Post something you've learnt today

[Matt Wilson]

Don't let students flirt with you, even if you do nothing to encourage it.

[clive gash]

What was his name Matt?

[Rayge]

A lot of my friends are more vulnerable than I thought.

There's intriguing. How do you get to learn that? And vulnerable to what?
That said, I don't expect, or really want, you to explain: it's just that it's a simple declarative statement that has a koan*-like ability to foment questions the longer you let it lie in your mind. And I, as a Romantic, prefer provocative questions to 'definitive' answers.






NB, NOT Coan-like

[Matt Wilson]

What was his name Matt?

Wayne, and now that I think of it - I did encourage it.

[clive gash]

Provocative fucker.

[Matt Wilson]

No, there was no fucking in this case. Therefore, I can't be a fucker.

[clive gash]

Let BCB be the judge of that.

[yomptepi]

Let BCB be the judge of that.

Guilty as charged.

[Deebank]

Craig Warnock who played Kevin the Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits was the keyboard player in These Animal Men!

[northernsky]

My eldest is selling mail-order clothes around our village to raise money for a school outing. I am now in possession of SO much more information than I needed about the underwear choices of our exclusively pension-age neighbours.

[ever/never]

the existence of a 'manosphere' (or, rather, that a term exists for it and that it's a defined thing)

[yomptepi]

Donald Trump is not water proof.

[Minnie the Minx]

Who Ronald Clark O’Bryan is and I rather wish I had never found out!

[Hugh]

A Denny’s restaurant opened in Glasgow yesterday.

[Jeemo]

A Denny’s restaurant opened in Glasgow yesterday.

If I was being picky and I am. It's not in Glasgow. It's in Renfrew and has a Renfrewshire post code. They have included Glasgow in their address for some reason.

Its about a 3 minute drive from me.

[Hugh]

Yeah I knew that but I didn’t think it would make any difference to anyone except you.

[Jeemo]

Yeah I knew that but I didn’t think it would make any difference to anyone except you.

[Tagtucker Jones]

And me. Let me know if you want to go for a Lumberjack Slam some day.

[Diamond Dog]

And me. Let me know if you want to go for a Lumberjack Slam some day.

Yay! Tagtucker!

[Jimbo]

… the very common practice during the first Cold War of condemning the Soviet Union for taking over much of Eastern Europe after the Second World War. This takeover is certainly based on fact. But the condemnation is very much misapplied if no mention is made of the fact that Eastern Europe became communist because Hitler, with the approval of the West, used it as a highway to reach the Soviet Union to wipe out Bolshevism once and for all; the Russians in World Wars I and II lost about 40 million people because the West had twice used this highway to invade Russia. It should not be surprising that after World War II the Soviets were determined to close down the highway. It was not simply “communist expansion”.

RIP WiLLIAM BLUM