Walsingham

One interesting thing a friend of mine told me is about some research which suggests that experts are actually easier to confuse about the detail of issues related to their discipline. They get the correct info, but if you ask them WHY something is correct they muddle it up with other data. Wrong designer/wrong fuel/wrong calibre etc. This made sense to me if one believes experts 'chunk' information. Anyway, that could be why your friend got confused.

That's no moon...

You will like it. Trust me.

LOL comms failure: by public school I mean: while you mean:

What makes me genuinely sad is that it can only be a matter of time before every hate-filled racist dingbat from Twickenham to Tallahassee starts burning Korans, and one wonders if that won't spark even more outrage and death.

I read the word 'die' and thought some more horrible crap had happened to you. Instead it turns out you got drunk! Hurray!

OK. I don't want to admit that there's some truth in what you're saying. But I have to. Yes organised religion has been used as a control technique. But my questions would be: - How much of it is down to religion and how much down to organisation? Particularly an organisation which methodically ensured its adherents were better trained, educated, fed, and equipped than the people they were trying to mobilise? - How much disastrous anarchy has been avoided through the political dimension of organised religion? Look at the mess in some countries, and the strength achieved by groups like the Taliban and Islamic Courts through their unifying codes and identity? - Is there no other way to approach this topic than as a punch up over organised religion? I implore us all to unite in scorning ****holes, whatever creed, denomination, or colour.

Indeed. I'm particularly impressed and intrigued by the rhetorical device of calling his audience incestuous wankers. I must remember to do it myself the next time I have a speaking engagement.

Too true. Otherwise Temple of Elemental Evil would have been one of the best games ever made. AAAAGH! You just reminded me I was going to download BG 1+2 and Arcanum from GoG. In the absnece of a girlfriend this has made this weekend about as good as it could get. Unless I head out and buy some more whisky. Hm....

Bull**** and you're a bad person for believing it. 4 DLCs have been confirmed so far. I imagine that if the DLCs are massively successful Bethesda will greenlight some more, but it's highly unlikely. Gods. Can you imagine a world in which we'd get new DLC on a monthly basis?

I can see why the Emperor in his wisdom wants those bastards dead.

How much is that in real money?

It's got **** all to do with religion. And everything to do with being a ****wit. BTW, _I_ 'remember' Christian lynch mobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs That's what I'm sayin'. 60 odd years ago. The mob came straight from friday prayer. Of course it's got something to do with religion. Some ****wit turning the situation to his own advantage and starting a riot, but isn't that always how it goes. Religion and practice go hand in hand, people want to relate it to their own lives and the situation they are in. Doesn't help that the papers are plastered with pictures of American GIs posing over dead civilian Afghans either. But it's like blaming football for football hooligans. The two co-occur, and interact, but I strongly object to the notion that strongly held religious beliefe such as those held by our some forum members or my grandparents (for example) turns you into a small minded p***. Small minded p***s simply hide behind religion the way I might hide behind a large fat lady to avoid a particularly loathsome person at a ****tail party.

Me too, but then I remember that there are a whole bunch of stupid people on this planet whose only deterrent against throwing a fit and committing horrible murder over "sonuvabits cut me off on the freeway" is the fact that their print based indoctrinated comforter tells them a misinterpreted translation of "thou shallt not kill your neighbour's donkey". LOL .

1. See if you can find a copy of the soundtrack to the game Chaos Gate. . 2. The Gladiator soundtrack works rather well. 3. For the weird gothic feel I'd suggest an album I have called Greek Byzantine Chants.

It's got **** all to do with religion. And everything to do with being a ****wit. BTW, _I_ 'remember' Christian lynch mobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/0...ations-killings It seem that Terry Jones - world reknowned pathetic halfwit - actually went ahead and burned a koran last year. News which has only just broken. At least seven dead as mob decide the best way to react is to confirm Jones' lunatic assertion that all Muslims are violent mentalists. The only winner here is stupidity. Thoughts are with the families of those killed.

Listening to Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore performed by the Opera D'Oro, and I swear I just heard a cormorant squawk/bray. I expect it was someone in the audience sneezing. But It was a fantastic image.

A 'slaught'?

I suppose it's a stupendous coincidence that you turned up just as people had made it completely clear that Obyknevn wasn't believed? Also, "black hearted"? Cute flourish.

Makes sense to me. Although I would suggest its also to do with the degree of democratic involvement in power.

Personally I think that the same should be extended to the saner elements of the gang, those that are salvageable human beings. Maybe I'm wrong in thinking that economy factors into this behavior but; are most of these gangs from low income environments? If so there should be outreach programs targeting those areas. Anyone who think criminal gangs only come from disadvantaged backgrounds has never been to public school. Only for 2 years, thankfully. Biggest waste of time in my life. But don't public schools have security and counselors to nip these problems at the bud. I know the security guards had me targeted, because of asocial behavior. I'm exaggerating, obviously, for comic effect. English public schools didn't have security guards back in my day. They might now. But you certainly had gangs who would inflict misbehaviour on the surrounding community. Although they could not do so at a high level, because if the school foudn out it would have ejected all the main members of said gang. State schools, with exemplary one-size-fits-all socialist* lunacy refuse to treat a young sociopath as anything other than a regular citizen, and consequently nothing useful is done to tackle them. *I never used to use the term socialist as a pejorative. Isn't that interesting?

I'm no physicist but the last makes no sense whatsoever. It presumes that the only source of motion is the big bang. Whereas I should think that very large galaxies and black holes would have enough oomph to get relatively smaller objects - ie other small galaxies - to move together by swinging around them. Rather like the two balls on one of those clacker things. Does that make sense?

*Checks calendar*

Leaving aside the obvious fact that Oby is LoF, I'd agree. Reference your observation, one of the most useful side-effects of losing the trenchant homophobia I had trained into me at school was the realisation and acceptance that some people just kinda enjoy being ****ed in the wazoo.