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Post by Freddy on Oct 23, 2012 16:05:58 GMT 11
An inconvenience is all...the feeling at times of mini strokes is disconcerting ..most of the time feel fairly good. Where has freddy disappeared too...hope he is alright.. Been Fishing Tonts. Hope you're alright after your stroke, take care.
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Post by pim on Oct 23, 2012 17:22:43 GMT 11
Didn't George Dubya throw up in some world leader's lap while President?
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Post by Freddy on Oct 23, 2012 18:58:25 GMT 11
Didn't George Dubya throw up in some world leader's lap while President? yep
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Post by zombie on Oct 23, 2012 20:22:50 GMT 11
Have no fear Tonto is in good shape for a zombie...apart from high blood sugars which can give me a headache at times, not actually strokes, and if sugars too low a feeling of vagueness...and with that have pressurenear died with two hypos, other than that all internal organs and eyeballs in good shape,... including the ol' poop shute.. ...and prostrate... I no longer fish Fredddy...to many people taking and not enough giving back...What I do like as well as surfing is I enjoy snorkeling around to look at fish and the environment...fish seem to know you have no weapon and tend to be more relaxed and come out of hiding. When I did spearfish, its very hard to describe the beautifull sensation of catching a fish and dispatching the fish with the right amount of pressure so not to break the through scales or skin with a bite to the head while in the water....sort of primordial and shark like...recomend trying it, its a Islander trick.
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Post by Dragonfly on Oct 26, 2012 8:08:59 GMT 11
deerjerkey, Shame on you for poking fun at a feller for getting sick, he had no control over that BUT Gillard could have worn proper shoes.
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Post by pim on Oct 26, 2012 13:20:22 GMT 11
Dunno about "getting sick", Dragonfly. One hears of political leaders having mishaps. Didn't Gerald Ford stumble and trip up once when walking off a plane? I think it was in France where he was scheduled to attend a talkfest as US President. The French Pres. at the time, a dude called François Mitterand, called him an imbécile who couldn't walk straight. I recall at the time I thought that was more than a little unkind and uncalled for and in any case Mitterand got his comeuppance many years later when his own past caught up with him - an unknown love child, plus a very dubious WW2 past of collaboration with the Germans (never proved but some of that mud stuck to him) and some very dodgy financial stuff he was involved in. That's karma for you, I guess! Our very own John Howard stumbled and fell when he walked off a stage in 1996 and still went on to win by a landslide. There's something tugging at my memory that I can't quite pin down that makes me think that Margaret Thatcher stumbled and nearly fell on one occasion. I can't remember precisely and in any case it had zero effect on her political career. Who knows why George Dubya threw up? He claims to have quit drinking booze years ago so it couldn't have been a hangover. Maybe it was something he ate. It happened to me once back in the 1970s when I was married. My wife and I were travelling through Spain during a year in which I had a contract to teach English in France. We were doing it on the cheap, stayed in cheap hotels and lived on paellas which are a Spanish concoction. Full of shellfish and spices, they are! Washed down with cheap Spanish red wine. What a life! We had a ball until one night I didn';t go to bed and spent most of the night in the hotel room heaving my guts up into the wash basin. Whether it was the paella or the cheap wine I'll never know but up came the lot. Man I was near death. Fast forward ten years and my wife and I were splitting up (she walked - she'd met a guy she thought was prettier). She then unloaded onto me about that night - ten years previously! - and told me how revolted she'd been at the sight of me throwing up into the washbasin. Thanks for the sympathy and chocolates, darlin'! I was too charitable to mention to her the times that she got violently ill after eating mushrooms - and a fondue in Switzerland that was almost the end of her. Hey, we're all human! With all the frailties that the flesh is heir to! So Julia Gillard had a fall and it was undignified! Where's the sympathy?? Nobody here has ever had a fall? I'm glad she was OK. Why all the You Tube hits? I think it's very sad that we haveTV programmes like World's Funniest Videos and they tend to be footage of people having an accident. The worst is footage of kids having accidents in their back yards at home. What is this sick pleasure people get at the sight of another person's misfortune? As for Gillard wearing "proper shoes", I'm not qualified to comment on a woman's shoes but I do realise that where footwear, makeup, clothes etc are concerned women face bigger issues than men do. Whatever that lady wears, someone is going to judge her harshly. So she has to make a decision at whatever venue she happens to be: will it be high heels today? Or not? I have lots of friends and acquaintances from teaching days - old colleagues. One of them is what we call in Australia a "Home Economics" teacher. Thats's subjects like cooking and dressmaking - among other things. The lady is a gourmet cook and I've witnessed her making a layered wedding cake for her brother's wedding. She makes all of her own clothes and basically one of the rooms in her house is set up as a dressmaker's workshop. She is single and has no children. But what she does do is pour her energies into voluntary work, charity stuff, and local government. For years she used to get elected to the city council and now in her retirement she does a lot of voluntary stuff for the Red Cross - and like Julia Gillard has had to endure lots of cheap and nasty comments over the years about the fact that she's single and never had children. This lady has observed Julia Gillard and once commented to me: "that lady needs someone on her staff to organise her wardrobe - decide every day what Julia Gillard would wear, how many changes of clothing and for what function, and have them ready for her. Plus be responsible for her makeup and making sure her hair is just right. A Prime Minister shouldn't have to be worried about such things. She should hire me! I'd do all that for her and I'd do a good job too!"I've heard several other women make the same comment. Leaving aside for a moment what you think personally of Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. Just put all that to one side for a minute. But don't you think that in the course of their public duties women like that would have someone on the payroll who takes care of wardrobe and everything to do with grooming and deportment? You can't tell me they wouldn't!! So my home economist friend is right, isn't she? If you're going to have a woman in a powerful position of responsibility like Prime Minister or President then her wardrobe is going to be an issue that's too big for her to worry about on her own. She needs to hire somebody - at the taxpayer's expense because it is after all about representing the nation - to do that job full time. BUT - and here's the big BUT - in Australia we're so mean-spirited and bean-counting about these things that if Julia Gillard did hire someone full-time to organise her daily wardrobe she'd be criticised for wasting the taxpayer's money for her own personal benefit. There's no pleasing some people
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Post by Dragonfly on Oct 28, 2012 2:51:41 GMT 11
"Man I was near death. Fast forward ten years and my wife and I were splitting up (she walked - she'd met a guy she thought was prettier). She then unloaded onto me about that night - ten years previously! - and told me how revolted she'd been at the sight of me throwing up into the washbasin."
Y how silly of her for fussing about you pucking. If you'd pucked in the floor and expected her to clean it it maybe she had a right to fuss but sounds like you didn't do that. I figure she felt a bit guilty over finding a prettier feller while she was STILL married to you and just want to blame you for any thing she could think of.
I don't know who dresses Mrs. Obomba or Hillary but I'm sure they have a lot of input on what they wear. If someone dressed old flop in her heels she has a mouth don't she? She could have said I got to walk outside in the wet grass so NO I will not wear that. ;D
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