Maggie's Farm

If it's a big brute of a machine, hard to turn etc, etc...why are you then saying apologetically.

" hate saying it, but it isn't a machine for most females."

I don't hate flogging a dead horse cause they just lay there but the formulation of that comment is due to one thing..PC.

First it's the truth, but you had avoid leaving youself open for criticism from the East German females.


Ask yourself, "What other reason did I have for phrasing that the way I did? .....society has you fully trained in PC.

Ap..#1 Hope you are well..how is/was the fire?

#2 enjoyed you link...would add this to second to the last.

As an adult participant, I will take care of personal needs during break time, or when unavoidable, other brief periods if necessary, out of respect for the investment of time and energy of all members ( how it read now)

I would have it read :

I pledge to wear astronaut undies.

The fact is, the thing many of us decry and reputiate daily we supoort overtly..can't call it cognitive dissonance, it's more like an unconscious Pavlovian thing by now....In public I'm as guilty as anyone for to be otherwise is inviting a real confrontation with someone within earshot ..that I'm not worried about but I really don't need a hassle either.

It is frustrating to have what amounts to the "other side" winning occur. If they define the language they control the debate ..a few commentators refuse to genuflect to the PC gods but they find it hard on the wallet ...Pat Buchanan comes to mind.

There is no doubt the communication of ideas is controlled by the phraseology and usage as defined by the PC lords and until the most meager of steps is taken to break that tyranny then conservative thought can forget being a force for change.....even our President continues to call Islam a religion of peace ....Reagan made the Evil Empire stick and defeated it ..the Axis of Evil is now in negotiation with us. Wow.
Where once on Earth a man rallied an entire nation on the strength of his oratory to face the Nazi menace alone, we now, with all our military might can't muster a good insult to those who would kill us and are trying as hard as they can to do so. Are we simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up?

When Insults Had Class ...
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I
admire."
-- Winston Churchill
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

Clarence Darrow
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"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I

approved of it." -- Mark Twain
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"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --

Oscar Wilde
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"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."

-- Stephen Bishop
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"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -- John Bright
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"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -- Irvin S. Cobb
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"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."

-- Samuel Johnson
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"He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

Oscar Wilde
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