The Totally Random Thread (Part 9)

There are many people who see planting trees as an answer, what it needs is people with loads of common sense. One group planted 500 trees in a field that two weeks later was flooded. When the waters receded the trees were no where to be found.
For other places where the trees do grow will the leaves be fuel for bushfires and if so where will the water to fight fire with come from. So much water was used in Australia that many towns are bringing in water by trucks, do you want to put out bushfires by hand?
 
Abbs had her hair cut yesterday and donated it to a wig making charity for cancer patients.

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Priceless
Priceless
That's amazing, she's a star!
Puppet
Puppet
I did the same as a kid, it's a great thing to do :)
I did like the, 'Why I submit to my husband like its 1959' on TriBel's reply #162 then I fell asleep and dreamt that D. Trump's view on women is the same?
Was my dream true?
 
I'm thinking of renouncing my nationality. I'm beginning to think the UK (at least England) has moved back to the bloody 50s.

"The Church of England has stated that sex belongs only within heterosexual marriage, and that Christians in gay or straight civil partnerships should be sexually abstinent".

Bishops have issued pastoral guidance in response to the recent introduction to mixed-sex civil partnerships, which says: “For Christians, marriage – that is, the lifelong union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows – remains the proper context for sexual activity.”

The church “seeks to uphold that standard” in its approach to civil partnerships, and “to affirm the value of committed, sexually abstinent friendships” within such partnerships.

It adds: “Sexual relationships outside heterosexual marriage are regarded as falling short of God’s purpose for human beings.”

www.theguardian.com

Sex is for married heterosexual couples only, says Church of England

Pastoral guidance also calls for Christians in gay or straight civil unions to be abstinent
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
But who actually goes to church nowadays TriBel, or even believes in a C0fE god. I expect the Imams are saying exactly the same thing, and worse, but they've got a growing audience.
 
At one level, it doesn't bother me (I'm Catholic so I can legitimately stick my fingers in my ears and I don't give a monkey's what the Pope/Church says 🙂. In fact, I'm quite happy to take my fingers out of my ears and make a V sign to all of them). I just find it depressing, in this day and age, they feel the need to reiterate it. I'm gonna find out where the Church of Scotland stands on this! 😀
 
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I expect the Imams are saying exactly the same thing, and worse, but they've got a growing audience.
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I don't understand how they get a growing audience with their tendency to stone to death anyone and anything that's different from them...


ILLYRIAN said:
There are many people who see planting trees as an answer
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Planting trees is the least we can do 🙂
 
@Give Us A Kiss,
planting trees is not the issue. Planting them in stupid places is, planting seedlings near a river that is known to flood, where a town site was moved over a hundred years ago because of the river flooding every year. Planting trees in an area that hardly gets any rain or where the fire brigade has been removed. Planting trees with a view to their 'good health' is the correct view.
 
TriBel said:
I'm thinking of renouncing my nationality. I'm beginning to think the UK (at least England) has moved back to the bloody 50s.

"The Church of England has stated that sex belongs only within heterosexual marriage, and that Christians in gay or straight civil partnerships should be sexually abstinent".

Bishops have issued pastoral guidance in response to the recent introduction to mixed-sex civil partnerships, which says: “For Christians, marriage – that is, the lifelong union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows – remains the proper context for sexual activity.”

The church “seeks to uphold that standard” in its approach to civil partnerships, and “to affirm the value of committed, sexually abstinent friendships” within such partnerships.

It adds: “Sexual relationships outside heterosexual marriage are regarded as falling short of God’s purpose for human beings.”

www.theguardian.com

Sex is for married heterosexual couples only, says Church of England

Pastoral guidance also calls for Christians in gay or straight civil unions to be abstinent
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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Britain's gonna party like it's 1899. 😉
 
Trawling around local used bookshops for copy of Genet's Querelle of Brest, I instead found a copy of Al Ryan's excellent Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (1987), pre-Buffy, but still an excellent look back at the history of vampire fiction. So, purchased it. Well worth perusing. Shame there's no contemporary stuff from authors like Caitlin Kiernan or Billy Martin (formerly Poppy Z Brite, but that's unlife.
 
Honoria Dedlock
Honoria Dedlock
Did it have Le Fanu's Carmilla? Tis my favourite vampire tale.
EffulgentBitca
EffulgentBitca
I watched the movie adaptation of that book a while ago, but I might read it as well since I've always meant to get into Genet.
Altoz said:
Trawling around local used bookshops for copy of Genet's Querelle of Brest, I instead found a copy of Al Ryan's excellent Penguin Book of Vampire Stories (1987), pre-Buffy, but still an excellent look back at the history of vampire fiction. So, purchased it. Well worth perusing. Shame there's no contemporary stuff from authors like Caitlin Kiernan or Billy Martin (formerly Poppy Z Brite, but that's unlife.
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As Nina Auerbach says in Our Vampires, Ourselves every age embraces the vampire it needs, and gets the vampire it deserves (I'm paraphrasing). I suspect zombies may have become the new vampires.
 
[B]Honoria Dedlock[/B] Did it have Le Fanu's Carmilla? Tis my favourite vampire tale.

It does indeed have Le Fanu's classic "Carmilla" in it. (Good taste, BTW!)
Here's a list of contents:
 
Have to confess that classic vampires may have been my first horror literary love, until one too many of those bloody annoying "paranormal romances" tumbled off the shelves and glutted horror sections, making vampires too lily-white for my darker tastes. Actually, my taste for certain vampires predates the Buffyverse- it started with Poppy Z. Brite's Lost Souls and Nancy Collins' Sonja Blue series about a powerful female vampire.
And then came Twilight a few years later, which drove a stake through any residual interest I had for the VF subgenre apart from the Buffyverse.
After that, I saw Night of the Living Dead and shortly after got my hands on World War Z and became interested in a different kind of undead. It's rather interesting that zombies have displaced the darker aspects of vampires as a more monstrous form of the undead to all intents and purposes. Added to which, they're a more rationalist, post-religious form of the undead too, which may reflect social secularisation, given that a zombie apocalyptic pandemic now seems to be the predominant form of its spread rather than Haitian voudoun.
 
HowiMetdaSlayer
HowiMetdaSlayer
I hatez zombie stuff
I think the reason that I like zombie fiction is that zombies provide an opportunity for the human race to unite against an ultimately inhuman enemy. With vampires, it's their charisma and co-optation by the tiresome paranormal romance genre that turned me off newer vampire fiction. Zombies tend to be less redeemable and more driven by their hunger than contemporary vampires. The Twilight characters wouldn't last a moment against any decent zombie apocalypse.
 
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