Pugwash

Love the Silence of the Lambert!

So only four of them are brave enough so far? Can't wait for Joanna Lumley and Joan Collins...

Bloody hell. Half a BILLION pounds can re-float a sunken cruise ship, but it couldn't stop p*mpey from sinking to the bottom of the league.

That's the one. Really good programme - no pun intended!

Wechsler sounds familiar, but they were 30+ years ago and the memory isn't what it was!

There was a good TV docu-drama a couple of years ago about the rise and fall of Sinclair's company. I seem to remember it was quite enlightening and changed a lot of opinions about the man.

Quite correct. I'd also like to point out there is no single 'benchmark' test either. I've taken three different tests (long time ago), and did significantly better in the logical/math/analytical types against the verbal/linguistic/recall test. Didn't know the NHS used IQ tests though. And no, GS, I'm not going going to tell you the results. As Verbal has said, they would be meaningless in today's context.

...and your real name is Sheldon Cooper?

Agree. Good Post.

Another vote for Looper. Liked Oblivion a lot. Thought Andrea Riseborough stole the acting credits and, yes Bearsy, she does get her kit off (a bit).

That's pensions - 'pompey-style'.

I wonder if it's personal/morale issues with him. He does have talent, but perhaps he's the type of player who needs encouraging words and an arm round the shoulder, as he doesn't seem to have adapted to the UK as well as Yoshida. MP seems to have that ability, so perhaps there is hope for Lee?

Just picking up on a point SaintBletch made about expandability. You can use USB sticks on a Nexus with a OTG (on-the-go) micro-USB cable from Amazon and a $2.50 app. I've got a couple of 32GB sticks with movies and various PDFs, music, etc, that I can use with my Nexus 7. Very handy on my recent transatlantic flight.

Worth reading the posted comments, though. People from across the country are recognising his qualities.

Sorry GM, been away for a few days, but did see your rant on my phone. Poor recall for a scientist haven't you? Let me remind you. You started the abuse first: Seems you were likening me to a ranting aggressive little dictator who has little respect for his own people. I'll come back to that point. Chlorpyrifos: Exactly which parts of the EPA summaries don’t you agree with? Do you deny that the product has in fact been withdrawn from domestic use due to health concerns? Do you deny their conclusions that there is significant risk to foetal brain development? Have you actually read the reports yourself or are you just dissembling? Okay, let’s address the DDT issue then. The malaria eradication campaign spawned in the fifties already knew about its highly-chronic toxicity, but considered the eradication of malaria to be more important. They also knew, as early as 1946 that regular use tended to produce widespread resistance within four to seven years – as has proven to be the case. Its persistence in the environment and diminishing effectiveness was the reason that the programme was abandoned in 1969 - THREE YEARS before it was banned. So to blame the deaths of 50m africans on the ban is misleading. Yes, it saved a lot of lives in the short term and eradicated the disease from 37 countries. However , its continuing (yes, continuing) use in certain West African countries as a simple insecticide has actually increased resistance in the local mosquito population. So let's summarise: - You can't spell or string a sentence together coherently. - You don't research and read reports thoroughly. - You lack objectivity and jump to conclusions. - You can't admit when you're wrong. - You're incapable of calm reasonable debate. Exactly what kind of 'scientist' are you? Seems you're more like that Kim Jong-Un chap you referred to earlier. Frankly, it's a toss-up as to whose advice I would prefer to listen. I would like to close with an apology to the OP for going off-topic. The plight of bees is certainly a subject that deserves further discussion, so I will withdraw from posting further on this thread in the hope that this will allow calm reasoned debate to be resumed.

I get the impression that MP isn't too worried about width and would rather persevere with trying to play through the middle. It's almost as if he wants to carry on playing that way regardless, in the belief that the players will get better at it and start to create more openings.

Monk's advocate touched on an important point about parents and kids' coaches. Friends of mine have a couple of football-mad kids and they go along and support them at the games. However a lot of the parents' attitudes and behaviour is totally inappropriate, bullying and often bordering on violence. It knocks the kids' confidence and enjoyment to the extent that one of them (9 years old) is reluctant to go along now and the coach (who was no great shakes, to be fair) has been forced out. So often it's not the kids' attitude or enthusiasm at fault, it's the parents who need to look to their own behaviour.

Long, long time (1978 ) since I was in Glasgow. Seems to be totally different to those dark days, so might be worth a re-visit.

I missed the link in your previous post, so I followed it and did a little more research on chlorpyrifos (Dursban) and its derivatives. I stand corrected in that Dursban was banned only for domestic use (in the US), not large-scale agricultural use. Clearly though the EPA review documents referred to by your link, whilst still inconclusive in many areas and recommending the continuation of the review process, do raise concerns particularly of Neurotoxicity at quite low exposure levels. I admit to having only studied the executive summaries and therefore must trust to their veracity. On this basis I fail to comprehend your inference that it is somehow a 'safe' product. As it happens I don't buy into the 'GM is bad' (GM being Genetically-Modified, not you) argument. That's something I have researched in some depth, so don't make crass, indiscriminate judgements about people's knowledge, opinions or political persuasions. And by the way, don't call me a chimp. I'm perfectly confident in my own intellect and am pretty certain you're further down the food chain.

Thank you Verbal, you've pretty much said what I was going to say. In particular his little rant persuades me that he falls more into the category of fascist than into the category that I alluded to at the end of my last post. GM - Perhaps you would care to comment on/discredit/rant about this article on Dursban: http://www.bhopal.net/delhi-marchers/factsheets/Dursban.pdf Or this article: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/09/ban-wasnt or: http://www.yourlawyer.com/topics/overview/dursban Not that you could ever make a persuasive argument against these without resorting to personal abuse, due to your clearly apparent lack of respect for other posters' opinions and views. And you wonder why people are signing this petition when the champion of the opposing viewpoint comes across as a raving loon?

Absolute ****** GM. Of course you want to be patronising. Notwithstanding your clear knowledge and understanding of the science, you're being extremely naive if you imagine that Bayer and the others are bringing the lawsuits for altruistic reasons arising from a genuine concern for the integrity of the food chain. You've already mentioned the word - profit. The two-year EU moratorium on the three neonicotinoids concerned is surely a sensible course of action when their safety is brought into question by a learned body, is it not? The safety of these products is also being questioned by the US EPA, not just the EU. So surely caution should be the byword. Or are we to relax the controls (as we so often do in Europe and the UK) to allow indiscriminate use of these chemicals until they're discovered to be dangerous fifteen years down the line. DDT anyone? Or perhaps something like Dursban - prohibited for use in the US in 2000, but American companies continue to manufacture it for use abroad, including in Europe. Is that ethical? I don't doubt the integrity and competence of most scientists. After all, science is all about questioning and testing things rigorously, is it not? Unfortunately, many corporate capitalists of the world are all too eager to massage the egos of the Self-Important and Opinionated of the scientific fraternity into lending support and credibility to their most profitable current cause.

Done

Met the guy once - arrogant to$$er.

That's the kind of game where Puncheon could have made a difference.