Posts by Chris S
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Cafe SETI :
English is really difficult to learn
(Message 1382478)
Posted 11 hours ago by  Chris S
Jimmy Mc Jimmy |
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SETI@home Science :
News article: Tweeting ET
(Message 1382477)
Posted 11 hours ago by Chris S
Well they've cocked it up to start with! We have a solar system because we have called our particular star, the sun, Sol from the Latin. Whatever their planetary system is called, they won't understand the term Solar system, because they won't have one. And they want to raise $100 million? I wouldn't suggest anyone holds their breath :-) |
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe
(Message 1382473)
Posted 12 hours ago by Chris S
Up around your way they would do. On the trip to Portsmouth I see quite a lot of badgers and foxes as road kill. |
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Cafe SETI :
TLPTPW # 189 Da Bulls
(Message 1382471)
Posted 12 hours ago by Chris S
This blade is quite sharp! [sorry ...] |
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Cafe SETI :
I never knew that!
(Message 1382458)
Posted 12 hours ago by Chris S
Make sure you don't get arrested :-))))) |
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Cafe SETI :
Raccoon Update XVII - All Are Welcome In the Critter Cafe
(Message 1382456)
Posted 13 hours ago by Chris S
It has taken me some time, but I have come to terms with hunting, provided that it is for food and not solely for sport. Being honest, I'm still struggling with that one :-( |
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Cafe SETI :
All our thoughts are just chemical reactions?
(Message 1382453)
Posted 13 hours ago by Chris S
They do say that the brain is partly self repairing, in that strokes can sometimes be by-passed by new synapses forming. |
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Cafe SETI :
English is really difficult to learn
(Message 1382451)
Posted 13 hours ago by Chris S
In the UK official English is indeed classed as "BBC English" which stems from the days when the announcers all wore evening dress even on the radio. When I was in the CB lark a few years ago we used to tell a breaker that he was coming across at "radio 4" to signify that his speech was clear and unmodulated. But given the relative small size of the UK there are a surprising number of quite strong regional accents. The Home Counties, the ones immediately surrounding London, are pretty much standard English, but go West to Cornwall or South to Hampshire and you will notice a twang in the speech. Travel north to the Midlands and Birmingham, Manchester, or Newcastle and they all have their distinct strong local dialects. Get as far as Scotland, and you might well struggle to understand what is being said, especially in Glasgow, I did! Then of course we have the sub-dialects and slang peculiar to London. In South London we tend to slur our speech a bit so it comes out as Sarf Lunnon. Go to the East End and you might hear "Wotcha cock, how ya doing me ol china?" which gets a reply "Fair to middlin my little flower". It all confuses the hell out of the tourists! Then of course you have West London and Kensington where a sign reading "This way to the creche" means there's been a car accident :-) Then to cap it all you have individual town styles, for example "one lives in ay-shah old chap, not Eee-sher"! Finally we have the linguistic somersaults like Churchill's famous quote "This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put". And they say French grammar is the worst to learn, nah not in my book it ain't, English as she is spoke is far harder :-) |
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Cafe SETI :
Rocky's Original Cafe - open 05-05-13
(Message 1382314)
Posted 23 hours ago by Chris S
I really must buy that geezer a beer one day! |
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Cafe SETI :
English is really difficult to learn
(Message 1382310)
Posted 23 hours ago by Chris S
Americans speak with a slow drawl, us English tend to be more clipped in our speech. The main problem is that the Americans have adopted this sort of phonetic spelling language, which is a lazy variation on real English. Also they have a simplistic system of describing items by their usage, particularly in automotive matters. We humor them :-) |
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Cafe SETI :
I never knew that!
(Message 1382309)
Posted 23 hours ago by Chris S
Pelican crossings can be a real pain between 8.30-9.30am, and 3.00-4.00pm and really slow the traffic down due to being operated every 30 seconds. In the morning it's just people going to work, and in the afternoon its the schools chucking out time. But they are the safest way to cross a road. At non busy times the traffic does keep flowing which can't be said for fixed sequence traffic lights. |
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Cafe SETI :
Weather forecasts
(Message 1382308)
Posted 23 hours ago by Chris S
The general synopsis at midday Scottish weather forecast There will be highs in the lowlands Lows in the highlands Strong winds up the Trossachs Rain in the Forth, Fifth, and Sixth But a braw bricht moonlicht nicht Och Aye the noo! |
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Cafe SETI :
I never knew that!
(Message 1382304)
Posted 23 hours ago by Chris S
We originally had Zebra crossings with a flashing Belisha beacon, named after Leslie Hore-Belisha, a Minister of Transport who introduced them in 1934. Then we had the Panda crossings in the 1960's which never caught on, nor the X-way, so the Pelican Crossings were introduced in 1969. |
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Politics :
Last Chance Hotel..come one, come all
(Message 1382299)
Posted 23 hours ago by Chris S
Still waiting to hear the real reasons why a 68 year old entered politics & into a party full of males who think women are only good for the kitchen & bedroom. And, since when do I need to justify myself to you on how I choose to live my life? I mentioned once before the reasons that I got involved in local politics, oh and 3 years ago at 65 if you must know. Just because you didn't like the answer you got is your problem not mine. You can wait forever as far as I'm concerned. You have got TROLL tattooed right across your forehead, as the many PM's about you that I have received in the past year, constantly point out. But it amuses me to sidetrack you with the facts. Of the 650 MPs, there are 503 male MPs, and 147 female MPs, a ratio of 77%-23%. There are currently 57 Lib Dem Mps, 48 male MPs, and 9 female MPs, including Baroness Susan Kramer. Baroness Sarah Ludford is a London MEP. A ratio of 84%-16%. Female Government Ministers are Lynne Featherstone, Jo Swinson, Jenny Wilcott, Sue Garden, Lindsay Northover, Jenny Randerson. Quite a notable achievement I would say. Parliament generally, do need to do more to encourage women to stand as MP's and for higher positions in their respective parties. I don't have figures to hand but I think you will find that of the 2,700 Lib Dem Councillors on local authorities across the UK, who run 19 Councils, a fairly good proportion are female. So locally women make a strong contribution, and I want to see that extended across the board at a higher level. We have a good number of female Councillors in my constituency and a current female Mayor, and damn good they all are too. who think women are only good for the kitchen & bedroom. Well there you have it girls, Sirius's condescending view of women. Says it all really doesn't it. p.s. Thanks for that post Skil, owe you one :-) |
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Politics :
Last Chance Hotel..come one, come all
(Message 1382235)
Posted 1 day ago by Chris S
Fr some time you've been castigating several crunchers for swearing or using such obvious "words" in a particular context that people can't help but think of the "correct" one that should have been used. Yes of course I have done, because I detest the use of the F word. The expletive that I recently used is a fairly mild one in contrast, and was richly deserved within the context that it was made. As already stated, it's do as I say not as I do where you're concerned! Don't be so obfuscating. So, it's front page crap is it? So online porn does not exist? Yes it is, and yes it does. Next? Before you carry on castigating a certain newspaper, you'd better attend your branch & kick up a stink about all your party members making torrid headlines for such newspapers I am well aware of the issue that you are referring to, and have already attended meetings regarding it. And as you will also know, I and others are unable to comment further due to ongoing inquiries and investigations. Which is also why the media have dropped it. |
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Politics :
Last Chance Hotel..come one, come all
(Message 1382222)
Posted 1 day ago by Chris S
Relatively honest" Of course the police SHOULD be totally honest, we all know that, but unfortunately we also all know that at times they are not. Cameron was simply admitting that. Our armed forces SHOULD be totally honest and up front as well. Unfortunately the Government is having to issue an apology and compensation for what happened in Kenya during Mau Mau uprising in the 50's, and it now appears that the former EOKA guerrillas are close behind them, looking for the same. It's no good sitting in your Ivory tower tut tutting that we don't have a perfect world, the rest of us already know that, we make allowances for that, and at least try to make things better. What we don't need are grumpy wanna be Mail reporters pointing out the obvious every 5 minutes. I suggest you go and talk to your new found constabulary friends in a North London trading Estate, and ask them what they think about their Plebgate colleagues. |
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Politics :
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily - revealed
(Message 1382114)
Posted 1 day ago by Chris S
+1 Robert |
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Cafe SETI :
Weather forecasts
(Message 1382110)
Posted 1 day ago by Chris S
Pull the other one its got bells on it .... Yet another Daily Mail silly report Tinkle tinkle tinkle |
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Cafe SETI :
I never knew that!
(Message 1382104)
Posted 1 day ago by Chris S
Be interesting to know what France does in this regard, and any other country. |
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Politics :
Last Chance Hotel..come one, come all
(Message 1382100)
Posted 1 day ago by Chris S
Absolutely typical Waily Fail front page crap, scurrilously stirring things up to make a cheap buck. Cameron admits he fears his own children will stumble across online porn: I worry every time they grab hold of the iPad, he says... so NOW will he act? Which tries to suggest that he will only act now that his OWN kids may be at risk, and before that he didn't care about anyone else's. Total and utter BO****KS. The government has had a long running program to deal with on line porn, and the Mail knows that very well. But we can see what this is all about can't we. [Sirius] voice on] This says it all! [Sirius voice off] Mr Cameron said there was no doubt that internet companies needed to do more on online pornography – the subject of a Daily Mail campaign Well there you go. A desperate, downmarket, tabloid newspaper, losing the circulation wars, hanging onto the shirt tails of Government initiatives, fully intending to claim any success as actually being down to them. Pathetic. If I was the PM I'd sue the bastards for libel. Mail front page crap |
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