Trinity College Chapel …. courtesy of ThreeBlindMen
Trinity College Chapel: Two Images
Trinity College Chapel …. courtesy of ThreeBlindMen
Islamic Terror within French Prisons
Yves Mamou, in Gatestone Institute, 23 January 2018, where the title is “Prison in France: Terrorism and Islamism”
- Like its police and the firefighters, France’s prison guards say they live in a permanent climate of violence and fear. And their exasperation is growing.
- “Before, every morning, I was afraid to discover a guy hanging in his cell. You know what I’m dreading today? To be slaughtered, stripped, stabbed in the back. In the name of Islam and ISIS. Every day, on my way to work, this fear gnaws at my belly.” — ‘Bernard,’ a French prison guard.
- “In the old days, aggressive behavior was linked to the difficulties of everyday life. Now hatred and violence are unleashed [by Islamists] against [our] authority, our society and its values.” — Joaquim Pueyo, MP, former director of Fleury-Mérogis prison.
The Fort of Galle: Images Past and Present
Identified as “Old Dutch Fortification, Point De Galle,” this image a has been kindly supplied by the National Library of Australia. It is a late 19th century picture — before the new entrance was punched through the frontal ramparts and before a clock tower was built to honour Dr Anthonisz.
Whately’s water-colour painting (12.9 x 17.7 cm) of Point de Galle, dated 31 July 1874 has also been provided by the National Library of Australia.
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Restoring the Hymen or Re-virginising
Re-virginising: From an Australian clinic’s advertisement offering hymen repair surgery, or hymenoplasty
Many women approach us to have their hymen re-instated for social, cultural and religious reasons. Many women’s hymens may have inadvertently broken through strenuous sporting and vigorous activity. We have been performing this simple procedure for many years.
The Wonder Down Under: A user’s guide to the vagina by Ellen Stokken Dahl and Nina Brochmann.
The Vagina: Exposing Its Myths
Helen Rumbelow, courtesy of The Australian, 19 January 2018, where the title runs “The Vagina Myths Exposed” ... with emphasis in highlights added by The Editor Thuppahi
It is nice that little boys are so proud of their penises. It’s an enthusiasm that never goes away: a lifetime bromance of “check out this little chap” swagger. Their wrinkly tube of erectile tissue gets to be a wingman, with a name, a personality and a lot of reflected glory. Could women ever feel this fantastic about their genitals?
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Two Reflections on the Galle Literary Fest of 2008
Michael Roberts, on 9th February 2008
ONE: GALLE LIT UP: FROM THE RIGHT FLANK
As a moderator and panelist participating in the Galle Literary Festival held between the 15th and 20th January 2008, my commentary is biased. It is doubly biased. I was born and nourished within the walls of the Fort in Galle, a site that cast a magic spell on the literary fare all and sundry encountered during these heady days.
with my sister at Girl’s Bathing Place … and as Little bum Mike on the way home 
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Seth, Vidal et al at the Galle Lit-Fest in 2008
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Wedding Bells in Galle Fort
The Galle Fort is apparently seen as an ideal foil for young couples who have tied the knot or are about to do so ….
January 2018
