Posts by Stewart
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This is not the thin end of the wedge, it is not being done surreptitiously and, for the sake of sweet baby Jebus, it is for your own good .
How very dare you object?
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If he would just join Rotary then his business dealings would revert to being just that, 'business dealings', and the fuss might start to go away.
Or maybe if he joined the Masons...
It is, frankly, pathetic that this bloke should be given grief for trying to raise funding for his chosen sport within the laws of the land.
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Thanks for the snippets around the story, David. Your
I found inspiration in their evocative descriptions of his self-esteem...
tells me all I need(?) to know.
It certainly was one of the loveliest posts I have read on PA - I might even copy it so I can read it from time to time, just for a smile.
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This had me in stitches (figuratively) on Sunday afternoon when I read it - magnificent, David.
Has Lockwood done anything specific to trigger this, or is it just a flight of your own whimsy? I don't know if he is as self-obsessed as this makes him sound, but it certainly fits with that rictus grin. And so amusing to think of him as the eminence gris behind the Jackson empire.
Thanks for that, David.
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@Emma - no, there's more than one idiot in our fair land and I am not Steve from Chch.
@Craig - glad I wasn't too weedy. Although it might just be a matter of time before the bodily decline can be traced back to that incident.
@Kyle - it was a different place & time and we were different people then. I was a student, I was still pissed from the night before, I was brashly confident that my system would cope. (But you're right, I am cheap, but not that cheap these days.)
For the record, I managed to smoke about half a packet of unfiltered Gauloises while off my head on Psilocybe semilanceata about 10 years after this incident and they were really nice. But I am a non-tobacco sort of guy these days.
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I understand that the latency period for prions is unknown but recognised to be quite long (20-yrs plus). So no, our blood will still be "unclean" in their eyes, unless a test for prions (or the relevant prions) can be created.
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I am 'a fainter' but I have been a blood donor ddespite that. It is just a question of me not looking at the needle being pushed through the skin and into the vein - I think I perform an automatic system shutdown when I sense some deliberate act of sabotage like skin/vein puncture.
But I have been forbidden from donating any more blood since they found that I had been in the UK during some specific period that they seem to think renders my blood a haven for BSE prions.
It kinda pissed me off after having overcome my fear of deliberate puncturing and done soemthing vaguely altruistic.
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those jars full of water and alcohol and cigarette butts that pubs thought were a great idea
I killed off any disposition to becoming a regular smoker by trying (admittedly drunkenly) to drink one of those suckers. It was a saturday morning, we were having a hair-of-the-dog in the Bowling Green (as was) and for the price of another jug I stupidly accepted the challenge.
Managed to get about 3/4 of it down before having to make a hurried exit to the loos whereupon I heaved it up, and a whole lot more besides. A couple of hours later I was in bed, bucket beside me (though in truth I was empty by then) and I was crook the whole day. Hadn't realised what poison I was ingesting, but my body knew well enough to get rid of it, pronto.
Couldn't go near an ashtray for years afterwards and have never been tempted to develop the cigarette habit as a result. A harsh learning curve, but effective.
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Paul Henry...incognito... Sorry, the concept is alien to me.
More PR masquerading as 'current affairs'. <sigh>
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Mate, you're as hard to get rid of as herpes...and about as welcome.