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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 3, 2008 17:10:46 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 3, 2008 17:38:04 GMT
Wahey!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 30, 2008 23:02:59 GMT
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Post by legios on Oct 31, 2008 7:12:26 GMT
T'is interesting - the evolution of languages can tell us fair amount about history, so anything that sheds light on the subject is great. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 7, 2008 20:16:23 GMT
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 7, 2008 20:53:32 GMT
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Post by karla on Nov 7, 2008 21:52:57 GMT
I say, a magnetic umbrella!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Nov 26, 2008 6:54:19 GMT
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Post by legios on Nov 26, 2008 7:41:10 GMT
So,. cruel and unusual punishment? Or making the punishment fit the crime? Karl (Myself, I think it is superb. And a sign of a judge with a certain level of creativity) |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 26, 2008 10:14:53 GMT
Extreme!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 26, 2008 17:11:26 GMT
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Post by karla on Nov 26, 2008 21:48:20 GMT
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Post by kayevcee on Nov 27, 2008 19:30:05 GMT
Holy crap. NASA just invented shield generators. The Trekkies must be over the moon.
-Nick
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2008 19:41:17 GMT
Shields at 56%!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Nov 27, 2008 21:33:42 GMT
Holy crap. NASA just invented shield generators. The Trekkies must be over the moon. -Nick Well, at least they will have something to protect them from the radiation up there now........ Karl |
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Post by legios on Nov 30, 2008 22:37:45 GMT
Not so much the story here, but the headline "Dragon may bid for Woolworths":- news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7757222.stmThe mental image amused me rather a lot. I think it was the idea of a dragon in a business suit. Not sure how the new CEO would cope with the idea of having meetings in a non-smoking building mind you...... Karl |
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Post by mewshkin on Dec 1, 2008 22:24:51 GMT
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Post by Dark Stranger on Dec 7, 2008 16:18:48 GMT
That is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 24, 2008 8:17:46 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 24, 2008 12:29:59 GMT
You wouldn't see an orangutan entertaining the idea of a sub-prime mortgage. They'd smack the bejeezus out of the applicant!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 24, 2008 15:53:05 GMT
Yes, they would. It was with some despair I read comments from Alistair Darling the other day in the Herald. He mentioned that when he coralled the banks together to sort things out, plans were settled, then at 1am they tried to renegotiate. What bunch of fucking morons.
I daresay the orangutans could do a better job.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 24, 2008 16:54:40 GMT
Yeah he mentioned that on Panorama. Fair play to him that he told them what the offer was, he was going to bed and they'd either accept it by morning or raise the capital themselves.
Andy
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2008 20:32:27 GMT
I thought apes already ran the banks. Maybe however this could be the start of the apes running the Earth like they did in Planet of the Apes. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 26, 2008 8:38:34 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7791000/7791966.stmProbably has more resonance for those whose work-life balance is skewed too much towards work, rather than those unable to get any. Nevertheless, there's a lot of sense in it. In my experience there's fulfilling idleness (enjoying nature, having time for fellow human bengs) and less fulfilling idleness (spending days playing video games). Martin
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Post by legios on Dec 29, 2008 19:26:39 GMT
An interesting point this. I do wonder whether industrialisation is in some sense responsible for the demise of idleness - the coming of generally available gas/electric light to some degree freed us from natural circadian rhythmns to some degree. Is it possible that this has had some influence on the cultural drift towards filling the hours with as much activity as possible?
(Of course, in Scotland a certain residual Calvinism probably has a big influence on this too - a shadow for the insistence that people must be made to work as much as possible, because people inherently wish to commit "sin" and must be kept busy at all times to prevent them from doing so. It has perhaps drifted over the years into a sense that people must "do things" at all times).
I have certainly had a nice few days doing not very much at all - I've been down at my mothers and have made myself useful with a few household chores but otherwise have spent the time reading, walking down to the ponds to watch the ducks and helping out with crosswords now and then.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 29, 2008 19:28:36 GMT
I am one of those people wired to do something all the time (keeps my mind going), so the last 6 months have been especially hellish.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 29, 2008 19:36:12 GMT
There is a lot of unproductive activity that goes on in UK workplaces. And there is also productive inactivity.
I made a lot of progress in my maths at university by looking at a problem, then going and sitting by the lake and reading Tolkien, while my subconscious worked on the problem. I would then return to it with greater success than I would have had if I'd been working consciously all that time.
Some people argue that if working hours were shorter the same amount of work would get done. That can't be true for all jobs, but I bet it's true for many.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 3, 2009 21:55:35 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 4, 2009 20:33:25 GMT
Thor is indeed not a chap to mess with under any circumstances.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 8, 2009 19:05:45 GMT
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