HAL9000

Polycarbonate glassware has been in use in many UK pubs for at least a decade that I can remember - must have been a slow news day over at the Guardian.

They shoot horses, don't they?

Cheese - what a strange first post? I'm still trying to munch my way through the 1,000 odd varieties that are said to exist - love the stuff.

Volatility is about the only thing that has gone up consistently since I began trading in the late 1960s. Volatility, it can be argued, is a product of uncertainty. Efficient free markets require massive levels of liquidity: short-term traders provide that essential element - there's no way around that. Without speculators, scalpers, arbitragers, hedgers and risk-takers efficient free markets cannot exist.

Mick Mac Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > With the UK and US markets rising strongly for the > last two weeks, About due for a good correction by the look of my trading screens this morning. The Euro and Gold may have peaked short term, too.

Did it feel like you were falling in your sleep - have you spun your totem to check whether you are really awake?

The fact that bulk tea prices are at historical highs may have also led manufacturers to dispense less tea into each teabag in order to maintain retail prices?

Most teabag manufacturers have introduced packs of 80 to 100 teabags which retail at what appears to be a significant discount to their regular product packs. Those packs are usually sold in pound shops. Regular teabags can usually brew three cups of tea but the discounted teabags are designed to brew one cup of tea. When a hapless regular teabag user stumbles upon a one-cup teabag the resulting brew will seem unusually weak.

The last two decades of supposed growth were based on a massive Ponzi scheme whose underlying asset bubble has been artificially supported by equally massive government intervention that must eventually bring higher interest rates, inflation and unemployment. The western world cannot now support the booming economic conditions that prevailed before the banking system imploded. Those conditions are unlikely to return any time soon - the economic reality of a post-Peak Oil world. There is no free lunch.

Rock and dust must have featured high on your list, I would have thought :)

Yes - this week we have a Harvest Moon which reaches its fullest on the 23rd, just six hours after this year's Autumn Equinox. Moonrise times (BST) for London around 23 September 2010: * 21st 16:58 * 22nd 17:12 * 23rd 17:26 * 24th 17:42 * 25th 18:01

annaj Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > *Now, I know some pedant will now point out that > fish don't techincally f*ck (fertilisation of the > eggs happens outside the fish) Except for live-bearing species, in which the male impregnates the female by inserting his gonopodium into her 'vent' (i.e. where the babies pop out) :)

I was thinking more along the lines of, say, a wild deer killed by accident?

Would a conscientious vegetarian eat road kill, I wonder? If no, why not?

ISTR that Parmesan is an official EU designation that can only be used for cheese made according to a traditional recipe that uses animal rennet. In which case, the vegetarian substitute (made from rennet obtained from fungi or genetically engineered micro-organisms) cannot be called 'Parmesan'. A quick Google reveals many brands of vegetarian Parmesan-substitute.

He was electrocuted by a discharge from a nearby 20,000-volt power line.

Tarot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Its the Japanese who have tiny Bonsai trees. The custom of growing miniature trees in pots originated in China - the Japanese acquired it through a process of cultural infusion. See Bonsai.

Yes ladies, consider your tardy little botties well spanked! Nice one Hugo.

Hahaha - it wasn't a 419 scam, but I came across a few of the original pre-scam deals in Nigeria - they were real back when every Nigerian civil servant from the president down was hell bent on stealing the country's oil revenues. Those were the days...

It seems that Khan's may be dropping some of their more exotic lines in favour of more popular western products - I hope this trend doesn?t continue otherwise it will end up like any other mini-market.

I was invited to an Arabic-speaking, North African country to meet a high-ranking official - he kept me waiting for SEVEN weeks. I gave the official an earful when I finally saw him - he stormed out of the meeting and cancelled my hospitality cover - the trip ended up costing me ?146,000 in early 1980's money. I'd only been married a couple of months - my wife had nearly left me by the time I got back. I've since learnt to be a bit more tolerant of lateness when dealing with Arab and African VIPs.

Just idle curiosity on my part, but is being "in Nidd" derived from the condition known as "Niddah"?

nashoi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hal9000 are you sure? My results are the same as > *bob*'s which would be a strange coincidence. I was only joking - but it wouldn't surprise me if some level of feedback was at play in those suggestions - I keep getting pointers to free porn videos and chicks-with-dicks :)

Hahaha. Actually, I think the suggestions have more to do with what the Googler has recently Googled than anything else! Mind you don't give away too much information about yourselves.

cate Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > no time to go home and pack a suitcase. Gosh - that made me laugh ...