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by madasafish
Wed Jan 12, 2011 9:44 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Anxious times
Replies: 13
Views: 4098

Re: Anxious times

Try the witch test from the Middle Ages.

Tie up suspect. Throw into pond.
If they sink and drown, innocent.
If they float, they are guilty so remove and hang.

:-)
by madasafish
Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:16 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Anxious times
Replies: 13
Views: 4098

Re: Anxious times

But how do the police get reliable evidence?


Protective custody for 4 weeks. If no fires then, but fires when he is released...balance of proof...
by madasafish
Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:10 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?
Replies: 16
Views: 5080

Re: Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?

Well natural measures will limit population. Food prices. A scarcity of food. Oil prices. A scarcity of oil. Of course, if the Organic Movement had its way and no man made fertilisers were used it would happen in 15 years as food yields halved. Remember, about 500 million people are kept alive by ca...
by madasafish
Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:07 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?
Replies: 16
Views: 5080

Re: Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?

Monbiot's argument is typical stupidity.

It's your fault so you can't discuss it.. so no-one should.

About the level of reasoning I would expect from him.

Edit : or the Guardian.
by madasafish
Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:37 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?
Replies: 16
Views: 5080

Re: Environmentalist's breakfast dilemma?

A true environmentalist would live in a cave....
by madasafish
Tue Jan 04, 2011 4:00 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Africa 'can feed itself in a generation'
Replies: 5
Views: 2162

Re: Africa 'can feed itself in a generation'

I quote from the book: "He estimates that while food production has grown globally by 145% over the past 40 years, African food production has fallen by 10% since 1960, which he attributes to low investment. " Pull the other one. "Low investment" is a nice way of saying .. wars, ...
by madasafish
Tue Jan 04, 2011 3:57 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: "What the Green Movement Got Wrong"
Replies: 7
Views: 2671

Re: "What the Green Movement Got Wrong"

US embassies in the past have been noted for idiotic advice and comments to Washington.
See Joe Kennedy in 1940 who said Britain could only last 6 months.

Some embassies have members who have #### for brains...and it shows..
by madasafish
Mon Jan 03, 2011 4:35 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Who wants to be a centenarian?
Replies: 14
Views: 3475

Re: Who wants to be a centenarian?

I run to keep fit and know several runners running well into their eighties - yes seriously.

Took part in the Dovedale Dash in 2010 oldest competitor was 73.. I aim to beat that.

http://www.dovedaledash.acwager.co.uk/index.htm


When I'm gaga, I will run under a bus...probably involuntarily :-)
by madasafish
Sat Jan 01, 2011 3:01 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Scary fundamentalist view of global warming
Replies: 1
Views: 1238

Re: Scary fundamentalist view of global warming

He failed to win the Chairmanship. If you look at the votes he polls, his voter love him.. He offended many by likening the various US wars - Iraq/Afghanistan - to a baseball game.. About 100 million US voters tend to agree with his views on climate change (not man made) judging by opinion polls.. m
by madasafish
Fri Dec 31, 2010 5:07 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: It aint 'alf 'ot Mum!
Replies: 13
Views: 3360

Re: It aint 'alf 'ot Mum!

7C here.
Same yesterday but on Tuesday 9C.

My bees - who had stayed safely in hives for a month - came out for a quick fly around, toilet and to throw out their dead.

Pond still has 10cms of ice despite the snow going on Tuesday...
by madasafish
Tue Dec 28, 2010 3:22 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Cold winters
Replies: 44
Views: 13280

Re: Cold winters

Does this not strike you as a government (albeit our last one) setting rather a significant example to the rest of the world? Hmm and then support a new runway for Heathrow.? I am afraid you should judge people by what they do and not what they say... As far as carbon taxes are concerend, they go t...
by madasafish
Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:47 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Cold winters
Replies: 44
Views: 13280

Re: Cold winters

ELectricity prices are goinmg to raise a lot more to pay for new power stations. Global warming or not, they should have been started 5 years ago.. Instead we are going to continue with several old coal fired ones for an extra 5 years.. I balme the Conservatives: they should have started building th...
by madasafish
Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:13 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: Bumper Fruit Crop???
Replies: 14
Views: 4733

Re: Bumper Fruit Crop???

Lost 10% of my raspberry bushes last year due to the cold. (plus others non fruit) Had bumper pear and apple crops though.

Bit mixed..
by madasafish
Thu Dec 23, 2010 4:10 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Cold winters
Replies: 44
Views: 13280

Re: Cold winters

I know the earth is warming. But the climate warmists who have been shrill and unequivocal about the effects of global warming .. and who keep telling us winters will be mild and wet ... have zero credibility. That includes the UK's Met Office whose six month forecasts have been 180 degrees wrong. T...
by madasafish
Mon Dec 20, 2010 12:49 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Are you all snowed in ?
Replies: 48
Views: 12019

Re: Are you all snowed in ?

-11C last night. Still warm compared to January 2010 when we saw -19C one night..

When out, my feet, hands and body are warm but unless I put on my hoodie my ears freeze. (a lack of hair does not help :-( :lol: