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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Roses on August 12, 2020, 02:29:46 PM
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If you lot met me in person you would soon realise the phrase, 'delicate flower', cannot be attributed to little me.
When I put in an appearance in January 1950 the mould was discarded. The first sentence of a wall plaque my children had made for my 70th birthday is, 'Definitely Different'. People who know me would agree that is very true. I have always done my own thing. Many of the situations I have found myself in over the years could have ended in my demise. :o
My life has been very different to that of many people, health and safety was definitely not involved in my upbringing. I learned to drive a small caterpillar tractor at the age of five, and a car at the age of twelve.
I have always been a tomboy much to my late Mother's annoyance, I didn't like doing girly things, playing with dolls or dressing in pretty clothes, I still don't. I haven't worn a dress for a long time preferring trousers and T shirts. I don't pollute my 'beautiful' ;D face with makeup, disliking the feel of it.
I am quite strong, even though I am only 5' 2.5" tall. Only I would be stupid enough to bring a full size wardrobe down the stairs in our present home. :o I still don't quite know how I managed it. Now my husband's balance is very bad after his last fall, all the lifting is left to me, there is plenty of it. My biceps look a bit like those of someone who does weightlifting.
I am a daft old bat, my baby sister's term of endearment, ;D but I do try to help others who are in need if I can.
Now over to you, describe your characteristics.
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Other than the annual ritual slaughter of a dozen virgins, I keep myself to myself.
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When I put in an appearance in January 1950 the mould was discarded.
I had to do that with an iffy bit of cheese today.
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Male Caucasian, Five Ten, Wearing Sneakers, scar on Left cheek, No facial injuries.
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Tall, thin, hot, bored, boring.
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Other than the annual ritual slaughter of a dozen virgins, I keep myself to myself.
the irony of social meedja 8)
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Tall, thin, hot, bored, boring.
I'm available Friday ;)
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unintentionally attractive to strangers in social situations ,
Very modest!
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5'11". Used to be just over six feet, jolly annoyed that I'm now just under. I enjoy cycling (non-competitive pootling) and collecting clocks and books (I have about 3,000 books). Smoke a pipe, drink too much, mainly beer and cider (realised recently that nowadays I prefer cider to beer, though I love them both: only what CAMRA would define as real cider and beer, though). Religiously, a liberal Christian (practising member of Church of England - I hope to get the hang of it one day), politically left of sensible. I've never flown, nor passed the driving test. Got a first class BA(Hons) in Literature from the Open University in 2002.
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I have plenty of scars, including several on my face, mostly the result of downright carelessness on my part! It is a good job I have no interest in my appearance, apart from being clean and tidy.
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Prickly but fruity. Friendly to wildlife. Favours a wild life. Great with gin.
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5'11". Used to be just over six feet, jolly annoyed that I'm now just under. I enjoy cycling (non-competitive pootling) and collecting clocks and books (I have about 3,000 books). Smoke a pipe, drink too much, mainly beer and cider (realised recently that nowadays I prefer cider to beer, though I love them both: only what CAMRA would define as real cider and beer, though). Religiously, a liberal Christian (practising member of Church of England - I hope to get the hang of it one day), politically left of sensible. I've never flown, nor passed the driving test. Got a first class BA(Hons) in Literature from the Open University in 2002.
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first class BA(hons) in literature , well done . Useful for..............passing literature exams!
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first class BA(hons) in literature , well done . Useful for..............passing literature exams!
Not useful for anything, thank God. I did it for the enjoyment.
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Not useful for anything, thank God. I did it for the enjoyment.
Good. The primary reason for any high level study is the personal development of the individual concerned.
The curse of university student fees is that it turned (mainly) young people from being students into becoming customers.
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Walter you were too scathing about the prospects for someone with an English degree and Micawb got a first! I was at school with many who studied English and had great careers.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/english
When I said I was 'hot' I meant the temperature. However I'm thin and boring regardless of weather :-).
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Walter you were too scathing about the prospects for someone with an English degree and Micawb got a first! I was at school with many who studied English and had great careers.
https://www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-advice/what-can-i-do-with-my-degree/english
When I said I was 'hot' I meant the temperature. However I'm thin and boring regardless of weather :-).
Robbie, he's a big boy , he knows how I try to get a gag out of anything.. its annoying but I cant help myself (said the fat lass who can't stop sweating)
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unintentionally attractive to strangers in social situations ,
Very modest!
You can't be as modest as I am. There's nobody more modest than I am. I'm the most modest person in history, except Moses.
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You can't be as modest as I am. There's nobody more modest than I am. I'm the most modest person in history, except Moses.
are you referring to the character known as Moses The Modest ?
He was a me-me twirly luvvie attention seeker compared to me
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Just shy of six feet, average build and shaved head. Love football casual clothing, nearly always see me wearing Fred Perry or Stone Island and Adidas trainers. Impulsive. Addictive personality. Sociable.
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Just shy of six feet, average build and shaved head.
That is just how I pictured you! I have a visual impression of every poster I come across & wonder how close I am with others.
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That is just how I pictured you! I have a visual impression of every poster I come across & wonder how close I am with others.
Now you've just got to share those impressions! I'll be your test poster if you want.
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That is just how I pictured you! I have a visual impression of every poster I come across & wonder how close I am with others.
I am interested to know how you see me? ;D
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I am interested to know how you see me? ;D
Ditto!! I wonder if the following is anything like Robbie's picture.
As a matter of fact I am now 5'5" gradually shrunk from 5'7.5", 54 kg. Optimistic, cheerful, good at adapting to changed circumstances.Hair not grey or white entirely, but still with some natural colour.
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Trent: Tallish and lean, quite a bony face, blue-grey eyes, silvery-fair hair. Very photogenic.
A dish!
Little Roses: Small with rounded figure, big blue eyes, glasses, short hair neither dark nor fair but fair complexion. Healthy looking rosy cheeks.
Susan: Smooth dark hair with grey, slim figure, average height, hazel eyes, specs.
I expect none of you are anything like what I think.
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Trent: Tallish and lean, quite a bony face, blue-grey eyes, silvery-fair hair. Very photogenic.
A dish!
Modesty prevents me commenting on the dish part!
But tallish and lean is close to the mark, especially as I've lost weight in lockdown. Eye colour correct and hair not far off. Not that bony faced though. So pretty good. 75% I'd say.
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I was a long-haired layabout until about two hours ago, when I had it off with the electric clippers. I'm now an elderly skinhead, and there's loads of grey hair in the waste bin. I've still got a long grey beard, though.
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A B+ for me then Trent.
I'm not sure about Susan's eye colour, maybe hazel.
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Susan: Smooth dark hair with grey, slim figure, average height, hazel eyes, specs.
I expect none of you are anything like what I think.
Hair permed!! Since car knock-down in 2014 I go and have it washed and set every week. It was unintentionally smooth during lockdown and got longer too. Not dark, just a bit fair still.
Eyes mostly blue - if I sent you my cosmetic contact lens, you could see the exact colour!
I wish I still needed glasses but the ones I have hardly even sharpen up my peripheral vision now, so I seldom wear them.
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Little Roses: Small with rounded figure, big blue eyes, glasses, short hair neither dark nor fair but fair complexion. Healthy looking rosy cheeks.
I am short 5' 2.5", my figure isn't too rounded, I have hazel coloured eyes, spectacles, short brown hair with only a bit of grey in it, I tan very quickly having a channel island complexion.
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Not far off with Roses but way off the mark with Susan. However I will still 'see' all posters as I have always imagined them, even if they've put me right.
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Not far off with Roses but way off the mark with Susan. However I will still 'see' all posters as I have always imagined them, even if they've put me right.
Given Gordon and I know one and other well because of this board, why don't you say what you say we are like and then we'll mark your idea of the other i.e. Gordon will mark your idea of me, and vice versa?
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I don't have a clear mind's eye picture of you, NS, except for dark hair.
Gordon I see as fair, freckly, bald or nearly bald (maybe strawberry blonde), bony, fairly tall.
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I don't have a clear mind's eye picture of you, NS, except for dark hair.
Gordon I see as fair, freckly, bald or nearly bald (maybe strawberry blonde), bony, fairly tall.
The bald bit for Gordon is right. The rest on him is wrong, I'm afraid
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One thing I am not is competitive, nor is my husband. I couldn't care less who wins where sports are concerned, or when I was subjected to board games as a child. One of our grandsons was very good at football, but unlike his older brother who is also very good at the sport, he couldn't care less if his team won or not so soon dropped out.
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My interests: cycling, collecting clocks (mechanical ones) and books (especially hardback Everyman's Library volumes), reading (poetry, lit crit, politics, classic fiction, history, popular science, etc.), real ale and cider, pipe-smoking, annoying people on social media by correcting their grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and, every autumn, making cider from my own apples and elderberry wine from hedgerow berries.
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My interests: cycling, collecting clocks (mechanical ones) and books (especially hardback Everyman's Library volumes), reading (poetry, lit crit, politics, classic fiction, history, popular science, etc.), real ale and cider, pipe-smoking, annoying people on social media by correcting their grammar, spelling, and punctuation, and, every autumn, making cider from my own apples and elderberry wine from hedgerow berries.
You certainly do irritate people when you do that especially as a series of your posts, a while back, had incorrect spellings.
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You certainly do irritate people when you do that especially as a series of your posts, a while back, had incorrect spellings.
I'm sure you can back that statement up with examples.
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You certainly do irritate people when you do that especially as a series of your posts, a while back, had incorrect spellings.
I believe they were pointed out to you at the time, no doubt you corrected them.
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I believe they were pointed out to you at the time, no doubt you corrected them.
Thought not.
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Ok, ok, I surrender. Having thought about it a lot recently, and having rejected my own argument based on anatomy as breaking Hume's law (in the bible bigotry thread, q.v., op cit, ibid, idem, ad nauseam, etc.), I find myself without a logical leg to stand on, and since the thought of agreeing with anyone as vile as Andrew Pierce is anathema, I remove my objection to gay marriage. It was never very strong, anyway: I'd never have dreamed of campaignong against it. I confess to a continuing mild revulsion to the idea of two chaps getting their end away*, but as long as such a revulsion is recognised for the instinctive, illogical gut-feeling that it is, and dismissed, it isn't homophobia. My argument that it is changing the age-old definition of marriage failed when I realised that I have always firmly believed in women's ordination, which was a radical re-definition of the priesthood, and realised how much my "radical redefinition" argument resembled the hate-fueld bilge spouted against women priests by "Backward In Bigotry".
So I now approve of gay marriage, and hope that church gay weddings will eventually take place. Perhaps Really Sanctimonious** could finally stop accunsing me of "twee homophobia" in every post in which he mentions me at all, and nobody ever asgain, and one poster in particular, could suggest that I never change my mind or am impervious to reason.
*but not two chapettes, curiously. It has been noted by others that instinctive revulsion to homosexuality is stronger towards people of the same sex as the person revolted, than towards people of the opposite sex. I don't feel any revulsion about Lesbians.
**and if RS had not been so sanctimonious for so long, I might have got here sooner.
Go through this post of yours there are a number of spelling mistakes.
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Ok, ok, I surrender. Having thought about it a lot recently, and having rejected my own argument based on anatomy as breaking Hume's law (in the bible bigotry thread, q.v., op cit, ibid, idem, ad nauseam, etc.), I find myself without a logical leg to stand on, and since the thought of agreeing with anyone as vile as Andrew Pierce is anathema, I remove my objection to gay marriage. It was never very strong, anyway: I'd never have dreamed of campaignong against it. I confess to a continuing mild revulsion to the idea of two chaps getting their end away*, but as long as such a revulsion is recognised for the instinctive, illogical gut-feeling that it is, and dismissed, it isn't homophobia. My argument that it is changing the age-old definition of marriage failed when I realised that I have always firmly believed in women's ordination, which was a radical re-definition of the priesthood, and realised how much my "radical redefinition" argument resembled the hate-fueld bilge spouted against women priests by "Backward In Bigotry".
So I now approve of gay marriage, and hope that church gay weddings will eventually take place. Perhaps Really Sanctimonious** could finally stop accunsing me of "twee homophobia" in every post in which he mentions me at all, and nobody ever asgain, and one poster in particular, could suggest that I never change my mind or am impervious to reason.
*but not two chapettes, curiously. It has been noted by others that instinctive revulsion to homosexuality is stronger towards people of the same sex as the person revolted, than towards people of the opposite sex. I don't feel any revulsion about Lesbians.
**and if RS had not been so sanctimonious for so long, I might have got here sooner.
Go through this post of yours there are a number of spelling mistakes.
Yes, there are a few,, but they are all obviously typos, caused by hitting the wrong key, not illiteracy. "asgain", for example: a and s are adjacent on the keyboard, as are o and i, hence "campaignong". I do usually check my posts before hitting "post", but sometimes a typo or two will get through.
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Quote from: Littleroses on Today at 03:19:05 PM
One thing I am not is competitive, nor is my husband. I couldn't care less who wins where sports are concerned, or when I was subjected to board games as a child. One of our grandsons was very good at football, but unlike his older brother who is also very good at the sport, he couldn't care less if his team won or not so soon dropped out.
I'm like that, not at all competitive & can never understand why people are.
I found 'campaignong' and 'accunsing' in McCawb's post you quoted; I assume they were typos, his spelling and grammar is usually good and he would know how to spell 'campaigning' and 'accusing'. Blimey, fancy you trawling through his posts to get that!
I'm an ordinary person, nothing remarkable. I like art, literature and history, enjoy cycling, walking, swimming and riding in a leisurely manner. People, their lives and social issues (about which I am passionate), interest me; I'm fortunate to have a job which encompasses those interests. Other than that, animals, plants, children. It's easier to say what I don't like and prefer not to do if I can avoid.
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Quote from: Littleroses on Today at 03:19:05 PM
One thing I am not is competitive, nor is my husband. I couldn't care less who wins where sports are concerned, or when I was subjected to board games as a child. One of our grandsons was very good at football, but unlike his older brother who is also very good at the sport, he couldn't care less if his team won or not so soon dropped out.
I'm like that, not at all competitive & can never understand why people are.
I found 'campaignong' and 'accunsing' in McCawb's post you quoted; I assume they were typos, his spelling and grammar is usually good and he would know how to spell 'campaigning' and 'accusing'. Blimey, fancy you trawling through his posts to get that!
I'm an ordinary person, nothing remarkable. I like art, literature and history, enjoy cycling, walking, swimming and riding in a leisurely manner. People, their lives and social issues (about which I am passionate), interest me; I'm fortunate to have a job which encompasses those interests. Other than that, animals, plants, children. It's easier to say what I don't like and prefer not to do if I can avoid.
I didn't trawl through the posts, I have better things to do with my time. I just happened to remember that particular one, although there were a number of others too.
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Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
Let it go (go, go, go go, go go, go go, go, go, go go)
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
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I often don't ask for help to do something difficult, when the sensible thing would be to do so. Yesterday my husband was moaning about a heavy white marble plinth, about 4' long x 12" wide, we had on the floor in the back of our lounge, on which we had some ornaments. He said he had never really liked it there. I suggested it was put in the garden with pots on it, he agreed it was a good idea. Instead of waiting for his assistance or that of my grandsons, I decided to do it myself a about 20 minutes ago, whilst my husband was busy in his study. I managed it, but it was very hard work indeed and probably hasn't done my back or the shoulder, which I broke very badly two years ago, any good at all! :o Although my husband likes where I have put it, I got a telling off for being so very silly and will no doubt get another from our kids when they realise what the daft old bat has been up to this time! ::)