Pete_the_Viscous

Round here we don't have any trouble with those sorts of people... (in that they are socially well received by most, if not all). I'd support that sort of thing if it were to come here, insofar as I'd not talk if that's what is desired. I somehow doubt that this area would participate, though; the people are too conservative. They're not closed minded, and they aren't at all oppressive (to my knowledge), but I can't see them being involved in any silence longer than on november the 11th.

I like Coldplay. I used to find them quite annoying, but for some reason I don't anymore. I agree, some songs sound a little whiney, but I don't find even those songs unpleasant. I don't know anything about them--other than the music--and do not care to, really; I find that I prefer not knowing what songs "mean" to the artist, as then I can interpret them my own way, which I much prefer generally.

Ah, well if about sixthform: good idea. I honestly don't understand why some of my friends didn't come to college--they were perfectly capable. I gather that some people didn't want to come because they thought it would be too hard: I say that these people should give it a try anyway--colleges tend to offer a lot of good quality help for people who are finding it difficult to understand... what's more, even the people who didn't do so well at school have been holding their own at college, so far.

I don't really mind them doing it... as long as they don't try and pass it off as "all their own work". Even if it's badly done I don't mind, as I don't have to listen to it; if it pleases some people, then it's fine by me if it's done---just as long, as I said, that I don't have to hear it and it's not taken as being their own work. Another thing is that, if they're going to take something, they really should try and change it a lot: it's like people on deviant art who take someone else's image and invert the colours, then claim that it's a photo-manipulation. ELO with Beethoven's Fifth are a good example of something taken and (some might say) improved; changed, at least.

Hold on, what do you mean by "college"?

Well... yesss.... but we could say the same about violence: if everyone started doing it, would that make it OK?

Do pop back in a while in case what you don't like about it has been cleared up. TTFN

It's nobody's fault, but the maker's; it's the same with every generation: it's down to hormones. That said, the "bad behaviour" of today is a little more "uncouth" than before; there's a lot more swearing, which is the fault of some of the media who seem to think that because it's fasionable they should support it, thus cause it to spiral out of proportion.

While you're right (obviously; I mean, we all know this by now), it's not important what it originally meant. It's the same with words like awful and artificial. Most people wouldn't like others saying that their accomplishments are "Awful and artificial", but (here comes another one we all know by now) they used to mean awe-inspiring and artfull. Similarly, pentacles used to have merely "mystical" connotations, as opposed to "evil" ones. If you walk down the street with a pentagram on your chest these days it's about 90% likely that people are going to associate you with "evil" than with magic. Another thing: in the USA (I heard it on the news, so it must be true, OBVIOUSLY :roll: TV is always right) one isn't allowed to teach school children the word "[racist term]rdly" (you see? I can't even use it on the forums. Never mind, I shall use this: nig-ahrdly spelt enn eye gee gee ay ar dee ell why). This is a perfectly good, anglo-saxon word meaning stingy; however, as it sounds like a racist word, it now has racist connotations, so people aren't allowed to teach it. A shame, really; just as it's a shame that a perfectly good symbol was soiled by use in such a campaign. Anyway, what I meant was that, although you're right, and it's not racist to those who are well informed enough to understand; it's racist now, and will offend far more people than not.

Yeah.... it's not that the claimants are stupid (though one has to wonder, what with tripping over a todler); it's that the claim should never even be considered. True or not, those are funny, especially the guy locking himself in by accident. Reminds me of a comedy (I don't remember which), in which some lawyer was describes as being able to convince a jury that (I tell a lie: it was Blackadder Goes Forth) the man standing with a knife above the murdered fellow, saying "I'm glad I killed the bas..ahem...guy" was innocent. Furthermore, the family of the deceased had to pay to get the blood washed out of the killer's suit.

Actually, I've changed my mind. I still say PC, but for consoles: whatever it was that got FF7. That one was good because it A) had FF7, and B) some other games that I liked.

Yes: if something being unchallenged for a long time makes it true, then surely other religions (most of which have been around longer than Christianity) are also true. Now, whilst I'm usually one to go on about the ridiculous things that some Christian people do (I'm talking only about extremists, here), it is, I'm sorry to say, not as extreme as people from some other religions. Those people have a devotion that most Christians can't match... does it make them right?

I think that the "jumping into icy water" aspect of it is just to make one feel like a badaxx; just like walking in the rain without an umbrella, or taking a baking tray out of the oven without oven gloves on. Perhaps it "closes" pores fast, thus locking out dirt... but if you don't get dirty, you're not going to get dirt in your pores anyway.

If I'm allowed to say it, then PC. Otherwise, one of the early consoles, as this was from a time when they were better than the PC games available. They had terrible graphics, but (cue nostalgia) we had imaginations. You know, small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts... (nintendo)tetris, for example. GreenBerets. The legend of cage(sp?), etc. Oh well. Some new console games look good... but they don't look as good as things on the PC, so it's not such an achievement. They should be aiming at substance.

No, the first law of thermodynamics is merely a statement of the conservation of energy (what he^ said). The first law of thermodynamics is, in fact, delta U = delta Q + delta W, where delta means "change in", U means internal energy, Q means energy change due to temperature difference and W means energy change due to work done. You might hear otherwise on the internet, but this is what it is in physics lessons. Anyway, I don't want to be involved in this sort of discussion, so I'm not going to wreak my horrible justice on anyone for being wrong (in my oppinion); instead I'm going to watch, and try to enjoy it.

I looked on my 'phone, once, and noticed that it'd called 999 at some point. There was, at least, an outgoing call listed as having gone to 999. I wonder what that was about. I've never called 999, but today we got a bobby round our house. There's this landrover parked outside our house. It's been there for over a week, has no front numberplate and has been involved in a load of trouble on our road. Anyway, a policeman popped by to talk to us about it, and told us that he knows the guy who owns it, and he works away, leaving the vehicle about the place.

I'd just like to add: "1833 Abolition of Slavery Act ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ Britain abolishes slavery and provides for the emancipation of enslaved people in the British West Indies, to take effect in August 1834." = UK "1865 The Thirteenth Amendment marks the abolition of slavery in the USA at the end of the American Civil War." = US In case anyone was getting any funny ideas. We didn't enslave everybody, or anything. About flags: I quite like that confederate flag. I think it looks nice. I'm not saying that I endorse whatever it stands for; I don't know what it stands for. The swastica... while I recognise that it's not always meant what it means today... Nowadays it does mean that. However many million people dying under something is enough to give it a bit of a bad image.

Thx for finding cancer and death funny. yeh its really not that funny at all Yes yes, alright. I don't find genuine suffering funny (normally). You must admit, though, some of the things people have talked about have been, for want of a better word, foppishly insignificant. I'm not saying that I have any "super suffering" that overshadows other peoples', but I'm not sure I'd call being injured my "worst day ever". Parents dying, yes; sorry if anyone read what I said as me laughing at their misfortune. Breaking a leg, cutting one's self, getting a bad report etc, no. There's no way to say "I don't mean to belittle your experience" without sounding patronising, so I shan't say it. I do mean it, though. Besides which, tragedy and comedy are linked quite deeply, are they not? You know: some things are so funny it's sad, and others are so sad it's funny. Once again, if I've struck any nerves by saying that A) I didn't mean it, and B) you shouldn't be posting your intimate feelings on a website for all to see.

As anyone who's read any of my posts on religion will know, I'm not religious. I do, however, believe there was a great flood; I don't believe it was so catastrophic as religions tend to say it was, though. I base my assumptions on the fact that most major religions (not including new major ones, like mormon-ism) mention a great flood. Obviously there's the Bible one. The ancient Greeks had a story about one, after which the Earth was repopulated by two people........ who did it by throwing stones over their shoulders; the "bones of their mother", metaphorically. The nordic peoples had a flood story... I don't remember it, though. Hindus seem to believe in one; the mayans believed that an early race of imperfect people were wiped out by a flood; various american indian tribes had flood myths; I hear that the Zoroastians believe in a flood myth; I've got a very dodgy eskimo source which suggests that they did, too. The pygmy peoples have something about a chameleon bleeding water all over the world, out of which the first people came. I know there was an aboriginal Australian one.. again, I don't remember it. In fact, let's find a website on it... http://www.neopage.com/know/flood_myths.htm Here's one, but don't take what it says as necessarily being true (and by that I mean being the correct story, not being factual). Anyway, people from all the (then) inhabited continents of the world have flood myths, and--to my knowledge--they won't have had contact with each other at the time. The christian flood story is predated by most of these by ages... so we can forgive the fact that its in the Bible ;) (joking: I don't have anything against the Bible... it's full of good intentions, I'm sure). Perhaps global warming (ie, coming out of an ice age) caused an unusually large amount of ice to melt and covered a lot more of the world with water than normal. Whatever; I think it likely that there was a great flood. MORE ON TOPIC I'm absolutely, completely, posetively sure that religion is made by man. That doesn't mean it can't be true... I think that (if it is true, which I won't contend: it might be, and we'd all be kicking ourselves in our house) it's because we (by which I mean you, if you're religious) make it so. Sounds fanciful, but most religious beliefs are, in my oppinion. Anyway, everyone here, including the religious people, must admit that religion is made by man... maybe not your own; that one's true. All other religions in the world, however, must be false, and so made up by man. One could argue that they're made up by "the devil"/"naughty little sprites"/"various other, outlandish gods"/"women" etc, but... .. yeah, shut up, I don't have all the answers.

I can suggest several things, though I've no real experience in the area; someone correct me if I'm wrong. If you want to "get into shape", I would recomend just getting a long paper round. If, however, you want to make yourself stronger, as opposed to just fitter, I'd suggest either trying to find work stacking things in a warehouse, or, as others have suggested, farm work. It doesn't need to be lifting; however, there is little call, these days, for any other sort of work on a farm: machines>people for that sort of thing. Really, though, I'd suggest a paper round; just make sure it's a long one, and every week day... I imagine that most people would want a compromise between short length and high pay: a medium length one. Surely employers would jump at the chance of getting someone to do a long round. I don't know... as I say, I may well be wrong.

Really? I, for one, say it should stay open; I find it rather comical.

There's already a very long topic on this. It was from about 2 months ago, as I remember. If you're really interested, I'd suggest searching for that, as a lot of people will not bother to post again.

Saw it. I never do agree with them, really, and thought that the order in this one was a bit more off than usual. Funny, though, especially the rod stewart one and the mastercheft one, neither of which I'd seen before (that may have been what made me find them funnier).

I, ironically, think almost the opposite: I hope that this isn't an april fools joke and you survive, or is an april fools joke and you die. (jk, I don't hope you die, regardles; rather, I hope some manner of vegetable fall on your head, and you turn orange in hew). (In case you're telling the truth, just forget I said anything).

For a start, simple respect for the dead is polite, regardless of whether or not one knew the person. I'm not Catholic (or at all religious, for that matter), but I recognised the pope as a man with good intentions. I'm not sad that he's dead (nor am I happy; I don't mean to imply that), but it does feel, to me, like a big event: the end of an era, if you will. When he was speaking latin/italian/polish he seemed to have a fairly frail voice, but I heard him just now (from beyond the grave... OooOOoooOOoo) on the BBC thing speaking in English; he had quite a different voice when speaking so. Wow, two eulogies in as many days. I'm on a role.