Zer goot!...I'm too modist to say how I deal with such things....
On Mar 11, 8:54 am, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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