NotNoNever

<lowers head and shakes it in despondent disbelief> <can't understand why got Zombie so wrong> <wonders what it takes to make Louis Harris and Zombie to lose their taste and dignity> <wonders why W_L has to pick this to veg out to when he's not in lucid and free-thining mode> On the other hand <has seen the trailers and thinks some of those dudes are shaaaaagalicious, baby> <makes appointment at doctors> <asks for out of hours appointment to preserve anonymity> <begins farewell note to world for abject failure to be right on> <rollseyes> <respells>

WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT'S HOLY ARE YOU DOING TELLING US ABOUT SUCH ON OLD STORY THAT IS NOT FINISHED? Boy am I pissed

It's the bigger picture for me, too. It's just ridiculous what women are pressured into for the sake of men. I can understand Cia's point that women might want for this product, alongside the male pressure, but, you know, people should just learn to work well with what they've got. My dick is bog standard average length, a bit thick, but not so much. But hey, I can do awesome stuff with it, and I don't need a pill or an implant or a ring or a surgical stretch, or an enhancement. I just took some time to find out what works, and enjoyed the ri... well, you know what I mean. Heaven's sakes, what's next? Do couples go for genital surgery to make sure his fits hers in perfect all points touching symmetry? Do us bum boys need to get a bumpy addition which will rub the nub with a stub? A straight mate once showed me his dick cos he had a little mole that he said drove women wild cos it tickled more. Do guys need to start getting a second length outcrop to rub the girly lump? God almighty, quit messing around. If the other half ain't happy with what's there, tell them to get with their hand or get lost. Next thing we know there's gonna be shiny studs for vagin ... oh, no, wait a mo, they've got vajazzles already. Way to go! Make the intimate bits tacky too. Guys will crack their teeth on those things. I feel a rant coming on!

Well, dude, if you want to refer to your thingumyjig by the name of 'temptation', that's just fine. But only you can answer the question!

Well, I suppose it's part of getting older, but the following has just amazed me. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19353039 It has also disgusted me. Not for the usual gay ickieness about lady bits. I used to partake, in a previous life. No, but because it seems there is a whole lot of stupidity going on with this, and it's probably got a lot more to do with some idiotic notion of being in tip top condition for that most important of things, the heterosexual male who thinks he owns and shapes the whole world. Why doesn't someone just tell these women that if it ain't touching the sides, it's probably his deficiency, not theirs. And tell them to tell the patriarchy to take a long walk off a short boardwalk. Spreading gold dust on the affected part is more about making him think he's a stud stallion, than making her think she's in top hymen breaking condition. Us gay boys have the opposite problem: we have to take time to make places wider, less tight, not so painful, and not likely to bleed. So girls, next time a guy says he wants to dip his wick in a nice tight virginal pussy, tell him he is welcome. But not before you've done him with an unlubed strapon and a single, hilting penetration. That'll change his tune. From sweet nothings in your ear to window shattering screams citywide. ============================================================= On the other hand; was quite amused at the phrase: to close a gap in the market. That just must have been the journalist or publicist having a laugh. Grrrrrrr, just noticed the title typo

Just going for my razor. The writing is good, if a tad fussy, perhaps. But the tale is like the nightmare none of us wants to happen, and you get that across well. If anything, I think I'd have preferred some slight indication of feeling unwell before the midpoint, as the heart attack / strok came out of nowhere a bit.

I like the idea, but it's a bit haphazard. However, there is something compelling about the young man on the pavement being abused by people for what he was doing when he was already dead. There's an awful lot of meaning in that imagery. The duplicitous bastard of a salesman was suitably hateworthy, but I'm afraid I didn't buy the closing speech. It seemed to miss its own point, somehow, and its accusation was too condemning and not loving enough. Still, a lot of good in it. I coudn't help but think of 'under-developed' communities having their land stolen from them for hydro dams.

Ehm, a) Prince Harry exposed himself; b ) the UK doesn't sue ppl for such things, that's left to individuals; c) while I don't agree with the selling or publishing of these pictures, cos they're really not that interesting (although I acknowledge (and sympathise with ) the puppy panting on your part ), nobody forced him to take his clothes off in a public place, so he bears a massive part in the responsibility, and; d) as any good publicist will tell you, ignoring it will make it go away a whole lot faster than suing for it.

It's hardly fluff, it matters to you. Not sure if they can get depression as we know it, but they can certainly be lonely, and they can be bored too. You could get him a playmate, but that's an awful lotta work. Do you walk him in a park? Is there a time when he might meet lots of other puppies (beyond yourself, of course ) Also, dogs get on a lot better with cats than most people think, and they're a lot less work. So that might be a solution. Just don't get a boy cat

Was reading this. Got to the end of the first sentence. Thought to myself - I'll Like this, I think. Then there was that second line

So, who mentioned abuse? Did anybody ask for a break in the lesson to facilitate this genius? No, didn't think so. However, the good teacher does arrange things so that all levels are covered in a class instead of running all kids like little automatons and getting them all to the same point at the end of the curriculum - otherwise known as mediocrity. Curiously, small schools and their teachers manage this perfectly well, where there are more than one age group in a class. I think it's called combined year group teaching. Unfortunately, that's the sort of patronising paternalistic attitude that got teachers into a mess in the first place. We are the teachers. Teacher knows best. You cannot possibly hope to know anything because you are not a teacher like me. You are an uneducated, unthinking moron whose opinion on all things information-passing is worthless. Brings to mind a classic song by Pink Floyd Actually, it's not a thankless profession. I have yet to find a human being alive who is not grateful to the teacher that treated them with respect, humanity, and care, and who inspired them to understand and love at least something about a subject. Furthermore, the teachers I really remember were the ones who facilitated my learning according to my learning style, but who, curiously, were also very good disciplinarians and held a class in the palm of their hands by sheer dint of personality. We were not frightened of them, but we were scared witless of stepping out of line in a bad way. We knew that stepping out of line in a good way would always be valued. For instance, I was in a primary class once, bored out of my mind, looking out the window, because the whole class was doing oral spelling, which I was immensely good at. I was staring out the window, and the teacher called on me to spell prison. I turned to him, reeled it off at high speed, turned back to the window. Instead of being pissed off at me looking out the window and giving me withering 'pay attention' commands, he called the whole class to watch as we repeated the whole thing, because he was amazed. He did not flip out and demand his rights as a teacher to be centre of my world. He valued the obvious ability and demonstrated it to the whole class as an indication of what could be done - I was no teacher's pet, by the way. Generally I was the teacher's pest! But he was a great teacher, as were a couple of others, and I'll be eternally grateful to him. Who knows. Who cares. We're breeding kids here, not assessible widget makers. Although, based on his ability, one can assume that his English is excellent (have you ever read a learned journal written in reading range for a normal 12 year old?) He's doing great things for society, so his social marks are probably indisputable, because he clearly understands the issues. His other classes marks? Pft. What do you know about, say, economics, or engineering, or computing, or art, or physical exercise? If you know a lot about all these things, good on you. But I suspect there's one or two you're excellent at, and all the rest, meh. Picking a couple of things he might not be brilliant at does not make him hopeless, it just makes you patronising. If you'd care to explain to me how he managed to get to where he is, along the route he outlined in the video, by knowing nothing beyond cancer cells, I'd be very amused interested to hear it. This is true. However, what he illustrated was where the teacher stopped him; where 11 out of 12 researchers rejected him; where he won $75k; where he got the support he needed. It may indeed, as you imply, be possible that the teacher did take him aside after class and support him. But given his even approach, why would he not have mentioned this. But more amazingly, why is the school not bobbing up and down claiming credit and shouting 'look what we did, look what we did!'? Hmmmmm! By the way - it's 'than' not 'then'. <wonders what Wildone's English grades were like> You are right, of course. We should value teachers more. But believe me, in the UK, at least, they get paid enormous amounts of money eventually, for generally not so fantastic results. And they imply they are worth ten times as much because of their philanthropic ethos. Yeah, right, that computes. If it takes heaps of money to convince a philanthropically minded human to convince them of the value of passing on knowledge and thinking, then it's time all the teachers went back to school, because their social marks were obviously pathetic.

Rock on, Cia. Exactly. Here in UKland we have a ridiculous system that beats teachers over the heads if they're not meeting key stage 99.9768 at hour 14329 in the child's curriculum. Letting teachers think for themselves has become a thing of the past. That said, it's oyr fault for whipping up stupid furores which have encouraged politicians to be frightened all the time. And teachers did nothing to help themselves in the late seventies early eighties when they went on endless strikes for more money and pissed the whole blooming world off. I think for me, and it's the reason I used the tag I did, I just love the boy for his iconoclasism. If he recognises a problem and sticks a finger up @ the systemos in order to further his solution and his own outcomes, yay for the boy. I do appreciate your comments as an adult wishing for respect for rules. However, one of the things that is not taught in schools is learning how to learn. This boy has clearly got that cracked and needs little teaching supervsion. UKland's insistence on facts facts facts, and never mind the principles principles principles would defeat this boy all too often. Once you know how to learn, learning anything is a dawdle. If all you ever learn is how to memorise, you're stuffed. Learning facilitates connection and thus development. Memorising facilitates storage and thus stasis. Respecting the rules would be to give up on learning to learn, I fear.

Hmmm ... indeed, he is a Prince, and as such is just a commoner like the rest of us. How is a prince supposed to behave? Differently to us? More 'well behaved'? Seems like we like to get our kit off, but not so happy when he does it! Tsk tsk. (Unless you're a panting puppy of course ) (Oh, and meeeee)

Goodness, look, he's got arms and legs just like the rest of us. Unlike some, though, he also has a personality and a life. Unlike the idiot that betrayed any implied trust. You Americanos have a good word for such people - douche bags

Oh, Danno, hissy fits are not going to help. lol. Though I can see your point, right enough. But, actually, I have done quite a lot of teaching in my time and know the hard headwork it is. However, when some kid in a biology class is reading about carbon nanotubes and cancer cell genetics, some credit needs to be given - oh and a lot of encouragement and support. Hauling the learned paper (i.e. a paper many years advanced from this learning stage) sounds more like didactic fascism, and insecurity that the teacher never got the child that far ahead (or themselves, for that matter). It also sounds like plain stupidity. After all, that could have been a paper of great importance that could have helped save many lives. Oh, no! Wait. It was. Andy ... what is it makes you think the kid was not learning? It was a biology class. He was dealing with a subject closely related. One could actually take your argument and use it to support the boy. He could have sat there bored titless and learned nothing, cos he'd quite obviously learned it already. Or, he could have done what Oh wait! He WAS already doing it. Learning, that is. Now he is at an internationally respected university, having earned the place, a large sum of prize money, now grant funded, and about to make diagnostics a whole lot easier, cheaper, and better, in order to save the lives of grumbling jobsworths who can't see past the end of their own laser pointer and red correction pen. You ask how far he is going to get if he doesn't get his exam results. HUUUULLLLLLLLLLO. He doesn't have the exam results and he's still in university, not just learning with the other drones, but working with the ... ehm, oth er droney things - but he's getting paid for it. Just think of the money he will earn on the patents. The Euromillions will look like seedcorn! Honestly, the British preoccupation with bloody exams - exasperating! It takes only one bad boy with dreadful behaviour such as this to help save or extend literally millions of lives by applying naughtiness in a quiet corner where he was doing no harm. Or it takes one egomaniac fascist with a superiority complex and pockets full of chalkdust to leave things as they are and maintain a system of premature death and decay. Not sure I really recognise the choice to be honest. 'mon e boy!

So this kid reads something far more advanced than biology in his biology class and his teacher takes it away from him. The thing is - he's dreaming up ways to save lives and proving to be very good at it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19291258

Well, duh! You're a bloody puppy, for gawds sakes! ;P

I'm not sensitive to all this stuff, but my family is. My mother dreamt of her brother being attacked when it was happenng. She also got a visit from my dad one night when he was far away. My father has been contacted and touched by several things. My sister has seen a little girl's feet on the landing, and a dead WW1 soldier with only half his face. We had the house blessed twice when I was a kid. My father recently revealed a new one, where he had been walking home (countryside) one night and saw blue hazes all over the place. It has come to pass that where many of these hazes were, there are now houses. He's also seen funeral processions a week or so before they happened, and he's seen the grey dog of meoble twice before the requisite deaths (that one's also been seen in Canada). Thank goodness I'm only attached to the here and now. I'd be seriously disturbed by that if I knew it was happening (although everybody says that, but are able to cope fine when it does happen, apparently).

Huh! Foot Fetish Federation is just talking a pile of .... No, not, never, is defo a good answer. But damn your eyes if samurais is lost in bad translation.

Ehm, which bit is causing you trouble? lol

I KNEW IT! I asked you and you denied it. You foot fetishist beast you!

Yeah, keep writing. I know that might not sound helpful, but it is actually the only thing that will work if you don't have a plan. Eventually you'll get to a place where you are dissatisfied with what you do have, and you will be able to see what's wrong, which is half the battle for putting it right. Just accept the tedium that is going to be writing rubbish for a while.

While I agree with everything that's been said, I have to point out that you'd probably only edit once if you did much of that. No writer would want to come back. Writers ask for these services for support (some muuuuch more than others) not for a kick in the chuckies accompanied by a poke in the eye. That said, authors could take some advice on the reverse of what Cia has said. Sometimes they need to be able to take the criticism. However, there's one thing I feel is important. As a beta or editor, once you've said it, that's it. If it comes back for a second edit and it's still there, it should largely be ignored, unless it's blatant spelling / grammar. When I edit I actually convert the text into a three column table. Col 1 is the original; Col 2 is suggested ammendments, formatted so it is easier to read as a piece; Col 3 is explanatory notes if necessary. This method is very easy to read, easy to incorporate suggestions - which is more difficult with comments, and very easy to convert back to normal text layout.

Ooooooooooooooooooooh, that's .... tempting!

Great story .. if you weren't such a bitch to poor Jeremy Seriously, though, it was very good. It touched really well on teenage inability to connect the body with the brain with decisions with consistency, and all that with hormonally driven thinking. If anything, it's a bit unreal for sixteen year olds, but who cares. It's great.