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vimesey
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Message 474 of 1442 (779158)
03-01-2016 11:11 AM
Reply to: Message 473 by ringo
03-01-2016 10:52 AM


But was Cruz just being Ionic ?

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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Message 641 of 1442 (797153)
01-13-2017 4:04 AM


Evolution's funny !
Just listened to an episode of this on the drive in to work today:
BBC Radio 4 - Rob Newman, Robert Newman's Entirely Accurate Encyclopaedia of Evolution
Available for free on the BBC iPlayer, and worth a listen for some smiles. (Basically, a stand-up/sketch show, around evolution).

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Message 667 of 1442 (799810)
02-15-2017 2:30 PM
Reply to: Message 664 by Percy
02-15-2017 2:13 PM


They work well as they are - easier to find than simple text. And with some of our members having visual impairments, that helps, I'm sure.

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Message 737 of 1442 (811718)
06-11-2017 2:21 AM


From over in the Marketing of Christianity thread, our resident master of the typo/bizarre spellings writes:
compromising Christians need a place to console their quilt
Is that why they're called "comforters" in the States ?

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Message 738 of 1442 (811719)
06-11-2017 3:48 AM


Following my previous post, I got a bit creative:
To the tune of A Bag of Weed from Family Guy
Now everybody gather round and listen if you could,
When I tell you there are people here obsessed with Yahweh's wood,
Every thread they fill, every post they pen, eventually you'll find,
References to the dangly bits, of a supernatural kind
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 !
The letter U
The letter U
Penus is spelled better with the letter U
When you got no science
No, not even woo,
Well penus is spelled better with the letter U
When evolution's being discussed, they'll claim it's racist talk,
When holes are drilled in Noah's Ark, they'll say if floats like cork,
When faced with science, they deny it all, with numerology,
But no matter what, they'll come around, to the word that starts with P !
1 2 3 !
The letter U
The letter U
Penus is spelled better with the letter U
When you got no science
No, not even woo,
Well penus is spelled better with the letter U

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Message 762 of 1442 (815368)
07-19-2017 3:08 PM
Reply to: Message 761 by jar
07-19-2017 12:31 PM


Re: The OMG moment
Have we really reached a low where a Mercedes owner cannot remember to plug his car in when it is not on the road?
Well, they stopped bothering to connect the indicator controls to the lights on BMW's years ago, on the basis it was a waste of perfectly good electrical wire.

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Message 919 of 1442 (847606)
01-24-2019 9:33 AM


Science vs ID
This thought occurred to me, after I read posts the other day about the soft dinosaur tissue find.
The difference between science and YEC
A three legged sheep is born.
Scientists look for a scientific explanation as to why this differs from the norm.
YECs argue that this shows that for the past few millennia, sheep have been quietly making, fitting and gamboling about on a false fourth leg, the sneaky little buggers !
Edited by vimesey, : No reason given.

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Message 1156 of 1442 (871648)
02-07-2020 4:39 PM


The secret service have had to be trained to stop Trump from falling in wet cement. Apparently, it would set a very bad precedent....

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vimesey
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Message 1160 of 1442 (872149)
02-21-2020 1:10 AM


Hat tip to Parasite’s distributor, Neon:
'What was that all about?': Donald Trump mocks Oscars winner Parasite - BBC News

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Message 1309 of 1442 (887167)
07-18-2021 12:56 AM
Reply to: Message 1308 by dwise1
07-17-2021 3:08 PM


Re: Looked Like Merkel was Getting the Scottish Treatment
I do love learning other languages. I've learned French and German, with French being the better for me. (Plus a little bit of Russian). It's something that both expands your mind, and also shows an appreciation and respect for other cultures and people.
(I did in my late teens/early 20s have a French girlfriend for a little while. I spent years waiting to do so, but last year, I finally got to say a line I'd been waiting for ages to say, when explaining to a French shopkeeper that I had a French girlfriend in my youth, then going on to say: "Et avoir une amie Française, c'est quelque chose qui améliore sa langue." Sadly, it didn't work as well as I'd hoped - but I'll try again sometime).

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