Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction discussion
General Discussions
>
Random Thoughts
Terri wrote: "Jane wrote: "1 in 16"Is that the chances of someone having twins? That surprises me. I don't know anybody with twins. Well, there is my Aunt who has adult twins. Other than those twins born in th..."
Don't know, but I'm pretty sure a lot of it is genetic predisposition.
One misses so much when ones tablet charger sizzles out and ones waiting on Microsoft to send a new one... :(I got Bonnie Prince Charlie too!
Sir Walter ScottYou are hugely intelligent and concerned with politics and the law. An influential creative mind with a romantic viewpoint, you are greatly inspired by traditional tales. You’re popular and internationally famed for your own tales. You’re not one to let adversity hold you back.
Hugely intelligent? I've never been accused of that before...
Linda wrote: "Tim wrote: "Mark wrote: "http://whoinscottishhistoryareyou.com/have a go, I got sir walter scott."
Lucky you, I'm Flora MacDonald!"
Flora McDonald here. LL
Linda wrote: "My daughter called me..." LL, my brother always tells me I'm trying to populate the world since I have 6 grand kids and going on 4 greats so.....it could happen!
Terri wrote: "Linda wrote: "My daughter called me yesterday and told me that my 18 year old grandson had gotten a girl pregnant and she was having twins! When I asked questions she said, "April Fools!" Well, to..."Yeah, Terri, it did. I insisted she bring over the ultrasound before I was a believer. No doubt now. Two little peanuts in there for sure
Tim wrote: "Mark wrote: "http://whoinscottishhistoryareyou.com/have a go, I got sir walter scott."
Lucky you, I'm Flora MacDonald!"
I'm
Sir Walter Scott
Bobby wrote: "WTH!!! Flora MacDonald!!"Yeah, I think the first question in the questionnaire should be Are You Male or Female?
That way the results might make more sense.
These questionnaire's are normally quite accurate seeing as i got slated t'otehr week as being the Jester..... :) so obviously there's a few fellahs with a surpressed feminine persono thingy going on then...... The Flora's that be - Nite all! (jus to be sure i'll add one o them wink things) ;)
Ohhhh..you think the questionnaire is picking up on some guys' feminine side...hmmm..maybe you are on to something. :-)
Terri wrote: "Ohhhh..you think the questionnaire is picking up on some guys' feminine side...hmmm..maybe you are on to something. :-)"And I work soooooo hard to hide my feminine side!!
First I got flora McDonald, 30minutes later I went again, but picked what seemed to me the most "masculine" choice, got Mary Queen of Scots. Go figure :~) !!!
Bobby wrote: "And I work soooooo hard to hide my feminine side!!"
Maybe you need to cut your hippy hair. :D
Terri wrote: "Bobby wrote: "
And I work soooooo hard to hide my feminine side!!"
Maybe you need to cut your hippy hair. :D"
LOL! And quit wearing eyeliner. ;)
And I work soooooo hard to hide my feminine side!!"
Maybe you need to cut your hippy hair. :D"
LOL! And quit wearing eyeliner. ;)
And the ladies lingerie! It's always a giveaway, lol.
Derek wrote: "Terri wrote: "Bobby wrote: "And I work soooooo hard to hide my feminine side!!"
Maybe you need to cut your hippy hair. :D"
LOL! And quit wearing eyeliner. ;)"
And probably you should stop turning wanna-be kings into helpless maidens, and shoving them into caves until a ruddy ship can find its way to take the dreamer away.
I will consider all of this sound advice and then throw them all into my vanity case and slam it shut!!
Not been commenting on the forum for a couple of weeks had a lot on my mind. I was attacked at work a couple of weeks ago by two scumbags. They painted a Swastika on my vehicle and tried to kick in the doors and windows, totally unprovoked. Luckily I got away physically unscathed but mentally a bit fragile. I even managed to video them on my phone and the Police have identified the culprits and have booked them. I will have to go to court though. Got tremendous support from my work mates and my lovely wife but unfortunately not from the company who didn't seem concerned.I must admit I got a bit introverted these last two weeks, head in book and not talking but am getting over it now and confidence is rising, so expect a bit more activity from me on the forum, until I have to go to court at least.
Haydn, I am so sorry to hear about what happened to you. I know all of your friends on A&M are here for you. Isn't is wonderful that you can still keep in touch while keeping in?My best wishes to you for quick healing and that they put those f***ers away for a long, long time.
I'm glad you're alright and that something is being done. Shame about the company though.
Hang in there, Haydn. Random violence like that can definitely be mentally tough to sort through. I'm glad you weren't physically harmed, and those scumbags were apprehended. You'll have support around here for sure.
That's terrible!! So sorry to hear that Haydn. Haven't been on either in a while. Been having problems with my cable/internet plus having to wait for Microsoft to send me a charger for my tablet. I'm cut off from everything. No TV, tablet, internet, Netflix, kindle. Ugh!!! Had to check my notifications at while I was at a friends house because I couldn't stay away.
Haydn wrote: "Not been commenting on the forum for a couple of weeks had a lot on my mind. I was attacked at work a couple of weeks ago by two scumbags. They painted a Swastika on my vehicle and tried to kick in..."Holy crap mate. That is a bloody awful experience you've had there.
If you worry about facing your assailants in court..grow a beard (unless you already have one...:)..) then you can hide behind it and shave it off once the whole court drama is done with. :)
Sorry you went through this. There are some real waste of space people in the world. *shakes head*
Derek wrote: "Hang in there, Haydn. Random violence like that can definitely be mentally tough to sort through. I'm glad you weren't physically harmed, and those scumbags were apprehended. You'll have support ar..."Yeah that is the real kicker with something like that. The random nature of it. Or,as in some cases, the over reaction. So many people get attacked or similar for something so small. Something that doesn't justify the response. But of course, then there are the poor buggers who do nothing, but be in the wrong place on the wrong day.
Glad you're alright physically, but I can see how it nerved you up. I'm glad the police got those lowlifes. I hope all turns out well eventually.
Cheers for the support guys, much appreciated. I'm getting there and try to look on the bright side of life.
Rising above it and being better for it Haydn is a great way to beat them. All the best to you. :))
Someday the trauma of the personal attack on you and your property will get better--but not today and not tomorrow. Just someday. In the meantime, things are rough, aren't they? You have friends here.
Bloody hell, Haydn. What a bunch of nasty little lowlifes.
Portia wrote: "From today's Washington Post. Deep sigh.http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/s......"
Twitter brains? Oh I fear for my children. I am afraid the Pixar movie Wall-E is getting pretty far from it's original science fiction base and alarmingly close to reality. If I have my way, my grandchildren will never ask me "Grandma, what's a paper book?"
Very Interesting. I find it curious that the author had problems going back to a book and not skimming. I would think it much like riding a bike, once you learn you don't forget.
I wonder if there is a difference based on the type of books you read and the type of internet you peruse?
Or would your career have an effect? If you were a lawyer and spent plenty of time reading stuff you had to pay close attention to (online or otherwise) would you have the same issue?
And I wonder if it's really as big a phenomenon as they are saying? 20 years ago when I was in school, the internet was not prevalent and I was still extremely unusual for reading any book over 250 pages and having the comprehension skills to understand it. My friends watched TV and read magazines if anything, they didn't have any more attention span then the current generation.
Portia wrote: "From today's Washington Post. Deep sigh.http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/s......"
I always find it humourous when reading an article online about how people aren't able to read long articles online.
What I find interesting is that they seem to think that there might only be one reason people aren't able to read the classics. Personally, and this is even before the Internet, I couldn't stand the classics except for Dickens, and even some of his I had trouble with. It came down to not being able to connect. I am incapable of connecting with the Bennets and other Austen women. They have no bearing on my life. I hated The Scarlet Letter and Wuthering Heights. It was the 80s and quite frankly, unless those books talked about something I could relate to, then they held no value. Maybe it's not, just the internet. Maybe there needs to be a re-evaluation of why those books were classics and if they really hold the same meanings today as they once did.
This isn't to say that the internet and the frolicking through webs isn't part of the issue, just that's unlikely to be the only issue.
Jane Austen
Dawn wrote: "Very Interesting. I find it curious that the author had problems going back to a book and not skimming. I would think it much like riding a bike, once you learn you don't forget.
I wonder if the..."
I agree completely with you, Dawn, about relevance. I really don't like Ernest Hemingway's stories, though I appreciate what he did for writing. (I've said this too many times before, so I'll stop now.)
So, re-evaluating whether or not to teach the works of dead white males has resulted in making high school students read the works of dead white females? Can you hear my loud sigh all the way to where you are?
Damn, this is one of those conversations that would be so much fun to hash out over coffee. I imagine 5 or 6 of us sitting in the comfy chairs at Starbucks and really discussing it to death! *sigh*
My apologies, Dawn and Darcy. I clicked on Dawn's posting instead of Darcy's.
Dawn wrote: "Damn, this is one of those conversations that would be so much fun to hash out over coffee. I imagine 5 or 6 of us sitting in the comfy chairs at Starbucks and really discussing it to death! *sigh*"Maybe if we're meeting somewhere other than Starbucks.
Dawn wrote: "Damn, this is one of those conversations that would be so much fun to hash out over coffee. I imagine 5 or 6 of us sitting in the comfy chairs at Starbucks and really discussing it to death! *sigh*"This reminds me so much of the comfy chair from Monty Python...
We could meet at my house if no one is allergic to cats :-)
Portia wrote: "My apologies, Dawn and Darcy. I clicked on Dawn's posting instead of Darcy's."No worries.
And, while I am allergic to cats, I have cat dander allergy-busting meds :D
AND, because my beloved is a techno/nerd, we have WiFi.So, as they say in the Southern US, "Y'all come!."
What amazed me about the article is that one of the interviewees is a graduate student in creative writing. How, I wonder, can she learn to write well if she isn't reading? Back in the olden days when I was in school we read, and then imitated, our favorite authors in the process of finding our own "voices." But what do I know. That was half a century ago.
As long as there is tea and good company, I'm in for any location!
Portia wrote: "So, re-evaluating whether or not to teach the works of dead white males has resulted in making high school students read the works of dead white females? Can you hear my loud sigh all the way to where you are? ..."I think many of the books we're forced to read (not me because I didn't go to a school), we're not ready to. Thus ruining forever a book that you may have loved 10 or 20 years later.
I don't imagine I would have appreciated War and Peace or Lady Chatterley's Lover when I was in high school. Or in my early twenties. But they are a couple of my favorite books now!
Darcy wrote: "Portia wrote: "From today's Washington Post. Deep sigh.http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/s...-..."
Same here, Darcy. I was never one for Classics. There were so few that I liked and I hated being forced to read them. No kid should be forced to read any book they don't want to read.
Dawn wrote: "Portia wrote: "So, re-evaluating whether or not to teach the works of dead white males has resulted in making high school students read the works of dead white females? Can you hear my loud sigh al..."I agree. I had to read "To Kill a Mockingbird" at school. I didn't have the life experiences to understand what the hell was going on. I was given a copy a few years ago as a birthday present, and wasn't impressed. Then one day, when I was bored, I picked it up to see if it was as dull as I remembered. This time around,with almost 30 more years life experience, I understood the book and loved it.
Exactly, I'm a massive big Jane Austen fan but I tried to read her books 3 or 4 times before I actually got into them. Until I got the satirical aspect of them, they weren't interesting. Once I understood the humour to them......I thought they were brilliant!But that took years and to be forced to read them would have made me hate them, I'm sure.
Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction
Books mentioned in this topic
The Berry Pickers (other topics)Fortune's Child (other topics)
Hild (other topics)
Sharpe's Command (other topics)
Edenglassie (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Amanda Peters (other topics)Nicola Griffith (other topics)
Bernard Cornwell (other topics)
Bernard Cornwell (other topics)
Allan Hands (other topics)
More...
have a go, I got sir walter scott."
I got St. Columba."
Hay! He was Irish!
Bloody Scots!"
Yes he was Irish but preached to the Scots.