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Which country do you live in?
Re: Which country do you live in?
Indeed they do, puffin. One of them is Brian McClinton and another is Alan Watson, both leading lights in Humani. The third was an ill-tempered nurse, whose name I can't remember and who flounced off after I ticked her off for repeatedly and wrongly accusing anyone who disagreed with her of being 'aggressive'. Brian and Alan were very supportive of this forum when it first started but they were also in a difficult position because this forum was born out of a dispute with the humanist organisation in Scotland, which Brian and Alan needed to keep on good terms with and they didn't stay long.
Re: Which country do you live in?
Just an aside: I paid a visit to the old place a day or so back. It is totally deserted. Gregory is currently it's most active member, and she, poor dear, is dead......
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Ok, that's interesting. I haven't come across those people yet. I've only been to two humani meetings so far and the only two people I know are called Nuala and Denis.
So on here I am now the only one from these far flung parts.
I spent this morning watching the Orangemen march through Ballymena (just because I like the band music). Orangemen are the weirdest phenomenon,mostly farmers and small businessmen, a bit like freemasons....when they join the Order they take an oath never to set foot inside a catholic church..... some want to reform this rule to allow them to attend catholic weddings and funerals of their catholic neighbours but there's much opposition. From our local paper:
"The Rev Dickinson, Presbyterian minister from Glenarm, said yesterday ' Brethren I would say from this platform today to any Orangeman who wants to attend acts or ceremonies of Roman Catholic worship like weddings and funerals - get out of the Order. You took a vow, you made a promise and if you aren't prepared to keep it get out, you're no use to this institution' "
And they say they are non-sectarian and wish to "set an example of good citizenship for the wellbeing of Northern Ireland" !!!!!
So on here I am now the only one from these far flung parts.
I spent this morning watching the Orangemen march through Ballymena (just because I like the band music). Orangemen are the weirdest phenomenon,mostly farmers and small businessmen, a bit like freemasons....when they join the Order they take an oath never to set foot inside a catholic church..... some want to reform this rule to allow them to attend catholic weddings and funerals of their catholic neighbours but there's much opposition. From our local paper:
"The Rev Dickinson, Presbyterian minister from Glenarm, said yesterday ' Brethren I would say from this platform today to any Orangeman who wants to attend acts or ceremonies of Roman Catholic worship like weddings and funerals - get out of the Order. You took a vow, you made a promise and if you aren't prepared to keep it get out, you're no use to this institution' "
And they say they are non-sectarian and wish to "set an example of good citizenship for the wellbeing of Northern Ireland" !!!!!
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Re: Which country do you live in?
To the uneducated it means nothing. To the educated it means "Teaching English as a Foreign Language".Alan C. wrote: And Nick! You and your bloody abreviations! What does TEFL mean? To the uneducated.
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Re: Which country do you live in?
I live in Scotland, Paisley to be precise, hailing originally from Glasgow. But I have also spent seven and a half years living in London and eight years in Munich, which I consider my home town.
Re: Which country do you live in?
Can I change the title of this thread to "In which country do you live"?
It's bugging the hell out of me.
Scotland.
Ayrshire, Scotland.
It's bugging the hell out of me.
Scotland.
Ayrshire, Scotland.
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.
Re: Which country do you live in?
Now that we're on the topic of being bugged the hell out of, I really resent being lumped with the USA. We are a distinct nation so there!
Transformative fire...
Re: Which country do you live in?
That still makes you foreign, though.
Bad luck.
Bad luck.
Re: Which country do you live in?
"Continental Europe" is a bit broad, surely?
They don't even all speak the same language
They don't even all speak the same language
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.
Re: Which country do you live in?
Really? Why?getreal wrote:Can I change the title of this thread to "In which country do you live"?
It's bugging the hell out of me.
Re: Which country do you live in?
Don't know what you're referring to Getreal, but I must say, they're damn clever, these furriners. Speaking a foreigh language, when it would be so much easier to speak English instead.
Quite heroic.
If pointless.
Maybe that's why they wave their arms about so much.
Desperation.
And despair.
Poor buggers.
Quite heroic.
If pointless.
Maybe that's why they wave their arms about so much.
Desperation.
And despair.
Poor buggers.
Re: Which country do you live in?
I give up and am off to bed.
Night all!
Night all!
"It's hard to put a leash on a dog once you've put a crown on his head"-Tyrion Lannister.
Re: Which country do you live in?
Has anyone noticed that all the votes have disappeared? No? Good!
Alan will see if he can restore them sometime but, in case he can't, here are the votes:
Scotland 21% 21% [ 26 ]
England 36% 36% [ 45 ]
Wales 5% 5% [ 6 ]
Northern Ireland 2% 2% [ 3 ]
Irish Republic 0% 0% [ 0 ]
USA or Canada 26% 26% [ 33 ]
Continental Europe 5% 5% [ 6 ]
Australia or New Zealand 2% 2% [ 3 ]
Another country - please say which one 3% 3% [ 4 ]
Total votes : 126
Apart from UK and Ireland, from where we naturally expected to get the most posters (how wrong we were about Ireland!), he's basically gone for those continents where we already had posters, while including a catch-all category for any 'new' countries, which seems fair enough to me.
The poll was posted over two years ago, however, so maybe it's time to unsticky it and let it die?
Alan will see if he can restore them sometime but, in case he can't, here are the votes:
Scotland 21% 21% [ 26 ]
England 36% 36% [ 45 ]
Wales 5% 5% [ 6 ]
Northern Ireland 2% 2% [ 3 ]
Irish Republic 0% 0% [ 0 ]
USA or Canada 26% 26% [ 33 ]
Continental Europe 5% 5% [ 6 ]
Australia or New Zealand 2% 2% [ 3 ]
Another country - please say which one 3% 3% [ 4 ]
Total votes : 126
I have some sympathy with this complaint but there is a limit on how many options you can put in a poll and the (Brazilian) guy who devised this poll had to make a decision on what to include and what to leave out and how to organise countries.Marian wrote:Now that we're on the topic of being bugged the hell out of, I really resent being lumped with the USA. We are a distinct nation so there!
Apart from UK and Ireland, from where we naturally expected to get the most posters (how wrong we were about Ireland!), he's basically gone for those continents where we already had posters, while including a catch-all category for any 'new' countries, which seems fair enough to me.
The poll was posted over two years ago, however, so maybe it's time to unsticky it and let it die?
Re: Which country do you live in?
I vote for the death penalty. I don't know why but that reminds me of that Monty Python skit in The Holy Grail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA&NR=1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4 ... re=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4 ... re=related
Transformative fire...
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In the last post of mine that I can find, I was living in Tyumen in Siberia. That was ages ago. I'm currently in a small town called Berdsk, some way to the south of Novosibirsk in Siberia. Although after January, I don't know. www.careersteer.org/blog
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Re: Which country do you live in?
No please Maria, it's always interesting to know the way we all are scattered around this globe!Maria wrote:Has anyone noticed that all the votes have disappeared? No? Good!
The poll was posted over two years ago, however, so maybe it's time to unsticky it and let it die?
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Re: Which country do you live in?
I resent being a subject of the monarchy. Can I have the UK renamed?
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Re: Which country do you live in?
Shouldn't it be the UQ (United Queendom) anyway? Not for much longer, though.
Alan Henness
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
There are three fundamental questions for anyone advocating Brexit:
1. What, precisely, are the significant and tangible benefits of leaving the EU?
2. What damage to the UK and its citizens is an acceptable price to pay for those benefits?
3. Which ruling of the ECJ is most persuasive of the need to leave its jurisdiction?
Re: Which country do you live in?
What puzzles me is the title "Royal Highness". Why is it not "Royal Height"?