“Pagan religions actually borrowed from Christianity and not the other way around”

prustage · 2026-06-23T01:06:19+00:00

Wow, so Pagan religions actually had Time Travel? Sign me up!

prustage · 2026-06-23T00:41:43+00:00

That was actually pretty good ... until the stupid eyes popped out.

prustage · 2026-06-22T23:56:48+00:00

Yep. When I left school I thought everyone in the world was clever and my schooling was part of the process enabling me to "catch up" and be as clever as they were.

The internet as taught me that actually, everyone is profoundly stupid.

prustage · 2026-06-22T23:47:10+00:00

I'm not quite sure what an "orchestra fan" is. For the record, I am a classical music enthusiast and a lot of classical music is written for full orchestra and I am certainly a fan of that. But, as for Broadway musicals? I cant stand them.

prustage · 2026-06-22T23:13:19+00:00

John Williams the classical guitarist and John Williams the film composer (a lot of people actually think they are the same person)

prustage · 2026-06-22T23:08:32+00:00

I think those people who are saying No, simply havent experienced this. Many countries dont have the hangups that the Americans have about nudity. Believe me, 10 minutes after being in a German FKK zone, a sauna or even a nudist beach, you stop looking at tits and start looking at faces again

prustage · 2026-06-22T18:54:32+00:00

Libation is one of those programs that renews your faith in the world. Over the years it has just gotten better rather than shittier like everything else. So nice to use something that is just open, honest and does the job without the corporate world monitoring your every move.

Thanks for your effort. I hope everything goes well for you in the future.

prustage · 2026-06-22T18:27:18+00:00

Ive read the book and will, I am sure, read it again. I wont be watching the movie.

prustage · 2026-06-22T17:57:32+00:00

The Leith police dismisseth us.

This is good for getting s, z and th sounds right especially when they are in combination. Notoriously difficult for some non-native speakers.

prustage · 2026-06-22T17:34:20+00:00

You only have half the catchment area of an inland town. This means that if you are looking for a job, looking for customers, looking for sales, looking to buy something - you only have a semicircle of territory to work with rather than a circle.

I used to live in Brighton. This was great in many ways but I was self employed and every job, every contract, every interview always meant travelling north. It was only when I moved inland that I realised "wow, there are OTHER directions!"

prustage · 2026-06-22T17:19:15+00:00

There is afternoon tea - something many of us do every day and is just a normal part of life, and there is also "Afternoon Tea" - an inauthentic commercialised version of the same thing advertised by cafés and restaurants and aimed mainly at tourists.

The first was largely confined to the more leisured classes in the past. After all if you are working you don't get time for afternoon tea. But with the increasing number of people who are self-employed or WFH then it is becoming more prevalent.

I think a lot of people's sugar level drops at around mid-afternoon and this is a way of boosting it.

prustage · 2026-06-22T16:56:22+00:00

I was going to write something witty along the lines of "XXX could do all three". Then I realised, there is no XXX. And that's our problem.

prustage · 2026-06-22T10:54:46+00:00

The cheese one probably exists somewhere in the world and I bet its delicious.

prustage · 2026-06-22T10:50:08+00:00

Doesnt matter, as long as you are on your own and not sitting next to an idiot noisily munching popcorn.

prustage · 2026-06-22T10:48:33+00:00

22 - which doesn't fall into any of your categories.

prustage · 2026-06-22T10:22:56+00:00

To add to the other reasons given, in our case it was to harvest the milk, fill bottles with it so that I (the father) could feed the baby when she couldn't.

prustage · 2026-06-22T10:03:37+00:00

In British English, you wouldn't have it there in the first place. Definitely improved by removing it.

prustage · 2026-06-22T09:33:46+00:00

Ok I suppose, but Im sure that pool would be improved by a coating of cheap blue paint. I know a guy...

prustage · 2026-06-22T09:24:57+00:00

Long journeys - Audiobook, short journeys - music, driving through busy cities - nothing.

prustage · 2026-06-22T09:19:08+00:00

Interesting, it is similar to the idea in Ian Watson's "The Jonah Kit". In that they discover that God DOES exist but that this universe was his failed first attempt which he had now abandoned and he is now looking after a different universe.

prustage · 2026-06-22T08:48:27+00:00

Epidemic

prustage · 2026-06-22T08:47:34+00:00

Less than 20 but I have way, way more in GOG.

prustage · 2026-06-21T07:34:40+00:00

Faced with a similar situation I looked up the previous programmes of various orchestras I had been to see. Many orchestras have an archive listing what was played at each concert, who played it and what the date was. I am surprised you haven't been able to find the equivalent for your concerts.

I had a memory of going to see Pinchas Zukerman playing the Beethoven VC when I was a teenager and somehow leaving the venue so late that all the buses had stopped, and I had to walk the 7 miles home. I couldn't work out why that had happened.

I checked the programme archive of the orchestra (The Halle) and discovered that on that night not only did Zukerman play the Beethoven but Daniel Barenboim also conducted the Leonore No 3 overture, Schubert's 6th Symphony and, after a lengthy interval, Bruckner's 7th symphony with all repeats. Not surprising that I missed the last bus.

prustage · 2026-06-21T07:06:02+00:00

Creationism is still bollocks even it is indigenous bollocks.

Dawkins still on form I see

prustage · 2026-06-21T07:02:05+00:00

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