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How come they can still prosecute you for it?

We have gone to Tai Chi classes for more than ten years. Within our group was an elderly lady, very graceful, tall, with hair fastened back into a bun. Walked like a Ballerina. She was a joy to watch, she has been missing for most of the term, we were told today on our last day of the class year, she is dying of Cancer, by the time our classes recommences in September she will have died.

We never conversed with her very much, there isn't time. We go to the Class, do our Tai Chi, go home, so the next Class can start. We know nothing of her personal life or circumstanes, and yet because of shared experience, and close observation, we knew everything about her.

What caused her Cancer? Passive Smoking, she never smoked, but worked in a situation where others did.

Do I have question? Why should someone beautiful be a victim to something so horrible?

Does any ones smoke have the right to kill others? They may have the right to kill themselves. but they don't have the right to take other peoples lives.

What is the oldest thing you own in your closet?
 Think mines has to be a long black wool coat my boyfriends mother bought me out of Richards( remember that shop)
She bought it as a christmas present one year,i was 18,
I call it my funeral coat cause i wear it to most funerals i go to
So what is yours?  xx

First, thanks to everyone who answered my questions about trainers. I have gone with a pair of Asics Track Shoes.

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My question today is about shampoo.

I have tried loads of different types - Herbal Essences, Tresemme, Head & Shoulders, Tesco, Johnsons Baby, and although I am fine when I first start using them, after anything from a couple of days to a couple of months and I end up with a really itchy head, and I have to start the hunt again for another brand. My latest is John Frieda, which I have managed to use for a good few months, but now I have to change. Again.

So - my hair is dry, frizzy, coloured and I'm 40+ so it has also seen more youthful times.

What does everyone use?

Anyone else having problems with broken links on the "New Posts" screens?
Or is it my new firefox settings?

Been watching clips of the BEA, the Black Entertainers Awards, makes me wonder,
When is the WEA?

How on earth do you put it onto your blog?

I've tried to but I'm confused as to how I'm meant to do it.

Thank you!

I'm off to see a friend tomorrow who tells me she has never ever had a Pimms. She has lead an obviously very sheltered life poor thing.

It has to be perfect

My own recipe is as follows.

1 large glass jug, 1/3 full of ice.
Slices of Lemon, Orange, Apple, Strawberry, Celery and Cucumber.
1 part Pimms No. 1
2 parts lemonade
Garnished with a sprig of Mint.

The question is do I add a slug of gin too, and do you have a better recipe or an alternative?

So that todays headlines folks. No doubting his musical pedigree but then there's all the rest of the headlines there has been about him.

So the question is I suppose. Has he died a hero or an end to a shabby ending?

Were ( or are ) your schooldays the best years of your life ?

~ martin .

Been reading a book a family of Flemish Weavers making a Tapestry in the 1500s.

What does anyone know about Unicorns? Were there ever any real ones? Or were they just mythical beasts?

Hello - hope everyone is enjoying summer

What I am asking today (another of my trivial ponderings) is why does the grass on the lawn edges, grow faster than the lawn itself? It drives me mad, we mow the lawns, trim the edges and within a short while - what seems a matter of hours - the edges are sprouting yet again.

Also did you know that adding a wee drop of vinegar to your dogs water, helps stop those brown patches where they wee? I've been doing that this year and not only do we have less brown patches (hubby forgets to add it you see), I notice her coat is much shinier. Coincidence maybe?

Oh just noticed I did a pun! a wee drop indeed!

Hubby has just informed me that I won't be able to download posts from blog to my phone while we are away as it apparently costs £3 per meg - he just downloaded a file for work which was 500 meg and it cost £1500 so he is less than happy. Not my bloody fault, but is there a cheaper way to use my mobile to do this?? There must be something i can get to make it work that doesn't cost so much surely.

Help, or I will be off your screens for 3 weeks, and I don't think going cold turkey will do me any good x

Does anyone here have the hobby of running / jogging?

I am after opinions on running shoes. From the tiny bit of research I have done, most running shoes are extraordinarily expensive, but don't follow thru on high impact support which is the most important issue for me.

I think the best *might* be the Asics gel shoes, but if anyone knows better, I would be grateful for your opinion.

Ta

How can I lose some pix from my media so I can post more with out going pro?

For more than 3years I have blogged happily on my free Blog UK blog, what would I gain from turning Pro'?

With everyone carrying a mobile phone with the capacity to take pictures, a digital camera, CCTV or a camcorder there can be no event that is not filmed or photographed.

Nothing can remain private, Is this good or bad?

Why are buildings called that if they are already built?

Which would you rather be in the blog equivalent of Big Brother or Wife Swap?

Caution: Although it's not really dirty, please do not read this post if you're sensitive!

Tried to remember my first-ever kiss earlier this morning, and other kisses came back to mind, too. And this question:

How do you prefer your kisses? Slow and tender, or firm and passionate?
Or ... ?

Personally, I prefer slow movements. It's much more exciting when partners allow their lips and tongues to slowly discover each other, play with each other.
What I don't understand (and don't like) is when guys think they need to make their tongues as hard a possible and try to ram it down the woman's throat. What are they doing? Trying to imitate the later-to-follow act?

And YOU?
Late Edit: to make it easier and in order to keep it somewhat clean, let's restrict it to kisses on the lips / French kisses

Does anyone know what is the best way/what product to get rid of red juice stain out of a white sheeps skin rug is, please?

I'd like to know what auto-erect asphixiation(spelling?) is all about. I read that the late Amerian actor David Carradine died of the same. He was found naked in a Bangkok hotel room with ropes tied to his neck and genitals.

My only experience of folk with Tourette syndrome has been from the television screen so I apologise in advance if I offend anyone with this question.

Why do those with this syndrome only seem to shout out swear words?

If someone with this syndrome never heard a swear word would he/she shout out something else?

Is it known why a certain word would be selected?

does anyone need any photo`s takin gfor any type of project ?
i`m looking for ways to expand my photography and have come to the conclusion that a real project is the best way..

i will also do photo edits if wanted

thankyou

sarah

xoxo

Think poor wee Jade has chicken pox,
She has come out in all of these spots and is scratching like anything,
My sister says it is all her kids have had them,

Can you send them to school once the spots have come out or are they still contagious?  xx

brokendownangel told me I could get some help here.

I need to make a cool flyer for our next exhibition.

My proof-reader is far far away, and I'm trying to save the money our no-existing organization don't have by doing it myself.

So, I need good wording, layout and probably some pics?

The info is:

ART EXHIBITION

LIVERPOOL ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL

3TH - 7TH OF JULY 2009

CONTACT: Miza-T:0000000000000

And this is where I'm a bit stuck:

Sponsor our exhibition
You may be the lucky winner of a ranaiscence painting mini kit

and:

Miza-T proudly presents her student's work on the project:
Merseyside- past and present.

and:

Art classes venues:

Ainsdale bla bla
Aintree bla bla
YmCA bla bla
Orrell park bla
bla bla church

All welcome to join us

And you know they say problems shared.... end up even more confusing, lol.

Five years ago I began studying by distance learning, for a degree. I was healthier in those days and it was hard but great fun and very interesting.

The last few years I have gone downhill fast and studying is no longer 'fun' but a huge chore and I have no interest or motivation to continue.

However, my family are expecting me to get a degree, and every time I try and tell them I'd like to finish and concentrate on my art and writing and generally just relax more, they say 'oh no you can't, you must get this degree!'

Now, it's not as if I am young, or that a degree would get me a job - I know that, honestly,because no one wants to employ someone who has to keep lying down through pain etc - so whats the point?

I dunno, 51 yrs old and feel I have to please others all the time.

What do you think?

Read this post this morning - the writer has a very romantic view of girls, I think.

Made me wonder if we women are more hardend now and have lost much of our romantic antics, whether we just hide our romantic feelings better (as they are less "required" in our modern world), or if we have never been that romantic in the first place and are simply more honest nowadays.

What's your view? And what about guys? Do you think men are romantic, generally speaking?

Two quotes from Rousseau:

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can."

and

"If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men."

To what extent are these statements correct?

(I was going to post this on AR, but wanted to widen my net)

If you saw the statement "I can see right through YOU"
on the "interests" on a profile page
what instinctive reaction would you feel reading this comment

My 5 Year old son asked me this last week and then again today as we stepped out of the house, into a cool breeze ...to get into the car on our way to school.

'Mummy, why is wind invisible?'

Now, I need some help here!

"No genuine spiritual worker whether they are based within the 'New Age', or within any of the genuine religions will ever ask for a payment to offer prayers on our behalf"

Do you agree with this statement?

Tom.

World of Warcraft - what would you think the minimum player age should be?

I'm just wondering how one should define pornography .
A lady who lives in this road asked to borrow my dvd of The Reader , a serious film , certificate 15 , and was shocked by the scenes depicting sex between Hanna ( Kate Winslet ) and Michael ( David Kross ) , which she regards as pornographic .

I do'nt agree at all . The short passionate affair is a major component of the story , and , though you know what the characters are doing , and it may be mildly titilating to watch it's not ( in my judgement ) meant to be seriously exciting  , and in those scenes you mostly only see their heads , shoulders and backs , nothing I'd call explicit , and the lovemaking depicted is slow and sensual , not fast or frantic .

The ones exercising their freedom of speech to say things that most of us find unpalatable, or the ones throwing eggs at them? The egg-throwers are effectively saying "You can say whatever you like as long as we approve it". One lot are speaking, the other lot are being violent.

Those egg throwers must be utterly stupid to not realise that this makes the people they are aiming at look like victims. Well done you stupid idiots, well done.

Tom.

Explain the sentence:

"The unborn child also died."

After writing my last post it got me thinking and that is a rare occurance ,

Did your parents when you were a young child ever threaten you with something or someone to make you behave?
Mines was a woman called Maggie Murphy,
Goodness knows where the name came from but it worked,
We used to pass a deralict house and my mum used to say "Maggie Murphy lives in there!"
And to a young child this place was really scary looking,
And if you were bad my parents used to say "Right that's it you are going to stay with Maggie Murphy!"
They would tell you she would never give you food and would hit you all the time and once you went in you never came out again,
And it worked we were genuinley terrified and would behave after that,
That was till we got old enough to know it was just an old abandoned house and ther was no such person as Maggie Murphy  xx

Tom asked why you did'nt vote.

I am more interested in why some of you voted for the BNP?

I'm interested in some of the reasons, so if you are one of the 2/3, a simple question:

Why didn't you vote?

I want to plant some herbs and lettuces directly in a bag of soil in a planting box. I have a feeling herbs don^t need such great soil, so can I get away with a bag of soil not containing peat? And is it okay to mix lettuce with herbs, or do lettuce need a lot more water. I could put the lettuce with my tomato plants.

as you can tell, this is all new for me. Normally all herbs die, or get devoured by slugs, so I am really going to try a bit harder this year.

thanks for any help from green fingered bloggers

When I asked a woman friend this question she gave me this answer,

She said,

We started to 'bud' in our blouses at 9 or 10 years old only to find that anything that came in contact with those tender, blooming buds hurt so bad it brought us to tears. So came the ridiculously uncomfortable training bra contraption that the boys in school would snap until we had calluses on our backs.

Next, we get our periods in our early to mid-teens (or sooner). Along with those budding boobs, we bloated, we cramped, we got the hormone crankies, had to wear little mattresses between our legs or insert tubular, packed cotton rods in places we didn't even know we had.

Our next little rite of passage was having sex for the first time which was about as much fun as having a ramrod push your uterus through your nostrils (IF he did it right and didn't end up with his little cart before his horse), leaving us to wonder what all the fuss was about.

Then it was off to Motherhood where we learned to live on dry crackers and water for a few months so we didn't spend the entire day leaning over Brother John . Of course, amazing creatures that we are (and we are), we learned to live with the growing little angels inside us steadily kicking our innards night and day making us wonder if we were preparing to have Rosemary's Baby

Our once flat bellies looked like we swallowed a wholewatermelon and we pee'd our pants every time we sneezed. When the big moment arrived, the dam in our blessed Nether Regions invariably burst right in the middle of the mall and we had to waddle, with our big cartoon feet, moaning in pain all the way to the ER

Then it was huff and puff and beg to die while theOB?says, 'Please stop screaming, Mrs. Hearmeroar ... Calm down and push. 'Just one more good push' (more like 10), warranting a strong, well-deserved impulse to punch the
%$#*@*#!* hubby and doctor square in the nose for making us cram a wiggling, mushroom-headed 10 pound bowling ball through a keyhole.

After that, it was time to raise those angels only to find that when all that 'cute' wears off, the beautiful little darlings morphed into walking, jabbering, wet, gooey, snot-blowing, life-sucking little poop machines.

Then come their 'Teen Years.' Need I say more?

When the kids are almost grown, we women hit our voracious sexual prime in our early 40's - while hubby had his somewhere around his 18th birthday.

So we progress into the grand finale: 'The Menopause', the Grandmother of all womanhood. It's either take HRT and chance cancer in those now seasoned 'buds' or the aforementioned Nether Regions, or, sweat like a hog in July, wash your sheets and pillowcases daily and bite the head off anything that moves.

Now, you ask WHY women seem to be more spiteful than men, when men get off so easy, INCLUDING the icing on life's cake: Being able to pee in the woods without soaking their socks...

So, while I love being a woman, 'Womanhood' would make the Great Gandhi a tad crabby. You think women are the 'weaker sex'? Yeah right.. Bite me.

Male reader, you may have a different answer to this question, please feel free to comment.

Female reader, please feel free to copy this to your own blog.

How do I put my friends list in a specific order?

Asparagus : Is it a 'trendy middle-class indulgence'  ?

Can't say I like it , myself .

Hi,
I have problems posting a video file...
it's not so big, it's 2,9 Mo.
I posted it in my blog but it looks like it doesn't work...

the media file: http://www.blog.co.uk/media/video/cortometrage/3566276
the post: http://bambi7goes7green.blog.co.uk/2009/06/04/bambi-goes-stop-motion-6238618/

Well, in my macbook and in Vivi's macbook it works fine (streaming with QuickTime player)
Did I make something wrong?? Should I export it in a different format?

Thanks

I was loking at Shipscooks picture and notice he has a white beard and long brown hair. Our vicar, who is over 60, has brown hair and a grey beard. I can't believe he dies his hair.
So my question is, how can a man keep his hair colour on top and yet the facial hair is grey, or is this actually more common than I have noticed?

I am thinking of getting an Automatic for the first time and wonder if I will be able to park it. What I mean is, I park on a slope in the evenings and usually leave the current car in first gear to stop it rolling backwards. I hope that makes sense. The other problem is that my current car is not ten years old yet so I probably won't get the £2,000 for it!

i used to get emails to notify me when i got new comments?? its stopped and i cant work out why???
any ideas??

ash x

The UK had a 38% turnout in the last EU Elections in 2004. Do you reckon it will be higher or lower than that this time, or the same?

Tom.

Does anyone know the origins of why we tell younger children that babies are discovered under gooseberry bushes ????

Why is it night time smells so different in my back garden to daytime?

It is as though darkness creates a cloak of scent.

32 players played during the month.

The TOP EIGHT. May 09

1. Kerry_Rainer (257 points )
2. palmblogging (242 points )
3. gpcove (233 points )
4. SeasideMan (211 points )
5. joebangles (205 points )
6. middleagedbloke (163 points )
7. foxhat (149 points )
8. Chyna_Doll (138 points )

I have deleted the results of "boobear" and "johnny" untill the are able to confirm that they are playing the game fairly.

I would be delighted if either of them would reply to my previous post,

http://askoranswer.blog.co.uk/2009/05/19/hello-boobear-and-johnny-6142432/

Does hot water weigh the same as cold water?

Running the bath for my children tonight made me wonder...as I felt the hot and cold in different places before I stirred it with my hands ...