More a ramble than a rant

[svenonius]

I've spent this morning doing battle with my car, the bulb in the headlamp had packed in. On my old cars this wasn't a problem, but with my current heap of shit if you have fingers even marginally less slender than those of ET changing the bulb becomes, almost, a physical impossibility. I managed it in the end, but today, your correspondent is

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[asru]

I had a similar experience with a girl I worked with recently - she was a Hare Krishna, and she knew an awful lot about her faith. In fact she knew it so well that when she talked about it, it sounded as though she were actually reciting passages of the Baghavad Gita from memory (and perhaps she was). The rest of us in my office find it hard to believe anything without facts to back it up, and we had many conversations which revolved around us asking where her proof was on certain issues (for example, she denied that evolution could have happened), and her response was always 'you should have faith'. She went one better though, and claimed that if we were more intelligent, we'd see God's wisdom.
I found it frightening that someone could have such faith in something for which there was no proof, and deny things for which there was extensive proof. I couldn't understand it. I wonder if your ex-girlfriend will ever change her views - in some ways, I would hope not, because there would have to be quite a big event in her life for her to question her values.

Pesto - I never have a problem with it if someone else uses it, but it never seems to have any point in my own cooking other than to look slimy.

[svenonius]

Its weird, it infuriates when people have these views, but they are so firmly entrenched that it is impossible to have a reasoned discussion with them.

As for the Pesto thing. Stoaty knew about it, and my friends who i used to work with still remind me about it. As a foodstuff I find it quite pleasant. But when it was included on a shopping list for on ill judged holiday I got spectaculary angry, in a highly comical way, in front of work colleagues. I'll explain when I next see you

[asru]

And when will that be? I need pesto knowledge. Was it red or green?

[svenonius]

It was never bought, due to my now legendary tantrum. I dont know when, make a suggestion