Brendan

I thought I would back my satement up with some old photographs depicting life at the end of the 19th Century http://www.ramshornstudio.com/d6b52e90.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2272/2171677617_05c5f469a3.jpg?v=0 http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/Pix/NAT/84/10466984_T.JPG

Oh you should go, it?s wonderful. You can go to River Island and then across to a Starbucks all while under neon lights and listening to piped music. It will make everything else you?ve done pale in significance.

I think it?s all some kind of conspiracy. Gategate, perhaps.

Everyone smoked pipes back then. Women, children, dogs. It is a dying and beautiful art far more elegant than the crude dose of concentrated, nicotine injected into the body by tailor made cigarettes. What the fuck are tailors doing making cigarettes in the first place? EDIT: to make sense.

Isn?t Anthony Worrall Thompson an outspoken member of the Smoking is Good for you League?

Muley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a small distinction, and of no comfort to the > Afrikaans, but didn't the British action against > the Boers ultimately have a military purpous > rather than being motivated by concepts of racial > purity/inferiority? Sorry, I?ve just read this. Not entirely correct, no it wasn?t about racial purity but it was an attack on and attempt to eradicate a cultural identity rather than a purely military exercise. Yes the genocide* was intended to break the guerilla war. That was the excuse Kitchener used in order to have his plans implemented. The other reason was to depopulate the Transvaal and parts of the Free State and eradicate the Transvaal Boers as simply beating them in war and governing them had proved impossible. They sat on top of and had political sway over the world?s largest supply of gold. They were in the way of the mining magnates. Thankfully, due to opposition very much from some of the British themselves, Kitchener didn?t succeed in killing off the entire nation. The English did however move in and take over the economy and the Boers were left impoverished, landless, disenfranchised and economically discriminated against. (Which in turn led to the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism and all the bullshit that brought with it. But that?s another, often ignoble, story) That?s just a very brief overview. Sorry I could have left it alone but for some reason I feel compelled to set the record straight. For what little it?s worth. Back to how smoking is good for all of us. * and it was genocide even though it didn?t succeed and the army still deny it. We can get into that separately but (mockney) assume that I know what the term means and that I wouldn?t use it incorrectly.

Smokers should be praised not banned. They contribute many billions more to the economy than they take in healthcare ?There is no more selfless and heroic breed of civilian than smokers, who contribute many billions more to the economy than they take in healthcare, and save untold billions more by declining to claim the state pension due to early death.? While that is more dark humor than scientific fact he makes some interesting points in this article.

I kinda hpoe this actually works especially as I spend at least one day each weekend in Brixton. I like the idea of having a separate currency to use on the weekends even if it is just a novelty.

I still am. Aren't I?

I?m just stoked that I know who all these people are. I wouldn?t be able to identify any of their songs mind but I know who they are which means I'm moving on from the '90s. Barrak Obama was in the Commodores wasn?t he?

(Pedantry apology) Zoroastrianism originated in Persia.

Which kinda leaves you with more of a Buddhist view of god than an Abrahamic one.

It?s only just started to make any sense at all.

Does QM stand for both Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Mind simultaneously until someone explains it to you? Moreover the next time some non-speaker at work tells me to ?think outside the box? can I confront them with the existential dilemma that idea actually poses? Or at least accuse them of cruelty to cats.

I would like to know when everyone ended up on first name terms with Kylie Minogue.

Would it be remiss of me to draw parallels with Egyptian tombs, mummification, the importance of cats and the belief in the resurrection of the body? The inhabitant of a sealed tomb, according to Schr?dinger, will be both alive and dead until the final day at the end of time when the dead are called on to rise. This is why the Egyptians went to such great ends to ensure that the dead were sealed in undisturbed and had a good supply of cats so that they could emerge unscathed on judgement day. Schr?dinger's thoughts on quantum mechanics were obviously well known to the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptian idea of the resurrection of the body is widely accepted to be the source of the Judeo-Christian belief in the resurrection of the body, still recited in the catholic creed. So there we have at least one major tenant of Christian faith that has a solid grounding in science. Well in a quantum mechanics thought experiment at least. That?s kinda like science.

Or a Moroccan Tagine . But I definitely want a national holiday.

7.5% Cider more like. When did that change from Scrumpy to Organic West Country Cider?

Probably, although the wife still wants to know why I was three sheets to the wind after only 2 hours in the pub the other week.

Orangutan?

As intriguing as your ideas are I have to admit I have been a right snarky bastard lately. I have noticed it myself. Not sure why. Something must be pissing me off. I?ll be sure to address it when I find out what it is.

I wouldn?t take it personally Ted. I am a victim of socially enforced misanthropy, it stems from feelings of social alienation during childhood caused either by feeling distinct from the herd and/or everyone being a cunt. One of the consequences is, "high sounding language unsupported by dignity of thought" which according to the BBC is the rather poetic way Samuel Johnson described the term Rant in his Dictionary. So as you can see I actually suffer from a misunderstood condition which is unfairly persecuted due to public misunderstanding.

Typical!

Just imagine what it?s like for me!

And a curry too.