It's only the decadent French who use bidets, Orn, in Germany sensitive people uses two kind of toilet-paper, first dry, then moist! The old-fashioned toilets with a flat shelf above the water where the stools land so that they can be first examined before flushing them down are dying out - I seem to remember an hilarious meditation on them in Erica Jong's "Fear of Flying".
Francis On 11 Mrz., 15:41, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > gee gabby, didn't know those of you in Deutchland used paper...thought > you were more civilized! ...bidets and all.... > > On Mar 11, 7:37 am, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Simplifying matters to the virtual extinction of the very matter > > combines all the qualities of a universal top seller, true, Orn, but > > don't come begging for toilet paper afterwards. > > > On 11 Mrz., 12:12, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > This is one thing I liked about Clinton...during his first year I > > > think it was, he established a major paper reduction act.... > > > > On Mar 10, 11:57 pm, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Brilliant 'old girl' (as grim a patronising term from Bulldog Drummond > > > > as can be mustard given this investigatory turn). There has not been > > > > a better from since I tried to get Great Manchester Police to cut down > > > > on unnecessary forms and they issued a form to cut down on forms > > > > (though I subsequently discovered there was no form to requisition > > > > that form). No doubt what we all desperately need is a European > > > > Administrative Bureau in order to cut down on administration. Its > > > > buildings should be small, beautiful (architect-designed), stacked > > > > with looted art (oops - I mean 'specially commissioned') and generally > > > > a cure for the massive unemployment that traditionally leads us to > > > > war. Perhaps the main occupation of its anti-bureaucrat bureaucrats > > > > could be 'cutting the mustard'? > > > > > On 10 Mar, 16:25, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Have you ever tried to get an adequate response by using the following > > > > > form? > > > > > >http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/admin-burdens-reduction/form_en.htm > > > > > > On 10 Mrz., 13:33, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > The modern Nazis who were installed in our bureaucracies long ago to > > > > > > rise again. It is far too hard to stand up against injustice in our > > > > > > supposedly free societies. 'The Boys From Brazil' got it all wrong > > > > > > - > > > > > > it's more like Robert Harris' 'Ghost' in which a poorly concealed > > > > > > Cherie Blair is CIA. > > > > > > > On 10 Mar, 11:10, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Who is they? > > > > > > > > On 10 Mrz., 11:43, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > And who will they turn on when all the rose gardens are dead? > > > > > > > > > On 9 Mar, 11:57, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Don't worry, we won't take away your gravy and custard again. > > > > > > > > > And for > > > > > > > > > his sausages I have taught my son to prefer mustard to > > > > > > > > > ketchup. > > > > > > > > > > On 9 Mrz., 00:48, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > And the Germans have invaded Humour, or so it seems! > > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mar, 19:00, frantheman <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Rosenspray & Guildenstern are dead! > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mrz., 19:52, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > LOL - we shall have to start Rosenspraying our > > > > > > > > > > > > politicians instead of > > > > > > > > > > > > custarding them. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mar, 15:38, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Too late, it's already been > > > > > > > > > > > > > produced:http://www.pflanzotheke.de/shop/exec/product/804/12773/Combi-Rosenspr... > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 8 Mrz., 11:38, archytas <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Produce the vaccine Gabby - I tend to prefer truly > > > > > > > > > > > > > > scientific > > > > > > > > > > > > > > solutions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7 Mar, 18:52, gabbydott <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I wouldn’t want to live in your perfect rose > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > garden, although it > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > smells nice in there. To me, vaccination seems > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the more liberating > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > form of protection against the dark of the night. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 7 Mrz., 16:40, archytas > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Small is beautiful was the title of a book by > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > EF (Fritz) Schumacher. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It impressed me when I was impressionable and I > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > was involved with the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > cooperative-commonwealth movement for a while - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > mostly trying to keep > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > a few jobs afloat. I then read his 'Guide for > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the Perplexed' - you > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > could almost imagine an Errol Flynn style sword > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > fight amongst us to > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > get to it! It was rubbish. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There is much in the notion of doing things > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > small though, especially > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > now we could globalize on a fair basis. Free > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > markets and such have > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > always been unreal in many senses - almost in > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > the way that > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > epistemology tends to boil down to conditions > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > of existence. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Something, frankly, has to protect them from > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > banditry. Ideology > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > always seems to lapse to idiocy at the point we > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > could be doing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > something - a bit like that point in science > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > when there is a critical > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > experiment that will bring research programmes > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > together. We could be > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > trying all sorts of stuff in a spirit of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > protected competition. The > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thinking doesn't have to be small and can range > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > from anything from > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > using satellite photographs to chose plant > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > types, fertiliser amounts - > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > on to the creation of small, metaphorically > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > gated communities to help > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > give us roots and handle policing and so on. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Much of my eventual > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > reasoning on this involves insurance agreements > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > amongst communities > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > globally and cutting out the viler forms of > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > bureaucratic waste (like > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > overpaid bwankers and lawyers) - our aims would > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > probably centre on > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > resilience.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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