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Spanners.... I’m going to inject something else into this discussion, just to see what happens. Talk of god(s) always seems to assume that the god existed ab initio and was responsible for everything that came after, i.e. god was the creator. Hypothesise: **** sapiens manages to survive...

I had the Airfix model too. Also made a balsa model of the Jodrell Bank telescope when it first started. One of my main memories of the moon landing on TV was that idiot Burke who was commentating, drawing all over everyone's screens when Armstrong went down the ladder onto the surface, and...

Dammit, An Ankoù, you and Dutto are not my children.

Maybe a very large part of the human race deserves to die, but not all of it, and I can't agree that no trace should be left. At the very least we should try to ensure that if we do become extinct, then we have done whatever we can to help any successors avoid the same fate. I have proposed...

The trouble is, it's not only fish which are vanishing. We're in the start (yes, start - we haven't even reached the middle yet) of a major mass extinction, the ultimate cause of which is the grossly excessive human population. (Oh god, how I hate agreeing with Gunge about something.) We...

So, rather like a Lady of the Evening, then (so I've been told).

One of my budgies responds to that. If I ask him a question he answers (though, sadly, he does not always get the answer right*). Then I learned that if I finish a sentence on a rising note he assumes it is a question and answers. (* or maybe it's me who gets the question wrong.)

If Boris had been killed, then he and many others might have been delighted. Maybe he'd get a medal.

If you have any sediment or "bottoms" after racking and bottling, don't throw it away. Leave it in a DJ without a stopper for a couple of weeks. With a decent following wind it will turn into the best vinegar you have ever tasted. Goes superbly in a salad dressing.

Both of them. They are both threatening death, damnation and destruction to the biosphere, the global environment and even to that relatively trivial thing, the national economy.

"in the dark and warm space above the toilet" .... is that when you're sitting on it???

I'd like to try it anyway, regardless of whether the mushrooms are organic or not (?= inorganic???).

Not quite, Clint, not quite...

Ye gods!!!! Do you mean that women will no longer be allowed to have exclusive adornment with tits???

I think a lot depends on how fizzy your wine is. I use screw-cap bottles for mildly petillant wine, without problem (so far). The big advantage is that for a given batch of wine you can test how much gas there is by easing the cap on a bottle, and if there is too much you can take remedial...

OK, I'll accept that, and apologise to the Potato. Put the Potato as number one option, and Sam Gyimah as number two. At least the Potato won't do any harm.

You could increase their pocket money ....

Nice idea, AA, but if it were free someone would promptly start to pollute it and mess it up, just like they are messing up the air and the rain.

Does anyone have any idea where Lee Kuan Yew would have come on that chart?

Sam Gyimah is not on the list. He seems so far to be the only contender with anything remotely resembling a conscience or an IQ that almost approaches two figures. Hunt said he wants the 50% of school-leavers who don't go to uni to achieve the average salary, thereby showing that he does not...