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marc
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As if I don't have enough to worry about, as I topped the hill toward my appartment, i was greeted by no less than 8 fire engines, 2 rescue vehicles and 8 police cars.
The building in front of mine was afire...... fully 50 % of it is gutted.
At least no noe was hurt.....
[Updated on: Fri, 19 October 2007 00:44]
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Nope, not quite right there.......
A infant was severlt burnt...... it was life-flighted to toledo.....
Apparently the so called mother fell asleep with a cigarette brining.
She should be chained to a steak and burnt......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Marc wrote:
>She should be chained to a steak and burnt......<
Rare, medium or well done, sir?
Hugs
N
[Updated on: Fri, 19 October 2007 07:45]
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Marc wrote:
>She should be chained to a steak and burnt......
Nigel said,
>Rare, medium or well done, sir?
Bearing in mind the circumstances, I think that joke is incredibly inappropriate, Nigel.
David
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David, for goodness sakes, Nigel was making a pun on the mis-spelling of the word stake. As in "burning at the steak" instead of "burning at the stake." I thought it was a funny pun, but as often been pointed out to me, we "colonials" don't really understand the British sense of humor.
Of course we all hope the child survives, and in a way I pity the mother too. She will live with a lifetime of sorry and emotional damage for causing this to her infant.
I wish first period was more interesting. It's come down to do this or fall asleep.
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
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Errrr.... i didnt misspell it...
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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It's easy to make puns on just about any subject. I nearly -- inadvertently -- said that the joke was 'in bad taste', which could also have been assumed to be referring to the steak, but I decided not to 'fan the flames'. Mark's misspelling was unfortunate. Just because a joke can be made doesn't mean it should be.
In the case of a severely injured infant, until it is possible to verify that it has survived, and that it is without lasting damage (which sounds extremely unlikely from what Marc has said to me) I don't feel that it's a subject worth joking about. Nigel's post made me feel ill. I dare say I was thinking about it too much.
David
P.S. It's 'for goodness's sake', not 'for goodness sakes'.
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Thank you, David, for your candid opinion. I would really like to tell you how chastened I feel. Well, I'd like to, but I am not.
Hugs
N
I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, as the expression goes. There are times when constant efforts to sound witty just end up looking sad. David
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
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This is not a thing to argue over.
So lets please keep it in proportion....
I have no sympathy for a mother that smokes in bed. even less when a 8 month old infant is there too.
The baby has burnes over about 25 % of its little body..... Fortunatly, there was no smoke damage in the lungs..... I was told this is a good thing......
The fire marshal is inspecting and so are the local detectives.....
I'm praying for the child...... and wishing 5 minutes with the mother and about 12 lesbian friends that wish to speak to her about the joys and responsibilities of motherhood......
Fire is such a relentless advisary..... While i am happy it wasn't me and my home.... I am saddened for the innocent victims of all this......
We are holding an emergency gathering tonight at the club to discuss hou to refurnish the homes of the people that lost all their things......
4 of the victims were gay..... and here in Sandusky, we take care of our own.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
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There are several things I join you in having no sympathy for, and, fire apart, smoking around an infant at all is one of them.
25% burns may be unsurvivable, it's certainly close to the survivability threshold.
I never thought I would say these words, but "bring on the lesbians!"
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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As I hasven't been around for three or four days, I feel obliged to comment on this thread - or at least on the direction it took.
I agree that the circumstances are tragic, and on a basis of what Marc has said it's clear that the mother was to blame. I agree with Jonny, though, we shouldn't judge too harshly; she has a lot of pain ahead, and it falls some way short of deliberate and calculated child abuse, even if the consequences are more severe. And, beforer calling out the vigilantes, I'd like to know whether she fell asleep after having a few drinks or after working a 12-hour shift to bring funds into the family. But that's not the point of the post.
I'm asking for tolerance here. We all have a very individual sense of humour, but black humour is a particularly British institution. Some say it originated in the trenches of World War I, some say it originated from the Blitz days of Worls War II; I wasn't around for either of those events, but personally (being a word freak as many of you know) I think the tradition goes a good deal further back. In any event, it's deeply ingrained in our culture.
"Hey, Jack - did you hear? A bomb fell on Clara Bucket's house last night. She was in the cellar, so she's OK, but she's lost a leg."
"Oh heck! She'll be hopping mad about that!"
That joke was first told around 65 years ago.
So, whether it appeals to your sense of humour or not, Nigel's remarks were consistent with a long established tradition. That being so, whilst anyone has a right to attack the tradition, it is wholly unfair to attack Nigel.
Finally, I gleefully seize the opportunity to be pedantic. I agree that the original exhortation was 'for Goodness's (or, if you prefer, Goodness') sake. If going back to the roots, 'Goodness' should have a capital letter, because it was a euphemism for 'God' at a time when there was a social aversion to invoking him by name. (Digression - if you follow up one of JFR's links to interesting or amusing items from the Israeli press, and check out the talkback following the article in question, you'll find that God is frequently rendered as G-d; it's one of the more bizarre aspects of some forms of religious belief that He will be placated if you substitute a hyphen for the 'o', but if you fail to do so He will launch a thunderbolt with your name writ large upon it. In no way is this a reflection upon JFR, who is far too wise to be in sympathy with this strange custom; I recognise that there are Biblical references discouraging the use of His name - but 'God' is a description, not a name. Surprisingly, I can't find any record of thunderbolts striking Welsh male voice choirs as the lustily sing the hymn to the tune 'Cwm Rhondda'; in English, the hymn begins 'Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah' - and that IS his name, at least in English translation. End of digressiopn. You can wake up now.) Now where was I? Ah, yes. The original exhortation 'For Goodness' sake! was essentially equivalent to 'In the Name of the Lord' ... (what do you mean by ...). But of all parts of speech, exhortations are the most vulnerable to alteration with use. Though in North Britain (the civilised bit of this island) we still say 'For Goodness' sake' when we are trying to sound superior, several dialects use the term 'Lor'sakes', with the added 's', and (so far as I am aware) in that strange and exotic land to the left of the Atlantic Ocean, the extra 'S' has become endemic, whether used by elegant ladies in Virginia (sidenote - is that an oxymoron?) as 'Goodness Sakes' or by the less sophisticated ex-colonials further West as 'Lor'sakes' or even (perish the thought!) as 'Lan'sakes'. And, as the Shorter Oxford Dictionary helpfully reminds us, customary usage is what cuts the mustard - so Jonny was as innocent as the day he was born.
Why have I rabbited in so long? Well, primarily 'cos I'm a compulsive rabbiter, but also because Jonny and Eldon - and I have no more idea than anyone else whether they are who they say they are - have brought a new and welcome dimension to this forum, and I don't want anything to discourage them from continuing to contribute - even if they ARE descendasnts of rebellious, uncivilised colonials!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Someone said we rebellious colonials have no histiory. Well we do have one. Maybe only 300 years of it but we have a history. In less than 300 years we have achieved a power no other nation ever has. We Kicked British butt twice. Andrew Jackson literally drove the British army into the sea.
We fired our guns and the British kept a comin
There wasnt now as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and the British started running
from the Mississippi to the gulf of Mexico.
Germany decided it wanted the Phillipines. Roosevelt ordered the US pacific fleet to sail tword the german ships and if they wernt turned around and headed back to Germany, sink them. Needless to say the Kiser decided Germany didnt need the philipines.
Isnt it amazing tho that the Country we fought to win our freedom is our best friend. I think we got from our British ancestors a feeling of right and our courage to stand up for it. Lately it seems that we have lost respect, but a new president will be elected and things will be set right. In the words of our late great stateman Benjamin Franklin "Fart Proudly".
This wasnt to start a major discussion or an argument or to insult anyone. We do have a history and yes we are rebellious colonest, but were friends and our hearts and hands have reached out in times of need.
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you......
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marc
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Rebellious, uncivilised colonials???????
Uncivilized?????
Well! I never..... Oh ok, thats not true..... I have..... repeatedly......
And they happen to be Southern insurrectionists......
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Needs to get a life! |
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The mother does not work....
I dont know if she was drinking.... but i do know that she has parties there.....
hell, she just moved in like 5 days previous and has had 4 parties.....
well, now,,,, the party is over.
I hope she goes to prison.... Hell, its bad enough to smoke near a little baby, to put that baby in bed and smoke there is hell abd beyond irresponsible...... it's criminal.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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