Monoclinic

In for a penny in for a pound, someone has to lower the tone... A B movie spectacular based on BC Alum's most significant actor coming face to face with Evil Cunt on which he unleases untold pain. A world famous vampire recounting his experience of vagina dentata in Cunt Dracula An oscar winning whirlwind adventure in Travels with my Cunt

The BBC are the biggest "tease" ever, with their headline Mission: Impossible star dies. Unfortunately Tom Cruise's thetan lives to see another day and to perpetuate one of the biggest financial frauds ever. Which leads me nicely onto Amy Whinehouse and the latest rumours that she maybe converting to scientology. Apologies for it being in Dutch. My google seems to have converted too leaving me to guess. Anyone have any ideas how I can change it back the only option I see that's left is to hit it with a stick.

Blimey! That's a bit of a shocker. What are the odds on BC Alum stating categorically that this is the most significant death of 2010?

Happy birthday Vaagie!

Previous futile conversation abridged. Subsequent futile conversation padded out to ubertedium. Granted, the way you use the search function does list the posts individually, which if you are searching for a random obscure peleb then it's not going to have many hits. Trying Clive Dunn however is a different story. Which is why I like to see the threads first as it might jog my memory when trying to find a specific post and can eliminate some of the hits if I don't think what I'm looking for will be in that thread. After performing the search there is a need to wade through heaps and heaps of our crap So from the top, I pick a topic... Entering in the same search in the first thread I then meet Mr Flood control... And that is why I find problems with the function. Everyone else can wake up now.

I beg to differ; the search facility is fine if people would just take a few seconds to learn how to use it. Click 'search', then 'more search options' below it, type '+christopher +cazenove' in the resulting field, and you'll discover that you are the first person to ever mention him in 140,000+ posts. The only drawback is that it doesn't recognise three-letter words, so tracking down posts about the likes of Liz Smith is a bit of a problem. Another drawback is you cannot instantly do another search. So when you call up all the possible threads that contain the name you search (which in turn assumes that all names have been spelt correctly, no aliases used or one line puns with no reference to said name) you can't then search within that thread for your name unless you twiddle your thumbs for 30 seconds. Then going back to the original list you have to click several times to fool the computer. Cutting the waffle, I'm with VT, the programming isn't great re. timing. Then beggars and choosers and all that.

Oh, how I know an amateur when I see one. Banshees, I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

My top ten list for 2027: 1. Aral Sea 2. Mullets 3. Fossil Fuels 4. Brillo Pads 5. Giant Pandas 6. United States 7. Jupiter 8. BBC 9. Numeracy

Brian Tiler, that's the one I was thinking of. Is that - the accident - where Harry gets his twitches from? Alan Ball Sr. died in a car crash, but I don't think he was managing a football league club at the time. Herbert Chapman died whilst still in charge, but that was aeons ago - as was Reg Freeman, the guy who snuffed it at Sheffield United. This'll teach me not to keep my Rothmans/Sky Sports Yearbook for questions like this. Billy Ayre died young too, but I think he was an assitant manager at his death. Don't know about the twitch but he did lose his sense of smell which facilitated his move back to Portsmouth. It does however give me the occasion to post this little ditty. We won awards for our singing don't you know.

I'm sure that he is a saint! Let him move to your house. I would welcome him into my house. How can anyone be found guilty without a jury? * There's no such thing as saints. Are you a Walsall fan?

The axe is about to fall. The axe has fallen Do you want to change your name from 'harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy' ? May as well. I'll go for thedeathlistmemberwhousedtobeknownasharrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy please. Congratulations on officially having the longest in deathlist history! Fnar, Fnar. Calling the ghosts of the McWhirter twins... give that man a medal! PS: Just this once, I've added a bit of sans. I won't be making a habit of it.

Happy birthday Dead to Writes!

You have my sincere support. How can one expect to take HaviSHAM seriously with such gratuitous use of comic sans. I hope you have managed to tell your daughter that anything written in that font should be disregarded as bollocks.

As I was flicking through the available radio channels on my long drive France bound this morning to give a naff seminar for which I was ill prepared I could have thought of worse things than dying. This malaise was promptly .

Ahhh Richey Edwards, now he always knew how to pen a cheery number.

Wow, I never knew dolphins were that self centered.

Just looked it up and it is Le Chatelier (Henry Louis). Mea culpa, I'm just always mindful about an additional e when there is a chat involved. In french things are m or f except as far as the cat is concerned in my book as it's too risky. Even if you know someone's cat to be female, it's always best to ask about the "chat" rather than the "chatte". Unless you really want to know how their cunt is. I too have wondered why the only salt we can have for the roads has to come from Cheshire. Seems like they have an exclusivity deal. A similar discussion about salt supplies arose here recently too aswell as marooned drivers. Ill preparation is the expertise of the bureaucrat.

Congratulations and enjoy! Though the choice of names are beautiful they do appear to be a little less octopussy than I'd imagined. I hope all goes fine in the days and weeks to come! Yes LG I too am intrigued by these stories of induction and how it just happens to be the youngest (last) child. As in once you go through that you make sure you never have the chance it should happen again!

LOL, bar the significant figures, although this rationale could be an overestimate as the icebergs etc that are 2/3 under water contribute to the current sea levels by the water they displace. Can I assign you some further work? Factor in glacial run off from mountainous regions and also the thermal expansion of water from rising temperatures and perhaps submit to Nature to see what happens! Anyway, your calculations make me want to add another potential problem. Although you didn't show the final bit of your workings you suggest that the additional fresh water contribution will be around 2.11% (which you then used to calculate the new depth considering the density of ice). That would change the nutrients and salts available in sea water on which algae and plankton depend. I wonder if Le Chatalier's principle can overcome this?

I believe we can. We know enough about the evolution of our planet to know that it has evolved from a reducing atmosphere to one that is oxygen rich and able to support aerobic life. Perhaps biomimetics is the answer, can we try to repeat history? Increase photosynthesis and not only do we reduce CO2 but we can harvest solar energy and obtain biofuels or try to exploit the secondary effect, the splitting of water (hydrogen storage is one of the major problems of switching to hydrogen fuel cells). Can we recreate nature's blueprint artifically or do we have to dedicate more surface area to plants and algae, reversing man's trend to deforest great swathes of countryside. I find it's pretty arrogant of us to criticise the likes of Brazil and Indonesia for doing something the Europeans did long ago. This is something to address by way of statistics, which neither of us can do with Google alone. I do not know how many scientists are for and how many are against, perhaps you are more aware of this. I would hazard a bet that although there may be plenty of evidence to counter the belief as you state, there could be an equal or perhaps a more substantially larger body of evidence that anthropological effects have altered the balance more than in previous climate change episodes. A hydrogen fuel cell based car produces just water as a byproduct (incidently this is also a greenhouse gas), no CO2, Nox, SOx or particulate matter but as we are all well aware it needs optimising. We need a stop gap as our reserves are finite. Biofuels (from algae as opposed to controversial crops) could well be that stop gap. As the fuels are combusted CO2 is released which can be reassimulated by living biomass to produce more biofuel. All the while buying more time for a better way to harvest solar energy to be developed. Electricity generated by wind, tides, solar panels etc. have minimal effect on the environment, and not everyone likes travelling on public transport. I cannot remember who it was but there is one DL member who made a massive rant about public transport (apart from Windsor). We have become accustomed to our own private door to door service, so if we are happy to pay the price for this I don't see how a government could remove this liberty from us. Ironically China did. I think this is more a case of human condition, as in we believe what we want to and it is difficult to change someone's beliefs without concrete evidence. You'd be hard pressed to convert an athiest to a religion even though God(s) may exist. You want to believe that GW isn't a problem hence most of your posts in this thread bring up the fact some people say it isn't a problem and that you are swayed to their camp. I believe that it is a problem and thus have the instinct to fall on the otherside of the divide. Neither of us have concrete evidence. We publish papers about the knowledge we have acquired and yes people can be proved wrong. It's exactly as Hein said, we have to keep updating the model. Things can be proved wrong not right but in the mean time a debate has to have more than one side for progress. You have to keep asking why. The sea defences would have to be pretty high if the predictions are to believed. As for domestic energy efficiency, there are far more things that have been introduced, better boilers, cavity insulation, hybrid cars, recycling (certain uk councils aren't as hot on that as some European counterparts I believe), campaigns to turn your heating down a few degrees, double glazing etc. I thought I had used the conditional tense as much as possible in my post, ladened with words like I believe and IMHO. It was intended as a viewpoint piece. If it didn't come across that way then I am sorry for that but not for its content. I stand by my feeling however that science often gets derided, I also stand by my feeling that I think this site has lost a bit of "je ne sais quoi" and a bit of humour. That's my problem. It is after all a site to report celebrity deaths, something which isn't really in my list of interests. I guess at the moment it is doing exactly what it says on the tin and not a lot else.

I'm not a climate change scientist but I am on the CO2 bandwagon and I am convinced that for your children's sake you shouldn't take that kind of attitude. We could all ultimately be responsible for the sufferings of our grand children. Is it not better to at least try to prevent something that may well be out of our control than to sit back and do nothing at all. These are not equally likely outcomes, nor do they cover every eventuality but I'm trying a different approach to achieve understanding instead of harping on about science which seems to go down like a lead balloon around these parts. (I must have been blind, I used to hold the impression that this site was full of wisdom. Now it's just full of bollocks. Perhaps it always was, but its oxidised finish only reveals itself after the ennui sets in.) SITUATION A - Climate change is real, we are all going to suffer SITUATION B - Climate change is real, we will all survive SITUATION C - Climate change is not real, we will all survive Situation A is occuring, we do nothing - we suffer Situation A is occuring, we react but it is not enough - we suffer Situation A is occuring, we react and it is enough - we survive Situation B is occuring, we do nothing - we survive Situation B is occuring, we react but it is not enough - we survive and we are a little poorer (money can't buy etc...) Situation B is occuring, we react and it is enough - we survive and we are a lot poorer (money can't buy etc...) Situation C is occuring, we do nothing - we all survive Situation C is occuring, we react but it is not enough - we survive and we are a little poorer (money can't buy etc...) Situation C is occuring, we react and it is enough - we survive and we are a lot poorer (money can't buy etc...) I am not happy to take the 1/9 chance (oversimplified, I know) that it is occuring and that we could suffer, yet chose to ignore it. Are you? Imagine your child had an illness that in one ninth of cases results in death but you do not know if your child is in that ninth. The doctor proposes to do an operation which could potentially save them yet this operation causes much pain and suffering, however there is no risk of death. Do you run the risk that your child is not in the 1/9th or do you go ahead "just in case". As for the UEA scandal, there are mavericks in all walks of life, science should be no exception. Some people are motivated by greed, glory, glamour, whatever. Just because a former polytechnic has fudged a lot of data does not make climate change a load of "billy bollocks". This is similar to those who claimed to have cloned a human in Asia but hadn't. The technology is available to us and undoubtedly human cloning will happen one day. Just because they lied doesn't make it impossible. I believe we need to think in a more humanitarian fashion. Just because climate change is not really affecting you right now, your actions might be affecting someone else on the planet. Anthropological effects to the environment are world-wide, we need to think of those living in coastal areas, in Africa, in Norfolk. It's not their fault that where they live might be hardest hit. IMHO you should think yourself lucky that science and engineering has progressed enough to develop V8 engines and to exploit the finite reserves of crude oil that arose from photosynthetic excesses all those eras ago. There's a lot more where that came from but I think you've heard enough for now. Scientists, we are damned if we do and damned if we don't.