snafuMy thoughts too, and that’s why Salmond is complaining about bullys…
snafuWell, long story writ short http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
snafuJohn. I too find your reply rather perplexing, inasmuch as you, and no doubt many others of your Americans, can state that smoking is killing folks etc, why won’t the USA take up the cudgel, and sign the KYOTO Treaty, Unfortunately your Country is one of the worst culprits for chucking tons of gasses into the atmosphere in the worlds, along with Japan, China, and India.Smoking I agree is a filthy habit, but there are worse factors than that, ie, all the gasses your fellow Americans breath in, from the atmosphere your Companies are dumping?.
We are but a very small island, and are quite ridgid regarding what we pump out, it;s like taking a leak into the Atlantic, and waiting for a great flood as a result.I would venture to statee, that what we chuck out, has little or minimum effect on anyone.
Do you remember way back in the 50s?, a thing called SMOG, where there were days in London where one could hardly see from one side of the street to the other.
We have cleaned up our act, and set an example, now I guess it’s the other Countries turn, to step up to the mark.
Jim.
L7
Calm down, Linc-y!
Its only a post on a thread on a forum, not a declaration of war! Mr Boyle may be an American but we cannot hold that against him, just as he cannot hold your nationality against you. Yes, we might get a little patriotic now and again, but he is not the US president and you are not in control of anything other than your keyboard either.
Do you agree with everything he wrote?
I have seen drunk people in the street doing revolting stuff in full public view because they didn’t have the desire to do anything but tip more alcohol down their throats, rather than find a toilet. Nice place, Glasgow…
Yes, there is pollution. But there is also such things as jobs, and protecting those voters who have jobs and any president who tries to put that much work abroad at the cost of American workers won’t be a president for long. We have had pollution and we got rid of much of it.
California (in America!) has recently suffered from smog (I believe) but, although things can be done locally, it is a national problem and at some point someone has got to bite the bullet. America does need to do something about air pollution, and until they do other countries won’t follow suit.
But for some places such polluting industries are what are helping them economically – helping them to cut down their emissions would lose hundreds of thousands of jobs in places like America. Countries like China and India need to get to a fiscally advantageous place before they will feel comfortable making decisions that will cost them money (sod the voters/peasents!) since making pollution, in the short term, is cheap.
Deep breath, and relax…
snafuIt’ll be a public school thing, rather than referring to faggot, I imagine. (Although…)
Scotland can use the pound, just not be linked into it. Might that be similar to not building up a no claims bonus on your car insurance though, or did I not quite understand the boring man trying to explain it on the radio?
snafuyeah, they want to kill him on the off chance he might fight with a new male they want to bring in to breed…. it’s just ludicrous.
No. Read the story. He is a male who lives with another male; they are looking for a female to breed with the other pure bred male giraffe, since Marius II is a cross breed, and if there is a female present the males will fight – what did you think those horns on their heads were for? They swing themselves around and use their heads like a mace (medieval weapon, not the spice/spray) to inflict dreadful injuries on their opponent.
But to kill him just because… You are right, it is ludicrous.
As to killing people off… I am sure you are extremely right.
Haha! – I don’t think we’d all agree on who they were though!
Need I mention previous attempts to kill off people who were out of favour?
snafuNo, I think you’ll find…yer wrong!
snafuIn theory the money in circulation is equal to the gold reserves held by that country. Does Scotland have its own gold reserves ?
The Bank of England has 310.3 tonnes (as of 9/13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve) – does Scotland have a share of that? Does the Royal Bank of Scotland count anymore?
snafuMine too, slow cooked for a couple of hours with very close monitoring with a meat thermometer.
Yet if I hadn’t rescued it, it would have been in a skip in Mildenhall no more than eight hours later. Criminal.
If you hadn’t rescued it it would have been reduced further until it was at a price I would have paid… £1-£2.
Seriously, my wife got a goose that was stuffed with duck that was stuffed with something else that was stuffed with stuffing that had been £70-odd but was reduced to £5 the day before xmas eve that wasn’t even out of date! I joked that we should have waited another half hour to see how much further it would go…
Kids were eating American-style pancakes this morning, literally dozens reduced down to a penny each last night.
snafuSNAFU. I AM NOT…
Too loud!!!
As for SMOG in C.A. I have a very good highly respected friend in San Diego, who is a highly respected Surgeon, we “Speak” to each other most days, and I have never heard him speak of SMOG, indeed in CA, they have very clean air, perchance you may be thinking of L.A.?. further North.I have been to C.A. and never experienced foul air.
That’s better.
Are there two California’s in America…?
Here is…
10 Worst Smog Cities in America
No. 10: El Centro, Calif.
No. 9: Washington, D.C. — Baltimore
No. 8: Dallas, Texas
No. 7: Houston, Texas
No. 6: Sacramento, Calif.
No. 5: Hanford, Calif.
No. 4: Fresno, Calif.
No. 3: Bakersfield, Calif.
No. 2: Visalia, Calif.
No. 1: Los Angeles, Calif.
That looks like 70% Californian coverage in the worst smog league to me…
(Incidentally, only one of those is not necessarily in the list due to its own industry – El Centro gets its pollution from across the nearby Mexican border.)
As regards the USA, China, and Indias economy, are you saying it’s a case of, “As long as our economy is O.K. sod the rest of the world?”
I am for America. Its part of protectionism – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism
They want to grow up to be big and strong, players in world trade competing with the other big boys. If they have to spend money on silly things like pollution control then they will do all they can to find another way around it, ie not do it and carry on as normal, maybe imposing tariffs on cheaper goods coming in that were in competition with their industries.
Pop away…
snafumore often than not the fights ( known as necking) don’t result in injury at all, and quite frequently males have been observed courting, and mounting each other after necking. So I think they should just leave them to it.
My view remains – they shouldn’t kill him.
in the highly unlikely event that one seriously injures or kills the other, I shall bow down to you and tell you I was wrong.
There was a recent wildlife program that had two males fighting, which said that fatal injuries frequently result from such horseplay.
To prevent vets bills with astronomic figures arriving zoos keep either males separated from females or one male with his harem.
I agree – they shouldn’t kill him. You are still wrong though…;o)
snafuBu@@er, I thought my phone was ringing but it must have been the irony alarm…
snafuNope 🙂 (I can go at this all night)
That’s not what’s written on the toilet wall…;o)
Anyway, dead giraffe anybody?
snafuLocal ornamental gardens has a ‘farm’ with a few pigs, llamas, sheep, a few ponies, guinea pigs, rabbits, and various fowl. We used to go there on a frequent basis since the kids liked it. Then rumours went around that they had killed one of their birds (a goose or similar, one of the bigger birds) with a hammer. On a visit my wife inquired about it and a manager apparently admitted that not only had it taken place but it was not the only occasion that one of the ‘resident’ had been euthanised in ways that had not involved a visit from a vet.
Recently we heard that their shire horse is being treated for an infection in one of its hooves – cue bad taste jokes about trying to put it down with a hammer…
snafuRe 1
Hanging’s too good !
I knew I could rely on you, that was why I mentioned it…
If I were in charge of the school and she doesn’t want to be finger-printed I’d refuse to serve her food and tell her that she can make her own packed-lunch and bring it in herself – simples!
Hanging is a bit extreme though.
But (as we found out recently) the school is not allowed to refuse to serve food if the child is legally entitled to it – something to do with the duty of care they assume when accepting the child at the school, finger print or no finger print.
(Daughter was accused of making fun of food server and, despite two witness pupils and one teacher saying that she did not make fun nor swear at the food server, was subsequently refused to be served by order of the cafe manager. Head teacher sided with cafe manager, until – with assistance from the CAB – questions were directed to the chairperson of the board of governors with the added threat that the local newspaper might like to ask questions too)
snafuThat was the thing that the cafe manager had not thought about, and the head teacher had forgotten about.
The reason she was excluded was that, apparently, she would not admit her guilt at making fun of the woman – a punishment that was given without the head teachers initial knowledge. The HT then agreed with the punishment because daughter still refused to admit responsibility. Daughter is not usually a liar so when she told us that she was not allowed to buy lunch, and when we heard the schools version of events, and when we heard (the following day) that the other two girls had complained to a teacher that daughter had been unfairly punished I consulted with the CAB (being there for something else anyway) and fired off an email to the chairperson. Etc.
Had daughter actually made fun of the woman behind the counter then she still would not have been allowed to be excluded from eating lunch, but maybe only allowed in under escort by a teacher. The cafe manager had made a decision that was not hers to make; the head teacher had gone along with it without realising that it was not actually a permitted punishment – something that I was only made aware of by the CAB people.
Still, all’s well that ends well…
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