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I did a check on Uranus and there isn't a single pub in the place.I'm afraid it fails any test for being nominated as the best.

Yes, they were a Viking settlement;I quote from the link posted below. >"The Normans first appear as mixed Danish and Norwegian settlers in tenth-century Normandy, a province of France which these Vikings wrested from the French and made a dukedom, and from which province they subsequently...

There are three considerations to be made-is the Earth warming? Do humans have a significant effect ? and one overlooked one is warming good or bad overall? It's been realised that global temperatures rise and fall through natural causes , it's also well established that at the start of...

Food sucks? This from a country that puts "burger" and "good" in the same sentence!The country which inflicted MacDonalds,Starbuck's,KFC and the donut onto the rest of the world? And you talk about the horrible things my country got started? At least we weren't responsible for the baseball cap...

1066 wasn't to do with the French, the Normans were Norsemen , a Viking outpost. To another poster, Great Britain is a geographical term , not a reference to its importance; http://www.know-britain.com/general/great_britain.html

He might have taken his holidays there but we all know he's English.After all, he could choose to be whatever he wants to be.

Cricket stems from the same roots as baseball. It has an extra dimension though.You are allowed to aim the ball at the batsman, the ball hits the ground and can be made to bounce in funny ways and even curve in the opposite direction from before the bounce.And the game can be modified to last...

The Scots are certainly the most innovative and inventive people on the planet , their achievements are astonishing for so few people.But without the resources from England (the second most innovative people) through being part of Britain their ideas wouldn't have come to fruition. It was...

Reformatting a hard drive doesn't delete the data , it simply removes all the labels.Same as an ordinary delete but it involves the whole hard drive. The good news is that there are some freeware erasing programs.These remove the labels and overwrite the files as many times as you tell it...

The only American sport mentioned is your version of football.All the other sports are imports.

1.Wrong. Many are homosexual AND evil. 2.Wrong, 78% of us don't suck on fags. 3.Wrong.Big Ben is a bell not a monument. 4.Right. Good because otherwise our Head of State would be a shitty politician. 5.Wrong.We haven't got a government, just a bunch of layabouts without a clue 6.We have nukes...

If you're a sucker for advertising and letting people brew tasteless crap from cheap low grade materials but charge a high price for it that's your right. But countless millions of people have been brainwashed into thinking that's what **** is all about and have been denied the pleasure...

Where on EARTH did people get hold of the idea that **** should be cold?That concept belongs to the tasteless crap churned out by the factories (I won't grace them with the word "breweries") where it's chilled and gassed up so you won't realise there's nothing there.To call MGD or Molson's good...

Difficult one because we're comparing chalk with cheese.You have in a sense to gauge by the changes brought about. I voted for Newton, he changed the way humans regard the universe.He not only discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he did much work on light and invented calculus (Leibnitz is...

Not really a black day apart from those involved and their families.It set in train America's entry into WW2 which was enough to firmly tip the balance in the Allies' favour.

Proper ****, not that pale yellow gnat's **** which accounts for 90% of the world's production.Fortunately in the UK good **** is cheaper than the trash. Good **** (unfortunalely rather expensive here), I love decent port Freshly ground coffee Tea Malt ******, cognac, ***

Not really. ****, like most other things comes in a range of quality and if you are interested in the enjoyment it brings you have to think about what you are ********.

He might have, sure.My objection to the Amendment is the effect it has on the mind set of our American friends.In a sense they are brainwashed into certain beliefs which appear risible to outsiders.The fact though remains that guns are designed to **** at a distance with minimum risk to the...

It's a triumph in another way-the way it affects how people view guns.But every time anyone says anything the unthinking claptrap that "guns don't **** , people do" comes out. OK, so this guy will walk up to 4 cops with a ***** or a baseball bat if he hasn't got a *** and they'll let him ****...

Another triumph for the Second Amendment. How it adds up.

Good **** (by which I mean **** other than that pale yellow **** produced in vast quantities by the **** factories all over the globe) is best served cool (to allow the flavour to blossom) and from a pump without extra gas. Chilling and high carbonation is a way of disguising the lack of taste...

Looks like the EU will plump for a simple jack plug.All phones run on the same voltage anyway.

Mine comes equipped with an on/off switch so I can get rid of the nuisance side.I do though find the phone amazingly useful.I also of course have the camera and video functions and use them surprisingly often. As to the uniform charger issue , of course it should happen.You have uniform...

The Italian Job where the coach with the gold was left perched over a cliff.This has been a topic of conversation for years and the subject of at least one competition.

A bit off topic but the film "The Third Man" shot in 1946/7 shows what effects can be brought to the screen simply by imaginative and skilful photography.

So it has died and there is no longer a world's oldest sheep.

How can you compare different events? Is it on the scale (in which case events in China must rank highly ; the Japanese in Manchuria and Mao's purges) or intent (the Jewish holocaust was an efficientl and deliberate policy of genocide or effect (the devastation of natives in South America ...

True though Churchill overestimated his influence. Nobody got on with Montgomery! He was cautious having learned his trade in the trenches in WW1 and feared large casualties.Patton never understood this. But the choice of Eisenhower (not a senior officer at the time) to be Supreme Commander was...

If they looked at the evidence they would realise they don't need to pray about climate change, but then people who check evidence wouldn't be evangelicals in the first place.

All very strange. I wonder why the police got involved anyway , it wasn't a criminal or public order matter that a girl wouldn't have a shower. Without actually witnessing the event it's difficult to judge things. A 10 year old is only a ***** but is perfectly capable of seriously hurting...

That's what puzzles me.The Crown prosecution Service vets all prosecutions for a) whether the case has a reasonable chance of securing a guilty verdict and b) whether the case is in the public interest. At face value the case fails on point b.What would be the point expending time and money...

There is pizza and there is stuff sold as pizza. I'm surprised though that it has caught on in a wealthy society like the US;it's basic peasant food designed to stretch out costly ingredients with dough.Quite pleasant but fuel not good food.Mind you, in a country that thinks burgers are good...

Certainly I'm a scientist and have a good degree from a prestigious university in the physical sciences and some post graduate qualifications as well. One thing a scientist should do is to formulate a theory and then test it with what is known as a "crucial experiment" A scientist also looks...

Yes , I endorse that. It's pretty good and at the end lists the registry entries associated with the program just uninstalled and invites you to delete them if you feel like it. If you do so, make sure the registry is backed up! Also mentioned above is CCleaner from Piriform. It's really one of...

Socialism is nothing more than getting people tp pool their resources to provide what would be difficult any other way. So you have a socialist military for example which seems to work pretty well. You must remember that you are dealing with a lifetime provision.At times you will be paying in...

The amount pumpd into the atmosphere actually isn't that great by global standards and most of it anyway wasn't put there by humans. The plain fact is that at the moment the planet is cooling , not a lot but nevertheless it's cooling.The rise in temperatures noted in the 70s to the 90s (despite...

Many times. In the planet's history CO2 levels have been WAY higher than they are today.At present it's 0.038% of the atmosphere. 85% of the rainforests are still standing and 12% are in a recovery state (which actually use more CO2 than fully grown trees) About 3% of the CO2 in the atmosphere...

The point made was that the Earth has been going through warming and cooling cycles since time immemorial without human intervention.It's not particularly warm at the moment by geological standards. The trouble with climatologists is that their funding depends upon their conclusions.If they...

As a scientist myself I am profoundly unhappy about many of the factors in the climate change debate.The fact that it's based on CO2 in the air though other substances like water vapour and droplets are much more powerful thermal agents , that they disregard historical temperature fluctuations...

Yes , the police wouldn't have brought a case had they not thought there had been a serious breach of the law. They aren't in the business of bringing cases to court without good reason (and the Crown Prosecution Service wouldn't allow it either) As I said in my post, everybody has taken the...

Yes, every day. I live in the same country as Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling whose expertise in getting their hands on people's money makes organised criminals look like Santa Claus.They do a brilliant disappearing act with it which would astonish Houdini.

No , because the number of the ***** is 616 not the mistaken 666.

Yes. And the electric light bulb (patented 6 years before Edison was born) .

Everybody is assuming that the man did in fact find the shotgun.There must have been a pretty good reason for the jury to find him guilty in only 20 minutes ; this implies that the decision was unanimous and the jurors had little doubt.We only know the story as reported without supporting...

I too was born on Friday the 13th. Some people say the significance of 13 is that there were 13 present at the Last Supper. I know people to this day that if there are 13 for a meal will either place someone at a different table or set out cutlery for a 14th person.

I posted this in another thread ; I've said it before-if you don't want a balanced and dispassionate view don't ask a climatologist.He's probably doing the job in the first place because he believes.His job, career and reputation are on the line. It's all got to be theoretically based and it's...

I've said it before-if you don't want a balanced and dispassionate view don't ask a climatologist.He's probably doing the job in the first place because he believes.His job, career and reputation are on the line. It's all got to be theoretically based and it's not disputed that climate change...

Pre Industrial Revolution-the Little Ice Age Post industrial Revolution-moving out of the Little Ice Age.Guess what , it got warmer.Just as it did 1000 and 2000 years earlier. 1900-1940s-warming 1940s-1970s - cooling 1970s to 1998-warming then the warming stopped.What stopped it?When the effect...

That confuses me a bit because .79 of anything is just a little over three quarters and three quaters of a cent is diddly squit! I sometimes see things priced like £3.50p which is mathematically meaningless , it's either £3.50 or 350p !