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PeckhamRose - have you been moonlighting as a secret shopper or what? :)

I had intended to attempt giving up at the end of 2011 but managed to stop in mid-August. I still can't believe I've quit. I am determined never to smoke again. BTW, the book referred to above is probably The Easy Way to Stop Smoking by Allen Carr.

Never mind the German mind-control cultists, if it were in my power, I would gift to you a subtle sense of humour and an internally fitted E-meter that vibrates whenever your plonker is pulled. Alas, all I can do is wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Hilarious and Preposterous New Year :)

This is one of my favourite quotes: ?The reactor has an amazing safety feature,? said Kirk Sorensen, a former NASA engineer at Teledyne Brown and a thorium expert. ?If it begins to overheat, a little plug melts and the salts drain into a pan. There is no need for computers, or the sort of electrical pumps that were crippled by the tsunami. The reactor saves itself,? he said. -- Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium (Contains similarly quotes from other 'experts'.) This regarding China's nuclear plans in general: Leading physicist calls China's nuclear programme 'rash and unsafe' You do have a track record ... Can you back that up with an example or is this just you being you again?

Thorium-based molten salt reactor system One needs a good grasp of nuclear physics to separate the potential benefits from the nuclear industry?s self-serving hype and misinformation. The underlying principle was developed at the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s. In the fifty years since, as far as is known from information in the public domain, no practical commercial design, let alone a working reactor, has been developed. Despite vociferous claims to the contrary, if those reactors had been built at Fukushima Daiichi, there is a high probability that their entire nuclear cores would have become dispersed throughout the Pacific Ocean following the T?hoku earthquake of 11th March.

Only five posts in and this thread has already exposed solid evidence of a covert conspiracy by mind-control cultists - how long before it?s deleted? Wrap your teaspoons in tinfoil, folks, before it?s too late. You have been warned!

It's those Scientologists, I tell you! Teaspoons make great E-meter handles. And don't get me started on those damn squirrels: in case you didn't know, their raw meat has been declared fair game!

... with MM's statistical hat on ... See - I knew he was a fucking Scientologist!

In case anyone is still looking for a fresh bird or a bargain this Christmas: Fresh turkeys weighing around 7 Kg were on sale for ?23 each this afternoon at the front of the butcher/fishmonger next to (and to the north of) Khan's Bargain Supermarket on Rye Lane - at the zebra crossing, opposite the junction with Blenheim Grove. The birds looked fine to my untrained eye - I didn't buy one myself but I'm hoping someone might find this helpful - they are roughly half the price of similar birds from the major supermarkets. Merry Christmas.

The point being that both hare and hair were acceptable spellings of hare as in rabbit - it never meant hair as in beaver.

Ridgley: it's good to see you posting again - get well soon. This thread made me laugh too, especially the double irony when intellectual toffery challenged the value and insight of your original post but then couldn't handle the resulting discussion without resorting to personal insults and excommunication to the Lounge! :)

I think the Dental Institute at King's College Hospital may provide a walk in emergency clinic. There was no charge when an acquaintance went there for a broken tooth a couple of years ago.

Tarot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think there is too much chillie in all products now ... You may be right in the sense that chilli is probably more common than most people realise. Many supermarket ready cooked or pre-prepared meals include chilli (i.e. cayenne pepper), often indirectly as part of a seasoning (e.g. Worcestershire sauce - so not listed as an ingredient), or the milder bell peppers, which are used as cheap, colourful bulking agents. It probably makes commercial sense: the capsaicinoids, the active ingredients and sources of peppery heat, are addictive.

Homemade English mustard may be prepared with Colman's Mustard Powder, water, lemon juice or vinegar, wheat flour, turmeric powder (i.e. an organic yellow colouring) and salt. I used to make my own but at 39p per 185 gram jar (Morrison's generic 'Value' brand), it just isn't worth the bother these days - especially now that I consume hardly any meat.

It is probably impossible for the human mind to imagine a spatial representation of a four-dimensional object - as far as I am aware, no one has ever done it and lived to tell the tale. However, spatial (and temporal*) four-dimensional constructs have been modelled mathematically. *The relativistic forth dimension postulated for block space-time.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > chillies......they give me something that as painful as childbirth! Always wash hands before handling ... corky :)

Beef Bisto has no meat products in its ingredient list ... Some of the ingredients in Bisto Beef Ready To Use Gravy are definitely not vegetarian: Water, Maize Starch, Flavouring, Wheat Flour, Salt, Yeast Extract, Sugar, Beef Stock (0.4%) (Beef Stock, Salt), Beef Dripping (0.4%), Onion Powder, Roast Barley Malt Extract, Black Pepper.

Substitute olive oil for the butter, and you're almost there: you could add some mustard and ground black pepper and then blitz to smoothness with a blender.

I too have concluded that adding boiling water to tea leaves with sugar makes a nicer tasting cuppa. Not sure why that is so, though.

The lack of a relevant precedent on the PATAS site suggests that PCNs bearing invalid registration numbers never make it to the Appeal stage, so they must fail at an earlier stage - which indirectly supports the Which? site.

The ticket is almost certainly invalid but one has to submit a valid argument within the designated time - the relevant precedents can be found at the PATAS website.

Not me - I don't read anything that comes from a dead tree.

Your decisiveness score is very low. There's a course that can help. It costs thirty thousand pounds. And bring your E-meter.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ridgley: The Drawing Room is I quote "a place for > discussion about serious issues and current > affairs, moderated by a chairperson". > > I don't think your OP meets the criteria - perhaps > in the Lounge, but even then it's a passing > comment of no discernible value and no insight. This may be a case of, be careful what you wish for :) Hugo: I don't know about 'ridiculous', the German government is taking the threat very seriously. And so are the Jews and the Scientologists.

Kool Aid, yummy! The government of Guyana is planning to turn Jonestown in to a theme park for tourists - whadaya think?