Question from ignorance....I have heard that those of islamic faith etc. find the use of paper to be crass at the very least. Anyone know?
On Mar 11, 10:55 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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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