John Cuthber

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An image search for "Trotter" (I gather that' s roughly the German for "moron") gives 3 pictures of Trump in the first 10 hits. There's a few pictures of Trump in the first page of hits for "imbécile". I'm not sure it's a joke. It would be if someone had "rigged" google to do this, but it's just a fact.

By the time it's a pepper, it's got fertilised seeds in it. How is that going to be "male" in any traditional sense? https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/gender-pepper/

With a vote of 52:48 Brexit very nearly didn't happen. Russia interference may have made those few percent difference.

As far as I can tell, it's not a caricature; it is mainstream policy.

Sounds like it may be something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillating_scotoma You should probably see a medical practitioner.

Wow! Who remembers this thread. It started with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G61x68TG548&feature=youtu.be Anyway, here's what Trump is currently up to I have broken more Elton John records, he seems to have a lot of records. And I, by the way, I don’t have a musical instrument. I don’t have a guitar or an organ. No organ. Elton has an organ. And lots of other people helping. No we’ve broken a lot of records. We’ve broken virtually every record. Because you know, look I only need this space. They need much more room. For basketball, for hockey and all of the sports, they need a lot of room. We don’t need it. We have people in that space. So we break all of these records. Really we do it without like, the musical instruments. This is the only musical: the mouth. And hopefully the brain attached to the mouth. Right? The brain, more important than the mouth, is the brain. The brain is much more important.

Today I learned that I can't resist an argument*, and that they do a 150 gram bar too. http://www.toblerone.co.uk/products/toblerone-milk/toblerone-milk-chocolate?c1=1834&c2=1847&p=3057 * OK I already suspected this

As opposed to a non vocabulary word?

He lied about London before https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-uk-should-thank-him-london-radicalised-police-scared-no-go-a6767606.html

I understand that it was Ezra Solomon who first said that the purpose of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. https://www.ft.com/content/abd15744-9793-11e2-b7ef-00144feabdc0

Unless it takes you are really long time to get to bed, that's not a critical requirement.

If I was sat at the centre of the earth (I'd be a bit warm etc...) I could look up + see my bed doing about a thousand miles an hour. But as I climbed the ladder back to it, it would seem to slow down. When I got to the top, it would be stationary, and I could just climb in. Rotating vacuum seals are a pig. Imagine a rigid spaceship that's mushroom shaped with a really wide "cap". If you make the cap wide enough then, even a very small rotational speed will give you the artificial gravity you need, while the narrow stem is still in microgravity.

Because the whole godforsakenly expensive point is (usually) that they do experiments in microgravity. If they are doing something in 1 g then they can do it at home.

Dyslexics of the world untie! That's probably enough dyslexics jokes (though I still wonder why the word's so hard to spell.

I wonder how long you have to spend washing it before you can use it for fish.

He looks "balanced".

Unless he stops being "stable". There seems to be a big argument about whether the disgraceful number of gun attacks on schools in the US is due to the availability of guns, or to some cultural factor. It's a valid topic for debate, but I don't think anyone denies that both are causative factors. However, you can legislate for better gun control, and you can't legislate for "better culture", so there's only one course of action for the government to take. Recent governments, (particularly, recent Right wing governments) have opposed doing the only thing that can do which would help. Perhaps these marches will convince them that there are votes to be gained from changing that position

Why leap to the conclusion that adoption is a bad thing? (Obligatory jokes to prove I'm not going off topic) Q. What is the difference between a duck? A. One of it's legs are both the same. Q. What's brown and sticky? A A stick.

There's a flip side to that; jokes that only make sense in a language other than that in which they are written. Un petit d'un petit S'étonne aux Halles Un petit d'un petit Ah! degrés te fallent Indolent qui ne sort cesse Indolent qui ne se mène Qu'importe un petit Tout gai de Reguennes. Which looks like (fairly bad) French poetry meaning something like A child of a child Is surprised at the Market A child of a child Oh, degrees you needed! Lazy is he who never goes out Lazy is he who is not led Who cares about a little one All happy with Reguennes but which is remarkably funny when a natural speaker of French reads it to an English audience who instantly recognise it as this nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty Sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty Had a great fall. All the king's horses And all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty Together again. (I have pinched most of that from the wiki page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d'Heures

OK, I will bite. In what language(s) are they funny? Bother! I just realised- this is the jokes thread, I'd better add a joke OK Q. When is a door not a door? A. When it's ajar.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Belgium

Well, I agree that would be nice. How do we go about it? An example of something which would be part of that would be gun control (in the US). Any ideas how we do that?

OK, let's take that all at face value. There are a bunch of pharmaceutical companies who are marketing drugs that are known to cause problems- specifically they cause some patients to become suicidal, or even murderous. The obvious question is why? Another question would be why are they all doing it? The one who came up with a comparable drug without that side effect would make a vast profit by taking all the business (and it's a huge business). But, in the context of this thread, the interesting question is what can we do? We could, of course, stop using these drugs. But, the evidence (shoddy though it may be) indicates that the drugs actually work- at least for most people Thus we would be removing valuable treatment from vast numbers of people with mental health problems. In a country where those folk can still buy guns, I am not sure that drops the net death toll. But what would you suggest we do? More research is an obvious answer, but in the meantime, what do we do?

Money.