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@TheGoldenMole "There is not only more to this life than we know, there is more than we can ever know". I forgot who said that. Winston Churchill? Or maybe I just heard it in a porno.

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I would like to actually know what kind of altars or persons do you like to follow

I'd like a conventional C of E altar, all medieval stonework, and there's a stain glass window of some saints behind it, and you can go in there during even the hottest day of summer and it'll still be weirdly cold, but at the same time the vicar has brought in a little four-bar heater to keep the congregation warm in winter, and it looks just like a normal Christian altar, but then you notice, between all the urns and the brass ornaments, instead of a picture of Jesus, there's a photo of West Country news reader Kyle Pentelow.

@PetrAPark3r Hope yr back pains end soon, m8. My company made us take a manual handling course just so we can carry 15kg boxes of photocopier paper between the stockroom and our desks without getting a bad back. But me, I still carry it on me head like an African lady the gubbins for her village.

MORNING: "I gotta get to work, though it has the same vibe as going into the house at the end of Blair Witch".

But NIGHT? -- does anyone else have that thing, where you can't really concentrate on the book you're reading, and you keep on turning the pages, but your mind makes up its own little narrative?

I'm reading here with a little dismay about the 'Positive Reinforcement' route, and the hyper-rationalisation employed by @lego-batman. I don't have kids ("THAT I KNOW OF!", crazy laughter belying sheer magnitude of the briefness and fickleness of human relationships), but I'd always start from the viewpoint that all kids are jerks, and your own would be no exception. "My little Noah, he's really clever, and he's not like other kids". Well ...no, he's not really, is he?

Don't like smacking a kid? Say you're out for a walk, and he's messing with a dog, or throwing stones. In your pocket you should keep a pair of handcuffs and a chain. At the first sign of insurrection, fit him up in the cuffs and chain him to you so that he trails along behind you like a prisoner. He'll love it because it's like you're playing a game, like he's Chewbacca in Return of the Jedi, or George Clooney in 'Brother Where Art Thou?', and in that way, he'll remember it's always cooler to have a laugh than be a bellend.

And if another passing parent remonstrates at your unorthodox disciplinary measures, just say, "I'm only pretending he's my prisoner, whereas you're literally making him a prisoner with your filthy, traitorous capitalist economy".

Besides which, even if you disapprove of hitting kids, there's far worse, more insidious things you can do with them. Have you seen those parents who are constantly talking with their kids? Y'know, having a little conversation with them, all the time about nothing? What's the matter with you? JUST WALK ALONG IN SILENCE. What are trying to do, raise King Extrovert Gobshine of the Universe?

@SynapticSeizure said in For anybody wondering...:

Yes, because companies are known for caring deeply about their employees.
It definitely had nothing to do with them wanting to avoid any sort of legal backlash in case someone got injured.

S'all good. I got a vibe like General Grievous: slow and broken but still with some moves.

@TheGoldenMole I am in awe of my Dad's work ethic (tho he's retired now). It's at the heart of everything I am. He never had a sick day in 50 years, apart from a few weeks for heart surgery (!?). Having a day off work, for me, just feels eerie, and just ...supernaturally wrong.

But what of your lineage, GM? Did your parents ask people loads of insightful questions in, say, the back pages of some 60's counter culture beatnik magazine ...whatever the forerunner of TWS was? That would be cool.

This used to happen quite a bit. Job stress. Family worries. The answer: don't even try to sleep. Just read a book. Perhaps, as revenge on God for giving you stress, read a book you think He'll disapprove of -- say, 'Little Red' by Chairman Mao, or 'Good Times!' by Justin Lee Collins.

@cjko I REMEMBER. You're the lass that knitted that tiny little Princess Leia, right?

@TheGoldenMole I JUST WON £33 FROM PREDICTING THE MAN CITY ARSENAL SCORES. YEH BWOY. BELIEVE IT (but this will only pay for 2/3 of a tank of petrol).

You shouldn't feel bad about talking about Christianity, Petra. In today's world, morality is at such an all-time low, and such an impossibility, I don't expect goodness from anyone, even Christians. Rather, what impresses me is how they've done the hard work contemplating such a powerful, lateral-thinking story.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's nothing quite like The New Testament, and Jesus, and the disciples. Even if it's just a story (and historians like Barbara Thiering give a very convincing case) - what a story.

@Dr-duff33 Bury your computer at a crossroads while there's a full moon, sprinkle it with lavender, dig it up three days later. Hey presto.

...(kicks record player): "Another one bites the dust! dududud Another one bites the dust!"

Interesting question, Chum. I have no answers. But I don't think it's Chicketty Chinaman, 'cos apparently (maybe stereotypically?) they're very respectful of their oldies, and oldies are at most risk.

But you might be onto something with the Amazon thing. The crappy wholesale company I work for is seeing our regular orders go RIGHT DOWN, but our stuff that's syndicated thru Amazon is as high as ever.

People say it's something to do with Pangolins. But Pangolins look a bit of G'Kar from Babylons 5, and he was a good guy, so by that logic, I think they're innocent.

Sometimes at work, you get a lady wearing a really nice, expensive-smelling perfume, and I always wonder if it's OK to mention it. On one hand, it would seem like they want you to mention it, but then again, I always worry they might turn round and say either, "Don't be sexist. There's more to women than the way we smell", or, "As opposed to what? Smelling of jacksy?"

Dunno. It's a tough one. OR IS IT?

Tell me your weird lockdown dreams. Weirder than normal? I dreamed I was a jock in an 80's American high school film. Beat that.

Today I was walking down the street and a sexy lady and helicopter both turned up at once. My attention was divided so bad, I couldn't appreciate either. What would YOU have done? WHAT?

Should James Bond 007 be allowed to shoot children?
Eh?