The all new "Where are you today?" thread

[Barman]

I hope to be able to smell the bacon shortly ~ SWWLTBO has offered a "cooked" brekky 

Euphemism...? 

[Miss Demeanour]

New Year drinky poo perhaps?

I despise New Year  - can't we change it to celebrate the fact that this year is over instead ?  ( a bit of spin I appreciate but far more palatable to my mind )

[Snoopy]

I hope to be able to smell the bacon shortly ~ SWWLTBO has offered a "cooked" brekky 

Euphemism...? 

The boys are up and in the kitchen ~ the offer included them and I don't think she is in to that sort of thing

[Nick]

I quite agree. I predicted last year that 2009 was going to be awful, and as usual I was right  

[Miss Demeanour]

So Nicktradamus what are your predictions for 2010  - for you and us ????

[Snoopy]

New Year drinky poo perhaps?

I despise New Year  - can't we change it to celebrate the fact that this year is over instead ?  ( a bit of spin I appreciate but far more palatable to my mind )

Funny how different people read the same thing (see another thread) ~ I read that as meaning a Drink in the New Year .... not an offer to celebrate the New Year.

Also I thought the New Year celebration was double edged anyway ~ Celebrating the end of one year and the arrival of another ~ sort of death and rebirth type of thingy.

[Snoopy]

I quite agree. I predicted last year that 2009 was going to be awful, and as usual I was right  

But you say that every year 

[Nick]

So Nicktradamus what are your predictions for 2010  - for you and us ????

2010 is going to be frightful 

[Miss Demeanour]

I quite agree. I predicted last year that 2009 was going to be awful, and as usual I was right  

But you say that every year 

He's a consistent 'see-er'   

[Miss Demeanour]

Also I thought the New Year celebration was double edged anyway ~ Celebrating the end of one year and the arrival of another ~ sort of death and rebirth type of thingy.

Exactly - let's just not be ambiguous  - just thank heavens that ones over sort of thing  

[Nick]

An utterly pointless and artificial focus of celebration IMHO. I make a point of gong to bed before midnight and hate those Scottish bastards that hog (geddit?) the telly 

[Snoopy]

Historically it has a point (Rebirth etc) but that was in the days of most people worshipping the seasons, the sun and moon et al. Personally I have long since given up sitting around until midnight but in my younger days going to Trafalgar Square and snogging a few gerls was a good enough reason for me to celebrate.

I still find the ending of the old year and the start of another a time for reflection, a reason perhaps to pause in life and remember old friends, dead friends and rellies, to consider past mistakes and those yet unmade. It is also a good reason as any other for having a dram or two (not that there is any need for an excuse to drink a good malt).

Anywhoo if we throw out all traditions what have we left?

[Miss Demeanour]

A brave new world 

[Nick]

She quoteth The Tempest 

[Snoopy]

She quoteth The Tempest 

Maybe not ................

A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

    The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.

    "And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room."

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

 















PS ~ Yes I know Huxley got it from The Tempest ~ question is does Miss D?