More signs of the apocalypse

[shereads]

i was speaking with satan a moment ago, she said.. the cheese is a warning. if you look closely there should be something inscribed in the wrapper.. itll look like upc code.. but its really the morse code of evil..

Didn't Leonardo DaVinci invent the upc code? Does the cheese have something to do with the Sacred Feminine? Does the fact that the cheese isn't cheese at all, but processed cheese food, mean someone's trying to tell me that Gynneth Paltrow should not play the Dietrich role?

 

[oggbashan]

My father, who died two years ago, was slightly nonplussed by some of the signs of feminism.

When he realised that some women did not like having doors opened for them because it was 'sexist', he decided to open doors for men and women.

He used to stand up whenever a woman entered a room. He'd always done it. That was the way he had been brought up. So he stood whenever a woman or man entered a room, even for his sons.

How old was he when he changed his habits? 90.

In the Old People's Home (which is called something more politically correct but that is what he called it) he would stand up whenever anyone entered the room, even the cleaner. He would remain standing until the lady or gentleman was seated, so the cleaner had to persuade someone to call him away or he would stay standing while she cleaned his room.

He used to quote 'Her Majesty' on courtesy. He said that she had said 'The true art of courtesy is in making the other person feel comfortable'. He would never mention Her Majesty without saying 'God Bless Her'.

He felt that lack of courtesy to other people was a sign of degeneration in society but he would never be less than courteous to anyone, no matter how rude they were in return.

He apologised for dying and 'causing a fuss'.

He wasn't unique. There were and are many like him, men and women. While they exist the final days are not here.

Og

 

[cloudy]

My father, who died two years ago, was slightly nonplussed by some of the signs of feminism.

When he realised that some women did not like having doors opened for them because it was 'sexist', he decided to open doors for men and women.

He used to stand up whenever a woman entered a room. He'd always done it. That was the way he had been brought up. So he stood whenever a woman or man entered a room, even for his sons.

How old was he when he changed his habits? 90.

In the Old People's Home (which is called something more politically correct but that is what he called it) he would stand up whenever anyone entered the room, even the cleaner. He would remain standing until the lady or gentleman was seated, so the cleaner had to persuade someone to call him away or he would stay standing while she cleaned his room.

He used to quote 'Her Majesty' on courtesy. He said that she had said 'The true art of courtesy is in making the other person feel comfortable'. He would never mention Her Majesty without saying 'God Bless Her'.

He felt that lack of courtesy to other people was a sign of degeneration in society but he would never be less than courteous to anyone, no matter how rude they were in return.

He apologised for dying and 'causing a fuss'.

He wasn't unique. There were and are many like him, men and women. While they exist the final days are not here.

Og

Amen to that.

All of my children learned please, thank you, and you're welcome as soon as they could talk. Too many parents don't teach their children simple courtesy.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Nostradamus said:

and there would rain upon the earth mechanically produced fromage, squared and glossed over,

The big city would see the assualt of dried fruit, tossed by unseen hands,

and in the opposite city of H, a blonde thespian shall try to destroy the industry of moving images.

The words of the prophet "A" will confuse and trouble, his messages hidden in a place which worships fornication.

and Pepsi, will never proclaim victory over Coke, The king of beers shall be overthrown and the entertainer shall expose her teat.

Her lineage shall be pesecuted, the one black, now white, once man, now woman, once human, now plastic shall be judged

 

[cloudy]

Nostradamus said:

and there would rain upon the earth mechanically produced fromage, squared and glossed over,

The big city would see the assualt of dried fruit, tossed by unseen hands,

and in the opposite city of H, a blonde thespian shall try to destroy the industry of moving images.

The words of the prophet "A" will confuse and trouble, his messages hidden in a place which worships fornication.

and Pepsi, will never proclaim victory over Coke, The king of beers shall be overthrown and the entertainer shall expose her teat.

Her lineage shall be pesecuted, the one black, now white, once man, now woman, once human, now plastic shall be judged

PMSL!!!!!

 

[shereads]

My father, who died two years ago, was slightly nonplussed by some of the signs of feminism.

When he realised that some women did not like having doors opened for them because it was 'sexist', he decided to open doors for men and women.

He used to stand up whenever a woman entered a room. He'd always done it. That was the way he had been brought up. So he stood whenever a woman or man entered a room, even for his sons.

How old was he when he changed his habits? 90.

In the Old People's Home (which is called something more politically correct but that is what he called it) he would stand up whenever anyone entered the room, even the cleaner. He would remain standing until the lady or gentleman was seated, so the cleaner had to persuade someone to call him away or he would stay standing while she cleaned his room.

He used to quote 'Her Majesty' on courtesy. He said that she had said 'The true art of courtesy is in making the other person feel comfortable'. He would never mention Her Majesty without saying 'God Bless Her'.

He felt that lack of courtesy to other people was a sign of degeneration in society but he would never be less than courteous to anyone, no matter how rude they were in return.

He apologised for dying and 'causing a fuss'.

He wasn't unique. There were and are many like him, men and women. While they exist the final days are not here.

Og

I admire your dad enormously.

I like the idea of standing for everyone. Although it must have made the cleaner uncomfortable.

I know it seemed extreme when early feminists objected to having doors opened for them. I think the point they were making was that such courtesies were rooted in the identity of women as "the weaker sex." Bra-burning and other symbolic extremes were the product of a time that seems distant now, but it wasn't so long ago - when women were using every weapon at their disposal to fight the stereotypes that justified limiting our options.

I'm lucky to have entered the workplace in the late seventies, when the doors weren't exactly wide open in welcome - but the locks had been picked by the Betty Friedans of the world. I didn't feel insulted when a man gestured for me to enter a room ahead of him; I liked it and still do. And at the time, I didn't understand why those earlier feminists would have made an issue of such a small thing.

A few years ago, a young girl spent a college summer working for us as a trainee in a professional position. She began bringing coffee to "the guys" in her group every morning. It bothered me in ways that I couldn't express and didn't try to. Then I overheard another woman, a few years older than me, telling this girl how earlier generations of working women had fought the assumption that we ought to perform secretarial duties for our male bosses and peers, no matter our job position; and how awful it felt to be perceived as shrewish and unfeminine when a man would act hurt and say, "All I asked for was a cup of coffee."

What we'd have done as a courtesy among friends, we refused to do in the workplace because we were fighting to be perceived as professional equals. I had also been asked to type for my boss when his secretary was on vacation, and I had felt terrible when I refused. It seemed ungrateful. I would rather have typed the thing, and been liked, but if I had I'd have been agreeing to accept a subservient role that my male colleagues were never asked to share.

Symbolism has enormous power when one group of people wishes to discriminate against another. For women of your father's generation who were trying to go where they weren't wanted, a gentlemanly gesture like opening a door for a lady can't have been fun to reject. But like my refusal to type for the guys or bring them coffee, it must have felt necessary at the time.

I hope we're past that, because I love it when a man uses his strength to lift heavy objects and open doors. Just don't use it against me when it's time for salary reviews.

 

[oggbashan]

Even when young my father did not put down women. He showed them the formal courtesies that were normal but he treated them as intelligent people.

He had to. His eldest sister worked hard to help pay for his education. He never forgot that he owed her and that without her skills he wouldn't have progressed as he did.

From the day he started work in 1919 until 1954 his eldest sister earned more than he did and that was before equal pay for equal work.

He had secretaries but if his secretary was busy, and he wasn't, he would make tea for both of them, or for his visitors - in the 1950s!

Og

 

[dr_mabeuse]

He felt that lack of courtesy to other people was a sign of degeneration in society but he would never be less than courteous to anyone, no matter how rude they were in return.

If the success of a society can be measured by how well it treats its members (and I know of no better way), than your dad was certainly right.

---dr.M.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a slice of cheese,
And what pasteurized artifically flavored dairy product,
Its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

---Wm. Butler Mabeuse

 

[Guest]

*grins*

kudos to the rough cheese beast!

 

[shereads]

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a slice of cheese,
And what pasteurized artifically flavored dairy product,
Its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

---Wm. Butler Mabeuse

You rule, Dr. M.

 

[shereads]

Even when young my father did not put down women. He showed them the formal courtesies that were normal but he treated them as intelligent people.

He had to. His eldest sister worked hard to help pay for his education. He never forgot that he owed her and that without her skills he wouldn't have progressed as he did.

From the day he started work in 1919 until 1954 his eldest sister earned more than he did and that was before equal pay for equal work.

He had secretaries but if his secretary was busy, and he wasn't, he would make tea for both of them, or for his visitors - in the 1950s!

Og

He sounds like the rarest sort of gentleman: the one who means it.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

It rains...

 

[shereads]

Okay, let's tally up these signs of the apolalypse and see where the world is headed:

1) Plague of locusts (cicadas)

2) Raining domesticated animals

3) Unexplained cheese sightings

4) Apricots hurled at people on sidewalks for no known reason ("random fruitings")

5) General lack of courtesy

6) WWIII

Anything else?

 

[Guest]

 

[Somme]

Okay, let's tally up these signs of the apolalypse and see where the world is headed:

1) Plague of locusts (cicadas)

2) Raining domesticated animals

3) Unexplained cheese sightings

4) Apricots hurled at people on sidewalks for no known reason ("random fruitings")

5) General lack of courtesy

6) WWIII

Anything else?

Wellllll, I did burn somme more toast this morning.......not sure if it counts, though.....

 

[SlickTony]

My cat has been going into heat a lot more often lately. Shaving days with each cycle, one day she will never be out of heat. And THAT will be the end of the world as we know it.

That sounds like ovarian cysts, which in cats causes them to be in heat constantly. Better have her spayed.

 

[shereads]

That sounds like ovarian cysts, which in cats causes them to be in heat constantly. Better have her spayed.

I don't think cysts in housepets is one of the signs, but I could be wrong.

Somme's burned toast sounds ordinary, too. No offense.

...unless...

Was the toaster plugged in at the time? If not, I think you may be onto something nearly as strange as the cheese and fruit sightings.

Reality TV? You must mean Fox Network's "I'm Having My Priest's Baby." I thought that was just a rumour.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I hurried home from work because the TV Guide promised a local TV channel was running "Psycho."

Now, I am all wrapped up in a blanket (to pull over my eyes) wearing my pj's, sitting on the couch, with popcorn and hot chocolate.

I was all ready to be thoroughly scared, and instead I am completely pissed off.

Did you know that they remade "Psycho?"

I think that's Ann Heche, who is going to meet Norman in the shower. They did use the original music, but this has a modern setting, and it is in color!

The Apocalypse must be VERY near!

 

[smartnsassy]

the apppearance of smart and sassy is sure to signal the end.

 

[Guest]

hints and signs

if you play the American Idol CD backwards....itll tell you all you need to know.. if you play if forwards it sounds like a thousand squeeky wheels..
i am certain this is prophecy.

perhaps this belongs in another thread, but when i went into the back yard to do doggie poo clean up..there was nothing... the slate was clean.. so to speak
this couldnt possibly a coincidence.....

 

[SummerMorning]

The poppies are in bloom, cutting off the opium supply...

 

[shyly curious]

I hurried home from work because the TV Guide promised a local TV channel was running "Psycho."

Now, I am all wrapped up in a blanket (to pull over my eyes) wearing my pj's, sitting on the couch, with popcorn and hot chocolate.

I was all ready to be thoroughly scared, and instead I am completely pissed off.

Did you know that they remade "Psycho?"

I think that's Ann Heche, who is going to meet Norman in the shower. They did use the original music, but this has a modern setting, and it is in color!

The Apocalypse must be VERY near!

great movies were meant to be seen in B&W ... color film is a sign the end is coming

 

[SummerMorning]

The sun is shining, and as the good lords have proclaimed, the feelings of pernicious bonhomie shalt signal the endtimes drawing near, for an end to the suffering of the masses shall surely ordain the fall and collapse of the god-given structure, with God on top of Man on top of Woman on top of Beasts.

 

[SummerMorning]

See what I mean?