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So upbeat, so soothing: x6Hvdrf--V0 Vivaldi's Mandolin Concertos, I Solisti Veneti

Then you should definitely try and reread it if you are older now. It deals with the human fear of death, man's natural state vs. civilisation, just rulership, sexual temptation, and the relationship of gods and mortals. It also includes a version of Noah's flood, presents an interesting account...

As long as you don't go near the tea and me at the same time...

Am in Germany atm, but can get to London pretty easily, so put me down as a maybe. Should do it soonish though, like Sept/Oct or so, we're still behind on the 2008 meet (since the meet last year was officially the 2007 meet). Never a truer word written.

Some interesting and insightful comments here. I found myself in a similar situation to this intelligent hypothetical young man. Being bilingual in German and English, and otherwise only still studying dead languages, I decided to learn something different again. I chose to brush up on my five...

"I don't believe in God, but once a week I like listening to a man who believes what he says." David Hume on why he attended his local church every Sunday despite remainig skeptical in matters of religion I also continued going to church for many years, even after I became an agnostic/deist...

I wrote a letter today in protest about this to the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sayed Khamenei. While I am outraged, I'm not surprised this has happened in Iran of all places, and it kind of proves her right in choosing women's rights as her area of research. And I'm really glad I wrote that letter...

Well, how about everyone who's interested just posting here again, and saying what dates they can and can't do. Maybe we can then figure out what date suits everyone best.

Hey guys, what's the current status of this? I know I haven't posted here for a while, but I still come here just to read the discussions. I think the meet-up in Feb this year was a real blast, and we should definitely get a UK CFC meet-up organised this year. I'm only around this side of the...

Well, to quote Mark Twain, "the rumours of my death have been greatly exaggerated". I went punting about a month ago with two pretty girls and a bottle of South African red, but since I am such a skilled punter, and of course punted from the correct end (the back), there was no accident. And the...

Now the next time a chav on the street growls "what you staring at" to me and then whacks me he'll be let off because it was self-defense. This ridiculous sentence just shows how justice continues to be perverted in this world.

Cata, Mirc, I doubt it's a Romanian problem, I couldn't load CFC for about half the day yesterday (about noon til evening GMT).

Since the Upload Server went down, I had to re-upload all the pictures manually from my computer back in Germany. They should be viewable at the bottom of the relevant set of questions, in the correct order. If you're not sure which question a picture is for, right-click it and select "save as"...

I was reading an article in "Welt Kompakt", a German paper, about this. Apparently public speeches and meetings hosted by Mugabe's opponents have been attracting about three times the number of his own. People are starting to speak out openly against Mugabe. I think that this time Mugabe will...

I was reading up on fights and violence in ice hockey recently, and I was simultaneously shocked and amused. If fighting is an integral part of ice hockey, it ought to be reclassified as a martial arts sport, not as a ball sport. When I play football I find it extremely important that the game...