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by getreal
December 17th, 2014, 10:36 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: Help finding an appropriate name
Replies: 19
Views: 6054

Re: Help finding an appropriate name

Oh! Paws for Thought sounds good, too.. Conveys thoughtful training.

Certainly got a few to think about.

Thank you.
by getreal
December 17th, 2014, 7:51 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: Help finding an appropriate name
Replies: 19
Views: 6054

Re: Help finding an appropriate name

Thanks, some of these are definite possibilities. Friendly Fidos sounds promising, Dave.

My friend suggested Positive Paws. I'd welcome any comments on that.
by getreal
December 17th, 2014, 6:33 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: Help finding an appropriate name
Replies: 19
Views: 6054

Help finding an appropriate name

For my training club. It must be able to convey a positive message. And be clear it's a dog training class. Alliteration is good. I had thought of Diamond Dogs, but I'm going off it a bit. I had also thought of Peaceful Paws. To convey that training will help the dog to be nicer to live with- but it...
by getreal
December 16th, 2014, 9:53 pm
Forum: Humanist Ethics & Morality
Topic: Make Drugs Legal??
Replies: 11
Views: 4509

Re: Make Drugs Legal??

. is was a subject we had to team-debate at college. I was the "spokesman" for the anti-legalisation spokesman. Can't remember all the arguments now but a bit of research seemed to indicate that lots might be saved in some areas but the NHS at least would need a larger budget to cope with the accid...
by getreal
December 15th, 2014, 12:26 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Old Favorites Revisited
Replies: 9
Views: 4672

Old Favorites Revisited

I've taken to reading music bios of late and have just finnished one on Keith Moon. I had no idea he was so extreme! I don't know if it's me getting old, or just a sign of the times, but is found myself feeling disgusted at some of the hotel trashing the Who were responsible for. I also had forgotte...
by getreal
December 8th, 2014, 11:14 pm
Forum: Positive Humanism
Topic: Home made car sticker
Replies: 13
Views: 3306

Re: Home made car sticker

I like it!

Is it available from Amazon?

;)
by getreal
December 8th, 2014, 10:05 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: How do you haud yer wheesht?
Replies: 15
Views: 5335

Re: How do you haud yer wheesht?

Wagging tail is generally just a sign of heightened emotion. A lot depends on how it is wagging. A tail held upright and wagging can be a precursor to a lunge and possibly an attack, a low held tail wagging slowly can be a sign they are apprehensive. A helicopter tail (going round like the blades of...
by getreal
December 7th, 2014, 11:22 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: How do you haud yer wheesht?
Replies: 15
Views: 5335

Re: How do you haud yer wheesht?

Of course, Alan. Of course.

;)
by getreal
December 7th, 2014, 10:45 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: How do you haud yer wheesht?
Replies: 15
Views: 5335

Re: How do you haud yer wheesht?

Other peoples nativity never fails to disappoint me. Otherwise sensible people believing utter gobshite. I think I may have mentioned this before, but at one of the training sessions the trainer said that after lunch we will be discussing communicating with dogs. Brilliant, I thought. Dogs body lang...
by getreal
December 6th, 2014, 8:09 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: How do you haud yer wheesht?
Replies: 15
Views: 5335

How do you haud yer wheesht?

Or, in English, how do you keep quiet when people are talking absolute bullshit? I attended a training day today. Unfortunately one of the sessions was on Tellington TTouch. If you have never heard of this particular brand of woo, you are in for a treat as it ticks every box on the list as complete ...
by getreal
November 23rd, 2014, 4:22 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Poultry Keeping
Replies: 4
Views: 1484

Re: Poultry Keeping

I like the idea of letting them "graze" on veg plots when they are fallow. Apparently they are excellent at eating all those pesky grubs and pests- especially leather jackets. And the scratching and pooping helps too Still now sure. I'll speak to my daughter- she has recently taken on some hens and ...
by getreal
November 18th, 2014, 9:53 pm
Forum: Social Club
Topic: Grammer and phrases wot is irritating
Replies: 388
Views: 114213

Re: Grammer and phrases wot is irritating

Early doors.


WTF? I loath that expression. It only started being used in the last 20 years and I really really irritates me.


And the west of Scotland usage of "how" instead of "why". Agggggghhhhh!!!!
by getreal
November 18th, 2014, 9:48 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Your favourite book
Replies: 25
Views: 15134

Re: Your favourite book

Since we are including childhood,.. My favourite was far and away, the Malory Towers books by Enid Blyton. How I wished I went to that school! A swimming pool fashioned out of the coastal rocks, replenished twice a day from the seawater. What's not to like? I, too, read the Female Eunuch and was blo...
by getreal
November 14th, 2014, 9:49 pm
Forum: Culture Club
Topic: Your favourite book
Replies: 25
Views: 15134

Re: Your favourite book

Possibly The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh.

It's so sharp and observant. I love Anything by Waugh.

He has human nature down to a tee.
by getreal
November 13th, 2014, 12:19 pm
Forum: Sciences and pseudo-science
Topic: Well done Philae
Replies: 9
Views: 4363

Re: Well done Philae

I just cannot get my head round the ability of engineers and physicists to get an object the size of a friidge to meet up with a small object, 500million miles away and travelling at tens of thousands of miles per hour and actually land on it. It's mind bending! I suspect it's not real. All done in ...
by getreal
November 6th, 2014, 2:24 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous Discussions...
Topic: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Replies: 41
Views: 9433

Re: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

I don't pretend to know a lot about this, but I believe it may have a huge impact on how the NHS provides services in Scotland. They will be compelled to put contracts out to tender. As most of you know, there is very little private sector involvement in healthcare in Scotland. I also read at it is ...
by getreal
November 4th, 2014, 9:45 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: Thanks Jihadists. You have made us forget that this is a dru
Replies: 20
Views: 5724

Re: Thanks Jihadists. You have made us forget that this is a

I doubt many people would disagree with you about changing the drugs laws.

They clearly don't work.

The problem is, relaxing the regulations around drugs is political scuicide. No major party would be brave enough to do this.
by getreal
November 4th, 2014, 6:22 pm
Forum: Religion
Topic: Thanks Jihadists. You have made us forget that this is a dru
Replies: 20
Views: 5724

Re: Thanks Jihadists. You have made us forget that this is a

Whilst there is merit it changing the drugs laws and it's probably true that terrorists find sources of funding in illegal drugs, I think it's naive to think that if you take drugs out of the equation these "religious" wars will cease to exist. I'm not aware there was huge consumption of illegal dru...
by getreal
November 2nd, 2014, 7:16 pm
Forum: Education
Topic: Keeping creationism out of schools in Scoland
Replies: 21
Views: 15218

Re: Keeping creationism out of schools in Scoland

That is extremely worrying.
by getreal
November 1st, 2014, 11:59 pm
Forum: Club Soda
Topic: Word Association game
Replies: 19227
Views: 1295954

Re: Word Association game

Tie