Amazon exiles discussion

Yes, I saw the three colours series, although I think I ended up seeing them in the wrong order. I saw the start of Forest, Field & Sky but it must have been its last day on the iPlayer because when I went back to watch the rest I couldn't find it. Did you see his series about Japan?

I do love BBC4.

Gordon wrote: "Yes, I saw the three colours series, although I think I ended up seeing them in the wrong order. I saw the start of Forest, Field & Sky but it must have been its last day on the iPlayer because whe..."

Gordon, I found it on "youtube"

Tech wrote: "can i just say that we're on course for a mention of benny hill (hill!), of whom it was alleged (thanks tim!) was altogether more amusing than monty python! just sayin'! :)"

Stan Freberg, was the idea behind the Wilt Chamberlain , Volkswagen ad~ as far a Wilt fitting into the "Bug" "They said it couldn't be done~and it can't!" now that really gets your attention!

Gordon wrote: "Yes, I saw the three colours series, although I think I ended up seeing them in the wrong order. I saw the start of Forest, Field & Sky but it must have been its last day on the iPlayer because whe..."

I only saw a few bits of his series on Japan. Not sure why I didn't watch it all.

Can I ask what the significance is of the photo of pills on the group's heading, is about?

Is there a member, that suffers from Gastroparesis in this group?

There were complaints of nausea and boakiness when I posted a picture of a boiled egg. I thought an anti-emetic and a proton pump inhibitor might help.

Autocornet wanted to change anti-emetic to anti-Semitic.

Hi Gordon, okay thanks, it's just that there's a bit of an issue going on in the other group currently, one person has taken offence by this image..as that person suffers from the very condition the medicines treats!

Might be good idea to change it again to something, more 'inert'!

Sorry to be a pain Gordon.....it can be hard to please everybody all of the time, but mibbe a picture of cute kitten instead, might suffice?!! :)

i keep lobbying for a picture of me! now, who would that offend?

Tech wrote: "i keep lobbying for a picture of me! now, who would that offend?"

We all need a good laugh occasionally

You could use this picture of me...

Gordon wrote: "There were complaints of nausea and boakiness when I posted a picture of a boiled egg. I thought an anti-emetic and........."

Sorry, that was my fault. I actually have bad dizziness & nausea which was really dreadful at the time the egg picture was posted and it genuinely made me feel worse. Gordon v kindly changed the picture to some anti sickness pills. Apologies for any offence this caused.

No, Helen, it is absolutely NOT your fault at all that someone (who accordingly to Duke is from one of the very many other Group Forums that are here on Goodreads - none of which that we are linked up to or associated with in any way) has apparently chosen to take such deeply held personal offence at the posting up of a picture of a widely available and very commonly prescribed Medication. And it is a picture that has been posted on a Group Forum that they are seemingly not even a Group Member of either?! ;o<

It was simply a kindly meant jokey gesture by Gordon towards you, Helen, someone who also has got some serious ongoing issues with her Health as well - and for someone else to then try to make it into being all about themselves and their own Health condition instead is not right and not fair to my mind.

It was posted up to make you smile and to maybe laugh and, in doing so, to hopefully make you feel a little bit better in yourself on what was one of several extremely bad days for you. To suggest anything otherwise is to completely take it out of it's original context.

If there really is 'a bit of an issue going on' about our Group Forum Discussions Threads on another Group Forum to ours, Duke, then maybe that discussion should be linked up to or put out in the open on here so that all of our own Group Forum Members can also get to discuss how they think and feel about it as well? And then we can all get to decide on our own Group Forum what we all feel should or should not be posted on here in future?

Oooh, this really has just made me SO annoyed?!! ... eagerly coming back on our lovely Group Forum again only to find our Home Pictures have been judged like this, found to be offensive, and then been removed at the personal request of a Member of another Group Forum that we know nothing about! ;o<

I've just been told that I must avoid any kind of Stress as well!

And here I am now getting myself all stressed out and personally taking offence at even just the idea of someone choosing to personally take offence with the Posts on our Group Forum ;o<

Bedtime! - LOL!!! ;o>

I did have a feeling that our little band might get some flack from opposing forces on here as we don't conform to the general input of bookreading and literary persuasions that other groups adhere to, somewhat religiously and overzealous for my taste. It seems that trollish behaviour is possibly raising it's ugly head once again. Whatever happened to tolerance and live and let live? Lighten up a little out there will you!

Martin wrote: "I did have a feeling that our little band might get some flack from opposing forces on here as we don't conform to the general input of bookreading and literary persuasions that other groups adhere..."

How about sticks and stones may break my bones~~ If I find something offensive - I go elsewhere~
I'm here to have fun-not save the world!! Just don't call me horse-face!!!

ARRRGGGHHH!!! - I've been so desperate all week long just to get back home again and to get back into my own lovely comfy Bed but it really is just TOO damn hot to sleep tonight! ... and I'm actually missing the blissful coolness of the Hospital Ward now with it's really noisy Air Conditioning System! - LOL!!! ;o>

I don't think that this is typical trolling behaviour as such? - but I do think it to be a rather narcissistic response to what was a perfectly harmless enough picture of an incredibly common and everyday Medication that a lot of people take and are very familiar with.

And the reasoning given out for the very personal offence that it has apparently caused to this person is also rather a strange one as well - as this particular kind of Medication is very well-known as a general treatment for Nausea, Indigestion, Acid Reflux, and to help to prevent or to treat Stomach Ulcers but it is not (as far as I know anyway? - and I am definitely no real expert on this) ever prescribed as being a singular or an exclusive Medication Treatment for the specific condition of Gastroparesis?

Omeprazole is actually well-known for significantly increasing the delay of Gastric emptying - which is the very last side effect that anyone who is already sadly suffering from Gastroparesis to have to endure? And I've always understood that it often has to be taken with something else to actively prevent this effect of Gastric delay from becoming even worse in patients who are already experiencing such awful and extremely painful difficulties?

Each to their own obviously, but that is also why I find the idea of any offence being personally given out or being taken by someone to the posting of a picture of these Tablets to be quite an odd and an extreme reaction.

And if we do go with Duke's suggestion to post up something else, like a cute Kitten instead, which was not and still is not particularly relevant to the Discussion that we were having on here at the time - then do we also have to stand-by and brace ourselves for someone else wandering in on us from yet another Group Forum on Goodreads and this time choosing to take offence because they just happen to have a very deep-seated phobia about Cats?

I really dislike, and would even go so far as to say that I actually greatly resent, the feeling that we are currently being judged and moderated on our Discussion Posts and Group Forum pictures by someone who clearly doesn't know any of us as a Group or is apparently even a Member of our Group Forum either. I'm sure too that if we all looked hard enough then we could also find and take just as much offence at some of the seemingly quite general stuff posted up on their Group Forum - but we simply aren't like that on here? - and I feel that we should feel free to post up whatever we like to each other just so long as it is always within the agreed Rules of the Goodreads Website and of the overall membership of our own Group Forum.

I'm probably just rambling now though? - and not making any real sense because I am just so hot and kerknackered that I can hardly think straight about anything much - and most of my own personal feelings on this are all far more down to my unexpected sadness of so eagerly logging on here once again only to now find myself staring in almost stunned disbelief at a basic blank and completely impersonal Group Forum Home Page.

Right! - well that's all of the Morphine influenced ramblings that I'm going to be posting up on here tonight - LOL!!! ... and now that I've got myself an Iced Drink and all of that niggling out of my system I'm going back off to Bed again! ... Hee, Hee, Hee!!! ;o>

Gordon wrote: "I've just set this up as an experiment to see whether this would be a good home."

I just found it~~ hope everything is furnished so I can just plop down and take a load off me feet

right! that's it! form a disorderly queue, collect your pitchforks and torches, we gon' burn that sucker down!

what do we want?
omeprazole!
when do we want it?
when slight discomfort dictates a regulation dosage of the above medication, prescribed by a professional in the field, of course!
YEAH!

I hope that Gordon comes back online again to feeling the full strength of all the loyalty, and the love too, that we have on here for the wonderful Group Forum home that he has so very kindly created for us ;o>

I dunno? - I only disappear for just a few days and you lot immediately go and get yourself into trouble with the Members of another Goodreads Group Forum?!! ;oO

And I want to put in a personal request today for our Group Forum Home Page to be reinstated and restored to it's glorious picturesque glory again ASAP, Gordon ;o>

WHAT?!! - FOOTBALL?!! - REALLY?!! ... HA HA HA HA HA!!! - LOL!!! ;o>

Whatever! The Sun is now out and is shining brightly on our Group Forum once again - and all is right with the world on here - YAYYY!!! ;o>

Good to have you back, Suzy.

Gordon, I was going to suggest we have some lovely pictures of the Forum in Rome - appropriate and shouldn't be offensive to anyone!!
I'm liking the little sun tho'.

Do you think that Gordon painted it himself during his Elevenses? ;o>

It looks like all of those little sachets of Colmans Mustard pinched from the Canteen came in very handy at such short notice?! - LOL!!!

what a beautiful picture, gordon, well chosen! :)

Tech wrote: "what a beautiful picture, gordon, well chosen! :)"

I wanna see Gordon's picture!!!

it's an image of a holy place!

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...

And we have a painting of Suzysunshine too!

I'm so glad Gordon managed to capture the essence of me on a good day ;o>

Someone, Please show me the "Picture".

the link from my last post will reveal the glorious image! :)

Ta for the pic of the Falkirk Wheel, Gordon! A magnificent piece of engineering and the café’s excellent too. The canal’s just half a mile or so up the road from me, lovely since they cleaned it up and the swans and herons have come back.

and thanks for the tenure of the picture of the 'theatre of pies'!

Just had a look at the 'wheel' myself..crikey! That's some engineering gone into that...looks like something one might see on futuristic episode of Doctor Who! :)

theDuke wrote: "Just had a look at the 'wheel myself..crikey! That's some engineering gone into that...looks like something might see on futuristic episode of Doctor Who! :)"

This is the only video I could find at normal speed, the speeded up ones don’t do it justice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DxKWSQD...

WoW?!! - that is simply fantastic!!! ... even though there is absolutely NO way anyone would ever get me to agree to try it out - LOL!!! ;o>

We live 45 minutes away from the Anderton Boat Lift and going on that was more than terrifying enough for me!!! I'm thankfully a very good actress in company but nevertheless I was still a complete nervous wreck by the time we all got off the Boat! ;oO

Lez wrote: "Ta for the pic of the Falkirk Wheel, Gordon! A magnificent piece of engineering and the café’s excellent too. The canal’s just half a mile or so up the road from me, lovely since they cleaned it up..."

Lez, on my profile page I've posted a photo you might like; I took it on my recent walk from Falkirk to Linlithgow along the Union Canal.

nocheese wrote: "Lez wrote: "Ta for the pic of the Falkirk Wheel, Gordon! A magnificent piece of engineering and the café’s excellent too. The canal’s just half a mile or so up the road from me, lovely since they c..."

Ta, nc. He’s looking a bit narked!

suzysunshine7 wrote: "WoW?!! - that is simply fantastic!!! ... even though there is absolutely NO way anyone would ever get me to agree to try it out - LOL!!! ;o>

We live 45 minutes away from the Anderton Boat Lift and..."

Suzy, I’ve been 3 times with different family members but never actually been on it as it was always too busy. There are always lots of Americans, very impressed with the Wheel, less so with the Antonine Wall which is just a grassy mound. Fun to see them looking round for a more wall-like structure and asking for directions.

I had to look the Antonine Wall up on Trip Advisor, Lez Lee ... the general consensus seems to be that it's a nice place to take the family, and the dog, for a walk ;o>

I have seen the Boat Lift. And took photos, but I didn't go on it. I bought a duck in the gift shop.

Was it really for sale? - or had it just wandered in for a look around?! ;o>

Is Gordon taking us all on a Grand Tour of Scotland? Kilmarnock, Falkirk......where next?

Somewhere we can release this Duck back into wild hopefully! ;o>

It was a toy duck, and is residing happily on a desk in deepest Cheshire right now.

So why on Earth am I stood here holding a live Duck?!!?!! ;oO

I thought it was yours?!!?!!

Cue.... Benny Hill theme! :)

suzysunshine7 wrote: "So why on Earth am I stood here holding a live Duck?!!?!! ;oO

I thought it was yours?!!?!!"

You're quackers!!

Gingerlily - All kinds of everything! wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "So why on Earth am I stood here holding a live Duck?!!?!! ;oO

I thought it was yours?!!?!!"

You're quackers!!"

D'ya think she needs to see a quack about the quacker?! :)

Quacks not going to happen - LOL!!! ;o>