Do you agree that night is the worst time to have an argument?The dark magnifies it and its impossible to resolve it.
Here's a joke ?Two people go into a pharmacy : "I'll just have H 2 O". Companion : "I'll have H 2 O too". He drinks it and dies.
How old is the place you'd regard as your home town?The remote village I spent my first eleven years in, apparently was mentioned in a document dating from 1202 !
Are there any place-names in your neck of the woods that you find amusing?Mine is Aghoghil (pronounced A-Hoch-Ill). It sounds like a sneeze.
An Agnostic's last remaining doubt. [Spirituality & Religion]I've come to feel that all religion is nonsense, with one reservation : existence is so short; can the individual really cease totally with death?; what is the point of existing at all?
Do you like the theme music from Doctor Zhivago?Yearning melody; haunting orchestration like the rustlings of nature.
Can there be a dilemma for somebody who is deeply in love yet has always craved freedom?I'm speaking of a woman who was once in my life, not of me.
Do you have a favourite line of poetry?Mine is : "Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams". (W.B.Yeats). He's buried not so far from here. On his tombstone : "Horseman, pass by".
Anyone fancy an obscure limerick?There was a young man from Castlefin Who wondered how on earth it went in. He tried it one way, And then yet another, And was haunted by the concept of sin.
Do you feel "He is not with me is against me" closes the door on agnosticism?SOMETIMES I see life as a lending library or a reservoir. You can take from it for a while but there's all hell to pay if you don't return on time.
My chromebook seems to have got drunk. I'm getting messages that I don't think are intended for me and not getting some that are. Anybody else?
Why do people choose to live in such cold countries?I got off a plane last night from warmer climes and decided Ryanair had decided the Arctic was a cheaper place to land.
Anyone like the music of Korngold?I was impressed by the slow movement of his symphony, yesterday. He wrote many Hollywood swashbuckler scores. A critic of the time described it as "more Corn than Gold".
As a non-American I used to believe that "guy" referred only to men. Has it always been non-gender specific?
A friend once asked my advice on how to get a serious girlfriend.His last one had told him he'd die wondering!
I was in a shop in County Donegal three days ago.A girl on her mobile was laughing so much, tears were streaming down her face. Everyone else in the shop was in stitches because of her. The chap in the queue in front of me said "You can take my place. I cannot leave until I've found out what this...See More »
Something very silly appears to have happened.They appear to have blocked my access to a user who, I assume jokingly but I don't mind if not, described me as an idiot. And asked me how complete I want it to be !! SW - no block at all please.
Do the English realise they could have an agreed Brexit and save millions in subsidies if they cut the umbilical cord with the DUP?"Conservative and Unionist Party" actually refers to the DUP's enemies, the Official Unionists, anyway. And a majority in N.Ireland voted to remain part of the EU in the referendum.
When does pleasure become pain?I'm listening to and watching a Rachmaninov orchestral concert live from Lake Lucerne, and music doesn't get any better than this. All my life I've loved music; in my early teens I introduced my soulmate to its joys and she art to me. Now I listen...See More »
Do you believe in clairvoyants?My brother was once told he'd die within five years. Ten years later and he's still there.