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[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Any particular reason you call them Shitibank, stories, or is it just the fact that they're huge and therefore naturally hard to deal with?
They routinely make major accounting errors (lost money, incorrectly linked accounts, etc) and either refuse to acknowledge that they've made them, or claim to have already fixed them when they really haven't. You really have to constantly monitor your accounts, or you'll get screwed.
Checking flight schedules and praying that since I haven't had a phone call yet, DH is going to be on the 11 o'clock flight home.
Hec, hair question. I've let mine get to gross and outgrown but it's not long enough for the style I want. Can I get away with one of the styles on this Japanese style gallery? I'm looking at the first short cut (S-13).
Can I get away with one of the styles on this Japanese style gallery? I'm looking at the first short cut (S-13).
Oh yeah. That's not too different from some of the other styles which you have ROCKED.
And happy (a little late, but still pink and frilly) birthday GC!
Now want food.
Do you know what it's called? Any sort of brand name? If we have a name, we're hoping the internets will work its magic.
Er, not off the top of my head. It's generally home made when I buy it, but I know there are companies that mass produce. I'll keep my eyes peeled.
I can't recall seeing any argument for Israel starting from a "Jewish=victims" setting written any time in my lifetime.
Again, I’m expressing myself badly. Prior to living in the Middle East, I was never surrounded by people who equated Jewishness with aggression, violence and possession of power. I did not say, or certainly I did not mean to say, that there was an explicit argument for the existence of Israel as Jewish=Victims. But in Britain we’re still acutely conscious of the whole World War II thing, and Jewishness is thus associated with the Holocaust fairly inextricably. Here, however, Jewishness is associated with Israel inextricably in the public consciousness.
Many countries in the Middle East flat out refuse to admit that Israel is even THERE. The National Education System in Egypt (which is one of the more open and liberal bits of the Middle East) pretty much sucks, and does not encourage the development of independent thinking. I don’t think most people have much understanding or interest in why Israel exists (keep in mind low levels of literacy, many children working rather than being in school, generally fairly Victorian conditions and education), but they consider the Israelis to be violent invaders.
My Teaching Assistant is a very nice, liberal, open minded bloke. We have excellent conversations about all manner of things, up to and including cliterodectomy. He watched the Anne Frank DVD with us, and when I got this angry letter from these parents I got him to phone them, because I thought they’d be more likely to believe him than me – he’s Muslim, they’re not going to assume he’s got some kind of Zionist agenda going on. He was really impressed by the DVD, and he told me that it changed the way he thought about things. Prior to watching this, and seeing primary sources, he had pretty much felt that, considering what he was seeing Israel do to Muslims on his doorstep, the Jews had pretty much deserved whatever the hell had happened to them during the Holocaust. And he’d felt that the Holocaust was used as a justification for anything Israel chose to do, and it frustrated him. Since watching the DVD (comprising readings from the diary, photographs of Anne and her family and friends, footage of the places and occasional bits of footage from German propaganda etc) he’d really been forced to recognise that these were just people, just normal people living their lives. It’s really made him reassess things. It's cool. Clearly the DVD had the same impact on this kid who's been indoctrinated with anti-Jewish sentiment at home, which is what pissed his family off. I'm actively encouraging them to come in to school, examine my teaching materials, watch the DVD and discuss their concerns with me. I think it might open their eyes a little.
Fay, you are a pedagogic badass.
It's cool.
That is very cool.
Pictures of my hubby doing his half-ironman triathlon are up. I don't know how he gets around on those skinny legs of his. He would like you to know that the clock does not correctly reflect his time, as they start that clock when the pros begin, and he started in a later wave.
Very cool!
Plei does not owe me anything. I on the other hand, still need to mke my reservations for the 4th.
Happy (belated) birthday, GC.