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There isn't one particular growth medium that has been settled on yet Thomas. One of the prime motivations for the creation of in-vitro meat is to satisfy people with personality disorders that prompt them to 'control' their food and 'control' other people, hence the majority are plant based. There are media that use bovine fetal serum though, and in order to get this people have to torture lovely baby cows and probably call them names whilst they're doing it. They only do this to satisfy the needs of those people who feed their own highly demanding self-worth issues by finding someone else to hate. It's really very generous.

Engineering is a damn sight harder than medicine, law or economics. He'd need to be an A-star candidate to get through it. Your problem is probably because engineers don't go into teaching or the careers advisory service. Oxford wouldn't be right, Cambridge would be closer but still no banana. I'm guessing UMIST would be the right one, but somebody else probably knows better?

I love this quote: ?That is a constant challenge,? said Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association of the United States, which represents the nation?s roughly 600 Catholic hospitals. ?It?s a challenge we take very seriously.? Being a Catholic hospital means adhering to the church?s religious directives about care, Sister Carol said, but she says hospitals also see their mission much more broadly, including caring for those who are less fortunate and treating patients with respect. Because at its heart she knows that Catholicism has nothing to do with respect. In order to achieve respect for other people its necessary to treat those directives more broadly. ;-)

Worst shows? Hell's Kitchen US?

I've just been watching Austrlian Masterchef, and I'm quite convinced that this is a runaway winner of the best of breed for this kind of show. The format often uses teamwork, I love the head to heads with the celebrity chefs, but above all everyone in it is reasonable, nice and normal. They're really likeable. Rather than bitching at each other and undermining their confidence, they really seem to have a good time. Is it just me? Is this just the death rattle of nice television?

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It wasn't the only telly show in 1984 to end with a dodgy baby scene...

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You can see why they set Threads in Sheffield. It has more than a whiff of apocalyptic desloation about it. The end, when it came, must have been something of a relief. The attack starts 44:30. The Mexcian/Italian fusion place gets it moments later, but it's quite difficult to tell the difference before /after.

Get one of these... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_t2klXM3R_Q4/TNexD5Y7NII/AAAAAAAABeI/KwJr5TZag6E/s1600/eagle+kill+fox.jpg

But I thought veganism was well known to be an outward manifestation of an altogether more disturbing personality disorder?

I'm being a bit of a der brain, are we just looking at the exquisitely romantic exhortation on the windows? Everything about that restaurant angrily screams 'burn me facking dahn', but is there something in particular I'm missing?

I was joking wod ;-) I own my own company, I'm a media consultant and trainer.

ManoftheCloth, your parents were and are entitled to do exactly as they wish, and you are fortunate to have had such a wonderful life. What is completely unacceptable is that streak in you, an essentially nasty (daye I say it evil) streak, that makes you want to impose it upon other people who do not agree with you. Not only do you want to impose it upon people, to control them, to enslave them to your opinions, but you do this with threats and menaces, by undermining their confidence and attempting to disenfranchise them from society. Your persistent use of the term 'sin' is a reflection of your own desire to perpetuate this abuse. The weapons that the church uses to control innocent people are far worse than any dreamed up by engineers, in that they represent a lifetime's psychological bullying and torture. The pathetic pricks who wrote the article for Business Insider are ridiculous in their claim that contraception has created a moral decline in society that has made women objects for men. The 'moral 1950s' that they hark back to was a period where JFK could rape a 19 year old intern in the White House without redress, a crime orchestrated by his colleagues. Where women knew their place and it was subordinate to men. These views still find their place in the catholic church, an institution that believes the rape and buggery of small children is only a minor transgression worthy of turning a blind eye. Your views are abhorrent.

Incidentally, the frustration and righteous anger of the white underclass is entirely predicated upon the fact that some daft academics are insisting on producing resolutions based on race or religion rather than the self-evident reality that these are simply missing the point. If you want scoial cohesion, which I'm sure motorbird does, stop being prejudiced and focus on the real issues.

"He was definitely one of the brightest guys in the group and should have got an 'A'. He was black and I can't help feeling that it was his background that played a part in his downfall." You of course get the problem with this statement? The colour of his skin is a genetic specification, if "it was his background that played a part in his downfall" then the reference to his skin colour is pointless - any reference to it is to draw a racist conclusion about his background based on his genetics. There is no doubt that the legacy of disenfranchisement, involuntary relocation and enslavement of a group of individuals results in a poor foundation upon which to build a secure future, but it is issues that are unrelated to skin colour that have the impact. In other words beliefs, environment, resources, influences, expectations and infrastructure. If you start making assumptions about individuals by extrapolating from the general to the specific based on genetic coding (in other words 'blacks have these problems so it's a black issue') you are simply being racist. That's all. The fact is that any person subject to the same sort of variables (beliefs, environment, resources, influences, expectations and infrastructure) will respond in exactly the same way. You grow up in France, you'll speak French. Ergo the colour of their skin is irrelevant. Population and genetics are based on standard deviation bell curves, and whatever modal differentiation can be drawn between racial groups based on genetic variation such as athleticism or pugnaciousness, the vast proportion (99%+) of the various populations overlap. Therefore it is clearly alternative metrics that come in to play: namely beliefs, environment, resources, influences, expectations and infrastructure. As a result, any policy aimed at resolution of poverty issues when based on these metrics is more likely to deliver if it addresses these key issues rather than their skin colour. The victims (by legacy, family, genetic coding or otherwise) will be addressed proportionately to their misfortune. QED any study based on a racial resolution to these problems both misses the point and will fail in its execution. Stop being racist, and you'll have a chance of a study worth pursuing. You don't need a study or a grant to work that out - just the application of commonsense and mathematics.

I can see how small cars may sound easier - but it's not always great to just have an automatic license. We often like to get hire cars when we're on holiday or at short notice, and many car hire places have very few automatic hire cars as they're more expensive to maintain. I doubt it'll make much difference to learn in a Ka as opposed to a Golf, but you will notice that the short wheel base cars can exaggerate every bump in the road making it nerve wracking to learn on streets with speed bumps.

Sound advice indeed!

It sounds to me that trying to see him would be a very bad idea. Very bad. It would be infinitely wiser to turn off the lights and be very quiet indeed.

I can't see the relevance of the skin colour at all. I'm aware of the US obsession with race, and that doesn't make it any more correct. The existence of countless studies on the subject is just an illustration of the number of idiots in the world. If you want to study social mobility, start with beliefs, environment, resources, influences, expectations and infrastructure. If you can just get through that, you'll discover that those are the key criteria and the colour of their skin means nothing. If you can manage that as a work of genuine intellectual maturity you'll avoid adding to the ever increasing pile of barely concealed academic racism asserting 'is it coz I is black?'

What about General Studies? Couldn't one of those be about personal finance?

Quids makes good points, as do others - but it particularly highlights the fact that there's no 'right' answer. When I'm trying to get people to cooperate I have to spend a lot of time thinking about who they are and what their motivations are. Someone suggested a series of pigeon holes to me a few years ago that seem to be a nice way of putting it, classifying people as analyticals, amiables, drivers or expressives. Quids is a driver, and likes his information delivered in a way that reflects that. I do too. Sending a CV in the post is a lottery - you don't know the recipient, and 75% of them aren't going to like what you write whatever you do because it just won't suit them. If you want to improve your chances, try getting to know several people who are already in the job of receiving CVs such as yours and ask them what impresses them. Remember that a CV only has one task to perform - to get you the interview. It's not there to be your memoirs, and it has to get your skills across. If you wanted a job with me you'd need to write the kind of CV that Quids describes, but then I'm not a headmaster's secretary. Mind you, if you really want the job a CV isn't always the right answer. If I want a job I usually take the poor victim to dinner and then tell them they're an idiot for three hours ;-)

What are you hoping to achieve Cam123? What ebay and gumtree do is entirely up to them, and has no relevance to this forum. If it's possible that you're treating this forum in the same light as those then maybe this isn't the right place for you? This isn't a commercial property to deliver your private advertising ambitions, it's a neighborhood resource with a collection of written and unwritten rules of etiquette. The for sale and wanted sections are simply a facility to tidy up the place and allow local people to exchange a few low value items. IF YOU WANT TO SHOUT ABOUT YOUR SHIT BECAUSE IT AND YOU ARE REALLY IMPORTANT then be prepared to get the same type of responses that you'd get from your neighbour if you suddenly turned your house into a full time bring and buy sale with associated BUY ONE GET ONE FREE posters and a megaphone. Frankly I find your comments and attitude to be thoroughly unpleasant, why don't you come back when you're prepared to try and fit in with other people?

Unless you are genuinely suggesting that the colour of your skin could affect your intelligence or aptitude then you're asking two separate questions: Does social history mean that certain ethnic groups are disproportionately represented in poorer social segments? Does this impact their social opportunity? Either way, that study is cretinous. It's clear from the authors that a university education or employment and the University of Birmingham doesn't bestow energy into a dead brain. I'd have chucked that study out at the point that I read the phrases 'Black, Pakistani, Bangldeshi, White, Gypsy/Roma, Chinese or Indian...' Apart from frankly stupid use of capitalisation, it's making a gormless fudge between genetic issues (black or white), nation states (Chinese), religion (Pakistani/Indian) and culture (Gypsy/Roma). The fact that this is based upon the census is irrelevant. The census makes a reasonable compromise based on popular prejudice to investigate social beliefs and identity, but makes no attempt to extrapolate this to wider behaviours. I'm furious that studies like this have prompted kind people like yourself motorbird to pursue the debate as if it has merit. If you genuinely want to investigate this then you need to ask other questions: What are my beliefs? What is my social environment? What are my resources? What are my influences? What are my expectations? What is my methodology? What have I achieved? You'll discover quite quickly that distinctions about skin colour are quite irrelevant.

"I can't even whittle these days so traumatised am I." And thus Yoda tossed away his chisel, and stepped gracefully into midi-clorian management. Strictly speaking, maths would be an underpinning skill for personal finance, but that doesn't mean personal finance should be taught in maths classes. It probably means Home Economics ahould be elevated and subjects like this included. Are we being daft though? I'm pretty sure that schools have changed a lot since I was there several decades ago? Don't they teach this stuff now? I was taught 'pure' academic stuff (except applied mathematics mainly for physics/engineering katydid), but it didn't make me think credit cards were free money. I 'kind of' agree with Otta about vocational subjects. I thought plumbers were stupid until I was around 25 and discovered they netted around 80k a year. I really didn't give a shit about their spelling then. With all my special academic skills I only overtook plumbers' income in my mid thirties, and most people never do. I'm not saying income is everything, but it's not a bad yardstick for personal success (not including worthy personal issues). The question seems to be 'what is school for'?