Today!

[Donald]

Can us men join this WI Chapter

Living-on-the-edge stuff. You're a braver man than I.

[wilgk]

You are getting too darn good, my dear! It's a brilliant book, by the way, in case you haven't read it.

Cheers! - I was looking for the little Cheerleader smiley doing a victory Dance, but couldn't find her...?

and no I haven't read the book -but if this is anything to go by, I reckon I would like that chick

Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society.

Really does sound like Katy.....Steve wouldn't understand I don't think.....oh sorry Steve there you are, I didn't see you for those wee flashing lights

[Katy Noelle]

But did you manage to solve that one?

oops! Sorry! I was distracted! I thought that was a suspicious name for a probable Welshman, though!

[Katy Noelle]

and no I haven't read the book -but if this is anything to go by, I reckon I would like that chick

Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society.

Really does sound like Katy....

hee!

[Wirefox]

Mary Shelley's works often argue that cooperation and sympathy, particularly as practised by women in the family, were the ways to reform civil society.

Or it could be a way of keeping the stronger sex in a position of less direct political and social influence. Many women still aid and abet the weaker sex in their struggle to maintain dominance. Not sure what reforms can be made on civil society from the home but you can bet it is only as reforming as the power lords allow it to be. Women are far better equipped to lead civilised society. In fact I wouldn't mind the most reforming ideas come from women and are only hashed up when handed over to the males for implementation.

And yes I burned my bra years ago...until I realised Ms Greer was actually trying to turn women into men....true feminism

Steve wouldn't understand I don't think.

Ye of little faith...

[Donald]

Women are far better equipped to lead civilised society.

Unless their initials are M T (but the jury's still out out on whether she was a woman!)

But, that aberration excepted, you're absolutely right.

[wilgk]

what jolly good sports you are...it would be no fun at all teasing someone who went all petulant and crabby and sent me the website of the other forum in a PM ...(oh you mean you didn't mean to send me that )

I of course am the loser of this round of jousting as I was the first to take the bait as offered thus

Can us men join this WI Chapter or are we here as observers? Oh I see Rob has already settled himself in with a scone and a jar of CiC orange and honey preserve. Let me know at which meeting we get to boast how big our vegetables are I think I might be good at that.

actually I believe hook line and sinker are terms springing to mind...when I should have perhaps just turned the other 'scone', but where is the fun in that?

p.s I've never really liked that GG woman....too save the gay whales, hairy armpit, birenstock wearing for me....(Kevin doesn't like her either)

[rob marshall]

p.s I've never really liked that GG woman....too save the gay whales, hairy armpit, birenstock wearing for me....(Kevin doesn't like her either)

I used to see her in my local supermarket when I lived in Cambridge. She looked quite harmless wandering around Budgens.

[Suzanne]

Too bad I didn't know about your place a couple weeks ago when I was in the area

Anyway, I applied a warming filter to the picture. It wasn't the plate that bugged me, it was the fork, the scone and the whipped cream.



I might have been a touch aggressive on the warming, and I didn't play with the exposure, or anything else but maybe a little tiny tweak with curves. I don't think this damages the delicate blue of the plate. This is more a question than anything, but I think it is a slight improvement.

Katy: AHA it was the blue plate with a white plate on top! I thought so.

To the rest of you: you have no idea how right you are about Shelley and Katy though when it comes to the nitty gritty "romantisism" I probably fit the bill better. Unless you have a dark side I don't know about, Katy?

[wilgk]

Unless you have a dark side I don't know about, Katy?

...nope sure she said she had a canon

[Katy Noelle]

Katy: AHA it was the blue plate with a white plate on top! I thought so.

To the rest of you: you have no idea how right you are about Shelley and Katy though when it comes to the nitty gritty "romantisism" I probably fit the bill better. Unless you have a dark side I don't know about, Katy?

SUZY! (Extreme exasperation) a photoshopped plate is NOT proof!!!

Lordy! Help me! This thread!!!

[Camellia]

SUZY! (Extreme exasperation) a photoshopped plate is NOT proof!!!

Lordy! Help me! This thread!!!

Encore! I'm enjoying this.

And I want to hear more of Steve's views on feminism. Maybe he's taken a course in gender studies?

And Rob gets to bump into exotic people in supermarkets - wow!

I'm testing my memory here but there was a movie quite a while ago about the Shelleys and Byron. I think it was called Gothic. Fantastic stuff.

[tameigh]

Katy is right, you should never have trusted photoshop, the plate was pink.

[Katy Noelle]

To quote (loosely) my fictional 19th century hero when I was growing up, Jo March..... "I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good but because they are male and women should not vote because they are angels and men are animals but because we are human beings and citizens of this country." (from the book or the movie?) Well, perhaps we've got the vote but it is the "song that never ends." (kind of like this thread.) Pedestals are shaky!

HOWever, I do believe that Kay's lovely comment was directed towards peace and so are my thoughts. (Not a word about planets anyone or I will ask a mod to close this thread!!!)

P.S. Tim must have got my PM, by now, filled with uproarious laughter! =]

[Wirefox]

Kay, you missed my qualifying sentence

Let me know at which meeting we get to boast how big our vegetables are I think I might be good at that.

Tis the basis of all mans noble actions...until we reach 40 then it becomes the basis of all the worlds strife

just turned the other 'scone'

p.s I've never really liked that GG woman....too save the gay whales, hairy armpit, birenstock wearing for me....(Kevin doesn't like her either)

I think Kevin has excellent instincts

[rob marshall]

And Rob gets to bump into exotic people in supermarkets - wow!

Exotic? You're only saying that because GG is Australian.

I'm testing my memory here but there was a movie quite a while ago about the Shelleys and Byron. I think it was called Gothic. Fantastic stuff.

Haven't seen that one, but if you are interested in the people around that period the film 'Byron' is very good... http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0369084/ Mary Shelley is one of the characters in the the movie.

[wilgk]

Exotic? You're only saying that because GG is Australian.

Unfortunately so is Mel Gibson...so please don't hold that against us....I'm actually going now to have another glass of Red and think of Australians who I would be happy to claim.........hmmm....
what was that...? ooh a text message on the phone.....golly me, I wonder who that could be?

[rob marshall]

Unfortunately so is Mel Gibson...so please don't hold that against us....I'm actually going now to have another glass of Red and think of Australians who I would be happy to claim.........hmmm....
what was that...? ooh a text message on the phone.....golly me, I wonder who that could be?

Mel Gibson. Want's to query that first sentence?

[wilgk]

Mel Gibson. Want's to query that first sentence?

LOL but nope it was some other guy saying he was at a bit of a loose end, now that Ms Hurley was otherwise occupied...perhaps he's spotted my smiling eye behind the lens somewhere

[tameigh]

I *like* Mel Gibson and his %100 percent accurate portrayal of British, especially English, conduct throughout history.

I don't think that Hugh Jackman or Nicole Kidman have brought any disrepute on OZ. And Mel Gibson? He is an artist and I have found that it is always best to ignore the private lives and opinions of artists or I, for one, could never go to the movies.