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GreenMoo @GreenMoo (11834) 7 Jan 13

I've spent most of the afternoon rolling around the goat shed floor trying to hold on to a goat whilst my partner trimmed her hooves. I feel that I got the bum end of that deal (quite literally much of the time!) but I'm the main...

goat hooves

learnt something new

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grandpa_lash Ah yes, hoof trimming - or in our case dog toenail trimming, since we don't have goats but we do have dogs. We had them in for immunization and worming yesterday, and got the nails done while we were there. Our mastiff X, the wussiest, gentlest dog in the...

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MoonGypsy @MoonGypsy (4606) • United States 6 Jan 13

i don't know what is wrong with me this evening. i have alot of nervous energy. perhaps i am anxious about the beginning of the long week ahead. i can't relax and there is nothing i can do about it, but smoke. what do you all do...

health

people

venting

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grandpa_lash I say, "Hello .... oh, goodbye...", as it zips past my brain in the morning. I wish, I truly wish, I still had enough nervous energy for it to be a problem ..... lol Lash

8 Jan 13

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

time for change

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grandpa_lash There is a whole subdiscipline in Sociology on this sort of media issue, as I discovered when looking at the media in relation to the Greens for my thesis. One of the main points that came up is that the media is primarily owned by big business, so it's hardly...

5 Jan 13

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash p1ke, like you I once believed firmly in centralisation, and even in what we now call Globalisation, but as I've matured and seen the damage done to, say, rural areas because all the voting power is in the urban centres, I have gone completely the other way....

5 Jan 13

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash I agree, it's not a specifically male trait to refuse to accept responsibi8lity for our actions, but I've rarely heard of a woman killing multiple men and never heard of multiple women raping a man (it may happen, but so rarely as to be irrelevant). Lash

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p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash The current Australian situation echoes both of p1ke's points: on the one hand, we have the dirtiest, most virulently personalised parliamentary debate I think we've ever seen, and my political leanings apart, it is mostly on the part of the Conservative side...

5 Jan 13

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash Oddly, Cuba under Castro devolved most of the practical day-to-day stuff to local councils, and the result took them from among the worst of 3rd World countries to equal to most OECD countries in terms of the UN assessment of social indicators (e.g. infant...

5 Jan 13

p1kef1sh @p1kef1sh (45681) 5 Jan 13

Western countries generally operate a two party system, one leftwards leaning the other tends to look to the right. Conservative and Socialist is the typical configuration. Often, especially in Europe, there is a centre party too...

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grandpa_lash I have believed in democracy all my adult life, but as I approach the end of it, I find myself more and more in sympathy with Marx's concept of the lumpenproletariat on the one hand, and the justifiable cynicism with which thinking modern men and women...

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MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash My point is that in respect of this issue, all countries are backward. The West has made certain cosmetic changes that make it appear that we are not as backward, but effectively the same attitudes still exist within our societies, even if not as much as they...

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MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash The point of my flippant punishment is that shame and embarrassment are possibly more effective with onlookers than the normal punishments.

2 Jan 13

MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash Rape still occurs at a high rate because so many men, in every culture in the world and at every level of society and every level of education, refuse to accept responsibility for their crimes (or their equally reprehensible criminal thoughts) by blaming it on...

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MsTickle @MsTickle (25180) • Australia 31 Dec 12

I'm just listening to the news and there has been a report regarding the death of a 20 year old medical student who was gang raped in India. The report goes on that government sees the importance of stopping this sort of thing...

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grandpa_lash Khashmere, this attitude is not restricted to "backward" countries, it is still extremely common in all so-called developed, "civilised" countries, even at the judicial level. Perhaps it would be wise of you not to showcase your Western arrogance quite as...

1 Jan 13

ajk111 @ajk111 (2495) 21 Dec 12

Including baring my fat hairy bottom. In the UK we have a prog. called 'embarressing bodies' and i would show my worst points to get my 5 mins of fame on tv. What would you show to the public to get on tv? your walnut whip?

sexy wrinklys

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grandpa_lash Oh no no no, my mother taught me not to brag. RFLMAO Lash

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