Whaaattt?

Years ago I was in a pub in Edinburgh having a drink with friends before going to a six nations rugby match. At the bar I started chatting with an American tourist. He told me he was shortly getting married.Somehow we got onto the subject of prenuptial agreements and he told me he and his to be wife had one. Pretty much her only stipulation was she was refusing to iron his shirts…….a woman after my own heart!

 

I did that, well not verbally, but never ironed his shirts, they went to the laundry people. But I did work an administrative job making lots of money, and paying his health insurance so he could start his own company. Lots of other things was not on my list to do anyway.

 

I'm fine with avocados and latex. I'd not heard about a connection though.

I wouldn't say I'm allergic to bananas. Nausea is just a thing I get often.

 

One of the things I realised many years ago was there is no point in ironing anything; as soon as you use the item it is no longer ironed. An ironed shirt is just as creased at the end of the day as an unironed one, also a jacket will cover a multitude of sins.
The only slight advantage of ironing is they take up marginally less storage space.

 

I've not ironed anything in15yrs, life is just too short for such excitement.

 

I can understand getting nauseated by avocado, it's just disgusting..

 

For me avocado is a similar level of disgusting to banana. I don't think I'm allergic to either, but I find the smells (and tastes and textures if I'm unfortunate enough to inadvertently ingest any) very unpleasant.

 

I can't be in a room with a grapefruit! The pong is vile.

 

Possum thinks she doesn't like bananas or avocadoes so I hide banans in carrot cakes and so on which she does like. As I'm keen we all have a wide range of nutritious foods in our diet I've recently started making little chocolate pots (not mousse, more creamy) with blitzed avocado for a weekend dessert. Delicious - as long as she doesn't know what makes them creamy in texture.

As for the Jewish religion being the raison d'être of Israel, no it's not. After years of wars, expulsions, dispersions and banishments to other countries who imposed ghettos and other social and economic limitations on the Jews, there was already a Zionist movement in the late 19th century working towards a jewish homeland.

This intensified after the horrors of the Nazi death camps were laid bare for all to see at the end of WW2. If you read the book Exodus, or watch the film, you'll get a light appreciation of how badly they needed to go home and feel safe and have their own land and there were as many atheists, humanists and socialist Jews as there were orthodox, Hassidic and other religious sects.

The problems of the Middle east arise largely from old Arabic hatred for the Jewish religion - still feeling slighted by Abraham choosing Sarah and Isaac and banishing Hagar and Ishmael who became the Arab nation millennia ago. 164 of the 193 UN nations recognise Israel. The remainder who do not are all Muslim states.

Maybe, if, when recognising the declaration of Israeli independence in 1948, the USA, UK and Russia had had the sense to insist there also be a Palestinian state instead of assuming they'd happily be absorbed into Jordan, Syria, Lebanon cos one Arab is much like another, we wouldn't have such inhumane and unreasoned hatred and aggression towards Israel and Jews everywhere and they could devote their energy and arms budgets to productive pursuits that feed, clothe, house and care for their own people rather than trying to destroy others.

 

I'm sure you would.

 

I would NEVER let someone handle my clothes, they're MINE - KEEP AWAY !
... and I enjoy ironing, it's a very relaxing thing to do ...

 

@Obelix-Vendée, "inhumane and unreasoned hatred and aggression" is what has been inflicted on the civilians of Gaza. Of course, backing Israel is a valid point of view, in just the same way an American citizen backing Trump is.

Personally, I try not to get stuck on one side of the fence or the other when it comes to issues like these, because that way won't bring about solutions and accommodations.

 

The dying words of Mercutio “a plague on both your houses” seem to sum up the human problem.