Pedro
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Nigel, I don’t consider I should share the billing for what is wholly your story. I was just happy to oblige with giving it a good fettling to get it ready for Mike. I clearly didn’t do that good a job since I missed ‘statutes’, so no gold star for me.
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6 hours ago, Camy said:
I'd never heard of U=U or PrEP until tonight. EVERYONE should know!
U=U stands for Undetectable=Untransmissable
PrEP is a pill you can take to protect you from HIV.
PrEP stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. ... If you take PrEP correctly, you don’t need to worry about a sexual partner’s HIV status. I found this out at: http://forum.iomfats.org/t/9287/
The medicos amongst us will hopefully give us their informed opinion, but my view is PrEP should only be considered as an additional weapon in tne armoury against HIV. Unfortunately some will think it means the battle is won and return to/ take up unsafe practices with gay abandon. Safe sex awareness and practice should be maintained, if only because ‘other brands of STD are available’.
As an aside : Camy does have several stories posted on Iomfats as Camy Sussex. So listed under S.
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Another argument against male genital mutilation ie routine circumcision for non-medical reasons.
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14 hours ago, Camy said:
Pedro! All in all that was a rather lovely novel, and one I'll be reading again.
Many thanks.
Aaw. (blushes).
I’m pleased that it hit the spot for you and flattered that you should want to put it on the re-read shelf of your bookcase.
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Carefully crafted and darkly coloured this is Nigel at his best. Read it here: https://awesomedude.com/nigel_gordon/the-secret-of-making/the-secret-of-making.htm.
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As James has said, it is difficult to choose any of Cole’s stories as better than any of the others. To be prolific and deliver consistent quality and breadth is worthy of our kowtows.
Two not on the list that I re-read from time to time are ‘High Plains of Wyoming’ and ‘They Came with Guns’.
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Although she was in mufti, Mother’s tweed wearing rival was there instead, still licking her lips at the memory of her breakfast fry-up.
Will Mother have the last word? Time (next Saturday) will tell.
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5 hours ago, Camy said:
Two computers for the price of one? I need Mike's number.
You wouldn’t be so keen if he over-charged you the same way he did for the one he invoiced George’s company. That’s why Patrick was going to let Bert sign off the invoice and not do it himself. Plausible deniability and all that.
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4 hours ago, Camy said:
I'm rather sweet on mother - a terminator in tweeds.
“No, dear! Not tweeds,” says Mother.”They would never do. Tweeds are for people that live in the country and spend their time riding around on horses or shooting at unsuspecting birds.”
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1 hour ago, Nigel Gordon said:
I think my first priority is chapter 8, then qualifying in Spa. I hope chapter 8 is up to Pedro's normal standard, otherwise I know a couple of F1 team members who are going to be upset. I recommended it to them.
No pressure there then! I hope they don’t get distracted by the story and make a mess of qualifying.
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I’m not sure if it is the cynic or the paranoid in me, probably both, but I am afraid I consider the second of Bruin’s two hypotheses to be the more likely. The BBC is under attack on a number of fronts and they might feel they have mentioned Turing’s death and homosexuality enough in the past and have no wish to stick their heads above the parapet and give their detractors yet more to aim at.
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2 hours ago, Camy said:
The bottom line (bottom, snicker) is I'm loving Pedro's story, and I'm happy to wait. 👍
Thank you for the plaudits but I am afraid you will still have to wait for the next instalment. To make the time seem to go faster, you could try some displacement activity: shopping to make sure you have tea , butter, bread (for toast) and a nice marmalade ready for when you settle down to read the next instalment over breakfast on Saturday.
"Bottom, snicker" - as Patrick might say 'now who is the one with the dirty mind'.
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On 8/15/2019 at 1:36 PM, Camy said:
Chapter 3: oh, the intrigue!
Some have Coronation Street; I have The Easter Bunny.
Hehe. I don’t think the Dude or I have the stamina to keep it up three times a week for sixty years. EB that is.
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Mike
I have no particular preference but PLEASE liaise with Colin as per my emails of 4Aug.and 25 June.
Pedro
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Thank you gentlemen for your enthusiasm.
Now if there are ten chapters and the Dude posts one a week...
should be done just before 31 October.
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Patrick bows to his elderly mother’s insistence that he meet her at a department store in town for lunch instead having his usual sandwich at work. Of course Mother is late, so, while he waits, Patrick talks to the rabbit selling Easter eggs outside the store...
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This story and its longer sequel are Dude’s picks this month (June 2019) which has prompted me to re-read them. They are both delightful stories crafted with Mihangel’s great skill. That I happened to be in Porthmadog, not far from Gorseddau, at the turn of the month made Xenophilia 2 all the more poignant.
If you haven’t read them before, or even if you have, read them now and enjoy. There is no need to be put off by the few Welsh words, all are explained with grace and care, or can be understood from the context. Readers across the pond are more likely to have trouble understanding why the Adjutant is a ‘pwime example of a high-wanking officer’.
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At the time of their attempt to control the population by means of the one child policy, I always felt the Chinese government missed a trick by not decriminalising homosexuality and discreetly encouraging it.
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It has been said that the biggest single addition to someone’s carbon footprint is for them to have a child.
Before improvements in medicine and public health reduced infant mortality rates, large families were common in the hope that one or more child would survive to look after you in old age. With those improvements and the availability of contraception birth rates in western societies dropped to replacement or below as rational parents only had the children they felt they could afford. Unfortunately improved healthcare and lowering birth rates have not been achieved in other parts of the world. In addition the responsibility (either deliberate or incidental) of western societies seems to have gone by the board and larger families appear to be making a come back. Cynical me suspects bunny-hugging, sandal-wearing, climate change activists are prominent contributors who see no hypocrisy in their procreation.
In the eighties we in the UK had a colourful MP (when they were still allowed a modicum of independent thought) who, during a discussion on the aid to be sent to a third world country that had suffered some natural disaster that had killed tens of thousands, remarked that the best aid we could send the country would be condoms as the birth rate in the country meant that the number killed had already been replaced in the time between the disaster and the emergency debate in the Commons. Needless to say he was branded as a racist (which he probably was ) and that unfortunately detracted from the validity of his underlying argument.
I find I still have a copy of ‘A Blueprint for Survival’, a 1970’s paper on population and the environment on my book shelf. I think it is time I re-read it. I seem to remember that its arguments helped me rationalise not wanting to marry and have children. I know the paper made a big impact on me at the time but, unsurprisingly it has been ignored by generations of policymakers too intent on the short term.
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Nigel takes us on another delicious foray into the art trade - the seedy end. Well paced and cleverly contrived. By the end, I could imagine Tom Ripley living in the adjoining villa.
Read it here: http://www.awesomedude.com/nigel_gordon/the-cartoon/the-cartoon.htm
Another foray into art? See: http://www.awesomedude.com/nigel_gordon/family-heirloom/family-heirloom.htm
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15 hours ago, Camy said:
It seems to me that after the general liberalism of the last four decades of the 20th century we've made a horrendous U-turn. Freedoms we all take for granted (and have won at great cost) are being seriously threatened.
Freedoms across a whole spectrum, not just LGBTQ.
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Superb. Well done , James.
It should be compulsory reading for every phobe on the planet, except they would either be too thick to understand it or deliberately miss the point unless a gloss was provided which they would ignore anyway.
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So much truth there!
When I was nobbut a lad, I came across a book called ‘How to live with a Calculating Cat’. There was a pill fight in there where the author said the only way to play the game was to cheat: grind the pill up and dust it on the cat’s fur, the cat will then wash itself ingesting the powdered pill.
There was a companion book ‘How to live with a Neurotic Dog’. The dog was probably neurotic because it lived with the cat.
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Such sad news. My sympathies to You, Addym, for the loss of your great friend.
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Story genre?
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As a reader, when I find a story I like, I look for my next story in two ways. Either seek further stories by the same author or stories of a similar nature. So I think Talo’s suggestion of some sort of classification by genre is a good one. Better still is that he has backed up his initial suggestion by working up a list of possible classifications.
However ( there is always a however), I feel some overlap between classifications is going to be inevitable. Unwittingly, Talo has even hinted at this by including ‘supernatural’ in both ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Horror’. He has also suggested ‘short stories’ as a genre, but this represents an additional level of classification based on length of story, as ‘shorts’ will also fall into a subject genre.
Of more immediate consideration is the effect of introducing any additional level of classification on the organisation of the site. As I understand it, at the moment the hierarchy is ‘main page>author page>story page>story’, or some simple variant, and the file structure reflects this. When Mike has a new story to post he adds it to the ‘new story’ sections of the main page and to the author’s page. With the added complication of genre classification, my feeling is that Mike will have will either have to maintain additional pages for each classification, something I suspect Mike will be loth to take on, or the stories have to be entered in some kind of database that allows interrogation by a reader. The latter would make it relatively simple to add additional levels of classification, eg length, collections (halloween, valentines, boys-on-trains) etc, but considerable effort would be required to design the database and identify and enter all the data for the stories. Most important of all it requires access to the necessary coding skills for incorporating the database into the website, which I suspect we don’t have.