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What are your favorite TV shows that are based on movies?

tallguy241 comments on May 18, 2018:

MASH

273kelvin replies on May 18, 2018:

@Bierbasstard The BBC didn`t want the laugh track. They showed the US version on another channel recently with laugh track and I found it unwatchable.

How many of you actually care about the royal wedding? I won’t tease you.

Unique121518 comments on May 17, 2018:

I am sick to death of this Royal wedding, an extra person who Australia will blindly, partcially support, plus whatever children they have. I am sick to death of hearing all this belittling garbage about Megan’s family. I love Diana for taking the posh out of the Royal family

273kelvin replies on May 18, 2018:

She was only chosen because she was the only aristo still a virgin at 19.

Finish This Statement: "I Remember"

Razorjelly comments on May 18, 2018:

Johnny West, G.I. Joe, Action Jackson and Stretch Armstrong.

273kelvin replies on May 18, 2018:

G.I.Joe was sold as action man in the UK. I got one of the early versions which still had G.I.Joe on it`e backside. Here`s a current UK add which you might like. https://youtu.be/J-VdjTmOeaI

What are your favorite TV shows that are based on movies?

tallguy241 comments on May 18, 2018:

MASH

273kelvin replies on May 18, 2018:

Yes but the UK version, without the laugh-track. The pathos was better and the laughter was not forced.

Anyone else here a fan of "The Sun" magazine?

273kelvin comments on May 17, 2018:

You can FUCK OFF nobody in my city buys that rag. Check out Hillsborough 96. (google it) https://youtu.be/NGGQDs2SYYI You cannot buy it here coz we boycotted it and no one will sell it

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

@happyhiker1 Sorry we have a tabloid Murdoch owned rag called the Sun I thought they were the same I am very sorry

Sadly, I've been on a number of dates whereas my chivalrous gestures wasn't appreciated.

Marcie1974 comments on May 17, 2018:

Can you be specific as to what your chivalrous gestures were? I consider myself a feminist but that being said, I do appreciate doors being opened for me and that sort of thing. Conversely, I try to do the same for others. If you ordered dinner for her without asking what she wanted? That's ...

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

@Marcie1974 Equal is Equal and respect is respect. Would you have asked if there was a hidden agenda if the post had been by a woman? Or does equal not really mean equal?

So she said " I want to have a laugh in bed" And I said " If I wanted to have a laugh in bed.

LetzGetReal comments on May 17, 2018:

It good to laugh no matter which side of the pond or bed one is on, no? ;)

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

@CraeftSmith Sooty was a naughty glove puppet always with a water pistol

So she said " I want to have a laugh in bed" And I said " If I wanted to have a laugh in bed.

LetzGetReal comments on May 17, 2018:

It good to laugh no matter which side of the pond or bed one is on, no? ;)

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

The sooty joke was for the UK

Song idea My friend Iris took me to see her friend Rose and she asked " What are those flowers ...

Petter comments on May 17, 2018:

For the lies of love Are the lies of lust That leave love bleeding in the hall.

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

I was thinking of all flower related lines. A bit like Don McLean`s Vincent.but with flower names. " Stinking Billy put you down but Sweet William lifted you up " type of thing

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

@ThinkKate Sure the average age of women in films is increasing. I think that the mans age might be too. do you not think this might be the improvement in cosmetics, health care regimes and/or surgery that make them look younger? I will take your point if you can sight a true 60 old woman in a romantic lead. Not someone who is trying to look 40 something but a real 60 old. Like me or anyone I know. Don`t get me wrong , I would love to see it but the market rules

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

@ThinkKate I`m saying that that`s not what I necessarily go for either. I am painting with broad strokes. PS only one guy has commented on this comment and that was to confirm what I said.

Sadly, I've been on a number of dates whereas my chivalrous gestures wasn't appreciated.

Marcie1974 comments on May 17, 2018:

Can you be specific as to what your chivalrous gestures were? I consider myself a feminist but that being said, I do appreciate doors being opened for me and that sort of thing. Conversely, I try to do the same for others. If you ordered dinner for her without asking what she wanted? That's ...

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

The guy said respect and equal nuff said. Read it and don`t project.

Anyone else here a fan of "The Sun" magazine?

273kelvin comments on May 17, 2018:

You can FUCK OFF nobody in my city buys that rag. Check out Hillsborough 96. (google it) https://youtu.be/NGGQDs2SYYI You cannot buy it here coz we boycotted it and no one will sell it

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dont-buy-sn-warns-liverpool-11081437

I see we have the " g back.

PickledRick comments on May 17, 2018:

I don't get it?

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

It`s a geography joke

Favorite cover songs?

Gatovicolo comments on May 17, 2018:

https://youtu.be/fregObNcHC8

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

Which leads me to this song. My daughter Emily who was conceived listening to Bowie songs and was born with eyes of different colour https://youtu.be/G6WQv9GwwbM

Favorite cover songs?

johnnyfdny comments on May 17, 2018:

I always think of this one. Love the funky bass. This is killer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KJjVMqNIgA

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

Or you do this. Good laughs from the UK (Liverpool) " day do doe dont de doe " https://youtu.be/l5-ilJsq_Dc

The Titanic tragedy has been romanticised so thoroughly; spawning films, museums and merchandise we ...

Tomas comments on May 17, 2018:

I have an old family Titanic story which I was told several years ago. My grandmother and two brothers and two girlfriends, attempted to emigrate to America in 1912, by way of ocean crossing. They were denied passage due to incomplete medical records (?). They returned to Ireland (County Cork), ...

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

My dad had a similar story. He was in submarines in WW2 serving out of (then) Ceylon. He contacted dysentery and missed his boat going out. Although he very nearly died of it, that boat never came back. One of only two that were lost in that area of conflict

Best musical score/soundtrack on a TV show? Tie: Dexter/Hannibal

memorylikeasieve comments on May 17, 2018:

Doctor Who. The new series, that is.

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

I`m old enough to remember the original 60`s series. That soundtrack was phenomenal especially as it was pre-Moog synthesizer or any of our electronic gadgets, just tape machines.

Just curious: besides the Internet, what other ways have you met people you've dated or been ...

273kelvin comments on May 17, 2018:

I held a chess night. These things were always stag (women have got better things to do with their time). But Lee brings this lady. They weren`t dating she just needed somewhere to be. So there was an odd number of us playing chess so it meant that one guy would sit out whilst the others played.That...

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

An epilogue; The next night she goes home to confront her soon to be ex. I get a distraught phone call. He has been really abusive yet again. Julie is in tears and she is a very strong and not a tearful woman. He has left now but goodness knows what will happen next. As I drove over to hers, I see the guy walking down the street. I pull over and punch his lights out. I had not hit anyone since school but all my frustration and importance gathered over the years of listening to woman who had suffered at the hands of bastards like this boiled over and I could not help myself. I left him on the floor and went to her. I guess I did not know it yet but I was in love

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 17, 2018:

@ThinkKate You can quote all the studies you want. I will simply say Bogiie and Bacall. The man had a face like a walnut but he was still sexy.

People cry not because love ends, but because it still continues. even if it’s over. ?

273kelvin comments on May 16, 2018:

I believe that love does not die but it exists in that spacetime. As we move on that love will grow fainter like stars moving away. As find new love the brightness of that love will diminish the old love we knew but it is still there.

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@FrayedBear Of course it is different from person to person. We are different, the situation is different, the other person obviously and a whole load of variables. More importantly it is unique in its spacetime like any event.

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Cricket9 I don`t know why you deny that reproduction has nothing to do with attractiveness. When it is the biological imperative that motivates our sex drive. It is the reason women will wear sexier clothes when they ovulate. It`s the birds and the bees ffs. Also men later in life will be on average more successful than there younger counterparts ie. better providers which is sexy in biological selfish gene terms As for changing social constructs, good luck with that one. At the moment market forces say that women like films such as "pretty woman" and as women make about 80% of all purchases. It will be women who drive the market as usual. So there will be no need for them to buy all those anti-aging creams and potions, die their hair etc. Cosmetic surgeries will no longer be giving them nips and tucks when their bits go south. Because we will all live in a utopian ideal. Where we will all grow old as gracefully or disgracefully as we want and Trump will just be an ugly memory. I like the idea but I wont be holding my breath.

A scenario. You can host dinner for people who are dead. Who would you invite?

wordywalt comments on May 16, 2018:

Hermann Hesse, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Barbara Jordan, Reinhold Niebuhr.

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Palindromeman That was Rudolf Hesse. Herman won the nobel prize for literature in !946. Wrote amongst others "Steppenwolf" from which the band took their name. All the hip dudes read Hesse in the 60`s him and Huxley

A scenario. You can host dinner for people who are dead. Who would you invite?

birdingnut comments on May 16, 2018:

Most famous people are said to be notoriously unpleasant in person, so I'll pass. I wouldn't mind seeing extinct animals though, like I would like to see the world before American settlers arrived and shot all the passenger pigeons, bison and buffalo wolves, polluted the streams, and clear-cut ...

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@birdingnut I have some friends in Taz. Apparently the Tasmanian devil is going the same way. They did ask Warner bros to stump up a bit of money to help (considering how much they made of the name) but they refused. After a whole lot of shaming they donated $180,000

A scenario. You can host dinner for people who are dead. Who would you invite?

Alexa comments on May 16, 2018:

Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Coco Chanel, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepbrun.

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Palindromeman Lennon did have GSOH

A scenario. You can host dinner for people who are dead. Who would you invite?

wordywalt comments on May 16, 2018:

Hermann Hesse, Mark Twain, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, Barbara Jordan, Reinhold Niebuhr.

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

If your going to have Herman Hesse. It would be cruel not invite Jim Morrison

A scenario. You can host dinner for people who are dead. Who would you invite?

CM1965 comments on May 16, 2018:

Mr. Rogers Kurt Cobain Viktor Frankl Louis Jourdan Krishnamurti Bowie My parents Bukowski Cary Grant Hmmmm probably be a whole new list tomorrow.

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

Louis Jourdan would be difficult coz .....he ain`t got no body ;-)

There are a few stray dog Australians, like me, on this site.

Sticks48 comments on May 14, 2018:

Bee Gees, Men At Work, INXS, LRB, and more, Australia has produced some great pop music. One question, what the fuck is a vegamite sandwich? Apologies if l spelled it wrong. I don't speak Australian. ?

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Sticks48 Extremely savory and you spread it thin The add campaign for it runs with "love it or hate it" The closest your gonna find to it is a beef stock cube OXO if you have them in the US

Do you celebrate Christmas? Why or why not?

UncleAlan comments on May 15, 2018:

In England, I was always taught that the idea of hi-jacking the biggest pagan festival of the year, and overlaying it with some nefarious Christian message or other in a crude attempt to subvert it's meaning, was a desperate admission by the Roman Emperor of the (now) Roman Church's total failure to...

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

It was a practical festival as well. At some point before winter sets in you have to decide what livestock your going to keep and what gets butchered. This would be done at the solstice. After which there would be a whole load of food to be eaten so.... Lets have a party

Do you celebrate Christmas? Why or why not?

UncleAlan comments on May 15, 2018:

Being an English European I never could fully understand the complexeties of life in the USA, and the sheer extent of God-bothering in some States. Especially as we know that, after a year or two as underpaid and exploited relgious refugee immigrants in the NetherLands, the Plymouth Bretheren made ...

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

The Plymouth brethren were pretty uptight when it came to other people's religious freedoms

There are a few stray dog Australians, like me, on this site.

Sticks48 comments on May 14, 2018:

Bee Gees, Men At Work, INXS, LRB, and more, Australia has produced some great pop music. One question, what the fuck is a vegamite sandwich? Apologies if l spelled it wrong. I don't speak Australian. ?

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Sticks48 https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/in-this-photo-illustration-a-jar-of-marmite-spread-is-seen-news-photo/73415504

There are a few stray dog Australians, like me, on this site.

Sticks48 comments on May 14, 2018:

Bee Gees, Men At Work, INXS, LRB, and more, Australia has produced some great pop music. One question, what the fuck is a vegamite sandwich? Apologies if l spelled it wrong. I don't speak Australian. ?

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Sticks48 Its like vegemite but stronger. Made from yeast

There are a few stray dog Australians, like me, on this site.

Sticks48 comments on May 14, 2018:

Bee Gees, Men At Work, INXS, LRB, and more, Australia has produced some great pop music. One question, what the fuck is a vegamite sandwich? Apologies if l spelled it wrong. I don't speak Australian. ?

273kelvin replies on May 16, 2018:

@Palindromeman But born in IOM then lived in Manchester

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 15, 2018:

@Cricket9 I read both those articles and they only go to back up what I said. The top 3 grossing pictures had male leads in excess of 20 years age difference. This is not because of some agenda, this is market forces. Nobody forced women to find Richard Gere attractive. No surprise that hollywood is a male dominated industry, nearly all industries are. We would be here a long time discussing the rights and wrongs of that.

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 15, 2018:

@Cricket9 2 people in their 30`s both think that maybe having kids one day would be an idea. The woman will include older guys in what she is looking for. The man less likely to

What's your favorite movie quote?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

I fought I told you, just to blow the bloody doors off

273kelvin replies on May 15, 2018:

@moNOtheist https://youtu.be/7_PX1cVuaVA

What's your favorite movie quote?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

I fought I told you, just to blow the bloody doors off

273kelvin replies on May 15, 2018:

@moNOtheist Wrong, Michel Caine "The Italian job" one of the best car chase movies and had two of the UK`s best comedians Noel Coward and Benny Hill

There are a few stray dog Australians, like me, on this site.

Sticks48 comments on May 14, 2018:

Bee Gees, Men At Work, INXS, LRB, and more, Australia has produced some great pop music. One question, what the fuck is a vegamite sandwich? Apologies if l spelled it wrong. I don't speak Australian. ?

273kelvin replies on May 15, 2018:

@Sticks48, @Palindromeman Its not that unique. Its Marmite but not as stong

In our age of technology where we are constantly on camera which has many safety benefits, do you ...

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

I think so what. Cameras are not in bathrooms or hotel rooms and if someone wants to get their rocks off watching little ol me then wtf.

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

@DarwinistOne https://youtu.be/zqNTltOGh5c

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

@Cricket9 I am off out soon but I will get back to this. in the meantime. What part of males stay fertile do you dispute? What part of older actors pull bigger box office than older actresses do you dispute?

Why do men think that they should be with younger women?

273kelvin comments on May 14, 2018:

Men age better than women. sorry but it is the elephant in the room. Myself its about the person but just look at movies. An actor in his 60`s can still play the romantic lead, the same cannot be said for actresses. https://youtu.be/3I7z3yGvkT8

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

@Cricket9 Firstly I said at the onset I go for the person not the body. But lets put some facts out there rather than feminist rhetoric. Men stay fertile much longer than women. This means that even if your Mick Jagger you are still going to able to make a baby. This is sex ie reproduction ie what our bits are for. This IS shown by movies and sorry it is not just a hollywood male dominated industry thing. It is market forces. If a Jane Fonda, Brad Pitt film sold as well if not better than a Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones movie then you can bet any money you like, someone would make one. Unfortunately Female actors only get to play character roles because thats what puts bums on seats. Not because of some male agenda. As for the blue pill thing. I never said we were as virile but then again there are a lot of women out there on HRT keeping the flame alive.

Favorite Author? Just one!

tallguy241 comments on May 13, 2018:

Isaac Asimov

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

I read his joke book

Men with long hair

Shellby1968 comments on May 13, 2018:

Love males with long hair and facial hair ,

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

Well Helloooo

On the drive down to Nashville today, my daughter and I were talking about politics and flat ...

RandyWells comments on May 14, 2018:

if the earth was flat, wouldnt 2 groups of people being actually living at or near the edge of the planet? and have proof its flat?

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

They say its guarded by soldiers (I would put an lol but they do)

"Hey Van Gogh, you wanna beer?" "What?" "You wanna beer Van Gogh?" "Eh, I`ve got one ear"

triumph56 comments on May 14, 2018:

What do you call a redneck woman with two brain cells? Pregnant..

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

https://youtu.be/GWvVTvglsWQ

Favorite Author? Just one!

mudhen comments on May 13, 2018:

PG Wodehouse

273kelvin replies on May 14, 2018:

@mudhen They both went to Dulwich. Although they were not there at the same time, they did correspond. I think there is an acid bite to both their writings that have similarities. "From a hundred feet across the fine trimmed lawn, she looked like a million bucks. From ten feet away she looked like she had been made up to look like a million bucks from a hundred feet away." "She had a laugh reminiscent of a troop of cavalry crossing a metal bridge"

Favorite Author? Just one!

mudhen comments on May 13, 2018:

PG Wodehouse

273kelvin replies on May 13, 2018:

Did you know that he went to the same school as Raymond Chandler?

Everyone complains about the weather but no one wants to sacrifice a virgin to change it.

Stevil comments on May 13, 2018:

Where do you find a good supply of VIRGINS now days?

273kelvin replies on May 13, 2018:

All those christian high school girls would be a start. Begin the cull now and lessen the infection

Smoke? At all

ProudMerry comments on May 12, 2018:

I've been smoking weed since Nixon was president.

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

That`s one hellofa big spliff

Who's going to remember you ?

msimpson9agn comments on May 12, 2018:

Actually, nobody knows who William Shakespeare was because that was a pen name. The actual writer was a prince.

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

This is a theory put about for some time by elitist snobs. Shakespeare is known about, he did commision a coat of arms. His house is there for you to visit. His will is on record. The theory comes from the fact that upper classes cannot accept that a grammar school educated guy from the lower classes could have written all those great works with all the classical references.

Woman accused of stalking, sending man 65,000 texts after one date | abc7news.com

Ellatynemouth comments on May 11, 2018:

This woman must be insane. Stalking laws seem really inadequate in my opinion. (As a side comment. I notice a sexist ad in the article which focuses on a woman's behind. This is a prime example of women being sexually objectified in advertising.) And sorry to go on here... But when women are ...

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

I agree there is an element of "man bites dog" here but according to the last news item I heard on this, Stalking happens to about 20% of women and 10% of men

Movie night! What is your favorite drama?

273kelvin comments on May 12, 2018:

"A matter of life and death" 1946

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

@Ellatynemouth Niven was always so watchable.

Question.

273kelvin comments on May 11, 2018:

Okay this sounds like a test. Some women do this all the time but seeing it is at the very start of a potential relationship, you need to be firm. From the little you have given us, can I assume that you have told her you cannot stand the place but its there or no date? If so, this is a test dude. ...

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

@Jello_vero Your right, it could be a test of any and all of those things. In which case the answer is still the same. "Not at the restaurant lady."

Define God! What is your definition of God, that you disbelieve completely if you are an ...

273kelvin comments on May 12, 2018:

Define a nuh. Nuhs are mythical creatures that live in Nuhia which also does not exist. So you tell me what you think they look like?

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

@birdingnut Lets not forget the vikings. Greek gods lend themselves to psychology so well too. Where would Freud be without them.

Movie night! What is your favorite drama?

MacTavish comments on May 12, 2018:

Run, Lola, Run.

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

Yes

Movie night! What is your favorite drama?

273kelvin comments on May 12, 2018:

"A matter of life and death" 1946

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

@robdowney Great director Emeric Pressburger. He did "The red shoes" but also Jack Cardiff cinematographer. whos works include "The African queen" "The Vikings" and "Rambo" FYI trivia, the angel would not have a long wait to meet the author of that chess book. Alexander Alekhine died in 46

Athiestists and Astrology

rakuman comments on May 12, 2018:

I dont see that the study of astrology, which I have been involved with for over 40 years is at all detrimental to being agnostic or atheist, like with so many other things there is no obligation to either believe it, though its not really a matter of "belief" like religion, it s not a religion, its...

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

Do tell, these "complex energy interactions." What form are they? gravitational? electromagnetic? nuclear, strong/week? Are they measurable? If so by what? or are they a question of belief?

Athiestists and Astrology

rakuman comments on May 12, 2018:

I dont see that the study of astrology, which I have been involved with for over 40 years is at all detrimental to being agnostic or atheist, like with so many other things there is no obligation to either believe it, though its not really a matter of "belief" like religion, it s not a religion, its...

273kelvin replies on May 12, 2018:

Guaquelin’s horoscope experiment

Question.

273kelvin comments on May 11, 2018:

Okay this sounds like a test. Some women do this all the time but seeing it is at the very start of a potential relationship, you need to be firm. From the little you have given us, can I assume that you have told her you cannot stand the place but its there or no date? If so, this is a test dude. ...

273kelvin replies on May 11, 2018:

@UUNJ It does not matter who is right here. If it is a test (and 3 likes from women says my reply has merit), then it`s a "no." If she is trying to fob him off, "no" again. A creature of habit for restaurants? I doubt if she dines alone, so that would mean going to the same place that her ex and her went. Which is a big "no."

Question.

273kelvin comments on May 11, 2018:

Okay this sounds like a test. Some women do this all the time but seeing it is at the very start of a potential relationship, you need to be firm. From the little you have given us, can I assume that you have told her you cannot stand the place but its there or no date? If so, this is a test dude. ...

273kelvin replies on May 11, 2018:

@UUNJ I did say "some" but I stand by what I said. Why stipulate a restaurant you know he hates unless its a test?

Self check out tills.

FrayedBear comments on May 10, 2018:

Only just reached Liverpool. Strewth I thought that we were backward here - we've had them for a few years now. The local MP complained about the local paper getting rid of journalists but when I suggested that she should be commenting about local kids losing employment opportunity as check out ...

273kelvin replies on May 11, 2018:

We have had them for years.

Self check out tills.

Lincster45 comments on May 10, 2018:

I won't use self check-outs, I go to real people, so that there will continue to be jobes for real people.

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

Sure but you can get the point.

I have a relationship ongoing with a woman who will only communicate by texting.Is this a red flag?

Wangobango3 comments on May 10, 2018:

We first chatted on this site a couple of weeks ago.I said she probably wanted someone closer to her own age.She said men her age were shits and she wanted to meet an older man "who knew how to treat a lady.". We used "message" and then switched to cells.Her cell phone provider won't process ...

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

@Wangobango3 It could be she is with someone. Sorry but experience has shown me that there a a lot of women who get off on the possibility/fantasy of romance/other You need to pin her down or forget bro.

Self check out tills.

MarvelAnn comments on May 10, 2018:

We've had them here in the States for a while. They never work right. Then you end up waiting for the one clerk assigned to 6 self-check out registers.

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

And then she judges you twice. Once for making her work and then for your items. (they never say but YOU know lol)

Kindergarten teacher Ms.

273kelvin comments on May 10, 2018:

Very old port of Liverpool joke. A guy is walking along the dock road and asks a young lad. "Can you tell me where the urinal is" "I dunno, how many funnels does she have?"

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

@CraeftSmith You could use the same joke for a freight yard kid in Chicago. Using engine names and sizes.

Kindergarten teacher Ms.

273kelvin comments on May 10, 2018:

Very old port of Liverpool joke. A guy is walking along the dock road and asks a young lad. "Can you tell me where the urinal is" "I dunno, how many funnels does she have?"

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

@CraeftSmith It`s old ships and dockland. There were a lot more ships then and they all had names like "the britannic" or "the august" or any name you might think of. The lad is so uneducated but wise in his envioment that all he knows is ships and such. Not what the alternative name for a bathroom is

I have a relationship ongoing with a woman who will only communicate by texting.Is this a red flag?

Wangobango3 comments on May 10, 2018:

We first chatted on this site a couple of weeks ago.I said she probably wanted someone closer to her own age.She said men her age were shits and she wanted to meet an older man "who knew how to treat a lady.". We used "message" and then switched to cells.Her cell phone provider won't process ...

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

Okay this is the 1st time you mentioned she is not in your country. Some part of Africa maybe? Look we live in a technological age. If this is what you want it is not too hard to set up a video call. If not on her phone then via a internet cafe but it does not sound promising.

I have a relationship ongoing with a woman who will only communicate by texting.Is this a red flag?

Wangobango3 comments on May 10, 2018:

I always reference events in my life through music.This one came to mind https://youtu.be/pRAg7ixYaeE

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

Love this song

I'm writing this here as this group is about relationships.

273kelvin comments on May 10, 2018:

Man, you know what your gonna do. Your gonna go to her because you love her. We all know this because we have all done it. No matter what we say, love beats all and your just looking for validation. Good luck and give her a special extra kiss for all of us here wishing they we you xx

273kelvin replies on May 10, 2018:

https://poets.media/taboo?_ga=2.124165322.1598091281.1525988102-1114911476.1521134004

"Just because something is beyond our level of comprehension doesn't mean it doesn't exist"

SACatWalker comments on May 7, 2018:

I like logic, but so? So fucking what? For all intents and purposes, if you don't know about it, it doesn't exist to you. Again... I'm begging you, so? Point. Make a point.

273kelvin replies on May 7, 2018:

He did not say you don`t know about it. Just that you cannot comprehend it. For example a theisist might not be able to comprehend evolution. You may not know how your tv works. etc.

"Just because something is beyond our level of comprehension doesn't mean it doesn't exist"

SimonCyrene comments on May 7, 2018:

What is beyond your comprehension ?

273kelvin replies on May 7, 2018:

Lots of things. Quantum theory, higher maths, why Trump? womens minds, the list goes on.

I found this article from The Guardian to be very disturbing, but something we all should think ...

misstuffy comments on Apr 27, 2018:

I found the article disturbing, yes terrible horrific things happened back then and the author wants white America to pay now. It ignores several issues, one, back in Africa it was their fellow Africans rounding up their own race to sell into slavery and slavery is still practiced on the continent ...

273kelvin replies on May 7, 2018:

Re your 1st reply; It is true that slavery existed before and after America and that Africans sold the slaves to the whites. However this must be put into contest. Slavery is in the bible but it is there as a punishment for theft or debt. Europeans took what was a cottage industry and made a global trade out of it. What horrifies us most about the holocaust., is not just the genocide (there has been genocide before and since, some even larger). It was the industrial efficiency of it. The same goes for the America`s. Some estimates put the figures at 20 million Africans were taken. Now most of them would not have been to the USA but lots were. My city was at the hub of this trade and although the UK banned it in 1830 (a generation before the land of the free), the money generated by this was around to fuel the industrial revolution that I still enjoy the benefits of. The USA has a class system based largely upon race. A UK interviewer asked Mohamed Ali what it was like being a 2nd class citizen? Ali replied "Oh what I would have given to be 2nd class. At the top you have white protestants,then white catholics, then jews then chinese, by the time you get down to black men your about 16th." It is vary easy to say "well do better at school and raise yourself up" but if the odds are stacked against you then it will only be a small percentage that will rise. The war on drugs is also a form of Jim Crow and has been likened to a "slow holocaust" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/25/the-wire-creator-us-drug-laws

So, "Duke" is just a nickname.

273kelvin comments on May 6, 2018:

I worked in a dockland bar in the 70`s At the time all the dockers had nicknames. "The frightened fish", always saying "look out for the hook" a guy who was always late, so much so he had his own key the dock gates was "called early one morning." You get the idea. So I asked one guy what his ...

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

In the bar there were 2 brothers John and Jimmy. John used to box heavyweight pro whilst Jimmy managed him. The both worked the docks and in the evenings John tended to the door of the nightclub whist Jimmy booked the acts. Their nicknames were "Rich man, Door man"

100,000 March in Glasgow.Scotland will gain independence.

273kelvin comments on May 6, 2018:

Your choice, but you have already chosen once and... Really how well do you think you will do on the arse end of europe on your own?

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

@Coldo Are these the same caliber of people that did the costings for your parliament building?

100,000 March in Glasgow.Scotland will gain independence.

273kelvin comments on May 6, 2018:

Your choice, but you have already chosen once and... Really how well do you think you will do on the arse end of europe on your own?

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

@Coldo Except that the numbers don`t back you up

100,000 March in Glasgow.Scotland will gain independence.

273kelvin comments on May 6, 2018:

Your choice, but you have already chosen once and... Really how well do you think you will do on the arse end of europe on your own?

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

@Coldo Sorry to get in the way of your sense of national pride and bore you with reality

100,000 March in Glasgow.Scotland will gain independence.

273kelvin comments on May 6, 2018:

Your choice, but you have already chosen once and... Really how well do you think you will do on the arse end of europe on your own?

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

@Coldo Yes but you didn`t get over 50% and now the SNP is losing ground. Like I said your choice but look at all the problems brexit is causing in NI. Imagine that on your border? You gonna build a wall like Trump?

New guy on the block.

psycheworks comments on May 5, 2018:

I like trad jazz

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

That settles it. We're just going to have to date! There is a fantastic trad jazz band that you will adore. They play Matt & Freds in Man once a month but in the pool mostly. Except that they hate the term "trad jazz" https://youtu.be/dROBv0L-9I4

Meeting

273kelvin comments on May 4, 2018:

I have met in bars and online. The former is kind of hit and miss. The latter very tedious as men out number women so much. You have to do a lot of asking before you even get a response.

273kelvin replies on May 6, 2018:

@UUNJ It`s not just men that do that. You get that online too. One profile from a middle aged white woman required simply " Black fireman"

This is God's response to child rape.

TheMiddleWay comments on May 5, 2018:

If you've never prevented a rape and god has prevented even just one, then you are not more moral than your god. So, how many rapes have you prevented and how many has your god? I'll wait here while you ask him... might be a long wait though.... ;)

273kelvin replies on May 5, 2018:

@TheMiddleWay Coulda, woulda shoulda, no one can know gods infinite wisdom, bollocks. If he cannot or will not do anything. Then what bloody use is he/she/it? Take a look at Jerusalem, people talking to to him all day long. Does he answer says "killing people is not nice please stop?" does he shite. Personally the god you espouse is not someone I would like to live next door to, let alone worship.

This is God's response to child rape.

TheMiddleWay comments on May 5, 2018:

If you've never prevented a rape and god has prevented even just one, then you are not more moral than your god. So, how many rapes have you prevented and how many has your god? I'll wait here while you ask him... might be a long wait though.... ;)

273kelvin replies on May 5, 2018:

The question is not "have" but "would." You have no real way of knowing (for the most part) what you may have stopped or enabled. Unless you are in the police or medical profession It may have been that time you called a cab for a lady who had drunk too much or pointed out a suspicious character around some kids.You don`t know? The point is that we cannot be in gods image because nearly all of us would not allow evil things to continue

Liverpool airport changed its name a few years back to John Lennon airport (so named because it was ...

FrayedBear comments on May 4, 2018:

Lost me on that one @273Kelvin. I thought that the airport was at Speke? And little did he know that he was going from the fry pan to the fire.

273kelvin replies on May 5, 2018:

@silverotter11 Impossible to escape them in my city. The tourist tour bus goes past my window several times a day. The worst is they cast such a large shadow that new music can struggle to get some light. There have been some great bands that have come out of here since but never got the recognition that for example Manchester bands have. eg. Here`s the original version of an Amy Winehouse hit. https://youtu.be/ZRX3Wc-_sEI

How many people find it difficult to ask for help?

Ultra120 comments on May 5, 2018:

I do shit myself as much as humanly possible, it's just how I am. Sometimes tho I'll ask for help simply because I lack the expertise or level of skill needed to get it done right and exact..... that's OK too; no shame in that. It's just a matter of finding the right people to help you out.

273kelvin replies on May 5, 2018:

"I do shit myself as much as humanly possible," Has got to be the most unintentionally funny opening sentence ever. lol

A teaser for you; Abdul took 5 days to cross the desert.

SpaceThePlace comments on May 4, 2018:

Was the desert called Antarctica?

273kelvin replies on May 5, 2018:

You got it, well close as makes no never mind. Well done the only one to remember their high school geography class.

A teaser for you; Abdul took 5 days to cross the desert.

Clauddvon comments on May 4, 2018:

Desert survival. If he has any type of container with which to hold water, some plastic and any nearby plant life, he can make his own. Did he have any of these?