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<t>lady cop wrote: such a beautiful place, Wales! i wonder if there is a connection between the town's name and the college. Quoting from their prospectus :- "The College is located in the village of Bryn Mawr (the name means "high hill" in Welsh), about nine miles west ...

lady cop wrote: an honest mistake since Bryn Mawr college here used to be strictly for women, not certain if it still is.

My mistake - it's the name of the town of my birth in the Welsh valleys

<t>Accountable wrote: What's wrong with American Iron? Nothing - perfectly acceptable agricultural machinery Accountable wrote: as for the engine, I've heard of knucklehead, panhead, and shovelhead. Not sure what the names mean, though. As they progressed...

spot wrote: With a name like Bryn, you'll probably find he's as Welsh as a Merioneth leek.

Where else do you think Brynmawr is!

BabyRider wrote: I know. I just posted to you on the "Who's right?" thread, with my most sincere apologies....I'm so embarrassed.... :yh_blush

's OK - I'll stop laughting in a minute

<t>BabyRider wrote: Oh. Damn. Bryn, I am SOOOOOO sorry, I thought you were a woman. Damn an bejeasus - there one character round here who'll be laughing his little socks off - I expect him to appear anny second now and I always thought the beard was a dead giveaway :p<br...

<r>BabyRider wrote: BITE YOUR TONGUE, WOMAN!!!! He rides a Honda aero 1100. No Harley's will ever be owned in this household. Hm. My preference is the VFR800 - or the CBR600 I had before it. But I do have to correct one misapprehension - she's a he <EMOJI seq="1f615" tseq...

<t>When the Israilies raid the West Bank, distroy a prison and abduct one of the prisoners and the EU bleat on about Mamoud Abbas having to make sure that Palastine returns to orderly conduct and the questions being asked are whether we should continue to give financial aid to Palestine. ...

spot wrote: I can do better than that, sunshine... and I bet this hasn't graced the Internet until now:

Whatever Happened - Richard Digance.

Just had to check it wasn't the Richard who appeared on the Ester Ransen Show

<t>BabyRider wrote: Sorry to interrupt the tennis match, :yh_giggle but I have to post a song from the new David Gilmour CD, "On an Island" Hit me hard, and right between the eyes. I'm just so glad I've never been there. Are all the tracks in the same vein?</t>

spot wrote: Pete Coe's "Long Company" CD was on my headphones as I was posting.

Your turn.

Then you can post the PR Man from Hell for all those poor souls in Yorkshire

spot wrote: Kings and Queens of England, by Vic Gammon.

Absolutely wonderful song - have you heard the version be Pete Coe?

Thought of Manx and Scott for a while but settled on Knucklehead given he's likely to be on a Harley

BabyRider wrote: No humbleness necessary, Bryn. You said something succinct and eloquent. I appreciate succinct and eloquent.

Not much humility round here - just an attempt at being gentlemanly

BabyRider wrote: Oh, wow. I really like that Bryn.

At your service maam

<t>Blackjack wrote: Maybe one of them is right but at most one. If that's hard to swallow, keep in mind what C.S. Lewis said: "There can only be one correct answer to a sum, but some wrong answers are closer to the right answer than others." And it's also possible for the truth to simply ...

<t>OpenMind wrote: Alpro make a good soya milk. It's still no good in tea or coffee, no replacement for milk. But I find it's good on cereal (albeit, I use honey on my cereal instead of sugar), and it can be drunk by itself. It's a bit sweeter than plain soya milk. They also do flavoured varieties, ...

<t>sixyearsleft wrote: Dont you think its a positive message to teach the young? ask yourself, what kind of sciociety do we live in where ppl dont understand or respect self ownership? I totally agree that the young should be taught to take responsibility for their action...

<t>SnoozeControl wrote: What are your fave lyrics? "She came to me one morning" has to be one - but not for the more obvious reasons :- Lady in Black Ken Hensley - Uriah Heap She came to me one morning One lonely ...

<t>minks wrote: ahhh some times feathers get ruffled but we all kind of chip in and smooth it out and things settle. Kind ebbs and flows really. Nice thing is our admin stand watch and leave the flow to us members and it works well. Good working concept really. But believe me we have had some bannin...

<t>Jives wrote: @#$%#**&@!!!! CELL TOWERS!!!! I had this cool towering hill above my house. For decades, I could look out my window and see a wonderful mini-mountain covered with beautiful pines. Then came the cell companies. They tore up all the trees on the entire hill, e...

minks wrote: we don't seem to have any stalker kind of posters here which is nice

That's what's so reassuring about this forum - for all of the differences of opinion there's not much animosity

Raven wrote: :yh_rotfl yep. Because my hubby is an essex lad! (billericay dickie-Ian Dury)

That's no excuse :-p

It's wonderful news anyway.

weeder wrote: Now Im not getting mail notifications.. I almost didnt see your post BR.... Get well soon.

Into my settings, change from immediate notification to daily, change back, save changes.

Two minutes later they all arrived

<t>abbey wrote: It depends where the companies want to site them, in the town i live it seems if people dont protest, the council give permission and unfortunately once one goes up more follow. Its just a way of local companies getting revenue from the phone companies. <br...

<r>SnoozeControl wrote: Do you think its stalking a member in here when you actively pursue their posts? I hadn't really thought of it that way until someone mentioned it to me. I know I have members that I actively avoid...<EMOJI seq="1f914" tseq="1f914">:thinking:</EMOJI> Interest...

Has anyone here had experience of the 'phone companies setting up a new base station?

Good or bad?

Flexable or intransagent?

I'm asking for all the obvious reasons

<r>sixyearsleft wrote: <URL url="http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf">http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf</URL> Interesting but ...... What do you do about those who chose to repeatedly take life, property or liberty from others? If...

Raven wrote: Thank you sooooooo much!!:-4 (i'm still dancing!) I can stayI can stayI can staaaaaaaaaay!!!!

Welcome to sunny England - but did you have to become an Essex Girl???

As a newby just finding my feet here and as an occasional poster (but avid reader) on a couple of more specialist forums - UK Inland waterways and UK Folk music

For a general forum this is by far the most interesting I've come across

<t>Ted wrote: Bryn Mawr:-6 Personally I find the expression "damned Catholics" offensive. I may disagree with the Catholic Church on many issues but would not refer to "damned Catholics". It was not my intention to offend and I appologise for doing so. <...

<r>spot wrote: I think there's only beliefs (which I avoid and shun) and faith (which I embrace). Christ, damn'd Catholics get everywhere! What is Faith without Belief? <E>:-)</E> We're either using the terms differently or I've mis-understood a lot that I've heard.</r>

chonsigirl wrote: Well, I seem to remember Jesus getting picked on by those Pharisees by disobeying the Law-picking ears of corn on the Sabbath, healing on the Sabbath, etc.

Even I'm not THAT old!

<r>Far Rider wrote: OK, as I stated before I have a very hard time believing Jesus made fermented wine knowing the times and that men were gonna get blasted at the party, knowing the feast had gone on for several days... he would not have contriubuted to sin by making fermented wine.<br/...

<t>Far Rider wrote: I didnt bring it up to dispute wether its morally right to drink. I'm interested in why you think or why you assumed it was fermented. because most cultures drank wine or "small beer" in preference to water - using the alcohol as an anti-biotic? ...

<t>Accountable wrote: Well please try to explain it to me ........ .... Yet the same fetus is a living being or a worthless lump of flesh, simply based on how it was killed. How does its worthiness change? Not based on how it was killed - you're misquoting me. Based on wh...

<t>Accountable wrote: This is the hipocrisy that's happening today. From Wikipedia Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice. The word derives from the late Latin hypocrisis and Greek hupokrisis both meaning ...

spot wrote: Another Cropredy regular? This place is crawling with them.

Someone called?

<r>Accountable wrote: Nice sidestep. Care to come back and face the scenario I put forth? I'm back! Accountable wrote: Can't see what being more than a whim? I was talking about the premeditated death of a baby in two different situations. I understand about ...

<t>Accountable wrote: I can see it now: Gee sorry, Uncle Bob. I know you don't want to be taken off the machine, but you're not an independant sulf sustaining entity anymore, and we've decided you shouldn't suffer. Rest in peace, Unc. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. For the ...

<t>Accountable wrote: That's when there is DNA evidence of a unique human being, yes. I will be happy when we finally give them citizen status, so this whole argument will go away. But not an independant self sustaining entity. Until that occurrs I would prefer to give so...

<t>Accountable wrote: I see no difference between the parents dealing with situation you described possibly causing birth defects, and parents dealing with a 10-year-old kid severely burned in a chemical spill. It's your kid; you deal with it. You try your best to make it work. So a...

Accountable wrote: Okay, you wanna untangle that for us in the back of the class, please?

In what ways are people affected by the criminal irrisponsibility of the owners of the chemical plants responsible?

Accountable wrote: I'm not in this for debating competition. I'm trying to convince people to take responsibility for their actions.

Which was my point, where the cause is through no action of their own you are making them take responsibility for someone elses actions.

<t>Jives wrote: Hmmm...you must have had different parents than mine. All of those concepts are black and white in my head, completely defined. Is someone evil who does bad deeds with good intent? Is someone good who is generous through selfish motives? Is it ...

<t>Accountable wrote: Abortion is an evil of convenience. Apathy allows the practice to flourish. You, Scrat, through your apathetic inaction, allow the practice to become socially acceptable. The problem with the bill is that it's indiscriminate. Your reply is both indi...

<t>Accountable wrote: That's a great question. We're in a similar situation that England found herself in back the days of the New World when they found themselves fighting against an enemy that hid behind trees and didn't even have the decency to stand out in a field to be shot at like civilized fo...

<t>flopstock wrote: You don't feel there was a problem with the intelligence community getting it SO wrong? Personally, i don't see a conspiracy to attack using WMD as a front. it's just not logical. We could have easily stumbled across some evidence if that were the case. The fact that we didn't co...

<t>spot wrote: Shall I suggest a feasible way out of Iraq right now? Bring President Hussain, that mythically unnatural US-invented "Hitler", out of his jail suite, dust him down, offer him back his wardrobe full of uniforms and palaces, and the last serviceman out can close the door behind him. <br...

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