Rose/Ian I presume we are talking about single men and women here, hopefully.

Perspective makes this a difficult subject to address. As a fleet sailor (squid to Ian) adventure was what you made of it. And that's all I'm going to say about that, Billy. 40 years later the regard for such behavior is much less enthusiastic. Self respect and respect for others plays the main More...

The human brain is just a mass of nerve cells stimulated by sight, sound, touch, and other sensations carried in from around the body. The brain adapts to these sensations however it can, but the needs of an organized society must often force restraints upon our natural responses.Se xual More...

Ian ,you are one of the few that would think anything of a man fooling around and another thing that gets me man or woman is when there mate is messing around they get mad at the person there messing around with more then there mate,like its there fault ,if I caught my mate it would be HIS fault not hers

I have been lurking here and enjoying some interesting conversations. Thanks for this site, a very good idea. I cannot help but notice how many are 'googeling' to fill in the gaps of understanding of words. USA AUSSIE UK: Seperated by a common language indeed!

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There are plenty of places besides Google Earth where you can get current pics. Yes, Google has gained a position of dominance by virtue of their expertise...and like all empires, they will fall to rival technology, probably within a couple of years.

Just be very glad that Bill Gates and Richard Nixon never had the chance to get together...be very, very glad.

People who run around on their spouse.
I'll stand with Ian on this one. Betrayal, cheating, lying; all the things that make a person unfit for just about anything I can think of. Of all the things I learned from my grandfather, commitment was probably the most important. I remember him More...

What an interesting concept blew in while I was composing my previous drivel. Revisionists arise! Google like any tool has to be used judiciously. I've known a hammer or two who were misused by inexperienced hands leaving the hammered project in total ruin. Could a person who takes everything More...

were the Nazca ppl capable of flight?/amazing pictures..thanks Jeb..

Jeb I agree ,there's one thing you can't buy is trust ,you earn trust if its in business ,friendship or relationship you can't give anything more of value,its the most important thing we can give is our loyalty.

ap:
Nothing is know about who put those lines there or why or even when. There has been lots of speculation even to the extent of a connection to extraterrestrials. Those aren't the only oversized pictographs in Peru. A little further North near a small village, there are a few that can been seen on the side of a hill.

Ian, yes, there are other places to get pictures besides Google Earth. There are other places to look up words and information, you and I both know and use them. But where do most people go for information? They 'google it'. If Google has the ability to change the New Orleans photos to suit More...

I guess we are all stigmatized to some extent on both counts but I do feel that women are treated badly, if you were to look in a dictionary I wonder how many words would describe a womans behaviour if she is deemed 'loose' compared to a male? I was taught to respect myself and treat others how I More...

I wonder how much of it is purely Darwinian? The male's ''genetic responsibility'' is to ensure the continuation of his line, and what we call promiscuity enhances the prospects for that.

The female's Darwinian response is ''Hey, I might be pregnant, and I'll need a 'committed' mate to hunt for me while I'm unable to.''

Ian I think you are right, we are different and perhaps we should stop trying to become something that deep down in our hearts will never be achieved, perhaps we need to learn that valuable lesson 'compromise'. A relationship needs to built on so much more than perhaps what society sees today as More...

André: You've got something there. What's interesting to me is the confluence of a couple of threads here....trust, evolution, nature, society. Would a lion ever think to himself, 'well, I'm not going to hunt with that guy because he doesn't feed his mate...'

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Curious about something....

In the US, people have gotten into the habit of placing ''roadside memorials'' to those who have died in auto accidents (especially teenagers). Flowers, personal messages, baseball gloves and teddy bears pile up overnight. The phenomenon has also extended to the More...

Ian - crosses and flowers are left at roadside accident sites here. They are small tokens, nothing over the top. It has been done from as long as I can remember here in WA and possibly the rest of Oz. It tends to be for teenagers as they are the ones that are mainly involved in the fatalities.
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Maybe I'm weird..ok I'm weird...but many people from this site and personal friends were saying how good the Amazing Human Body Exhibition was. So I toodled off to gawp at it and had to leave as soon as I saw the first few corpses - i couldn't stomach it. I didn't feel queasy - I felt repulsed by More...

Ian - We have the 'memorials' on the roadsides also, usually just a wooden cross and some flowers. This hit very close to home for my daughter as one of her friends was killed when she lost control of her car on her way to work 5 days before Christmas 2005. I have not seen piles of things around More...

Ian/B, why do you find these signs of grief repugnant? I believe that each person should be able, even encouraged, to do what they need to do to acknowledge a loss. If that need is a roadside cross or flowers, then let them put them up. No one should expect you to do the same. Again, it is about More...

Ian - (in or elsewhere)There are often 'tributes' left at roadsides/lamp posts etc usually from family and friends. More noticeable over the last decade, but always done with respect, no overtures and often seen as a last farewell to their loved ones. Holidaying in the Greek Islands there are More...

To each his own, I guess. But there is one irony...Public Works departments in a lot of places are removing the individual memorials because people look at them while driving...and cause accidents.

If they get much more numerous, will they become as familiar as telephone poles and lose their intended effect completely?

Its gone very quiet in here.. Billy I looked up The Amazing Human Body Exhibition it looks fascinating. Not sure how I would feel about seeing it in the flesh, the website appears to have some excellent information on the whole process involved in the transformation of the bodies but the faces do look gruesome.

'yonks' - can we have some research on this word peoples? There seems to be some controversy on 'At the Flicks' with regards to the derivation of this word...

Is yonks how yanks would sound if spoken by someone from certain neighborhoods of Yorkshire?

jebbles - sounds good enough for me - end of discussion...although come to think of it, it sounds more aristocratic dahling, okay yaah? i.e. those yonks have a rather narsty habit of masticating skoal in one's mouth don't you know old chap...

Worldwidewords.org seems to have the most plausible explanation, if not etymology.

[Q] From Jill Cormier: “I often say, ‘I haven’t seen you for yonks!’, meaning that I haven’t seen the person for quite a while. I have no idea where it comes from and it’s not in my Concise Oxford Dictionary. More...

Interestingly the Oxford Dictionary has a list of unknown/uncertain word origin at this address
http://oed.com/bbcwordhunt/
Where they invite you to help them find the origin of a word.
jeb I keep trying to say the word yonks, it comes out as yarnks in best of British speak.. whoha henrys More...

'yanks = yarnks' oops.

I have heard of yarnks. They are an extinct beast of burden of diminutive size once employed by the pygmy bushmen of equatorial africa. Their only purpose was to carry heavy loads. The pygmys discovered that they had nothing that needed carrying so the yarnks died of out of despair.

andré - try putting a plum in your mouf when you enunciate and... why stop?

poor yarnks...that is indeed the depths of despair....they couldn't even carry the laundry? or the groceries? or even give the kiddiwinks rides at the fair?

I think we have exhausted the means to find out where yonks originated from, but it's a good word eh?

I've been bonkers for yonks...it's all that plonk.

...so what you're saying Ian is that you're stonkered on plonk which has made you bonkers all these yonks when you could be playing with conkers and gonks instead of ogling honkers? You must be zonked...

Lets try a new word, one of my favorites; 'onomatopoeia'. BAM - if that doesn't bounce you out of your ennui, something else might.

I hate to pop your balloon, jeb, but the buzz on onomatopoeia is that it has gasped it's last as a literary device, no more sizzle. So we'll have to growl and natter about something else, or just keep it zipped.

Can't believe the illiteracy in my own post, which can't be excused as just a typo.

on a mat a piano stood
tinkling, trembling misunderstood
on a mat up here I rustled the leaves
whistling through air as I buffered the breeze
on a mat I peered through the shattering glass
pitter patter of rain on the waves of the bass
on a mat a piano stood
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Very good André. Wherever did you come up with that?
Ian: Sorry to say, bud, but you were seduced by the tar baby. Once in, you can never get out and whatever the attempt to escape, the results have to be accepted as inevitable.

PS: The right rough on the par 5, 9th at Quail Ridge G.C. has been dubbed the tar baby for just that reason.