Huguenot

I have long entertained the idea that if energy can be spontaneously created and destroyed in tandem with an 'opposing' particle (such that the sum energy of the two is zero), then it provides all the mechanism necessary for creation. Imagine we are standing on one side of a wall through which a pendulum swings. Without being able to see the other side, and with the swing being inconceivably slow, we perceive this pendulum to have been fabricated from nowhere. However, from the other side of the wall there's a pendulum shaped hole that's exactly equal and opposite to the one over on our side. In this manner our universe apparently spontaneously erupted from nowhere, whereas in fact it's simply a ripple in a much larger fabric of space and time matched equally and oppositely elsewhere. I'm quite happy with such an accidental presence whose sum total contribution is zero. Since it proves unequivocally that we are of no significance I need no further philosophical or religious explanation.

Hmm, other problems with that. It would be important not to disincentivise engagement after an injury absence. Being a statistical moron, I'm wondering whether the fairest result would be to multiply the average score by the percentage of weeks played? As in played 6 weeks from 7 for an average score of 7 would result in a score of 6?

fredricketts, I just think you need to get a fallacy straight. The government didn't dip their hands into your pot and help themselves, they spent it on YOU. You voted for governments that offered low tax with fantasy claims about public services. The only way they could meet that commitment was to spend from the piggy bank. There is rarely anything more offensive than geriatrics who have benefitted from running up a credit card that their children will have to pay off, until they get self righteous about it. Your generation asset stripped the nation leaving a debt time bomb that your grandchildren will have to pay off through poverty. You spent everything you earned in 70 years, and then your generation spent everything that was going to be earned by your children in the next 70 years. The 20th century generation will be famous in history for one thing - their greed. And that, mate, means you.

Thank God. :)

On the left or the right?

I think het is just a past participle of heat. As in 'I got heated up', it's not a variation on hysterical. Don't want to get into a history/her story dead end.

I suspect a spambot judging by the posting on the fuel thread.

I think Lady was the name of the dog rather than a description wasn't it? AM, the same school of thought that doesn't want you to hold the door: "I can do that myself thank you very much, I'm not disabled you know". I don't know if there's a name for it.

There's a certain school of thought that would say that you moved off the path because you perceived that as a woman she was so weak and inferior that she required an act of charity. Whether you buy that interpretation seems to depend very much on your general outlook. It's a pretty ugly one that I'm happy not to share.

It's not problematic at all :) It's nuance. Few people may refer to 'that bloody lady' but I've heard that 'that bloody woman' more than a few times. Asking what the subtle differences are that cause that particular usage is simply a semantic enquiry, not a manifestation of some sort of demented misogynist problem.

http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,142089 There's a mod out there.

Because 'woman' feels slightly functional, grey and taxonomic I guess. Referring to the 'woman' at the bank rather than the 'lady' at the bank suggests that it's dehumanising her as a prelude to some more substantiated criticism. In that sense it's used to add positive gloss, so it's not surprising that people may take umbrage at being deliberately misinterpreted as being somehow insulting and diminishing.

Is the problem with the pens the people that made them or the people that buy them?

You didn't get my final point did you Steve? ;)

What about a 'polarise' option? I think about 40% of what BBW did was edgy comedy, the rest was boring vitriol. He wasn't the brightest card in the pack and he could be very unpleasant. I suspect that he was actually banned for being monotonously cynical. Since most people would argue that was insufficient reason, then a WMD argument was constructed around it. Having said that I'm sure I'm on thin ice myself, and people in glasshouses etc.

I guess it's offensive when it's faux respect: "you're calling me a 'lady' but what you actually meant was 'imbecile cooking whore'". I think the challenge with the complaint is that it's based on the notion that a certain type of man will stop thinking that women are 'imbecile cooking whores' just because he's not allowed to use the term 'lady'. That isn't going to happen. If the protagonist feels that way about women he's just going to convey it in another way and with a substitute term. The counter argument is that we can play word politics with other terms, particularly racist ones, so why not with 'lady'? The problem with that is it's claiming that the word 'lady' is on a par with racist abuse. For most people that's extraordinary hyperbole. There's undoubtedly a few men who use the term as abuse, but for the vast majority it's a term of endearment. For the record I address most people - men and women - as 'darling' because it's a throwaway sobriquet that communicates that I like them, because I do. It would be great if no one on here compares me with a rapist for doing that. Most people do not walk away gnashing their teeth over this. If they do, it says more about them then it does about me.

I imagine that it speaks much to the independence and self determination of women that they should have everybody dancing on eggshells around them for fear of what word might offend their delicate sensibilities next. /end irony

Didn't JB mention that Southwark have a strategy for car reduction? It may mean that objections based on insufficient parking fall on deaf ears?

Christ, so you're telling me that all those people in twitter are just posting what they're told to post?

Crikey. I'm not sure I have data that needs that kind of protection! My cheque book is on the sideboard. What kind of stuff do you protect?

MrBen I think the rumour was that it was done with hot wax as a punishment - the principal being that it hurt to get it done, and it hurt to get it off. I don't believe this version could ever have been done - wax doesn't melt until it's over the boiling point of water, meaning this treatment would leave someone hospitalised for months. Blackballing in the sense of excluding people from a club was a regular occurence in schools with clubs. Maybe your old man was teasing you?

Like being ravaged by a dead sheep ;-)

It's single issue because it believes it can address food issues separately from the entire geopolitical context. Poverty tourism was a metaphor - clearly nobody is on tour here - but it referred to middle class well off busy bodies trying to tell the great unwashed what to eat and grow. Many people don't have the luxury of choice.

The moderators don't provide explanations as a matter of course, so you may be waiting a long time! I'm guessing that at a quick glance they perceived it to be a general issue rather than about ED. They may be mistaken, but them's the breaks...

Do the approaches in the link not work DF?