Posts by Riddley Walker
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hamishm: ... I think you mean where he lives.
nice one Eusa
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i think Brian's a bit of a bishop, but not in the ecumenical sense.
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i knew i'd be in for a tanning with that, you are the Master Punner Eusa.
Anyway, but your namesake is not an upholdster of the Convention. -
no need to get all darning crochety Eusa.
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spaghetti is supposed to be messy. to sane people it's fun.
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well there's obviously an awful lot of disinformation going on around this topic.
we're talking here about smocking, not the humble, loving smocks of our childhoods in the factories and coalmines (though I agree m the grey ones are oppressive).
it's the stitching over pleats that can really cause long term damage, and it achieves nothing in terms of achieving a well-balanced, respectable garment. -
they are an amazing people. a Bedou rider armed to the teeth at a gallop is a stunning sight.
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no, but it travels a very straight path
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awful parental behaviour that really amounted to systematic bullying - a smack for some minor, unintentional affront, followed by several more for crying about it, then perhaps a few more again for not fixing up the original problem properly etc etc. I also think that it's this 'normalising' use of smacking/ hitting/ pushing around that ultimately leads to worse violence, as the lesser punishments lose their effectiveness
yep, you sure said a lot there Sarah. the best thing to have come from this shit-fight is that more and more people are starting to seriously question both the morality and efficacy of that kind of so-called parenting.
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another soldier aims a rifle at his head, he blanches, the soldier shotguns him
that same friend once recalled to me an incident he witnessed from his armoured flame thrower, when a junior officer's vehicle was getting close to being over-run by VC. the guy panicked and abandoned his crew, running back toward the rest of the unit. the senior officer opened fire on him as he ran towards them.