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Is poetry dead? Who likes poetry anymore?

I hope it isn't dead or dying as I for one love poetry.
For instance, this year we're commemorating the war dead in the 100th anniversary of World War 1, and it's a poem (written by AE Housman, who wasn't a soldier but had a genius of understanding).
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/16/housman-country-heart-of-england-peter-parker-review
Farewell to a name and a number
Recalled again
To darkness and silence and slumber
In blood and pain.
So ceases and turns to the thing
He was born to be
A soldier cheap to the King
And dear to me;
So smothers in blood the burning
And flaming flight
Of valour and truth returning
To dust and night.
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? What were your favourite 3 tv shows as a young child?

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1. Thomas the Tank Engine
2. Button Moon
3. The Simpsons (I had to go to my brother's friend's house as they were the only people i knew who had the relevant channel-kids of today!)
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What has happened to this society ?

"And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no governments can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours"
That's what happened to it.
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The weather here is absolutely miserable, what do you like to do on days like these?

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This morning I'm going for a walk as I always go for a walk in the morning, then working in the day, then tonight I'll be working on my website as I certainly don't want to go out in this weather!
The weather is ok now but the sort of cold rain we got yesterday is my worst kind of weather, much worse than snow.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YSaNXpD49QwHadacol’s Video 151395446524 YSaNXpD49QwHadacol’s Video 151395446524 YSaNXpD49Qw
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? Imagine someone is buying me a present (tiny or large). Based on what you know of me from Ask, what kind of gift might you recommend they give me? ?

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I've been reading this book which, apart from the fact that it may be slightly too far from where you live, is like the epicentre of Doug.
http://sevenstonespublishing.blogspot.com/index.html#2106815934599291742
He is a really good author and documentary presenter, and has inspired my recent journeys.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/179800111249/this-is-without-doubt-the-most-impressive-and
I think you would also like this story about protestors who saved a site I went to last week from being quarried.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/27/mining-activism
So that's what you can have as it's fascinating and very you I think.
(Someone had left wine gums on each of the stone circles which was random but I thought a good idea).
Imagine someone is buying me a present tiny or large Based on what you know of
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Chinese people in Britain behave themselves, they can stay. But the other immigrant groups like Afro Carribeans, Arabs, Latin Americans, Eastern European’s and pakis can go home they’re always committing crimes.

Chinese people in Britain behave themselves they can stay But the other
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If you had a daughter, would you consider sending her to the TV show "Toddlers and Tiaras"?

No, certainly not. What would she gain from it? It sounds like a nightmare of pushy parenting & destroying the child's life so their parents can live vicariously through them.
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A question I've sent out to boys only coz we already hear a lot about this from girls (which I love). Do you have any beauty or style tips?

Is this the face of someone who gives style tips which should be listened to? ;)
A question Ive sent out to boys only coz we already hear a lot about this from
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Will you cry at your graduation?

Yes, I'd cry with joy at going back in time, being 12 years younger, and avoiding the mistakes I made :)
You know not everyone here is a young student, don't you?
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When was the last time you had craving for chocolate?

Yesterday when I was standing at the bus stop & wanted a topic, but when I got in I didn't have one as I'm eating a bit too much & needed a bit of restraint.
When was the last time you had craving for chocolate
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what's your favorite social media, and why ?

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Tumblr, as it's the one on which I make most contributions of my own & build up a solid body of work.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/photos
If you type in the url on Google, quite a few of my pictures come up!
On other platforms I am more passive, and I know I don't post enough on this site, it's more fun than working but I sadly don't get paid for it!
So Tumblr is more fulfilling as it also has a number of interesting blogs I like reading such as smoluchowski.
The photo as I say is on Google and I took it myself during this outing :)
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/178674319904/where-are-the-songs-of-spring-ay-where-are
whats your favorite social media and why
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STAIF ?‍?‍?‍? What kind of vocations are or were taken by your immediate family? (If you have no family, then use friends ?). ?‍?‍?‍? Mine: Former timber buyer, former hospital ward clerk, school teacher, computer programmer, librarian, & not working (that last one being me, obvs).

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We are a bit random :)
Dad works in a factory that makes cylinders & hopes to retire early, maybe next year.
Mum works at an insurance company
Brother & sister in law are teachers at a school in Singapore
Also in the close family we have a plumber, an engineer, a retired tax collector, and two unemployed.
Friends have a lot of jobs, some work with me, one at a dogs home, one unemployed, a university lecturer, a masseur and an accountant are some of my best friends.
Basically however you can put bread on the table
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When you are feeling poorly, what 3 things (other than any relevant prescription medicine) help you to feel better? ?

CactusDoug’s Profile PhotoDoug
Black redbush tea
Rochester ginger drink
And warm water :)
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What's the last thing you cried about?

It was actually in December 2016, when there was a major misunderstanding between me and my girlfriend where my phone ran out as we were talking and she fumed as she thought I'd put the phone down on her. So I darted home (I'd been walking to work), put the phone on charge and got a load of messages about how she hated me and never wanted to see me again.
Eventually I convinced her it was an honest mistake (which it was) and I'm still seeing her now, but I was a bit tearful when I thought about not seeing each other again!
(I came close to tears about work-related things in August, but that isn't half as important as love)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9GkVhgIeGJQHadacol’s Video 151272286460 9GkVhgIeGJQHadacol’s Video 151272286460 9GkVhgIeGJQ
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do you like penguins

I love penguins fam, did you watch Dave Attenborough's new programme about them?
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/dynasties-episode-two-review-bbc-david-attenborough-penguin-nature-wildlife-a8637211.html
They are amazing, they share child-rearing and hunting/gathering duties, and I love the way they huddle to keep themselves and more importantly their eggs safe; there are no Ayn Rand-reading penguins, anyway!
They are really having a go, surviving in a harsh environment by strength in numbers, I do like them.
But they're not always fastidious and they'd give the hygeine inspector a heart attack!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1w14amFF4Hadacol’s Video 151253711100 QR1w14amFF4Hadacol’s Video 151253711100 QR1w14amFF4
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Today, 19th November, is both World Toilet Day and International Mens’ Day. ?? Which will you be celebrating? Or will you be combining both and celebrating World Mens’ Toilets Day?

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#bantz I like toilets
Here I am, toilet man, at the back to backs in Birmingham
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/birmingham-back-to-backs
My girlfriend lives extremely close to there and I took the opportunity to visit a 19th-century toilet.
In the old days, when people lived in such cramped conditions, they could only get privacy when in a privy (and some didn't even have privies and had to do their business in the open!)
With hilarious consequences.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/post/144663601824/at-the-back-to-backs-sitting-on-an-1840s-outdoor
Today 19th November is both World Toilet Day and International Mens Day Which
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Has your hometown changed a lot since you were a kid? If so, how? Have the changes been for the better or worse?

Obviously things have changed, and I think for the worse, as the traditional manufacturing & mining employment was already on its knees when I was a child and has now had another axe taken to it by Thatcherites, Blairites, Cameroons & Brexshitters.
The old working-class community has broken up and we've now become atomised, a fact which is blamed on immigrants but that's just what conservatives want you to think rather than turn the blame on them.
The old culture was hardly perfect (there was too much racism, sexism and general hostility to education or to anyone deemed an outsider) but it could have been improved, rather than torn to pieces and "replaced" with zero hours contracts in some grim warehouse where the miners would have rioted rather than submit to such petty humiliations.
http://dry-valleys.tumblr.com/tagged/stoke-on-trent
It's still my city though, and I'm proud to be working-class and proud to be a potter.
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If you could time travel, where would you go?

I wouldn't meddle with the space-time continuum, I don't understand it as it is yet alone sail through it willy-nilly!
Unless it be to meet Douglas Adams, speaking of whom my favourite and most poignant time travelling is from the (recommended) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, where a character goes back in time to mourn the dodo.
"The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis. Not only is the continuum like a human body, it is also very like a piece of badly put up wallpaper. Push down a bubble somewhere, another pops up somewhere else. There are no more dodos because of my interference. In the end I imposed the rule on myself because I simply couldn't bear it any more. The only thing that really gets hurt when you try and change time is yourself".
That is poignant and using humour to make a serious point (he was, like me, a staunch environmentalist). So I think it's best to stay here and try to make things better or at least avoid making them worse in this time and place.

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