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My biology teacher is incredibly knowledgeable about biology. He insists on teaching us the A2 level syllabus even though we're only doing GCSE. I've only ever managed to ask him one question which he didn't know the answer to. Most teachers at my school like it when we challenge them.

A fine book, (I presume you're referring to that) which i'm reading at the moment. And technically, we didn't evolve from chimps, close to us as they are. Apparently we evolved from Homo Stabilus, Erecutus or one of the other monkeys with a latin name that inspires giggles from schoolboys being taught about it.

Not very nice looking brown water. Our hike leader assured me it was okay to drink, but it didn't taste too good, but I was incredibly thirsty.

The Sex Pistols Foghat

Yeah I agree with that aspect, people who fish purely to have their picture taken and then throw the fish are wasteful. I was simply defending me going mackerel fishing, catching and eating 5 or so good size ones and throwing back a couple which are too small to do anything with. Because I think that [whatever eats mackerel] would appreciate them more than me.

Good question, but it's one which I honestly think our minds cannot comprehend. It's so fundamental to everything we hold dear it verges on depressing. But i'd rather exist than not exist, and I really do exist, and for now that's good enough for me. :)

Sorry, I don't mean to bang home the same point, but my question still stands. What's morally or environmentally wrong with letting a fish go (even if it's injured) so that it can feed another fish when you would just waste it and not eat it if you brought it home. Surely looking at it on the scale of an ecosystem, there's always a bigger fish to feed out there.

Yeah puppies are often restless and cry when they're that young. Just try and give it some kind of basic comfort like a chew, or something that smells of something they like etc.

My radio is on a timer, so I get woken up to a summary of the newspaper headlines. Sounds dull and doesn't really help getting out of bed but it's useful to know what's going on.

Ugh, that virus is the one little bug that actually scares me. I heard some statistic somwhere like if Ebola Zaire got on a plane 80% of the world would be dead in 6 months. Don't know if it's true, but not nice thinking about. Nasty way for those gorillas to go as well, poor them :(

That isn't really a valid argument for it considering that they wouldn't be injured had you not been sport fishing in the first place. What you were doing was inevitable. You were fishing for food but they were inadequate - it is the intention that sets it aside. One couldn't go out sport fishing then claim they were better off alive than dead though, since they wouldn't be in that position had the sport fisher not caught them with no intention of eating them. When I was fishing I wouldn't throw small fish back; I'd use them as bait. Sorry, my argument should have been more along the lines of: they're too small for me to want to eat, I intended to catch and eat bigger fish, so I think it's better they go to feed a bigger fish down there that wouldn't waste them like I would, since they're not worth gutting.

Haha, probably the best thread i've ever read on the official forums, loved it. :D

I'm surprised they didn't push this as their flagship song off the album, it's easily the catchiest and most radio friendly.

Ah yes I forgot about that one, very good.

Ah I remember when my family all used to sit down and play Monopoly or Cluedo, old favourites. I also liked one called "The Game Of Life" and played it a lot with my friends. I like boardgames now and again, but my mum never takes them seriously and my dad's always anxious to be doing something else.

I've been mackerel fishing off a boat a few times now, sometimes we eat the fish sometimes we throw them back. If the fish is too small, we probably wouldn't eat it anyway so we may as well just let it be chucked back and at least stand half a chance. Even if their injured surely it's better off than dead? Often we wouldn't eat the fish, so they'd just get wasted. I'd rather they became food for a bigger fish that would eat them.

Haha, kinky :P

I actually tend to dream of those little things that I thought about only briefly during the day, and then i'll go expand on them a lot in my dreams.

Nice letter

Lost For Words - Pink Floyd

I'd say Casino Royale and maybe Borat. Other than that, nothing too special really.

I support England of course, but sadly I can't see much hope for us. :(

I'd like to add I Love The Dead by Alice Cooper to my song playlist :P

Would 'don't trust anyone' count?

I've tried it a couple of times, I always felt more tempted to slash than poke though :P