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    Mao Ze Dong

    Just finished reading Jung Chang's biography of Chairman Mao.

    A more disgusting, stomach-turning, nose-offending litany of barbarity and self-serving callousness I have never come across.

    Chang estimates (she claims conservatively) that Mao was responsible for the deaths of 70 million people, and lifelong misery for hundreds of millions more.

    I remember a young woman I knew as a teenager (god, I wanted to get in her pants) patiently explaining to me how Mao and the Communists had created a new and wonderful society where everybody cared for each other more than they cared for themselves.

    Boy, was she wrong. Of course, I agreed with anything she said (did me no good), but even then I was pretty sceptical in my heart of hearts.

    I look at people like Mao in the same way I look at people like Ted Bundy and Peter Sutcliffe: I know that however long I live or how wise I become I will never understand what went on the heads of people like that. They are, in some sense, inhuman.

    Now I have to find a new book to read on the bog...

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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Just finished reading Jung Chang's biography of Chairman Mao.

    {snip}

    Now I have to find a new book to read on the bog...
    Or you could try eating more fibre.

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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    sounds to me like you need something light to read now.

    Tricks to please a woman = by Jay Wiseman could be a good read for you seeing as you had no luck with your little friend..

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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    I look at people like Mao in the same way I look at people like Ted Bundy and Peter Sutcliffe: I know that however long I live or how wise I become I will never understand what went on the heads of people like that. They are, in some sense, inhuman.

    Now I have to find a new book to read on the bog...
    Pol Pot(ty) would probably be closer!

    Sorry, couldn't help myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trouble View Post
    sounds to me like you need something light to read now.

    Tricks to please a woman = by Jay Wiseman could be a good read for you seeing as you had no luck with your little friend..
    Who said I had no luck?

    I certainly have no need of a user's manual, thank you very much!

    Pleasing women isn't the problem.

    As a friend of mine used to say, "Women! Can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em."

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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    Or you could try eating more fibre.
    ...

    nope, give up. (sound of something whooshing over my head)

    How would eating more fibre help?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    ...

    nope, give up. (sound of something whooshing over my head)

    How would eating more fibre help?
    i think you might want to review the I dont need a manual comment.

    U said you needed something else to read on the bog....ie: whilst carrying out a number 2.......clearer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
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    nope, give up. (sound of something whooshing over my head)

    How would eating more fibre help?
    You'd spend less time in the loo so wouldn't have need of biographies of historic figures to while away the hours. Granted I was assuming you didn't read 1/3 page at a time, standing up. That would be multitasking of an order higher than any man I know could manage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    You'd spend less time in the loo so wouldn't have need of biographies of historic figures to while away the hours. Granted I was assuming you didn't read 1/3 page at a time, standing up. That would be multitasking of an order higher than any man I know could manage.
    kind of stepped on my point there El.

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    Quote Originally Posted by trouble View Post
    kind of stepped on my point there El.
    *Your* point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    You'd spend less time in the loo so wouldn't have need of biographies of historic figures to while away the hours. Granted I was assuming you didn't read 1/3 page at a time, standing up. That would be multitasking of an order higher than any man I know could manage.
    The reading on the bog is not something I wish to give up, nor is the amount of reading I do proportional to the effort involved ... er ... at the other end, so to speak. So fibre is irrelevant. Though I now see what you were getting at.

    And for the others - durr - I understood the reference to fibre I just missed the relevance

    Er - also - and here I realise this may be a revelation that could irretrievably damage my reputation - I usually sit down to pee. At home, at any rate.

    By the way, anybody want to buy a xsxoxixlxexdx second hand copy of MAO?

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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    Quote Originally Posted by Sits-down-to-pee View Post
    Er - also - and here I realise this may be a revelation that could irretrievably damage my reputation - I usually sit down to pee. At home, at any rate.
    Why? and why only at home? (And just wait till DavidJames gets wind of this).
    Quote Originally Posted by Sits-down-to-pee
    By the way, anybody want to buy a xsxoxixlxexdx second hand copy of MAO?
    How many pages are missing?

    By the way, I read that choice of bogside reading matter is a class thing. Novels and biography are irretrievably bourgeois. Both the proletariat and aristocracy prefer glossy periodicals: huntin', shootin' and fishin' for the latter, and something a bit more earthy for the former.
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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    Why? and why only at home? (And just wait till DavidJames gets wind of this). How many pages are missing?

    By the way, I read that choice of bogside reading matter is a class thing. Novels and biography are irretrievably bourgeois. Both the proletariat and aristocracy prefer glossy periodicals: huntin', shootin' and fishin' for the latter, and something a bit more earthy for the former.
    my porcelin overlooking magazine rack tends to have computer and video magazines in it - light reading. "Micro Mart" is earthy you know

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    my porcelin overlooking magazine rack tends to have computer and video magazines in it - light reading. "Micro Mart" is earthy you know
    Do Smurfs need a ladder to ascend the "throne"? Or does Mr. Armitage Shanks have a special product range for his blue friends?

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    Re: Mao Ze Dong

    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    (And just wait till DavidJames gets wind of this).
    If I got wind of it from here, Barry's definitely classed as a WMD.

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    Quote Originally Posted by El Salsero Gringo View Post
    Why?
    because I can't be bother to stand with my whang in my hand, having to point it at the loo

    and why only at home?
    ...well, not only at home, but cos' most other places have urinals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    because I can't be bother to stand with my whang in my hand, having to point it at the loo
    you're a lazy sod you know. Still, you could always ask a friend to hold it for you.
    Quote Originally Posted by Sits-to-pee
    ...well, not only at home, but cos' most other places have urinals.
    I gather they're quite comfy when they get the height right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    Er - also - and here I realise this may be a revelation that could irretrievably damage my reputation - I usually sit down to pee. At home, at any rate.
    :
    Nah, i think none the less of you, I stand up to pee.

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