I wonder how you Brits/Euros entertain yourselves now that you don't have poor Maggie to kick around anymore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czVPqqWFVFM dj On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:45 AM, frantheman<[email protected]> wrote: > > ... Tom Robinson, Joe Jackson, U2 ... > > what ... did you say *shudder* Maggie Thatcher? Ok, mate, case closed. > You win. > > Francis > > On 4 Sep., 17:28, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Okay Madness I'll give you and perhaps The Cure, Depeche Mode too, but >> I draw the line at Spandau! >> >> And talking of shit, what about Flock of Seagulls, Echo and the >> Bunnymen, what about crazy laces, and clashing colours, big baggy >> jumpers, suit jackets with the sleeves rolled up*ugh*, backcombed >> hair, lipstick and eye makeup on men, race riots, polltax and >> *shudder* Maggie Thatcher. >> >> There you see case closed. >> >> On 4 Sep, 16:23, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Oh come on, lee, Madness, Spandau Ballet, The Cure, Depeche Mode ... >> > As Frank'n'furter remarked to Janette after seducing her, "But it >> > wasn't all bad, was it?" >> >> > Francis >> >> > On 4 Sep., 17:18, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> > > Ohh shame on you sir! I also was young in the 80's and yet I still >> > > call it 'The decade that taste forgot'. >> >> > > No no it was rather a crap decade. >> >> > > On 4 Sep, 16:16, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > Hall & Oates? No, Chris, please don't. A good example of the worst the >> > > > 80s had to offer (and I normally like the 80s! - after all, I was >> > > > young then :-) ) ... >> >> > > > Francis >> >> > > > On 4 Sep., 17:13, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > > Where is Hall during all this? >> >> > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM, frantheman >> > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> > > > > > *** I think Oates has gone out for a piss ... *** >> >> > > > > > On 4 Sep., 16:53, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > > > > I might have guessed Slip would be my Admundsen on this! >> >> > > > > > > On 4 Sep, 15:21, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > > > > > I am somewhat seriously concerned we don't really have the big >> > > > > > > > issues >> > > > > > > > under general public scrutiny. Perhaps we could write a book >> > > > > > > > Slip, >> > > > > > > > with cryptic clues on the location of your Swiss Army Knife >> > > > > > > > and the >> > > > > > > > temptation of a reward for the first of the horde that buy the >> > > > > > > > book at >> > > > > > > > 10% of our net? A world stupid enough not to understand how >> > > > > > > > serious >> > > > > > > > the weather is must be stupid enough to buy into to the book. >> > > > > > > > No >> > > > > > > > doubt we should write the book during sipping sessions round >> > > > > > > > at Chris' >> > > > > > > > place. >> >> > > > > > > > On 3 Sep, 18:12, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > > > > > > Actually Arch, I've already sun bathed at the North Pole, >> > > > > > > > > fact is I >> > > > > > > > > really can't wait for the caps to melt down again completely >> > > > > > > > > because >> > > > > > > > > it seems I left my Swiss Army knife and a good pari of >> > > > > > > > > sunglassed up >> > > > > > > > > there. I'm sure they'll be well preserved. >> > > > > > > > > The signs of the melting polar caps tell a grim tale, for >> > > > > > > > > example >> > > > > > look >> > > > > > > > > at this......... >> > > > > >http://www.gemzies.com/img_photos/melting_polar_ice_caps_global_warmi... >> > > > > > > > > Further studies and scientific indicators reveal a stark >> > > > > > > > > truth >> > > > > > > > > regardless what global warming critics have to say. We might >> > > > > > > > > all be >> > > > > > > > > living like this soon.......... >> > > > > >http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/redgreenandblue/files/2009/03/flood.jpg >> >> > > > > > > > > Whether I'll be around to retrieve my knife and glasses is >> > > > > > > > > another >> > > > > > > > > issue altogether! >> >> > > > > > > > > On Sep 3, 8:06 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > > > > > > > > The Eocene ran from 56 million to 34 million years ago, >> > > > > > > > > > much longer >> > > > > > > > > > than humans have existed unless science is just a Bishop >> > > > > > > > > > Usher >> > > > > > > > > > memeory. Geological evidence from the early and middle >> > > > > > > > > > part of this >> > > > > > > > > > period offers troubling news: the average temperature in >> > > > > > > > > > the >> > > > > > tropics >> > > > > > > > > > at this time could have been as high as 40°C while the >> > > > > > > > > > poles were >> > > > > > at >> > > > > > > > > > temperatures of 15 or 20°C. None of our climate models >> > > > > > > > > > accounts for >> > > > > > > > > > how this "Eocene hothouse" might have arisen (New >> > > > > > > > > > Scientist, 21 >> > > > > > June >> > > > > > > > > > 2008, p 34). This is bad news for life on Earth. For a >> > > > > > > > > > start, any >> > > > > > > > > > tweaks we make to our climate models to account for it >> > > > > > > > > > will produce >> > > > > > > > > > scarier predictions of warming. Secondly, it suggests that >> > > > > > > > > > there is >> > > > > > no >> > > > > > > > > > feedback mechanism that will stabilise a warming world >> > > > > > > > > > against >> > > > > > runaway >> > > > > > > > > > climate change. And third, there is geological evidence >> > > > > > > > > > for plant >> > > > > > > > > > extinctions in the Eocene. If the modern Earth goes the >> > > > > > > > > > same way >> > > > > > and >> > > > > > > > > > plants in the tropics start dying, that will provide yet >> > > > > > > > > > another >> > > > > > way >> > > > > > > > > > for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to rise faster. The >> > > > > > > > > > Eocene >> > > > > > > > > > hothouse anomaly suggests that our worst-case scenario is >> > > > > > > > > > probably >> > > > > > > > > > optimistic to say the least. Human contributions have >> > > > > > > > > > been puny in >> > > > > > > > > > comparison. The only place safe to sun-bathe may well be >> > > > > > > > > > Santa's >> > > > > > back >> > > > > > > > > > garden and the elves have already staked out the sun beds >> > > > > > > > > > as surely >> > > > > > as >> > > > > > > > > > early-rising Germans in Majorca. This makes me wonder >> > > > > > > > > > whether the >> > > > > > > > > > secret primaries are politicians go through involve such >> > > > > > > > > > matters as >> > > > > > > > > > pissing in the wind contests. >> >> > > > > > > > > > I'm agnostic in the sense I can't disprove the existence >> > > > > > > > > > of some >> > > > > > kind >> > > > > > > > > > of god (to be honest I think 'something' we don't construe >> > > > > > > > > > well is >> > > > > > > > > > likely and is likely to have nothing to do with our fables >> > > > > > > > > > around >> > > > > > the >> > > > > > > > > > world). Information such as the above and a lot of basic >> > > > > > > > > > science >> > > > > > we >> > > > > > > > > > are all part of is at bottom what I believe in. The >> > > > > > > > > > elves, of >> > > > > > course, >> > > > > > > > > > only appear when Chris and I share his magic brew whilst >> > > > > > > > > > teasing >> > > > > > > > > > Flying Harringtons on the days we devote to world >> > > > > > > > > > domination in our >> > > > > > > > > > off-shore bunker created by skimming Craig's massive >> > > > > > > > > > profits as >> > > > > > owner >> > > > > > > > > > of this group (some believe Craig is only a fictitious >> > > > > > > > > > Patsy we >> > > > > > have >> > > > > > > > > > set up in case the IRS rumble us). In light of the above, >> > > > > > > > > > there >> > > > > > are >> > > > > > > > > > real questions about Dawkins telling us god probably >> > > > > > > > > > doesn't exist >> > > > > > and >> > > > > > > > > > we should just get on with life. 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