More decent discussion from the UK News stalwarts
How is your sister by the way? She lives in semi-independent housing doesn't she?
She is OK, and does live in sheltered accommodation. Her behaviour is mostly fine, and she loves being an Aunty to Teardroplet. Teardroplet is always keen to see her, and play with her - she cajoles her into playing hide and seek behind the curtains.
Excellent. I think that's the future for the girl in question (the sheltered housing, not necessarily the hide and seek behind the curtains).
In other news, I went in the bathroom last night and ended up scared witless:
https://imgur.com/a/2AdmJx6
You don't need those guys staring at you while you take your ease.
Ew. I hate toys with starey eyes. Those Victorian dolls with the ringlets are even more terrifying.
The one on the left was the gift from mingmong. Teardroplet has called it Louis Bear, for reasons I can't fathom.
Our bathroom has a large statue of Kali on the cistern, grimacing at you whilst holding up a man's severed head. It used to be the Virgin Mary looking tragic. Both tended to put a man off. Just MsGaze's little joke.
"It used to be the Virgin Mary looking tragic. Both tended to put a man off."
Put you off? Surely that would give you the horn, looking all vulnerable like that.
Kali's more likely to give me the horn, to be honest. She takes being a 'strong, independent woman' to the max.
I can't quite believe I just used the phrase 'to the max'. I apologise to all.
I want you to go away and have a good think about what you just did.
Bit early in the day for blasphemy, folks.
Is it blasphemy if it isn’t your religion?
No. It's not blasphemy if you don't believe in it.
I do worry about that a bit... I imagine a guest using the bathroom and being offended.
Surely it is blasphemy from a believer's point of view, which is surely the point.
For a non-believer, it's not that it's "not blasphemy", because that implies there are acts that the non-believer is willing to accept are objectively blasphemous. It's that they don't accept the validity of the grounds for calling certain acts blasphemy. Which is probably itself blasphemous.
I can't get my head around the concept of blasphemy, it's true. Seems rather thin-skinned to me.