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In essence what they are saying is that technology is ******* us. How long would each of us survive without technology? The natural biological life span of a human is less than 40 years.

The Romans never had any wish or intention to conquer Scotland.They came to Britain for two reasons-they believed it had great wealth and it was a source of problems as opponents to Rome used it as a safe haven.They were protecting a flank.By the time Britannia was pacified and settled there was...

Well, when he cured people through miracles did he check whether they had medical insurance first?

It can't you know.It's sad when a beautiful person doesn't know when to leave well alone. Tattooing as you say goes back a long time.It was always a rarity , seafarers sometimes had them as a sort of memento and certain societies used them.But you never saw one in normal everyday life until...

You missed out some real charmers like Papa Doc and Pol Pot. I don't have a favourite-that's not the way I look at things. Napoleon is a strange choice. Had it not been for his devastation of France it's quite likely that French would now be the world language.He tried to conquer the world...

Tattooing is a fashion. As my *** said, a fashion is doing stupid things simply because lots of other people are doing stupid things.I regard tattoos as a sign of inadequacy (why do people find the need to alter themselves?) Or are they trying to get themselves noticed? Why ******** or disfigure...

Not as far fetched as it seems. France has declared its overseas empire remnants to be part of Metropolitan France. So Martinique in the Caribbean is in the EU.Strangely, the Isle of Man isn't.

Proper chips have to becooked in beef dripping (tallow?) - if they use oil then forget it , they are only going through the motions.Try chips (fries) done this way and there's no going back.Chips by the way is the correct word for fries.What's sold as potato chips in bags are actually crisps.

Wow! You are insuring 33 million people? You must be very rich then. Socialism is nothing more than getting people to work together for the common good.There's nothing wrong with that, it's just naive to think this will be the driving ***** behind people's actions.So they have to be made to...

Not even the most fervent soccer supporter here would consider it to be anywhere near as tough as rugby.It's possible to play a game of soccer without injury!

Major 5? The world's top two are far and away football (soccer) and cricket which is globally close behind.Tennis and golf are universal and the rest are local minority sports. They require different degrees of toughness. Many games are quite short (maybe only 90 minutes) , other games can be...

There's a neat little addon called Screengrab.Click on this and you have the choice of saving all or any part of a webpage as a jpg file.It will even save the whole page even though only a part of it is on the screen.

Seems logical to me that as people vote with their wallets they choose the party which they feel meets their needs better. Same in the UK , the wealthy south east votes Conservative and the old industrial working class areas further north vote Labour.

Also called the Battle of Poitiers.They had another one there a few hundred years later; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Poitiers_%281356%29

I very much doubt whether Bush is hated as much , except fot the fact there are more of you to **** him.

They were smart though and levied troops from one part of the Empire to police another. Although their tactics were sometimes lacking what they did have was training and discipline , it was a regular army. The opposition was usually just a collection of armed men.

If you are genuinely feeling that your life or safety is under serious threat and there is no ther way then you can lawfully take any action necessary.This has got to be a reasoned assessment, the mere fact that an intruder is present is no evidence of a physical threat on its own.And criminals...

The Founding Fathers included a lot of slave owners including George Washington.Actually there has never been legal slavery in England , only in the colonies (see the Mansfield case 1772) As to being brainwashed, I see the signs of this in the arguments of the *** lobby.This though isn't...

Yes, you were years ahead of us in abolishing slavery weren't you?And your liberal ******* laws are still the envy of the Western world. Regarding being safe by having a ***, this reminds me of when I was teaching chess to my ***.He was so involved in what HE was going to do he overlooked what...

The average weight of a ghost is 5lb. The average weight of a sheet with two holes in it is 5 lb.

No way did I criticise you as crazies or anything else.I criticised the delusion you have that firearms render you safer. Certainly we have our problems here but in general firearms aren't one of them. There was an outcry about "*** crime" some time ago, the numbers involved were in single...

The UK has 60 million people and 60 *** deaths a year.The US has 300 million and 30 000 *** deaths a year.That's some discrepancy. The society I live in just doesn't accept the use of deadly ***** to protect property.Shoot a burglar dead other than in a case of genuine self defence (your life...

I'm sorry you just can't grasp the simple concept that taking a life to protect things is a totally warped sense of values.Just who are these people you are so frightened of? Is the world you inhabit really so dreadful that you have to think in those terms? Firearms just raise the stakes...

Can you honestly see nothing wrong with this appalling set of relative values?Can you really in your wildest dreams imagine that shooting someone in this way is somehow OK?You claim to live in a civilised country and you applaud this disgusting act as somehow justified?

Not only that, because their light takes so long to reach us, they aren't even where they appear to be. Hitler used an astrologer too.

What I found disturbing about the thread is the sense of anxiety so many posters seem to have about their own safety.If you live in a land where *** ownership is common you are at risk from them just as living in a land full of cars places you at risk from traffic.As with cars of course, however...

Really cool. I saw a bunch of smokers huddled together having a smoke outside the pub door.They looked really cool because it was snowing.In fact they looked absolute prats who hadn't got the self restraint to do without for an hour or so. Pitiful really.

******* in reasonable doses is actually beneficial to health but of course overuse is bad.Deliberately getting ****** is also truly dumb.

It's the guns the other guys have which are the problem. If they're out there how can you have nothing to do with them or stay away from them? Reading posts from *** enthusiasts it's pretty clear to me that their guns ARE toys.Just like cars and motorcycles are to many people.Something to play...

I have a Muslim friend-great guy.When we stay with him he cooks us bacon and eggs for breakfast.He also has an amazing **** cellar.Don't tar all muslims with the same brush.

Stupidity can be defined as doing something that you don't need to do, which offers no benefit and causes loss.This is also a pretty good definition of smoking .Knowing what we do know about smoking, anybody taking up the habit must be of below average smartness.

Haddock knocks cod into a cocked hat.Cod's all texture and little flavour.At one time the Grimsby trawlermen couldn't give cod away locally and it all went to London.Harry Ramsden refused to serve cod in his fast food chain as "not fit for good Yorkshire folk"...it's now dearer than salmon.

Get rid of the ketchup and try them with mayo, it's light years better.

All of them.Kicking a bag of wind round a muddy field isn't an occupation worthy of much respect.

We do though get proper chips here though.One fish and chip shop I know has chips to die for.They are of course fried in beef dripping (tallow) and are simply amazing.Why people waste their time cooking them in oil is beyond me. I had the misfortune to visit a MacD's last week, only ever my...

Many media players have a screenshot facility. As someone has already said, it will be the size of the original video image eg 800 by 600 Any decent imaging program (I use Irfanview) will easily resize the screenshot to any size you wish.With Irfanview you can see any image in full screen just...

I went abroad once. I didn't like it, it was full of foreigners.

I can't but help being a little surprised by the anti immigrant feeling, have people forgotten hust how Texas and some other states became part of the Union? By simply flooding Mexican territory with immigrants and eventually seizing the land.

In fact the 3 mile Island and Chernobyl accidents make it less likely there will be accidents in the future.Lessons are learnt and procedures developed whenever something like this happens.

The train is only more efficient under very specific conditions.In normal use it's far more wasteful of resources and it's relatively inflexible.Under ideal conditions it does a brilliant job , in particular mass transit between high density areas of population but outside of this it's not a...

The Labour Party, corrupt ,nasty, totally inept and flying under a false flag of being the party representing ordinary people.

Welcome to the land of the free.

I find it difficult to think of instances when a great film was remade and came out better than the original.

This is taking things to ridiculous lengths.My previous computer was a really cut price piece of gear running ME.But it ran faultlessly for 5 years without a reinstall and still works now if I start it up.Unless you are either very unlucky or very foolish it should never be necessary to...

My wife and I just treat ourselves to something we can't normally justify.A bottle of ********* and something tasty to go with it.We don't go overboard with fancy cards or presents though.

It's a VW so you probably have to push it for a lot of those miles.

If only life were as simple as this outlook suggests.If a woman doesn't wish to become pregnant then that's easy for her to arrange.But once a ***** is on the way there are other interested parties.Husbands and babies have rights too and all things being equal the *****'s should come first as it...

If it's done to protect the life of the ******, OK, sad but necessary. If it's done simply because a ***** would be inconvenient then it's probably unjustified. What I don't accept is the woman's right to choose.Provided she allowed the impregnation in the first place (not ****) then there are...

This is the 21st century and all countries are interdependent.You can't just draw a line round a nation (except perhaps North Korea) and isolate its economy.We in the UK are watching Kraft swallow a much loved British company, we've seen Rolls Royce bought by the Germans and Electicite de France...

The world's #2 sport is cricket.Then there are tennis, golf and rugby all of which rank above all except soccer in terms of followers and participants..