
It would probably need a good scrub...
Maybe some bleach.
Benches and nudism are not compatible with OCD.
The "world's first 100 per cent swingers camping ground" has been put up for sale because "we are tired", its pensioner owners have said. The French one-time nudist resort, which later went the whole hog, is owned by one Francoise Vetter, who told excellent European news website The Local that in the year after switching it …
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from Up Pompeii...
@Victor Ludorum
I read that as climax averages...
Nudists->Lady Godiva->Coventry>Coventry Climax
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=coventry+climax&tbm=isch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BQCNQtVx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1tHavnd9w
https://motor-car.net/climax-engines/item/13701-coventry-climax-fwm-engine
> Climate averages for Lyon
Vichy is not Lyon. There is some high terrain in between them which has some impact on the weather. Generally, Vichy is greener / wetter and a bit colder too, both in summer and winter. It wouldn't be my first choice for a campsite. It has on the other hand managed to maintain a bit of its spa town atmosphere and is in general terms less of a shithole compared to Lyon.
Lyon a shithole ?
I don't know what part of Lyon you spend your time in, but it is obviously not the right part. Or it's been a while since you went there.
I visited Lyon last year and I much prefer it to Paris. Great architecture, nice people, proper living standards, free bus transport, and generally much cleaner.
I felt at ease in Lyon, which is much more than I can say for Paris.
And I'm French.
> I visited Lyon last year and I much prefer it to Paris.
Bon j'allais dire justement : oui ça fait moins shithole que Paris, mais ce n'est pas le moindre mérite.
L'architecture moderne que tu vois (que) dans certains quartiers est en effet un reflet de la bande de prétentieux qu'y gouvernent (peu importe ses couleurs politiques). D'ailleurs, à presque deux Euros le billet simple les transports en commun n'ont rien de gratuit, tu est sûr qu'on parle du même Lyon ?
> And I'm French.
Désolé pour toi.
J'ai visité Lyon il y a quelques années, aussi Paris et Nice avant ceux. Je dois dire que, bien que Lyon était agréable, encore j'ai préféré Paris (cependant peut-être je pense que les parisiens adore-déteste toutes personnes qui sont anglophone ;) ). Les gens de Nice étaient "nice" aussi.
> My deepest sympathies at your military vehicles only having a reverse gear and a mandatory white flag in the kit.
To be fair, the French are good soldiers. It is the officers that could use a bit of spine.
If you want to talk about beyond disgraceful, remember who were supposed to protect Srebrenica.
> To be fair, the French are good soldiers. It is the officers that could use a bit of spine.
I wrote that originally. In light of the events occurred two days ago near Carcassonne and the actions taken by a Lt. Col. of the Gendarmerie, I must withdraw the second part of my comment. It was originally meant to refer to the very upper echelons and political leaders, but nevertheless. I do apologise, it was a completely undeserved mischaracterisation.
> But according to Jonathan Coulton they can't open until the first of May each year.
Funny that, for most businesses working on the first of May in France is illegal. Always used to be a pain scheduling work, we always had to avoid that week whereas we could ignore most public holidays.
The Romans are to blame for the name Palestine; they so renamed what was called Iudea after crushing Yet Another Jewish Revolt (TM). By that time the original Philistines were long gone. A classical example of digging up an old name from the history books to make a political statement.
The Arabs just took the name from the Romans when they conquered the area.
Essentially Palestine/Philistine comes from two different traditions of transliterating the same name into Greek. Palestine (with a π) is a secular Greek tradition whereas Philistine (with a φ) is the rendition by Greek-speaking Jews, which made it into the Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible); the Septuagint was in turn highly influential in other Bible translation including the King James. Hence "philistines" in English.
Note that what the Romans called Palestine was much larger than the original area of the Philistines, which was essentially just the Gaza strip.
A Shot In The Dark (1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uAIbLLSniw
Paris: Elke Sommer
What could possibly go wrong?
Years ago we got a cheap set of those (plastic balls), it probably would have been in France.. And to be blunt you could have used the things in a cannon as effective and weighty ammunition. You could probably have driven over them with a tank and they'd not have taken a scratch.
I hate to imagine what would happen if a couple were getting friendly and someone got one in the love spuds. La Vasectomy Francais..
Still better than the couple banging away in the long grass who had a bad experience with a Caterpillar crawler.. Driven by the husband.
"honest your honour, I had no idea they were there.."
Sigh. We were tourists, driving either the cream of English, a Vauxhall Cavalier, or the cheese, various Ford Cortinas. You really have never understood the concept of suicidal if you haven't tooled around north Wales in a Ford Cortina with no other tapes than Cliff bloody Richard!
Still must have rubbed off, after 87 we had 4 Renaults in a row - two 25 and two Safrane.
My parents have still got those old balls - as smooth now as 30 years ago, and they've still only been used about twice..
That's a thought actually - if we subverted all the US radio stations to play Cliff Richard on a constant loop - probably have the same effect as VX gas, and be soooo much cheaper.
Has to be said I've never seen the point of swinging, usually more flakes than Cadbury.
usually more flakes than Cadbury.
For those too young to remember the old days...
Best cars we ever had. Better than the Mercedes - one of which ate its turbo in 1500 miles. The 2.5 automatic did 100,000 miles with nothing more than services and tyres.
I bought one myself for £600 that was doing OK until two years ago when wiring gremlins and stuff started showing up - and with a sump heater, waiting, and pulse and coast it managed a regular 28-30mpg urban - the rating was 22 with the auto.
A shame they stopped bringing them over here - big Renault/Citroën and Peugeot most comfortable cars I've ever been in. Just don't try and tow a 16ft caravan at 85mph - I was driving after dad's hernia op and we hit a long hill at 60, halfway down it had crept to 85 and started snaking. The cruise control went on after that.
@AC I might be right too. There is a German run swingers club here in Ibiza called Beverly's, I used to do security for various wealthy types visiting the Ibiza clubs, one client wanted to go there, I still need to drink the occasional bottle of bleach when I think about the place. Not bleach bleach but a memory dysfunction aid, a bottle of Cune will do it.
I'm not talking about open sex just how some of the client dressed and looked and behaved without actually 'getting a room/play space'
What the place needs is a Swing-o-meter
"The trouble with a camp full of naked swingers is not having enough mind bleach after seeing some of what's swinging."
A similar personal aesthetic could be stated about many people wearing clothes. As they say - whatever turns you on (or off).
In the 1960s some of our computer maintenance engineers were posted to an Eastern Bloc country for a year or so. They said that after a while women with a moustache and built like a shot putter started to seem normal and attractive.
> In the 1960s some of our computer maintenance engineers were posted to an Eastern Bloc country for a year or so. They said that after a while women with a moustache and built like a shot putter started to seem normal and attractive.
Whereabouts in Bulgaria did you say they were posted to?
If the Remainers had spent a few minutes explaining that one of the benefits of EU membership was easy access to this sort of holiday camp (a tad more interesting than Butlins Pwllheli) then Remain would have won by a landslide. In future it'll be very embarrassing at French immigration "And what is ze purpose of your visite to la belle France?" Red-faced, errm,errm, "Pleasure?"
Okay, I suppose we could open something similar in Hull, and employ the ex-trawlermen to fish the rubber balloons out of the swimming pools.
Okay, I suppose we could open something similar in Hull, and employ the ex-trawlermen to fish the rubber balloons out of the swimming pools.
Hull?
Are you mad?..... the cold, wind and rain would strip the out layer of skin off you in minutes...
......Hmm, might work if it was a BDSM swingers place.
"Are you mad?..... the cold, wind and rain would strip the out layer of skin off you in minutes..."
Oh, I don't think so! It's pretty mild down south in Hull. You've obviously never seen the outfits worn on a night out in Newcastle in the middle of winter.
AFAIUI the more common term in such behaviour is "spit roast".
Last time i looked at a well known UK swingers site, a fab one, there was a female (just) offering herself for pleasure.
Just as well she could not spell "Luscious" correctly or else there'd be a case for a trade descriptions body to investigate/reprimand.
Besides, rather than buy the place, wouldn't it be better/cheaper/warmer to go to Cap d'Adge like many others do?
Or Maspalomas etc.
My mate tells me, that if you are the luckier one, you even get a suntanned behind.
"AFAIUI the more common term in such behaviour is "spit roast"."
My initial recollection of the euphemism was either "barbequed pig" or "pig on a spit". One of my young friends had a particular fantasy about that after finding that he and his pal at university were sharing the favours of the same woman at different times.
I did wonder if my memory was getting confused with "rat on a stick". Google seemed to favour "pig roast" so I went with that.
If you ask me, biped mammals look hilarious sans clothing and it encourages healthy behavior such as not sitting down all day, exercise etc.
Also clothing wasn't exactly a recent invention and in fact it is well known that sperm counts are affected by them. Something about temperature, possibly and kilts help or so it is said.
The biggest reason why clothing is a good idea is due to risks of certain bugs spreading more easily but in fact I am not convinced it is such a problem when regular hand washing is much more effective as a countermeasure. Half decent hygiene is the biggest remedy and to be honest if folks took the time to even use hot rather than cold water and soap not rely on antibacterial rubbish that grows even MORE bugs (tested here)
"if folks took the time to even use hot rather than cold water and soap not rely on antibacterial rubbish"
Plenty of research that shows that whether the water is hot or cold is irrelevant; similarly if the soap is normal or anti-bacterial. The main factor in hand (or for that matter any other body part) washing is how long and how vigorously it is washed (I just know that will trigger comments...)
"[...] similarly if the soap is normal or anti-bacterial. "
IIRC the routine use of household anti-bacterial products is another factor in the increasing resistance to antibiotics. They can also upset the balance of our benign bacteria on which our bodies depend.
We need a small dose of malignant bacteria every so often to tune our immune systems - especially when we are young. Too much hygiene can be counter-productive.
AC wrote: IIRC the routine use of household anti-bacterial products is another factor in the increasing resistance to antibiotics.
Sorry, your memory is failing. Antibiotic resistance develops through exposure to sublethal doses of antibiotics, or by exchanging genetic material with other microbes. These antibacterial additives are there to satisfy the marketing department and that section of the public that doesn’t realise how effective detergents are at killing and removing microbes. If you really want to make certain, deep clean with detergents and vigorous agitation, then finish off the lurkers with chlorine (bleach) or iodine.
Now let’s get back to real smut;)
"Sorry, your memory is failing. Antibiotic resistance develops through exposure to sublethal doses of antibiotics, or by exchanging genetic material with other microbes."
2 September 2016 newspaper report
QUOTE:
Antibacterial soaps were banned from the US market on Friday in a final ruling by the Food and Drug Administration, [...]
Professor Patrick McNamara, who has published research on antimicrobial soaps, [...] after these chemicals are used in our homes they go down the drain to wastewater treatment plants and eventually to the environment where they can select for antibiotic resistance genes. In short, triclosan and triclocarbon present a risk towards propagation of antibiotic resistance,” he said.
/QUOTE
Antibiotic resistance is caused by exposure to antibiotics.
Nobody puts antibiotics in soap because they're expensive - and pointless.
The stuff in antimicrobial soaps is just detergent - which rips cell walls apart because they're made of fats.
It's perfect - no change to ingredients but an extra tickmark on the box.
Is it all or nothing strategy. Human body is not an island. A living human is a composite of multiple interdependent creatures working in symbiosis It is many creatures with distinctively different DNA working together and symbiosis. Our body is a biome. When that biome is out of balance, the effects on it by external factors are offset by both additional presence of foreign bacteria, or the absence of essential symbiantic varities. You're not just you, you are the components of multiple life forms and their interactions.
Interesting factoid: an artist lady once made yoghurt using her own uhm, organisms.
Interesting factoid *2, after doing some more research I learned that FMTs often use a related family member as the donor because the bacteria are often more compatible due to genetics and other factors.
Interesting factoid *3 (red hot today!) natural yoghurt is often used to treat stubborn infections in women as it works a lot better than the expensive and side-effect prone antifungals usually used. Strangely enough in times of old this was well known but fell out of favor around the 1300s. (see ancient texts that also coincidentally mention sylphia, a plant that went extinct due to overuse and climate change)