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Chit-Chat » Old Timer's Reunion Party Thread » RE: RE: Old Timer's Reunion Party Thread
HINERANGI 6 yrs ago | 1 replies
Hello Covert! I'm very, very seldom in here these days - life, the niverse 'n' all that getting in the way. but lovely to "see" you - and yes: someone posted a kind of 'remember me' thread on FB, and BigKat suggested doi…
Chit-Chat » Old Timer's Reunion Party Thread » RE: Old Timer's Reunion Party Thread
HINERANGI 6 yrs ago | 1 replies
HINERANGI here - just checking in afrer a long, long absence. Hi, everyone
Chit-Chat » Is anyone willing to take a survey to help a PhD student complete her thesis?
HINERANGI 10 yrs ago | 5 replies
She has almost completed her research, but it's been hard to find enough people with the requisite experience. Her research is on PTSD, particularly in first response personnel - either those doing this as a job, or in b…
Chit-Chat » My friends' infant - the diagnosis / prognosis » That is really good news -
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I'm glad for him, and very, very glad for his parents. It must be desperately hard to face up to something as bad as that baby's initial diagnosis.
Chit-Chat » What is the name of the vegetable (?) herein described? » It's immature corn on the cob -
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
but from a variety grown particularly to produce the baby variety.
Chit-Chat » Mom passed away lasr night. » I';m so sorry to learn this, MissTree -
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
but glad you had that last time with her, when she knew you. You have all my sympathy - but I wish there was more I could offer you.
Chit-Chat » Iain (M) Banks has terminal cancer » RE: What sort of books does he write?
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I am unfamiliar with his work.
Rather literary Science Fiction for the most part.
Chit-Chat » I Know You All Missed Me.... =) » I remember you well - as Riptide.
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I never knew Beowulf (except the Anglo-Saxon original) I've been away for some time myself, and have missed many familiar names - I had wondered if you'd given up on us, or had just left because of life pressures (I rec…
Chit-Chat » Here I go again: LOSE, not LOOSE! » RE: RE: Gender neutral guys
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I think this use of the word is pretty old now, but it probably didn't include females in its infancy.
I checked the Oxford English dictionary and it appears that 'guy' as a noun m…
Chit-Chat » Here I go again: LOSE, not LOOSE! » RE: RE: On the same there: their is not a gender neutral singular pronoun
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
Well, "their" *is* gender-neutral, it's just not singular. (Whether it's less awkward than "his or her" can be debated, I suppose.
It think it's a word desperately trying to be all things to a…
Chit-Chat » Here I go again: LOSE, not LOOSE! » RE: RE: OT hyperbole, etc
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
Do you like her dog posts too, Moem?
Oh yes. Simple Dog is hilarious. Also pretty sad.
I like tyhose dog stories, too - Simple Dog is rather sweet: I've known a dog …
Chit-Chat » Gay ducks! » Names? Why, Gerald and Patrick, naturally ;)
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
Joking apart, those two may have been unable to find mates - they'd then happily pair off together, but as Fellraven suggests, not necessarily as sexual partners. Although if you think about it, why should animals have a…
Chit-Chat » Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82 » RE: Sad news...
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I can certainly call it eye-opening and thought-provoking. I loved it!
I can't say I loved it, but it made an enormous impression on me - I wrote an essay on that book, comparing it with Hear…
Chit-Chat » I met ScottishHoosier today » RE: Lucky thing!
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I'd love to meet her and the bairns. Question: how do you guys link up on f/b? I've lassoed ArJohn, but that's it really.
Do you have a facebook page, ER? I'm assuming you do - if you've foun…
Chit-Chat » New bells for Notre Dame de Paris: » RE: RE: What a glorious peal!
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
We were immensely lucky: we went in March, and there was hardly anyone around. I think we had the cathedral virtually to ourselves. It was the day before Bush launched his attack on Iraq, and if you remember, the French …
Chit-Chat » New bells for Notre Dame de Paris: » BTW, Gory - you DID detect a difference in the bells' tones:
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
the new ones are much superior - mellow and golden, and properly tuned. Lovely!
Chit-Chat » New bells for Notre Dame de Paris: » What a glorious peal!
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago | 2 replies
Thanks for this, Gory - it brought back happy memories of wandering round Notre Dame and muttering so "that's" where that happened, and "this" is where this was... and sad ones of not having nearly enough time to see all…
Chit-Chat » Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82 » RE: Difficulty
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago | 1 replies
Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons would be number three and number four on my list. (I can't imagine why I attempted to read a second of Brown's books, unless I was trapped in an airport or something.)
Chit-Chat » Good news!!!!!!!!! » That is very good news, MissTree.
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
I hadn't realised that you were back on chemo - that gave me a bit of a jolt :( I'm so sorry that you're going through all that again - but very pleased to learn that it seems to be working :) That's great news. I've …
Chit-Chat » Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82 » RE: RE: RE: "...just plain bad."
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago | 3 replies
I have intensely disliked other books that people insist are wonderful.
I know exactly what you mean - two of the most beloved books of recent years: "The Lovely Bones" and "The Time Travell…
Chit-Chat » Walking... » Oh damn! I forgot about that programme.
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago
Now I'll have missed them all. Blast!
Chit-Chat » It's been a while since I was a regular here
HINERANGI 11 yrs ago | 10 replies
So I thought I'd post a bit of an update, as it were, before disappearing again. Since the late, great unpleasantness that sent me looking for a different haunting spot for a while, I've had a pretty chaotic year - actu…

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