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<t>AnneBoleyn;1469653 wrote: Preserve Yourselves!!!!!!!!!! :yh_rotfl Yes, please, show some restraint. If you'd like to discuss Malcolm Fraser's article I'd be delighted. The National Interest is surely a reputable enough magazine to pay attention to, as is the article's ...

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<t>Ahso!;1469617 wrote: I can appreciate your opinion on this issue, though I think I recall something to the effect of celebrating the existence and expression of cultural differences. Hadn't I seen you write that in the past? Very much so, but the issue of cultural imperialism rem...

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YZGI;1469601 wrote: Apparently you have never seen "Blazing Saddles"

I may, perhaps, have overstated my position. There is, as you say, Blazing Saddles.

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<t>Saint_;1469561 wrote: So...are you a Holocaust denier as well? To follow this up for a moment, Saint - isn't Holocaust Denial a matter of free speech? Would you not support the right of deniers of the Holocaust to speak their minds freely and openly? If not, what other speech would you like ...

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1469579 wrote: as a professional, talented thespian.You're seriously mistaken. Professional, talented thespians serve apprenticeships at the Royal Shakespeare Company, they perform in films to subsidize the major component of their professional life which is stage acting. Ve...

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<t>Saint_;1469574 wrote: Absolutely correct, but that kind of action has a name. It's called, "living in fear" and it means that the terrorists have won. We had a rule in England during the IRA mainland bombing campaign, it involved refusing to change your behavior while waiting for...

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<t>Saint_;1469570 wrote: Again you miss the point. This isn't about the content of the film. I wasn't going to see it either. It's about the right to make films, even films that are bad. Did you know that a very important film, a documentary about a man who escaped from North Korean pris...

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AnneBoleyn;1469566 wrote: Good taste is in your mouth. I enjoy Seth Rogan & James Franco & have for years.
I'm delighted to say I have heard of neither of them.

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1469563 wrote: The blame lies with Sony. Also tired of Sony being called an American company when it's Japanese. I do wish people would differentiate between Sony, a Japanese company, and Sony Pictures, a blight on the US cultural landscape formed by the merger of Colu...

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<t>Saint_;1469561 wrote: Actually, intelligent people take free speech quite literally. Without the bad, there is no way to judge the good.I didn't mention freedom of speech anywhere. I discussed good taste, something Sony Pictures executives blatantly lack. Films like The Interview soil society, th...

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<t>This is the wrong thread in which to post this sentence but it's scarcely worth a new one. I note the first ever use that I've seen of the the verb "to rival" to mean "to compete with". Morrissey has 'politely declined an invitation' from Channel 4 to rival the Queenâ€™s an...

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I doubt whether Sony Pictures or anyone associated with North Korean politics had anything to do with the data theft. As for the cancellation, that's pure Chicken Little territory.

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<t>I note from today's Independent thatUS intelligence officials have reportedly concluded that North Korea is behind the recent cyber-attack on Sony Pictures. The wide-ranging hack of Sonyâ€™s computer systems is believed to have been a response to the Hollywood studioâ€™s comedy film The Interview...

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Nobody?

Point made, then.

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I didn't sign in to anything, I just quizzed.

You got 10 questions correct: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12

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<t>I'll bite - go on, tell me whether "many more Britons will be pushed into paying more than Â£5,000-a-year for their season ticket" is actually true or not. It looks like utterly bogus exaggeration to me. It looks to me that there are a few routes fast enough to allow commuting into Lon...

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<t>Oscar Namechange;1469006 wrote: There's a difference though Lars... It's all to do with the length of the race. Most race horses who clock those speeds are In Flat sprints as short as 5 furlongs ( common distances on the flat here )... A five furlong sprint Is over In less than 60 seconds... some...

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<t>I don't think anyone here doubts that a top-notch rare superlative horse can on occasion reach a top speed of 45mph for brief periods when the occasion warrants. The dispute is whether reaching this top speed can in any sense constitute cruising, which invariably implies the most efficient use of...

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<r>Peter Lake;1468660 wrote: This horse is galloping at 44 m.p.h. that's galloping i.e. cruising, not racing to the line off the bridle which would be his top speed. <YOUTUBE id="45hdjzNgLfc"><URL url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45hdjzNgLfc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45hdjzNgLf...

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Neither of you has any interest in the meaning of "cruise" in this context, I expect. I notice you're both now using "reach" and "top speed".

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<t>Oscar Namechange;1468645 wrote: [QUOTE=FG;1468635][QUOTE=Oscar Namechange;1468630]as dangerous as a race horse with a cruising speed of 45 miles an hourHave you ever seen a race horse cruise at that speed?[/QUOTE]Over the decades of racing, yes.[/QUOTE]Someone should tell the Guinness Book of Rec...

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<t>Oscar Namechange;1468630 wrote: as dangerous as a race horse with a cruising speed of 45 miles an hourA race horse might, I imagine, achieve that speed if you dropped the brute out of an aircraft at sufficient altitude, or encased it within a horsebox and put it behind a Range Rover on the M4. I'...

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Larsmac whipped the hide off the rest of the pack across November, we stood no chance.

Today, fortunately, is another brand new month. Dive in one and all, the award for December is up for grabs.

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Oscar Namechange;1468355 wrote: In this case the head gear was Irrelevant.I expect Lewis Hamilton's helmet would have protected against that ball. It's all down to the design of head gear the player will accept.

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<t>Fuzzy;1468350 wrote: Of course it is sad that he had to die like that. But what is even more sad is that people in authority can't anticipate accidents like this and make sure correct protection is designed and used to prevent things like this. There always has to be a death before they start thi...

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<t> Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott paid tribute to Hughes, describing him as "a young man living out his dreams". "His death is a very sad day for cricket and a heartbreaking day for his family. What happened has touched millions of Australians," he said. "For a young li...

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<r>A few notes on how I'm getting along. I found a surprising site at <URL url="https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools">https://www.modern.ie/en-gb/virtualization-tools</URL> which allows anyone to install Win8 or Win7 as a virtual system on their local computer, with no license...

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<t>LarsMac;1467889 wrote: Ummm, No, he is not about to make them citizens. Big diffrence. They would then have available to them a path toward citizenship. So would you describe it as establishing a new permanent right of residency for this set of people?</t>

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He's about to irreversibly make five million undocumented residents into citizens out of the pool of around fourteen million, by Executive Order, if the Washington Post is to be believed. It's a measure relating to some of those already resident, not to those crossing.

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AnneBoleyn;1467876 wrote: What brought this up?

I'd heard there's a major initiative about to come from the Executive on this issue. I think it was in the Washington Post yesterday.

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Did I hear there's a major initiative about to come from the Executive on this issue?

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<t>theia;1467737 wrote: FG, it's such an earthy, bold rendition of one of my favourite hymns. And they stick to the wording from the Pilgrim's Progress, I notice. It was shockingly bowdlerized a hundred years ago but at least we Methodists kept the shock of the original all through the years. I...

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<t>theia;1467715 wrote: Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band - He who would true valour see. Wonderful :-6 And what a national treasure she's been over the years. I confess I've never seen The Carnival Band on stage, I'm not sure why. Downloads... I really can't r...

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<r>If you can get work with it, the machine will pay itself off quite quickly. If it were me I'd check first that there's a local market you can fit into before buying it and training yourself. You might like to compare the pros and cons mentioned by Val and Patty in <URL url="http://www....

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A great moment. One wonders whether it will still be there on Thursday but to have photos from the site is an impressive stage to have reached.

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<t>Bruv;1467612 wrote: I feel your pain too, thought you were on something. Have you considered they are not related but just a collection of foreign built sites, a port folio sort of thing. That would mean the staff writers would be different. These sites all feel as tho...

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<t>Bruv;1467609 wrote: Have you got too much time on your hands ? Lordy no, I'm solidly balls-to-the-grindstone and just occasionally ripping the tab off a Pepsi Max out the fridge and taking five at my screen. There was a definite physical sense of pain associated with writing that sentence, I...

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<t>Okay... there's a cluster of websites listed from the same holding office, by the look of it, of which this is just one. I wonder what the full set would have in common beside ownership. If you click to the homepage of each they all have the same weird layout, the same non-US capitaliz...

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<t>I'm puzzled by a website, maybe some of you can offer potential answers. The site is foodworldnews.com The writing style is, at a guess, Asian. The site has the feel of something out of either the Philippines or Singapore but that's subjective opinion on my part. It's regist...

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Yum...

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<t>FourPart;1467432 wrote: Actually, by that quote he was only reporting that it had been written in a book. It wasn't anything he had said. "And said, For this cause [...]" - he gave his own conclusion on the question at issue, that question being divorce. Same-sex marriage was at ...

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Half these mats are hotlinked, I'm not sure the explanation can be the whole story.

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<t>disciple;1467419 wrote: Mat 19:4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, Mat 19:5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one f...

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<t>FourPart;1467412 wrote: I am totally Anti-Religious and can, therefore, never accept that He was ever the Son of a non-existent Deity. However, I do accept that he existed, only as a man with some totally revolutionary views on the perception of morals & how to live in peace with each other -...

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disciple;1467403 wrote: The only thing Jesus mentioned about marriage is that: in the beginning he made them male and female...

Go on, I'll bite - where is Jesus recorded as mentioning that?

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"Residents in Coalville in Leicestershire are cleaning up after high winds hit the town".

Curry night round the Vic Bikers?

BBC News - Storm damages homes and businesses in Coalville

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Did anyone notice it's Bryn's birthday?

Bravo that chap. Another brick in the wall.

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<t>Wandrin;1467059 wrote: The app store is how you'll get os and app updates, so be careful about deleting the app. It is easy enough to remove from the dock.. In system preferences, make sure to set iCloud for no automatic backups or sharing. Also turn off remote login or access and remote file sha...

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<t>FourPart;1467055 wrote: TBH, I have no problems with their hardware - it's the operating systems & their policy of non-compatibility that bugs me. I can install any alternative operating system I want, as a Virtual Machine inside the free Oracle VirtualBox handler. I can run ...

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<t>FourPart;1467051 wrote: As far as I'm concerned, the best Bible Study name for Apple is "Sodom". I hate, with a passion, anything that begins with a lower case 'i'. So long as they go out of their way to ensure that their systems are incompatible with the rest of the market, I see them...

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