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So autocorrupt is going to say, "You typed 'Semtex'. Are you sure you didn't mean 'Tampax'?"

Strontium Dog wrote:I have voted for myself a few times. How's that for dirty?

It's only dirty if you vote for yourself a few times in the same election, I understand.

JimC wrote:

Seth wrote:

...Reagan, and even he was no saint....

No fucking actor either!

I feel dirty voting for any of the fuckers. But I always do. Even though the result in my constituency is a foregone conclusion. A lot of people died to get me the vote. It would be churlish not to.

Every particle has an antiparticle. A photon has an antiphoton. etc. You chose a really bad example! A photon has neither charge nor mass and has no antiparticle! Had you said electron, quark, or neutrino, you would have been correct. Of course, you need to put the particles in one place and the an...

mistermack wrote: ...Because anything coming from nothing is an infinite increase.... True in % terms, not true in absolute terms. I prefer "comparative terms" to percentage terms. In maths, one is only one more than zero. But in real life, one shag is infinitely better than none at all. Unless you...

Here's one. If we take a defined space and empty it of everything, all matter, all particles and radiation etc... Let me stop you there. How the fuck do you do that? Short answer, you can't. There is no such space and, with our current skill set, there is not going to be one in the foreseeable futu...

Because there was need. They are very good at being sharks. They'd be better sharks with big brains and arms, after all that's what we have, and we're better than sharks...Oh, and dolphins too. There's a trade-off. A bigger brain requires a bigger, heavier skull; longer developmental time (ie. lear...

Here's one. If we take a defined space and empty it of everything, all matter, all particles and radiation etc... Let me stop you there. How the fuck do you do that? Short answer, you can't. There is no such space and, with our current skill set, there is not going to be one in the foreseeable futu...

If there was nothing but nothing, there would be no one to notice. It's a question that can only be asked if there's something and, in all probability, once there are things that can ask questions, it inevitably is!

The answer is obvious...

Svartalf wrote:This has a deep link to the placebo thread and should doctors be allowed to prescribe placebos.

Not if it costs one fucking penny of tax! And especially as sending a patient away with the instruction to eat one sugarlump a day would be equally effective! Free placebos are the best placebos.

somebody move all the gun arguments to the pit it belongs in! I find it too difficult on an iPad (and being a little bit pissed out of my gourd!)

Great. Finally a serious topic, but marred by the usual shallow buffonery. Starting with this: Fuck those shitbags and their insane, camel-fucking prophet . Typical hate speech :this: Contrary to FUA. But nothing will be done about it. There's no proof that Muhammad fucked camels What fucking FUA? ...

So, have the French surrendered yet?