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Or indeed the allegedly anti-semitic friend-of-Hitler Pope Pius XII. Could he/his views have changed the course of European history? Maybe.

Alan Dale Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Has anyone seen any convincing evidence that > mankind is responsible for climate change? If so > then please post the link. > > I have seen lots of evidence that it is happening > but none that proves we are responsible. > > I am concerned that causation and correlation are > being confused. Why not take a look at 'Working Group 1: The Scientific Basis' IPCC report, which reports on all the modelling that has been done? I think they put the likelihood of human causation at 99% (while they also do not reject possible natural contribution). I somehow do not think the consensus of scientific organsiations around the world would confuse correlation and causation. They are not the Daily Mail. Given that all the modelling to date has shown that possible physical causes explored to date cannot explain the change, an argument that climate change is not anthropogenic would require a new physical cause to be found to explain the change. What would that cause be? This is not to say that such a cause will not ever be found (there is never certainty).

One of my exes had a university-friend who set up a 'think tank' (read lobby group), one of whose main strands of work was arguing against climate change and any human involvement therein. He/his organisation were paid massive amounts of money by UK, US companies business/right-wing foundations, and other organisations to argue this case vociferously. Very clever operator and successful in the generalist media (peak-time TV programmes etc.). He has in the last couple of years disappeared from the face of the earth. I get people contacting me asking me if they know where he is. Strange that.

Policing, and therefore policing costs, are whatever their leaders want them to be, and often over the top. They bear little relation to anything except the egos and empire building of the top brass. I resent the police and their inflated ideas rather than the protesters who have legitimate concerns.

Well it's probably too late for your purposes this week, but just to say that we used the site to start an NGO with over 1,000 paying supporters. It took several months but... These kinds of sites can be useful in bringing together like-thinking people to actually do stuff.

Fuming EDOldie, have you considered using the Pledgebank website to encourage others to do the same? (I was involved with a pledge that got over 1,000 signatories, who mostly delivered on their pledge.)

I agree with you too FoodStories. The Palmerston is over-priced and Franklins is better value. Last year I found The Palmerston food quite ordinary and the portions insufficient, and decided not to return. The Herne is fine for traditional Sunday lunch (at reasonable cost) if you can tolerate the constant high level of child/parent hubbub. We only tend to visit once in a blue moon, for example if we get caught out in the rain. The noise makes it a non-destination.

EDOldie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How do we protest by voting? For the first time > ever in my voting life I will not cast a vote as I > feel doing so endorses and supports this corrupt > govt. and opposition. If virtually nobody votes it > will send the strongest possible signal to the > politicians. Unfortunately it is my experience that politicians invariably interpret low turnouts as the product of laziness or busyness of the voter, inconvenience of voting in person at a polling station bla bla. Never, ever, to disillusionment with the system or parties. I've had this discussion so many times with both politicians and the various Departments of State (four?) that have been responsible for voting over recent years, but they just don't get it, their view often being, 'If we make statutory voting like Big Brother voting, we'll get really high turnouts'. Their answer to low turnouts is stuff like giving the vote to 16 year-olds, or putting voting machines at the checkout in Sainsbury's. This is also the reason behind their long-standing refusal to implement individual voter registration; they feared voter registration would fall through the floor as a consequence, owing to all those 'inconvenience factors'.

Kingsbury David Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks tasty_snacks. Dulwich Village only has two > left (from five in 2008) and the one on Court Lane > really needs a clean as covered in moss. David, which end of Court Lane? (I can supply a long ladder and a pair of hands - am at junction of LL and CL)

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I didn't want to put words in to Louisiana's > mouth, but I did read it as a bit of an > unnecessary dig at christians in general. Just calling a spade a spade. A mentalist is, AFAIK, a form of magician, which seems either too broad a description or inappropriate for these followers of death. Unnecessary, you say? Well I've yet to hear of such a killing claimed in the name of either atheists or agnostics. > > To be honest, I think this thread as a whole is > rather unnecessary. I thought it was going to be a > debate, and expected loads of people getting > really wound up about a very emotive subject. No > such luck. Indeed. Perhaps a debate about how the expression 'pro life' has been hijacked by some clearly in favour of death. Or how the expressions 'christian' and 'screw loose' are perhaps not as distant from each other as some might believe.

Or perhaps 'Widespread (legal) availability of guns is a bad thing with crazy Christians around.'

Some neighbours once had a party. They borrowed around 10-12 chairs from us. They didn't invite us. PinkyB, it may be time to use the 'material' you have gathered. A novel,perhaps? A feature article in the women's monthlies?

David, their claim of it being costly to repaint is a bit rich, in some south London boroughs at least, given the huge amount of money that went into the daft street sign rebranding exercises - and reversal - just a few years ago.

PinkyB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or Cockney rhyming slang, maybe? > > Dandelion farmers. Dandelion farmers. It just > doesn't sounds right. Why would anyone want to > farm dandelions? Exactly. So why do they, next door, have this front lawn carpet of dandelions? (with all those little seeds wafting over into mine - prevailing westerly wind).

Mushroom farm. Arms in horse do-do all the effin day long.

A euphemism for...? I'm a straight-talkin lass.

ruffers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > woofmarkthedog Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Oh no! > > > > Where do you buy "carmen curlers" now? > > > > > > > > W**F > > I'd say across the road - the old corner shop on > the corner of Landells Rd, next to the funeral > director. That (on the opposite corner from the dry cleaner) looks to still be a grocer's shop of some kind.

I was on the ITV 6 o'clock news, being interviewed. My mother spotted me by the (granny knit) jumper I was wearing; she hadn't heard from me for months.

I doorstepped Noel Gallagher (avec Patsy, at the dinner table of a smart Curzon Street hotel; we were propping up the downstairs bar) for money for UK Formula 1 team sponsorship. Don't ask, don't get.

Dandelion farmers.

I have a neighbour who runs a dandelion farm. Hundreds of them. It's all flying through the air and landing on my garden. I know that dandelions are great for wildlife. But monoculture dandelions...

+1 Why make more washing up than there absolutely needs to be.

woofmarkthedog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Before this deviates & gets to silly back to the > clothes.....today i'm mainly waring > > Vintage Levis 501xx (selve edged) > > Lacoste polo in baise green > > White leather converse > > Uniqlo boxers > > A black Brompton bike > > A tan , a smile & all my own hair > > > God, this is as tiresome as Emily and her lower middle class, mass market brand drivel at the charidee shop. > > W**F

I'm with O2 as of last month. It's the same technology as Be (Be is a sister company). Speeds are reasonable, price more so (I get an extra discount as a mobile O2 customer, so it's around 8 quid a month). The worst was the switch-over: BT totally cocked it up and hooked up my line to another subscriber and vice versa. I ended up with no comms at all (telephone) until BT engineer fixed it at the exchange a day later. And they were in complete denial that there was (by several weeks) to my old provider (Demon) so between them (old and new provider) they were trying to double-invoice. I gave old provider and BT merry hell yesterday and they've now backed down.