My apologies; I put my answer onto the old thread, without looking at the previous dates.:o
Edgar

I’ve no idea about licences; I was just another “Herbert” working at a bench. I’d doubt that we had one, since any instrument, which got an adverse reaction from the geiger counter, went straight back, plastered in yellow warning sticky tape. I’d imagine that a room with closed-circuit air conditioning (which we did have,) plus special clothing, breathing apparatus, filters, and reaction meters (which we didn’t) would have been an absolute minimum. We went almost under a death sentence, if one had been worked on, since it was known that one speck of radioactive dust, discovered by an inspector (who never actually appeared, in my 20 years,) would have closed the factory.
The original site, where the water/solvents had been poured, was covered with blackberry bushes, a magnet for any new employee. After they’d picked, and eaten, a load, one of the old-timers would take them quietly aside (with everyone else trying to keep a straight face,) and, after relating the tale of the soil removal, would tell them to switch off the lights, when they got home, and, if they glowed, they should contact a hospital immediately.:diablo:
Edgar

Lancaster I, III, and VII; Defiant II; Beaufighter II; Halifax II & V; Hurricane II & IV; Sea Hurricane II; Miles M.20 snd. prototype; Spitfire III.
Edgar

I don’t have any policemen, crooked or otherwise, but it is nice of you to lift your nose out of the Daily Mail for a few moments..

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Not one for snap judgements then? Always believe that someone, with whom you disagree, is guilty until proven innocent? Sorry for the disappointment, but I gave up reading newspapers 40 years ago, since I found that I couldn’t trust them to tell the truth. I recommend that you follow my lead, and treat all madia reports with the same caution; you never know, it’s possible that they get things wrong occasionally.

Were you there? Do you have any information that has not been reported in the court? Is my input any more cynical than those who welcome the death of a possible nasty piece of work with so much left unanswered?

Don’t answer a question with a question; I’m not the one refusing to accept the jury’s verdict, so my thoughts are as irrelevant as yours. A majority out of 10 people, who were there, and heard all of the evidence, have given a verdict, which you are hell-bent on refusing to acknowledge.

And since you ask I have had a police weapon pointed at me – it lasted maybe three seconds (or several hours as I recall) and I drain blood whenever I think of what could have happened if I hadn’t noticed the officer coming in and put my hands up immediately,

Yet Duggan, apparently, reached into his pocket (where police were entitled to think he might be carrying the gun they were told he’d acquired) to get a mobile phone, instead of putting up his hands. Never wondered why? Was it to warn his little friends that he wouldn’t be able to come and play Cowboys and Indians, after all?

Many years ago there was an occurrence of kids playing ‘cowboys’ or something where armed police were alerted to a gun battle – they apparently came in with guns nearly blazing to a group of boys with cap pistols and stick shouting bang. I was shocked on hearing this from a former workmate – his son was one of those involved and apparently my friend was on the receiving end of a copper telling him off for letting his son play with a stick. Innocents getting let off with a warning because the police were embarrassed?

Or maybe a policeman sick with the realisation of what could have happened (even policemen have feelings, strange as it might seem,) so gave vent? “Guns nearly blazing” Oh, please, you weren’t there, so how do you know that?

I’m sure you are happy that an event like this can only happen to the right sort, and will only happen to that criminal sort, aren’t you.

You do love the emotive claptrap, and running off at the mouth with cheap accusations, don’t you? Unfortunately for you, I’m not happy or unhappy, since the event has nothing to do with me, and, unlike some, I can resist the urge to stick my nose into an affair about which I know nothing.

So you are quite happy that this psychopathic monster that you follow stands idly by while children are raped? That makes you nothing less than a sociopath.

You are sounding sillier, and more hysterical, as the thread moves to its inevitable demise; if lions and the threat of crucifixion didn’t deflect early Christians from their faith, then your patently absurd reasoning (if that’s the right word) has no chance, whatsoever. Nearly 70 years ago, my mother advised me never to get into an argument about religion or politics, and your shrieking rants show that (as so often) “Mother was right.” And, no, I’m not going to tell you what my beliefs/disbeliefs might be, because it’s none of your business.

Or maybe he was checking that his argument is being followed and its you who is stirring the dung?

Good lord, no, Heaven forbid that I should trespass on your territory, you being such a master of the art, and all that.

How can you teach atheism? there is no proof of a negative

or a positive

How can you teach religion ? there is no proof of existence

or non-existence

Surely the default is that you are born without any prejudices,anything that is put in there is either by survival instinct or taught by elders.Surely teaching religion should be banned until adulthood where people are free to decide for themselves after looking at all the facts.

As a child, I went to Sunday School, and at the age of 10, was confirmed into the church; within two years I’d had enough, and quit, so was perfectly able to make my own decision, yet you wouldn’t allow that choice. Education is the tool with which a child is prepared for the big, wide world, and to make decisions for himself/herself, yet you, because of your prejudices, would deny him/her that right.
Why stop there? Don’t teach them a foreign language, until they’re old enough to decide if they want to speak to foreigners; don’t teach them science until they can decide if science is for them; don’t let them play sport, until they can choose which sport they want to do; don’t teach history in case they learn how people have killed each other, and might get the idea.
There is no difference between what you would do, and what the Taleban did by denying girls an education.