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Why did you all decide to blog here? Had you tried other blogs?

I've tried most of them over the years and found this one to be the best and wished I discovered it sooner. I had a blog on Blogger but had constant problems with it. I also had 360 and Yahoo let it die without fixing the problems, and the community on there just died. Also tried Multiply and didn't feel 'comfortable' there.

"Borrowed" from another blogger

I could not help noticing how men use the 'I no longer sleep with my wife' card every time they not only want to get into your knickers but also get hold of your heart.

I suppose the hopelessness of a man who sleeps in the spare room is guaranteed to pull the right emotional strings; it also explains and justifies his lust for extra-conjugal sex; finally, it gives the lover the misplaced certainty that their relationship must be mutually exclusive. A romantic hat-trick.

How long do u think someone should take driving lessons to make them ready to drive?

Natalie is 17 in Nov and desperate to take lessons, because she has been in 2 young guys cars that are about 18 and one passed his test within 4 months of taking lessons, how many is that , I don't know.
 
I think i had over 30 lessons, but i had a break for a few months cause i couldn't affored it and on the day of my test, my driving instructer's car broke down, so he had to hire one n i didn't get my hour lesson before n the clutch was different, but i still passed first time!  but that was yonks ago. I remember they used to say it depended what driving examiner u got, wether u passed or not.

She is already doing the mock tests computer disc all the time  (I'm actually crap at it) cause she is determined to pass quickly  AND she is convinced we are going to buy her a car as soon as she does, little does she know!

I think it is experience that makes u the driver that u are, what do u think?    Trina xx

La_Spice asked, "What the hell is that avatar?" but she put it much more nicely on the post, http://askoranswer.blog.co.uk/2008/08/27/is-it-just-me-4644765

About 15 years ago there was a plant in our hallway that flourished in its position that caught the sunlight, this plant was nursed over many years of its life, that was, until it became my responsibility. I let it down, I ignored it, I failed to water it, and it withered away.

I couldn't throw it out, and the pot of soil sat there just where it had always been.

Several months later, and I don't know why, or how, but one day I noticed that a growing tip was emerging from the soil, I watered it and fed it.

Yes, some came close to guessing, the top of that plant.

Why did I use it as an avatar? I don't know. I was thinking of a big question mark but couldn't find one.

It is time to change it. Any suggested avatar?

I keep looking at this group's avatar and still don't get it Do you?

Answers please - apart from Trevor - he should know

Are there more questions than answers?

.......NEVER

What is the question????

After deciding that I wouldn't get 'involved' with anyone who was married, I still have two married men as platonic friends. As soon as I met a new unattached male I was upfront and told my "two best friends".

Would you believe that one went all melancholy and the other one is giving me the silent treatment? Perhaps they weren't quite the good friends I thought they were?

Neither of them would give up their cosy marital existence (despite declaring their undying love) but are now making me feel guilty for wanting an "exclusive relationship".

Is that too much to ask?

Are these men just being Martyrs?

Watching the many different sports at the Olympics I wonder about some results.

Can the human judges at sports such as boxing, martial arts, diving etc be totally unbiased when scoring?

I watched a documentary the other day about women who breastfeed thier children for a longer term than most. By 'a longer term' , I mean there was a woman who was breastfeeding her 7yr old daughter. Now, I'm totally for breastfeeding in public places and I believe breastfeeding has good health benefits blah blah,and I've heard all the issues linkied to it, and have always seen it as healthy and natural. For Babies. Not seven year olds. This, THIS, was utterly creepy in my opinion. I watched in disbelief. However, after speaking to friends I had a mixed reaction.....what do you all think?

My big annoyance is weather forcasters, they tell us that it will rain all day so you decide to put off the trip that you were going to make that day. Then by two in the afternoon you have not had a drop of rain, the sun is out and it's too late to do anything.

" A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence"

"A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God - at a time when 68.5 per cent of the general UK population described themselves as believers.

A separate poll in the 90s found only seven per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God."

Full article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-'less-likely-to-believe-in-God'.html

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Cheers, Tom.

Most things in nature seem to have a reason.

Animals provide meat, milk, hides etc., and food for other animals. They control vegetation and fertilize the land with their droppings. They control each others numbers.

Birds provide meat and eggs and spread the seeds of vegetation far and wide.

Creatures of the oceans from the mighty whales to tiny plankton are their own food chain and still provide meat for land animals and birds.

Trees and plants of all kinds provide food and materials for many purposes. Much of their leaves, fruit, bark, sap and roots have healing properties.

Even the rocks themselves yield minerals with a multitude of uses.

My question is: WHAT IS THE POINT OF MAN?

CAN YOU HAVE TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?

What is the difference between a pond and a lake?

Surely its not just size? And if so, where is the threshold?

One thing I am always curious about is why women choose to wear clothes they are obviously uncomfortable in?

A girl came to my office last week for an interview dressed in the most eye-popping and ridiculous low cut top.
I can understand (I think) all the power-dressing thing, the statement of intent, the challenge, the showing off - whatever you want to call it. BUT BUT BUT why then did she constantly fidget with it and spent so much time pulling it up and hooking it over as if trying to cover up?

A girl walks down the street in a skirt split from hem to waste, leaning awkwardly forward to reach down to knee level and hold the two pieces together, such that the bag over her shoulder now hangs from her wrist?

Is this 'a man thing'?

Why do Team UK take some 600 persons to compete in the Olympic games?

It was generally reported prior to their leaving that the expected haul of medals would be 40, so, Why are the other 560 odd there?

A total return of only 40 medals compared with the many millions of pounds put in to sports is surely a poor return on that investment that could be used better in many ways.

Is it a waste?

http://www.leonardrossiter.com/reginaldperrin/Scripts1.html#Billberry

"We are told that we need more growth: 6% per year. More chemicals to cure more pollution, caused by more chemicals. More car parks for more tourists who want to get away from more car parks. More food, to make us more fat, to make us use more slimming aids, to make us take more pills, to make us ill, to make us take more pills, to make more profit.

But what has all this growth done for me? Well, I'll tell you. One day I'll die, and on my grave it will say: "Here lies Reginald Iolanthe Perrin. He didn't know the names of the trees and the flowers, but he knew the rhubarb crumble sales figures for Schleswig Holstein." Look outside at those trees - beautiful. But soon they will all be cut down to make more underground par carks

I believe in not believing. You see, for every man who believes something, there's somebody who believes the opposite. What's the point? How many wars would have been fought, how many people would have been tortured if nobody ever believed in anything? Have you ever heard of 'The Wars of the Apathetic'? Or 'the persecution of the apathetic by the  bone idle'?

Is it better to have no beliefs?

Cheers, Tom.

Our Prime Minister, whilst on his long holiday, must be dreaming up ideas for creating new laws that will increase the income to the treasury.

Can you come up with a new EXTREME law that will help him?

I will start with,

"In future, all dog owners and dog walkers will be responsible for cleaning any pavement furniture or other item that their dog urinates on.

Each person accompanying a dog must carry, one 1 ltr bottle of clean water, one small bottle of disinfectant and one ( or more ) cleaning cloth. The bag must be sealed and marked, "Not for human use".

After the cleaning operation has been performed these items must be resealed and placed in the bins provided".

That should make a few bob, specially for me, I'm gonna start producing the kits now.

Looked at a photo on the photography group blog of a damaged public telephone.

It made me think, do we really need public phones any more?

Everyone and his brother seem to have a mobile phone, £10 in Woolworths and a pay as you go card. The cost of public phones must be a huge amount to the Post Office, or whoever, we can't rely upon finding one that works, Is there any need?

You may have heard this riddle before:

If a tree falls down and no-one's around, does it make a sound?

The experts I've heard of all say "NO", it does not.

I don't agree. The sound we hear is created by air waves set in motion, and a falling tree causes just that. There are sound waves all around the forest when it falls.

Sure, there's no-one there to hear them, but that's not the question. The question is "does it make a sound", and I say "yes, it does".

Why am I wrong??

I have just been on holiday, and, as you do, prior to that holiday I stocked up on 8 new pairs of underpants, 8 new pairs of socks, and, 8 new white cotton handkerchiefs, ( OK, I am old fashioned, hate paper hankies).

I now know that if I won the lottery, after the new house, car, etc, I would have new underpants, socks and handkerchiefs every day.

What would you do?

I know that pellets, beer traps and salt all work, but these are all infeasible because of my pets.

Thanks, Tom.