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Quoting flarewearer from 17:58, 17th Jan 2006 Cellar bar, is your answer to eveything "blame it on Thatcher?" If selective education was good enough for the Soviets, isn't it good enough for your own particular brand of nationalist marxism-leninism? I guess if the shoe fits, flarewearer. The major ...

Twenty years of the kind of "selective" education fostered by Thatcher and the Tories has shown that it has a seriously deleterious effect on education wherever it has happened. Linked in with the ridiculous and divisive notion of league tables, it has resulted in the migration both of children and ...

Quoting DrAlex from 23:22, 15th Jan 2006 Probably not, since Scotland would become the new nation, and Britain would just get smaller, i.e. of two nation-states. Actually it would probably be more complicated than that. In fact Scotland and England, for instance, already are nation-states in their ...

Quoting flarewearer from 23:45, 14th Jan 2006 And this is surprising considering England is the largest, most populous and closest of the home nations to most European countries? I don't think the post actually mentioned specifically "Europeans" in the same context as "foreign" but if nothing else,...

Quoting maria from 16:34, 5th Jan 2006 why shouldn't we laugh at death? It's important, it takes away some of our fear of mortality. And seriously, sometimes people doing stupid things is funny, I still chuckle when i remember a story i read about a stuntman dying when he bungee jumped with a rope ...

Quoting exnihilo from 14:10, 5th Jan 2006 Quoting David Bean from 13:45, 5th Jan 2006 When he thought he could settle the whole of the former Palestinian territory and turn it into a Greater Israel, that was what he tried to do, and his methods were often harsh. This is not me having a go at you, D...

The closest I've ever come to anything that seemed in the least tangible was an interesting document that emerged some years ago. It's apparently authentic. The Roman were if nothing else incredibly bureaucratic and everything was noted down and filed away. Including a death warrant for one Ibrahim ...

in the sense of "outlandish" or "ridiculous", I was thinking more along the lines of exorcism, possession by devils, transubstantiation, angels on the heads of pins, Virgin births. Especially outlandish in the case of the latter for instance if for no other reason than that it's a distortion of what...

Quoting novium from 04:27, 8th Dec 2005Take your generic religion bashing elswhere.

why?

Quoting JM from 19:04, 7th Dec 2005 Quoting Colin from 16:59, 7th Dec 2005 Oh, and I just noticed that if you click the link on that quiz, it sends this "http://www.scientology.org/oca/ocapg1.scgi?http://www.thesinner.net/mb/Main/thesinner/20110" to the script, so they record where you linked to th...

yeah - real bummer - and wot a bunch of wasters an all. I mean - what have the Baby Boomers done for us. Apart from funding maternity care, nursery care, primary school education, secondary school education, University education, the National Health Service, construction of roads, hospitals and scho...

Quoting novium from 22:15, 18th Nov 2005 Oh, stop being obtuse. Obviously, as a group who wouldn't BE there, MOSTLY, except for tax-funded stuff, they are NOT neutral. if the presumption is that they are "left-wing" in view of undeniable fact that they are "tax funded", you can presumably make the ...

There has actually been a campaign and study on the feasibility of re-opening the line between St. Andrews and Leuchars for about 7 years now. And the signs are promising altho little has moved for the past couple of years. The campaign is called StarLink. A Google search will give what has happened...

I always find it interesting that there is a presumption that "all taxpayers" are "hardworking". It doesn't take much of a brief scan round the landscape to decide that large quantities of folding stuff could quite readily be saved if some of their occupations were reviewed. I'd start with asssistan...

the whole point of the legislation is not to force or insist that all pubs in England and Wales must be open 24 hours. It's more to tidy up all the nonsense of conflicting and parallel laws that have been in existence already. And basically allow applications for and during the hours that will suit ...

Quoting Dave the Explosive Newt from 09:45, 15th Nov 2005 ..... I for instance believe very strongly in a free healthcare system but then I also believe very strongly in higher pay banding for doctors and the ability to work private should I choose. just exactly how much higher would sound reasonab...

Happy to say I only got 10 right. And not only is it offensive in some respects but if the "test" reflects the direction Bliar is headed in then it is also pretty patronising to boot. Social life and knowing the quaint ways of the "British" (whover the hell they are) is one thing. But actually being...

Quoting flarewearer from 01:17, 30th Oct 2005 Quoting The Cellar Bar from 21:40, 29th Oct 2005 The difference of course now is that on one side you have billions of tons of nuclear weapons with a power who will never use them and on the other you have a piss-poor measly kiloton of a weapon that por...

Quoting novium from 05:15, 29th Oct 2005 it's called the cold war. It sucked for everybody. We're still suffering from the consequences. But as awful as it was, it was a complex thing, not people sitting in a smoky room, rubbing their hands together and saying, "hey, what evil things could we do to...

Quoting LonelyPilgrim from 03:47, 29th Oct 2005 Correct, almost, flare re. Iranian ethnicity. They are not Arabs. Most are Persians. However, like any country there are notable minorities including Turkomen and Kurdish enclaves. Overall topic: If Iran builds a nuke, we have to destroy it. It's a ma...