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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1239 Posts |
 Posted - 29/05/2007 : 21:16:13
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I am as guilty as anybody.
I have pointed to shortcomings, and there is no denying that Portslade gets a raw deal. No New Road for us, part-time traffic option or otherwise. (Perhaps the new management of the Council will look at the gains it has made here, and reward us accordingly...)
Meanwhile, in the great scheme of things, isn't life in Brighton and Hove and Portslade - unlike Peacehaven - preferable to being some speck of gas in a remote corner of the Universe millions of years behind us?
Then again, did we but know it, that speck of gas could harbour a civilisation so infintiely superior to ours that we cannot have the least grasp of it.
Either way, isn't there so much to enjoy - we'll all be gone in a hundred years' time - that we can be needlessly be waylaid by the doom merchants to which this area seems to give succour?
I offer it as a point of view, not a statement.
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5323 Posts |
Posted - 29/05/2007 : 22:36:33
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True enough I suppose ... things could always be much worse.
Have you ever thought that we could in fact be someones' speck of gas in a remote corner of their universe? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Joe Bloggs
Alagaësía
72 Posts |
Posted - 29/05/2007 : 22:57:37
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I keep consoling myself with the beautiful fact that at least Chelsea didn't win the Premiership, despite the squillions spent. 
And there are only 73 days, 16 hours, 1 minute and 18 seconds until the new season kicks off again (at time of posting).
And there's more than enough gas and hot air in the Council to keep any scientist content for a lifetime. |
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Control Panel
Discworld
1167 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 11:26:02
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| On a day like this it is some consolation to think that when this planet began it rained for hundreds of thousands of years non - stop. |
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n/a
deleted
240 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 11:40:49
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| Things are as bad as you want to make them; it's the glass half empty or half full that sort of thing. But it's always room for improvement. |
Edited by - n/a on 30/05/2007 11:41:58 |
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Borninhove
Calaspia
934 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 11:52:29
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Things are bad
And that is because of pathetic
Evil B...
Nope, things are pretty darn good, actually. |
 Valhalla, I am coming! |
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The Duke of Uranus
Barsoom
293 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 11:59:50
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No Expert
Barsoom
398 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 12:04:56
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things aren't that bad
you can buy £3 jeans
in tesco
Much cheaper
than asdawalmartgeorgeyporgypuddingandpie |
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Borninhove
Calaspia
934 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 12:14:42
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And cheese ... what about cheese?
When in the history of mankind has such a wide selection of different cheeses been available to such a large number of people? Isn't that a wonderful thing? A Brazilian can buy Gouda while a Japanese can buy Mozarella and a Kenyan can get a nice piece of Camembert. Cheddar is still unavailable in Italy, unfortunately, but who knows what the future might bring? It's all so exciting.
Unless you are lactose intolerant.
Or vegan, but then I doubt there's much joy in your life anyone, unless smugness can be construed as hapiness.
So "Hurrah!" for all that is good and pink and fluffy and smells everso slightly of lavender talcum powder. |
Valhalla, I am coming! |
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Daveb
Discworld
1896 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 15:12:55
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All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All thing wise and wonderful
We can make sandwiches out of them all! |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
Edited by - Daveb on 30/05/2007 15:32:52 |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5323 Posts |
Posted - 30/05/2007 : 15:30:02
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quote:
Originally posted by Daveb
All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All thing wise and wonderful
We can make sandwiches out of the all!
I'll have an elephant's ear on rye please ... |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1239 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2007 : 15:38:37
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I suppose it is good news - Boundary Road was closed yesterday owing to a suspicious parcel on the sidewalk, but this turned out not to be a bomb.
Even so, it is perhaps typical that the closest Portslade has come to excitement lately is a false alarm.
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Captain Hawkeye
Barsoom
United Kingdom
391 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2007 : 16:08:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
I suppose it is good news - Boundary Road was closed yesterday owing to a suspicious parcel on the sidewalk, but this turned out not to be a bomb.
Even so, it is perhaps typical that the closest Portslade has come to excitement lately is a false alarm.
What about the welcome for the new supermarket chain ? |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
5323 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2007 : 16:22:47
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| Aldi? Has that opened then? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1239 Posts |
Posted - 13/06/2007 : 18:59:39
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| Surprising that LTNS has not popped up in this topic to proclaim his own tea-driven brand of good cheer. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
6457 Posts |
Posted - 22/09/2007 : 13:02:31
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quote:
Originally posted by Infinite Poppadum
Surprising that LTNS has not popped up
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Control Panel
Discworld
1167 Posts |
Posted - 22/09/2007 : 14:48:57
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| It is unusual for LTNS to spend three months in thinking about something. |
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FUBAR
Barsoom
392 Posts |
Posted - 22/09/2007 : 23:07:41
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From the look of him a good barber wouldn't go amiss either..... |
I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left.. |
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Tombstone Blues
Discworld
1946 Posts |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
1239 Posts |
Posted - 23/09/2007 : 10:00:18
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| LTNS could be fatally tempted to visit a barber who also deals in pies... |
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Is It All So Bad?