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“Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Fernapple comments on Jan 17, 2022:

Love D. Parker but..... Nah. Loads of fabric to be crushed and crumpled and fumbled through. Big Victorian bloomers, with drawstrings at the waist and above the knee. Complimented by a lace up chamice top, nice and fine letting a little bit of a hint of nipple shape show through, and a v line ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 18, 2022:

@MsKathleen I can't tell you that ! There are some things......

And the rich get richer [bangkokpost.com]

Druvius comments on Jan 16, 2022:

Funneling money upwards is what the world's economy is designed to do. The ridiculous thing is there's plenty of money for everyone to have a good life, as well as fabulously wealthy people. Some countries do that, the US doesn't.

Fernapple replies on Jan 17, 2022:

And you keep people working seven days a week all year, so that nobody gets to leave the country, and find out how good it is in the rest of the world.

“We realise the importance of our voices only when we are silenced” ……………Malala ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 16, 2022:

Our wealth when we are poor, our friends when we are lonely, warmth when we are cold, water when we are thirsty. The fact is, that we are not very good at appreciating anything until its too late.

Fernapple replies on Jan 17, 2022:

@Pralina1 That's wonderful. Well done.

A good overview of one of the most interesting, and beautiful, at least to my mind, of all animal ...

Beowulfsfriend comments on Jan 16, 2022:

In all my outdoor activities over 60 years, I've only ever ran into one. It was catching a mouse.

Fernapple replies on Jan 16, 2022:

I often see them in England, especially by the road side, often with prey. Once I was lucky enough to see a family of kittens playing together.

A good overview of one of the most interesting, and beautiful, at least to my mind, of all animal ...

LiterateHiker comments on Jan 16, 2022:

Gorgeous animals. A fascinating video. Thanks for posting. **Raccoons on the Rampage, August 1986 ** "Raccoons on the Rampage" the sign said at the trail head. We laughed. With my mother, my husband Terry and I backpacked two miles to the Pacific Ocean, camping in tents. In the middle of ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 16, 2022:

Great story, but you can't but admire them for doing what comes naturally so well.

I like this photo.

Fernapple comments on Jan 14, 2022:

Looks like the Shambles York. Google that for a bit of fun.

Fernapple replies on Jan 14, 2022:

@Ryo1 Yep. I think that it originally meant the street where the butchers work, but Google street view shows it really well and lets you take a walk down it.

This is my first attempt at a meme. I think it's pretty funny.

puff comments on Jan 14, 2022:

Artist? Do one for Gates

Fernapple replies on Jan 14, 2022:

@JennyRad Not really, we are all artists, some of us performance artists, and some of us very bad performance artists.

Sam and Seneca, religion has been a scam from the beginning!

racocn8 comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Not only has science surpassed the Bible, but our conventional morality has greatly surpassed the morality in the Bible. The tragedy is that religionists believe they must remain morally degenerate as part of their religion, embracing slavery, patriarchy, bigotry, ad nauseam.

Fernapple replies on Jan 12, 2022:

Or they want to be morally degenerate, and see religion as a good way to justify it.

How much was Hitler and the Nazis influenced by the occult?

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2022:

The main point of Nazi ideology was to build on already existing features of the mainstream culture. That's how you push people into doing extreme things, by making them seem to be just banal extensions of what their existing culture was leading to anyway. The main religious influences were ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 12, 2022:

@Lorajay Perhaps, though I don't think that Trump was in the same league as Hitler, or has anything like the political skills, more a second rate Mussolini.

I've heard from numerous people that they find atheists to be assholes.

Apunzelle comments on Jan 11, 2022:

😂😂😂 Yes, there are absolutely some assholes on this site. Methinks they’re the too-vocal minority. 😄

Fernapple replies on Jan 11, 2022:

The sound of farting carries a long way.

We will lose everything we love, including our lives — so we might as well love without fear, for ...

Marionville comments on Jan 10, 2022:

Love is to me an instinctive reaction to certain people and things…I’m not really able to control that emotion, as it’s triggered automatically. I can’t understand the quote as fear plays no part in whether we feel love or not..or am I misunderstanding the meaning of it somehow?

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

And of course the quote also means that we should not bother about fearing the end, while we are loving, because that other emotion only dilutes the love.

As a contributing member of an international group known as “The Brights.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2022:

For all that we know, evolution is a mindless mechanical process, it has no purpose, nor is it the purpose of anything else. Anymore than a rock rolling down a hill, has the purpose of getting to the bottom. The only person who could say if evolution has a purpose, is someone who received a ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

@JackPedigo Evolution will quite happily settle into stasis and change nothing if the environment remains constant, and there are no internal preasures such as sexual selection. Evolution only moves when pushed by the environment, just as the rock going down the hill only moves because of gravity, or momentum. Indeed in real terms you could say that there is no such thing as evolution, only natural sellection acting on random mutation. Evolution is only a word humans give to the end results of such things, a shorthand abreviated way of summing up, but convenient lazy shorthand should not be confused with real actions.

We will lose everything we love, including our lives — so we might as well love without fear, for ...

Marionville comments on Jan 10, 2022:

Love is to me an instinctive reaction to certain people and things…I’m not really able to control that emotion, as it’s triggered automatically. I can’t understand the quote as fear plays no part in whether we feel love or not..or am I misunderstanding the meaning of it somehow?

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

Some people avoid things that they may love, for fear that they may fall in love and then lose. So to that extent you can control love.

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”……………John Milton.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2022:

Pass on both. Thank you.

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

@Marionville I can not leave the subject. Because you may think that I am exagerating, but that really was the Yellow Belly culture here, at least for the older generation in my youth. The villages were ruled by Nora Batty (remember her) style matriarchs, who were large and stout, the men were small slight and meak, they really did walk behind, and only spoke when the matriarchs told them to, and then not much. The ladies kept almost all the money, and they often had accounts books for the ordinary household expences, and humour or any sort of levity was certainly frowned on. Even today when I do public speaking I always adjust the talks in some of the more rural areas of Lincolnshire by leaving the jokes out, since I know that any attempted humour will only get frowns.

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”……………John Milton.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2022:

Pass on both. Thank you.

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

@Marionville Well next thing you know the youngsters think that if they can do humour, then they can just go out and do whatever they like and buy things, like money is for spending. Then before you know where you are, you end up like them fools across the river in Yorkshire, where everybody has got a social life, and men start to want to do talking, instead of leaving that to the women !

“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”……………John Milton.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2022:

Pass on both. Thank you.

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

@Marionville I come from the red neck country of East Lincolnshire, an' we don't let no metaphores in here, bringing their complex, nuances with them and showing off their irony in public. Next thing you know the kids will be doing humour.

Can anyone still remember the "flash mob" which was very fashionable before the pandemic, I wonder ...

AnneWimsey comments on Jan 10, 2022:

I participated in one for charity! The rehearsals & doing it were a blast!

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

Well done, now that's fun.

Since Narcissus and his followers seem to be theme of the week I thought I would have five cents ...

yvilletom comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Naecissus “pined away and died”? No, he died of happiness, or love. What’s better than dying of either of those? Dying while in orgasm, ok.

Fernapple replies on Jan 10, 2022:

I did a double check with several sources including Larousse, wiki and Greek mytholoigy.com. and no, according to most versions of the myth Narcissus did not die a happy death. Just the opposite, he died of frustration, because he could not ever touch the image of himself he saw in the water. And the death was given to him as punishment for rejecting the nymph Echo, a death usually attributed to Nemesis.

Can anyone still remember the "flash mob" which was very fashionable before the pandemic, I wonder ...

Pralina1 comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Omg . This is great ! No I never seen anything like this b4 or knew about it !!! Oh wow

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

@Lauren Great one.

Since Narcissus and his followers seem to be theme of the week I thought I would have five cents ...

Rockitflash comments on Jan 9, 2022:

A great post! I loved reading the Greek myths in high school, I should revisit them.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

Richer and more diverse than the theist myths of the three Abrahamics. They also ask questions rather than assert authority I find.

Since Narcissus and his followers seem to be theme of the week I thought I would have five cents ...

yvilletom comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Naecissus “pined away and died”? No, he died of happiness, or love. What’s better than dying of either of those? Dying while in orgasm, ok.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

Well that is a perfectly legitimate way of reading it. Not the one taught in schools though, perhaps for obvious reasons.

Since Narcissus and his followers seem to be theme of the week I thought I would have five cents ...

Beachslim7 comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Where do you come up with this crap? Seriously? Narcissists are people who have no emotions such as fear, or empathy. They don't care about people's goals or life in general. They live to manipulate and get a reaction out of people. They are emotional vampires not content unless they get you...

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

@Austin-Cambridge Sorry but this is very nearly my best crap. LOL

Since Narcissus and his followers seem to be theme of the week I thought I would have five cents ...

Beachslim7 comments on Jan 9, 2022:

Where do you come up with this crap? Seriously? Narcissists are people who have no emotions such as fear, or empathy. They don't care about people's goals or life in general. They live to manipulate and get a reaction out of people. They are emotional vampires not content unless they get you...

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

Yes I am well aware of that, the point of this post was to highlight the costs of that behaviour to the narcissits themselves.

Father Fractures Pastor’s Skull After He Caught Him Touching Son Inappropriately. | ThatViralFeed

PondartIncbendog comments on Jan 8, 2022:

So did he hurt the pastor?

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

No, that's not where pastors keep their brains.

Pope suggests pet owners without children are selfish | TheHill

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2022:

If you can't get converts, because your ideals are broken and bankrupt, you just have to breed victims.

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

@Pralina1 Thank you, I think the same of you, nailling everything beautifully. Let us hope that this site may long continue.

Sending Life to the Stars: Scientists Contemplate Launching Tiny Lifeforms Into Interstellar Space...

Robecology comments on Jan 8, 2022:

Many don't know the geologic history of earth. Our oceans were formed largely due to unusually large collections of comets...mostly large chunks of H2O ice - bombarding early earth - billions of years ago. Scientists have recently conjectured; could these chunks of ice at one time belonged...

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

@phxbillcee The other problem with panspermia as a solution to the origin of life, is that it still leaves you with the problem of abiogenisis, but just moves the problem back in time and to another planet.

If a Christian tells you.

Matias comments on Jan 8, 2022:

No it isn't. there are people you are toying with nihilism as a kind of intellectual game. But those whose have to *live* as nihilists get depressions

Fernapple replies on Jan 9, 2022:

I don't think that is always so. I am a very happy nihilist for one.

60+ Social Media Sites You Should Know About (Updated 2022)

TheMiddleWay comments on Jan 8, 2022:

Half of those are shut down or have a vanishingly small presence. And calling WhatsApp and flicker as social media is stretching the term social media to irrelevance

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2022:

What makes this site so good is not just the content and the people, but the format, the look of the page the way it works, and things link up. I have found no other social media that compares. Some one did tell me what platform it runs on, but I forget now.

AGNOSTIC.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2022:

Maybe it would be a good idea to establish a FB page/group for former Agnostic.com members ahead of time, FB is not so nice, and it may never be needed, but could be done.

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2022:

@HippieChick58 It just say not available. Sorry.

AGNOSTIC.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2022:

Maybe it would be a good idea to establish a FB page/group for former Agnostic.com members ahead of time, FB is not so nice, and it may never be needed, but could be done.

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2022:

@HippieChick58 Thank you, no idea the name ?

AGNOSTIC.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2022:

Maybe it would be a good idea to establish a FB page/group for former Agnostic.com members ahead of time, FB is not so nice, and it may never be needed, but could be done.

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2022:

@Lorajay I would have to think about that, there may be far more able people than me, but if it came to a crunch.

AGNOSTIC.

skado comments on Jan 7, 2022:

Not an unreasonable guess, I'd say. Best to collect other means of contacting those we wish to stay in touch with.

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2022:

@Lorajay, @SpikeTalon Could work, sounds interesting well done. Though maybe also it would be a good idea to establish a FB page/group for former Agnostic.com members ahead of time, FB is not so nice, and it may never be needed, but could be done.

AGNOSTIC.

skado comments on Jan 7, 2022:

Not an unreasonable guess, I'd say. Best to collect other means of contacting those we wish to stay in touch with.

Fernapple replies on Jan 8, 2022:

@Lorajay Maybe it would be a good idea to establish a FB page/group for former Agnostic.com members ahead of time, FB is not so nice, and it may never be needed, but could be done.

Please consider this post a online petition to change the image on the entry page to this web site.

altschmerz comments on Jan 7, 2022:

Is this the picture you're talking about? (I had to log out to access it.)

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

Oh yes I remember that now. I think it is a case of. " If you know where there is a better hole, you go to it. "

Google “askew”. You can thank me later.

Tejas comments on Jan 6, 2022:

Google "do a barrel roll" too

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

It offered me six other tricks as well. Think I will save those for a dull night.

Do you often find people reading their own assumptions into your posts?

skado comments on Jan 6, 2022:

I think that’s just the way people are. Always.

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

@puff That's fine. I worked out exactly what you meant quite easily, sadly, it is only really the borderline trolls who will not trouble to think about what you mean.

Do you often find people reading their own assumptions into your posts?

hankster comments on Jan 7, 2022:

it's tricky to respond on target when knowledge is really limited. When we add the condition that folks are working from a toolbox of what they themselves think they know about, or want to believe for the sake of thier heart or the need to be correct there's lots of chances for facts to get bent or ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

@towkneed PS. To my last. You also need to be very careful about your first line/title, a lot of people will not read beyond that, or will only scim beyond that. So using clever tricks like inverting what you said in your first line, is asking for trouble. And above all else. Never, NEVER, Never, attempt irony.

Do you often find people reading their own assumptions into your posts?

skado comments on Jan 6, 2022:

I think that’s just the way people are. Always.

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

@puff Sorry, I am not being critical, but you really do have to be careful about what you type, that's one reason for the failings. If for example you read your second sentence again, I think that you will find that it says, that there is no communication on this site, and not, what I think is what you intended, no, "body language". As I say I am not being critical, we all do it, I have done it hundreds of times, but it just goes to show how easily misunderstandings happen. You have to try to make sure every sentence and paragraph is plain and clear with no possibilities for misunderstandings, even if that means writing in a very long winded style, of the sort you would use when writing to dyslexic ten year olds. ( There are quite a few dyslexic ten year olds on this site, not just me. ) You will still get misunderstood, but that reduces the numbers.

Do you often find people reading their own assumptions into your posts?

p-nullifidian comments on Jan 6, 2022:

Most of us, maybe all of us, seem hardwired to immediately react to what we read. It is only upon a rereading, and a reflection on the original comment (and more importantly our response), that we can better gauge our emotional—intellectual balance when posting to the site.

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

And a lot of people wont bother with all of that.

My gay house guest went back to California Wednesday and today he sent me flowers.

Julie808 comments on Jan 7, 2022:

Those are beautiful! How nice that he felt like showing his gratitude for your hospitality. I suppose many don't. Maybe he felt it is customary to tip housekeepers and staff places, so thought it would be less awkward to leave/send a gift for you as his host. Very sweet indeed!

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

I think that would be it. Its a very silly unspoken rule that you tip people of lower status, but give gifts to your social equals. I would probably do that and respect the rule, but still think to myself, what a really funny world.

How many wpm can you type ?

Spinliesel comments on Jan 6, 2022:

In which language? We did not learn to type in high school. My school was a prep school, and we were told that we would have secretaries for that task. (Crazy giggles and laughs) I taught myself typing with Mavis Beacon but did not get very far. My 12 -year old granddaughter types better and ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 7, 2022:

My experience was even worse than that, I would have loved to learn typing a school, (Sixties early seventies.) but we were told by our (Christian of course.) headmaster that, typing was for girls only. He also closed down the agriculture and rural studies section of the school, because to his mind there was no use in the modern world for all that, what we would now call "green" or environmental stuff.

New research shows gene exchange between viruses and hosts drives evolution: [phys.org]

racocn8 comments on Jan 5, 2022:

Bacteriophages are totally different from disease viruses.

Fernapple replies on Jan 6, 2022:

The article is mainly about eukaryotes, and sets out to explain how similar things have been found to take place in eukaryotes as well.

We have had an unusual mild spell this last couple of weeks, and the garden is full of life.

MikeInBatonRouge comments on Jan 4, 2022:

It has also been freakishly mild here in southern Louisiana, south central USA. I have dahlias, scarlet sage, and Stokes Asters blooming, along with my roses, and it is freakin' January! Starting to see a smattering of light freezes, though. Poor confused flowers! ( All sideways pics, no less)

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2022:

Our Dalias and roses have certainly gone, since we did have a cold spell earlier. Great photos though, I think that it is the first time that I have seen an overview of your garden.

I am hosting a gay Christian scientist in my b&b.

MyTVC15 comments on Jan 4, 2022:

Anytime a stranger offers you something for free they are going to try to sell you something. It is called marketing.

Fernapple replies on Jan 5, 2022:

Take the freeby and then say no thank you, it always works for me. LOL

The conflict between the huge human population and nature, is bound to affect the larger predators ...

Sticks48 comments on Jan 4, 2022:

Unfounded fears are a driving force behind many of humanities biggest fuck ups.

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2022:

If not most of them.

Hello just joined, mainly to ask if anyone has ever followed this Utube channel.

Diaco comments on Jan 3, 2022:

That poor cat! I don't think a cat can be happy with an unstable situation like this, hopefully she is an exception. seems they have a great bond and Nala accepted this lifestyle, from the kittenhood. Super Interesting though!

Fernapple replies on Jan 4, 2022:

Yes I thought that. His claim is, that she was a stray saved by him, and they certainly seem to have a bond.

A rabbi has the column featured in this article, but his rhetoric is the same as that of Xtians.

nicestuff comments on Jan 2, 2022:

Another lapse of logic (in the answer A; *nowhere near logic*) from the same column: Q: My take is that God is a man-made invention, and as such everyone is free to create their own personal god and dogma to match. Let me know what you think. I am betting that I am right. – From D A: And I ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2022:

@Gwendolyn2018 Yes but "mainstream" is only another word for "ad populum".

A rabbi has the column featured in this article, but his rhetoric is the same as that of Xtians.

racocn8 comments on Jan 2, 2022:

Life is too short to spend it trying to untangle nonsense, especially when the liars don't want the truth.

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2022:

@racocn8 That is very pseudo profound, in its own way, too.

The main reason that I ditched religion was that it was way too confusing of who I was supposed to ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2021:

I knew a dog once, and she loved virtually everyone and most creatures, but boy, did she hate squirrels. And I don't mean, wanted to hunt them. I mean really, snarling, foaming at the mouth, hair bristling, total all out rage. We never did find out why.

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2022:

@GeezerDawg Yes my friend has one, and she spends half her time banging on the window. LOL

Do you believe in living after death

barjoe comments on Jan 2, 2022:

Yes. When I die, other people will be living.

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2022:

Or as they often say. There will be life after death, I just wont be part of it.

HaPpY New YeaR My Dear Friends and Colleagues! What does the upcoming 365 days hold for you; for ...

David1955 comments on Jan 1, 2022:

No 1. Done, long time ago. No2. I had hoped once that this would be that group. Hasn't quite worked out. No 3. Would if I could. Even harder in virus times. No 4. John Lennon beat me to it. How could I compete with that? No 5. Plenty of people do that now on YouTube now, but I must confess it ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 2, 2022:

Agreed. But I do find you interesting.

Christians are balking at the the revised Bible.

JonnaBononna comments on Dec 31, 2021:

I remember back in the 70s when "the living Bible" translation was all the rage. When reading the Christmas story, instead of saying Mary was "with child", it said she was pregnant. People got upset with that- "We shouldn't be saying Mary was pregnant!" I mean, really??? Isn't that what she ...

Fernapple replies on Jan 1, 2022:

@Gwendolyn2018 In Victorian England, child birth was such a tabboo subject that they used the euphanism for it. "Going to the gates of death." Nothing like being upbeat, and encouraging.

That Microsoft Account Team Email Is Probably A Phishing Scam.

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2021:

Microsoft sends out so many phishing scam notices of its own, I just ignore them anyway.

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2021:

@barjoe I know, just having fun. Though actually the robbers who do my security, also send generic messages intended to look like security notices, in order to get me to buy upgrades.

Christians are balking at the the revised Bible.

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2021:

The KJ is the favourite of the howling at the moon brigade, exactly because it is the most confusing, which enables the maximum number of interpretations to be placed on it. Plus for the right wing conservatives, it was a rewrite, (not a translation ) deliberately made by right wing conservative...

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2021:

@Gwendolyn2018 They actually added whole chunks, like one account of the resurrection, an extra commandment, an extra verse to the Song of Sol. and lots more.

Be aware, be very aware please, the Faithfools, aka Christfools, Jesusnuts, etc, etc, have a NEW ...

David1955 comments on Dec 30, 2021:

If you mean the argument by Christos that the 'ancients' didn't believe in history but allegory and therefore it doesn't matter if their religious history isn't literally true, it's allegorically true so just shut up, believe, put money on the tray, and bugger off --- then this is an old fraudulent ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2021:

@David1955 Yes I have seen that. The appolgists often attempt bad arguments of all sorts, even with experts. Because of course, the worst of them, get so used to preaching to their uncritical and brainwashed congregations, that they get into the habit of assuming that to be the human norm.

Be aware, be very aware please, the Faithfools, aka Christfools, Jesusnuts, etc, etc, have a NEW ...

Julie808 comments on Dec 30, 2021:

My guess is that they are cherry picking what is "allegory" and what they consider to be fact. Just as myths and other literature and art use metaphor, I've long felt the bible was more "allegory" than historical facts, though a convincing mix to be sure. In any case, we have so many more ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2021:

Plus there is an even greater danger, in that. Allegory allows them even more interpretation, which means that their religion, can be even more, just whatever they want it to be, yet still claim the fake authority that is supposed to belong to religion.

Be aware, be very aware please, the Faithfools, aka Christfools, Jesusnuts, etc, etc, have a NEW ...

David1955 comments on Dec 30, 2021:

If you mean the argument by Christos that the 'ancients' didn't believe in history but allegory and therefore it doesn't matter if their religious history isn't literally true, it's allegorically true so just shut up, believe, put money on the tray, and bugger off --- then this is an old fraudulent ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 31, 2021:

Plus allegory allows them even more interpretation, which means that their religion, can be even more, just whatever they want it to be, yet still claim the fake authority that is supposed to belong to religion.

To fill the wishes of Marrionville I found another story of the same sort as the last, this one is ...

Marionville comments on Dec 30, 2021:

Certainly plausible! Btw I found your post by accident…I only have one letter “r” in my Marionville, and you omitted the @ in front…which would’ve brought it straight to me! I am however, going to join the group as I I think I’ll find it interesting.

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

I was sure you had two "R" but anyway, while my IT skills are quite second rate.

I'm sentimental, what can I say. ;)

FrayedBear comments on Dec 30, 2021:

Isn't finishing other's sentences obsessive control freak behaviour?

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

Yes I think that at least one of them , probably both, was into that.

I'm sentimental, what can I say. ;)

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2021:

Just a pity her coward of a partner, did not have the courage to face his.

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@David1955 True. Who knows what he knew? Some of which may have been deadly to the regime, there is no doubt that they certainly had motive, but did they get him or did he off himself before they could, that is still not proved.

Premiering on PBS stations tonight: EARTH EMERGENCY This revealing film examines how human ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2021:

Says. "Video not available."

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@nicestuff No sorry.

I'm sentimental, what can I say. ;)

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2021:

Just a pity her coward of a partner, did not have the courage to face his.

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@David1955 Very true, but as to trivial, that depends with what you compare it to. The death of one small component of a corrupt and morally bankrupt class, in a decaying republic, to keep him silent, is hardly new, there have been thousands of those, in hundreds of decadent states across the world from ancient times. And in the time it took him to choke, many hundreds of children died of poor food, water and heathcare all across the world.

“Nothing of real worth can ever be bought.

Fernapple comments on Dec 29, 2021:

Opportunity can be bought, and it is a prerequisite for all the others.

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@Mcflewster Yes but you don't need money so much for choice, sometimes, but not so much. And opportunity is a prerequisite for choice too.

Letters From An American 12/28/2021

JackPedigo comments on Dec 29, 2021:

How can we have a hope of changing the future when we continue to live in the past?

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@JackPedigo "Those who do not learn from the past, are doomed to repeat its mistakes." In fact, the past is our only sourse of learning, not to accept the need to study the past, is to reject learning and choose ignorance. Which is great only for those who want to spend the lives doing stupid stuff.

I'm sentimental, what can I say. ;)

Fernapple comments on Dec 30, 2021:

Just a pity her coward of a partner, did not have the courage to face his.

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

@David1955 Who knows ? I would not get into conspiracy theories over something so trivial. Don't forget there are at least four possibles, suicide, murder, assisted suicide, and enabled suicide.

NASA Says Webb’s Excess Fuel Likely to Extend its Lifetime Expectations [blogs.nasa.gov]

Druvius comments on Dec 29, 2021:

Let's just hope they get it deployed and up and running. :)

Fernapple replies on Dec 30, 2021:

Took me a second, but that is the funniest thing this week.

This is not a picture as such, but a story, and I take the risk of posting it, because it is a great...

Marionville comments on Dec 29, 2021:

I love watching Waldemar Januszczak’s art detective work on TV…his deductions are usually spot on…as in this one!

Fernapple replies on Dec 29, 2021:

Don't want to overdo it, but if I find another good one I will post it soon. This one is special to me, as I have a personal history with this painting, since a print used to hang on the school room wall, in my childhood. And I often used to wonder, why the man in the picture wanted such a miserable and unflattering portrait of himself doing. Now I know, mystery solved,. It is amazing how some mysteries do solve themselves even years later.

Why not take a walk down a Irish lane in spring, in the middle of winter we need to dream a little.

JackPedigo comments on Dec 28, 2021:

There is an amazing, must see series one can find on Youtube. Different ages different styles of agriculture. One series "Edwardian Farms" has a section on making hedgerows. It starts with the Blacksmith (each district had a different style of tools) and then on the construction the hedgerows. This ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

Yes I have done some, I have a Yorkshire bill hook from my Yorkshire family. This was a series on the BBC tv.

“There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the...

Fernapple comments on Dec 28, 2021:

And yet that only happens because the earths rotation, and its orbit do not line up. There may be planets which follow even tracks around their stars, where there live aliens who have no idea of what the word, seasons, could mean, or even that such things exist. From very simple things often there ...

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

@Marionville The point of the sepulation is to show up all the better, what a strange and wonderful place this is.

One of the things which amazes me about the natural world, is they way that we keep discovering new ...

Buttercup comments on Dec 28, 2021:

Me too, weird how immense and variable even one smallish planet filled with complex creatures can be. There are thousands of micro species in my own house too. (most uncatalogued)

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

That is true. For large creatures like the new bat which was quite resently discovered in the UK, it is strange that they are overlooked, but at the micro level we know almost nothing of what is out there.

What Christmas Carol do you dislike the most and why?

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2021:

Oh little town of Bethlehem. Its just so twee from the first line, makes my skin crawl.

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

@Julie808 Its a really useful word. I bet you can't wait for an opportunity to try it out now.

There’s a limit to how nice one can be.

barjoe comments on Dec 28, 2021:

It's nice to be nice. To the nice.

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

If you are only nice to the nice, are you really nice ? Or is it nice to be nice to the not nice, for the sake of niceness in a nicer world ?

Got our first snow this week, on the cottages across the road and in the field behind.

Mooolah comments on Dec 27, 2021:

Love the snow. More than here in Wisconsin. And I am south of you.https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/12/26/six-injured-after-20-car-pile-up-near-reno/ Donner Pass. Pack a lunch.

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

Yes we do not get much snow here in the UK due to the exceptionaly mild climate for our latitude, caused by the Gulf Stream. What we do mostly get, in winter, is six months of unending drizzle only interupted by occasional bursts of rain, very like the, six months of unending drizzle only interupted by occasional bursts of rain which we call summer.

lol.. Perhaps something to chew on. If the universe has no beginning, then it has no edges

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2021:

That is even included in some versions of the Big Bang theory.

Fernapple replies on Dec 28, 2021:

@hankster Much within the universe is imaginary, cosmology has not as yet moved much beyond the hypothesis stage, about many things.

lol.. Perhaps something to chew on. If the universe has no beginning, then it has no edges

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2021:

That is even included in some versions of the Big Bang theory.

Fernapple replies on Dec 27, 2021:

@hankster That is also accepted by many, as are several other versions.

lol.. Perhaps something to chew on. If the universe has no beginning, then it has no edges

Fernapple comments on Dec 27, 2021:

That is even included in some versions of the Big Bang theory.

Fernapple replies on Dec 27, 2021:

@hankster No it is only the beginning of the local universe, the multiverse beyond it may have lasted forever. While it could be infinite in space as well, according to some thought, the edges where we see the cosmic background are caused only by, the limit of time for light to travel stopping us seeing further, our local bubble beyond which there may be alliens seeing other local bubbles out to infinity

Happy Newtonmas

Fernapple comments on Dec 25, 2021:

Not until the fourth of January.

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2021:

@LenHazell53 Thank you that's wonderful, you are well informed.

My friend said.

Lorajay comments on Dec 25, 2021:

It sounds like his family will lose the joy of achievement. That is far from a loving wish.

Fernapple replies on Dec 26, 2021:

I think that is the joke , yes.

Yes indeed and damn proud of it.

CourtJester comments on Dec 25, 2021:

Define “Science loving”

Fernapple replies on Dec 25, 2021:

You use technology for trills.

How To Start Your Own Religion [thoughtcatalog.com]

barjoe comments on Dec 24, 2021:

L Ron Hubbard did a pretty good job with a phony religion. Actually they are all phony.

Fernapple replies on Dec 25, 2021:

@barjoe He is a very fishy person, even if he did exist. He is a government agent, tasked with undermining a new political religious movement, he then claims to have a magical conversion, and starts telling everyone in the movement to do exactly what his former political masters would like. Who is he fooling. Its less believable than a Dan Brown plot.

How To Start Your Own Religion [thoughtcatalog.com]

barjoe comments on Dec 24, 2021:

L Ron Hubbard did a pretty good job with a phony religion. Actually they are all phony.

Fernapple replies on Dec 25, 2021:

I think that Joseph Smith did a pretty good job with Mormonism too, but the real matser faker has to have been St Paul.

When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels...

AnonySchmoose comments on Dec 24, 2021:

I feel that 'the ordinary' in this quote means the racism.

Fernapple replies on Dec 24, 2021:

@Theresa_N Yes me too, it is only when you stop pursuing novelty and start to understand the ordinary, that your power of appreciation begins to be trained, and with that your capacity for wisdom and happiness increases. The collector of rare and precious gems, will never be satisfied, but if you can. "See a world, in a grain of sand. " in Blakes words, then you will always have abundance beyond your power to count.

Why his mumbo jumbo shows no logic anywhere

Fernapple comments on Dec 23, 2021:

According to the book, it was actually god who. "Hardened Pharaoh's heart." So he took away Pharaoh's free will, in order to make it happen.

Fernapple replies on Dec 24, 2021:

@Storm1752 Yep. Totally illogical.

Do numbers exist? Not the visual or verbal symbols for numbers, but numbers themselves?

Fernapple comments on Dec 20, 2021:

Define "exist" ?

Fernapple replies on Dec 23, 2021:

@bbyrd009 Define "objective" and "evidence" please.

Are some of us destined to be dumb and is there anything we can do about it? [abc.net.au]

BD66 comments on Dec 23, 2021:

Television was supposed to educate the masses. That failed. The internet was supposed to educate the masses. That failed too.

Fernapple replies on Dec 23, 2021:

You forgot state schools, and the popular press.

You just never listen do you! Don't say you weren't warned!

Gwendolyn2018 comments on Dec 22, 2021:

No one has EVER offered me an extended car warranty.

Fernapple replies on Dec 22, 2021:

You are lucky.

The Most Improbable Xmas Gift