I do not believe it!

[Cugel]

The Grauniad reports that

Stone-stackers may be jailed!

I did not believe it for a moment, then I read the article, apparently the stonestackers may be messing up ancient sites
One wonders whether the stones had not been moved by weather or animals in the last couple of thousand years

Read about a stonestacker in the paper
"One harmless nutcase stacks them up, another harmless nutcase knocks them down" he explained

Queer little tales from afar, related by a gang of compulsive liars - aka newspapers. Why read them and allow your brain to be confused, distracted and polluted with their "based on a true story" stuff? I have found my own everyday experiences far more informative concerning reality, although even those have 53 equally cogent interpretations.

Mind, if you don't find "based on a true story" a very large oxymoronic memetic tangle then there's no hope for you and your toxic reading habit!

On the other hand, a few days immersion in Hegel might help, as it will completely scramble your existing understanding of words, sentences and semantics, which may then reveal to you just how shallow & worthless those newspaper tittle-tattlers are. And you will be advantaged compared to most of us here as you can read the rascal in the original Cherman.

Cugel

[JohnW]

............. Queer little tales from afar, related by a gang of compulsive liars - aka newspapers. Why read them and allow your brain to be confused, distracted and polluted with their "based on a true story" stuff? I have found my own everyday experiences far more informative concerning reality, although even those have 53 equally cogent interpretations.

Mind, if you don't find "based on a true story" a very large oxymoronic memetic tangle then there's no hope for you and your toxic reading habit!

On the other hand, a few days immersion in Hegel might help, as it will completely scramble your existing understanding of words, sentences and semantics, which may then reveal to you just how shallow & worthless those newspaper tittle-tattlers are. And you will be advantaged compared to most of us here as you can read the rascal in the original Cherman.

Cugel

+1 to all that Cugel.

[661-Pete]

The Grauniad reports that

Stone-stackers may be jailed!

I did not believe it for a moment, then I read the article, apparently the stonestackers may be messing up ancient sites
One wonders whether the stones had not been moved by weather or animals in the last couple of thousand years

Read about a stonestacker in the paper
"One harmless nutcase stacks them up, another harmless nutcase knocks them down" he explained

I had to look up the reference for that one! (apparently it was some months ago):
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 ... l-cornwall

Damage to historic monuments aside, I've long been led to believe that stone-stacking, or cairn-building, at any mountain locality can be anti-social and possibly dangerous. Cairns are often placed to guide hill-walkers especially in winter, when the mountain may be hazardous and covered in snow. To construct an extra cairn which may lead walkers astray is certainly a no-no.

[Cyril Haearn]

The Grauniad reports that

Stone-stackers may be jailed!

I did not believe it for a moment, then I read the article, apparently the stonestackers may be messing up ancient sites
One wonders whether the stones had not been moved by weather or animals in the last couple of thousand years

Read about a stonestacker in the paper
"One harmless nutcase stacks them up, another harmless nutcase knocks them down" he explained

Queer little tales from afar, related by a gang of compulsive liars - aka newspapers. Why read them and allow your brain to be confused, distracted and polluted with their "based on a true story" stuff? I have found my own everyday experiences far more informative concerning reality, although even those have 53 equally cogent interpretations.

Mind, if you don't find "based on a true story" a very large oxymoronic memetic tangle then there's no hope for you and your toxic reading habit!

On the other hand, a few days immersion in Hegel might help, as it will completely scramble your existing understanding of words, sentences and semantics, which may then reveal to you just how shallow & worthless those newspaper tittle-tattlers are. And you will be advantaged compared to most of us here as you can read the rascal in the original Cherman.

Cugel

Yes indeedie! I did visit the Hegel Haus in Stuttgart but philosophy is so difficult even if one understands the language
Near the Hegel Haus is the Hans-im-Glueck Well (Brunnen), for one of my favourite tales, that is much easier to understand
Hans started with a heavy lump of gold, ended up with nothing. But happy

[Cugel]

......Damage to historic monuments aside, I've long been led to believe that stone-stacking, or cairn-building, at any mountain locality can be anti-social and possibly dangerous. Cairns are often placed to guide hill-walkers especially in winter, when the mountain may be hazardous and covered in snow. To construct an extra cairn which may lead walkers astray is certainly a no-no.

Yes, as we know, all walkers in the hills must slavishly follow the directions they imagine cairns are giving them until they plunge over a cliff. What choice do they have, since disobedience to the cairn will just result in it rising up to stone them along the dangerous way to their doom!

My wife's ancestors used to do the same to ships, using bonty fires in place of the lighthouse, the only difference being that the wet sailors who made it to shore after the wrecking were cudgelled a bit 'til they handed over the cargo. It was still "doom".

On the other hand, I have a feeling that the dummies slavishly following the directions of their GPS are rather more likely to suffer a cliff-plunge; or even a cycle on to a motorway, then doom. Them Garmin floggers ought to be sued, the anti-social dangerous doom-dealing rascals!

Cugel

[661-Pete]

Yes, as we know, all walkers in the hills must slavishly follow the directions they imagine cairns are giving them until they plunge over a cliff. What choice do they have, since disobedience to the cairn will just result in it rising up to stone them along the dangerous way to their doom!

OK OK! I was merely recalling something I read once, perhaps in a Youth Hostel somewhere in the Highlands or the Lake District (this would have been many years ago ) - a notice advising people not to disturb or build cairns....

[Cunobelin]

I was informed that, as a toddler, I had an inseparable bedtime companion whom I named "Wow-wow". Notwithstanding the appellation, photographs suggest that it was in reality a rather moth-eaten rabbit. No substitute was ever acceptable, so it seems.

But when its stuffing and general wear-and-tear started to get the better of it, my mother gently suggested that perhaps it was time to 'grow out' of it. She told me in later years that not only did I (aged about 4) agree to this, but I actually dumped the creature in the dustbin myself.

End of my 'soft toy' phase.....

Friends of ours had a bright idea, they bought three identical fluffy toys. The idea was to rotate and thus have a longer serviceable life, and of course if one got lost there was a handy replacement to disguise the fact.

Worked fine at first, but didn't take the kid long to bus the game out

[Cunobelin]

Every day one reads unbelievable true things in the newspaper..

Police cars in Brandenburg, Germany, are to be equipped with teddy bears which will be used to console children involved in 'accidents' or who are victims of 'real crime' 2000 teddies have been ordered, total cost is €7400. Source: nd

I love teddies and I love children, maybe it is not such a crazy idea

Closer to home, Kent Police have been doing the same for over ten years