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That sounds about right. Bullying Socialist types trying to impose their views on others. Nevermind the fact that your wife is likely better off with the new deal. It's all about them and they couldn't care less about others.

Does it state what time you have to "check in" for departure? 12.15 from Winchester is really cutting it fine even though police outriders and logistical measures should mean a clear run.

I said a while back that West Ham are the favourites and that I expected them to win the league. I'd be well happy with either 1st or 2nd.

She should ignore them. I bet she is better off with the new pension deal. It's only the upper echelons that are worse off.

Michael Gove is spot on when it comes to the Trades Union scum. Here's what he says about some union leaders: They want families to be inconvenienced. They want mothers to give up a day's work, or pay for expensive childcare, because schools will be closed. They want teachers and other public sector workers to lose a day's pay in the run-up to Christmas. They want scenes of industrial strife on our TV screens; they want to make economic recovery harder; they want to provide a platform for confrontation just when we all need to pull together.

Yes. Good news as it will keep the BOE base rate at .5% and makes my switch into corporate bonds (perfectly timed just after the standing down of Berlusconi when the FTSE was at 5700) looking a good bet for the next 3 years at least.

Lower to mid pay public sector workers will be better off. This strike is ridiculous.

What is b/llocks is the the reason for the new testament, and a lot of the content, but there is truth in parts if you read between the lines and remember that it is essentially propaganda. What you need to understand Andy is that we are talking about text written a long time ago, long after events, and as such you cannot rely on it, but what you can do is study the writings in a scholarly fashion to try to see if there is some historical fact in there. The plagues of Egypt is an example of where strange events can be explained and it gives us an insight into what could happen to us. This makes it valuable because it gives us an historical precedent to a cataclysmic event. Do you understand now youth?

Congratulations!

Keep digging. You have just provided us with an insight into your own ability. I would suggest you do some historical research before replying with another uneducated contribution.

You aren't a very good history teacher in that case. There re many truths written in the bible.

As I expected.

A good example of why the bible does have some merits as a historical document. The ten plagues The first plague - river water turned to blood The second plague - frogs The third plague - gnats The fourth plague - flies The fifth plague - death of livestock The sixth plague - boils The seventh plague - hail The eighth plague - locusts The ninth plague - darkness The tenth plague - death of the firstborn The pfisteria theory The pfisteria theory provides one explanation of the first six plagues. In 1999 an environmental catastrophe happened in the town of New Burn, North Carolina. The residents woke up to find the waters of their river - the Neuse - had turned red. More than a billion fish died. People working near the river found that they were covered in sores. The cause of this was found to be pollution. The pollution had come from a pig farm further up the river. Millions of gallons of pig-waste had found its way into the river, causing a genetic mutation in a marine micro-organism called pfisteria; turning it from harmless into lethal. The river had been poisoned. John Marr, an epidemiologist specialising in environmental disasters, believes pollution in ancient Egypt could have caused the first six plagues. Pfisteria, or something like it, caused the fish to die, thus turning the river red; the pollution would have driven the frogs onto the land, on land the frogs would die, causing an explosion of flies and lice. The flies could then have transmitted viral diseases to livestock, killing them. The volcano theory Could a volcano have triggered the ten plagues? On 18th May 1980, in north-western USA, Mount St Helens volcano erupted, killing everything within 20 miles. Ash columns were ejected into the atmosphere, circling the globe within two weeks and causing complete darkness over a radius of 100 miles. Could a natural phenomenon on this scale have triggered the plagues? John Marr, epidemiologist, thinks that fall-out of volcanic ash could have produced a toxic bloom of algae in the River Nile; thus setting off a chain of events similar to those produced by pfisteria. Santorini The volcanic theory seems dubious because there is no active volcano in Egypt. But 500 miles to the north of the Nile delta is the Greek island of Santorini. In the 16th century BCE, Santorini was blown apart by a gigantic volcanic eruption that was thousands of times more powerful than a nuclear weapon. It was one of the biggest explosions of the last 10,000 years. The ash cloud from the Santorini blast would have been huge and far-reaching. Could the effects of this eruption have reached as far as Egypt? When Santorini erupted, the wind was blowing in a south-easterly direction, towards Egypt. Samples of Santorini ash have been collected from the sea bed, the heaviest concentrations being in the direction of the Nile Delta. Oceanographer Dr Daniel Stanley, went to the Delta to drill for samples of mud and silt to see if the ash could have reached Egypt. He found volcanic shards that can be firmly related to the explosion. He says: 'I think it would have been a frightening experience. It would have been heard, the event. The blast ash fall would have been felt.' So how could this have been the trigger for the plagues? Mike Rampino, a climate modeller from New York University, has run a computer simulation to look at the climatic effects of the Santorini blast. The ash cloud passing overhead would have completely cut out the sun and plunged the Delta into darkness. This would have been accompanied by the kind of unusual weather seen after volcanic eruptions – lightening and perhaps hail. This would explain two of the 10 plagues – darkness and hail. The ash cloud would have caused temperatures to drop by up to 2ºC, which would have reduced rainfall in the Delta and could have led to a drought. With river levels dropping, the water would have begun to stagnate. Combined with the poisonous minerals that were raining down from the ash cloud, the Nile would have become a deadly cocktail and conditions would have been ripe for an outbreak of further plagues.

Does anyone know why he did it?

Are you saying the plagues of Egypt weren't fact?

Ooops I mean Andy.

So would you rather the barbaric bits (crucifixion was real Mikey) were omited so you don't get upset?

Has he implemented any changes to help you deal with controlling your class? I remember you talking about being sworn at and being upset that you could do nothing about it.

Just for Andy.

I have tried and got bored after about a chapter. It doesn't read well.

Let's be honest, it's all b/llocks written by monks years after the supposed events. And it was written to control and to make money. With the break up of the Roman Empire there was a need for some other form of control. Hey presto Roman Catholicism was born. Much like our attempt of a commonwealth after Labour gave away our Empire. I used to read Terry Brooks novels (better than Tolkein by a long way) and that's kind of biblical because many of the groups derive from legend and myth which might have been true. For example elves and sh/t like that, why not? It's highly likely that other branches of humans lived and died out before documentation of history.

And me.

Audi's go on forever too. Basically any German car is built to last and they are solid, and that also makes them safer if you have a crash.

I use Mobil 1 ESP 0W-30.