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Reply to JU Flamefest! Jump Right In!!! in Blogging JoeUser Forums

we really are sad! making up a flamefest! What's this 'we' shit? You're the only one I see blappin' her lips here.....

Reply to Why I Love my Wife in Misc JoeUser Forums

As to the rest of you: Y'all can call her what you want, because the simple fact remains that she's mine. Just so long as, on my thread, you're polite about it.

Reply to Why I Love my Wife in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: foreverserenity My mother is a sexually promiscuous woman, or was in her younger days. Her tastes always, after her relationship with my father came to an end, ran to Black men and Jamaicans in particular. Because of her I can say that I have never met a man of Jamaican descent that I could not respect - and by no means were these honest, law-abiding men. They were however all good men and honest, in their own way. I will t

Reply to Why I Love my Wife in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: All Let me say it again. Don't be mean to my wife on my thread.

Reply to Why I Love my Wife in Misc JoeUser Forums

If you say something bad about Sabrina on this thread I guarantee that I will blacklist you. Try me, motherfucker. Try me.

Why I Love my Wife in Misc JoeUser Forums

Everyone in JU (at least, those who have been here awhile) knows little whip. Everyone. And everyone who knows her in JU has an opinion about her, whether 'good' or 'bad'. She has her favorite victims, her good JU buddies, and the rest to amuse her, the vast sea of anonymous, mediocre, second-rate bloggers whom everyone ignores. And all who have, in any way, encounte

Reply to How Do You Worship and Why??? in Religion JoeUser Forums

I'm not a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Muslim. The God I worship has no Name. How do I worship? By abandoning myself, and my concerns, my needs, my wishes, and my desires. That's hard to do, even after twenty-odd years of practice, and I imagine it will be especially hard to do for the age range you specify. But I've found it opens doors I wasn't even aware existed. As to the anile comments of Iconoclast... The fool hath said in his he

Reply to Will You Feed Me? in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

What an excellent post. I shall look for more.

Reply to Jesus is NOT the Reason for the Season in Religion JoeUser Forums

lw making a boo boo

Reply to What an awful price to pay in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Whatever the motivations of the politicians who send soldiers to fight and die - indeed, whatever the motivation that initially drives someone to enlist; education, future career opportunities, whatever - I have always felt that someone who has faced his or her mortality in war, has conquered him- or herself to the degree that he or she can face that mortality, is in that regard alone a different kind of person to the majority. Personally, I've always found that difference worthy

Reply to If I Ruled the World, EVERYONE Would Smoke Cigars in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: adnauseam I'd substitute Laphroig for the Glenlivet (or, if I wanted to pander to the Irish in me, a shot of Jamesons). As to the Cohiba... I've never had one, but I'm willing to try. But what do I say to the nature of the suggestion? Oh hell yeah.

Reply to If I Ruled the World, EVERYONE Would Smoke Cigars in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: foreverserenity You're a lucky man with a wife like Sabrina! Be careful... you'll incite her to do something scandalous so no one has an inkling as to what she's really like. She has a reputation to live down to, you know. But you're right. I am lucky (except luck had

Reply to If I Ruled the World, EVERYONE Would Smoke Cigars in Misc JoeUser Forums

My first experience wuth a cigar occurred when I was about 10. i stole one of my dad's. My father was a snob: he would, for instance, sit in public to read the Times newspaper, but then he'd peek over the top to see who might be watching him read the Times. He was the same way about alcohol, and his smokes. Naturally, he bought the largest and most expensive cigars he could find. And the one I stole was a mighty beast of a thing. I got

Reply to If I Ruled the World, EVERYONE Would Smoke Cigars in Misc JoeUser Forums

. appearance dot grrrrrrrr where's the edit button gone?

If I Ruled the World, EVERYONE Would Smoke Cigars in Misc JoeUser Forums

I watch those TV shows about wine, occasionally. I watch them because I take a perverse pleasure in how much I hate the wine-babble of the people involved in them. I felt the same way about cigar aficionados - until tonight. Wine-speak I still despise, but no longer praises sung to the divine Cigar. My wife, bless her black little heart and her chromed-stee

Reply to Pope's Hate Speech Gets Award in Religion JoeUser Forums

To: all Benedict's so-called 'hate-speech', in context. "The university was also very proud of its two theological faculties. It was clear that, by inquiring about the reasonableness of faith, they too carried out a work which is necessarily part of the "whole" of the universitas scientiarum, even if not everyone could share the faith which theologians seek to correlate with reason as a whole. This profound sense of coherence

Reply to Why Living like a Medieval Monk was Fun in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

Perhaps disappointment is too strong a word. Perhaps the phrase 'justified suspicion' is more appropriate. I've learned that education is not the panacea that it's often portrayed as being. But would I be without the experience I went through? No. Living like a Medieval Monk is fun. Or it was for me, at least.

Why Living like a Medieval Monk was Fun in Life Journals JoeUser Forums

I went back to school when I was in my early thirties. We don't have High Schools in the UK and we don't have an equivalent to the High School Diploma but I left formal education when I was 17 (I had stayed on for a year) with a clutch of not particularly impressive qualifications in my hand and a thoroughgoing revulsion for the School System deep in my gut. I'd had e

Reply to Ultra bad version of "Mother Mother" by Toblerone. in Humor JoeUser Forums

Who do I sue for the permanent damage this has done to my hearing? (and my mind...oh my god..my MIND.)

Reply to Marxism 101 in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: Jennifer1 Thank you. While I don't write for others - I do appreciate your interest.

Reply to Marxism 101 in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: Gideon MacLeish I agree with you when you say that a 'pure' Communism has never been put into practice - except for the caveat that the original Soviets formed by the soldiers and peasants of Russia in the aftermath of Russia's defeat in WW1 were as close to this purity as we are ever likely to approach. Something attested to by the ruthlessness with which they were suppressed. So far as I am aware, every known 'Communist' regime has bee

Reply to Marxism 101 in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: cactoblasta I deleted your comment because it made reference to me, personally, rather than to anything I had to say in the article. Self-indulgent childishness will not be tolerated on my blog. I write for myself, not for others, though all are welcome to read and comment - provided what they have to say is related to what I have written, and not the commentator's opinion of the author. I'm not at all certain what prompted your outburst o

Reply to Marxism 101 in Misc JoeUser Forums

Come on come on come on. Where are are all the Capitalists, eager to tell me how wrong I am? Pull your thumbs out of your asses and get to it - or I'll start to believe you secretly agree with me.

Reply to The Only Thing I Hate More Than Work Is Unemployment in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: dharmagirl Up the workers, indeed. Up their arses with a length of cold steel - to see why, read my latest article. Peace be to you, also.

Reply to The Only Thing I Hate More Than Work Is Unemployment in Misc JoeUser Forums

To: Shovelheat The only reason I am not currently King of England is that the ancestors of the present Monarch were better thieves and murderers than my ancestors. And I couldn't agree more with the quote from Balzac - which is why, whenever I hear of the death of some grotesquely wealthy man, I smile. Death, and especially the death of others, is all that makes life bearable.