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Manticore

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  1. 24 minutes ago, John Cuthber said:

    Incidentally, if I post this.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/despite-measles-outbreak-anti-vaccine-activists-in-minnesota-refuse-to-back-down/2017/08/21/886cca3e-820a-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.fa409111ccd4
    people will tell me that not all anti vaxers are religious.

    Tue, but they are all part of the same group that feed off schoolteacher's irrationality.

     

    Why is that Wakefield shitsucker not in prison?

  2. 24 minutes ago, MigL said:

    While China may have a lot of billionaires ( has it surpassed the US in numbers of billionaires yet ), and is a rich country, that isn't reflected in average wages, which are about US$9000 per year. Income disparity is huuuge.

    If I saw anything like that amount, I would feel seriously rich - my volunteer allowance comes to $1,608 per year - I just about manage on that.

  3. 23 minutes ago, Area54 said:

    Should that be Britons? :)

    Possibly (maybe only if they're ancient) - I haven't met any for years - most of the people I know these days speak Kiswahili and/or Sukuma.

     

    27 minutes ago, DrKrettin said:

    My aversion to American grammar originates in MS Word, which I once loaded without switching off the grammar check. I can live with a difference in spelling, but it would comment on documents I wrote, telling me off for using the passive voice, or the subjunctive mood, or any other normal feature of English grammar which I have used all my life. The effrontery.

    I remember reading somewhere that that's not because of American grammar as such. It's because Bill Gates has a reading age of about 14.

     

  4. 4 minutes ago, DrKrettin said:

    Not really. Without a specific reference of chapter and verse, I am most certainly not going to read through an American grammar book which will probably leave me in a state of apoplexy.

    Me too. I decided decades ago that Americans do not speak English. Trouble is, neither do large numbers of Britishers any more.

  5. 6 minutes ago, DrKrettin said:

    Sorry, but this is just silly. The comma indicates the end of a subordinate clause which states that a number of submitters use the word "it's" as the possessive form of "it". The comma is not part of the disputed text, so why on Earth should it be inside the quotation marks? Incidentally, as I write it above, it's the end of a sentence and a full stop is used instead of a comma. To claim that this should be in the quotation marks is just nonsense.

    Totally agree. +1

  6. The NGOs I work for depend on foreign donations. What we do not particularly like is when their representatives come out and tell us how to do our job. Mostly they haven't got a clue and are unwilling to listen to the people who do know.

  7. 14 minutes ago, Sensei said:

    They are made of synthetic diamonds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_diamond

    Search for "synthetic" here  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_blade

     

    I know that, but they are in no way different to mined diamonds. The entire ornamental diamond industry was created by de Beers in the 1930s by a massive advertising campaign.

    Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.

    -De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer

  8. Just now, Strange said:

    Like so many of the pints made, I struggle to see the relevance. It is not as if non-religious people live in perfect harmony. 

    The point is that Christianity is so splintered that counting all of the (sometimes totally contradictory) sects as one whole religion is completely pointless.

  9. I use this when anybody tries to preach to me. (Matthew 6)

    5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

    6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

    7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

    8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

    Verse 7 & 8 (my bold) work well on fundamentalists.

  10. 1 hour ago, MigL said:

    Reminds me of a science fiction story about a planet orbiting multiple suns, such that the sky was always bright.
    But every thousand years solar eclipses would bring nightfall, everybody went nuts, and civilization would come to an end.

    Be wary of people acting strange.
    It could be the beginning of the end.

    I remember that one too. Now I'm going to go crazy all day trying to remember who wrote it.

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