there do seem to have been far fewer waspies around over the pest few years

Hmmm…

I hate wasps! Burn them. Burn them all.

There’s a reason we don’t have anymore witches, y’know.

Gloves – both winter and summer versions are my first choice when rummaging around in my gloves bag.

Correction – were my first choice. I no longer ride with any regularity…

It is also interesting to note that modern farming methods produce much less nutritionally dense food than in the past, even making healthy choices we are not getting the nutrients from the same food past generations were.

Source…?

CharlieMungus » It’s my name

Your parents missed a trick there, eh… 🙂

there was a very, very (did I mention very?) good Horizon the other night on the Cassini project.

That was good. Very good, even. Been following the Cassini Solstice thing for quite a while.

In the future spacecraft will use those water plumes coming out of that moon as a ‘car wash’ when returning to this solar system… 🙂

M6ttf *
allthepies *

No one’s mentioned the asterisk next to the two names.

Anyone heard from either of these recently…?

Who is this “exocet” anyway?

It’s possible he’s outsourced the list data from Edukator – that’s right up his street…

🙂

Yeah, lovely. I think the stonework inside really complimented the wood walls and that gorgeous floor. Bit big for my personal tastes but if you have a few nippers then long-term it’d be fine. Liked the little alcoves to avoid the winds.

Quite inspiring TBH.

Goddammit, Wilburt! Look what you’ve gone and done.

Saddest part of this thread is now Turner Guy setting up his own punchline.

I’ll pray for you, fella…

It’s not like buying a car where you have a tick list of features that might be deal breakers.

Of course it’s not and nobody suggested as much. FTR, I was brought up at an early age in the JW religion and studied for quite lengthy period before I was given my own choice and walked. A few years later I was back reading the stuff (different religions) but from a more scholarly angle and continued for around two and a half decades but the interest for me was the sustained and continued belief of any god – I find it fascinating.

I digress. Assuming you didn’t enter into any faith (or church, as you put it) until you were older (than a wee lad), what made you take those steps? To wit, what were you…

[contemplating] when [you] first walked through the doors of a church.

What I meant was that it’s a more comforting thought that someone you have loved and lost continues to exist in some form rather than having permenantly ceased to exist.

I asked a question concerning this earlier but you probably missed it. So, that being the case – your belief in an existence after what we are now – would the whole thing be less attractive without that notion…?

Also, if it’s large enough there’ll be seams on the sheet (there was on mine). I didn’t pay enough attention when I laid mine and the seam faces upward to the highest point. If I could have done it again I’d have the seam face, as it were, facing downwards towards the guttering. I doubt it makes any difference but it still gives rise to a little snarl when I catch sight of it.

Crack on with a roller, then. You’ll get a nice even layer much easier than with a brush.

considering God not as the beardy chap

Please tell me you didn’t get to this point in your life the thread believing that folk believed God was some sort of ghostly bloke with a beard…

Any tips?????

If using non-water based contact adhesive don’t use a foam roller – they melt quite spectacularly. Take your time spreading the adhesive ( I used a large paint brush with firmish bristles) and get an nice even layer – if you don’t it’ll show up later. Use a hard roller if you can and work towards the edges, re-lifting if needed to free any air pockets.

If solvent based, don’t be shocked when you wake up to find it covered in tiny raises – it’s par for the course and will disappear in time.

Don’t inhale too many fumes and fall off the roof. 🙂

If all religions said, “right, we’ll wait till they’re (reasonably educated) adults and then give them the option,” they’d die out in a few generations; maybe longer, but they would.

I’m not so sure it’s just a child thing – as I hinted at earlier, I think many are drawn due to a fear of death, entropy and eventual decay and meaningless existence. I think religion can genuinely add some sort of meaning for some folk – purpose through good deeds etc. – but the fear of death is a good selling point and snares many an adult.

I watched some programme on the beeb about how Christianity didn’t really get a hold in this country until the plague started wiping out the masses. Nothing was working to solve the death toll – all the herbal shit, snake oil and guff from the clever folk at the time failed to produce results and save people – except prayer. I can’t remember the exact reason but folk came to believe in the Christian god because it was the only thing that ‘saved’ them. Paraphrasing the enitre thing, obviously, but I would imagine that data can be found quite readily with strong Google Fu if anyone’s interested.

Just like I can sing Nessun Dorma without any clue as to what it means but still enjoy it. It would sound crap translated.

“I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about…”

🙂

God has lost interest in his “special project” and let it go to ruin

All through this thread I keep hearing this track running along nicely…

God didn’t build himself that throne
God doesn’t live in Israel or Rome
God belong to the yankee dollar
God doesn’t plant the bombs for Hezbollah
God doesn’t even go to church
And God won’t send us down to Allah to burn
No, God will remind us what we already know
That the human race is about to reap what it’s sown

the world’s shitiest x-man

Okay, I just choked on that one. Enough already – he’s an obvious troll with that shit, no…?

It was never direct communication anyway:-

We see through a glass, darkly…

Romans, Greeks and the Norse gods Odin, Thor, Zeus etc. they had their place at the time and the death of those civilisations ended them.

Clearly you haven’t grasped American Gods. In fact, I reckon one or two of those gods in your pic appeared much later in that weird 70s book The Joy Of Love.

Godly power is a simple matter of belief…

But being a bit more serious and a genuine question to the believers – is eternal life* a part of your belief and if so, would you buy into it if that wasn’t on the table?

Not as flippant as it reads; I have a genuine interest in the psychology and persistence of belief in the gods/God of any religion.

*By that I mean reincarnation, heaven, hell, the new system. Anything you like!

what am I doping

…has, I think, always been the question on folks lips.

😉

Or, shut up.

I was gonna get all up in your grill, but then…

Please accept my apologies, OP. Certainly didn’t mean it to sound that harsh! Sorry.

I love a nice bit of humility. Good man!

🙂

Apologies. Not mocking (too much) just tickled me as it was very “That is why you fail…”

Edit : …and what AdamW wrote, too. Being nice is A Good Thing. When was the last time you were nice to someone outside of your usual circle.

the faith comes first then your mind will be open.

Said someone on Dagobah in a galaxy far, far away…

Loving your interpretation of that bit of Leviticus, Turner Guy.

Hey!

My first car was a squits-coloured Allegro, you bastids.

^ 🙂

Before I fitted the stove I use now (around 20 years ago) I was warned of this so before I took the stove inside I had a good hot burn outside.

Strange having a stove cooking away heating up the whole of creation*…

*IANAB

Whu…?

Liked him as an actor – cast as a particular type on many occasions. Always enjoyable, tho.

Always looked like he needed a wash… 🙂

RIP, fella.

I reckon I can sing better than Ed I do however acknowledge that we all sound better in our heads!

I think you should post up something so we can be the judge.

And yeah, many tv progs demonstrate the latter half of the above quote. Your mates won’t have the balls to tell you you’re shit but I’m sure some folk on here will.

If you are, of course… 🙂

Definitely not. Some company is using for ads on TV at the moment and using quotes like…

“They don’t make films like this anymore.”

Thank ****!

Eh?

Why would I feel left out? I’m merely pointing out yet another opportunity for a bit more levity. I didn’t claim I wanted to be part of it, that’s you reading shit into it.

No surprise there…

Drac » Please god no!

Bravo Drac!

Drac wins the Internet for today.

Chapeau sir.

Chaps. You missed an opportunity for a group spoon and reach around before this masterpiece.

Drac’s earlier attempt…

but if the cap fits

Ah, gotcha.

In which case, no; I have a pin head, as per that other thread. 🙂

I’m stealing that bolt idea, Tomaso. Muchos mebranos!

I know we often put humour in threads (more often than not) but this isn’t even remotely amusing.

That’s not aimed at me, is it…?

Just tell yourself you’re Stirling Hamilmacher and you’re sorted.

Finger shoot yourself in the mirror to complete the affirmation…

if the passenger was close enough to hit me, the van has to have been way too close…

Unless, of course, it was someone with similar arm length to Perchypanther, then they’d be able to smack you from the other side of the road.*

*Joke, obvs. No one has arms as long as PP…

Edit : Also – anyone else seeing that shit Monty Python sketch about psycho cars when reading the thread title?