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Be minded of your history when you talk about millions of ******* foreigners coming in because that's exactly what happened in the past and which eventually made you a great nation.The only people there legally often live in reservations.

There will always be unexplained, strange and unusual things happening in such a case ; if there were none things would look suspicious, too pat.Don't make the error of thinking that unexplained or strange factors point to anything untoward.So the buildings didn't fall down as you expected? On...

I've never heard such a closed minded outpouring of utter claptrap for a long time.

In the UK you can change your name without legal process , just make it clear that you want to be known from now on as "John Bull" or whatever.It's not always easy to get a passport etc in a new name but it can be done. Many people use Deed Poll to provide documentary evidence but it's not...

To those of you who think that what we are seeing is unprecedented, look at this graph.It's extrapolated data of course as accurate measurements were't available until relatively recently.It does show though that the planet has been rather warmer in the recent (geologically speaking) past;

He was Chancellor ie controlled the public purse for all the years before he became PM.He had a very large influence on all money matters including the introduction of tuition fees. The debts are partly those he incurred while Chancellor plus those recent ones (banks etc) and also from relaxing...

What a lot of beauties that have been mentioned! Hef has made the world a better place.

Quite frankly I don't think the base actually achieved very much.Yes, some terrorists may have been swept up and kept there but there is an unlimited supply of replacements.It also provided a rallying and recruiting point for disaffected Muslims around the world.It's done a lot of damage to the...

Ok my American friends , at least he's gone.We are still saddled with Gordon Brown, one of the most inept politicians in history.Our young people come out of university with worthless degrees for which they are saddled with large debts, he has destroyed an excellent pensions industry and...

Is there room on board for Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling?

As I said in a previous post, rights are essentially meaningless.When we talk about human or civil rights what we mean is that society has decided that we should treat each other in a certain way and has the power and authority to back that up.******* have no rights except what we give them.Can...

Agreed.They look ****** stupid and can't do anything but slow things down

I like the thread name-future predictions But are there any other sort of predictions?

In the Honda factory there used to be a sign (perhaps it's still there) saying "MADE IN JAPAN. Nobody laughs any more"

There is NO effective treatment either to prevent or cure a hangover.Just give it some thought.There wouldn't be threads like this if one was available.Also there would be some very rich people around who marketed any effective cure. The solution lies in realising that deliberately getting...

You beat me to it. What is with all these people who use i instead of I? Don't they think they are important enough to deserve the big one?

There's a place near East Stoke near Newark still called Red Gutter.The battle in 1487 is said to have resulted in 7000 casualties but probably nobody knew just how many.

It's about power.On a smaller scale it's just the same in boardrooms or in politics.People don't change. Paradoxically, nice guys didn't make good kings , the ones who achieved things were pretty hard and ruthless.

Was Reagan a great President? Before he came into office Americans were demoralised and humiliated (the aftermath of Vietnam and Iran etc).Reagan got them to believe in themselves and to be proud to be Americans again.And his role in ending the Cold War can't be overlooked either.In part it was...

The problem apparently isn't the holding of them (people suggest that you use hands free phones) but that they divert your attention away from what's happening on the road. Figures suggest that using them when driving causes a bigger risk than being DUI. It's ******* to use a hand held phone...

Yes, well,the motoring press all agree that the new Mondeo is by far the best car in its class.Although (from experience) I think BMW's are horrendously overrated I just don't think that fans of German cars realise that Ford has left them behind.The Focus is also reckoned to be a much better car...

If you are in an accident and don't report it you risk losing all benefit from a future claim. One of the conditions of your contract with the insurers is that you notify them af any accident;witholding relevant information entitles them to walk away from any claim on the grounds that they were...

The guy who backed into her is liable for the loss.If he just has no money and isn't insured then Gunslingingbird's ****** needs to claim on her own insurance. As when taking out the policy she agreed to pay the first $1000 of a claim (and paid a premium reflecting this) she can't complain...

The idea that we know God exists because we are here is a fallacy and in any case begs the question "where did God come from then?" The fact is that we and the rest of the Universe ARE here , where from and how is as yet unsolved but here we are.The story of the Creation is simply a primitive...

The word "right" is misunderstood.You may have a "right to life" but it's no good telling that to the bear that's just attacked you. Because we are civilised we are insulated from reality.In a society where people are starving the question of having a right to eat other creatures just wouldn't...

There's plenty of oil about but it's going to cost a little more. As for time travel , it's one thing to have a theoretical model where it's possible.But a human being is a carefully assembled collection of trillions of atoms and the chance of surviving time travel is just about zero.

You get cheaper insurance if you accept an excess. I have to pay the first £150 but my insurance would be quite a bit cheaper if I agreed to pay the first £250.Most insurers insist on an excess of some sort,this is to stop a lot of small frivolous claims. It's up to your ****** to try to...

I pay a small amount (about £10) extra on my insurance premium and in return a) my no claims bonus is fixed at 65% for life b) the premium will not be increased because of claims c) the company will not refuse me insurance because of claims. I pay £240 a year for full cover plus many other...

The UK-North of Winnipeg-mid 40s.

It's found in lots of places out there-Titan has a lot of methane.It's a simple chemical, the simplest possible hydrocarbon, so it's likely to have been synthesised from its elements wherever they both exist together and conditions are right. Methane is also widely produced by decomposition of...

This was Marshal Foch in WW1 MY RIGHT HAS BEEN ROLLED UP MY LEFT HAS BEEN DRIVEN BACK MY CENTER HAS BEEN SMASHED I WILL ****** IN ALL DIRECTIONS

The class leader for European cars is the Ford.A few words from the Independent; To drive, the new Mondeo is truly, groundbreakingly, class-leadingly terrific. Rash words? Not at all: it feels right within 50 yards, and then gets better and better. It's not often we can be so unequivocally...

It may be theoretically possible to travel faster than light or use wormholes but the chances of a human being surviving such a transition are very low.

The Chinese also make extremenly high quality items.Western companies which outsourced provided the Chinese workers with the most modern equipment and machinery.Just looking at my digital camera , beautifully made , works brilliantly and has a "Made in China" sticker on it.

I liked him best in "Danger Man" as John Drake.This was not even mentioned in the BBC obit!

Quote ;1928 - Ernst F. W. Alexanderson gave the first public demonstration of television. This was 2 years after TV was first publically shown in London. By 1928 Baird was publically demonstrating colour TV.

You have been wrongly informed.Yeast is an organism which feeds on sugars and converts these into ******* and carbon dioxide.The white "bloom" on grape skins and sometimes on apple skins is wild yeast.Traditionally **** and cider were made simply by squeezing out the juice and letting these wild...

No, it's fermented using yeast in huge stainless steel fermenters then filtered and pasteurised before bottling.It's actually a very cheap method. We have very few cider orchards left in the UK.Cider apple varieties have wonderful names like Foxwhelp,Hen's Turd and Dabinette.Yet we are the...

The natives took it away to make bangles and jewellery.

Do you mean ice hockey because field hockey came from England before there was such a place as Canada :-)

Don't judge British beers on the bottled versions! Blackthorn is a mass produced pasteurised cider , a pleasant ***** but not in the same class as the many real ciders available (often called scrumpy) There is a giant con trick called Magners being played on the public.It's sold as Irish cider...

Yes, they are all old friends! But in bottles they are only a shadow of their true selves.

Aliens then? Having the technology to cross interstallar space they couldn't avoid a slow moving turbine blade.Back to the drawing board.

To answer three questions at once; Fogs are rare these days because of the Clean Air Act.At one time millions of households heated their houses and industry powered its factories using raw coal.The pollution caused was appalling-men had to change shirt collars (they were detachable then) at...

I was talking about commercial businesses. They can be sold as "for spares" I believe. Private transactions are OK of course.

This side of the pond-no.Second hand electrical goods for sale are subject to stringent regulations , not worth the hassle.Charity shops won't take them either as they aren't allowed to resell them.

The point is that if you're going on vacation in a starship there's an awful lot of destinations to choose from.Why pick on Earth (which probably can't be detected all that way away) out of trillions of trillions of places to go?The odds are almost zero. By the way, mass and weight are two...

Yes, you can choose whether or not to have your first *****.What you cannot choose is your body's reaction to it. As to diseases being beyond the sufferer's control this isn't always true.Some are closely related to lifestyle.

Easy for someone not afflicted to say , less easy for an alcoholic to do.The body becomes dependent on ******* and gives a bad time to the sufferer.This goes on and on and the only relief is a *****. Alcoholism wrecks lives, sufferers lose their jobs,homes and families through it.It can't be...

One problem is people or groups taking up cudgels on behalf of others-those who opposed Christmas in Leicester because it might offend Hindus. The Hindu's say they aren't offended in any way but this doesn't stop the idiocy. An important factor is overprotection of ********.A ***** begins life...