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I used to tell the junior IT Techies at work that the Architect in The Matrix was based on me.

"....... Of course you are my bright little star, I've miles And miles Of files Pretty files of your forefather's fruit And now to suit our Great computer, You're magnetic ink" ( In the Beginning - The Moody Blues )

There are estimated to be 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. There are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in our galaxy alone, and it is estimated that there may be 100 billion planets. If Man is so important to God, that's an awful lot of wasted effort.

The whole Jesus story was a set up, ( as if Judas had a choice ), and if you are God, you can do what you want. It's 'Do as I say" not 'Do as I do'. Most religious texts are a control mechanism.

King Henry VII's mother was 13, and a widow after the death of her second husband, when he was born. Placing current day social and moral values on events several hundreds, if not thousands, of years in the past is moot.

Up to 2013 the age of consent in the Vatican City was 12, in is still 14 for girls who are married.

It is, but probably has no real connection to the life of Jesus.

Turks, Christmas Day was set by the early Catholic Church to effectively overwrite the pagan festival celebrating the Solstice. They made the decision to name it as Jesus' birth date as it falls conveniently close to a point 9 months after the suggested date of his death, and there is an ancient historical tradition of matching the birth and death dates of religious prophets. So, to give ML:G a Get Out of Jail Free card, he could quite legitimately say that he was taking part in a pagan tradition. Also, if you follow one of the Russian Eastern Orthodox faiths, Christmas Day falls on Jan 7th, as they use the Julian calendar. And curiously, in England and Wales, Christmas Day did not become a Bank Holiday until 1971. Before then it was counted as a Public Holiday through tradition, without being enshrined in Law.

Because their contracts of employment state that they can take the day off. There is no legal right to not working on Christmas day.

They could always remove the concept of offside from the rulebook. Why not just rely on the position of the players' feet, as they do in rugby and the NFL to determine if a ball has gone out of play. Far easier to judge and accept.

It is highly unlikely that December 25th is actually the date of Jesus's birth, it is, however, the date of a pagan festival that the early Christian church wanted to subvert. Similarly, Easter is a floating date, and therefore not directly related to the last week of Jesus' life. Rather it again borrows a pagan concept related to phases of the moon, another festival the early church wanted to take control of.

MOTD is going to have a field day tonight.

Marriner wouldn't have taken it.

This.

We must have the lowest total number of shots on target in home games in the entire Football League.

If things stay as they are, Villa will still be above Watford. Hardly getting 'cut adrift'.

I think the point is to question why, for instance, you didn't choose to do so on November 23rd, or May 11th.

But the Bible is a collection of selected texts; the Old Testament is a group of volumes originating in an orally transmited history, eventually written down in an arcane language, and subsequently serially translated through Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. The New Testament is a selected group of stories, taken from a far wider canon of works, put together through a series of meetings of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, to satisfy the particular views of the heads of those Churches at those times. ( Hence why the NT in particular rewrites Mary Magdalene ). Subsequent translation from Latin to English, so the Henry VIII could set himself up as the head of a new Church, and get both a divorce and the wealth of the Catholic monastries, means that you have to ask, which version of The Bible is, in fact the Word ?

Kante inadvertently played the pass that Armstrong was intending.

The Redmond finished 'team' goal started when, despite being isolated upfield against 2 defenders, he won a throw in level with the Chelsea penalty box. Bertrand took the throw and something like 18 passes later, and involving most of the Saints outfield players, the ball was in the Chelsea net.

No.

O'Bafemi with a cracking finish.

Crowd influenced booking.

Saving players for the Palace game ?

Some more selective quoting from the same article; "However, this could leave the annual growth rate at barely more than 1pc, down from 1.2pc to 1.3pc in 2019." "Whatever the Brexit drama delivers in 2020, it seems that uncertainty will continue to hold back GDP growth and keep a lid on the pound, interest rates and gilt yields" "This combination of another year of uncertainty ahead of the agreement on the future relationship with the EU, plus a weak global economy threatens to keep a lid on business investment despite the progress made to pass the initial deal by the end of January." "Overall we think the fact that the transition period is likely to be only a year is going to leave quite a lot of uncertainty for businesses. The possibility of a cliff edge at the end of the year is quite high, which is not great news. It is not something we’re likely to see resolved early – it is likely to drag until much later."