Small and beautiful and you raise the issue of toilets. Of course, one tends to favour the old Crapper to the Adamant, and we'll have none of the foreign muck in Blightly (I once mistakenly thought this nickname for Old Albion arose because everyone here has piles). We will weigh every German when they come in and send them on their way (as we are apt so to do) after calculating how much general effluent they should take back with them to compensate for what of their culture they leave here. I am currently in love with a German- speaking woman - fortunately she is a Belgian and thus rather refined in these matters and owns a septic tank. To discover that bidets were neither low to the ground water fountains for intelligent cats, nor the footbaths my father told me they were, is disconcerting. The French, of course, rarely try to come to Britain since Bonaparte ceased his urgings after his confrontation with arsenic 'wallpaper' - one understands this is because they have morbid fear of running water and toothbrushes. We have evaded such soft passions as wet toilet paper in the UK so far, but no doubt our womenfolk are massed in some monstrous regiment waiting to try it our was the advertising men tell them it is an essential prerequisite of the good life. Is the filthy stuff here already Francis, and being used to wipe make-up off faces and slime off babies. I would feel much less embarrassed about the times I placed my head into a bidet whilst fighting the Frog or at least in France travelling to Portugal to fight him if our good ladies are using re-branded toilet paper for facial purposes?
Col. Blithely-Unaware (RN rtd.) On 11 Mar, 17:24, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > resilience.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- 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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