Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s Comments (group member since Sep 20, 2013)

Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)’s comments from the Net Work Book Club group.

Not really a joke, but something I overheard on the street. One woman telling another about a third woman "and she said this, and then she said that! I don't believe it, do you?"
Her friend responded: "Well, you know X--her relationship with reality is not a close one."

But honey, if you get restless?

You gonna grass somebody up, big guy?

Oh, c'mon, don't be a cow!

Neigh, indeed, they can't.

Horses can't vomit, either. Fact.

I could use some of that...I yelled myself horse last night watching Wales play France...they lost. :(

"Aim low, Sherriff--they's ridin' Shetlands!"

Yes but the "taxation" came in with the Stamp Act: the stamp showed that the tax had been paid.

Frenchie wrote: "I did not read for a while. Now that I have started reading again, I have noticed I am more critical and not as easily pleased as before. I have no problem to mark a book 2 stars if I did not like ..."
THIS. What you said. Word up!
Or to put it in the old phrase: "Can I have an A-men! Preach it, sister!"
(I wish we had emoji, sometimes.)

Frenchie wrote: Regardless of being BBC or not. TV licence is not just for BBC nowadays... the government has to make money somehow lol...
What I meant was, none of the many other British TV channels gets the least smell of all the money paid in for licence fees. Aunty splits it with Admin. Mind, I read online that only about 50% of people actually pay the licence fee anyway.

UK doesn't seem to realise that FTA programming makes good neighbours. Germany, France, and just about any other country in the world (except the US) realise it. That excludes Canal Plus etc, but that's obvious.

Groovy wrote: "**sitting here amazed**"
Yeah well, Groovy--that's what started the Revolution. It wasn't the tea thing--it was the Stamp Act, which was a tax on just about everything. The TV licence is basically a tax on watching TV.

Americans still have "stamps" on packs of cigarettes and bottles of liquor. That's what the piece of blue-and-white paper is, that proves the pack or bottle has gone through the legit system and paid the special tax.

They didn't believe her when she told them she didn't have a TV. She finally said, "Oh come in and look around, then! I've got nothing to hide!"

I'm not sure he'd strike a chord with the Goodreads crew.

Oh don't HARP on it! Just because you didn't have a String to pull with the orchestra!

A friend of mine from the Newcastle area had an antenna on her roof but no TV--the licence people actually came in and basically searched her house looking for one! When she said, "The antenna came with the house, I don't watch TV," they boggled like she had two heads or something! The BBC needs to wake up to the fact that this is the Internet age. Why should they get all the licence fee money when there are independent channels that don't get a penny of it? (Yes, I know they don't show commercials, but that's not the point.)

mrbooks wrote: "Reality TV isn't, there is nothing real about it. All you hear is people talking about who did what or who they were seeing and cheating on. I have never seen such fake and obvious over the top cra..."

It's cheap to throw together, even cheaper than "talking heads" panel shows where they have to pay the people to show up. I wouldn't be surprised if the people on "reality" TV (now there's an oxymoron, any way you slice it) paid to participate. But the real motivator is cheapness for the production companies. And sheeple watch it in their droves.

Did it put a crack in your nest egg?

mrbooks wrote: "you got me howling over the moon on that one..."

You're such an a-warewolf, nothing gets by you!

So True Frenchie!! Shakespeare was a notorious borrower--Romeo and Juliet was based on the Spanish story of the lovers of Teruel; The Taming of the Shrew came from El Mancebo que Casó con Mujer Brava (the young man who married a fierce woman), and several of his Greek plays were very loosely based on fact. The ones he just made up, like The Winter's Tale or As You Like It, aren't nearly as memorable.

Dyslexia was just getting recognised in the late 60s but most teachers wanted no truck with it...or with any special-needs student who didn't have a visible disability (like being in a wheelchair or needing leg braces or like that).
My brother did eventually go through college, though I was already living here then and don't know what he majored in. Unfortunately he was also an abusive sociopath (from a very young age, we were 4 yrs apart) who drank and eventually committed suicide three or four years ago. Where his second wife would find him (they had recently split up, for reasons good). She went back to the house to get some of her things and there he was. Now she gets to carry that sight for the rest of her life. Such a nice man. I don't think.

Sorry about the last sentence; I mean that certain teachers pigeonholed kids based on who their families/siblings were. If it was a family with bright kids it was, "Why aren't you like your sister/brother, s/he's such a good student!" or if it was a troubled family or one with "slow" kids, it was "Oh he or she is a Holmes, a Hammer (or whatever surname)--what can you expect?" meaning "oh they're all stupid in that family."