Wow, lot of new folks running around. Let me introduce myself. Im the resident Conservative whipping boy, controversial, yet smiling member of the "hold on to the past" society as well as knuckle dragger and world traveler. Lets see, saw some great sunrises, slapped a reporter cross eyed, made some enemies and well....lost a few pounds.

Good to eat ice cream again. Not sure why ice cream facinates me so much but damned if it doesnt taste really good. And coffee. Really good coffee. Nipple clamps, ice cream, coffee.....wow!

Looks like the site has grown some. Sky, what you got now, 21000 posts. Sheezuz....thats a bunch. And sweet lady from England...hows the garden coming? And AFW....what the hell...glad you came back. Know you and Sky dont hold hands and sing love songs but I always got a kick out of your perspectives.

POAC...looks good. Dropped in from time to time to see how it goes. Coffee to ya'll.

Nice to read your voice again. Hope your latest trip didn't leave you any worse for wear.

Actually, a little more than 25 thousand.


Nice to see yer still alive and able to grunt and point.

Because somehow I thought you might relate and be amused.

Hey Abell9! Good to read you.
What flavour ice-cream???? Can't beat rum & raisin as far as I'm concerned.
Filled the seed trays at the weekend, (I'm trying dates, amongst other things this year on account of global warming - I reckon it'll be hot enough to get them to fruit in few years time! lol) planting the spuds in in a day or two once I've cleared all the junk and wood out of the way!


... or any one else! ('cept that reporter, who I'm sure deserved it!)

Rum and Raisen? Wow, sounds good. Gotta hunt some of that down. Blue Bell Bananna Split is the gallon per day habit right now.

The reporter..yes, yes he did. And the sh*t is.....he was from England. Sorry, he needed an arse whuppen.

HE needed it?
Or YOU needed to administer it?


(I really can't ever recall acutally hearing anybody ever ask for an "arse whippen" because they felt they needed one!)

Really? Go figure. No, he begged for it for 3 days. I mean, BEGGED. Had to oblige the man. In the interest of international friendship and all.

are you enjoying the profanity filter, Abell?

(welcome back!)

I'm wondering, was he what we in the north refer to a a 'Southern Puff'? Just curious.

Not sure what a Southern Puff is, Karen. Mind explaining and then I can answer.

There's......a FILTER? For profanity? What the f*cking f*ck for?

For the f*ck of it.

Well, f*ck.

Good to see you back in one piece, Abell.


My goodness, the ******* profanity filter ****** well works ! **** !!!

Let's see how good it REALLY is....

**** Cheney, Paul ********, George ****, K*** R***, Michael L******, the P**C; neo-c********ve...yup, sure is a good one, boss !

Dayam !

Well, personally I dont f*cking NEED profanity to f*cking explain my f*ckingself to every dimwitted f*cking f*cktard that f*cking reads my f*cking words. Im better than that.


Oh, and Rou...thanks for the f*cking welcome f*cking back. I had a f*cking GREAT time. Course....my idea of a great time and your probably are some different...kinda like the difference between North and South Poll's, GWB and Ghandi, Sky and Maxanne, oooh, I could go on and on and on.

A lilly livered, yellow bellied, pansy from the south.
See, in the north we're made tough and aren't scared to show it, in the south, they're.... well, puffs! Ask anyone, they'll tell ya.




Cue the PC torrent!

Based in London...came from Preston? Make sense?

Only if I stretch it!
Preston's in the north, not too far from Liverpool.
Oh, well, I'm still sure he must have deserved his slapping... if only for moving to London!

Ya know...I may have mis-characterized the word...."slap". It was far better, far more effective, and left a scar on his face and soul. In Texas...it would be called an "old fashioned arse whoopen! Something by the way I have found most British soldiers very much enjoy partaking in and dealing out. Them boys....ALWAYS willing. ALWAYS. God I love em.

Too brutal!
You do remember me don't you Abell? - Karen. The hippie!

Yes, Ma'am....I do. But given your home of choice, your heritage, your ease of defending right, your boldness of decalring wrong....Id say you have some warrior in you. Further, Id say that given the right circumstance and with no other choice, you could turn loose the ugly and make it stick. Yes. Ma'am.

Being a hippie doesn't mean giving up personal principals, and it doesn't mean giving up the ability to fight for what's right. Being a hippie means you'de rather not, and would make every reasonable effort to avoid a fight. Hippies LOVE diplomacy, and have much greater respect for those that can think out a problem rather than use brute force. Hippies do recognize that sometimes brute force is a viable option, but it's almost always way down on the list.

Being a liberal doesn't equate to being soft, pansy arse weenies.
Being a liberal, we're just as strong and capable, but were also into using our noodle more than our fists.
Most liberals realize that in a fight, nobody wins. We call the one that loses least, the winner.

Moi??? Sweet, innocent little me? - Never drawn blood in my life!



Did you just call Abell's noodle weak???
You're a braver ma than me Sky of Mind!

I don't know the circumstances for tis situation and I won't presume to assume.
However, for what ever reason, this time he chose to not walk away from it.

Was his decision the correct one? See above. I have no idea.

OK, now go back and read the whole post in context...And take your sense of humour with you!

Just covering my bases.
I don't want no arse woopin!

Ah! Nice ploy.

are you equatining hippiness with liberalism?

I know plenty of hippies that aren't liberals. just 'cause they don't want to fight doesn't make them liberals. I've got plenty of conservative leanings, yet I'll catch a moth and release it outdoors, rather than kill it. I don't like the expenses the neocons have spewed out their various orifices, yet that's actually conservative. I don't like the concept of taking over another country and imposing our will on them, but that's actually a conservative idea.

But I am deffinately a hippie.

Why do we have to fall back on "us and them" polarization and labeling?

The majority of americans, and in fact people in general, when the are removed from the fray, and think about things in a hypothetical framework, will choose the kind, rightous, and peaceful path.

They're all hippies, wether they label themselves that way or not.

Yeah baby!
The whole worlds a hippie - just needs to realise it that's all!

Hippiness also requires an adherance to an alternet lifestyle.
Generally most americans are pretty much main stream.

The lack of desire to fight does not make one a liberal, nor a hippie.

So....the desire to fight doesnt necessarily make me a knuckle dragging barbarian, right?

I wouldn't make that connection, though you might.

no, it ONLY requires an adherance to an alternative lifestyle that values the whole over the individual.
Most Americans ACT in a mainstream fashion, but have ideals that they don't synch up with in their action...
I wouldn't blame a hippie for defending a brother on the field of battle (yes, there are military hippies, Virgina, and there is no Santa Claus, unless you accept the Futurama version), But they'd lose their hippie status as soon as the killed over orders given by a man off the battlefield - that ignored the lives of those they're entrusted with.

The hippie kingdom is open to those of compassion. We're a very accepting group. As long as one cares about life, and wants to create an environment of compassion, they are a hippie. If they're willing to give over humanitarian decisions to someone's objective that is removed, and has an inhumanly inspired objective, then they are Babylonian. They forget life in "furthur"ance to a goal.

that's my two cents, at least.