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If they bring in ‘vetting’, then it should work both ways. While women are less likely to be physical or sexual abusers than men, there have been several cases of ‘financial abuse’ by women, where men have been conned out of their savings.
People should have to use their real names, like they do with Facebook, on things like Twitter.
If I’d had to use my real name here on JC, I’d never have said half the things I have done, and I’ve always been fairly mild-mannered and not very controversial.It’s pretty out-of-date stuff – Climate change is on the back burner now, since the steep rises in global average temperatures seen in the 1990’s haven’t continued over the last decade, despite the fact that we’ve been pumping more and more CO2 into the atmosphere.
I dreamt I was lying beside a railway line and there was a diesel locomotive parked with its engine running. I woke up and the cat was lying next to the pillow purring!
OK, that one’s a joke.
I think dreams are drawn from random things in our minds – things that have made us happy or cross or sad or things we worry about. I don’t think dreams can foretell the future but they can indicate our worries and insecurities about the future
Wrong to medicate without consent, but not really that dangerous.
What about chlorination of water, then? Very small amounts of this deadly poison has been added to our water for decades and there’s no fuss because without it we’d probably still be at risk of typhoid and cholera. And yet people do make a fuss about flouride. Why the difference?
I’m not a monarchist but I have to say I admire the Queen for making the visit to Ireland and the whole tone of the visit was just right. It seems that she was generally well received and it was quite a brave thing to do.
Hard-line Irish republicans were angered by the visit, but I imagine that hard-line Ulster loyalists would have been too – seeing it as a sell-out. But for the vast majority of peaceful people, the visit was a good thing and I found it quite moving, being of part-Irish ancestry myself.
Facebook is so user-unfriendly and counter intuitive it’s a mystery why it became so popular.
I use it, I’ve belonged for a few years and uploaded photos etc, but it’s like it’s something from the mid 1990’s
Where is the customisation? Where’s the choice of coloured backgrounds? Where’s the choice of typefaces?
A few years ago the historic Great Western Railway steam locomotive ‘City of Truro’ was in for a major overhaul. Before it was dismantled the workshop crew carefully re-painted one side of the loco and tender in British Railways black, complete with the early British Railways transfer on the tender. They took photos of the loco and stored them safely.
Then the loco was dismantled ready for its overhaul.
The following April 1st the photos were circulated to the railway enthusiast magazines, who printed stories of the historic ‘City of Truro’ being revealed after restoration in British Railways black, which caused more than a little outrage.
Meanwhile the City of Truro was actually restored into the Great Western green and maroon of the early 1900’s!
http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/locos/vis/cot_benb_3jul05.jpg
The City of Truro’s claim to fame is that it is thought to be the first locomotive to reach 100 mph, in 1904, near Taunton.
Never mind Libya, what about Switzerland? – surely we should be imposing a ‘no-sailing zone’ there until we get the names of all the holders of anonymous bank accounts there.
I haven’t missed the point, I was really talking about the misapprehension that Welsh people are Celts and English are not.
I’m not anti-Welsh – like I say I’m part Welsh myself and I can speak a bit of Welsh although I’ve forgotten more than I remember.
