What can I put on my drive to stop next doors cat using it as a toilet?

Tarmac? Concrete? I’m puzzled as to why the cats are using it, they prefer something they can dig, like cat litter.

Oh well, at least Iraq is now free enough for Muntadar al-Zaidi to throw his shoes at George Bush.

Shame it is not yet free enough to deal with him in a proportionate way. BBC News

I think CD has sussed it. An artist with more talent for “shock” promotion than for art.

Of course we’ve heard of him, his “goldfish in a blender” got a lot of publicity – it’s just we remember the incident rather than his name, so maybe he’s not that good at publicity after all.

But then how many living artists can the general public name, beyond the obvious such as Lucien Freud, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Anthony Gormley.

Anybody involved in Contemporary Art can list a lot more which demonstrates my concern that their art talks to other artists and no longer speaks to the public. It is becoming irrelevant.

Marco Evaristti’s latest wheeze has got some attention but is it really about the death penalty or is it about what becomes of a human body after we have finished with it? I’m not sure this project really challenges the use of the death penalty in a civilised society – but he did get us to notice him, briefly.

I grew up with the Clangers and Ivor the Engine. When I was at University we had a Clangers Appreciation Society which organised trips to the Baxters Soup factory to see the soup dragon. Not sure what Mrs Baxter’s response was to that one.

He left a good legacy.

Well done – I’m glad that question wasn’t against the clock. 🙂

It is sometimes said there are sixteen lakes in the Lake District (and countless tarns), but you will see that only Bassenthwaite is called a lake:
1 Bassenthwaite Lake
2 Buttermere
3 Coniston Water
4 Crummock Water
5 Derwent Water
6 Devoke Water
7 Ennerdale Water
8 Esthwaite Water
9 Grasmere
10 Haweswater Reservoir
11 Loweswater
12 Rydal Water
13 Thirlmere
14 Ullswater
15 Wast Water
16 Windermere

Anybody want to say where there is a little cockup in the Lake District?

Answers by the end of February ??

natto, or “rotten beans”, as my partner (who loves the stuff) translates it as. Revolting.

Lovely stuff – although not an opinion unanimously shared around the table I was at, mainly because of the texture. But much nicer were the raw scallop sushi – the Japanese really know how to turn taste into an art form.

I can recall when Swordfish was a novelty but it doesn’t seem like that now.

PS: stuart gowans, I can find no reference anywhere on the web to Mitchell’s six engined flying boat.

AFFS – it is mentioned and pictured in many reliable books:

This thread really is a very bad example to young historians. Just because somebody has a belief, doesn’t mean it must be proven wrong. The only requirement is a balance of evidence – and that has been shown here many times.

The only redeeming feature of this thread is that it contains a lot of info, and in my case, some that I didn’t know about. But I do hope that in future a less dogmatic approach can be taken.

EDIT: Sorry – my slow web connection meant Chumpy beat me to it

All 8 of their ideas of a misleading argument is countered by the sources I posted earlier, they are the same ideas relied on by the “It’s man’s fault” team.

And it could be argued that the sources you posted are countered by the Royal Society.

I doubt that any one of us here on this forum is anything more than a layman regarding this subject, so we take the word of experts to base our own theories on.

Indeed. There are also out there a number of extreme views arguing that Global Warming has already reached the runaway stage where the Tundra is now melting and methane will make the result unstoppable – whatever we do.

I suppose it is for us as individuals to look at the various opinions, reports and campaigns and judge those who are putting them forward, try to see if they have an agenda in so doing, and then make up our own minds.

It has been an interesting dicussion in that personally I have read further into it and been surprised at the strength of the opinions being put forward and the number of bodies that seem to feel a scientific consensus has been reached.

Thanks