Halal Food

[wildwood]

This is partly why I am sick of Islam. These people have money and still demand free halal food. Does any other religion get this kind of special consideration?

[NoMercy]

"I'm passing - hail and farewell"

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[1ozzy]

G'day, cya!

[ummmm]

Are you in the US?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Poems of Catullus. Set book for A-Level, Birdie (let's hope PP isn't looking in). He also gave us "Odi et amo". Young love, young passion: "do I love or do I hate you?"

Also "womens promises are writ in water". But "mulieres" and "aqua" apart I can't remember the quotation..

[ummmm]

I didn't see any of the answers...sorry.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I see no nreason to apologise, Ummm.

[vetuste_ennemi]

But I do. Ummmm.

[Jackdaw33]

Catullus's lament for Lesbia, which was excised from our texts, was my favourite.

Nunc in quadriviis et angiportis
Glubit magnanimi Remi nepotes.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Remember, Lesbia, (mistress not sister). That's from a biography of late republican Rome. Can't remember the poem and needed Google help. Defer to you on the Latin text, Corvus.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Corve.

[Jackdaw33]

Now on street corners and down back alleys
She gives head to the descendants of the great Remus (soldiers).

[vetuste_ennemi]

You're a very naughty boy, Jackdaw.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Did you see last night's(?) program (BBC4?) on Sappho?

[Jackdaw33]

Don't blame me, blame Catullus.

[Jackdaw33]

The works of Sappho were never on our reading list!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Existed as remnants. Anacreon etc. The program I mentioned was about the influence she had.
600 years BC we had Sappho. Then we had George Eliot. Then we had the suffragettes.

The 21st century? The burkah and the hijab. Hail to thee blithe spirit!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Nil desperandum. We still have Madonna, Ashley Judd fighting for women's rights.

[Mamyalynne]

I agree with clear labelling.