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Baby oil!? I think I'll stick with canola.

Because it is so good, it's unreal.

I struggle with Real Estate...I mean, who would buy Imaginary Estate?

Given that it's been developed by a Russian startup, it's only a matter of time before we see Vlad posing on one with his shirt off...

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So far, so good.

So, what happened after Bill put the bird food on the ducks???

I'm strugglin' wi' the Phil osophical implications o' this...

Not really a silly picture.

But a quad vegetable slicer: what could possibly go wrong???

Hoverbike inspired by Star Wars

A bit mean on the toast there, I thought.......(

M...and that black one needs to get his tail down...(

( SIng this. . .) 'The square of the hypotenuse of a right triy--angle. . .is equal to. . the sum of the square of the two adjacent sides. . . .' 

 

x = 25 Divide by the square root = 6.25mm. . . . .

 

 

 

Ask me another. . . . .

Hence the squaw on the hippopotamus hide was equal to the sons of the squaws on the other two hides...

( SIng this. . .) 'The square of the hypotenuse of a right triy--angle. . .is equal to. . the sum of the square of the two adjacent sides. . . .' 

 

x = 25 Divide by the square root = 6.25mm. . . . .

 

 

 

Ask me another. . . . .

If it takes 3 women 9 months to make 4 babies, how many babies will 7 women make in 6 months???

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We once built a pole house, designed by architect but drawn up by a draughtsman...who then moved windows so he could get drainpipes down.

Or would have done if we hadn't told him to put the f******** things back and reroute his pipes.

Maybe the old fashioned kick up the ass for apprentices and journeymen who made stupid mistakes actually had some benefits???

Hm...and I always imagined 1st class to be full of falcon Bankers and the like...........)

Maybe not silly...but certainly unusual? Well, it's not something we see a lot of here, anyway.....

Apparently UAE have issued 28,000 falcon passports....while Lufthansa have a patented inflight perch...

Why do women's bums look so good to me?

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Here y'are....something to cheer you lot up....)

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It's not another example of the Lord working in mysterious ways is it? Nev

Now I'll have to do it again.

Because while resentment is a perfectly legitimate emotion, sustained resentment is a waste of time and energy, and worse. It is, as the late Carrie Fisher said, like drinking poison, then waiting for the other party to die. And it seems to me there's a great deal of it here.

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I think with the advance of knowledge which has been exponential in the last century, we've accumulated a large degree of scepticism of the traditional "church" view of things and rightly so. The church was around long before many things were understood so its traditional views were based partly on an interpretation of religious scripture, and partly on superstition. Effectively the church's "best guess" - which often wasn't a very good one.

As far as acknowledging what is good and decent behaviour I think the church gets too much credit for this. There is one prime method by which we learn at a young age to distinguish good behaviour from bad behaviour: our parents. This gets proven over and over again. Some moral behaviour is innate as we see from experimental observation of animals, especially in the primates and their cousins. However it's widely accepted, and in fact pretty obvious in most cases, that the influence of our early parenting is very strong. We see this in both good behaviour and bad behaviour to the point that if you've had that grounding from your parents, even those who behave badly later in life are fully aware of it (regardless of whether they care or not).

 

I've sometimes been asked: "if you didn't get your morals from the Bible, where did you get them from?" My answer is simply "from my parents".

Though one would have to consider 2000years of the 10 commandments a reasonable sort of reminder, regardless of how one felt about their authorship?

Bob that's what I used to think, but now we know that many influential people -particularly in the early USA- publicly professed scepticism about the biblical version of things. Some were openly atheist. Now it appears that paying lip service to the church is essential to get ahead in The Land of the Free.

Which probably says more about humanity as a whole (including deists, atheists, agnostics and skeptics) than it does about anything else?

Go back 100years and most western people would have said they believed in Christianity. Since then, that position seems to have reversed itself.

And while our grandparents might only have been paying lip-service, what that taught (amongst other things) was that we should aspire to various sorts of good behaviour. And those behaviours were spelled out.

I am not a churchgoer myself, but it seems to me the demise of church has left a void when it comes to acknowledging what is good and decent behaviour.

Interesting article, Phil.

My kids are worried about the sun exploding. As much as I tell them they don't have to worry, as it's probably about 4 billion years in the future, they still do.Our tiny little brains have trouble with really big numbers.

Don't like to think of (little) kids worrying, though nowadays they must grow up potentially swamped by everyday bad news.

Hopefully they don't lose sleep over that one.

What I told my kids was that so many of today's fears never seem to eventuate...and that the major concerns of today never seem to be the major concerns of tomorrow or next year.

The other analogy on evolution is using a 24 hour clock to measure the 4.5 billion years the planet has been here and we came down from the trees at about 2 seconds to midnight.

What struck me (also) was how relatively long and presumably stable the dinosaur period was.

That, and had we been 5 minutes earlier or later than the asteroid that seems to have finished it for them, and our own cosy niche may never have come to be?

PS: 13.8 billion at last estimate...but what's a few billion between friends???..........)