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Just for show and not for go!

Chris hears about your slightly doolally domestic rules regarding what's for show only (and not for go!). We also talk 3D printers, tests for towing trailers and Saturday night TV.

Chris has an early contender for Text of the Week, from Mr Anon, who reveals that he got into his wife's bad books by burning some decorative logs.

This admission opens the floodgates to other slightly doolally domestic rules - re. what's for show not for go - not least the super strict regime chez Tina!

We talk top tech, as Chris gets excited about 3D printers, and we stick on our L-plates to learn more about towing trailers.

Today's Top Tenuous is a smash hit, with a bumper batch of desperate claims to Saturday Night Telly. And Father Brian D'Arcy delivers today's Pause for Thought.

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Mon 14 Oct 2013 06:30
麻豆社 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • XTC

    Making Plans for Nigel

  • Katy Perry

    Roar

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Wham!

    I'm Your Man

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Sony Tv/Columbia.

  • Aztec Camera

    Oblivious

    • The Best Of Aztec Camera.
    • Warner E.S.P..

  • The Beatles

    I Need You

    • Help!.
    • Parlophone.
    • 4.

  • The Beatles

    Savoy Truffle

    • The White Album.
    • Parlophone.
    • 10.

  • James Blunt

    Bonfire Heart

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
    • 1.

  • Oasis

    Roll With It

    • (CD Single).
    • Creation Records.

  • Paul Weller

    That Dangerous Age

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Tommy Bruce & The Bruisers

    Ain't Misbehavin'

    • The Hits Of 1960 (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Gavin DeGraw

    Best I Ever Had

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.

  • Bon Jovi

    You Give Love A Bad Name

    • Slippery When Wet.
    • Mercury.
    • 2.

  • The Jacksons

    I Want You Back

    • The Best Michael Jackson & Jackson Five.
    • Polygram Tv.
    • 1.

  • Chris Isaak

    Live It Up

    • Beyond The Sun.
    • Rhino.
    • 1.

  • Dario G

    Sunchyme

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.

  • Lorde

    Royals

    • Virgin.

  • Fyfe Dangerfield

    She Needs Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Geffen.
    • 1.

  • Paul McCartney

    New

    • New.
    • Virgin/EMI.

  • Paul McCartney

    Maybe Baby

    • Maybe Baby - Film Soundtarck.
    • Virgin.

  • Manfred Mann鈥檚 Earth Band

    Blinded By The Light

    • Drivetime 3 (Various Artists).
    • Dino.

  • Cat Stevens

    Can't Keep It In

    • The Very Best Of Cat Stevens.
    • Island.

  • John Newman

    Cheating

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • Maroon 5

    Payphone (feat. Wiz Khalifa) (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

    • (CD Single).
    • A&M.
    • 1.

  • Mott the Hoople

    All The Young Dudes

    • The Greatest Hits Of 1972 (Various).
    • Premier.

  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Buffalo Soldier

    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend.
    • Island.

  • Cher

    I Hope You Find It

    • Closer To The Truth.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 001.

  • Will Powers

    Kissing With Confidence

    • The Island Story (Various Artists).
    • Island.

  • Scritti Politti

    Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

    • Now 1984 - The Millennium Series.
    • Now.

Pause for Thought

Pause for Thought

From Father Brian, a Catholic Passionist priest:

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鈥淟ove your neighbour as yourself鈥� is a central theme in all religions. To help you love your neighbour as yourself, a cynic advised, make sure you don鈥檛 take down the fences. Good fences make good neighbours.

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The philosopher and spiritual writer G K Chesterton was close to the truth when he wrote: 鈥淭he Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are the same people.鈥�

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Recently Pope Francis was adamant that we should never judge others harshly. We all have a dark side which, if we ignore, will make us over-critical of our neighbours faults and blind to our own, he said.

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That鈥檚 why I think the Pope would love the story of the young couple who moved into a settled community soon after marriage. Each morning the couple sat in the kitchen eating breakfast, looking out the window into their neighbour鈥檚 garden.

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One Monday morning as their neighbour hung her washing on the line, the young wife was critical of the dreadful state of the woman鈥檚 washing. The whites were yellow and the blacks were grey 鈥搃n fact all the clothes looked in need of a good washing. Wouldn鈥檛 you think she鈥檇 be ashamed to hang out such dirty washing in public, she told her husband?

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He agreed whole-heartedly.听听

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They had this same conversation every washing day for weeks on end.

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Then one morning when the young wife looked out her window she was surprised to find her neighbour had at last found a washing powder which worked. The whites were like virgin snow, the blacks were shining, and the reds were as bright as apples in autumn.

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鈥淭hank goodness that woman has discovered how to wash her clothes,鈥� she told her husband. 鈥淧erhaps they bought a new washing machine.鈥�

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鈥淚 don鈥檛 think so鈥� her husband said sheepishly. 鈥淚 got up early this morning and cleaned our 飞颈苍诲辞飞蝉.鈥�

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