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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 21:34
No no no! Haggis are hairy shy creatures with 2 short front legs and 2 long back legs. This is to help them run faster up the hills through the heather. The haggis is now an endangered species. No haggis hunting allowed. The tartan haggis is the most rare of all. "No haggis hunting allowed" hence vegetarian haggis it all makes sense to a dumb englishwoman now. ;) I'm ashamed to say that my family was for many years heavily involved in haggis poaching, which finally resulted in the transportation of my Great Granpa to Oz. Would that be Great Grandpa Lively? I'm sure we had stories aobut him at primary school..... Afraid so........by the time he landed in Sydney, he had been nicknamed Haggis Huntly by his fellow convicts....... <em>edited by Livelytrish on 20/01/2011</em>
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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 21:30
It would be pointless to change the law, as it is, the media is under a degree of restraint, under sub judice law, but in the era of Twitter etc and other more unaccountable media it is almost impossible to keep anything out of the public domain. Sometimes better to have the facts in mainstream media, rather than rampant speculation all over the chatrooms.
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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 21:22
No no no! Haggis are hairy shy creatures with 2 short front legs and 2 long back legs. This is to help them run faster up the hills through the heather. The haggis is now an endangered species. No haggis hunting allowed. The tartan haggis is the most rare of all. "No haggis hunting allowed" hence vegetarian haggis it all makes sense to a dumb englishwoman now. ;) I'm ashamed to say that my family was for many years heavily involved in haggis poaching, which finally resulted in the transportation of my Great Granpa to Oz.
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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 20:49
No no no! Haggis are hairy shy creatures with 2 short front legs and 2 long back legs. This is to help them run faster up the hills through the heather. The haggis is now an endangered species. No haggis hunting allowed. The tartan haggis is the most rare of all. That's the teuchter haggis........the four legged one, and they aren't nearly as prized as the Haggis Scotticus Tripodus.
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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 20:35
Yes it is similar in those respects. But much more humane. Haggis hunting is a very cruel sport.........they only have three legs and cna easliy be outrun by a fast haggis hound.. <em>edited by Livelytrish on 20/01/2011</em>
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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 20:00
Isn't it funny.........no such thing as a plain prince!
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 22:05
nite Livelytrish - BTW what kind of puppies? The dear Lord only knows.............Mummie is I think .......possibly Tibetan Spaniel /Terrier cross.........or Yorkie cross Peke........nae idea, as we say in Scotland, but she is tiny and v v cute. Was dumped, pregnant so she's here. Pups are like little rats,,,,,,,but all doing well in spite of a few delivery problems, another reason I'm off to bed.........been a long 48 hours.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 22:00
On which note, my dears, ttfn..........it's peeing down here, I have new born pups in the warm, dry, and leakless bedroom and I have to go move buckets around in the upstairs bedoom so that I, the cats and the senior dogs have a dry bed to sleep in. wtf are you? not dubai surely... A very wet and cold Cyprus!
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:55
On which note, my dears, ttfn..........it's peeing down here, I have new born pups in the warm, dry, and leakless bedroom and I have to go move buckets around in the upstairs bedoom so that I, the cats and the senior dogs have a dry bed to sleep in.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:46
ttfn........wasn't that Jimmy Young's sign off?
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:24
You know, I have been reading through this thread as it develops, and I really, really am finding it terribly sad.........every single one of you seem to equate "looking younger" as a "good thing". Just what is wrong with looking the age you are? Is youth so overwhelmingly attractive that it transcends personal growth, wisdom, and most importantly, a sense of self worth? This topic was intended as a light thread rather than an intense one. I asked 'Do you look your age?' and the answers have predominately addressed that particular question. If I had asked do you feel wiser, more centred, are you satisfied with your personal growth then the answers may have been different. There is nothing wrong with looking the age you are just as there is nothing wrong with wanting to look more mature or more youthful. I don't find this thread sad just a bit of online chat. I wouldn't revisit it if it made me unhappy. I wasn't taking a pop at you, was just surprised at some of the answers, that's all...........and especially the young age of those so concerned about aging. And I do find that sad, sorry.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:12
Certainly look my age, probably older - but have had a good life & enjoy my cigs & a glass of red - I worked with a stunning lady in London who had hardly aged since she was 16 - 52 (when I knew her - proof in a photo montage) but then she had never see the sun, enjoyed a glass of vino & certainly never smoked or stayed up after 9pm :) I enjoy an evening out and quite often will have someone half my age chatting away to me. I think if you love yourself & love life it show's - it's not always what's on the outside that counts. Exactly.......and who would want to end life looking like one of those remaindered books still in a wrapper.........and never read by anyone?
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:08
Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system! Oh my God, do tell me which......and can I have some? When villages disappear, we know who did it.. :) But you won't tell, will you?
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 21:03
OP, do a search on here for maids threads. They might give you an idea of the realities of having a maid in Dubai...... to recap off the top of my head, you are overpaying her, her BF MUST not be allowed to stay because it is illegal (and I bet she knows that), and the demand for a bigger food allowance is just the start of a long litany of blackmailing demands, playing on your Western sensibilities . Frankly, clamp down and get tough ,or get rid of her now.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 20:54
You know, I have been reading through this thread as it develops, and I really, really am finding it terribly sad.........every single one of you seem to equate "looking younger" as a "good thing". Just what is wrong with looking the age you are? Is youth so overwhelmingly attractive that it transcends personal growth, wisdom, and most importantly, a sense of self worth?
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 20:45
Medicines should never be thrown away or put into water courses, there are many negatives, there are some medicines in use here that could knock a whole villiage out of they ever got into a water system! Oh my God, do tell me which......and can I have some?
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 19:45
It's not really a child's event..........there is always a vast deal of alcohol floating about, the racing doesn't start till late, by which time the effects are beginning to show. i wouldn't even consider taking a child, let alone an infant.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 19:11
Good idea LivelyTrish - will do that. Only wish I had done that on each '0' birthday. Si la jeunesse connait..........
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 18:50
Here's a tip........make sure someone takes a pic of you on the day, then leave it in a drawer for twenty odd years, then take it out, you'll be amazed at how great you looked, and REALLY mad with yourself for not realising it at the time! Loved my forties,and my fifties........and sixties aren't bad either!!
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 18:06
Just as the pharmaceutical companies have financial interest in sponsoring the research against any links of vaccines to autism or other issues Except they didn't. All the research worldwide which failed to find any connection between MMR and autism was government-sponsored because it was potentially a serious public health issue. Wakefield was a fraud, plain and simple. There is no other side to the story. And before anyone comes up with the usual tiresome conspiracy theories about the amount of money the pharmaceutical companies make from vaccines, bear in mind that they actually make by far the bulk of their profits from ongoing treatments for long-term conditions. Most standard vaccines are given once or twice per person, and that's it. They can't sell you any more vaccines for the rest of your life. It's the tablets for heart conditions or high blood pressure or cholesterol, the medications you have to take every day for long periods, perhaps even the rest of your life... that's where the real money is. Not in vaccines. edited by edna.welthorpe on 17/01/2011 Oh How i wish there was a STANDING OVATION button!!! The Evil Pharma conspiracy is just such a crock........surely it would be in their best interests not to encourage vaccination, healthy people do not make them any money, chronically sick ones do.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 11:59
I was lucky, I think I was a sugar lump child for the polio vaccine - but I well remember how important it was to be vaccinated against it. More to the point, when I was a child, you could often see the effects as there were many people around who were still affected by polio - either on calipers, in wheel-chairs or on "iron-lungs" (well, you heard about those, you didn't actually see them in the street). You youngsters had it easy........ ;) But seriously, I remember visiting a Special Needs school, which had been built in the early sixties, unlike most schools of that period it has extra wide hallways - I was told by the staff that it had been built thus to accomodate the large numbers of pupils in wheelshairs as a result of the polio epidemics. Very very sad, so many young lives taken or permanently blighted.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 11:34
I have bought it in Carrefour.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 11:32
@LivelyTrish. Yes, indeed. Did I read somewhere that polio was also coming back as an effect of people's decisions to stop vaccination of their children, or was it a bad dream? Not a bad dream I'm afraid. In Nigeria for example, there are religious leaders claiming that the vaccine is part of a plot by the West to render children barren.........and I'm sure I've read on forums about parents who should know better refusing vaccinations for health or moral reasons, although I'd assume in most countreis refusal to vaccinate against polio might trigger child endangerment charges. Sadly humans have short short memories, I am old enough to remember both my mother's terror of polio, and can only guess at the amazing sense of relief when the Salk vaccine was announced and made available........I wasn't so happy at the needle (we had to queue up in our classroom for our turn, one of the girls in front of fainted with fear and knocked herself out!) but even at nine years old, i knew that something momentous was happening, and that a terrible threat was being lifted.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 11:10
That is WONDERFUL news.
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Latest post on 17 January 2011 - 11:08
I have a child with a long term illness..for her, chicken pox, rota virus vaccines etc... ARE critical. While they aren't mandatory, the less she is exposed to those illnesses the longer her kidney's will function properly. So, by vaccinating your children, you could be saving another child. (Not directed at hello...just commenting on her comment). edited by GoddessUli on 17/01/2011 Absolutely. My particular issue with CP and rota is that CP doesn't actually stop the child getting CP (so what's the point, imo?!) and rota isn't actually particularly effective, plus it was apparently pushed onto the American "must-have" list by a chap who forgot to declare he held the rights to it when he was made a member of the approval board. I think it's always important to keep a sensible perspective on vaccination. The fact of it is that it has not only saved hundreds of thousands of lives over the last 100 years, but has also eradicated horrible, deadly and debilitating illnesses like small-pox (google it - it's horrid!). It strikes me as a terribly middle-class view to think that we (and our children) can pass on such things as a lifestyle choice. We may be sheltered from a lot, but it's worth bearing in mind that a few thousand miles away from us, there are children still dying from these diseases because they don't have access to vaccines, but would beg to have one. Absolutely agree........all one needs is to walk through any cemetery and look at pre 1950's family gravestones, even in developed countries........the number of children dead in their first few years is chilling. As for two sides of the argument, it is what.....fifteen. twenty years since Andrew Wakefield first published his "findings"......surely if there were any basis for his conclusions, they would have been replicated elsewhere. As it is, sadly and indeed, tragically, he has let a genie out of a bottle and no amount of reassurance seems to counter the damage he has done by his false and selfseeking claims. I was delighted to read that UK authorities are considering a CRIMINAL prosecution for fraud - for the additonal and unnecessary pain he has inflicted on those poor parents who now believe they have harmed ther chldren with the vaccine, and the misery of those whose children have been damaged or died as a result of measles, he deserves to spend a very long time in prison.
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:58
just a question really, but why aren't parents helping with home work? They're too thick? LOL How were you on A level Physics?? Great, LOL But tutors here start from primary (see numberous ads requesting for). The issues are more, lazyness, it's easier than destroying parent / child relationship, language issues, educational issues, some tutors are the "in" person to have (keep up with Jones's), tutors are trained to teach, parents arn't and finally parents can only do sooo much homework before they think enough is enough! However, still maintain that a good school will provide that extra to help the child achieve full potential and catch up if required within the school day. I think there is a LOT of panic and scarily upwardly mobile competitiveness involved...........vide the post from the lady who was asking for a tutor for her five year old (whom she sometimes had to beat")....there is an article in today's Indie about a monstrous Mama who has written a book bragging about how she basically tortured her children to make them super achievers..........very frightening. BUT on the otherhand, in Dubai there are a lot of children who are "trailing brats" who may have missed out on important bits.........and then there is the language problem for some........and of course, far too many parents both desperately treading water at work......and no time at all for the children they brought out to Eldorado. LOL LT just how can one fit in teaching your own children when you have all those brunches and nights out to fit in? Multi task, multi task, multi task..............must multi learn to task is the mantra, worked for me!!!
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:55
Boarding school so has it's advantages!!! Only if you don't want a relationship with your children..... RUBBISH!! I have a wonderful relationship with my children and they love their school and their home, it's not done for fun it's one of the greatest sacrafices parents can do for their kids futures (if they have to). Having a good relationship with your child is what makes it successful and work. I disagree with you whole heartedly and you may believe that it's rubbish but only time will tell. You may think it's a sacrifice on your part but what it does to a child is far worse. edited by Izzy99 on 16/01/2011 I take it you didn't enjoy boarding then?
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:50
just a question really, but why aren't parents helping with home work? They're too thick? LOL How were you on A level Physics?? Great, LOL But tutors here start from primary (see numberous ads requesting for). The issues are more, lazyness, it's easier than destroying parent / child relationship, language issues, educational issues, some tutors are the "in" person to have (keep up with Jones's), tutors are trained to teach, parents arn't and finally parents can only do sooo much homework before they think enough is enough! However, still maintain that a good school will provide that extra to help the child achieve full potential and catch up if required within the school day. I think there is a LOT of panic and scarily upwardly mobile competitiveness involved...........vide the post from the lady who was asking for a tutor for her five year old (whom she sometimes had to beat")....there is an article in today's Indie about a monstrous Mama who has written a book bragging about how she basically tortured her children to make them super achievers..........very frightening. BUT on the otherhand, in Dubai there are a lot of children who are "trailing brats" who may have missed out on important bits.........and then there is the language problem for some........and of course, far too many parents both desperately treading water at work......and no time at all for the children they brought out to Eldorado.
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:40
just a question really, but why aren't parents helping with home work? I thought most children were able to do homework on their own Do you have children? Believe me, sooner or later you will get the cry..........Muuuum, I'm stuck...... and that continues right up into last year of Uni, trust me!!! And usually at 11pm when the red wine has destroyed the last few remaing brain cells. edited by Livelytrish on 16/01/2011 <em>edited by Livelytrish on 16/01/2011</em>
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:35
just a question really, but why aren't parents helping with home work? They're too thick? LOL How were you on A level Physics??
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:30
Perhaps because they can't? Not everyone has studied every subject taught in school........
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:23
It is ridiculous that so many perfectly normal and innocent aspects of life in UAE are illegal, but the antiquated sponsorship system prevents "normal service " in so many, many ways. By criminalising everyday activities the usual protections are removed, since nothing is above board and transparent, but instead driven underground.. Sad isn't it? i agree completely. some of these laws seem like knee-jerk reactions. or ways of making money by throwing in some licensing fees etc. any form of assault is and should be illegal, but to throw out tutoring with the bath-water is just silly. The point I was trying to make is that.............it always was illegal, the recent assault cases have just raised the topic again. There is no legal way to work for anyone other than a sponsor, end of story.
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 21:16
It;s not illegal to employ a tutor, but it is illegal to employ an illegal tutor. And all free lance tutors are just that. Perhaps once the new law about professional expats being allowed to work partime is clarified, some enterprising teachers should set up a freezone agency to provide suitably quailifed and vetted tutors? It is ridiculous that so many perfectly normal and innocent aspects of life in UAE are illegal, but the antiquated sponsorship system prevents "normal service " in so many, many ways. By criminalising everyday activities the usual protections are removed, since nothing is above board and transparent, but instead driven underground.. Sad isn't it?
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 20:35
School standards apart, private tutoring for money has always been illegal........no different from freelancing hairdressers or illegal maids. Working for anyone other than a sponsor is against UAE law.
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 20:23
That's been a common rumour for years, isn't it CP? It was joked they would build a tower where the lake is :) And I bet they would have done, if the whole Ponzi scheme hadn't come undone!!!
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Latest post on 16 January 2011 - 13:57
I think its all very odd - always have. I used to live in the springs 3 years ago and there was a period when cats would go missing be dead etc. I have never known anywhere else like it so yeh, I would say that it is suspicious. We lived in Springs for five years, with five cats and two dogs...............one cat was hit by a car outside our house, it's an occupational hazard for cats...........Springs in particular, in spite of being a residential gated community with speedbumps still has some stretches of street where cars really do speed up..........not to mention the bl@@dy highway running htrough the development. As for cats being shot, this happens everywhere, one of my Dubai cats and our Dalmation were both rescued, found riddled with pellets, and neither case happened anywhere near Springs. Similarly one of my Cyprus rescues has only one eye, thanks to a trigger happy retard somewhere. There are bored teenagers everywhere, especially in countries without a culture of animal welfare. By the same token, wherever there is traffic, cats are at risk, it's a call all cat owners have to make, whether to let them roam or not. I certainly never felt my cats were particularly at risk in Springs, and the apparent rash of missing cats' posters and appeals is always misleading - it is never followed up by a rash of "found" posters. And JJ is quite correct about the time of year......in the cooler weather cats get a lot more active, a lot more adventurous, and a lot more at risk of using up one of their lives.
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 21:07
Actually, I think that anything which makes you actually THINK about what, or how much you are eating, is the real key factor, whtehr it's restricting certain foods , counting calories or even food combining - it interupts the fatal link between hand and mouth!
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 20:54
It has been debunked regularly in nearly every reputable medical and scientific publication. There are people who swear it's helped them, but in all honesty, wouldn't any diet, no matter its basis, if it involved monitoring and controlling one's food intake? <em>edited by Livelytrish on 15/01/2011</em>
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 20:42
We went for a walk yesterday (Springs 14) and saw a dead kitty at the end of street 10, just when you turn into the road that leads to Meadows 9. there´s an electric box there and the cat was there, on top (like somebody left it there on purpose...)...Young cat, wearing a collar. Seemed perfectly healthy but was dead....seemed weird. If you have lost your cat in this area, i hope it isn´t yours, but just thought i should inform. Most likely the poor baby was hit by a car, and someone removed it from the highway to prevent further impacts - I know I would do the same, although I would try to contact the owner if it carried ID. I don't think there is anything sinister in this, just a degree of decency.
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 20:33
I really appreciate all your feed back, Ive had a long old chat with DD and she is fine, I am planning on getting her over for a holiday, she has agreed, she knows me and her dad love her, and thats all that matters. edited by salsB on 15/01/2011 EXcellent news!!
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 20:32
Oh dear, SalsB, what a very sad situation.......and it's not new is it, nor is it about a will and a few bits of jewellery.....obviously your MIL has never accepted your DD as "her" grand daughter, and is yet again reminding you of that fact. She is obviously a nasty, narrow minded and bitter woman, but you must know that is never going to change,your poor DD probably knows this already, and you should just remind her of the fact that she is YOUR beloved child. Your DH should have manned up years ago, and told his old bat of a mother that you and your DD were a package, and she had better accept that, or butt out of his life........but honestly, just face facts, nothing any of you do now is going to change the situation. Personally, I would not have told your DD, she's probably had enough hurt from that dpeartment already, but what's done is done. At the end of the day, this woman is no relative of your girl's, and she should be grateful for that. As and when the bequest arrives, your youngest DD will know what to do with it.........in the meantime, none of you should waste any time, effort or breath on a miserable old cow, who has no real concept of true love or affection, and that is both her tragedy and her punishment.
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 19:00
Child abuse, plain and simple.
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 18:08
The "intense" serum is for deeper wrinkles, ie older skin. <em>edited by Livelytrish on 15/01/2011</em>
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 13:59
We have a barely used Ikea double bed for sale, available beginning of Feb. Email me if interested livelytrishathotmaildotcom (it is in AD but perhaps could work out some delivery)
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 13:43
and LT do not forget we also got Bokassa. lucky us. Oh yes, how could I have forgottten that great world leader and champion of democracy and human rights!:\::\:
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 12:47
Obviously France has become more discriminating since they welcomed BabyDoc from Haiti!
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 12:44
Great he has gone to Saudi. I was concerned my country ( France) would give him and his family asylum. According to reports France refused him.
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Latest post on 15 January 2011 - 12:33
Let's hope that the corrupted regimes in Egypt and Algeria will follow. But the big question is where in Ben Ali??? Reuters .BBC SKY all reporting he has fled to Saudi.
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Latest post on 13 January 2011 - 10:53
umm, why does knowing the ins and outs of s e x mean that your child will suddenly not believe in santa and the tooth fairy? we always had alot of animals and so i cant remember ever NOT knowing about 'the birds and bees' but i still believed in santa and the tooth fairy well up to 9 or 10 years old. telling your children about s e x doesnt take away their innocence, just their ignorance. Well said.....what a sensible post!!
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Latest post on 12 January 2011 - 21:37
There is a huge difference beteween one partner being concerned about the other's wellbeing as opposed to being embarassed by their appearance. On the otherhand there is the well known phenomenon of men opening mouth and putting foot in it....but I personally would take the latter as a declaration of evil intent. Caring concern can sometimes appear to be critical, but putting another person down is on another plane.....only the recipient can tell the difference. (I nag my DH about his weight ALL the time, it is a health issue, but........he knows that I think he is gorgeous) <em>edited by Livelytrish on 12/01/2011</em>
 
 
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