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That's true.A same sex relationship can't be called a marriage because the meaning of that word is closely and legally defined as being that between a man and a woman.In the UK we have to call them "civil partnerships" which are now legal. The big problem is that the main point of marriage was...

Whether or not the war was nearly over (and even after the bombs were dropped there was still talk by hard liners of continuing it to the last) the moral judgement has to be based on what was known at the time.And at the time the Japanese were still fighting hard and fanatically, there was no...

The similarity between rounders and baseball is that a person who has played rounders could simply get on to the baseball field and know what to do.There will be four bases, he will get 3 shots at the ball, it must be hit into the forward quadrant.He must run to the base before the ball gets...

I'm pretty sure that people have been kicking a ball around or hitting a ball with a stick for millennia.Football was once ****** in England because it was interfering with archery practice! It's true that many sports seem to have originated in these islands but this might be because our social...

It's a bit like inventing the tyre and claiming to have invented the wheel.There was an element of development but very firmly based on rounders.I'm sure that when **** play an impromptu game of baseball they don't stick to 9 players a side or 90 feet between bases but they still think of it as...

You didn't invent baseball, it's an English game of great antiquity. The earliest known description is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a baseball set-up roughly similar to the...

Ye Gods! I bought a second hand computer pre installed with Windows ME.It ran without any problems for five years and is still a perfectly good backup computer.I never formatted it or reloaded the OS , just ran it.I used a third party defrag program and CCleaner at every shutdown and NEVER used...

If you're born into a society where everybody is a sincere believer then it's quite difficult to think the subject through rationally.The Jesuits say "Give us a ***** until he is 7 and he will be a believer for life" In Islamic countries everyday life is firmly based on religion and it's not...

The plain fact is that nobody KNOWS the existence OR absence of God.My own belief is that the existence of God is highly unlikely and introduces a whole bunch of paradoxes/logical conflicts. That we can correspond over this is proof we exist and the question remains-where did everything come...

This is a recent development-before about 1950 cricket had a passionate following from all classes.Now that there really isn't a working class left (certainly nothing that Karl Marx would recognise as such anyway) everybody pretends to belong to it!

Ending daylight savings time translates into about 37 more U.S. pedestrian deaths around 6 p.m. in November compared to October, the researchers report. Their study of risk to pedestrians is preliminary, but confirms previous findings of higher deaths after clocks are set back in fall. In the...

Oil companies are vast so their profits seem vast too.But percentage wise the profits are reasonable.They make only a fraction of the money out of gas that the government takes.The price of oil is basically governed by supply and demand and now China is becoming a big player so the demand is high.

Every country has its good points and its bad ones.You can't compare countries by picking the good points of one and the bad points of another. The US is a great world power , in fact the only one.What it does will have more impact on the rest of the world than anything done by a ***** power...

It's around £1 per litre ( or $7 per US gallon) here at the moment.In the US it's still almost at giveaway prices although my American friends don't realise it! No, taxation won't affect usage in any meaningful way.There's no workable alternative to car use at the moment.Public transport can...

********* and tobacco are bad news from a health point of view.******* might be but moderate use seems to be beneficial.If you're stupid enough to get ****** regularly you should know what to expect long term, and that's bad news too. But it really isn't the job of government to protect people...

A **** is defined by its effect not by its provenance. ***** are simply chemicals which affect the human body regardless of where they came from.Malaria was treated by natives who chewed cinchona bark.It was later found that the active substance was quinine and chemists tried to make it...

These studies simply look for trends.It could be that obese meat eaters feature more than skinny vegans in the cancer wards.But these are generalisations.The biggest contingent by far would be smokers and those who live with them. Even then some people smoke heavily yet live to a great age. All...

They were going to tax free speech?

During your lifetime? My ****** was microwaving stuff back during World War 2!

From http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html "What's wrong with Internet Explorer?" you say - well despite being a good browser, Microsoft was getting complacent. Internet Explorer's vulnerability to numerous security breaches was growing by the day, yet many simple things MS could do to...

There was a sports commentator a few years back called David Coleman who gave his name to the expression Colemanballs (see Wikipedia) Expressions like "He ran a champion's race and came second" and "That can be summed up in one word, Magic darts" Murray Walker was another commentator noted for...

Temperance symposium As the exact opposite, let's look at tautology "forward planning" is an expression which annoys me.I actually heard a headmaster tell parents that his school was "planning for the future" Nobody told him that the past has already gone! "foot pedal"

Amritsar was a tragedy and did in fact cause a bit of a furore.It involved only a handful of troops but nevertheless it was an example of poor leadership.I quote from the article you drew my attention to ; The Jallianwala Bagh massacre turned millions of moderate Indians from patient and loyal...

My posting wasn't defending colonialism, it was an attempt to set the record straight. There were about 10-20 000 Indians and 500 square miles of territory for each British soldier. That's what was available to the 1000 civil servants who administered the colony which comprised not only present...

Advertising targets specific sections of the community. People aren't going to feel so comfortable watching people with whom they have little in common and the advertisers know this. I am a little unqualified to comment here because I regard TV advertising as an insult to the intelligence and...

The British Empire in India? We ruled by consensus.There are several times more police in New York alone than British troops in the whole of India yet they kept the peace pretty well for 400 million people over 2 million square miles.One soldier per 10 000 natives doesn't look like military...

9/11 was a blow to the US sense of security and invulnerability and rightly shocked the American population.The IRA campaign was an ongoing thing in which we could at least fight back. To compare on the basis of numbers ****** is pointless ; particularly for those affected.

I would only **** someone who persisted in using u instead of you in this forum

What about haddock?Cod is inferior in every way to it , in fact in the great fishing days before World War 2 you couldn't give cod away in Grimsby . It had to go to London where it sold for 2d a pound! Harry Ramsden wouldn't have it in his shops either ; he said "nowt less than haddock for good...

The whole nine yards could derive from the mining industry. When the shot firers had loosened up the coal face each miner was given nine yards of it to clear in his shift.When the coal was difficult to work they still had to shift the whole nine yards to earn the pay. I have heard the...

I dreamt I was in a meeting at work. When I woke up I was.

In this country football is the province of the lower income bracket.Traditionally better educated boys have usually played rugby at school which is still regarded as more than a cut above soccer. That might explain why British soccer players have a problem stringing together an intelligible...

Take everything from Wikipedia with a pinch of salt!The CIA figures were estimates only. My information came from the BBC no less. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/country_profiles/default.stm Then look at Luxemburg! Actually, comparing GDP depends so much on exchange rates it's difficult to compare...

You wouldn't like cricket then! The teams can play 5 days without result. But games aren't all about winning.The attraction might be in watching the skilled stroke play, the balance of the game, the setting of traps and even whether or not a team can hold out until the end of play.A little more...

It isn't the best teachers that get on. Those who are simply dedicated to the teaching side just get sidelined. The ones who get on are those who play the system, go on masses of courses and become well known, set initiatives in train which make more work for everybody else and then move on...

What's all this about gas prices? US gas, although more than it used to be, is still dirt cheap.It's around $7 a US gallon here and of course we just pay it and get on with our lives. Can't understand the anti oil sentiment I sometimes see.How do you think your food is produced, processed and...

It doesn't need to compete, that's the whole point.It should concentrate at what it's good at - it's unrivalled for news gathering and current affairs programming, documentaries and so on.It hasn't got to attract advertising revenue, only to persuade the Government that it's doing a good enough...

BBC is fiercely independent of this.They always strive for impartiality. In the Falklands War they would not refer to British ****** as "our" ******.

Mine only nags me if I don't do what I'm told straight away.

Last year (World Bank) US $43 740 Norway $59 950 Switzerland $54 930 UK $37 600 but with the $2 pound they are neck and neck.

Re: Can you name 10 girls you'd like to fuck this very instant? I couldn't handle ten in an instant but if you allowed me to have one at a time that's a different matter.

The idiots at the BBC let cricket coverage slip away from them.I no longer have faith in their judgement.

Nobody is going to argue with the power of America but there are several European countries where average wealth is far higher than in the US.Even the UK citizen is roughly on a par (difficult to tell because of the weak dollar) with our American friends.And individual personal freedoms? I can't...

Far too early. And what's all this Halloween rubbish? It's not part of British culture.Why inflict it on us?

I didn't realise people actually watched them. I thought they were to give you a break so you could go for a wee or put the kettle on.

The relative life expectancies close up a little if you take into consideration the number of men who have died prematurely through war or accidents related to work. Also until recently the majority of smoking was done by men.These days the proportion of smokers who are women has increased and...

The BBC has to justify its existence;there is no point in having such a service if it doesn't provide something that commercial broadcasters lack. Its big mistake is to try to mix it with the competition and chase ratings.Its real niche should be in quality broadcasting which commercial...

It's too open to *****, a good idea in theory.There have been several attempts in the UK to reward classroom performance with extra pay;always the extra pay has been tied to an extra responsibility.

I don't know what the present price is in the US but in the UK it's hovering around £1 a litre which is $2 ; this works out at around $7 a US gallon. The US just doesn't have high price fuel yet , that may be a treat in store for you though! I just changed my car for a diesel. Same size...

I am too short for my weight