” If the MODS want me to edit it …. ” ?

Cheers mate,you’re all heart.

Not funny.
I mean it,I really don’t like it.
Personal insults get stepped on by the moderators but you get away with that phrase without a peep out of anyone.
Nice.

LOL!! Jesus H Tapdancin Jugglin Christ LOL.

Personally I find that a good deal more offensive than anything else you post.

But as you so aptly put it,I’m a Christian, so it doesn’t matter,does it ?

Yes,it’s an Acer Aspire – new to me,but refurbished.
I’ll plod on with all suggestions,and may even resort to giving it a thump,which always did the trick when televisions had valves.
This’ll teach me not to try and save money.

I grew up with the terms mongol and spastic in common usage to refer to these two particular disabilities.
Christmas card envelopes were always embellished with colourful stickers urging you to ” Help spastics “,and I remember people referring to mongol babies as recently as the late 1970s.
It wasn’t until they began to be used as terms of abuse by schoolchildren that the actual medical titles became preferred,so personally I wouldn’t see anything offensive in a reference to Mongolism – which incidentally is a reference to facial features.The definition quoted in the other thread dates from the days when the white races felt themselve to be intrinsically superior to others.
I think a lot depends on your age.Anyone who’s only been around since the proper terms were used probably finds the old names shocking.I’m guessing PeeDee is of somewhat older vintage like me,so he doesn’t.
I never thought Love Thy Neighbour was funny,not because it was racist,it just wasn’t funny.

Thanks for the information about Lyttelton,I’ll just worry about where her little dog is now.
I’ve always liked Lyttelton since I first saw it in 1999.
I loved the fact that the front page story on the local paper was, ” Man has bicycle stolen from outside supermarket “.

Exactly. When you first become attracted to your partner, is it because you’re thinking about what any possible offspring would be like? Hardly.

Oh yes it is.
Partly.
Men are such simple creatures :p

Lovely photos,Allan.Thanks for sharing them.