Toadfish Monastery

Option 3 

Man has the same characteristics as other animals but by virtue (?) of opposable thumbs and intelligence has risen to the top of the stack, while maintaining most of the other animal behaviour. Consequently we behave like other successful predators, while kidding ourselves we're above that sort of thing.

Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 06, 2010, 09:33:47 AM
Never ever let your freeview recorder have control of time of programme end

Arrgh. It did it again. Just as T.D. was taking a phone call from W.S.C. in the preview.

Had to use iPlayer to see it.

I really must read the recorder manual and find how to wrest control of time from it.

Quote from: Ageis on April 08, 2010, 11:53:50 PM
Will service providers be responsible for monitoring all my net access and scrutinising it for illegal activity?
If so its seems only a step away from opening my post.

Labour have been working on that for years. The Lords stopped it in a previous Communications Act but it's back again under the "Intercept Modernisation Programme"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/6533107/Every-phone-call-email-and-internet-click-stored-by-state-spying-databases.html


(Welcome, by the way  )

Another BIS report on how we're all doomed.  Unfortunately they were right last time...

Ah, but you live in London.  Try living somewhere where all the local hospitals and services are closed and centralised in the nearest city (where the Labour voters are  ), petrol is taxed though the roof, and they want to congestion charge you for getting to the hospitals they centralised.

I've only read the play (not seen it) but it does seem to work even better.  Did you spot he recycled the Michaelangelo joke from "A Question of Attribution"?

Wonder if that exam technique would work for science? Insisting the Earth was flat? Somehow I suspect not.

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Never quite sure if I was enjoying it or feeling immensely sad. Bathos?

Zis is perfectly normal for ze Bennett plays.

Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 07, 2010, 05:43:27 PM

EEEEEEeeeeeek! I am more muddled than when I asked the question. It is inappropriate to muddle someone trying to write an essay !

To be honest, if you're having this great dilemma over just the one word then the outlook for completing a whole essay is not great.  Had you considered a haiku as a possibility instead?

It's the job of the Lords to stop the Commons rushing through ill thought out laws. Which of course is why they want to abolish reform it.

I hadn't heard any of the consequences you outlined though.

Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 06, 2010, 09:36:11 AM

I am getting nervous. What happens if HM is out when GB calls. She ain't there yet !

Your call is important to us:

Press 1 to dissolve parliament
Press 2 to start a war
...


Great. A whole month of lies to sit through.

Quote from: pieces o nineWell, according to the preview I saw, he was brandishing a --
handgun. 

Not in the first of the new; sure that wasn't the last of the old?
Unless it was in the preview bit after the end of the episode (which my freeview recorder cut off prematurely...).

Quote from: Griffin NoName on April 05, 2010, 01:59:15 AM
mmmm I thought there'd be some solution but isn't armed force OTT?  Couldn't they try persuasion first; like getting HM to have a quiet word.............. it would liven things up.

Well she does have the whip hand (an image to conjure with).  She can dissolve Parliament, take the mace back to the Tower (not an anti-mugging device, for our colonial cousins) and refuse to sign any new laws.  Presumably if she invited someone else to form a government until a new election, then had the Household Cavalry escort them to Downing Street it would be case of "Good choice Ma'am".
Years ago there was a TV series called "Knights of God" on where military allegiance would ultimately go if the government went mad(der).

Actually there is an apparent danger we might be lumbered with GB if there is a hung parliament, while the parties squabble as to who might be in a coalition.

An analogy:

Sound.                 An MP who hasn't fiddled the expenses yet.
Not unsound.        Nothing was proved.

Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on April 05, 2010, 01:17:33 PM

Quote from: Bluenose on April 05, 2010, 01:23:36 AM
Now this is a boat race!

Are they rowing on sand?

All the water in Australia has alligators in it. Some Aussies have never touched the stuff. Even if that is better than what the Thames has in it.

I think "not inappropriate" is usually not used in Boolean logic, but in tri or multi-state human value judgements.  e.g. "Some people feel it would be not inappropriate for Ant and Dec to be bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat". By encompassing the middle-ground as well as the appropriate it evades the element of incitement.

Yep.  Cheering and laughing at the same time can be tricky.