Keen do some, as well. Nice and wide, with proper toe rands. DOn’t know where to buy them, tho’

Fuse? Just pop a bit of thick copper wire in there. No problems.

Alright then, when some disgusting oik gobs on a seat, the phlegm dries, then someone sits on it. “His DNA was on her jeans”

They both use the same tube/bus station, they could have met. He happened to have been at home watching TV the night of the assault. Try proving it.

GS- I agree, but do the police and courts pay attention to context?
Is DNA presented as definite proof or just one factor?

In the case I half-remember, it was weighted more than verbal evidence by the victim.

Well the police want them because there’s a good chance that the numeric profile will help solve future crimes, e.g. arrested for but not charged with a minor scuffle in the street today, charged with a fraud in 2020.

My problem is that DNA evidence is regarded as the be-all and end-all of guilt, and may override other evidence. What happens when you sneeze in the tube, or have a spontaneous nose-bleed (which I do, occasionally) then the woman next to you gets raped on the way home. You’re miles away, but your DNA is there. Or a couple of hairs from your coat in the restaurant cloakroom get transferred to the one next to you?

Is DNA evidence overrated? Can some biochemist discuss?

I think there was a case in the 90s where a man was convicted of raping a friend on DNA evidence – yet SHE said it wasn’t him!

I’ve had quite a few over the years, from the N York Moors to the Quantocks. The one above is pretty small, they do get larger.

You can buy special tick tweezers from the chemist, or just smother them in butter or vaseline (it blocks their spiracles) then twist off. Sterilse the area afterwards, as well. If you leave them until you get to a doc, you’re increasing your chances of catching something.

If they land on a leg, they will climb upwards until a knicker-line stops them. Check your groin!

Possibly I am.
But really I’m a salesman.

And Smee is a driving instructor.

Your yard needs sweeping.

:)

Cheery MTB bloke spotted on Saturday over Hergest Ridge & again on Sunday a.m. by Hay Bluff. (We were in rambler mode at the time)

I hired from one of the biggest compnaies (Budget, possibly) in January using a paper licence, with no problems.

Heroes. I can almost cry to it.
and Suffragette City for memories of my dancin’ days

Strange choice of record for non-specific depression. Paint It Black’s the reaction to to the death of a baby & its funeral. It’s the song I want played loudly at my own.

That’s a bit sophisticated, Sandwich. Just the rocks would do.

If you want to drown the little buggers, you would need the sack. When we found a young rat in our toaster (Honestly) and emptied it into the garden pond, it swam across and climbed into the flower bed.

You can get special clips to stop them from folding when doing bunnyhops etc. But they’re so resellable that they are nickable too.

Kingsdown Vaults on foot for me, I think.

onomatopeia? And which one is “blimey”?

Leave them to nature & the cats.

Lots to see in Frome. Catherine Hill is good.

Clean the inside of the frame fisrt, tho. Dirt & corrosion can make it harder to push the cups in

I worked in Brum yonks ago, where a customer was Ms P.E.Cotton.
Polly Esther Cotton.

I got “Nice bum” from some girls, when I was cycling through town.
It cheered me up.

The YHA is only 100 yards from MudDock. And there’s pleanty of rooom in the place, but you’d have to ask the warden. Outside is not secure.

They are lovely, aren’t they?

Ours is called Selina and lives in the compost heap.
She survived winter ‘cos we saw her again a fortnight ago.

:o)

For once, I think that Michael O’Leary of Ryanair has got it right.

Too much hype from the media, built up by those who have something to gain from it.

or a house-martin?

Yeah, but the Spanish Flu tended to kill off the young adults more than the very old or young, which was strange, possibly due to their stronger immune response. So bank on it hitting cyclists worse than the rest of the population.

I suggest you stink for a few days. Then ask where you can change and clean up? – not do you mind if…put the onus onto them.

Thank you all.

It looks like I’ll be kept busy.

Gizzajob M8

Must be right.

Yep, private companies.
Probably set up by scientists made rednundant by PHLS / HPA or CDE or who want to commercialise some of their work. Start-ups, not multinational conglomerates.

as for the millennium bug, it would have caused a load of grief if it weren’t for the massive sums spent on fixing the programs at fault. or so plenty of mainframe programmers will tell you.

Honestly, there’s no huge conspiracy. Perhaps lots of small ones and cover-ups of cock-ups, though.

status: Moses is full of creamcake and needs to settle down to some work.

RudeBoy, FWIW I’ve been to Porton many times and talked to the scientists. Yes, they test some nasty stuff, and they have to make it in order to develop counter-measures such as treatments for nerve poisons. I wouldn’t want to be a pig on their farm.

I can’t comment on the above story except to say that it ain’t been hushed up very effectively if you have found it on the net, and that just becasue a woman & her sisters have had breeding problems doesn’t mean it’s due to nasties produced at Porton. (As it’s a family, that might indicate a genetic problem, not environmental) The nasty tests are carried out in Canada, these days. Lulworth tests are usually dispersion based, involving innocuous but traceable substances.

So in a poor, far-off country with a population of 110 million, 100 have died from an unusual disease. Presumably tens of thousands have had the infection but not died…just like flu, in fact.

So perhaps we shouldn’t worry too much.

Oh goodie. I’m in with a chance, said the freshly-shaved slaphead.

OK, Tyger, so what countries has Iran invaded? Or even attacked? The Iran-Iraq war was started by Irag (funded by the USA) and all the fighting was on Iranian soil.

So – list them, please…

I’ve never heard the President of Iran threatening to wipe Israel off the map, except in Israel’s fantasies. He has however called for regime change, quite a different thing.

Israel has attacked many of its neighbouring countries over the last 40 years: Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria. It survives because of the protection it’s given by the USA. It’s notable that until the establishmnet of Israel, most of the countries in the Middle-East had well-integrated, peacefully living Jewish populations. That’s ended now.

…and I knew a Miss P.E. Cotton.

Polly Esther Cotton. Honestly!

Yes, the period of Britain’s involvement in India is a fascinating one.
Flashy, have you read “Kim”?
If it’s been years since, read it again. It’s the most humane story I know. Where else would the heroes be a mixed-race Irish-**** kid, a Buddhist monk and an Afghan Muslim? As an IMperial story, it preaches tolerance and scorns ignorance. Fantastic.

I’m also fascintaed by the Enclosures and the early industrial revolution; and how the rich stole so much from the poor.

Just becasue the money had left your account, doesn’t mean it was in his. Even in the same bank.
So he was prob telling the truth. After all, you’re expecting him to go to the trouble of checking his account to see if the money is in there when you call.

Just chill.
Didn’t they accept credit cards or paypal?

I reckon the vehicle is colder, especially if it’s a van with a metal floor. The air circulation underneath is wot cools it down so much. Surface to volume ratios and all that. I’ve been far colder in a car thatn in a tent, in similar conditions.

All very well laughing, but she’s only 19.

Why not email her back and nicely suggest that she re-posts in English.
And ask for a suitable reward.