Gewgaw GYOO-gaw Part of speech: noun Origin: Middle English, unknown 1: A showy thing, ...

Marionville comments on Dec 28, 2020:

There seems to be no end to words for worthless trash!

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 28, 2020:

That is because so much of it gets elected

Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper [youtube.]

Moravian comments on Dec 28, 2020:

A great song but what is the message-- Lets have a suicide pact ?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 28, 2020:

The lyric is open to a multitude of interpretations, especially considering the era in which it was released, I see it more about coming to terms with mortality and how easy it is to be robbed of your liberty, or fooled in to surrendering it. Many people have seen the song as an advertisement and a glorification of suicide, I don't personally see it that way. It is about the inevitability of forces of nature life and love. What is more important how you live or how you die?

CONTRETEMPS.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 27, 2020:

When people think that at best you're curmudgeonly life is full of contretemps.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 27, 2020:

Bah Humbug!

The one and only [youtube.]

chalupacabre comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Guy's got quite the resume! Saw the name, but still thought it sounded like Nikko McBain starting Where Eagles Dare when he started

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 25, 2020:

Cozy Powell's dance with the Devil charted in 1973, Nikko McBrain's Where Eagles dare chartered 1983.

How true is this opinion?

ChestRockfield comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Not true at all. I commented on the exact same post of this you made.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@FrayedBear Not a priori facts, which are self affirming and necessarily unfalsifiable, such as "the part will always be less than the whole", and "a square must have four equal angles of 90% and all 4 sides of the same length" such facts are immutable laws of reality.

Janis Ian - Love Is Blind [youtube.com]

wordywalt comments on Dec 23, 2020:

She has such a beautiful voice. She should have many more hits than she has.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 24, 2020:

True, an amazing artist.

How true is this opinion?

ChestRockfield comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Not true at all. I commented on the exact same post of this you made.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@DangerDave The very definition of insanity.

One of my all time favorite Biblical contradictions.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 21, 2020:

YUP all of the 10 commandments come from the 42 laws of Ma'at and on top of that when "Noses" (love that) goes up to Mount Sinai who does he take with him? His Brother in Law Aaron who is by trade (wait for it) a Stone Mason. And not one of the million plus people supposed with the Israelites, ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@abyers1970 Yes but I am old and knackered

What was the title of the book which first turned you on to reading?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 23, 2020:

My personal favourite three books, that I read over and over again are **Treasure Island** By Robert Louis Stephenson **Dracula by Bram Stoker** I never fail to find something new in that book every time I read it and finally **The Sorrows of Satan by Marie Corelli ** THE best ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 23, 2020:

@Marionville Hardly remembered at all now Marie Corelli was once the best selling author of horror, social drama and Science fiction in the world, she invented the single volume novel, refusing to kowtow to her publishers demand that all books should be published in three parts to maximise profits. Unfortunately she had a long running feud with Literary critic Queenie Levis, when Levis' husband F.R. Levis was commissioned by Oxford University to compile the literary "canon" of English texts for use in Universities, his wife threatened to leave him if he included any of "That awful woman's books" in the said canon. It was not until 1996 that, after a long campaign by fans such as myself that her work was included again in the english literature syllabus. Today she is recognised as one of the earliest feminist authors, and as an early campaigner, albeit covertly, for lbtq rights. She is also something of a mystery in her own right, it is widely discussed as to who she actually was as there was never such as person as Marie Corelli legally and she adamantly refused to reveal her true name. Even after her death in 1924 her partner of 50 years Bertha Viers kept the secret, although the failed poet Eric McKay claimed to be her half brother naming her as Mary McKay, something the McKay family have now denied for generations. One particularly outlandish theory claims she was a Time Traveller hence her prophetic writings about world war one and her utilisation of an "Electronic Water Bath" in two or her novels to facilitate time travel (nine years before H.G. Wells postulated time travel) by sending your soul back down your ancestral line to possess a progenitor (A method blatantly stolen for the time travel machine in "Trancers" 1984)

What was the title of the book which first turned you on to reading?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 23, 2020:

I was always a reader, but the book that set me on the road to being a one or two novel a week reader was Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr. SPOILERS It is on the surface a children's novel, but in reality is a terrifying horror novel about a terminally ill 12 year old child at war with ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 23, 2020:

@Marionville It was written in 1958, way ahead of its time, and has never been out of print, massively influential, Wes Craven clearly read it as its shadow shows up in several of the nightmare on elm street films. It has been filmed twice as "Escape into night" 1972 and "Paperhouse" 1988, neither version was much good unfortunately.

Wishing a Cosmoterraprotective (to be) Happy Humanlight Day (today, 23 dec.

oldFloyd comments on Dec 23, 2020:

Good morning, humanlight? I use LEDs. 🙂

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 23, 2020:

@DangerDave So more over complication to an already overcrowded season. Kwanzaa light?

Now here's a national anthem to stir the emotions?

barjoe comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Truly the most awe inspiring anthem. https://youtu.be/HM-E2H1ChJM

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 23, 2020:

A strong contender for greatest film of all time.

Def Leppard climbed the chart in 1993 with the song Action, a hard hitting hard rocking ballad.

Budgie comments on Dec 23, 2020:

I grew up on Sweet this is so different from their early stuff.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 23, 2020:

Yes there were two very different phases to their career, pre and post RAK records.

One of my all time favorite Biblical contradictions.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 21, 2020:

YUP all of the 10 commandments come from the 42 laws of Ma'at and on top of that when "Noses" (love that) goes up to Mount Sinai who does he take with him? His Brother in Law Aaron who is by trade (wait for it) a Stone Mason. And not one of the million plus people supposed with the Israelites, ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 22, 2020:

@abyers1970 One would have thought so, especially when they took 40 years to do journey I could walk in 6 weeks.

Here is a classic Jacque Brel and La Chanson de Jacky 1966 [youtube.com]

altschmerz comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Do you have a translation?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 22, 2020:

@rogerbenham Well spotted Marc Almond was the lead singer of Soft Cell, a group that very much inspired Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe who both claim to have met and bonded over Marc being a major influence on their respective musical styles and in the formation of the Pet shop Boys in 1981.

Here is a classic Jacque Brel and La Chanson de Jacky 1966 [youtube.com]

altschmerz comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Do you have a translation?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 21, 2020:

here is Scott Walker's English language version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKtZf62BQzM=thefishermann or Marc Almond's disco version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRqgRJ13XLY=jeffreya

TEMERITY.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 20, 2020:

One of my favourites "Devlin: It's Lionheart alright, only HE would have the temerity to rewrite Shakespeare!" Theatre of Blood 1973 by Anthony Greville-Bell

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 20, 2020:

@Marionville In the film Lionheart is all three and a serial killer to boot, a frustrated actor played by Vincent Price knocking off all the London Theatre critics he perceives to have wronged him, one by one in suitably Shakespearean ways.

Editing responses containing photos results in loss of photo.! Please fix.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 19, 2020:

@Admin - on returning to respond to a member I notice that the photo has now appeared on my original response. Is there some sort of delay route that photos go through for approval before being posted on site?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 20, 2020:

I was going to inform you that the edit facility for response is for text only and that pictures are unaffected by its use (wow did I learn that the hard way) but looks like you've discovered it anyway.

You have got to be f__king joking?

Holysocks comments on Dec 19, 2020:

I believe in Satan Claws more than 'Dr.' Facade.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 20, 2020:

Façade

the porn star.

JackPedigo comments on Dec 18, 2020:

Good (not) role model for the kids.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 19, 2020:

@JackPedigo There is a difference between a considered opinion and an unfounded judgement call based on ignorant prejudice.

That ought to keep things toasty as we sit by the roaring fire, realizing we don't have a fireplace

Lizard_of_Ahaz comments on Dec 18, 2020:

............................

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 19, 2020:

stealing

the porn star.

JackPedigo comments on Dec 18, 2020:

Good (not) role model for the kids.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 18, 2020:

You think not? Tyger Drew-Honey the son of adult entertainers Ben Dover (real name Simon Honey) and Linzi Drew, is a successful actor, writer and TV presenter. Many adult film actors have conventional family lives and children who move on to successful careers both outside and inside the entertainment industry. Judging the fitness of a parent of a child by their legal career choice, I find unnecessarily snobbish.

My profile photo is a radio show about religion where I made a statement that "religion cheapens ...

skado comments on Dec 17, 2020:

All true... of religious fundamentalism. But not of “religion”.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 17, 2020:

@Aristippus so that includes the belief that their respective holy books are the true word of god?

Still wondering?...

bookofmorons comments on Dec 17, 2020:

Hope he found a good looking one

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 17, 2020:

The sheep is probably saying, "I don't mind this so much, the problem is when the bugger tries to kiss me!"

My profile photo is a radio show about religion where I made a statement that "religion cheapens ...

Willow_Wisp comments on Dec 17, 2020:

I don't know Jesus wasn't gay. There was the Disciple Jesus loved, who was resting his (or maybe her) head on his chest. There was the naked youth that ran off when Jesus was being arrested, maybe the same guy? Yea, a first century Jew that got to age 30 without ever getting married, I don't ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 17, 2020:

Christopher Marlowe 1564-1593 landed himself in deep trouble with the "Star Chamber" for claiming St. Peter was the "Alexis" of Jesus (what today we would call a bottom). Some historians claim this accusation lead to him having to fake his own death at the age of 29.

My profile photo is a radio show about religion where I made a statement that "religion cheapens ...

skado comments on Dec 17, 2020:

All true... of religious fundamentalism. But not of “religion”.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 17, 2020:

depends very much on how you define religion.

The previous two or three posts of music from Westerns has popped this song into my head.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

For so many of us Frankie Lane is the voice of the cowboy film, thanks for this.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 16, 2020:

@silverotter11 There were constant battles between Michael Curtiz and Hal Wallis over casting , Curtiz favouring Ronald Reagan and Anne Sheridan for the two leads, however when Reagan was called up for military service Wallis fortunately got his way, leading to the famous on set Tantrum by Michael Curtiz, screaming at Wallis in his thick European accent "You filthy American you think I know fuck nothing! Well I tell you this, I know FUCK ALL!" (as related in Claude Rains biography and quoted later in "bring on the empty horses" by David Niven). The original casting for Ugarte was rumoured to be Boris Karloff, however he was unavailable owing to health problems, instead he recommended his friend Peter Lorre for the role, as they had just finished filming "The Boogie man will get you".

Anyone recall the Bodyform commercials with the screaming vocals?

Marionville comments on Dec 15, 2020:

I don’t remember either the commercial or the song....and never heard of the group. Sorry!

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 15, 2020:

@Lilac-JadeCanada @Marionville Well I hope you enjoyed the song anyway.

The previous two or three posts of music from Westerns has popped this song into my head.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

For so many of us Frankie Lane is the voice of the cowboy film, thanks for this.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 15, 2020:

@Ray13, @silverotter11 Paul Henreid was the only member of the cast of Casablanca who was the original choice.

The previous two or three posts of music from Westerns has popped this song into my head.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

For so many of us Frankie Lane is the voice of the cowboy film, thanks for this.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 15, 2020:

@Ray13, @silverotter11 Richard Prior still retains a writers credit on Blazing saddles.

The previous two or three posts of music from Westerns has popped this song into my head.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 14, 2020:

For so many of us Frankie Lane is the voice of the cowboy film, thanks for this.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 15, 2020:

@Ray13 Bette Davis and David Niven originally were signed to star in "The African Queen", when that fell through Bogart and Hepburn were cast.

The most deadly virus is not C19?

barjoe comments on Dec 15, 2020:

You hate America don't you? I know John Pilger does. Always posting Anti-American shit. I'll tell you something about Palestine. When 19 Saudis blew up the Towers, they were dancing in the streets. They are Muslims, the worst religion on the planet. I'm the only person in this site who calls it ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 15, 2020:

@barjoe Hamlet, Act III, Scene II, 230

The most deadly virus is not C19?

barjoe comments on Dec 15, 2020:

You hate America don't you? I know John Pilger does. Always posting Anti-American shit. I'll tell you something about Palestine. When 19 Saudis blew up the Towers, they were dancing in the streets. They are Muslims, the worst religion on the planet. I'm the only person in this site who calls it ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 15, 2020:

@barjoe Strangely enough, unlike citizens of the USA, who are indoctrinated with flag worship and ultra nationalism from the start of their education, the rest of the world (including @FrayedBear, John Pilger and myself) are NOT obliged to love the USA, nor support their troops, nor treat the stars and stripes as an untouchable idol. I have noted recently that your posts have been taking an American Centric tone that verges on religious puritanism, when faced with the blasphemous utterings of a profane heretic you react with "righteous" rage worthy of a religious fanatic, have you noted this in yourself?

one of the most under rated bands of the 1980s THE EXPRESSOS [youtube.com]

Marionville comments on Dec 13, 2020:

Don’t remember them at all...they sound a bit like Blondie...at least ...I mean the vocalist sounds like Debbie Harry.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 13, 2020:

@Marionville the middle eight and chorus of the Expressos song is the main melody of the Robertson song, according to Rozzi, calling him on that was what got them sacked, he was a big name at the time, so got his way.

Pinacolada From the Indian horror movie ""Darr @ The Mall" (Death Mall) 2014 Sung by Aditi Singh ...

Marionville comments on Dec 13, 2020:

I didn’t realise Bollywood did horror! Like the song.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 13, 2020:

Yes it is a fun movie, a cut above the normal Bollywood and is genuinely scary

one of the most under rated bands of the 1980s THE EXPRESSOS [youtube.com]

Marionville comments on Dec 13, 2020:

Don’t remember them at all...they sound a bit like Blondie...at least ...I mean the vocalist sounds like Debbie Harry.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 13, 2020:

comprised of Rozzi Raynor vocals - Mick Toldi guitars - Nicholas Pyall guitars, keyboards - Milan Lekavica drums - Johnny Christo bass they came to my attention when they played the Dovecot Art centre in Teesside in 1981 and had just landed a contract to do music for the film "The Monster Club". Unfortunately they were ripped off by B.A. Robertson who was already doing music for the film, and he insisted they be fired, they toured for a few more years and released a couple of singles and their are albums still available Compare this to the song above https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4k8ZQBlqig=Aeolus13Umbra

Here is a curio, one of the few times a German Band topped the UK chart The song was written as an ...

FrayedBear comments on Dec 9, 2020:

I wouldn't say that it didn't prove the hypothisis. Quite the opposite.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 10, 2020:

@FrayedBear In Italy it went to no.5, it did not chart in Greece.

Here is a curio, one of the few times a German Band topped the UK chart The song was written as an ...

FrayedBear comments on Dec 9, 2020:

I wouldn't say that it didn't prove the hypothisis. Quite the opposite.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 10, 2020:

@FrayedBear It reached Number 4 in the Australian charts and stayed there for 6 weeks too.

I’m heading off to bed early tonight so I’m posting this song.

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 9, 2020:

My late writing partner and I once spent an entire drunken night trying to de-construct and decode the lyrics of whiter shade of Pale in an effect to understand what this song is actually about. In the end we decided that it means you can sell a lot of records if you sufficiently confuse your ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 9, 2020:

@Marionville Or it will put you off them for life. Working out what the lyrics to "Band of Gold" actually meant ruined it for me.

Florida state police raid home of Rebekah Jones, data scientist who challenged DeSantis on ...

RoboGraham comments on Dec 9, 2020:

Here's an update. This is a serious abuse of power.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 9, 2020:

@RoboGraham thanks for that.

Florida state police raid home of Rebekah Jones, data scientist who challenged DeSantis on ...

RoboGraham comments on Dec 9, 2020:

Here's an update. This is a serious abuse of power.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 9, 2020:

How do these lickspittles keep getting themselves in to such situations?

IRASCIBLE.

evidentialist comments on Dec 9, 2020:

This ink is completely irascible. No one will know anything was ever written there.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 9, 2020:

@Marionville That is actually a myth because the secret services from the Elizabethan age (and much earlier) were to embarrassed to admit what actual invisible ink was. Let us just say all male spies who were not eunuchs *came* with a near inexhaustible supply of "ink".

Could you call this "A non Pan Frying Stick"?

Cast1es comments on Dec 8, 2020:

As opposed to a non-stick , frying pan ?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 8, 2020:

that's the joke :)

playboy blast from the past

mischl comments on Dec 7, 2020:

This is a great alternative to the good old window light / backlighted technique, and does very well with this beautiful lady. And I'd probably edit out that bullet wound in her leg.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 7, 2020:

It was the seventies, down south it was probably considered sexy

Imagine a Muslim terrorist crossing the country purposely exposing people to a chemical weapon which...

Hanno comments on Dec 7, 2020:

Stupid Trump! First World Leader to close his country’s borders... And everyone called him racist and stupid. Then everybody did it. Biggest driver of the vaccine and made sure the US is the biggest contributor. Now we have vaccines in record time... thanks Trump. You know, because the US is...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 7, 2020:

@Hanno Wow

US Observers Endorse Venezuela's Election Legitimacy The elections are being monitored by 1,500 ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 6, 2020:

Certain parties in the US administration seem convinced all elections are rigged recently.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 7, 2020:

@William_Mary Wow well I will tell you what, when you publish your evidence and win your pulitzer prize I will be in the front row applauding your efforts and congratulating you on your reforming of the broken electoral system.

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FrayedBear comments on Dec 5, 2020:

Perhaps when throwing the bathwater (World Freedom Alliance) out the denigrators (like RT media report denigrators) should actually read some of their publications rather than focus on personal traits and foibles of individual committee members. I was impressed by the elegant erudite phrase ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 7, 2020:

@FrayedBear Mads Palsvig, is a notorious, perhaps even infamous proponent of the "hoaxer" nonsense as is Martin Byrne. The Irish Times June 20th Prof Dolores Cahill claimed that lockdown and social distancing were not needed to stop the spread of the virus, and that “politicians and the media” were using the pandemic “as a fear-mongering propaganda tool to try and take away rights from people and to make them more sick and to force vaccinations on us”. They may as well have has David Icke and Alex Jones on the Panel.

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FrayedBear comments on Dec 5, 2020:

Perhaps when throwing the bathwater (World Freedom Alliance) out the denigrators (like RT media report denigrators) should actually read some of their publications rather than focus on personal traits and foibles of individual committee members. I was impressed by the elegant erudite phrase ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 6, 2020:

As far as am aware, in the UK where vaccination has begun there is no force or compulsion being employed, it is a purely voluntary treatment available to those who desire it. As in all things choices have consequences and there is ample *reliable* information available for both options, without resorting to unofficial provocatively and emotively named organisation dedicated to the spread of unsubstantiated propaganda. However if a person really wishes to chose to believe that every government in the world is conspiring together (despite that fact many of them are at war with one another) to put forth a criminal agenda reliant on a hoax plague that does not exist, to ruin every economy in the world , so they can force everyone to be injected with smart nanotech spy drones for god only knows what purpose. And that almost every epidemiologist on the globe is party to and complicit in this fiendish plot then fine and dandy, but to reiterate "As in all things choices have consequences"

EXCORIATE - Verb.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 5, 2020:

It will be interesting to see if American excoriation of ex-President Trump results in skin loss or merely hot words.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 5, 2020:

@FrayedBear I think he both epitomises and personifies a part of the American character, the one that worships ignorance, mistrusts knowledge, one that mistakes bombast for patriotism and honestly believes all problems can be solved to their advantage if they carry a big enough gun. They are the America that despises change and anything other than the familiar, they are the America that wants to belong but to never evolve. The America that loves the boot that oppresses them because it is an American made boot that they might, if they are good and conform properly, one day be allowed to wear themselves.

I want to know what the fuck kind of cocaine was the director snorting when he decided to make A ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 4, 2020:

Which film?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 4, 2020:

@VineetHonkan I just read a synopsis: Urg, that is ***really*** fucked up!

DRONGO.

Charlene comments on Dec 4, 2020:

Should I leave for @frayedbear?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 4, 2020:

@Marionville In Teesside we call them "Bumblefucks" among other things.

Felicific calculus: The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure— Such marks in pleasures and in pains endure. Such pleasures seek if private be thy end: If it be public, wide let them extend Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view: If pains must come, let them extend to few. Jeremy Bentham the "mnemonic ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 4, 2020:

@JackPedigo No not at all, he studied Philosophy and and English at college and university, before doing his masters degree in creative writing.

MY favourite piece of music of all time Benny Goodman and sing sing sing.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 3, 2020:

What was your programme about Len?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 4, 2020:

@FrayedBear Thanks man :)

The 25% Tipping Point - Yes! Magazine

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

I feel that this very subjective and very much depends on which conventional beliefs and behaviors are under consideration.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 3, 2020:

@AnonySchmoose Yes good word, perhaps Transcendent or hypernormal would suffice too?

The 25% Tipping Point - Yes! Magazine

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

I feel that this very subjective and very much depends on which conventional beliefs and behaviors are under consideration.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 3, 2020:

@AnonySchmoose I believe that if you and I share the same feelings about Music and Nature it is more of a sensation of being at one with and in awe of natural beauty and the workings of the universe. When I was a believer I would have called it a prompting of the Holy Spirit, hopefully now I know better.

The 25% Tipping Point - Yes! Magazine

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

I feel that this very subjective and very much depends on which conventional beliefs and behaviors are under consideration.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 3, 2020:

@AnonySchmoose When someone comes up with an accepted definition of spiritual that "spiritual" people can agree on I'll consider the evidence for *atheist and spiritual*. As it stands "spiritual can mean anything and everything that the speaker wishes it to mean, it is a catch all term that may or may not have supernatural connotations, may or may not refer to matter of a soul or spirit, may or may not be associated with mental conditions and reactions or may or may not involve superstitions about everything from deism to ancient aliens. When it stops being a bull shit catch all term I will pay attention to it, as it stands at the moment I won't waste time on people who quite literally don't know what they are talking about.

I would like to ask members to read my post of April 27th concerning the mental health impact of the...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

link please?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 3, 2020:

@Austin-Cambridge This is the link to it https://agnostic.com/group/criticalthinking/discussion/489823/do-any-ct-members-agree-with-my-sentiment-that-the-long-term-and-most-profound-effects-of-this-pande

MY favourite piece of music of all time Benny Goodman and sing sing sing.

FrayedBear comments on Dec 3, 2020:

What was your programme about Len?

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 3, 2020:

I did a couple of shows, one on film soundtracks and one Tv themes, I also sometimes filled in a the afternoon phone in show. https://www.cvfm.org.uk/

Felicific calculus: The felicific calculus is an algorithm formulated by utilitarian philosopher ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Intense, long, certain, speedy, fruitful, pure— Such marks in pleasures and in pains endure. Such pleasures seek if private be thy end: If it be public, wide let them extend Such pains avoid, whichever be thy view: If pains must come, let them extend to few. Jeremy Bentham the "mnemonic ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 3, 2020:

you can thank my son for the above, he is a great admirer of Bentham

Do you like red hon?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Gil Evgren's work perhaps the best ever in the pin up field

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 2, 2020:

@MerlinZap There's one posted above here is another

Love This. What do you think?

Word comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Socialism - a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. Where is every citizen getting a dividend check from all the profits from all sales? Where does ...

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 2, 2020:

you are making the usual deliberate strawman argument of confusing socialism with marxism. Even Marx himself drew a distinction between the two, though he saw socialism as a transitional state between Capitalism and communism. Most people referring to themselves as socialists today and most of the successful socialist countries are either **Social democracies** (capitalism subject to checks and balances) or are ***democratic socialist republics*** (Capitalist societies with state owned and governed safety nets such as universal health care, welfare for the old and infirm, free education and none military law enforcement.)

I DO like heavy balls but...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

I'm tempted to say that is an Alberto Vargas, but it looks a little too modern.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 2, 2020:

I'm wrong it is George Quintana the highly rouged cheeks give it away.

A slightly old "Good Morning Britain" pre US election segment with John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Yeah Johnny Rotten is work class. He's been filthy rich since the 1970s, and only a few years ago copped out and started advertising butter on ITV TV in a hypocritical display of two facedness of the Punk ethic he practically figured headed. What a fucking dildo.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 2, 2020:

@FrayedBear Billy Bragg used to have a support band called Shrug, who's lead singer worked for me for five years, they were intentionally terrible and when this was pointed out to them they would ...Shrug. https://teessidetunes.wordpress.com/2014/04/24/shrug-the-teesside-band-with-a-little-known-place-in-history/

A slightly old "Good Morning Britain" pre US election segment with John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten of ...

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Yeah Johnny Rotten is work class. He's been filthy rich since the 1970s, and only a few years ago copped out and started advertising butter on ITV TV in a hypocritical display of two facedness of the Punk ethic he practically figured headed. What a fucking dildo.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 2, 2020:

@Fernapple His family were irish immigrants and lived in a two bedroom flat in the east end of London, his father was a builder mate and did contract work on construction sites and oil rigs. My point being he was working class by birth but from the age of 19 has been a well paid, rich personality and (sort of) musician who made a living by being fucking outrageous and a professional rebel. To still be calling himself working call at 64 is laughable, the only working class job he ever had was as a minicab driver for 5 minutes when he was 17.

Who here has seen the movie The Crucible? What are your thoughts on it?

LenHazell53 comments on Dec 2, 2020:

Which version, there are at least seven remakes counting TV movies.

LenHazell53 replies on Dec 2, 2020:

@VineetHonkan It's not bad, but the best for me will always be the 1959 version with Sean Connery. Even though Arthur Miller did the adaptation himself, 40 odd years on, this just goes to prove the difference in writing for theatre and writing for the screen in 1959, Miller's play was used verbatim and is the better for it. To get Miller's full impact and meaning you need to see the stage production.

WAPPENSHAW.

FrayedBear comments on Nov 30, 2020:

Challenged. It's not english, it's Scottish dialect and probably not used for a very long time.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 30, 2020:

@FrayedBear I can meet and refute your challenge, since as of 1807 "The Wapenshaw" (alternate spelling as is wappenschaw) has been registered as the name of a country dance, performed throughout the world and registered with the international country dance society as "A reel of British origin based upon the ceremonial military display of armaments ". It is therefore an obscure but official Proper Noun in the English language. 😉😉

WAPPENSHAW.

FrayedBear comments on Nov 30, 2020:

Challenged. It's not english, it's Scottish dialect and probably not used for a very long time.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 30, 2020:

@Marionville You explained that better than I could have, it gets even more complex when people talk about the British isles, which includes not only the mainland & northern Ireland but a couple of dozen other semi autonomous Islands such as the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and even the Falklands.

For the record, I have problems with C.S. Lewis, but this has a humanist feel to it.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

I loved Lewis as a child and read his works voraciously. Looking back now as an adult I find him very problematic in so many, many ways. His books read like a fundamentalist, theocratic, misogynist dictators wet dream.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 30, 2020:

@WilliamCharles Perelandra was the first book to alert me as to just how screwed up Lewis' stories really are.

What are the aspects of religion which should be removed from any good religion?

BrianFey comments on Nov 13, 2020:

What are the best non-theistic religions in the world now?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 29, 2020:

@BrianFey ***The Church of Satan*** is a neo theistic organisation founded in 1966 by Anton LeVey who claimed to be atheist but was only so in respect of the Christian god, you are perhaps confusing it with ***the Satanic Temple*** which is a humanistic atheist organisation founded in 2013. There also several other Churches of satanism which are theistic

Some religious leaders get very wealthy from their churches.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

The Mormon's tried unpaid clergy, it was an excuse just to divert all the cash to the leadership. I don't think you can design a better religion, because the concept is inherently flawed. A better religion is only ever going to be a polished turd, no matter how pretty you make it look it is still ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 29, 2020:

@BrianFey You may be interested in "The Society of Friends" also known as the Quakers. They have a council of elders, but no local or regional clery, nor do the practice any of the sacraments. It is core tenet of the society that the actual Christian priesthood was lost and will one day be restored by christ and so there is no actual clergy, only senior members. However they do have business interests such as schools financed by more wealthy member on behalf of the society as a whole and operate in business with an almost freemasonic fervour, with members expected to favour other "Friends" over the profane individuals outside of the church. I have not researched it enough to know where all donations privately sent to the society by members, do actually go.

What are the aspects of religion which should be removed from any good religion?

BrianFey comments on Nov 13, 2020:

What are the best non-theistic religions in the world now?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 29, 2020:

It is likely there is no such thing, even lifestyle religions such as some forms of Buddhism deify nature or the universe itself. Therefore the nearest I can guess to what you may be seeking is Deism.

VERBOSE - Adjective.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 29, 2020:

Mine own idiosyncratic and individualistic verbosity and lack of conciseness has upon numerous or even super numerous junctures has brought about and engendered criticisms, to a more abundant intensity than is, mayhap to mine own partiality? Translation: Yeah I've copped for that.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 29, 2020:

@FrayedBear No not verbose, it is simply that US writers feel it is necessary to explain EVERYTHING to their readers, UK writers assume a degree of intelligence in their audience. Also there was for years a tradition in the USA of writers being paid by the word and as Harlan Ellison once explained *"never shoot an antagonist once if you can shoot them three times, those extra two BANGS will buy you a newspaper or a loaf of bread."*

TANGENTIAL.

t1nick comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Kind of sums up trump's entire term in office. He spent more time acting tangentially than ever addressing things directly.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 29, 2020:

I'd personally class Trump more as a fake Tan-genital than tangential.

So, our newly-added Supreme Court "Justice" has been the critical vote in deciding to block (at ...

PBuck0145 comments on Nov 26, 2020:

Most atheists in non-Communist nations support liberty, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 28, 2020:

@PBuck0145

Maggie Thatcher, first female Prime Minster of England, resigned this day in 1990: ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 28, 2020:

A day only surpassed in joy by 8 April 2013 when the news broke that the evil old baggage had finally fucking died. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0TuXLrvyE4=maestro66uk

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 28, 2020:

@girlwithsmiles Yes there was a smaller Statue of her too, placed in a London park, but after the head was knocked off for the third time it was placed in a local museum, where again it was decapitated and defaced four times and so was placed in a cellar where it resides to this day. This new attempt seems to be tempting providence.

So, our newly-added Supreme Court "Justice" has been the critical vote in deciding to block (at ...

PBuck0145 comments on Nov 26, 2020:

Most atheists in non-Communist nations support liberty, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 28, 2020:

@PBuck0145 ***"Most atheists ... support liberty, freedom of expression and freedom of religion." "Freedom of includes freedom from."*** Not when freedom of religion connotes Freedom to commit atrocities Freedom to practice bigotry Freedom to break secular law Freedom to protect paedophiles Freedom to impose religiously based laws on a secular society Freedom to limit freedom of speech or to abolish it as blasphemy Freedom to place religious symbols including statues glorying in torture murder and death in public places Freedom to Lie to and terrify children Freedom to undermine science and provable facts Freedom to to oppress women and minorities Freedom to to promote hypocrisy Freedom to mutilate the genitals of infants Freedom to be a self righteous public asshole! THIS atheist would never support such a freedom, because to do so is to advocate for a theocratic dictatorship of misogynist, racist, totalitarian, dangerously stupid, child abusive, perverts! And don't tell me that not ALL religious people are like that, because those that are not actively opposed, tacitly support those that are in favour and so are guilty by association, before, after and during the fact!

my olde tyme bulldog puppy playing with one of my ten-year-old sharpei brothers. [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Beautiful

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 27, 2020:

@LeighShelton She is my first, I Always had staffies prior to this, but I think I am a convert lol

So, our newly-added Supreme Court "Justice" has been the critical vote in deciding to block (at ...

PBuck0145 comments on Nov 26, 2020:

Most atheists in non-Communist nations support liberty, freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 27, 2020:

FROM religion, not OF, From

my olde tyme bulldog puppy playing with one of my ten-year-old sharpei brothers. [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 27, 2020:

Beautiful

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 27, 2020:

@LeighShelton this is my Sharpei KhoKho

Couth A word that many do not know as they are uncouth.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 23, 2020:

It used to be a running joke in the Beano comic to call naughty children an uncouth youth

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 23, 2020:

@FrayedBear My father, my son and I all grew up reading the Beano, a particularly British (specifically Scotts) humour magazine for children published by D.C. Thomson of Dundee since 1940 and still is popular today, and is fundamentally unchanged, other than in price, my Father paid a half penny a week , I paid 3d and my son a pound, it currently retails at £3.60 a week.

I have a liking for Japanese rock music enjoy Watamote by "Konomi Suzuki n' Kiba of Akiba" ...

altschmerz comments on Nov 21, 2020:

Very energetic! Reminds me a little of the opening song for "Death Note".

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 22, 2020:

@altschmerz even after 21 years "Maximum The Hormone" ( named for their lead guitarist and songwriter Maximum Ryo-kun, who in turn copied his look and name from Glam Rock Icon Roy Wood) are still touring today, albeit with a slightly altered line up. They are possibly the most successful Thrash Metal band in Japan, though they have always insisted they are Hardcore Punk.

My last post seemed to be a bit heavy for some, so here are Korean pop girl band "Orange Caramel" ...

Marionville comments on Nov 22, 2020:

Since you seem to be our resident expert on Korean music...what’s the state of the music industry in North Korea these days? I believe I read that Mrs. Kim...the president’s wife was a pop singer prior to her marriage.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 22, 2020:

not really sure, know more about south Korea sorry

I have a liking for Japanese rock music enjoy Watamote by "Konomi Suzuki n' Kiba of Akiba" ...

altschmerz comments on Nov 21, 2020:

Very energetic! Reminds me a little of the opening song for "Death Note".

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 22, 2020:

Death note's main theme was by by Yoshihisa Hirano and Hideki Taniuchi's band *Nightmare*. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A59xr7NwVtk=GreyEyes

SKIVE verb, to find a way of evading work or duty.

Wisterious comments on Nov 21, 2020:

I thought it was underwear. No? 😁

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 21, 2020:

That's Skivvies

“We can’t direct the wind but we can adjust the sails”............Cora L.V. Hatch.

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 21, 2020:

Cora L. V. Hatch said this in 1859 Thomas S. Monson was a lying, bigoted, homophobic fuckwit. An electrocuter of Mormon homosexual children with the blood of a thousand youth suicides on his hands. A man who never had an original thought in his life, who as the late prophet of the LDS church ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 21, 2020:

@Marionville Actually I meant she made the original quote, Monson stole it and in typical mormon fashion attributed it to himself. Thomas S. Monson (died January 2, 2018) was a monster, and those opinions of him are mine.

RATIONCINATE rash-ee-OH-sin-ate Part of speech: verb Origin: Latin, mid 17th century 1: Form ...

t1nick comments on Nov 21, 2020:

This archaic form was replaced by the more common usage, "rationalize"??

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 21, 2020:

That is incorrect Ratiocinate is a synonym for Rationalise both mean to deduce attributes of an action or thing from logic and evidence. Rationalize means to ascribe meaning or motivation to an action or thing other than by logic but by similarity usually in order to excuse an obvious mistake. For example one might rationalise that the actions of Trump are the result of mental delusion, while Trump himself might rationalize his actions by blaming them on a conspiracy of others to make him look deluded. -ise (latin suffix via French ) and -ize (Greek suffix) have completely different etymological roots, they are NOT simply alternate spellings, other than in some parts of the USA that cares fuck all for etymology, lexicography and philology.

Anal Wax [youtu.be]

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Everything we eat comes from somewhere and was once alive, or still is. Is it not cognitive dissonance to object to eating one living thing while happily munching down on another?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 20, 2020:

@JackPedigo I have to agree with you, I recall a school trip as a young child (8 or 9 years old) to a local farm and a few of the other kids throwing up on discovering where milk and eggs came from. My brother too used to freak out his kids and wife by calling eggs chicken periods.

METATARSALGIA.

AgnoBill comments on Nov 20, 2020:

Like the winner in an ass-kicking contest.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 20, 2020:

@Marionville Confucius he say "never get in an arse kicking contest with a hedgehog"

I don't think it uncommon but?

Word comments on Nov 19, 2020:

constructive criticism is something of an oxymoron it is point out someones faults albeit with intent for improvement, nonetheless still pointing out faults.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 19, 2020:

"constructive criticism is something of an oxymoron" No it is not, and my constructive criticism to you is that you are making a fool of yourself.

"Several parents recently pleaded with a Quebec Superior Court judge to uphold the province's ...

altschmerz comments on Nov 18, 2020:

If it's not interfering with anything, I mean what does it hurt to wear a cross, hijab, or kippah? I think kids should be allowed to wear those things if they want, so long as they follow the dress code otherwise.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 18, 2020:

It is the thin end of the wedge, once you begin to make exceptions for one person for whatever reason, you may as well have no dress code at all, because within weeks you won't, you'll just have a list of exception. The whole point of uniforms or dress codes is to promote equality, to place all members on an equal footing in a set environment with the only variations being insignia of rank or purpose.

Trump is determined leave America in the most vulnerable position possible since he was not ...

QuidamOutrepont comments on Nov 18, 2020:

Can a President be impeached after losing an election?!

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 18, 2020:

no but he can be arrested.

Here's something to think about.....

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 17, 2020:

Prayer Because an omnipotent god knows what you want and need, but really likes to hear you beg for it.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 18, 2020:

@TheoryNumber3 My point exactly and succinctly 😊😊👍👍👍

[aol.] Should the US lock down again to stop Covid-19? More people are dying now!!!!!!

Barnie2years comments on Nov 16, 2020:

People won’t even wear masks. How many do you think would pay attention to a lockdown? They refused to stay out of their churches. They refused to separate and stay off of beaches. Couldn’t help having large parties with no attempt at socially distancing. So how much use would a National ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 17, 2020:

It worked in the UK, reducing the daily death rate from an average of 380 per day to 8 per day. Unfortunately it was then relaxed completely almost literally overnight and now we are back up to nearly 400 per day. But that's capitalism, profit and property will always matter more than that infinitely replaceable and cheap commodity **lives** . People say a lockdown will infringe on their freedom, well such people should feel free to fucking die, but if the infect others then the rest of us should be free to charge the bastards with attempted and actual **murder**

[aol.] Should the US lock down again to stop Covid-19? More people are dying now!!!!!!

BitFlipper comments on Nov 16, 2020:

The term "lock down" was chosen by the right-wing because it has a negative connotation. It comes from prison lingo. That being said, YES, the US should have a period of serious general quarantine to stop the rampant propagation of the virus. According to experts, 2 or 3 weeks should do it.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 17, 2020:

NO it doesn't. A lockdown (noun) originally was a merchant seaman's term for a securing of cargo, *to prevent damage* by movement during a storm. To lock down (verb) has been taken and used by the prison service but was a military term dating from the middle ages meaning to place a fort or castle in to a state of defence against a perceived threat from outside as opposed to a lock up for containing a threat from within.

[aol.] Should the US lock down again to stop Covid-19? More people are dying now!!!!!!

barjoe comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Trump says he won't lockdown in this administration. I don't know about any other...We shall see. I won't do it.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 17, 2020:

***"I won't do it."*** Then you're an idiot and a selfish bastard. I make no apologies for stating a fact.

Des O'Connor, an all-round entertainer who was a household name across the decades, has died aged 88...

Word comments on Nov 16, 2020:

He's not much twice my age and I have never known that name in any household I have been in.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 16, 2020:

And I needed to know that for why?

Anyone else remember Bonnie Dobson? [youtube.com]

Marionville comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Yes...it’s beautiful and most people are unaware of her or that she wrote this great song. The Grateful Dead & Nazareth, amongst a whole list of others, have covered it. Beautiful original version..the best.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 16, 2020:

@Marionville Yes she performed live in my home twon two years ago, unfortunately at the time I could not afford to attend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e-d_O8TFsE=rock%26popsgoodmusic%E2%85%A1

Anyone else remember Bonnie Dobson? [youtube.com]

Marionville comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Yes...it’s beautiful and most people are unaware of her or that she wrote this great song. The Grateful Dead & Nazareth, amongst a whole list of others, have covered it. Beautiful original version..the best.

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 16, 2020:

She is still alive and well and plays venues in the south of England were she now lives. Along with Janis Ian she is one of my all time favourite female singer songwriters.

Who remembers Winifred Atwell?

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 16, 2020:

Yes, she was great. Along with Fat's Domino and Eartha Kitt her records were played a lot in our house when I was a kid. Odd that while my dad was such a Bigot who hated "our tinted brethren" (his term not mine) he sure did love black music. ...

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 16, 2020:

@FrayedBear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLN8AiQk-dw=gerrienails

Jehovah’s Witnesses Forced a Teen to Listen to Audio of Her Own Rape | Val Wilde | Friendly ...

LenHazell53 comments on Nov 15, 2020:

Where the fuck are and were her parents? How could they possibly condone this?

LenHazell53 replies on Nov 15, 2020:

@Triphid Well in my book the Parents of a Complainant, should then introduce the Council of Elders' bollocks to the business end of a steel toe capped boot.