Billhook

What about when the doctor is Harold Shipman?

You must be a testicle!

Donald Trump?

I think you have spent too much time at the Arundel Brewery Stubby!

Just rediscovered this excellent documentary that someone has just uploaded. I have it on VHS but no VHS player! My father flew a Catalina in the last war.

1875 feet is nothing and he could easily have gone up in a light aircraft 18,750 feet he still would not see the curve 187,500 feet, now he would see the curve. He looks mad, sounds mad and by doing this has confirmed his insanity.

https://www.rd.com/culture/conspiracy-theories-that-turned-out-to-be-true/

A weekend documentary to peruse

That really is a super article and I only glanced through both parts. I need to set aside more time to read and re-read it. I did not see music and art mentioned and the ability to create inventions by pure inspirational thought, nor did I see the main factor for wanting to keep on existing which must be love.

Great chance for history repeating itself After World War One Germany on its knees due to severe reparations forced upon it by the allies A generation of young Germans with no hope or money We could well have a similar generation here in another 20 years with jobs taken up by machines or cheap immigrant labour, having to pay vast welfare taxes to keep the NHS going which costs will by now include home care for all us oldies. Along comes a new young charismatic leader who brings hope and jobs. But first we need to be rid of the people who are taking a lot from society without contributing anything. Hitler started by killing the mentally handicapped albeit quietly inside asylums. That went on to the very old and demented followed by the terminally ill. All that having been accomplished with little disagreement he moved on to the next group. Gypsies are not any use to society, let's do away with them, who else is taking from society and not giving. Oh yes the money lenders, the Jews, let's do away with them too. You can see how a charismatic leader could start all this off again sometime in the future, especially given the surprising rise of antisemitism at the moment in certain places. Luckily the current leaders are the opposite of charismatic

I agree that there is no way you can introduce compulsory birth control without being labelled a Nazi so in the end the planet will adjust. Euthanasia for us old'uns would not be very popular! Really the World is only big enough for a quarter of the current human population. We will have to leave the problem to Gaia to solve, probably by war, plague or asteroid impact.

I was of course referring to our old inglenook fireplace, nicknamed nookie. Doesn't seem to work anymore due to low moisture in the chimney. Perhaps it needs a good rodding!

Or addressing human over population with birth control to combat all of the world's problems, energy conservation, pollution, habitat destruction, global warming etc

When we were first together (some time ago) a suggestion of a bit of nookie would soon warm things up. Doesn't seem to work any more!

The things that really put out black smoke and particulates, such as diesel buses, lorries and older cars would need to be banned first logically.

This is something else!

Harry Chapin wrote it in 1974, but I do not remember that version, only the Ugly Kid Joe version. I think I was only interested in heavy stuff in 1974 like this. Saw Trower live in Bristol.

Stubby, I always knew that you read my threads carefully and took note!

Cloud cuckoo land I am afraid. Many farmers are hardly making a living with a subsidy. it would be great if everyone lived in wooden houses with a turf roof and we sawed the timber by hand with no noisy chainsaws and their fossil fuels. Make all our own furniture, grow our own vegetables, abandon cars. one of the ways that an organic farmer can exist is because the farm is usually surrounded by conventional farms which insulate the organic farm from diseases, weed seeds and pests. You have never seen a field of potatoes wiped out by blight, (see Irish potato famine) or a field of wheat wiped out by cozvered smut or choked by weeds Tom Lehrer had the great line which would apply to the organic farmer in the cases mentioned " You begin to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis "!

Here are some of the facts and figures for the uk https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/614552/organics-statsnotice-18may17.pdf only about one per cent of organic land is down to cereals and most of that will be Spring sown. 40,000 hectares You would be lucky to yield four tons a hectare so 160,000 tons at most compared to sixteen million tons of conventional You have over seventy million mouths to feed A perfect storm is brewing. Too much land taken up with housing and roads and energy crops Average age of a farmer is about sixty and most of those cannot wait to retire, few sons are interested Glyphoshate ban would be the straw to break the camel's back