scotty

So you dont think the locals were much impressed at the time then? I mean, if they had been we'd still be talking about it now, 2000 years later. Oh, hang on.....

Youre missing the point. Around that time, and at slightly different times around the globe, something happened that subsequently radically altered the thinking and behaviour of the people on those continents. We even use that point as the primary reference in our calendar. I dont believe or disbelieve in the concept of a "God", I'm saying that we couldnt recognise it and therefore shouldnt dismiss the possibility.

I am convinced that something pretty mindblowing happened around 2000 years ago, which is the blink of an eye in terms of human evolution. The fact that we refer nowadays to a year based on those events seems quite compelling to me. On another note, these debates invariably assume that we are at the absolute top of the pyramid in terms of evolution and understanding. Why would we assume that? Try explaining to your dog why you have to go to work to earn the money to buy his food and pay his vets bills, he wont have the capacity to understand it no matter how long you waste. And if you happen to keep an aquarium, those fish are never going to accept the possibility of another non-aqueous dimension, because even if they worked out how to get out of the tank, they wouldnt survive in it. I'm not religious, but I dont find it beyond the bounds of possibility that the religious explosion around 1AD may have been an attempt by someone/something to contact us and put our existence into a context we were capable of comprehending.

Dear god, what in the f*ck is that????

I've always been pretty sceptical tbh, but have a read through "the goldilocks enigma" by paul davies, then consider the sheer, overwhelming mathematical improbability of us existing at all unless it had been planned that way. The figures are jawdropping.

this.

I'll tell you when I'm dead.

A gypsy girl is about to get married. Her mum says, "Emerald, you do realise that on your wedding night your husband will want to stick his most prized possession in to where you plss?", daughter replies, "come off it, how the f*ck's he gonna fit his Transit in the sink?"

Funny you should mention that. I got chucked out of Waterstones this morning, they didnt like me moving her book into the "murder mystery" section.

Self hypnosis works. I have a book called "Super golf with self hypnosis" by Jack Heise. Got it when I was a schoolboy and played two rounds a day, the golf bits are not much help but the hypnosis techniques they talk you through are more effective than anything else Ive tried since. Its worth a punt, and even if you cant sleep at night the deep relaxation effect makes up for the lost sleep.

Thats an excellent point right there. When Russia was under the communists and the cold war was going on, I bet the average russian thought they were morally superior to the west in exactly the same way the western public thought we were. Simply because of our political system and what our glorious leaders told us....

Was that from when you were plssing blood mate?

That is f*cking disgusting. Good work jonny!

This is accurate. Thankfully I havent served time, but I have done some work in prisons in the midlands and I wouldnt want to be stuck in one. The usual daily mail b*llocks about it being a cushy number is utter sh*te, it irritates me whenever I read/hear that spouted.

How would that work? Viagra?

You might be planning that but I'm not. Lucky my mrs doesnt read this site, it might give her ideas. Far as Im concerned, those poxy ikea shelves in the flatpack, and the cupboard, have survived perfectly well for two years now, I see no reason to disturb them.

Nice one

Good advice mate, but he'll have left two hours ago

I can probably top the lot with a real one. I was at college with a pretentious upper-class tw*t who claimed his name was (deep breath..) Nicholas Mortimer Edgar Harlequin Ponsonby Hoggart-Hill Frye. Pick the bones out of that.

It certainly sounded that way in his post match interview, he sounded well down.

Looks like a schauzer crossed with a yorkie to me. Next time youre in the park, maybe ask the owner?

ffs, I signed in for this?

looks like a schnauzer/terrier cross? How big was it?

ghey euphemism alert

I bet they'd all be off your local takeaway menus