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akshly its e=mc squared over the square root of [1-[v squared over c squared]] which only tends to e=mc squared when v<<c. Just sayin' <

Well the little blue digger is on hire er... available for hire from Exe Vally Plant Hire. Or to be absolutely rigorously scientific and not straying beyond the evidence: the same picture of the little blue digger is on the web site for Exe Vally PH. With similar caveats; the blue Ford Escort was in Tewksbury earlier this year. Right click on the pic; select 'search for this image' and this will give you a google search result page which you can then work your way through. Help pass a stormy night won't it? The pro shots - bright and sunny - get better results than the muddy snapshots. Leave it with you.

But I used no such logic. You made a ridiculous claim on my behalf as if it was a consequence of my post - which was an example of cherry picking to counter yours, to show how easy it is to make a case by highlighting the specific rather than the general, but hairon's example did it better better - and then you spunked a load more nonsense based on that claim and attributed it to my logic. I can only think: Huh? Yeah really; Like some of your previous replies, I can only think, "Huh?" You are deliberately fanning the flames of hatred - if you hadn't noticed that fire is roaring quite nicely just now and needs no help. I worry that innocent people in Leeds, Manchester, Oxford, Bristol will have their lives destroyed because of it. Mull. Last line^ That's why. Maybe it's not rational but <shrug>

And when England and Scotland and France and Italy and Spain were run by religious bigots the result was very similar. This is Religion: always.

Not tree work as such but a while back there was a branch down blocking the road on one side on he way home from work and the traffic was tailing back in both directions as people were having to take turns to go round it. So when I got there I pulled up, put the hazzards on and went and spoke to the chap behind and said I only got a pruning but we could clear it easy if he was up for it. He said sorry mate can't help I've got to to get home for me tea. Er ... never mind Next bloke was a goodun and so we had a go at it. Dragging one bit across the road walking backwards, someone queue jumped came down the road behind us and one more step and I'd a bin under their wheels. Then another did the same and actually drove over the bit of branch we were dragging out of the way. It got to the point I was expecting to be sworn at for causing the hold up. T'other bloke just laughed an that was done.

Just like a rotted pillar; push the base over and the top lands on your head. [so I've been told:001_cool:]

Yeah I've always thought the black eye shadow was a bit odd; you'd a thought with hair like that he'd a gone for a shade of green wouldn't you? PS You may or may not enjoy his pope song. just google tim minchin pope song. don't do it though if there are children, grown ups or people with arbitrary power over your happiness in the room. it's kinda sweary

Forgive me; it had always been my impression that phillip of spain was seeking to impose his catholic faith upon the protestant dutch and was prepared to burn every dutchman who refused to not be a protestant. A fate that would have also awaited the english had it not been for a little skirmish off gravelines that put an end to his planned english invasion in 1588. And thankyou for reminding me what a definition of a christian is you're very kind;you see in all this excitement i just clean plumb forgot. As to which of his teachings they used to justify what they did: I have no idea whatsoever. None.Zip. Nada.

Given the barbarity of the spanish empire over the whole of europe during the 15th and 16th centuries and the almost total destruction of the dutch republic because of their refusal to accept the love of the christian god monster, I humbly suggest that it may be a little bit more complicated than that.

Post of the week! Well done.

You do realise that atheist means 'not theist' - 'not godist' - that it is describing yourself in terms of what you don't beleive in; don't you? And that that is why 'not playing chess is my hobby' is quite a good analogy? I cannot for the life of me see how you make the transition from "I don't play chess" to "nothing I do is of interest" Nor what you actually mean by you last two lines.

As far as I can make out 'agnostic' was a term developed by THHuxley - a wonderful Victorian scientist and popularizer of science - to cover himself from the censure of his day when, if he had 'come out' as an atheist, his career would have over. He defined it as believing in god but not in the power of god. It is essentially the same thing but meant he could describe the natural world in a way that didn't need magic pixies without actually saying huh, shock horror, grasp those pearls ladies, there is no god. Otherwise its atheism light; atheism for those who aren't sure:biggrin:

ftfy ?? So what will happen to not playing chess when chess disappears then

Amongst my hobbies are... not playing chess, not scuba diving...

Oh come on! Please! The man is a professional bull-shotter; a very well educated man who nevertheless chooses to spout utter nonsense to create a verbal comfort blanket for the congenitally child-like. This is just more of the same bull-shot. It's equivalent to sinead o'conner tearing up pics of the pope or madonna making faux outrageous videos or judges leaving a tv show on the eve of a new series or ... It's good for business. Edit to create bull 'shot' for the benefit of the pearl clutchers

Akshly kinda jewish, from hebrew yahwey etc and isis hate jews nearly as much as they hate shia muslims

If you have to resort to the 'no free speech' argument to justify your hateful little snivellings then you are either a very bad troll or a massive ****!!! I suspect the latter. ETA that's a shame; swear filter.

Yerp. I thought after the he made made all those people wait at the traffic lights and then dropped a jet plane on them. You utter Clot. <auto anti swear> I thought when he drop't a helicopter on that pub in Scotland. You utter Clot. <auto anti swear> Every time I think either you are all powerful and all seeing or your just another malevolent pixie. All you had to do was raise a kerbstone by half an inch and trip someone up in the morning so as they fall and break their wrist and are out of action for the day. But no, nothing; which means you either planned it or knew about it and didn't bother or couldn't. Either way as gods go, you're a bit sh er rubbish I sometimes think he's arsing about up there with Thor, Loki Odin, Zeus and Apollo and Shiva, Vishnu and Jupiter Juno and Neptune and all the others and that he's the silly childish, doesn't quite fit in one and keeps going look look look what I can do and they all just sigh and tell to stop being a dickhead but then Krishna turns round and says no, guys, guys, watch this...and they all gather round and watch and they see all the people who didn't get hurt in gods most recent little escapade going to church and - no, not telling him to stop being such a Clot <auto anti swear> - but telling him how wonderful he is and how much they still love him!!! and then the other gods just look back at each other in amazement and then look back at God and say Man you is the shiz! Man no wonder you is No1, you just utterly destroyed them just for the shigs and they're still with you etc. I Think it must be very boring being a god This is what I think

This comment makes me embarrassed to be associated with this forum

Its. erm, windy tonight hmm. Very windy tonight. If you get my drift.

Yer man Rackham always emphasized the range and variety of species present in Ancient Woodland and the range of ages of trees ie that there are trees of all ages present. He would contrast this by saying that a planted woodland, in a hundred years time, will still only be a field in which some trees were once planted. HTH Yourn

Just looking at this-cockchaffer bug and this - stagbeetle grub is the difference then just one of size and location or are there other diagnostics? cheers

cubbington pear tree Seems a shame. Seems it was so obviously special and part of our common heritage and that it so obviously wouldn't ever be cut down, that it wasn't listed. Then along came some bloke in a suit who said... How to miss the point by a county mile! way to go Ben! Given the money spent on hs2 would be feasable to move the tree with one of those bits of kit they move fully grown palm trees with on californian golf courses? Damn sure it could be moved if it was wanted to be moved Not quite so happy days but we'll manage Yourn:001_smile:

Was the tree suffering from Anxiety? Only Lou Reed was just on the phone and he said that Valium would have helped that beech. At least I think that's what he said.