2009 10:29:51 AM It's no wonder that people are losing faith in politicians and tend to hold them in the sa.....
» 13/04/2009 8:00:43 PM eAnt, I was relieved to hear that Examinator is o.k. I think, if he read all our comments.....
» 13/04/2009 7:30:43 PM Yeah well, the 1948 Declaration does nothing to protect my rights. It's directed at 'men' .....
» 13/04/2009 10:03:59 AM I guess, though we did not reach a satisfying conclusion, under which one could draw a lin.....
» 9/04/2009 11:48:46 PM Hey you guys, Have a perfectly wonderful weekend. Until I read this thread I didn't know .....
» 9/04/2009 11:41:16 PM Back to sublime moments - but this time with a non-musical theme. I've never made a secre.....
» 9/04/2009 11:14:48 AM I tend to agree with the basic premise of this article. Australia seems to have become a.....
» 9/04/2009 10:54:18 AM I also noted the Lewis comparison and felt it was rather unfair. Despite what one may des.....
» 9/04/2009 2:44:38 AM JosGar now there you have a concept which I personally find simply impossible. The feeling.....
» 8/04/2009 10:07:11 PM There seemed to be a period not so long ago when it was extremely difficult to get threads.....
» 8/04/2009 9:36:04 PM O.M.G. - Cohen gave a concert-in-the-bush in Australia? What, did someone tip him off I wa.....
» 8/04/2009 4:09:29 PM Foxy, Yes, well I enjoy exploring things in the abstract (it’s the thing I miss most liv.....
» 8/04/2009 3:07:25 PM St.G, The reasons for persons valuing anonymity are many and varied. I guess too, women a.....
» 7/04/2009 4:03:57 PM Democritus, Yes, as Dan said, despite the difference in deconstructing the cited contenti.....
» 7/04/2009 3:34:31 PM Bushbasher - I must have expressed myself clumsily. Was on the way to class so didn't have.....
» 7/04/2009 11:13:40 AM I read Mac's comment above and can quite see his point...and yet I found myself agreeing w.....
» 7/04/2009 3:02:21 AM Pelican – “Experiments that show plants do better when spoken to or played music may not m.....
» 6/04/2009 7:16:19 PM Pericles, When you said "Love resists definition, being purely an emotion." did.....
» 6/04/2009 3:59:59 PM Pynchme - Just a pertinent anecdote on your comment about rapists not stopping to put on .....
» 6/04/2009 1:24:00 PM Well yeah, I would guess that most of us on this forum are old enough to know that the ide.....
» 6/04/2009 12:53:01 PM In a general way, there are very few issues upon which I am immovable. I've changed my min.....
» 6/04/2009 12:34:31 PM Yes, Graham's right: I do apologise to the poster who is probably unaware of how often thi.....
» 6/04/2009 5:04:53 AM A poster in an existing thread posed the question of whether "perhaps we could debate.....
» 6/04/2009 4:35:24 AM Yabby, "Fractelle and all the other Yabby haters"? Oh come, come. That made me .....
» 5/04/2009 9:07:46 PM Yabby, Yes, do please go ahead and post that topic. I think it could lead to some interes.....
» 5/04/2009 8:50:39 PM Bushbasher, No, I don’t at all sell Lincoln short. My comments were all concerned with th.....
» 5/04/2009 1:04:26 PM Grim, Right - have heard that one about the noble impetus to free the slaves impelling th.....
» 4/04/2009 8:54:14 PM Shadow Minister - I apologise - it seems I misunderstood. Just out of curiosity though: i.....
» 4/04/2009 8:40:56 PM CJ, I'm also a bit puzzled by the distinction. Surely forcing a creature - whether human .....
» 4/04/2009 8:23:24 PM Whoa there, Democritus – That someone is deliberately lying and misrepresenting informatio.....
» 4/04/2009 1:07:18 PM It seems all is now quiet on the problems front? But over the past few days I have been ex.....
» 4/04/2009 12:48:46 PM CJ, Fractelle, I agree that a thread about abortion on this forum is about as interesting.....
» 4/04/2009 3:23:39 AM Whistler, I think I still hold onto my reservations as outlined previously. While I would.....
» 3/04/2009 4:08:21 PM Shadow Minister - While I agree that the figures quoted by Pinchme have no provenance and.....
» 3/04/2009 3:19:47 PM Pericles, Yes, objectively I can appreciate your argument:- by what right do we consider .....
» 3/04/2009 1:52:25 AM Robert - its been 10 years since I left Africa, but Shadow Minister is right: trying to ap.....
» 2/04/2009 4:08:48 PM Strange. If this article concerned human cosmetic surgery people would be going it hammer .....
» 1/04/2009 7:41:53 PM Whistler, thanx for the links you provided - they certainly made me see you a little more .....
» 1/04/2009 6:48:57 PM From Roman texts to Greek writings to Mesopatamian records we know that the elderly have a.....
» 31/03/2009 2:45:36 PM C'mon, Examinator, you're making us anxious. If you and your lady are going to take a hol.....
» 31/03/2009 11:11:28 AM mkk I also paused a minute on that one: I would have thought that the freedom of liberalis.....
» 29/03/2009 12:44:53 PM Fractelle While I didn't intend to contribute anyway, I fully support your post.This post.....
» 29/03/2009 12:34:28 PM Antiseptic, I do beg your pardon and apologise most sincerely. I obviously made a big mis.....
» 29/03/2009 2:52:43 AM Hold the boat a minute! Now I'm completely confused: in a previous incarnation Antisepti.....
» 27/03/2009 7:26:41 PM Examinator - maybe a prostitute with a gambling addiction? You could pay her in one dollar.....
» 27/03/2009 7:22:11 PM Yabby, Examinator expressed what I was getting at pretty well. I expect I was being just a.....
» 27/03/2009 4:11:23 PM “Romany had not even bothered to read what Bettina had written, despite the URL. Fair enou.....
» 27/03/2009 2:27:10 AM “Anyone who feels 'used' for sex either…., or their partner is ignoring their needs. I not.....
» 26/03/2009 2:11:01 AM Yabby, you're right. Foxy is just one lone female. So here's another. (Although btw, Fract.....
» 17/03/2009 11:11:18 AM I certainly agree with everything this article says, but I also feel that articles with mo.....
» 13/03/2009 10:59:30 AM Most people agree that democracy is the fairest and most workable solution for the common .....
» 13/03/2009 10:43:12 AM Examinator - (hope I'm included in the "and others"), From a truly objective po.....
» 11/03/2009 10:46:58 AM Hurrah for Lucy!It's rather sad that the theme of the article is that rape "is being&.....
» 9/03/2009 12:35:20 AM I guess my lack of objections were based on the fact that, being such a controversial fact.....
» 9/03/2009 12:04:11 AM KMB - no, I'm not conflating two concepts - it appears to be you who has either deliberate.....
» 8/03/2009 3:52:10 PM Foxy, When I first learned that sewage water was used as drinking water in places like U......
» 8/03/2009 4:31:33 AM Fractelle - (I waited to see if the thread was going to continue so I wouldn't seem to be .....
» 8/03/2009 4:04:22 AM Sorry not to have responded before now. Examinator, You were puzzled, I think, about my .....
» 8/03/2009 3:48:46 AM As far as I can see, there are two ways at looking at this thread. The first is to assume.....
» 4/03/2009 11:28:57 PM Hmmm. Well if I were PM I'd probably resign and let Pelican take over......
» 3/03/2009 10:37:22 PM It seems that many people see this issue very clearly but it is one in which I cannot, eve.....
» 1/03/2009 1:40:45 PM While I agree with all the comments about the particular flora, what I miss so much about .....
» 1/03/2009 12:42:52 PM SJF, Fractelle, I've tried a couple of times to open that link but it just refuses. May i.....
» 25/02/2009 2:26:18 AM How very serrendipitous! Just this evening I was watching a re-run of the movie Tootsie. I.....
» 25/02/2009 1:51:34 AM Phanto ..."courts should judge each case on its merits to see if a particular man or.....
» 25/02/2009 1:29:08 AM Like Dan, I was very cheered by this article. It's always been my contention that committe.....
» 24/02/2009 4:34:55 PM Matt, I agree with you that it appears to be only a deep conservatism which fuels criticis.....
» 22/02/2009 1:59:29 PM SJF, I found your posit very interesting: - Western yearning for a lost utopia as represe.....
» 22/02/2009 12:39:02 PM Davidf, Yes, it appears that Kennedy has tried to make changes from within; and Right-win.....
» 21/02/2009 10:56:25 PM I may be accused of being reductionist but it aappears to me that the core issue here is s.....
» 9/02/2009 4:31:03 PM Foxy For "adventurous" rather read stupid, unprepared, too laissez-faire and so.....
» 7/02/2009 5:04:38 PM Foxy, My favourite holiday is always the last one I took. So.... at the moment I am sitti.....
» 18/01/2009 12:50:10 PM Trade, as regards self-identity and the identity others give one you say: -"l think .....
» 14/01/2009 5:05:33 PM Examinator, I feel shame actually for the "civillization" we felt it our duty t.....
» 13/01/2009 10:43:08 PM Examinator, in one area at least, I think you are being too mindfull of the divisions exi.....
» 13/01/2009 10:15:16 PM Catch, "Alas, thats the folly of self-identity in my estimation... it eats itself.&q.....
» 13/01/2009 11:28:30 AM Gibo, Not to worry old mate, I am niether a China lover nor hater. Just calling for a lit.....
» 13/01/2009 4:01:47 AM Just once I would like to hear Arthur acknowledge any of the positive moves China has take.....
» 11/01/2009 8:07:56 PM Foxy, I too remember a similar wake-up call from one of my kids. I went into the bathroom.....
» 11/01/2009 7:46:05 PM SJF, To tell the truth, I don't actually give a rat's about the whole surname thing. It'.....
» 11/01/2009 10:16:50 AM Just in case there is anyone else who doesn't understand civillized discourse please let m.....
» 10/01/2009 10:29:02 PM Trade - I haven't said anything before because I kept waiting to see what the catch was. .....
» 10/01/2009 9:56:21 PM David, I think what may be clouding the issue is that perhaps sometimes in your writing y.....
» 10/01/2009 1:26:00 PM Houllebecq, Now that this thread has inevitably descended into the interminable “mine’s b.....
» 10/01/2009 11:53:36 AM I read this article with mixed feelings. Knowing of the injustices and sometimes even hor.....
» 9/01/2009 8:54:05 AM Examinator, Thanks for bringing up this thread - I think it is an important issue and was.....
» 9/01/2009 1:14:46 AM Houellebecq Without departing from the thread to go into a full-scale autobiographical ac.....
» 8/01/2009 1:09:04 PM DD You’re doing my head in!. “So I was flabbergasted [yes flabbergasted] to see that one.....
» 8/01/2009 11:05:28 AM Examinator and CJ, I know that I am going to come off sounding decidedly old-fashioned he.....
» 8/01/2009 10:19:25 AM Pynchme It really gets up my nose that so much of this kind of information only gets taug.....
» 7/01/2009 2:29:55 PM Examinator, No, the problem isn't simple. My suggestions are not so much concerned with.....
» 7/01/2009 11:03:46 AM "But what if we had a true work for the SS scheme?" Ah, mate; this has been my .....
» 7/01/2009 10:37:50 AM SJF As someone whose work has always been primarily concerned with language I also was int.....
» 6/01/2009 8:22:43 PM Wry, Fortunately for me, living in Ningbo, the only tattered people I see are the profes.....
» 6/01/2009 4:52:02 PM Ludwig Unfortunately, however much one rails against greed and changing standards I've le.....
» 6/01/2009 11:34:27 AM Ah Ludwig, mate, get some nostalgia into yer. Look, I've never been to the place in quest.....
» 5/01/2009 11:04:48 AM Examinator, My agreement can best be illustrated by this anecdote: A friend with a sever.....
» 5/01/2009 10:22:07 AM As I said, the incidents I mentioned happened in the past (though well within the 30-40 ye.....
» 4/01/2009 11:51:17 AM Examinator, Yes, I agree with the growing body of people worldwide calling for educationa.....
» 4/01/2009 1:18:16 AM Pynchme Oh wow, did your little precis about the book resonate with me!. When I first st.....
» 3/01/2009 10:49:50 PM TRTL – (Apologies, everyone, that my two posts got printed together.) Yes, you’re right, .....
» 3/01/2009 8:18:32 PM Belly – you are a person whose integrity I respect so please don’t go hide in a corner. We.....
» 3/01/2009 12:39:56 PM Examinator, As one who is often heard to cite education as the fix for so much, I agree th.....
» 2/01/2009 5:48:47 PM BB and Webby, I don't want to be seen to be taking any particular stands on this subject .....
» 2/01/2009 2:20:04 PM BB, I think there is just a bit of a mix-up in terms, which is why I posted above. The .....
» 2/01/2009 12:17:40 PM Webby and BB, Please forgive my interruption here, but if you are going actually to do so.....
» 2/01/2009 11:43:35 AM Cuphandle – I see no reason for you to apologise to me. And I take no issue with your pred.....
» 1/01/2009 4:38:26 PM Yabby - thanx for that: I am wearing my gold star plastered across my forehead. Seems to .....
» 1/01/2009 1:34:39 PM Yay! Ring the bells and sound the trumpets! A new year and a new BD! Look everybody: &qu.....
» 1/01/2009 1:25:01 PM Diocletian A most interesting shift has occurred here since the financial debacle. Chine.....
» 1/01/2009 12:42:52 PM I’ve not contributed since my earlier post as the discussion has wound its way – as all go.....
» 31/12/2008 10:16:58 PM Good grief! What are you guys going to drink at midnight? Hemlock? My predictions for 200.....
» 31/12/2008 1:21:14 PM Stevenl and David - How about those who are affected by Variable Impenetratium Encasement.....
» 31/12/2008 12:53:03 PM Ah CJ - Reckon I should put "Stop bullying" on my Resolution list, huh? Thanks.....
» 31/12/2008 10:36:05 AM USuss, I'm interested:- can you provide a list of the books written by "aggressive f.....
» 29/12/2008 7:30:06 PM Roscop TRTL merely mentioned "docile" wives. He (yep, he) was answering your in.....
» 27/12/2008 2:33:44 PM Hey Foxy, I think this is one of those instances where semantics cloud the issue a little.....
» 27/12/2008 2:05:06 PM In all those who condemn homosexuality one of the big guns brought in to shoot down the op.....
» 27/12/2008 1:05:06 PM Ludwig I can't gain access to the link you provided. Is there another way to get round t.....
» 24/12/2008 4:40:23 PM CJ and Spikey - hey, go easy guys; DB's last post was actually a milestone in his OLO po.....
» 24/12/2008 2:13:26 PM Peter, I was rather disappointed in this article. “The appearance of the angel Gabriel… i.....
» 24/12/2008 12:29:48 PM Strangely enough, though I struggle my entire life with feelings of self-worth and signifi.....
» 22/12/2008 3:29:04 PM Spider - Yeah - I just saw on the Teev yesterday that, finally in Germany, a monument is .....
» 22/12/2008 3:08:01 PM Runners post highlighted what I meant when I said I prefer intervention or involvement. .....
» 21/12/2008 12:20:25 PM Geez, Examinator, I think that this is rather a complex question. First, I think we nee.....
» 21/12/2008 11:22:20 AM Marlene, Thank you for posting that link. It is claimed that many more people read this '.....
» 20/12/2008 7:28:44 PM I don’t think that TRTL’s comment should stand unsupported as they might lose their impact.....
» 19/12/2008 1:19:52 PM I think I can see where the author is coming from: it really is heartbreaking to have to d.....
» 19/12/2008 2:58:25 AM Hi Ozandy I'm not sure if we are both reading from the same page here? You said "The.....
» 18/12/2008 10:25:26 PM SKOUT, I know its easy to say when one is not the person copping it but: take no notice o.....
» 18/12/2008 10:06:09 PM DB, I only just got back to this thread and so just discovered your previous post. I ser.....
» 17/12/2008 5:56:34 PM Oh Meredith, how absolutely devastating for your parents as well as the poor devils who we.....
» 17/12/2008 5:36:20 PM The fact that no-one has commented on this thread to me indicates two possible reasons:1) .....
» 17/12/2008 2:47:23 PM Well dog nabit, Leroy - I done tole you we waz in trouble the day y'all bought Elly-May th.....
» 12/12/2008 11:13:51 AM Hi guys, My view on this is that, as Foxy said, it depends on what one defines as teasing.....
» 11/12/2008 10:21:15 AM Yeah, I certainly would like to come along to some of these dinners - perhaps I could wait.....
» 9/12/2008 9:28:49 PM TRTL I just checked this thread and was momentarily horrified that someone had taken a co.....
» 9/12/2008 11:05:59 AM I too consider that Fractelle, Cj and StG have said whatever I would have said. I'm also.....
» 9/12/2008 3:15:51 AM TRTL - look, your repeated pleas for knowledge are just ..well..a bit icky, really. I mean.....
» 8/12/2008 9:12:15 PM Sofisu - your supervisor doesn't seem to have much of an understanding about language, doe.....
» 8/12/2008 10:48:37 AM Oh. I thought the menagerie and birds etc. were part of the problems everyone was experien.....
» 8/12/2008 9:52:06 AM rstuart, to get a different take on China, rather than relying on main-stream media, go t.....
» 7/12/2008 12:06:29 PM Veronika, Yep, I agree with you on this one. The love of my life was once a black guy a.....
» 7/12/2008 11:30:56 AM As one of the me-too crows, I think our position has been adequately explained: there real.....
» 6/12/2008 9:46:31 PM Johnj - thank you for the links - though I have a bit of trouble with pdf files, I found i.....
» 6/12/2008 12:37:46 PM I think the author is over-simplifying the situation - or perhaps her original article has.....
» 6/12/2008 11:58:42 AM This article confused me a lot. I've always observed that in countries where openess regar.....
» 6/12/2008 2:49:39 AM It appears the problem is not fixed or, if it was, that it is back again. I've been trying.....
» 5/12/2008 12:47:04 PM Every year this bickering over who "owns" Xmas comes along; every year people fu.....
» 4/12/2008 10:55:32 PM Hey Bronny, No, of course you're not being intrusive - its a forum for discussion and I v.....
» 3/12/2008 10:38:44 AM Foxy - I posted straight after your initial post but for some reason it didn't go through .....
» 3/12/2008 10:19:01 AM Remember Fireworks Night? That exciting night on the 5th of November when we carried on a .....
» 3/12/2008 10:09:36 AM Ah TRTL, - Love your work. Truthnow - what TRTL said......
» 2/12/2008 8:41:10 PM “It is clear that anyone who would be disappointed that my remarks are “left on” OLO does .....
» 2/12/2008 1:20:20 AM Anansi - your analogy to diabetes is apt.Its taken me since the age of twelve until recent.....
» 1/12/2008 4:47:35 PM Dream On, I have a friend who, as a priest, worked in the Vatican for two years. I'd also.....
» 30/11/2008 1:18:44 PM Heduana & Belly, I think there are some people who do not accurately understand the meani.....
» 30/11/2008 1:02:46 PM I'll pre-empt comments that this post may be seen as off-topic at the outset by admitting .....
» 28/11/2008 9:08:53 PM Mr Right. What the hell is wrong with you? While your remarks to me were quite unfathomab.....
» 28/11/2008 2:05:33 PM I did read the article “honestly”. Yes, some of these jokes were coming from work-mates. W.....
» 28/11/2008 1:26:35 PM It has been suggested that, if this were a post by anyone other than BD, we would be able .....
» 28/11/2008 12:46:26 PM Robert, I agree with you. After reading the article I scooted over to both my email accoun.....
» 28/11/2008 2:12:56 AM Foxy, No I don't think he has ever told us. But whatever it is I bet its got something to.....
» 28/11/2008 2:03:06 AM Its beginning to look as though U Suss came merely because he couldn't wait to start in on.....
» 27/11/2008 8:41:49 PM Yeah. I'm with TRTL, Examinator etc. here. I used to catch the train into Brisbane from t.....
» 27/11/2008 6:50:57 PM Ah damn! I'd promised myself never to comment on a BD thread again. But you have to admit .....
» 27/11/2008 5:46:45 PM Tut tut, Mr. Right. Such vehemence? “Romany, You have opened your big mouth again.” Why .....
» 27/11/2008 1:06:45 AM Goodness, Mr. Right, from someone with claims to pragmatism , the following para. seems fa.....
» 25/11/2008 9:45:55 PM Bravo, Pericles! Can I just run that bit again? It's expressed so clearly and unequivocab.....
» 24/11/2008 1:23:55 AM CJ: Thanks for the lucidity - as Bruce said “That’s it in a nutshell” No matter how many .....
» 22/11/2008 11:28:31 PM Way to go, Mil-observer - that certainly sounds like the kind of no-frills, Yellow-band ta.....
» 22/11/2008 10:13:29 PM Someone said that we can’t possibly know what refugees feel or what decisions they have to.....
» 18/11/2008 3:33:03 PM Yeah but, Chainsmoker, it didn't take just one man to write Hamlet if we get right down to.....
» 17/11/2008 8:08:10 PM Oliver, I am quite confused as to your last (2) posts.Are you saying that because Ms.Ho i.....
» 17/11/2008 6:09:09 PM There was a particular experience which, while it didn't change my life too much, forever .....
» 15/11/2008 12:12:13 PM Shortly after I came here I was talking to students about the sameness between East and We.....
» 14/11/2008 3:06:39 PM I agree that objective answers are often difficult to find. But that's where I think that .....
» 14/11/2008 3:03:15 PM I agree that objective answers are often difficult to find. But that's where I think that .....
» 14/11/2008 12:07:20 PM Unless any of us are naive to the point of imbecility, we are all aware that a certain amo.....
» 14/11/2008 11:29:18 AM There is a lot of truth in what Ms. Ho says. In China women are, indeed, more integrated t.....
» 14/11/2008 1:16:38 AM Damn. I pushed the button prematurely. Meant also to commend the "pratfull", Spi.....
» 14/11/2008 1:08:18 AM Ah Bugsy - I think that the alliterative "polywaffle" is the undisputed winner. .....
» 13/11/2008 8:06:59 PM Hey, Foxy, I personally can't see Camilla becoming a Queen. There is no precedence for su.....
» 13/11/2008 6:37:24 PM a "dirge"? a "Farabeuf"? a "damnation"?.....
» 13/11/2008 6:14:30 PM Foxy, I think you have misunderstood. Elizabeth's mother was never the Queen in her own r.....
» 10/11/2008 1:39:17 AM Expat Journo I consider that you, yourself, are being somewhat jejune in your latest resp.....
» 10/11/2008 12:39:10 AM Yeah. I means it's just so totally unfair! Like duh!! If she and Obama had to wear swimsui.....
» 8/11/2008 12:26:19 PM Foxy, Your last post was extremely gratifying to me. I sincerely hope I didn't push for a .....
» 8/11/2008 11:30:13 AM Senior Victorian I shouldn't worry too much about your "naive" outlook - nor abo.....
» 8/11/2008 10:48:48 AM No, no Bugsy, that's just the application of the "shred of knowledge of history".....
» 7/11/2008 12:37:32 PM Davidf's post illustrates my personal hesitation about a) labelling myself and b) allying .....
» 7/11/2008 11:53:24 AM Ludwig - a little late in the day, as usual, but I join my good wishes to that of the othe.....
» 7/11/2008 11:18:04 AM Ah Graham, I'm surprised this hasn't come to your attention before - given the love of rum.....
» 7/11/2008 11:04:18 AM I am taking the rare chance to get in early on a thread before the inevitable and consiste.....
» 7/11/2008 10:19:42 AM I found this a fascinating article - mystery story, dectective story, discovery story all .....
» 6/11/2008 11:03:50 PM BB - whoops! Now we know why the Lucasian hasn't been offered to this chick at least. Its.....
» 6/11/2008 6:19:07 PM I consider that the issue of the way in which one speaks is going to become more important.....
» 6/11/2008 5:24:14 PM My personal feeling is that the elect-a-chick spin was just tagged onto this article conce.....
» 3/11/2008 11:18:08 AM Hmmm. Yes. But might there not be another side to the coin? Given all the opportunities fo.....
» 3/11/2008 10:53:30 AM Being a little bit harsh, there Mil-observer? Yes indeed an article such as this may seem .....
» 1/11/2008 3:12:55 AM Antiseptic: - "I should make it clear that I support a paid parental leave provision.....
» 28/10/2008 3:14:20 PM DVD - I'm not advocating a nanny state either, but I do think that various Governmental De.....
» 28/10/2008 11:22:25 AM From the tone of this article it would appear that Jeremy regards "the poor" sim.....
» 24/10/2008 11:46:02 PM I agree totally with Pelican and Tristan. Its simply another "Do unto others...scenar.....
» 24/10/2008 12:11:45 PM Oliver: - "Romany, Jane became hier via Frances Grey..." Yes, I'm fairly well ve.....
» 22/10/2008 7:46:38 PM DB, - "Romany.. you say you have studied the Bible? Please.. " Right. No-where.....
» 22/10/2008 3:02:01 PM Oliver, I just want to back up a moment to your opinion that: "British monarchs have .....
» 22/10/2008 2:27:07 PM I agree 100% with all you have said. Two CD's = $100...who can afford to buy CD's regularl.....
» 22/10/2008 1:52:48 PM Grahame - you attributed the doctrine of Original Sin to Paul and said: -"I have no i.....
» 22/10/2008 3:07:34 AM Horus - "But I wonder if our time and place encourages a particular type of spiritual.....
» 21/10/2008 11:16:18 AM David F, at the age of 15 I suffered a crisis of faith which had serious consequences for .....
» 21/10/2008 12:05:28 AM Candi - well, I don't know. Some of these ideas seem just a tad dated to me. Particularly .....
» 20/10/2008 11:12:27 PM "...I thought of that when I wrote the article...". Wait. "Sharkfin" i.....
» 18/10/2008 12:05:51 PM Yes, I too was appalled when, living in the "Sunshine State" I found tropical fr.....
» 18/10/2008 3:42:29 AM Robert, I did go and look at the thread you suggested but could not actually make up my m.....
» 18/10/2008 3:07:04 AM David f, Although some of us may present as being discourteous on threads conducted by D.....
» 18/10/2008 2:39:53 AM Pericles - thank the gods for your sensible and measured approach. I am constantly hearin.....
» 18/10/2008 1:59:01 AM I have to admit this is a problem about which I had no idea at all. But, once encountere.....
» 17/10/2008 2:36:41 PM Robert and Antiseptic, Yes, keep on plugging but, as I have mentioned before, don't forge.....
» 17/10/2008 1:59:14 PM The responses to this thread have, to me, illustrated this problem in microcosm. Once the .....
» 16/10/2008 2:53:40 PM One thing about BD - just when you think nothing he does is capable of shocking one any fu.....
» 16/10/2008 2:23:53 PM (perhaps because of where I'm writing from my last post seems to have been written AFTER y.....
» 16/10/2008 10:49:14 AM Robert I accessed the site whose URL you provided and I agree with all you've said: DV is .....
» 15/10/2008 3:17:06 PM Antiseptic, Not being deliberately argumentative here but : - while not reading every new.....
» 14/10/2008 11:30:51 PM Robert - No, there is nothing that marks the violent spouse - had there been I - and my fr.....
» 14/10/2008 4:39:07 PM Antiseptic - I agree with you that such a system could indeed lead to abuse. But I think, .....
» 11/10/2008 12:14:08 PM Now that it seems that we have calmed down a little could we perhaps re-cap?: - No matter.....
» 10/10/2008 9:04:14 PM Antiseptic - thank you for your your apology: while you may not remember having said it, i.....
» 10/10/2008 1:27:35 PM I agree with the idea of culling eggs rather than grown reptiles. However, I wonder if t.....
» 10/10/2008 12:01:41 PM Antiseptic & U.Suss, I specifically stated on another thread that I was not interested in .....
» 6/10/2008 10:01:07 PM Robert Ten years ago, when I started taking the issue of young male suicide out into the c.....
» 6/10/2008 1:20:49 AM JW - have to confess to a bit of a splutter into my coffee and a quiet giggle about that a.....
» 4/10/2008 1:48:14 PM Yeah, Robert, now I think we are approaching a mutual understanding here. I agree with you.....
» 4/10/2008 5:58:37 AM Anansi & Fractelle, You know, in a way, I think we ARE talking about apples and oranges h.....
» 4/10/2008 5:05:37 AM Well thank the gods that others have expressed my own confusion: what exactly is it that i.....
» 2/10/2008 7:20:32 PM Just to add: - Today (Oct. 2) Beijing acted on the results of the referendum regarding ado.....
» 1/10/2008 7:02:26 PM Gibo, I've seen you mention this China thing often and I guess what I want to know is: do.....
» 1/10/2008 1:33:13 PM Apologies - been at a conference and not checked in for a while but now having caught up h.....
» 1/10/2008 12:55:06 PM One of the things I miss most about my life here in China is the lack of wildlife. Next .....
» 1/10/2008 12:14:54 PM Exactly! In UK last month I saw a talk show where several Africans were being interviewed .....
» 30/09/2008 11:09:50 PM Gibo I think I can put your mind at rest about the Chinese maps at least. You have to r.....
» 30/09/2008 10:51:35 PM Just as you said about the original article - I say the same about the Hyphen link....I ca.....
» 17/09/2008 3:49:50 PM Robert, thanks for taking the time out to explain where you're coming from. Antiseptic an.....
» 17/09/2008 2:50:33 AM "..and dear Romany.. not unusually.. said things which have zero to do with the subje.....
» 17/09/2008 2:24:39 AM Robert, Yeah, o.k., you are the last person I want to get into a dispute with. But I have.....
» 16/09/2008 1:41:11 AM Evo - I think you've strayed just a tad too far out of the circle this time...and found yo.....
» 16/09/2008 1:24:55 AM Robert - When you say "Too often…etc" where exactly do you mean? In the media? .....
» 15/09/2008 9:30:13 PM Yes Gibo, welcome back. I genuinely feared something had happened to you so am pleased to .....
» 15/09/2008 3:51:14 AM Robert - oh whoops. I really do apologise. I realise now you did not accuse Liz of demonis.....
» 14/09/2008 10:04:35 PM This was a thread ostensibly concerning positive fathering which posited fathers as caring.....
» 13/09/2008 6:57:30 PM Even disregarding the purple prose I also found that 24 week stipulation thought provoking.....
» 11/09/2008 4:36:41 AM Sansung, Oh come, come. People who use double negatives are "dumb" and/or ".....
» 8/09/2008 8:59:04 PM Have just spent a couple of months in the UK and one of the things that struck me was that.....
» 8/09/2008 8:07:42 PM Hey, back up a little bit here!! Worshippers of Juno were homosexuals? We're talking Juno .....
» 8/09/2008 7:38:37 PM Rechtub, I think someone has been pulling your leg! If any King in history had to give pe.....
» 7/09/2008 12:49:58 PM Sorry, Pelican, What I was trying to get at was that it IS just a word. A word which, lik.....
» 7/09/2008 10:48:59 AM Guys - HRS is a troll, pure and simple. Once a particular group of posters has discovered .....
» 6/09/2008 6:59:42 PM How come no-one else has brought up the fact that we are all getting our knickers in a kno.....
» 6/09/2008 6:39:01 PM I really don't see what all the fuss is about. Once upon a time the word "swyve".....
» 6/09/2008 5:35:28 PM I've been following this thread with interest and assessing the arguments everyone put for.....
» 4/09/2008 9:57:57 PM While acknowledging that she was endangering her life by staying with him, the Catholic Ch.....
» 4/09/2008 9:27:55 PM Yep. I'm also up for the same list as you said, Bronwyn...minus the glorious technicolour!.....
» 2/09/2008 8:57:31 PM ...."Was she doing something else with it...?" Oh, you mean like making a Moloto.....
» 28/08/2008 10:52:59 PM U Sus, Your claim that there's not another woman on OLO who would agree with Country Gal .....
» 28/08/2008 10:15:54 PM Foxy - "If, disagreeing with someone means I'm not being being "balanced," .....
» 28/08/2008 1:20:55 PM Foxy I was absolutely gobsmacked to read your comments on this thread: on other subjects .....
» 25/08/2008 12:42:14 AM Coming from an old Romany line and having lived in a many different cultures, I have a ple.....
» 25/08/2008 12:10:42 AM Hey, Easy Times, Although we know that the Chinese seem to have been the first to play ga.....
» 24/08/2008 6:35:37 PM (Continued......) And, throwing her head back she began to sing in a powerful bass voice .....
» 24/08/2008 6:20:52 PM Romany turned from Fractelle's prone and bleeding body to gaze after Forrest's retreating .....
» 23/08/2008 7:33:28 PM The door opens slightly and Romany sidles into the room. She is both unsure if anyone has .....
» 28/06/2008 12:52:38 PM PaulyB - profuse apologies - I had thought the second posting from Mr.Right was yours......
» 24/06/2008 10:16:03 PM Kieth – I see you have put a great deal of thought into this and apologise that I have sim.....
» 24/06/2008 9:28:57 PM OneUnder God - I think you put your finger on it when you spoke about the "haves".....
» 21/06/2008 1:34:02 PM Retro-Pastiche and Yvonne both showed their concern regarding children's welfare which, ho.....
» 20/06/2008 12:39:47 PM BD, For goodness sake, man. Calm down. The comment you so object to was NOT that you wer.....
» 20/06/2008 12:04:58 PM RetroPastiche, I am really glad that you posted. There is a very vocal group of posters o.....
» 19/06/2008 1:29:25 PM I support every word of this article, but note with unease that although a concurrent thre.....
» 19/06/2008 1:19:02 PM To add to what other posters in the "Nay" camp have said: I have lived in countr.....
» 18/06/2008 4:23:13 PM I suspect that women today have more trouble with the idea of menopause than their foremot.....
» 17/06/2008 12:57:05 AM Peter Sells, More as a "medieval man"? Bite your tongue! I have always been an.....
» 16/06/2008 3:37:46 PM My contention is that the beginnings of the laicism of the clergy began in an earlier cent.....
» 16/06/2008 10:49:15 AM Its cheering to see that there is support for this idea by way of an organisation. Its co.....
» 16/06/2008 2:32:56 AM Pericles, TRTL, I rather think the time has come to take Chainsmoker's advice and just ig.....
» 16/06/2008 2:01:09 AM I'd not heard about this case so I did do a little checking - but without going into the r.....
» 14/06/2008 11:36:20 PM (It this came through previously then disregard) “The history of the West has been, to so.....
» 14/06/2008 12:39:56 PM Once my Aunt said something to me to which my usually placid Uncle replied "Leave her.....
» 13/06/2008 2:58:45 PM Peter - Don't you consider perhaps that with this article you run the risk of being accus.....
» 13/06/2008 2:10:52 PM Going by the evidence of the graphs there is one easy solution: - an all-out campaign to e.....
» 13/06/2008 9:20:09 AM Away from diplomatic circles my experience leads me to believe that most Chinese are not r.....
» 13/06/2008 8:52:54 AM Agreed. So refreshing to read good news and inspiring stories rather than doom and gloom a.....
» 13/06/2008 8:43:50 AM Yes, thanks for the article, Fay. I live in Zhejiang Province and also, as yet, haven't ex.....
» 13/06/2008 1:29:31 AM Yvonne, I believe that you have struck at the heart of the matter in your post. DB, as mu.....
» 12/06/2008 2:12:18 PM I'm not sure that we are actually just talking about feminism here. Yes, o.k. the origin.....
» 12/06/2008 12:40:12 PM The best way to get around would be to hire one of the many scooters - incredibly cheap an.....
» 11/06/2008 11:41:41 AM With due respect to the above posters I think that perhaps they do not fully comprehend th.....
» 9/06/2008 8:35:22 PM David f - Were you the one who found your grandfather? If so I can fully understand where.....
» 9/06/2008 8:14:45 PM Steele - "I said he sounded like a raving lunatic, ... none of you can refute my wor.....
» 9/06/2008 3:34:41 PM I don't think we should conflate the questions of euthanasia and suicide on this thread. A.....
» 9/06/2008 11:42:43 AM First off - Got confused with threads and directed my last posting to Kieth instead of Dav.....
» 8/06/2008 6:54:31 PM Kieth - As I'm sure you can gather from my poster name - I need no reminding of the meani.....
» 8/06/2008 6:26:30 PM Ye gods, man. You objected to me coming into the post and now you're deliberately trying t.....
» 8/06/2008 6:17:47 PM I did not post on this thread. This thread is about technical support. I posted elsewhere......
» 8/06/2008 12:26:25 AM Davidf *Large magnitude slaughter does not become genocide. Why must you redefine the wor.....
» 7/06/2008 1:44:00 PM Sorry - I guess I got carried away and didn't make my meaning clear (to anyone other than .....
» 7/06/2008 2:16:27 AM CJ - It appears that profundity is more extensive than had been realised. BD recently fol.....
» 7/06/2008 1:53:05 AM I have been out of the country for two years now but I know that it was certainly true the.....
» 7/06/2008 1:25:28 AM Thanks, Rojo, for the links - and Dickie, I used your posts as a basis for some research a.....
» 6/06/2008 9:26:49 PM Haralambos, The kindness and the generosity really is all around us. I promise. Having b.....
» 6/06/2008 2:57:08 PM Antiseptic - Thank you for taking the trouble help to sort that out. As I said I only c.....
» 5/06/2008 6:20:54 PM Hah! So this is where you all got to (she said, wandering onto the verandah with a half-ea.....
» 5/06/2008 6:04:08 PM Antiseptic –I’m sorry, but I’m pretty confused now. 1). My original entrance into the thr.....
» 5/06/2008 4:37:18 PM Antiseptic – yeah, that would be rather funny. But no, you didn’t get it straight. You kno.....
» 5/06/2008 2:17:36 PM MrRight. I'm sure it happens here as in other first world countries. As I said, however, I.....
» 4/06/2008 9:34:47 PM BD - "Be specific or be silent"? I specifically stated your were out of your dep.....
» 4/06/2008 9:12:34 PM Antiseptic - Hope you are not including me amongst the people who want people locked up a.....
» 4/06/2008 3:26:45 PM Celivia and Yvonne - As the initiator of this thread I feel a little like the host of a g.....
» 4/06/2008 3:14:59 PM Ah well, I tried. If you did not recognise that as genuine advice or make any attempt to t.....
» 4/06/2008 2:26:56 PM I cannot see the corollary between condemning aggression and accepting communism. Except p.....
» 4/06/2008 1:45:29 PM Antiseptic I think probably spoke for a lot men on this forum when he said: "there is.....
» 4/06/2008 12:20:07 PM I would have thought it self-evident that our self-confidence and expectations affected th.....
» 4/06/2008 12:02:27 PM The reason I never used to buy organic (surely, by definition, all food actually is ".....
» 3/06/2008 10:57:41 PM Come on now, this is getting a little painfull to watch. You are way out of your depth her.....
» 3/06/2008 10:23:11 PM So Fractelle's eminently pragmatic ideas on relationships are of "paradise", and.....
» 3/06/2008 6:42:15 PM Steel - "It's normal and healthy for young men to be aggressive and their various out.....
» 2/06/2008 10:35:08 PM Wasn't going to put in my two cents worth because, between them, Fractelle and Vanilla voi.....
» 1/06/2008 8:44:27 PM I'm only adding this because quite a number of people have remarked about child abuse bein.....
» 31/05/2008 2:04:30 AM Not to worry, Pericles, some people are not experiencing trouble understanding what you ar.....
» 29/05/2008 10:45:55 PM Yvonne - Yes, one of the biggest problems language teaching here is that 99% of my student.....
» 29/05/2008 3:51:50 PM A propos the question of disaster appeals I saw a programme on the t.v. this morning about.....
» 29/05/2008 2:49:32 PM It puzzles me greatly why, in discussions of early feminism the majority of articles go ba.....
» 29/05/2008 1:55:50 AM Easytimes, Oliver, Yes! That's it exactly: if the Universe really keeps on expanding then.....
» 28/05/2008 9:10:11 PM "They seek him here They seek him there..." haven't you guys worked it out yet? .....
» 28/05/2008 1:44:15 PM I don't often contribute to religious threads but there are times when the sheer absurdity.....
» 28/05/2008 1:08:08 PM Easytimes - No, I didn't think for a moment you were trying to scare people: was just lea.....
» 28/05/2008 12:25:49 PM Thank you to those who have contributed. I find it heartening to have my ideas about rea.....
» 27/05/2008 2:07:17 PM On the 23rd of June I am to give a week-long seminar to the other teaching staff at my Uni.....
» 27/05/2008 1:45:11 PM People - I don't want to derail this thread too much so I am starting another in the Gene.....
» 27/05/2008 1:23:18 PM CJ, You silly-billy! Can't you see how different the two are? Women should "ideally&.....
» 27/05/2008 1:21:32 PM CJ, You silly-billy! Can't you see how different the two are? Women should "ideally&.....
» 27/05/2008 12:35:26 PM CJ, I had never gone down the path this thread and your post opened up. But, as happens s.....
» 27/05/2008 12:13:30 PM I don't think that the discovery of life on Mars or any other planet we are able to probe .....
» 26/05/2008 2:29:29 AM I fully agree with the views re motivation of students themselves. While parents may be f.....
» 25/05/2008 4:48:26 PM Ginx, I sincerely apologise if my post offended, hurt or angered you. It was not directed.....
» 24/05/2008 8:12:01 PM Gibo, you ask "Do they go to shelters already vastly overcrowded because of our focu.....
» 24/05/2008 7:58:23 PM Though I have no new point to add, I would just like to put my hand up as being in total a.....
» 23/05/2008 2:34:04 PM Vanilla and Robert, Yeah, you're right re Mr. Right. But actually I was looking for a way.....
» 22/05/2008 6:46:34 PM "Romany could have just let the topic be about how she felt about the chair sniffing......
» 22/05/2008 5:38:06 PM Usual Suspect "Australia was the first to give women the vote" Now because this.....
» 22/05/2008 5:16:48 PM Usual Suspect:- "Ok. I get it. You only really want to hear from women..." At.....
» 22/05/2008 2:38:26 AM Two things have surfaced for me so far in this thread. The first is that most of you are r.....
» 21/05/2008 1:18:16 AM Guys - Look, I'm not particularly upset about some random guy. Hell, I'd never even heard .....
» 19/05/2008 9:06:12 PM Foxy, While you support my idea that we all feel the same, the point that bothers me so mu.....
» 18/05/2008 10:02:24 PM I was still in Primary school when I heard the joke about the blind men passing the fish c.....
» 17/05/2008 12:53:35 PM Foxy - I'm waiting for the Cont....bit so wanna just pop this in: I'm fascinated by the i.....
» 17/05/2008 12:12:54 PM Kieth, The fact that you continue to react in the way you have done means that you have c.....
» 16/05/2008 6:07:56 PM I know nothing about this writer or his affiliations. But, as well as his entire tone thro.....
» 16/05/2008 5:28:13 PM Kieth, steady on, There's no need to take that tone with someone because you disagree wi.....
» 15/05/2008 7:55:03 PM Kieth, Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. What I meant in the above post was that the r.....
» 14/05/2008 7:11:47 PM Pericles - Gotta hand it to you - you really keep on trucking with ole BD. But as that las.....
» 14/05/2008 2:38:15 PM Just a thought:- perhaps those who don't speak another language and are growing hot under .....
» 14/05/2008 2:18:47 PM rightwingrules, Out of an entire prospectus you proffer three courses which you give as a.....
» 13/05/2008 8:32:26 PM Communicat, Having read M. Shepherds comments before, it didn't strike me that she was be.....
» 13/05/2008 8:13:24 PM Mercurius, Bushbasher and TRTL, I'm with you 100% so I won't bother to reiterate all you.....
» 12/05/2008 3:43:18 PM CJ, Haven't been around OLO much lately so can't remember where you posted your email addr.....
» 11/05/2008 9:35:48 PM Tammy-Jo Brave lady. You are right, of course, that no-one can possibly know exactly how .....
» 9/05/2008 2:14:42 AM Cyclops, If you would rather not take me seriously and prefer to believe that I am a Chin.....
» 9/05/2008 1:01:21 AM Expat Journo, No, this is only my third year in China so of course my knowledge cannot cl.....
» 9/05/2008 12:04:30 AM Its only you......
» 8/05/2008 4:27:21 PM Oliver, As you seem to be perpetually confused as to the use of who and whom (I notice you.....
» 7/05/2008 5:40:26 PM Hands up all those who also got a giggle about people being advised that the way to re-man.....
» 7/05/2008 11:58:28 AM Cyclops, I am appalled that you are influencing students and others due to the input you.....
» 7/05/2008 10:16:26 AM Arjay, No, I did not say "We should not be too critical since we need the money for .....
» 7/05/2008 9:46:42 AM Right, so I readily admit I may be biased here - but I agree and think that learning anoth.....
» 6/05/2008 1:29:02 PM Peter Sellick, Thank you for taking the time out to post.If Austen was just an arbitrary .....
» 5/05/2008 10:52:25 PM Arjay and Palimpsest, Regarding Ms. Shepherd losing her grip on reality or being barking .....
» 5/05/2008 10:10:29 AM What an extremely odd article. Why, one is left to wonder, has Sellick chosen Austen from .....
» 4/05/2008 6:42:42 PM No, no, no, BD, don't feel sorry for saying what you did. Rather feel sorry that you were .....
» 4/05/2008 3:39:42 PM Communicat, What an interesting question. I have to admit that, living in China, I had be.....
» 4/05/2008 11:58:24 AM A good try on the part of BD. But now, using the same tool of condescension which he wield.....
» 3/05/2008 6:27:54 PM Yes, when I first read about the 666 thing I felt quite sorry for all those poor people wh.....
» 3/05/2008 4:38:52 PM Bronwyn Well, those who believe the Hitchhikers Guide is accurate in all details have s.....
» 3/05/2008 12:31:13 PM BD I "sounded there like a vulture just salivating and waiting for the poor old buffa.....
» 3/05/2008 11:07:14 AM As quite a few posters have already said: why use this subject to perpetuate gender wars? .....
» 2/05/2008 12:21:35 PM If I was a religious person I think I would pray that BD's wife never reads that last comm.....
» 2/05/2008 2:38:23 AM Been married twice. Neither times in white. Neither times with a diamond engagement ring o.....
» 1/05/2008 8:56:03 PM Usual suspect, I am not of the opinion that quiet people are boring. Some of the loudest .....
» 1/05/2008 8:33:45 PM As no response has been forthcoming to my previous post I decided to illustrate the point .....
» 1/05/2008 4:09:49 AM Geez, Expat Journo, Cyclop etc. What are you on about? I am NOT Chinese. I do not belong.....
» 30/04/2008 1:57:47 PM Ah, Luize, good on yer, girl. Yeah, sign me up, luv. Together we will storm the bastions .....
» 29/04/2008 11:37:15 AM I was about to say roughly the same thing, Gecko. The author said:- "Treating religi.....
» 28/04/2008 11:30:55 PM Foxy and O Sung I have no beef with people "sharing" things either - done a bit.....
» 28/04/2008 3:55:56 PM I do not agree with you on this one, Foxy. This is an opinion forum - not a Dear Diary. .....
» 27/04/2008 9:52:29 PM A propos of Foxy's little ditty - anyone else get that e.mail which concluded with the mem.....
» 26/04/2008 11:15:13 AM Ah Vanilla, thank you. Its early on a Saturday morning, not feeling the best after last ni.....
» 26/04/2008 10:46:06 AM Robbieju, I do not, nor have I ever, claimed "extensive experience" in China. I.....
» 26/04/2008 10:12:14 AM Paul L. I am fully aware that the word "teenager" only came into being post WW2.....
» 24/04/2008 7:49:10 PM Yeah, Tammy-Jo, its a tough one. I think you understand that I don't mean we should leave.....
» 24/04/2008 4:02:26 PM BD, First: a grammar lesson. Inverted commas are used to denote EITHER irony or a direct .....
» 24/04/2008 3:05:41 PM Tammy-Jo, I usually agree pretty wholeheartedly with your posts but in this particular is.....
» 23/04/2008 7:19:45 PM BD, Celivia has already expressed my views on your response to both her post and mine. I.....
» 22/04/2008 6:30:04 PM StG - I can appreciate that you might be a little jaded in your occupation. But draconian .....
» 22/04/2008 6:01:49 PM I'm with Celivia on this one. Cannot see the need either for smacking or the "No".....
» 22/04/2008 2:48:59 PM Arthur, Well yes, as your last post was headed and directed specifically to Romany, I did.....
» 22/04/2008 2:27:01 AM Jeez. After reading the post at the top of the page I reckon evolution is sharing the same.....
» 22/04/2008 1:48:57 AM Fractelle - went onto the site and for a moment was totally dislocated - thought I'd had a.....
» 22/04/2008 1:33:05 AM Arthur, As you may have noted, I teach journalism so naturally am aware of some of the pe.....
» 21/04/2008 6:17:22 PM Have been having trouble with the Time out/Double posting thing for some time - thought it.....
» 21/04/2008 6:11:30 PM BD, To begin with "mild scolding" is an oxymoron. The verb "to scold".....
» 21/04/2008 11:18:26 AM VK3AUU, Ah c'mon now. What have I ever posted that would reveal me as potentially "s.....
» 21/04/2008 10:44:10 AM When I read this article I thought:- now here's a lot of things it would be interesting to.....
» 21/04/2008 10:17:47 AM I think that what saddens me the most is that people who work in disability services, or w.....
» 20/04/2008 7:32:56 PM robbieju - hey, I could have done without all the slagging off - but thanks for your post.....
» 19/04/2008 7:22:50 PM Well I did have a big think about it and, after reading some of these responses it seems t.....
» 19/04/2008 7:12:34 PM Just a last note: if it does turn out to be dementia don't get too fed up about it. I've w.....
» 19/04/2008 6:46:33 PM Yeah- but without the canes they could accidentally bump into the boosums......
» 18/04/2008 8:31:43 PM VK3AUU, You wonder how many people will be able to go out into the rural areas unaccompan.....
» 18/04/2008 2:27:11 PM Those were part of my objections to this writer's last article. There with things in inver.....
» 18/04/2008 2:03:06 AM Vanilla - Ah-hah! Now I get you. Sorry I misinterpreted...but I was pretty sure I WAS misi.....
» 17/04/2008 3:38:00 PM Before I sit and think deeply about this there are two knee-jerk reactions I want to discu.....
» 17/04/2008 2:32:15 AM Obviously we were all pipped at the post. I for one can claim that every letter I've ever .....
» 17/04/2008 2:21:05 AM Pericles - Oh, beautifully done!.....
» 17/04/2008 2:15:30 AM Mr. Right - "The age of posters on this thread seems to be about 12"? Welcome......
» 16/04/2008 6:05:20 PM Cuphandle, I know exactly how you feel. However, through years of studying the history of.....
» 16/04/2008 5:45:35 PM C'mon people. Let's face up to it: we've all been conned. The person writing as "Gibo.....
» 16/04/2008 2:52:05 PM Yes of course my query was genuine, Gecko. As is my interest in researching both sides of .....
» 15/04/2008 2:36:57 PM Passy: - I have seen no signs of Dialectic Blue being an apologist for anyone. All he and.....
» 15/04/2008 10:11:30 AM Please forgive me for interrupting everyone at this juncture - but I just want to interjec.....
» 14/04/2008 3:34:16 PM Probably because there just aren't enough reasonable, articulate and mature role models li.....
» 14/04/2008 11:24:02 AM Wow, TammyJo, you have really opened up a can of worms here. This is a debate in which I w.....
» 13/04/2008 4:03:13 AM Vanilla, TRTL, Anthony etc., So. What was your reaction to the preceding post? Did it mak.....
» 11/04/2008 3:28:48 AM I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Neil Sedaka so don't know his style of music. But samplin.....
» 8/04/2008 5:41:46 PM I think I agree with the author. But I am not 100% sure. Not because he obfuscates with we.....
» 7/04/2008 2:01:56 PM PaulL, I know you didn't mention China - you spoke about "any" third world or s.....
» 7/04/2008 1:09:47 AM Paul L Do you honestly think its better to be unemployed in Oz than employed in say, China.....
» 4/04/2008 6:41:38 PM Ginx - ok, got your point. I used to refer to unemployed people as "we" until I .....
» 4/04/2008 4:26:54 PM Reading POVs like this reminds me that we have not come far from the smug Victorians or th.....
» 4/04/2008 3:34:34 PM Dialectic Blue, You are a far better person than I am, man. I read this mass of ancient h.....
» 3/04/2008 11:30:03 AM DB, at the risk of being considered to be "ripping in" to you, I need to try to .....
» 3/04/2008 11:08:25 AM Robert - This is one of those situations in which I kinda hesitated before posting. Becau.....
» 2/04/2008 4:50:29 PM David, Humans are mercurial beings: sometimes on top of the world, on others sad, fed up.....
» 2/04/2008 3:42:52 PM I think that the fact that Foxy felt she had to apologise - more than once - for her post .....
» 1/04/2008 2:59:02 PM Fractelle:- to be fair to DB, perhaps in this instance he was actually illustrating a comm.....
» 1/04/2008 2:39:11 PM Fractelle: Bingo! Robert: - as I said, the intensive campaign and the measures that were .....
» 1/04/2008 11:09:55 AM I'm just sorry that this thread got sidetracked, as so many do, into yet another bloody ge.....
» 1/04/2008 10:55:46 AM Boaz - did you actually read what I said? (and btw, it was I, not Whitty who mentioned the.....
» 1/04/2008 10:38:02 AM One rather hopeful aspect to the suicide rate of young men is: you may have heard that Aus.....
» 31/03/2008 11:00:42 AM Whitty, I still do it on occasion, though I do fight the urge most of the time. And yes, .....
» 31/03/2008 10:39:46 AM I fully agree too. Before so many people had access to the internet people used to write i.....
» 31/03/2008 2:01:29 AM Well, as the resident loony (being bi-polar) I vehemently agree with all the other posters.....
» 31/03/2008 1:40:03 AM I was also gobsmacked at the idea that sharing feelings and discussing matters spiritual s.....
» 29/03/2008 5:44:21 PM As one who knows nothing about the rights and wrongs of this issue, I don't think the writ.....
» 29/03/2008 12:10:35 AM rehctub, What on earth are you on about? The scrapping of Work Place Agreements will affe.....
» 28/03/2008 11:44:33 PM GY - I think it would be a great idea if you could get hold of Aird herself. This article,.....
» 28/03/2008 9:49:33 AM Whitty - right bakatcha. And yeah, like Foxy said, just be yourself. Besides, I live curre.....
» 27/03/2008 11:56:38 AM Hmmm. Hallmark, huh? How about: - There once was a person called Whitty, Who came across .....
» 27/03/2008 2:30:58 AM I believe that it is the spirit or essence of things that is important and that our bodies.....
» 26/03/2008 12:32:48 PM One half of me is saying I shouldn't even dignify this Mr. Right with an answer, while the.....
» 26/03/2008 11:59:35 AM Its not a question of desperately trying to find something good, its more a question of tr.....
» 26/03/2008 10:38:27 AM I'm not writing to engage with the previous poster. But its said that more people read the.....
» 26/03/2008 12:35:11 AM Centra - I'm really glad you have entered into this thread. I think there are some people .....
» 25/03/2008 7:09:54 PM Geez, guys, is it Lets-all-gang-up-on-Gibo Day to-day? At least the man doesn't bluster i.....
» 25/03/2008 2:36:57 PM Unfortunately its true that Australia's credibility is on the decline. My son asked a fe.....
» 25/03/2008 10:30:19 AM Wot the...? I went to the links (despite having just read that there is that there is no i.....
» 24/03/2008 7:29:46 PM trtl, I do so admire your ability to do that: look rationally (albeit somewhat cynically)a.....
» 24/03/2008 11:20:48 AM Whitty, 1) What Vanilla said. 2) If you think I was trying to put words in your mouth th.....
» 24/03/2008 10:50:46 AM Pelican - ran out of posts on the other thread so couldn't reply to you there. But hey to .....
» 24/03/2008 10:44:05 AM Fractelle, Not to worry, I think your posts, and Vanilla's, are models of clarity and hav.....
» 23/03/2008 11:19:41 PM Ouch! o.k., o.k., I get the sarcasm in your "delight" and gold star award. But h.....
» 23/03/2008 10:16:22 PM Hey, Pelican, Yep. I'm with you 100% there in that last post. The funny thing is that we .....
» 23/03/2008 3:16:59 AM Whitty - So, you informed another poster somewhat patronisingly: "I really think you .....
» 23/03/2008 1:38:06 AM While some people are claiming that this article is rubbish and propaganda, so are the pos.....
» 22/03/2008 1:41:06 PM Ah, sorry..gotta get back to the toilets: Have always found the "open door" pol.....
» 22/03/2008 12:38:00 PM Whitty - and I am "sooooo sick" of hearing about the White Feather brigade on th.....
» 21/03/2008 9:56:44 PM Guys, dunno how Gibo feels now, but I have to say that I feel somewhat reassured. I hav.....
» 21/03/2008 9:31:39 PM Peter - "my mates" are a mixture of agnostics, people who believe in a supreme b.....
» 20/03/2008 8:46:08 PM I'm quite satisfied that CJ's ferreting around turned up the actual truth of the matter wh.....
» 20/03/2008 7:51:05 PM Am I the only person who thinks that the posting of this subject was counter-productive fo.....
» 20/03/2008 7:27:06 PM Omigod, guys! It really is spreading! Now we have "Homosexual newspapers"!! Guar.....
» 20/03/2008 2:04:19 PM If "half the population is below the average IQ", then is the average IQ really .....
» 20/03/2008 11:09:33 AM Then does that mean that people are innately rude and, well, the childhood word "mean.....
» 20/03/2008 10:54:52 AM I have to agree that whenever issues of homosexuality come up on these posts it is almost .....
» 20/03/2008 10:22:28 AM Whitty, you brought me up short with your last comment. I did ignore HRS for the longest t.....
» 20/03/2008 9:47:22 AM Why oh why did anyone give HRS an opportunity to go on about his latest pet-project: the d.....
» 18/03/2008 6:37:24 PM I have experienced some pretty nasty things during my life, and unfortunately my children .....
» 18/03/2008 12:07:24 AM Philo says: "Hate is an emotion of exclusion and disgust." That actually defines.....
» 17/03/2008 4:28:35 PM mjpb, I think you have hit the nail on the head. I don't think anyone would care much .....
» 16/03/2008 2:59:17 PM Co. Rouge - Good grief! How old are you? Your "technique" sounds like the plot-.....
» 15/03/2008 2:11:57 PM Yoh! Hey, Yab-miester - What makes you assume that, unlike you, I do not depend upon the .....
» 14/03/2008 10:42:17 PM Ginx - I hope you don't feel that I was ridiculing your opinion? I don't share it, it in t.....
» 14/03/2008 4:23:00 PM How wonderful that we had the opportunity to learn about this woman. If the world became a.....
» 14/03/2008 4:05:56 PM "In a world where advertisers pay more than fifty bucks for a click on the phrase &qu.....
» 14/03/2008 3:11:35 PM Vanilla, O.K., so the ad is a not-so-subtle visual code for the old "I wouldn't be s.....
» 13/03/2008 3:58:51 PM Here's Aemilia Lanyer (1569-1645)objecting to the Church teaching that women were responsi.....
» 13/03/2008 3:44:31 PM Having explained my problems re posting elsewhere, I get frustrated at not being able to p.....
» 13/03/2008 11:17:16 AM With no intention of being patronising, I really appreciated Steel's last comment which ga.....
» 12/03/2008 8:52:47 PM Vanilla-girl, your admonishment was well-founded; and Fractelle you're right in what you s.....
» 11/03/2008 11:13:43 PM Yeah, good on you Antonios. CJ and Vanilla: silly billies! Of course the Usual Suspects .....
» 11/03/2008 8:00:33 PM Yes: - do make a point of reading the article that is linked to above. Instead of promotin.....
» 10/03/2008 10:49:26 PM For goodness' sake, BD! "Lighten up" "Chill", indeed. Because I didn'.....
» 10/03/2008 11:35:26 AM BD,"stop looking for a 'racist' behind every Forum green tree and under every OLO roc.....
» 9/03/2008 9:00:50 PM "The genders on average are different, yet complimentary." Ah, Yabby, would th.....
» 9/03/2008 8:40:52 PM CJ, - well there's something we have in common, eh? Used to scramble around The Trail (and.....
» 9/03/2008 2:48:43 PM No, Henry, when A woman got into power she did nothing about it. And this proves what, e.....
» 9/03/2008 2:31:11 PM Geez, can we stop with the "fuzzies" and "fuzzy wuzzies" cr*p now plea.....
» 9/03/2008 11:40:35 AM Yeah, I also picked up on the comment: "If feminists are seeking equality, should the.....
» 8/03/2008 3:39:19 AM Ah Danielle, - your post did us all proud - and made me very ashamed of myself! Well done,.....
» 8/03/2008 3:23:41 AM I don't think the article was concerned with evolving changes to our language which, as so.....
» 7/03/2008 6:14:55 PM Vanilla, Pelican et al. Waddya think of the "Woman-as-robot" analogy? I recko.....
» 7/03/2008 5:58:37 PM I fully endorse the main gist of this article but agree with those posters who were somewh.....
» 4/03/2008 8:01:03 PM I would be seriously interested in knowing actually what motivated this thread? It seems .....
» 2/03/2008 2:07:17 PM Perhaps I didn't try very hard because I no longer have need of this service. But I'm damn.....
» 2/03/2008 1:26:27 PM Had begun to hope: you were still contributing so robustly with no gaps in between. Instea.....
» 29/02/2008 1:50:17 AM Vanilla - I had a response for you that was incisive, brilliant and would have argued you .....
» 28/02/2008 3:00:17 PM This article was yet another that I wish I'd written myself. Loved it. On a much lower no.....
» 28/02/2008 2:35:50 PM Big-time footie players usually start as young boy footie players. Its here, I think, that.....
» 28/02/2008 12:01:22 PM There is either a) something wrong with my ancient computer or b) ongoing problems with in.....
» 27/02/2008 1:53:14 AM Passey, Did you read my previous post outlining how things have changed in China? If you .....
» 26/02/2008 6:17:01 PM Peter Saunders: Piffle! 1) The assumption that all people who are out of jobs are unskill.....
» 25/02/2008 7:12:17 PM Danielle, Yes, I agree that the problem of the inequality of gender distribution is more .....
» 25/02/2008 6:35:10 PM pdev, Y'know, I hadn't thought about it before it terms of the gulf getting wider...but y.....
» 24/02/2008 3:09:52 PM Col Rouge got it right when he said that nobody WANTS to be working class. Thats certainly.....
» 24/02/2008 2:45:39 PM From January all through February China has been going through the worst weather to hit in.....
» 24/02/2008 1:41:30 PM I agree that a variety of methods should and can be utilised: gender, hereditary character.....
» 23/02/2008 12:22:54 AM And lo! stillness reigned over the land........
» 21/02/2008 7:31:27 PM Well done McDonald, Turner and Williams! An article with no political agenda, no mud-slin.....
» 21/02/2008 11:52:02 AM Rhys, I'm with you there, mate. I also wonder exactly how much time the writer actually.....
» 19/02/2008 4:54:26 PM Hey Trtl, When you address women as "m'dear" do they simper coyly, toss their p.....
» 17/02/2008 1:16:13 PM Foxy, I dunno, but perhaps fundamentalism - in many faiths - has intensified for the very.....
» 16/02/2008 1:28:04 PM In any course of events there has to be a starting point. When the first Aboriginal was ki.....
» 16/02/2008 12:49:56 PM Individual, I agree with what you say - there is much talk about the changes that are nec.....
» 16/02/2008 12:34:14 PM Ahh Robert, Your whole theory falls down by failing to take into account the fact that no.....
» 16/02/2008 12:11:32 PM Belly, thank you for taking the time to answer my post and clarify your position for me......
» 15/02/2008 11:04:39 PM Belly - not knocking you, just confused. You said: "America should not torture ever .....
» 15/02/2008 9:08:59 PM Though I've not locked horns with Gibo, until a couple of days ago I engaged with BD - so .....
» 15/02/2008 12:52:45 PM Foxy, Feminist Majority Foundation on-line also have a couple of interesting resources fo.....
» 15/02/2008 12:22:28 PM As anyone who has ever lived as an expatriate in another country will recognise, one is al.....
» 14/02/2008 12:26:02 PM TRTL, You obviously didn't read my post re the jar openers, man. The future of the pickle.....
» 14/02/2008 1:38:03 AM BD, You are a very, very bent unit. Ginx, Count me in,too. Like an idiot I read his las.....
» 13/02/2008 2:19:59 AM Yeah Wobbles - I used to think men were necessary to open jars and pull up zips...but then.....
» 13/02/2008 1:57:02 AM Vanilla & CJ, However, did get one *shaky* CHUCKLE:) ! when the person who manages to div.....
» 12/02/2008 8:46:36 PM Frank posed the question "BD, have you no modesty?" I have just recieved an answ.....
» 11/02/2008 10:14:48 PM "No ladies yet on whether they thought porn might have changed the hearts of the guys.....
» 11/02/2008 9:50:18 PM DB, This is not the first thread wherein you have patronised Foxy. What the...? FYI, lo.....
» 5/02/2008 11:34:41 PM Huff'npuff, Although referred to as the "forgotten" generation you have already.....
» 3/02/2008 10:15:58 PM Rainier, - don't think the thread has fizzled out; there was just a bit of a misunderstand.....
» 3/02/2008 11:39:55 AM Vanilla, Ah hell, girl. I was saddened to see that you had cried. As I have said before: .....
» 3/02/2008 11:18:27 AM Taryn, PALE said they had already contacted A Current Affair, I think? HHmm. Well, someti.....
» 2/02/2008 8:18:29 PM Kept off this post because, unlike the majority of you, my identity has been compromised a.....
» 31/01/2008 9:51:45 PM A couple of years ago I would have burned with indignation at Mark's comments and world-vi.....
» 29/01/2008 5:50:11 PM Oooooh, David JS, you cheeky devil! But now I want to share something that the guys who a.....
» 29/01/2008 5:02:42 PM While sharing some of the ideas that this writer propounds, I didn't read the article with.....
» 26/01/2008 3:03:34 PM Possum - I have Centrelink stories up the yin yang, but here's a real doozy: Even though.....
» 20/01/2008 9:28:47 PM Geez. I've been jumping up and down with my hand up in the air like an over-eager schoolki.....
» 17/01/2008 2:19:19 PM Corri, Yes, I take your point and agree absolutely. It is undeniable that media is an impo.....
» 17/01/2008 1:44:11 PM Runner, While I am not interested in entering a debate about religion I am very interested.....
» 17/01/2008 12:09:17 PM I was pretty sniffy about the last article Dave wrote. It struck me as hyperbolic and seem.....
» 17/01/2008 12:18:19 AM See, I'm not actually questioning the ethics (or lack thereof) of war. That's a bit of a n.....
» 16/01/2008 11:12:42 PM Fluff, go on, dare to be different: keep the English/English spell-check. Wish I had one. .....
» 16/01/2008 8:03:31 PM Oh Brock, do your honestly believe that? How many single parents on benefits do you know w.....
» 16/01/2008 1:18:08 AM I have always considered that a mind that questions and keeps in reserve a healthy dose of.....
» 15/01/2008 7:20:26 PM Wiz., Chainsmoker & Ginx, My own thoughts completely echo yours. I was also lucky enough.....
» 15/01/2008 4:46:26 PM Dan, I learned more than one lesson from your post. The first was, of course, that I have .....
» 15/01/2008 1:15:33 PM I read a post yesterday that I haven't been able to get out of my mind. I even dreamed abo.....
» 14/01/2008 7:34:48 PM Dan, Actually Fluff's usage of "its" was o.k. by the rule of common usage. It i.....
» 14/01/2008 2:43:25 PM Cuphandle, I loved the anecdote you posted. It reminded me of a similar experience - thoug.....
» 14/01/2008 12:49:44 PM A propos blogsites, I often get annoyed over "hate-filled". So many responses ar.....
» 14/01/2008 11:28:53 AM C.J., Hell yeah. We could make it a tag team event. And maybe Audrey, with her talent for.....
» 13/01/2008 8:28:24 PM Robert, I don't know, but perhaps this issue of consent when drunk is based merely on the.....
» 13/01/2008 8:13:50 PM Hey, Botheration. I see you wrote somewhere that you had a little crush on CJ? (I thought.....
» 12/01/2008 10:16:44 PM In South Africa there was so much litter that every thorntree along the side of the road s.....
» 12/01/2008 9:57:54 PM Y'know, I don't think its gibberish. I think you have a really valid point. Also a rebutta.....
» 12/01/2008 2:19:57 AM Wait now, hang on a minute. Aren't we all arguing different criteria? What do we mean by &.....
» 10/01/2008 1:31:30 PM Foxy, Botheration, Belly et. al. thank you for your surprising input. I've gone to the oth.....
» 9/01/2008 7:14:40 PM Trtl, Your question of whether one should keep quiet when seeing someone cop a rough time.....
» 9/01/2008 5:44:20 PM Philo, I am becoming extremely confused now: trying to follow your last post was difficul.....
» 9/01/2008 12:49:22 AM The biggest regret I have with each passing day is that the more one learns, the more more.....
» 9/01/2008 12:26:13 AM Jess, My first reaction was exactly the same as that of Foxy. Then, however, I re-read yo.....
» 9/01/2008 12:17:02 AM Corri, How kind of you to share your poem - your intimate thoughts - with us. For me it w.....
» 8/01/2008 11:06:17 PM Hey, CJ (Btw, Love your work), I dunno. I actually did skim down some of those listed int.....
» 8/01/2008 12:39:43 AM Danielle, thanx for the great link - kept me happy for hours. Still no further towards so.....
» 7/01/2008 3:26:09 PM I have been following this thread but keeping quiet because neuroscience is not my field. .....
» 7/01/2008 2:33:00 PM SJF, CJ, Botheration, "Or haven’t you noticed that, apart from me, all the feminists.....
» 7/01/2008 2:14:03 AM Palimpsest, I agree wholeheartedly with what you have said here, but it has left me extre.....
» 4/01/2008 7:27:10 PM Palimpsest, It seems to me as though the wisdom and maturity, the banter and discussion e.....
» 4/01/2008 1:41:16 AM "What is Zoo Magazine"? Now there speaks somebody who really has a finger on the.....
» 3/01/2008 9:35:56 PM Words - their meanings, etymology, changing status, altered meanings - all are a passion o.....
» 3/01/2008 8:48:50 PM Status? Power? Elitism? Perhaps I am naive, but I had not for a moment considered that any.....
» 3/01/2008 2:39:08 AM Frank - thanks for the acknowledgment: I was beginning to feel like Sisyphus.....
» 3/01/2008 2:28:30 AM Yes, I also get the feeling that some posters are slightly out of touch with exactly what .....
» 2/01/2008 5:09:16 PM For once I am in general agreement with all the posts on this thread. I also followed the .....
» 31/12/2007 2:22:55 PM Aaah dammit! I wish I'd written this article!.....
» 31/12/2007 2:12:35 PM Having re-read the article in view of some of the posts, I cannot see where "half-tra.....
» 29/12/2007 6:56:19 PM I do not mean to be recalcitrant - but I still don't see why this author has come in for s.....
» 27/12/2007 12:26:19 PM I find the majority of responses to this piece extremely puzzling. From my viewpoint this.....
» 26/12/2007 5:21:29 PM David, - perhaps simply because of the season, you do sound somewhat bitter and twisted ab.....
» 22/12/2007 10:38:52 PM Dear Michael/Huffnpuff, Merry Xmas bakatcha, man. Don't worry about sounding like a broke.....
» 22/12/2007 10:23:58 PM Yeah well...bad day, bad week. All mid-December means here is that we are starting exam pe.....
» 21/12/2007 12:14:44 AM I so did not want to be the one to throw the spanner into the midst of this lovefest. Kept.....
» 18/12/2007 12:59:23 AM Different strokes for different folks, I guess. What the writer sees as Confucian passion .....
» 13/12/2007 9:58:09 PM Robert, Thanx for the links. All other words fail me right now......
» 13/12/2007 3:45:24 AM Have to agree that, in a country which began as a rough, cruel outstation for human beings.....
» 13/12/2007 3:07:34 AM From the tone of these posts I have gained an impression of what this is all about. But co.....
» 12/12/2007 2:03:29 AM Wizofaus - thank you for the link re. pollution. While one cannot but be aware of and conc.....
» 10/12/2007 7:46:47 PM Whoa. Was my face red! I misread the date and apologise profusely. However, all comments.....
» 10/12/2007 7:39:15 PM Geez Dave - love your work in Dave's ESL Cafe, but you've gone a bit over the top here, ma.....
» 10/12/2007 4:45:46 AM Arjay How lucky you and your sister were to have been influenced by such a person! What a.....
» 10/12/2007 4:19:29 AM Foxy - My second post was not addressed to you so I should have specified that fact. I'm s.....
» 9/12/2007 8:13:09 PM Judging from one or two comments it seems that the feeling persists that the majority on t.....
» 9/12/2007 5:09:12 PM I know that I tend to chant "education" "Education", "Education&q.....
» 7/12/2007 9:18:06 PM I also have a different surname to my children and have never encountered so much as a rai.....
» 7/12/2007 8:47:04 PM I have yet to see any author, poster or blogger on this site who denies the reality of fem.....
» 7/12/2007 7:59:09 PM DB - have a feeling you are terminally confused about what a "sacrament" is. I d.....
» 5/12/2007 10:46:17 PM For my money Malcolm King is to be congratulated for being the one brave enough to shout o.....
» 4/12/2007 12:12:20 PM Yes, I agree. America's weakness in foreign policy has always been its failure to understa.....
» 29/11/2007 10:40:40 PM Yep, I know what you mean. Both as a Free Lance and as an academic, a large proportion of .....
» 29/11/2007 9:38:12 PM Q & A - yes, the plethora of posts on burning questions like "Are Gay People Really H.....
» 27/11/2007 12:13:37 PM Robert - one of my biggest problems is that when I came to China, obviously I could not br.....
» 24/11/2007 2:18:04 PM Now that it seems a consensus has been agreed and I wont be highjacking, I have a question.....
» 24/11/2007 1:47:36 AM Robert, you're right, of course and I am really glad that you want to pull the discussion.....
» 24/11/2007 1:20:02 AM HRS ( even though I once swore I'd never address a post to you directly again) How many t.....
» 22/11/2007 11:12:11 PM HRS - PLEASE DEFINE THE WORD "ILK"......
» 22/11/2007 11:07:01 PM TLTR This argument is starting to look like something Lewis Carroll would have written - .....
» 22/11/2007 1:23:58 PM When I first read the article I thought for a moment I'd happened upon a synopsis of a rec.....
» 21/11/2007 2:35:07 AM The point of my post had nothing whatsoever to do with governmental shortcomings or world .....
» 19/11/2007 11:27:43 PM TurnLeftThenRight, I suggest you read my post again, mate. Then try to guess where my to.....
» 19/11/2007 9:28:54 PM I admit that seeing who gets the Prolific Poster award means nothing to me either. Quantit.....
» 19/11/2007 8:46:04 PM Yeah, Foxy, so sorry to hear about you getting shafted. In a manner of speaking. So much .....
» 19/11/2007 8:11:59 PM TurnLeftThenRight, Was shocked to scan through to-days comments and see that you remain r.....
» 15/11/2007 1:08:28 PM Johntas - you may have noticed its always the men who express difficulty in believing the .....
» 9/11/2007 7:46:44 PM Faustino - Given that, living in China, the chances of my seeing this movie again any tim.....
» 9/11/2007 1:10:48 AM Y'know, I read through this article pretty well unmoved: not that I mean for one minute th.....
» 5/11/2007 10:38:24 PM Do any of you people actually know anything about Switzerland? Its one of the most zenopho.....
» 30/10/2007 1:02:00 PM Sometimes we are so conditioned to gendered thinking that we don't realise that we ourselv.....
» 30/10/2007 12:45:57 PM I've been pretty busy and not had the time to return to this thread so, as often happens, .....
» 29/10/2007 5:30:57 PM As someone who is both I think you're all kinda right. I also think it depends on the medi.....
» 24/10/2007 8:44:38 PM Hey, Mariah, interesting topic. Here in China, of course, no-one binds their feet any mor.....
» 23/10/2007 12:19:20 AM Bek, I think you have a a fairly good sample here of the various views people have of pole.....
» 20/10/2007 9:54:06 PM Having worked as a journalist in South Africa I am pleased to find this article and the li.....
» 20/10/2007 9:25:47 PM Hey, Bek, Not sure this is the ideal space for your purposes as you're likely to attract .....
» 18/10/2007 12:13:44 AM Palimpset - you took the words right outta my mouth: great to have an article like this - .....
» 17/10/2007 7:55:22 PM Hey, Botheration and Country Girl, I would also welcome the chance to discuss - and yes, .....
» 16/10/2007 3:43:37 AM Cheryl, I gather you were employing irony in your comment i.e. - illustrating that the ter.....
» 15/10/2007 3:03:55 PM What I find even more disturbing than the content of this article is the fact that, with o.....
» 7/10/2007 11:31:18 PM Sharkfin:- "I believe all the wars in the world are inevitably between two tribes or .....
» 5/10/2007 1:01:22 PM Sells, o.k., I stand corrected. However, I still have difficulty with your wish for a &quo.....
» 4/10/2007 8:48:34 PM Not having had access to this thread for the past few days I am entering at a point where .....
» 22/09/2007 1:45:24 PM Perhaps if one was to look around rather than thinking in isolation, responses to this sug.....
» 22/09/2007 1:40:50 AM Did anyone else take issue with the fact that the author of this piece repeatedly referred.....
» 16/09/2007 3:57:22 AM Johny R, Donald B and James Pursar: - I expect you've realised by now that any article wr.....
» 16/09/2007 2:46:40 AM The sub-title of this article concerns the methodology of history - yet it seems to me tha.....
» 16/08/2007 2:01:39 AM No, of course I'm not telling you the whole story. Am I really expected to go into more so.....
» 15/08/2007 9:13:03 PM HRS, I've never had a black eye in my entire life. I have had emergency surgery to compl.....
» 13/08/2007 12:26:27 AM Dickie -" a Chinaman"? At worst this harks back to the days of racist labels; at.....
» 6/08/2007 1:48:10 AM Ross, I think we are both using the actual term "rock and roll" differently. In .....
» 3/08/2007 10:37:08 PM Hey, Ross, I understand you are not identifying with your generation, but I also understan.....
» 31/07/2007 1:43:14 AM Yvonne - yes, she did say children are better off not reading them etc. etc. But she prefa.....
» 29/07/2007 9:25:37 PM What is the matter with you people? What on earth can you possibly think makes it permissi.....
» 27/07/2007 12:18:21 AM Pan Yue, I hope that, as author of this piece , you check responses made to it. As a teac.....
» 17/07/2007 1:04:16 AM Yeah, but Doug - the article isn't concerned with physical abuse. If a referendum were hel.....
» 16/07/2007 5:01:48 PM With the highlight on current Government action in the Northern Territory I don't think no.....
» 15/07/2007 8:25:34 PM Thank you, VK3AUU, Yes, that is my point. I spent the last 7 years of my life living amon.....
» 15/07/2007 12:55:09 PM Monty - are you the author of this piece? If so my point is illustrated when you say your .....
» 15/07/2007 11:48:57 AM Oliver, you said there was some work on societal axioms currently on-going. Is there anyth.....
» 14/07/2007 1:12:10 AM VK3AUU, Zeng was arrested when the first reports from America re dog-food came in. China l.....
» 13/07/2007 7:30:59 PM RObert - I did have at look at the site - pretty heavily weighted on the "Baby Boomer.....
» 12/07/2007 11:28:41 AM o.k., no worries, then. p.s. I still think that joining on-line groups could be one good .....
» 11/07/2007 10:49:47 PM I don't believe drug companies are out to get women - I don't think they're particularly c.....
» 11/07/2007 9:57:38 PM Cheryl and Robert - recently a poster on OLO accused me of being both self-righteous and.....
» 9/07/2007 6:24:05 PM Oh, I dunno. Those who are looking for a marriage of true minds usually join groups or blo.....
» 9/07/2007 10:03:57 AM If nothing else, the fact that this writer has been fighting this battle for twenty three .....
» 8/07/2007 11:01:15 PM Oliver, your point about revolution coming from the intellectual/elite is well taken. It c.....
» 7/07/2007 8:40:48 PM Thanks, Johnj, for getting back to me. Before posting I had indeed looked up the link pr.....
» 6/07/2007 11:05:25 PM Johnj - I am unsure what you meant by "it works in Greece which is quite similar to C.....
» 6/07/2007 3:30:50 AM Tomw - read the draft on the site you posted and was very excited by the concept suggested.....
» 5/07/2007 11:27:40 AM I don't pretend to have any expertise in regard to this question having only been here in .....
» 5/07/2007 3:39:51 AM I agree with those who say that a disparity in earnings is simply an indication of our cap.....
» 29/06/2007 9:17:07 PM Aqvarivus, I don't agree when you maintain that it is permissible to read/write an article.....
» 28/06/2007 5:15:28 PM Aqvarivus - ouch! That "self-righteous" label bit rather deep. I went back ov.....
» 27/06/2007 3:55:10 PM Rhian - wat u said. BD - so JC was only fooling around when he said "Thou art Peter,.....
» 27/06/2007 3:29:48 PM Aqvarvius - Your participation in forums concerning prostitution, sexual molestation and d.....
» 26/06/2007 11:46:59 AM Hey, did anyone else read the list of "Workplace psychopath" characteristics and.....
» 23/06/2007 5:12:23 AM I have lately been mulling over a concept mentioned in this article: honour. It seems that.....
» 20/06/2007 1:26:10 PM Girl, I know almost exactly what you have been going through. Although not claiming politi.....
» 19/06/2007 1:01:57 AM Enkew - although you say you are over it your emotive language, the fact that you laboured.....
» 16/06/2007 4:23:16 PM First off: pERICles, YOU_rOCK!! Or at least your last post did. Rhian, I think we are beg.....
» 15/06/2007 1:13:09 AM Rhian - hmmmm. Been sitting here going over and over this piece in the light of your inter.....
» 14/06/2007 2:49:47 PM The main gist of this excerpt from the author's book is: "Thinking of either of thes.....
» 13/06/2007 4:16:22 PM I don't quite agree that the subject of suicide requires any kind of deeper insight - it d.....
» 8/06/2007 11:22:58 AM Hmmm. No wonder America decided to cede from England: the last time a ruler of England dec.....
» 6/06/2007 4:39:34 PM Yeah, Plinio - I did bit of a double-take over that "continent" thing too. Had a.....
» 4/06/2007 3:49:50 PM Pericles - naturally I can't speak for anyone else but my dismay at the parochialism of so.....
» 4/06/2007 11:02:21 AM Never been to North America so cannot comment on this picture of life there. However there.....
» 1/06/2007 11:32:09 AM Plantaganet - yeah, sorry mate, did not mean to appear to be putting words in your mouth. .....
» 31/05/2007 10:41:33 AM JB, thank you for providing the fuller tanscript which, as you say, goes beyond drug scree.....
» 30/05/2007 8:15:37 PM JB, since the arrest of Zeng Xiaoyu in 2005 the Chinese have naturally been skittish about.....
» 29/05/2007 7:17:45 PM Gadget - just like in democratic America, Zeng Xiaoyu received the death penalty for murde.....
» 28/05/2007 11:10:10 AM Let's put this in context first: 1) In a province (State) of 46 million a group of village.....
» 25/05/2007 11:19:44 AM Ah Dale - once again the provider of an alternative viewpoint. I was so pleased to read th.....
» 17/05/2007 10:01:07 AM Yess! Melody, you go, girl. I also fly around Asia a lot and live at the moment in China. .....
» 8/05/2007 1:13:18 PM The idea of a "creative bureaucracy" is surely an oxymoron? Yes, the concept o.....
» 8/05/2007 12:04:52 AM There are many frightened people in the world, its true. Like the poor guy on the plane wh.....
» 7/05/2007 11:13:43 PM Thank you for enlightening us on this matter. It made an impact upon me which I will pass .....
» 30/04/2007 11:47:36 AM The image of the Aussie Battler still looms large among many older Australians. Many remem.....
» 25/04/2007 2:57:03 AM Its so easy to fulminate about the action we should take against other countries - when th.....
» 25/04/2007 1:59:24 AM Pericles - agree that bringing in The Great Christianity Debate again is a little tedious......
» 11/04/2007 11:03:44 AM America has never been more unpopular in the China region than it is now. The recent rebuk.....
» 10/04/2007 11:06:52 AM What an interesting piece. Titled and billed as concerning our "freedom to hear".....
» 5/04/2007 11:10:08 AM Good on you, Kieth. I think the value of pieces such as this is inestimable. The words you.....
» 3/04/2007 10:52:53 AM I hope to hell that the Tamworth boys home and its ilk are a thing of the (shamefull) past.....
» 2/04/2007 8:16:30 PM Captain Oates: - quod erat demonstrandum ?.....
» 1/04/2007 1:50:03 PM Aquavius - Thanks for explaining about reverse racism. I now understand in what context it.....
» 1/04/2007 3:25:12 AM Shorbe and Reynard - yes, I'm well aware that white skin is regarded as the province of th.....
» 29/03/2007 11:20:02 AM Ponder - I hope that the word "once" (as in a "a society which once conside.....
» 27/03/2007 10:28:37 AM Yet in this midst of all this posturing and bluster not one word about trying to dig down .....
» 27/03/2007 10:09:12 AM I agree with the gist of this article. In fact I think that most people would agree that t.....
» 26/03/2007 9:50:09 PM Yeah but Malcom, the most governments and slick marketeers can do is to try to market and .....
» 25/03/2007 9:01:49 PM I currently teach at a University in China so am encountering firsthand what it is to live.....
» 24/03/2007 12:30:55 AM I am in full agreement with the idea that we need more creativity in this nation and with .....
» 15/03/2007 2:10:44 PM Hey, not only was the article good stuff - but wasn't it refreshing that for once there wa.....
» 10/03/2007 4:41:50 PM Uh, before we leave the subject of strong, brave, compassionate men: - Hey Seeker - re you.....
» 9/03/2007 8:38:34 PM So, Carnifex, you would “love to hear” about my, uh "little recital", huh? Well.....
» 8/03/2007 11:32:28 PM "Two seperate identities"?? Hey, mate, I'm bi-polar - not schitzophrenic......
» 8/03/2007 7:54:42 PM I am compelled to respond to the post concerning Vagina Monologues and contribute a differ.....
» 8/03/2007 12:32:36 AM I vehemently agree - not just with the sentiments expressed in the article, but with the s.....
» 7/03/2007 11:44:04 PM Siltstone I don't have any answers to your questions. Having been brought up in PNG I've b.....
» 7/03/2007 11:08:52 PM This article may be “dreary” but so are the lives of our youth. I doubt the statistics g.....
» 28/02/2007 11:05:13 PM People, I hearya. I've spent the last few years trying to bring attention to the fact that.....
» 21/02/2007 12:49:43 PM I find it ironic that my children and I spent years trapped inside a regime dreaming and f.....
» 20/02/2007 5:30:33 PM Today I did some sustained research into the posting history of Seeker, JamesH and others......
» 19/02/2007 3:39:47 PM Aqvarius - you misunderstand: I was responding to the posting in which you said when misch.....
» 19/02/2007 2:39:27 AM Aqvarius - you said that doctors can tell whether the sex was consensual or not. Does th.....
» 19/02/2007 2:25:14 AM Aqvarius. I should have clarified that the sexual assault convo was on another ongoing thr.....
» 19/02/2007 12:59:36 AM Hhhmmm..and while we are thinking about it PNG is still suffering from our abuse of their .....
» 18/02/2007 6:40:24 PM In this thread we now have the term "feminists/women" and respondents directing .....
» 16/02/2007 1:48:28 AM I find it a very telling social comment that, as I post this, over on a neighbouring threa.....
» 14/02/2007 10:32:32 PM Cornflower - what is your problem with me? I "sledge" and "despise" .....
» 14/02/2007 12:01:40 AM Y'know, Robert, I think we actually are moving on to that point - though one would never g.....
» 13/02/2007 9:45:45 PM Aqvarius - If you type "sexual assault of males" into google 85 pages will come .....
» 13/02/2007 12:22:17 AM Aqvarius - you were right first time: the second para. of the article cited the number of .....
» 11/02/2007 9:15:32 PM JAMES - until about 8 years ago my lived experience of mainstream Western culture was arou.....
» 10/02/2007 9:55:29 PM James - o.k.: - The para commencing: "When Victor Fuchs..." should begin with qu.....
» 10/02/2007 4:21:30 PM JamesH You sly old dog, you. I have just found out where the content of your posts comes f.....
» 10/02/2007 2:21:02 PM Hey, Robert? I have already said my piece on the subject at issue and made it clear what I.....
» 10/02/2007 1:38:29 PM Decline of gay communities? Yeah, I should think so. For all the reasons outlined in the a.....
» 8/02/2007 1:25:33 PM I agree with what the writer says wholeheartedly. But the deafening silence from posters w.....
» 8/02/2007 12:14:34 PM I am astounded that no-one has responded to this piece. Does this signal that everyone agr.....
» 8/02/2007 11:59:59 AM I admit freely that I don't know much about the differing agenda's of those involved in th.....
» 8/02/2007 11:21:53 AM Obviously I can only speak from my own personal knowledge and can't therefore make assumpt.....
» 7/02/2007 9:45:58 PM Yes, you're right. China doesn't need to go to all the trouble and expense of waging war o.....
» 6/02/2007 8:46:59 PM Cornflower and JamesH - I have read and re-read both the article and your responses. Where.....
» 6/02/2007 12:38:49 PM No, Arjay, I'm not "trying to tell" you anything. I'm simply pointing out that t.....
» 3/02/2007 12:29:24 AM Not at all, mate, you've got it exactly right. People who persist in thinking of China as .....
» 1/02/2007 11:27:45 AM America's consistent cultural ignorance of the foreign countries with whom it deals has de.....
» 31/01/2007 3:02:38 PM Oh dear, was my face red! Trade, I did read your subsequent posts and even went back to so.....
» 29/01/2007 9:58:33 PM Trade old buddy, you just stepped over the line. I have no agenda whatsoever and I thank S.....
» 29/01/2007 12:57:04 PM I was another who was not even going to bother - 'till I realised what's going on in this .....
» 25/01/2007 12:42:14 PM O.k. - the term Australian Youth may be simplistic - (if by that you mean it covers a lot .....
» 21/01/2007 12:06:47 AM Cornflower I sincerely apologise if you found my post insulting: it was consciously vetted.....
» 20/01/2007 10:51:22 PM For what its worth: had a similar experience overseas - with the added outrage that in an .....
» 20/01/2007 10:09:01 PM I appreciated the clear way in which this article laid down reasons to keep faith with the.....
» 20/01/2007 5:45:29 PM Oh, Cornflower, why do your posts consistently set out to polarise people? Some women pref.....
» 19/01/2007 10:18:14 PM Trade215 - Out of interest: who were you referring to in that “founding mother” thing? Th.....
» 16/01/2007 11:54:09 PM I hang my head in shame and admit in a tiny murmur that I quite enjoyed reading the Da Vin.....
» 15/01/2007 12:00:55 PM Mickeyjo FYI, vouchers for food are still issued to the "fair dinkum poor". They.....
» 11/01/2007 5:52:02 PM I think that the information contained in this article is important, even though I too am .....
» 11/01/2007 4:54:24 PM I am unsure if electronic news is liable to solve the problems with our news media. How, a.....
» 11/01/2007 2:00:20 PM Now that I am living in the East my view of these events is unclouded by partisan rhetoric.....
» 8/01/2007 6:07:49 PM SF, yes, the situation re drug companies worldwide is appalling and I do know its not an i.....
» 7/01/2007 12:42:05 AM Mihir, - my ties to India go back to infancy so I still feel kinship with the people of th.....
» 6/01/2007 9:00:43 PM Runner, you're slipping. I see it took a whole two hours for you to figure out how to turn.....
» 6/01/2007 8:48:19 PM Yep. Well done gadget. Bet that post made her feel all warm and fuzzy, huh? Got a quote f.....
» 6/01/2007 8:32:52 PM I've given a lot of thought to this conundrum over the past few years. Australians used to.....
» 3/01/2007 8:19:26 PM Yes, I agree WW. I am unsure of what the nexus of this article is? Mother Theresa, after a.....
» 3/01/2007 7:47:19 PM Those petulant persons who express their dissatisfaction with this article by trying to sh.....
» 30/11/2006 9:01:49 PM Not having read your book I am basing my comments soley on your article in which there app.....
» 20/11/2006 11:43:56 PM JamesH. What on earth about any of my posts has led you to believe I m either female, misa.....
» 20/11/2006 7:44:56 PM Gecko, I have nothing actually to add to what you have said: - except that for those who d.....
» 20/11/2006 12:58:07 AM BD, I am confused in the extreme. Proletariat? Capitalists refusing to give living wages? .....
» 14/11/2006 10:14:22 PM I am not going to enter into the same tired old arguments with the usual suspects who bang.....
» 9/11/2006 9:39:47 PM Although I teach at a University in China I do extra work in local schools where I teach s.....
» 6/11/2006 12:22:48 PM The above are the rules which pertain to everyone who posts on OLO. Once again the same pe.....
» 6/11/2006 12:21:06 PM Keep responses on topic. Do not flame. Do not "shout" (use capital letter.....
» 19/10/2006 1:01:38 AM I'm not disputing here but asking for clarification: it was stated that: - "[t]he fir.....
» 5/10/2006 7:53:48 PM Actually, Richard, I consider your article to have been most thought-provoking. Yes; there.....
» 4/10/2006 12:16:18 PM HawaiiLawyer - I'm sure if one were to contact your cop-contact he could also provide grap.....
» 3/10/2006 4:06:47 PM One thing which has always puzzled me greatly:- how the hell does one collate statistics o.....
» 3/10/2006 1:18:57 PM PeterJH, I don't think any of us are saying it won't or couldn't happen. Of course it coul.....
» 3/10/2006 12:38:11 PM Hey, Rizz. I think its really wonderful that at the age of 16 you are already learning to .....
» 3/10/2006 12:21:50 PM O.K., people, so YOU know all this and I know all this and anyone who has ever heard of th.....
» 9/09/2006 4:45:46 PM Whatever one`s opinion regarding Steve, it is undeniable that through him many people who .....
» 25/07/2006 4:12:07 PM Runner - "If we are going to...we could not criticise ...anyone else". Ah, mate,.....
» 25/07/2006 3:29:18 PM The first day we arrived in Australia I went into a supermarket with one of my sons for so.....
» 25/07/2006 2:47:13 PM Yes, the very first post on this topic highlights the difficulty of breaking through the r.....
» 21/07/2006 8:30:45 PM I went back and read the article again after reading the comments of posters here. Am I on.....
» 21/07/2006 8:02:29 PM I rather think the Professor is comparing apples with oranges in this piece.I don't think .....
» 21/07/2006 7:23:29 PM Bashir, I don't have to "imagine" living like that. I recall it. Often. I see it.....
» 13/07/2006 7:59:20 PM I spent my children's early years in Africa, geographically situated between two warring f.....
» 13/07/2006 6:50:26 PM I can't quite understand this. Is the writer objecting to English being made the official .....
» 12/07/2006 1:03:10 AM Shonga - thank you. Yes, perhaps if more and more people consolidate we will end up with a.....
» 11/07/2006 11:12:23 AM Thank you, plerdsus. My query, while perhaps seeming naive, carried no agenda - I wasn't c.....
» 11/07/2006 10:06:44 AM For the last year I have been wondering: if a Prime Minister has control over the Senate, .....
» 11/07/2006 9:55:01 AM I agree fully with Andrew - and fortunately because I was unclear about exactly who switch.....
» 10/07/2006 5:58:12 PM Grandkiddies, Frank and Daniel - I agree with you all. It seems a very naive statement to .....
» 10/07/2006 4:53:05 PM Barbara, I have been bringing the same message into women's clubs and organisations as wel.....
» 10/07/2006 9:46:42 AM Shonga and Faustino - it appears that you both seem to suffer from the syndrome which was .....
» 8/07/2006 4:20:38 PM As everyone addresses the problems of the unemployed in the third person I feel somewhat v.....
» 30/06/2006 6:25:25 PM The posts so far underpin the lack of faith in our elected representative that is currentl.....
» 30/06/2006 5:42:16 PM The stated purpose of this article was to provide better selling points to the new workpla.....
» 29/06/2006 8:00:25 PM Enough is enough, people. I registered as a blog user because this was a site devoted to c.....
» 8/06/2006 6:34:55 PM Which would seem to support the idea that we should stop hanging around waiting for things.....
» 6/06/2006 10:14:03 AM See what I mean? As soon as the issue of child abuse is mentioned gender lines get drawn u.....
» 5/06/2006 2:40:59 PM I entirely agree that draconian measures are now called for to stem the atrocities that ar.....

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