sethoflagos

That maybe a typo, but it is apt.

Never found them shy myself. Perhaps these people just don't get invited to the right parties 🦆🦆🦆

In memoriam, Nettapus auritus

Emily is relieved to hear that a new patient at Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai is receiving appropriate care. Mallard warders, No! Rig El Niño con in leg irons. Red raw, Dr Allam.

That's bad for ducks, right? 🤔

Not heard that one before. Excellent analogy! IIRC from my studies of the Geology of the English Lake District, magnetic orientation placed its Ordovician location in the current latitude of the Falkland Islands (they're ours! they're ours!). Can't confidently locate anything significant in the Northern hemisphere at the time other than the Panthalassic Ocean.

You're referring to the Lewisian Complex of the Outer Hebrides (and parts of the adjacent mainland). They are typically 2.7-3.0 bya and derived from East Greenland so have much more in common with your Archaean shield geology than typical European units which are more Gondwanan in origin. Or rather, if you nip up from St Catherine's to Catherine Township in Northern Ontario, you'll be standing on a landscape of similar age and history. You got the gold though. They're the ancient roots of mountain chains significantly larger and higher than the Himalayas. Btw I took my son to the top of Vesuvius when he was about 10. Inspired him to read Geography at University. I think it was the calzone restaurant half-way up that tilted the balance.

The OP refers to the British Isles being at the epicentre of the multiple continental collisions that led to the creation of Pangaea, when almost all of earth's landmass was welded into a single supercontinent - the biggest pile up in the last billion years (see Avalonia, Caledonian Orogeny, Pangaea). That lasted until the magmatic plume currently marked by Iceland broke through the Pangaean crust in a part of East Greenland that was to become the Scottish Western Isles creating the huge basaltic outpourings of the North Atlantic Igneous Province leading to the opening of the North Atlantic and most likely the sudden 5o - 8o C global temperature excursion of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. If that's what you call "geologically stable" God alone knows what you make of your Laurentian Shield over that same period. I hope so too, dear friend. By-the-by, a bit of light side research threw up the fascinating Astronomically forced cyclicity in the Upper Ordovician and U–Pb ages of interlayered tephra, Oslo Region, Norway

The BGS have revealed the "Secrets of an ancient supervolcano uncovered that change our understanding of England's geological past" From the referenced paper:

They will do the work the natives feel is beneath their dignity (!); support themselves; and pay taxes to support Reform voting old gits' pensions. Win-win all round to my way of thinking. Yes, you lot stick to your wholesome, tasty chlorinated McNuggets and stuff and leave all those nasty organ meats to those who know no better!

I quote from The Migration Observatory (University of Oxford) The only group housed for any length of time in ''big hotels at taxpayers expense" are individuals with pending asylum claims who are unable to support themselves financially. These people have an entirely legal right to remain until their application has been rejected and all rights of appeal exhausted. You are clearly very confused. Which group exactly are you complaining about? In passing The Migration Observatory also has clear data on taxpayer cost: Since the new Labour goverment has dramatically reversed the long term (deliberate?) neglect of this issue, and promised to close all asylum hotels by the end of this parliament, I imagine they must have your wholehearted support. And who exactly has presided over the decline of your town over the bulk of the last twenty years? And encouraged you to blame it on the immigrants rather than the greed of their financial backers? (A bait you seem to have swallowed hook, line, and sinker)

When I asked my mother why all the meats had French names, she put it quite succinctly: It's so everyone knew who got to raise the animals, and who got to eat them.

A fallacy that was thrown into sharp relief by the kerfuffle caused when a 2018 genetics study of the mid-mesolithic Cheddar Man indicated he likely had a bit of a tan.. A finding that had the bleached Anatolian farmers and Pontic steppe pastoralists of the Home Counties choking on their cornflakes

Ni! Aga air a lamb. Malaria again.

Like: jM = jH = f/2 Simple form of the Chilton-Colburn Analogy.

True enough. I did consider just posting the limiting equality, but that falls foul of the 'just a definition' issue. However, most, if not all property conservation laws (energy, mass, momentum, momergy ets) can be expressed in the form: ΔE = 0

How about Pretty universal right?

Beware of Gautama woo?

Since Buddhism has no immortal deities in the Western sense, and the devas are not worshipped as such, much of East Asia can be viewed as atheistic. Though defining a population by what they aren't whether than what they are always struck me as more than a little demeaning.

Able Idris (aka "Sir Di") hears lamest excuse ever from Sex Pistols' bassist on Steely Dan cover disaster. Dennis Dias disabler met a grampus semibreve Re note tone reverb. I mess up Margate, Mr Elba, Sid said. Sinned.

Actually, Lagos taxi drivers tend to be pretty good. They have to drive safely as anything but a minor scrape will leave them without an income. Employed drivers ferrying you about in a company vehicle (or worse still, your own) are an entirely different kettle of fish. For ten years, all my comings and goings in Lagos have been by taxi. Cheap and safe.

Yes, though I wasn't necessarily limiting the discussion to just acting skills. Some degree of stage presence is quite enough for, say, the 'Fast & Furious' franchise. Agree with Bowie (obviously) and Jennifer Lopez. Just not familiar with Lady Gaga and Mandy Patinkin. Quite like Beyonce in... actually I just quite like Beyonce 😏 Rap Music isn't really my thing so I'd quite overlooked Idris Elba - that man definitely has serious acting chops. Guess that means the likes of Ice Cube and Tupac Shakur deserve consideration. Aretha Franklin too. I thought she was superb in the Blues Brothers. Blew everyone else off stage.

Saw these guys at the Manchester Opera House in 1977. Still sends tingles through my spine. A couple of years later, I saw Frank at the Ardwick Apollo Just wow! While I'm on with American music - Love were something special But all pale into insignificance when we get to King Crimsom Quite possibly one of my favourite tracks in 13 time.

Bowie, Jagger, Whitney Houston, the cast of the Blues Brothers?, Few can hold a candle to Elton John and Roger Daltrey Except maybe Keith Moon and Tina Turner

A conservative (small 'c') critique of Thatcher vs Farage Obviously. I'm no fan of Thatcher, so for those uncomfortable with my social democratic leanings, this is where another POV thinks we are at.