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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    When I was in the USA many years ago - 1988 and started in Austin, Texas cos OH was on assignment there for IBM - I was more perturbed by the number of USA flags on poles in front gardens and guns in racks on the back of their pickups.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Add that to the sound of a banjo duet @Obelixx and that is the stuff of nightmares

    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Definitely C&W of the maudlin' kind in Texas.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:

    Stupid thing to put in writing even if there were genuine concerns about how he would be received.  Leave that paragraph out completely and simply say it was felt he would be better suited to a post with a more experienced incumbent.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Hostafan1 said:

    It's not Christianity that's at fault in this case.  Rather, the lack of it, from those who should know better.  A single episode of this sort does not invalidate the Gospel.  If a black person commits a crime, you wouldn't, I hope say:  "So much for black people."
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited June 2020
    josusa47 said:
    Hostafan1 said:

    It's not Christianity that's at fault in this case.  Rather, the lack of it, from those who should know better.  A single episode of this sort does not invalidate the Gospel.  If a black person commits a crime, you wouldn't, I hope say:  "So much for black people."
    But those who hold themselves up to be custodians of any religion, ought to be a lot more careful about what they say.
    It doesn't say much for what they think about the parishioners of the church either. 
    Hypocrisy of the highest order.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Interesting facts:
    Lily beetle grubs are bright orange inside. 
    They are more squishy than vine weevil grubs which are a boring white inside.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Interesting facts:
    Lily beetle grubs are bright orange inside. 
    They are more squishy than vine weevil grubs which are a boring white inside.
    but vine weevils deliver a very satisfying crunch
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    But sometimes they explode and squirt you in the eye - true😟
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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