To GNHQ

Is it meant to be comedic?

I have thought of a solution.

How about this in a novel?

"She told me that she had met the man she married on an indirect date - he was a friend of her friend's brother."

I’m saying one last thing about your diet before leaving this thread EP. What you eat is none of my business but I have genuine concerns about the lack of nutrition in the things you eat, which are intended for babies not men. You have quoted the amount of protein in your soya drinks and desserts but you seem to be ingesting little in the way of the variety of vitamins, and also fats and calories, which an elderly adult needs in order to be healthy. I have looked at the baby foods you provided links to and also the Tesco Green Veggies. These things are intended to provide the nutrients required by a young baby. You need more than that. Have you looked at the range of vegan soups, intended for adults, which Tesco sell? This is positively my last attempt to get you to look at your diet and see how dreadfully bland (no seasoning, no onions for instance in baby food as you yourself said) and deficient it is.

No, I don't think so, nanna8. ElderlyPerson likes factual detail, seriously told. He prefers black and white, or meticulously defined shades in between, to the gloriously multi-coloured canvases depicted by metaphors, irony, or comedy.

That is his personality, and I wouldn't dream of attacking him for it, but it does get tiring carrying on more than a short conversation in a style that is not natural to me, so I am out, at least for the moment.

ElderlyPerson

I have thought of a solution.

How about this in a novel?

"She told me that she had met the man she married on an indirect date - he was a friend of her friend's brother."

EP my father was blind. I have no objection to people referring to a blind date or being blindsided or going up a blind alley or whatever. And I have epilepsy but don’t get offended when people say they would ‘have a fit about such and such’ or fall into fits of laughter. Now I am leaving this daft discussion.

MayBeMaw wrote

> You clearly have little idea of how the commercial greetings card industry operates.

True.

> Prints are not “photographs” of originals

I was not thinking that they were, but I accept that what I wrote could reasonably be read as having that meaning. I was meaning that the high quality photograph is made and the information content stored in the photograph is used in a printing process to produce prints.

>, Card manufacturers (which may be galleries or other institutions producing “fine art” cards) )will have a contract with an artist to use their work - or pay copyright if applicable. And quality fine art cards sell for rather more than £2.

Well, I referred to A5 size greetings cards, not "fine art" cards.

For example, looking at the

www.theblankcardcompany.co.uk/index.html

website there are cards at £2.45 each.

One of those framed in an oak effect frame from Tesco would look good. An entry level art object, no uniqueness, no investment value, but quite possibly bringing pleasure by being displayed on a wall in the home of someone who likes the picture, perhaps having received it as a birthday card or as a Christmas card from a loved one, or chosen it themself, or purchased it as someone recommended it.

Also, an artist can get his or her own cards printed.

Forcexample, I have not used them yet, but there is this facility.

viking-virtualprinthouse.co.uk/

I have got a framed print of some of my own artwork printed on a greetings card. I uploaded a jpg file to the Papier website, using the full field landscape template, added a note of the title, a description, my name and the date, paid by debit card and a few days later received the beautifully printed card by Royal Mail.

I framed the print in a frame that was delivered by Tesco with the grocery.

So I have an art object featuring my original artwork.

So I have an art object featuring my original artwork

Sounds interesting. Perhaps you could post a picture?

Elegran

No, I don't think so, nanna8. ElderlyPerson likes factual detail, seriously told. He prefers black and white, or meticulously defined shades in between, to the gloriously multi-coloured canvases depicted by metaphors, irony, or comedy.

That is his personality, and I wouldn't dream of attacking him for it, but it does get tiring carrying on more than a short conversation in a style that is not natural to me, so I am out, at least for the moment.

I often use metaphors and analogies, but not one's referring to disability, violence, or in a non-vegan way.

I have just been searching on the web for vegan metaphors.

I found

An avocado in the hand is worth two on a tree

www.peta.org/teachkind/lesson-plans-activities/animal-friendly-idioms/

Are you implying that being vegan means you can’t even mention an animal ??

Lucca

Are you implying that being vegan means you can’t even mention an animal ??

This is surely going too far

Do vegans count their chickens?

Lucca

Are you implying that being vegan means you can’t even mention an animal ??

No.

Mentioning animals is fine.

It is things like saying 'killing two birds with one stone' as an idiom for solving two problems with one action, because it is talking about killing birds and that is disgusting and nothing to do with the issue. It tries to normalise killing birds as perfectly acceptable.

Like phrases about cows giving us their milk. No, it is stolen from them and diverted from its purpose of feeding their babies.

Like the racist term about 'ah, that is the (redacted) in the woodpile' is wrong. I seem to remember that a female MP used that phrase in the House of Commons not that long ago and there was a fuss about it, quite rightly too.

Or saying as a metaphor that someone is 'only a little person' as if someone of small stature is of no importance.

MayBeMaw

Lucca

Are you implying that being vegan means you can’t even mention an animal ??

This is surely going too far

Well I wasn't implying it! So it wasn't going too far.

Bit of a difference between “——— in the woodpile” to “ a bird in the hand surely ?
So if someone looks like ‘the cat that got the cream” is that a double whammy for mentioning animals and dairy produce ?or am I saying that cats are thieves ?

Sorry EP but you are taking this too far and I shall continue to go on my blind date not an indirect date.
To return to your objection to “fall on deaf ears”. It means that the “listener “ has deliberately not heard/become deaf, nothing to do with insulting the hearing impaired community

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Lucca

Bit of a difference between “——— in the woodpile” to “ a bird in the hand surely ?
So if someone looks like ‘the cat that got the cream” is that a double whammy for mentioning animals and dairy produce ?or am I saying that cats are thieves ?

Sorry EP but you are taking this too far and I shall continue to go on my blind date not an indirect date.
To return to your objection to “fall on deaf ears”. It means that the “listener “ has deliberately not heard/become deaf, nothing to do with insulting the hearing impaired community

Oh it means a thief does it.

I thought that the cat that got the cream meant the cat was much loved and got a treat as a result of being loved.

I suppose it could be the cat who got the cat basket.

www.hearinglikeme.com/is-the-phrase-falling-on-deaf-ears-offensive/

But can we get back to discussions about what sponsored discussions we would like please.

Sorry about the digression. I’m out as I’m not interested in sponsored discussions.

Or saying as a metaphor that someone is 'only a little person' as if someone of small stature is of no importance
In which case being a person of some stature you should revel in observations regarding your height instead of being so sensitive.

Lucca

Sorry about the digression. I’m out as I’m not interested in sponsored discussions.

No need to apologise, it was an interesting discussion. Thank you for your contribution. My comment about getting back on topic was not aimed at anyone, it was just about the future not about the past.

I don’t want any sponsored discussions.

Doesn’t appeal to me either -and in any case I think you are putting the cart before the horse, these things are manufacturer/company led, not GN led.

Could you possibly say why please? I am not trying to get you to change your mind, but several people have expressed similiar opinions and I would like to understand why, because I am thinking that some new ones could be very interesting.

I think quite a few people have said why they see this as a non-starter.
A sponsored thread is generated by a company very much like an ordinary tread but paying for it as they are canvassing opinion to inform their marketing (aka drum up business.)
You could sponsor a discussion thread and pay for it if you wanted to, I suppose.
That is not what you are suggesting.
And the subjects you are proposing clearly do not appeal to anybody else.
Could it be any plainer?

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