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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues
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Morning NPs - it's a lovely day in London, not raining, not too cold. Reminded me how lucky we are to live in a climate where you can go outside every day of the year, without worrying too much about heatstroke, frostbite, or the air freezing your lungs.
Having been reminded of them, I'm playing Bach's Violin COncertos, and loving it....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »DH turned the alarm off because he wanted me to have ten minutes extra asleep.
This is one of those weird couple things that I know he does because he lives me but I hate and he knows I dislike but feels I should like and cannot get past that. I usually wake up anyway, so when I don't I feel like the day has started with the world slightly off axis. ( we were both awake a lot in the night not for fun but with this silly cold).
I do that to OH, if I'm opening in the morning (up at 3.30) when she's not got home from work until 2am.
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We hardly eat eggs and so generally apply the float test rather than going by the date on the carton. Milk we do tend to respect the date though, yoghurt will get thrown out if it is more than 2 days over but we try and eat it up when it gets close anyway. Bread we use till it tastes funny.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-24305902
But then we probably throw away less than 2% of what we buy although I am now being a little careful of always making the kids clear their plates because we also don't want an obesity thang...
I'd say we throw away less than 2% also. And if we dump something it's mostly a case of "forgotten at the back of the fridge".
Menu gets adapted to use close-to-expiry food.
It should be a mortal sin to throw away food.
Definitely so for meat. Some poor cow, piggy or horse died for it, so at least show some respect and eat all of it... 0 -
Samuel Johnson: "As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
He also said: "Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands."
When you put them together, it sounds less high-minded and more of an excuse. Was he known as a philanderer?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I'd say we throw away less than 2% also. And if we dump something it's mostly a case of "forgotten at the back of the fridge".
Menu gets adapted to use close-to-expiry food.
It should be a mortal sin to throw away food. Definitely so for meat. Some poor cow, piggy or horse died for it, so at least show some respect and eat all of it...
Worst thing for me is if the kids don't finish everythign on their plate I find it very hard to throw it away rather than 'tidy it up' even though I surely don't need the calories.Samuel Johnson: "As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
He also said: "Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands."
When you put them together, it sounds less high-minded and more of an excuse. Was he known as a philanderer?
Is this a general question or are you looking for specific absolution for your sins?I think....0 -
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Judging by the 2 guys either side of him, the guy in the white jumper just squeezed out a smelly one and is pretending it wasn't him.0 -
Samuel Johnson: "As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
He also said: "Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands."
When you put them together, it sounds less high-minded and more of an excuse. Was he known as a philanderer?
I studied quite a few of Dr. Johnson's works for A level English Lit, and while it's a mistake to assume that what people write about their morality and beliefs is also how they behave, he certainly does not appear sexually to have been open and easy with his affections. His sermons reveal that morality and reason were, for him, strongly linked; he was a high Anglican, but also a rationalist, and not prescriptive or comdemnatory. He wrote quite a few sermons, as well as his other material.
He married slightly oddly, I think - he was about 25, and his wife was well into her 40s, with several children already. I'm not aware of any mistresses he had, but that doesn't, obviously, mean he didn't have any.
Have you read Boswell's Life?
In relation to the quote I have in my signature, and you have expanded in your post, I agree with it whole-heartedly - living in a state of suspicion and mistrust seems profoundly miserable, to me....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
I'm afraid that I never read biographies, which includes Boswell.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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Boswell is worth making an exception for - I understand your general rule, but it is fascinating....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0
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