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Did someone drop a brick on your head half way through your post?

Thanks benj, I knew I could count on your support. Now if you could round up the other reactionary, synaptically challenged donkeys on here who've yet to vote, that would be great!

Do shut up, Deppo. I really want this one.

Apart from the need to say it, is there anything wrong with this though? Your suggestion that it's PC gone mad implies you'd rather people in UAE sit in their respective religious trenches.

Getting their Lordships to snort a few lines might liven the place up.

MacIntyre is the best comedian EVER - just like you're the bestest, least racist, least obnoxious and extremely not thick poster EVER. Are we clear now?

I was pulling his leg ESB - it wasn't the point I was making.

To elaborate (because the penny evidently STILL hasn't dropped), this thread is only incidentally a quiz; it's main point is to witness your witless rage. Good job so far!

Whole point of thread.

4) 32 weeks gestation (premature birth) 7) 2 Houses of Parliament (Lords, Commons) 12) 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for Mother Teresa (where were you dune?) 18- Talking 19 to the dozen 21) 4 chambers in a human heart 24) 4 Kings in a card game 29) 2 Es in a Heil Hitler 39) 128, two to the power of seven 52) 3 card monte. 55) The 7 sacraments, Catholic Church

You fibber! I went onto that thread and you didn't offer any kind of boiler help whatsoever. Not a damn thing. As for CERN, is this work being done by scientists or 'scientists'?

Well it seems Jeremy Hunt is more 'entrenched' than he seems. He's actually in the pocket of the Murdochs, breaking civil service rules in pursuit of his obeisance to the Great Rupert (and son). No wonder the Tories got Cable the elbow from this. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/22/conservative-links-murdoch-private-meeting

You! Back to your dark room! Now!

No I'm really not.

Okay God. Sorry.

Phil, I know I've been hard on you - but put down the bottle! This is all over the place. I'm trying to sort out your 'one line of code' stuff (unspecified) from your claim that the UK has the highest per capita carbon footprint (actually it's Qatar, with - guess what? - UAE in third place!).

Was I talking to you? Was I?

Oh, Im sorry. When you said 'engineer' I didn't realise you meant 'The Great Engineer', aka God. So my humblest apologies. But I don't need to give them do, I, because you are all-seeing. And I only thought 'dumbass' - such impure thoughts - when I read your earlier posts; I didn't actually write it - so will you forgive me?

Well, you took your sweet time. Slow google connection? First things first, I think we can both agree that the WSJ article is about as authoritative as anything written on here...or maybe a bit less. The author, according to his own blurb accompanying that piece, won a prize, you know! (For creative writing). Freeman Dyson is another kettle of fish - being as he is the eminence gris (really, I thought he was dead) of modern 'out there' scientific thinking. He is probably best-known for his musings about our imminent lives on other colonised, 'terrafirmed' planets. And such. What he says is interesting and challenging - he is, after all, good at that; it's what he does and has done all his life. He lambasts Al Gore (not a scientist but a politician) and James Hansen for said 'lousy' science. Hansen, unlike Gore, is one of the big gorillas of climate change science. He was among the first to warn of the onset of global warming in 1988 (Whitey Grandad was probably there but sleeping at the time because as he just said, he 'didn't notice'). Steven Weinberg - actually a more eminent scientist, in the sense that he is famous for actually discovering something and getting, unlike Dyson, a Nobel for it (and someone, to namedrop, I've met) - has an interesting comment: “I have the sense that when consensus is forming like ice hardening on a lake, Dyson will do his best to chip at the ice.” In other words, any consensus is like a red rag to a bull with FD. It doesn't mean the consensus is wrong. Contrarians like Dyson have their place, certainly. But his charges are asked and answered, even within the confines of that oh-so-long NYT piece. So humble apologies not accepted Phil. Try or grovel harder. Happy Christmas!

Being an engineer.

Third post, eh? In which case... Not another 'where there's muck there's brass', 'I'll ave-a-go' entrepreneur whose self-pulled bootstraps are strained to breaking point! There are so many on here! And I believe every word. The point I was making about the private health system is that it's a one-way street. They **** up - the NHS fixes it. The NHS ****s up, the privates do not fix it.

I'm hurt. Now go away and try to THINK. Then we can have a sensible debate.

Stop doing a Phil and answer the question, grandad. I want to know how you're qualified to determine the 'simplistic' sciences you've complaining about. Being an engineer doesn't cut it. Quote an informed, peer-reviewed critique, then your claim might be a bit more credible.

Not a proper one, no. Pretend, wannabe - you get the drift. Engineering, like,say, architecture, is dependent obviously on a number of sciences, like physics. But you're not a physicist - nor a climate scientist. So about that methodology problem...

I suppose I should give up trying to make sense of your posts. How can you both 'leave him alone' and get him 'more exposure'. Here's a suggestion: go away and sit in a dark room for a while. When you feel some synapses reconnecting (you'll hear the echo) come back and post something sensible. I wait in anticipation (or is that in vain?)