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Just curious: what places would you deem inappropriate, Col?

I have to say that moment when they are all lying on the grass, watching the night sky ... which begins to swirl and ripple into a Van Gogh painting, was quite exceptional.

^^I wonder if it's not so much the 'teaching' of children about religion, more a case of seeding them with a superstitious neurosis that can be pretty hard to break out of, even during adulthood.

But what I wanna know is: is Segovius still here? Or has he gone now?

Nobody miss me then? I've been away for donks. Hopefully there be a few old faces around to say hello to again! Can't believe nobody missed me in the MIA thread. Ah well...

Bloody Hell - I thought you were banned, Kathaksung. What happened, did feds relent? (It's actually quite nice to have Kathak back, really - his mind really is a Fortean thing unto itself, and quite fascinating when observed in action.)

Which may not be too far from the truth. After all, isn't 'Morris' dancing supposed to be a corruption of 'Moorish' dancing? Said hip moves having been exported over here years ago by Moor sailors*. Or something. (*Pre-emptive warning about Segovius. Though one is not likely to find him...

I seriously liked this film. The Apartheid theme was heavy handed, but there was a lot of elegant satire in there as well. I particularly liked the way the humans were so eager to stockpile the alien weaponry, even though they (we?) couldn't use it. Put me in mind of the cold war. The...

Methinks Segovius doth protest too much about Dawkins. Methinks Segovius secretly luvs him.

Stink bombs, possibly - but they've been found in a neighbour's garden too, as explained in a previous post, and it seems unlikely that the culprits would be operating in two gardens owned by people who are unrelated. BTW, the people I'm referring to are my parents' neighbours, who are indeed...

Now, I could attempt to refute your argument by saying that rationalism is a concept whereas hot or cold is a physical state based upon the flow of sub-atomic particles or something ... but I really can't be arsed, because I know you'll just come back - as you always do - with a semi-coherent...

:rofl: Segovious, you are the Richard Littlejohn of this forum. All these damned militant atheist nutters taking our forums and 'attacking from the rear' in public debates. Next thing you know, they'll be hanging around the school gates, enticing children into rationalist discourse while...

Still disappointed that Rossetti's pet wombat hasn't yet made an appearance on Desperate Romantics tho.

But who decides what is rational? You? Richard Dawkins? Pastor Fred Phelps? Each and every one of us has his or her own ideas of what is rational, and each can hold up some nebulous touchstone as to what 'rationality' should consist of. When it comes down to it, anyone who says something along...

Speaking of eating people - or at least peopley stuff - does anyone remember Dr Magnus Pyke, the gesticulating scientist from the 1970s programme Don't Ask Me? Well, turns out that while working for the wartime Ministry of Food, he proposed a novel way of dealing with the excess blood plasma...

That's what I'd have thought too - but it is known that foxes do display cache behaviour, particularly with regard to the 'chicken-coop slaughter' that dismays so many farmers/smallholders or whatever, and which leads a lot of people to anthropomorphise the fox as a nasty, vicious animal that...

I don't think the costume's too bad - as an earlier poster pointed out, it's very 1950s Ivy-league professor ... which seems to suit Matt's frame. However, look at the middle shot from the link posted above, and check out the size of his feet! Guess it means he has a bigger sonic screwdriver...

Bit of an update: I've been chatting to my mum, who has been chatting to the neighbours, and I can now confirm a few things: All the eggs have been raw. One egg was broken, the rest have been intact. Considering the amount of paving and hard surfaces in the garden, it pretty much rules out...

Basically, it looks to me like a lot of publishers jumping on the bandwagon. Seems to have started with 'A Child Called It' by Dave Pelzer, which became a massive bestseller - thus revealing a new genre (I call it Misery Porn) that publishers hadn't really considered before. Ergo, instant market...

Ho ho. Down here, we refer to that much unadmired hairdo as the Pompey Pineapple.

Mitchell & Webb are a hoot. I've been to see them live, though I think they are at their funniest in Peepshow. The sketch show can be little hit and miss at times, but when they do get a hit it is exceedingly funny. The WW2 German 'Are we the baddies?' sketch from their first ever show is a...

Bloody hell. You know, when it comes to Dawkins, I so often recall Dr Evil talking to Scott: "Scotty [or Dawky, if you prefer], you just don't get it, do you." (In a similar parallel with Austin Powers, I can picture Dawkins again in the Scotty role, brandishing the deadly GUN OF REASON -...

Hmmm ... haven't thought of that. But I guess the eggs themselves must be raw, as the neighbours haven't made any comment other than that they keep turning up in the garden, and all have been intact. Still, will check, just to be sure. Town. Suburban. No real countryside for miles. (just the...

Over the past couble of months, my parents' neighbours have been finding eggs in their back garden. Chickens can be ruled out, because the eggs are lion marked, and my theories concerning how they must have got there have been stumped for the following reasons: If the eggs were deposited by...

Just popped through my letterbox as I was perusing this forum. Splendid!

He's also a collector of special forces memorabilia, having been involved with the Long Range Desert Group as an intelligence officer during ww2.

Interestingly enough, India de Beaufort's IMDB rating has gone up 241% in the last few days. Can't think why...

That's not Sherlock Holmes, that's arse! Maybe if it was some generic Victorian/Edwardian adventurer - a la Adam Adamant - it might be a bit more respectable. But it's not Holmes. And though it is true that Holmes was adept at a martial art - In one story (I forget which, sorry) he...

God knows why they do it. The only really unusual thing about it was that the flasher was female - streakers aside (where the motive doesn't usually seem sexual), male flashers are two a-penny, but the women ones are a lot more unusual (in more ways than one, I'd guess!)

I doubt it. As in any sport, it's the results that count, and Hamilton will be remembered as a champion (in at least one season), with this particular incident forgotten. It happened with Schumacher, after all - and many, many times at that.

Lol - many years ago I walking along the street when a bloke with a leg of lamb under his arm walked up to me. "Do you wanna buy this leg of lamb?" he asked. "No thanks," I said, and hastily moved on. OH - that reminds me: I think I once saw a ... well, a lady flasher along the same...

Speaking of games, I remember that in the mid 1980s, a super-game called 'Psyclapse & Bandersnatch' was winging its way towards the 8-bit wonders we knew and loved, and that it was so good, all other games paled by comparison. I distinctly recall the teaser ads in Your Computer - a group of...

re: the post by Special Farces concerning 'Paul'. Weirdly enough, I once met a 'Paul' (name in quote marks, as one cannot even be sure of that by now) who was what some would, I suppose, call a pathological liar. In a nutshell, he wanted to buy a car off my dad. Fair enough, you might...

Yep. Apparently, you can find the Hebrew variation of 'UTTER BOLLOCKS' throughout every text they analysed.

The F1 authorities really do seem to have it in for Mclaren - apparently, there has been some 'history' between the team and Ecclestone and Mosley. It's a bit unfair, considering that one would expect the ruling body of any sport to be impartial. True, the Hamilton fibbing incident certainly...

I think it's all down to dry laundry tickets, personally.

Is it just me ... or does the Planet of the Dead trailer have more than a whiff of 'Pitch Black' about it?

What the finkin' hell is this thread about?

Yeah ... and especially so when it comes to religion.

Stephen King has written some cracking short stories as well - 'The Raft', which featured in some portmanteu film or other (I think it was Creepshow 2), is one of his best. As for his novels, 'The Stand' remains a favourite - as it does for a lot of his fans - and I found 'From a Buick 8'...

Yeah, don't get me wrong - Alan Moore has written some fine, fine stuff, especially From Hell, which remains one of my favourite books. Regarding Watchmen, I think it was down to the fact that he was experimenting with a form that was somewhat staid and stylistically hackneyed back then, so a...

Actually... no, you're right Colpepper. In my eagerness to disagree with Segovius (I dunno, he just brings it out in me) I sorta, uh, compromised myself, and 'twas as painful and embarrassing as it sounds. In truth, I like plenty of modern art - Antony Gormley in particular - but people like...

Saw the film the other day and liked it. Considering both the density and difficulty of the source material, I think everyone involved did the best they could to bring it to the screen in a workable form. Must say though, I'm a bit mystified why the back-story of Rorshach's mask wasn't even...

LOL. Frankly, Segovius, very little of what you say makes sense to me. As I shall illuminate: Nope. The point was about the supposed profundity of the sayings. Some people are impressed by them; but some people are impressed by modern art and menus that refer to custard as creme anglais too...

My £0.02 on the Harpur article: there may be holes in evolutionary theory, but even bigger MEGA SWISS CHEESE ONES in the creationist/ID alternative. In fact, Harpur's essay was so mind-numbingly stupid I couldn't even be bothered to finish it. Fundamental problem (if we're talking specifics)...

Or maybe the paradox itself proves just how nonsensical a religion like Islam is (along with similar ones - which I have discussed in other forums - concerning christianity). Dressing it up as a Zen Koan in order to make a profundity out of the paradox is a funny tactic, however, and for two...

What I can never fathom from these sorts of stories is who, exactly, thought it would be a good idea to eat such rotten food in the first place? Cheese infested with maggots? Luvly. But hold the crackers - I'll have some leper scabs instead, washed down with a nice glass of corpse juice.

You're right, Rynner, it does set the old grey matter boggling - especially when you consider that a hologram is merely an interference pattern, whose apparent objectivity depends upon our perception of it... Hmmm, I wonder ... maybe if I think really hard, I can perceive a reality in which I...

Anything to get him off the subject of Dawkins! But by god, Segovius, you do go on; for someone so antipathetic to Dawkins, you don't half spend a lot of time thinking and writing about him. (and not a million miles from Dawkins himself, when it comes to god.)

Whoa - easy there tiger! It's not quite as clear cut as you think; on the subject of god, even Dawkins himself has said (in TGD) that he remains agnostic in principle, and that a certain amount of cautionary fence-sitting is a perfectly respectable stance in relation to certain scientific...