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» 24/08/2016 6:58:25 PM This is what I could find that seems relevant, DreamOn... http://thelookout.sites.go1.com.....
» 19/08/2016 10:21:04 AM Reaction Formation [Reaktionsbildung]........
» 24/05/2016 6:13:33 PM grateful, these were not word games when the venerated Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn.....
» 20/05/2016 7:27:10 PM AJ Philips, could we add "only God can account for the laws of logic" to your li.....
» 10/05/2016 11:48:43 AM If god was other than an intangible concept there would be no necessary cause for the exis.....
» 25/12/2015 7:28:23 AM Incidents that made us see things more clearly? Well, given that it's December 25… The fi.....
» 27/11/2015 7:44:03 AM "Maths like religion is merely a way of humans interpreting the Universe. It is a fai.....
» 20/11/2015 11:30:23 PM The existence of freedom of speech and religion seems clear. The booklet was written, prin.....
» 20/11/2015 12:25:57 PM Basic Christian Doctrine is simplistic: http://www.facebook.com/312383761871/photos/a.313.....
» 18/11/2015 9:25:23 AM Shadow Minister, I have mentioned this link in another thread but think it relevant to men.....
» 18/11/2015 8:50:47 AM I chanced upon this interview and found it an interesting, backgrounding set of historical.....
» 31/10/2015 7:34:19 AM My regards to all who have left comments. The topic was proposed in time to have it in pla.....
» 30/10/2015 9:17:52 AM ...and in the stands......
» 30/10/2015 9:16:03 AM Not totally wrong... I would extend the observation to a trifecta: people embedded in text.....
» 29/10/2015 7:24:40 PM david f, I do not know if you are the oldest commenter to OLO but in my fanboi opinion you.....
» 28/10/2015 5:46:26 PM ttbn... the usual expression is 'haunted and miserable', my finding what you typed risible.....
» 28/10/2015 12:49:26 PM ima,etc. 1. Are you redirecting the topic away from the Commentaries and the wording of se.....
» 27/10/2015 8:52:42 AM Why Cannot Kids be treated Like Kids? ttbn... Because parents always seem to insist on tr.....
» 27/10/2015 8:26:05 AM Whilst I have the utmost admiration of Toni's noodly appendages, I know he was not being l.....
» 27/10/2015 8:25:45 AM "supplying the selectively quoted opinion of just one founding father out of context .....
» 26/10/2015 7:14:59 AM Dear Creationettes, [Imaginary-Conceptual-Abstract-Noun] God speaking... OMM (Oh My Me)! .....
» 24/10/2015 10:35:56 PM "Q, can any of you even read english (sic)?" Yes and comprehend it. So, I'll su.....
» 23/10/2015 5:42:06 PM "...which is why Australia's founding fathers wrote God & Christianity into our const.....
» 18/10/2015 12:48:10 PM "Crazy maybe, brutal and fascist maybe, but 'hypocritical' ? I don't see the connecti.....
» 17/10/2015 7:32:31 PM "Christianity is living together in community and restoring those that have failed.&q.....
» 17/10/2015 8:56:03 AM "Make Politicians Accountable" They already are, Armchair Critic... unfortunat.....
» 17/10/2015 8:08:36 AM If it is not dispensing with the rules [of going off thread topic], runner it will be a co.....
» 15/10/2015 1:45:47 PM Flashbacks. Reminds me of a time before my mirrors started getting wrinkles. The Argument.....
» 15/10/2015 10:02:11 AM "Every word of the Qur'an is binding on Muslims but the whole of the Bible is not bin.....
» 3/10/2015 1:26:57 PM "No person is an Island..." A reference to John Donne, Josephus? Here is anothe.....
» 1/10/2015 10:04:55 AM Dangerous? Relatively so... by which I mean it depends upon your position in the queue to .....
» 1/10/2015 8:37:51 AM The Bishop of Cloyne's theory of Immaterialism shall not interfere with the enjoyment deri.....
» 30/09/2015 7:58:33 AM "The point is if another adult is going to influence the decisions of your child with.....
» 30/09/2015 7:57:59 AM I'm the biggest fanboi in the entire universe for the use of hyperbole, Armchair Critic........
» 29/09/2015 10:43:45 AM "Today, however, five genders seems comparatively modest. The Australian Human Rights.....
» 29/09/2015 9:06:40 AM I'm trying hard to follow your thoughts in starting this thread Josephus... So are you obj.....
» 29/09/2015 8:51:19 AM "Do you guys have a red line, or as attitudes change, will you keep moving the goalpo.....
» 28/09/2015 6:47:07 PM "Gender reassignment promoted by Education Department" I cannot work out whethe.....
» 14/09/2015 9:08:47 AM I couldn't include this earlier, Shockadelic, not having it available in a copy and paste .....
» 14/09/2015 8:36:19 AM ""when her deputies agreed to start issuing marriage licences." Which they .....
» 13/09/2015 11:09:44 AM For conservatives the Queen is the embodiment of continuity, service and duty, standing ab.....
» 13/09/2015 10:35:52 AM "Should someone's entire career be sacrificed due to an only-just majority decision b.....
» 13/09/2015 10:34:34 AM "Using a power when there is no point in doing so when it will cause trouble for some.....
» 11/09/2015 6:33:02 PM "What kind of human being would willing pursue something that causes stress for a gre.....
» 3/09/2015 2:49:01 PM "Simply as conversation starters, what about: Participate in Democracy; Democracy in .....
» 1/09/2015 8:28:39 AM "...it is absurd to believe that a UFO might crash into a radio tower or high rise bu.....
» 23/08/2015 8:40:12 PM A 'Scoop' for your information Pericles... only in case you were unaware of Dr. Ken Miller.....
» 7/08/2015 4:46:04 PM I may be misremembering, but in the Aeneid didn't Virgil write: "Beware of Greeks' .....
» 7/08/2015 3:46:16 PM I typed lowercase eta... OLO displays that as η.....
» 7/08/2015 3:42:03 PM I'll give credit to the entries about cosmological relativity at Creationwiki for includin.....
» 31/07/2015 6:32:36 PM Doh! the joke doesn't work when the corrected version [Loved your brother's translation of.....
» 31/07/2015 6:26:08 PM Thanks AJ Philips. [Loved your translation of the New Testament by the way, you know when .....
» 31/07/2015 11:37:16 AM The false dichotomy, JP, is in the misconstruction of your premises. You use 'either this/.....
» 30/07/2015 6:35:46 PM "Nothing is intrinsically right or wrong in a purely material universe." From t.....
» 30/07/2015 9:46:06 AM Thanks for the reply, Dan. I was disappointed though as Van Til's turgid word salad is re.....
» 25/07/2015 5:30:53 PM Fear not, runner: "...they are so blinded they can''t see a Creator." Here is t.....
» 25/07/2015 11:30:03 AM SM, writing in Forbes about Hubble Space Telescope's 25th anniversary three months ago Eth.....
» 25/07/2015 10:52:06 AM As always an interesting duologue and I apologise for this sidebar... But it is prompted .....
» 17/07/2015 10:32:09 AM Can't be all bad... Angela Bishop's entertainment and celebrity reporting for Network Ten.....
» 11/07/2015 10:26:31 AM Rhian, thought you might find the most recent BBC 4 radio's More or Less Behind the Stats .....
» 8/07/2015 1:06:58 PM I don't understand the Kleins. They seem unhappy that by their own standards they win. &q.....
» 4/07/2015 11:36:07 AM JOM... "if you actually sit down and ask Gays how they came to be that way they'll te.....
» 1/07/2015 11:41:36 AM It should... God created Adam THEN Eve! So all women should be younger than the head of th.....
» 30/06/2015 8:42:10 AM "Would the posters here classify Zaky Mallah and his comments as "left wing".....
» 30/06/2015 8:28:27 AM "We now return to the overarching question of this paper: Are we witnessing the emerg.....
» 30/06/2015 8:28:11 AM "You and WmTrevor have not acknowledged nor have you dispelled the limitations of the.....
» 28/06/2015 10:32:04 PM Not necessarily a disinterested opinion, onthebeach. Would that be the same Mark Regnerus .....
» 26/06/2015 2:45:51 PM Hope things are getting back on track for you, Foxy... "However - when children are .....
» 24/06/2015 8:54:54 AM "Which one should he bar? Which one is the worst person, and why?" This is a tr.....
» 22/06/2015 1:02:32 PM But if God can see into our hearts and knows our every thought, isn't Church surveillance .....
» 22/06/2015 12:44:39 PM Foxy, since we can all of us use Argument from Anecdote here is a short one from someone w.....
» 22/06/2015 12:13:28 PM "Being a parent comes with huge responsibility and for any parent, whether they bare .....
» 20/06/2015 11:12:36 AM "The responses totally miss the point." Which is what, lamp? Did you obtain a m.....
» 19/06/2015 8:43:14 PM "...It's the equality they seek and, so long as a same sex couple CAN NEVER have chil.....
» 19/06/2015 11:32:54 AM "...Fred Nile tried the "Christians as victim of pooftas" line on last nigh.....
» 17/06/2015 9:54:15 AM Some people do seem overly married to their ideas of the meaning of some words... Persona.....
» 15/06/2015 7:10:39 PM "... and to some extent ongoing." Yes R0bert, such as this from a few days ago:.....
» 12/06/2015 12:07:50 PM AJ Phillips, hasn't marriage been a slippery slope since Adam and Eve? You know how it we.....
» 11/06/2015 9:57:32 AM "I have already expressed my thoughts on marriage equality many times on this forum, .....
» 9/06/2015 12:25:36 PM "Here's a nice Victorian solution to a modern problem: re-employ veterans of the Afgh.....
» 8/06/2015 11:52:58 AM Glad that you are only dignity diminished and otherwise uninjured, Toni... The balance be.....
» 4/06/2015 12:11:09 PM That's an interesting concept in a thread about seniors... "Believers experience the.....
» 1/06/2015 10:33:35 PM "So what is it when you're having sex with somebody of the same gender but fantasizin.....
» 30/05/2015 10:57:01 AM That is a ludicrous assertion, Josephus... "The homosexuals that attend Mardi believ.....
» 28/05/2015 11:36:34 AM ttbn, it was Daniel McArthur who turned the issue into a 'religious' one two days after Mr.....
» 28/05/2015 10:37:08 AM I'm trying to work out why you seem to be positing every side of the arguments, Shockadeli.....
» 27/05/2015 9:18:44 AM "In this case the law has got it wrong. For while civil rights activists will point o.....
» 26/05/2015 11:41:12 AM "At around €5 per head of population, I reckon it was a pretty good deal." Wasn.....
» 19/05/2015 10:11:13 AM "Is this a Zen koan?" Rumbled... As Master Po told Kwai Chang Caine, "The.....
» 18/05/2015 9:14:11 PM "Really? Do you guys honestly need a chef to teach you this stuff? Figure it out for .....
» 16/05/2015 9:53:44 PM Don't beat yourself up unnecessarily o sung wu... "To anyone else, I'm profoundly so.....
» 8/03/2015 10:26:07 AM "So what you mean in effect is doctors assisting patients to commit suicide. That can.....
» 4/03/2015 8:15:08 AM "All people of goodwill have an obligation to speak out on these issues. We are eithe.....
» 30/01/2015 3:57:24 PM What are you suggesting, runner? "...I doubt whether a four year old would get so ob.....
» 27/01/2015 11:30:25 AM Verum In Ingenium, Pericles. But, perhaps it is a cunning plan of our Prime Minister? Is .....
» 22/01/2015 12:26:52 PM "They got upset when I videoed them." I can believe that, Jayb... also you tell.....
» 18/01/2015 9:39:17 AM With such limited thinking you are letting your gutless political correctness get in the w.....
» 12/01/2015 11:55:16 AM What an interesting rhetorical device to use on a thread about freedom of speech, jayb... .....
» 11/01/2015 10:50:16 AM Try this link, Poirot... http://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/limousin/2015/01/08/limog.....
» 9/01/2015 8:56:29 PM "There's been no posts about the significance of Kim K's bum at all!" Is it beca.....
» 9/01/2015 11:27:32 AM Must be just a coincidence... a cancer is mentioned and then up pops Houellebecq! (And do.....
» 4/01/2015 10:10:42 AM Unbelievable, Arjay... "The RBA is another Rothschild controlled central bank that o.....
» 3/12/2014 7:32:08 AM Arjay, an occassional apology after being shown you are wrong wouldn't go astray as you pr.....
» 2/12/2014 8:44:16 PM "These evil elites like to telegraph their intent as it gives them the ultimate rush .....
» 1/12/2014 8:08:02 AM "Can they bring on a nuke war and be safe in their underground bunkers ?" Not i.....
» 22/11/2014 12:41:08 PM "Had no trouble accessing it" Arjay, arjay, arjay... Always the distractions wh.....
» 19/11/2014 11:44:47 AM "What's the point of it all?' o sung wu... At one level, being self-aware enough to .....
» 17/11/2014 8:59:58 AM I don't understand the cause and effect in this case, runner... "Your hatred of Abbo.....
» 29/10/2014 11:28:39 AM You may quite rightly be chuffed at providing post number 42 on the thread, Pericles, but .....
» 22/10/2014 9:17:49 AM "This in many ways sounds fine - but it once again ignores other views..." You .....
» 15/10/2014 8:51:15 AM I concur with Pericles' point. "I'm a great fan of P. G. Wodehouse - and your posts a.....
» 13/10/2014 7:25:20 PM "Slippers, Fairy Godmother. I said 'slippers'..." moaned Cinderella, flopping he.....
» 8/10/2014 8:13:11 PM Whilst Bishop Berkeley held that 'esse is percipi', to be is to be perceived... http://ww.....
» 5/10/2014 12:26:00 PM "Few citizens of modern societies would utterly deny the possibility of some higher p.....
» 30/09/2014 8:29:41 AM Can't see a problem with alternate lyrics being used as a hymn in churches... it is not as.....
» 21/09/2014 1:38:58 PM "Many people describe spiritual experience as something that's actually quite natural.....
» 21/09/2014 1:12:38 PM I'm with o sung wu on this one... Existence is a daily exercise in 'risk management' and .....
» 16/09/2014 9:18:47 AM Because you mentioned Callas you strike me, o sung wu, as someone who might find Gulio Cac.....
» 14/09/2014 3:35:27 PM Churchill's quote could be adapted: "...someone who can't change his mind and pretend.....
» 14/09/2014 3:05:57 PM "...but Judicial Murder is not the same as Legal Execution." Only to the extent.....
» 12/09/2014 1:11:11 PM "They cited the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which continues to state that m.....
» 4/09/2014 11:36:54 AM This is post 628 to officially tie with rehctub's Islamic riots thread from 2012 as the lo.....
» 4/09/2014 9:35:38 AM Happy 21st Elizabeth... The paradox of the getting of wisdom is that the more one works t.....
» 27/08/2014 2:37:47 PM That cannot be right, Pericles... "And in doing so has exposed our political process.....
» 23/08/2014 10:06:13 AM Still, getting it wrong I (along with everyone else) see, Ludwig... "Like I said Is .....
» 20/08/2014 8:51:52 AM "... are his outbursts simply the defence mechanism of a businessman who has overstep.....
» 19/08/2014 8:48:44 AM Ian, you ask, "So if people, like, from other nations, can, like, use English correct.....
» 12/08/2014 9:38:55 AM Joe, As a suggestion in order to obviate any potential offence, I've edited your original.....
» 29/07/2014 12:32:51 PM "So, tell us. Would you?" Pericles, I can't stop myself thinking that could rea.....
» 25/07/2014 9:59:28 AM "If you don't want to get into nonsense why refer to it? I have no illusions of there.....
» 21/07/2014 7:39:02 PM Are you suggesting that the jury was suborned, Ludwig... "If the fundamental dictum .....
» 12/07/2014 11:50:19 AM "You see, you’ve totally made up your mind on this issue, based on a hard-line interp.....
» 11/07/2014 7:04:57 PM That is demonstrably untrue, Debbie Garratt... "The bewildering aspect of it to me i.....
» 9/07/2014 9:17:34 AM Setting aside the easy cynicism that this is supposed to be an age where the 'entitlement'.....
» 4/07/2014 12:33:48 PM This is just about the saddest thing I've ever seen... "...when we engage with socia.....
» 3/07/2014 11:51:55 AM There's no pleasing you is there Ludwig... You complain about inaction on the part of pol.....
» 22/06/2014 2:38:40 PM "Why can I not find any scholarly examination of their claims? I have appealed for he.....
» 19/06/2014 10:25:23 AM Enjoyed the article, thanks for the stimulating read... it is always a good sign in a revi.....
» 18/06/2014 2:09:12 PM "However IF someone invents a replicator like in star trek TNG we could have all the .....
» 9/06/2014 10:41:06 AM Interesting... "China has it own problems but their Govt has 4 $ trillion in reserve.....
» 2/06/2014 8:00:47 AM Well, if the aim is to do less with less there's your problem... "The efficiency div.....
» 30/05/2014 8:19:28 AM Well, if the aim is to do less with less there's your problem... "The efficiency div.....
» 29/05/2014 8:55:29 AM Hang in there, Saltpetre... economic statistics has always been an arcane science. Often .....
» 28/05/2014 5:00:37 PM Oh, but they are, runner... "I am still wondering why people who break wedding vows .....
» 26/05/2014 8:48:36 AM Hope you enjoy the new 'motor'... I am assuming that rank has its privileges. "Why .....
» 26/05/2014 7:22:37 AM Careful Saltpetre... "GDP input? I guess Oz' direct expenditure would be. But what o.....
» 23/05/2014 3:53:01 PM I was wondering what the Romans ever did for us... But, as you know Pericles, it was the.....
» 19/05/2014 4:03:51 PM You have the answer to your question, Saltpetre... "If retirement age is (eventually.....
» 19/05/2014 3:38:35 PM Is there another aspect to this misunderstanding, Ludwig? "Of course disasters, acci.....
» 15/05/2014 8:52:44 AM Give us some guidance here, Killarney... "I cannot think of a time when I have felt .....
» 14/05/2014 9:53:51 AM Thank you for the clarification, George... it allows me to express mine. It is wrong to i.....
» 13/05/2014 9:18:46 AM That's a tad unfair, George... "insecure in their rejection of God". As unfair .....
» 13/05/2014 8:15:14 AM I am pleased you are cherishing your life... "But I turned to my faith, and I sought.....
» 11/05/2014 12:27:39 PM You're welcome, david f... My family wishes it were longer lived to make jokes about it. .....
» 11/05/2014 10:24:21 AM Hadn't heard it, david f, but found this: "This limerick was penned by my grandfathe.....
» 11/05/2014 9:41:13 AM That seems an unnecessarily negative peculiar worldview, LEGO... "My position is, th.....
» 9/05/2014 9:27:16 AM "So in contrast to nationalism rootless cosmopolitanism is a dignified existence?&quo.....
» 8/05/2014 4:16:16 PM It all depends on definitions, david f... "I think it is unreasonable to love any co.....
» 7/05/2014 8:14:56 AM "We are invited to become what we are." Been there, done that... thanks. ".....
» 5/05/2014 8:32:19 AM That special circumstances in Africa would benefit from seeing a rise in male circumcision.....
» 4/05/2014 9:44:07 AM "Government expenditure is not always of equal benefit to all." Is obviously tr.....
» 3/05/2014 8:44:10 AM Whilst this is no issue for me, since my chauffeur ensures the car is never in a situation.....
» 28/04/2014 8:19:53 AM "There have been a number of recent cycling fatalities in north Queensland; in Cairns.....
» 27/04/2014 8:31:16 PM "There is even a nuke fallout shelter under Parliament House in Canberra." http.....
» 23/04/2014 8:02:37 AM As always interesting food for thought, George and Pericles... " I assume neither [w.....
» 11/04/2014 9:40:34 AM "...positively Sisyphean." The power of history to explain a myth take... Dear .....
» 9/04/2014 9:11:27 AM "While ideology would imprison us, the "way" sets us free." It will b.....
» 7/04/2014 8:01:41 AM When it isn't nasally occupied I use the same finger to type dees and gees so, 'Methodolod.....
» 7/04/2014 7:46:52 AM The same way as all people do on these forums, Alan... by looking at the topic by concentr.....
» 6/04/2014 6:11:14 PM "Curious about their [Legatum] ‘economy’ rankings. Not explained, unfortunately.".....
» 4/04/2014 10:22:00 AM Speaking of tools... "Covering 96% of the world’s population and 99% of global GDP, .....
» 2/04/2014 8:50:08 AM Candide, 'odd' as a numerical or other descriptor? "The odd peer has occasionally ta.....
» 29/03/2014 8:01:37 PM On the bright side the student has had the chance to learn to carefully read the instructi.....
» 29/03/2014 9:11:15 AM Did Bishop act in naming shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfuss for calling out "Madam.....
» 27/03/2014 11:43:15 AM Unless there is information to the contrary, 579... "I take it to be another downgra.....
» 27/03/2014 8:13:33 AM Have I got this right? "The church would be advised to recognize the truth of some o.....
» 25/03/2014 11:11:26 AM Looks like Goddard was wrong when he said, “To desire a state is to have it.”, david f... .....
» 24/03/2014 7:26:29 PM "WmTrevor _ Quote..." Attribution is important, Philip S, the extract I used (h.....
» 24/03/2014 4:50:10 PM There seems to be a confusion as to where charity begins... you seem to wish it to begin a.....
» 20/03/2014 8:15:35 AM "The artists felt that high calibre of the Biennale and the international respect in .....
» 19/03/2014 5:10:19 PM "There was a profound sudden experience, but I had no name for it." http://en.w.....
» 18/03/2014 6:02:17 PM There's always been a growth imperative. Beyond a subsistence level of existence the basic.....
» 14/03/2014 11:58:40 AM I find myself in slight agreement with Peter Sellick IF we are restricting his comments to.....
» 14/03/2014 10:02:36 AM They may have been absent but you haven't clearly explained how they were ingnored. ".....
» 12/03/2014 8:41:01 AM The differences can be fascinating... sharing 50% of human DNA is the banana, adding anoth.....
» 11/03/2014 10:33:57 AM "...disgusting, just how low can you get?" "About, a Pomeranian." Bu.....
» 11/03/2014 9:36:38 AM What? "...a brilliant show and sometimes it pushes the boundaries of comedy...".....
» 8/03/2014 1:31:11 PM "As for the Joe Cell. Where can I see one working?" This is from another thread.....
» 6/03/2014 4:46:18 PM Here you go OUG... I remember you introduced this a few years ago (and thought it then an .....
» 24/02/2014 8:11:33 AM "They mistakenly claim that citizens have a right to know what is being done with the.....
» 19/02/2014 9:07:35 AM "Just to put the lid on this religious bias thing once and for all..." So for a.....
» 18/02/2014 6:27:27 PM It could be a 'religious' thing for partners in Christ (a campus can also be a corpus), Pe.....
» 14/02/2014 7:33:54 AM I suspect, Trav, others will explain some of the problems with... "Evidence, Since G.....
» 10/02/2014 7:09:56 AM "Neither of these things I can know with any confidence other than the written or ora.....
» 9/02/2014 5:08:38 PM Sorry to hear that, Dan S de Merengue... "Now, no one can prove an historical event .....
» 9/02/2014 7:02:50 AM I can spell, after having a cup of coffee and waking up... I'll 'prove' it, there should b.....
» 9/02/2014 6:50:37 AM Thanks for the clarification, grateful... as I started reading this thread from 1 February.....
» 6/02/2014 7:13:52 PM Kingdom.....
» 6/02/2014 7:13:04 PM Of course, they exist... "To accept the existence of zombies, you need to be able to.....
» 4/02/2014 5:21:55 PM Dan S de Meregue, a straightforward reading of what I quoted does not equal, "And as .....
» 4/02/2014 8:51:58 AM I wasn't trying to remind you of anything, Dan S de Merengue. Merely indicating to gratefu.....
» 3/02/2014 10:33:08 AM Hi grateful... Just a question of clarification. "...even described the Qur'an as ak.....
» 31/01/2014 3:53:24 PM Rowan and Martin's News of the Future... were they prescient or Illuminati insiders? &qu.....
» 31/01/2014 7:57:09 AM For infinity to have any meaning - if that is not oxymoronic - it cannot be written as a n.....
» 27/01/2014 10:43:48 AM “Life decreases local entropy” - Leslie Dean Brown. "Entropy doesn't notice" - .....
» 26/01/2014 4:31:35 PM How very Ecclesiastes. "The jig is up!" Solomon knew there was a time to weep,.....
» 24/01/2014 9:04:02 AM "How do you describe someone who pushes the Bible at you, but not necessarily Christi.....
» 21/01/2014 12:20:34 PM I'm too fabulous to be trapped by Planet3's clever ploy for posters to self-denigrate by r.....
» 21/01/2014 8:57:32 AM "...the senate is known as the Upper House and the House of Representatives the Lower.....
» 17/01/2014 9:01:43 AM "There is only one God and it is inside you." Thanks for the ego boost... it ev.....
» 16/01/2014 7:55:02 PM "It’s impossible to find Irigaray’s ‘quote’ about the speed of light on the internet .....
» 16/01/2014 6:31:56 AM "We must move beyond that - to a different free market system. That means if I want s.....
» 15/01/2014 6:52:37 AM Substitute sixty seconds of silence during which members can quietly pray or reflect as th.....
» 14/01/2014 8:52:12 AM It would have added to our understanding of public ability to miscalculate if, when ".....
» 13/01/2014 8:04:03 AM As Ricky Ricardo might have said, "Lucy, I'm homonym.".....
» 13/01/2014 7:22:50 AM If the category was to nominate the Prophet of the twentieth century I would wish Douglas .....
» 13/01/2014 6:27:05 AM "There seems to be an inability to think abstractly here." Alien influences can.....
» 10/01/2014 7:06:31 PM If you are referring to these, Arjay: "When judges are sworn in they take two oaths/.....
» 9/01/2014 8:27:31 AM "WmTrevor the doco has been banned from being shown in public theatres." No, Ar.....
» 8/01/2014 7:04:57 PM AusTux, if you'd care to share the link to "A meta-study completed last year determin.....
» 8/01/2014 8:50:20 AM "On which topic I'd appreciate a Christian perspective on climate change." What.....
» 7/01/2014 9:21:54 AM Here are two links to assist you check your facts, Arjay: The link to access the evidence.....
» 6/01/2014 8:32:23 AM Fritz Haber... "Fertilizer generated from ammonia produced by the Haber process is e.....
» 5/01/2014 1:27:41 PM sorry, lousy typing... "Mohamed al Fayed's allegations".....
» 5/01/2014 1:25:00 PM "This is the jury's finding. It was an unlawful killing." This is from the intr.....
» 17/12/2013 7:33:11 AM Also from Lamont's resource sheet... "Findings from the ABS Personal Safety Survey (.....
» 13/12/2013 8:25:47 AM "Crikey, whatever happened to this being a land where people were willing to call a s.....
» 12/12/2013 3:41:23 PM "Furthermore, a god cannot be all-merciful and just at the same time because mercy is.....
» 12/12/2013 7:29:09 AM "In Victoria it is illegal to incite hatred against, serious contempt for, or revulsi.....
» 10/12/2013 8:15:50 AM "Until such time as we take steps to upgrade our spelling..." The idea has been.....
» 8/12/2013 4:03:09 PM "...but is it just me who can't access the article linked in the OP?" Nope. Me .....
» 5/12/2013 7:12:44 AM "A no-waste Christmas" by Ms. Yule... irony much. There is a 'tide' in the affa.....
» 3/12/2013 10:49:48 AM JKJ... From the AEC: "Named after an Aboriginal name for the Murray River. Area and.....
» 3/12/2013 8:55:48 AM "If anything had been obvious over the last 3 years, it is that Kevin Rudd was only i.....
» 27/11/2013 7:46:35 AM Given that in order to practise doctors are highly restricted by regulations and registrat.....
» 27/11/2013 7:21:38 AM Interesting collection of thought bubbles there, Sean... Made me reflect that in Australi.....
» 27/11/2013 6:42:26 AM Spying is not always a complex issue... though its consequences can be. Spying (like adul.....
» 27/11/2013 6:21:26 AM "Then one can also speculate if the coloured pigments in the different plants are act.....
» 26/11/2013 7:44:37 AM Enjoyed the read, Alanta... "No one gets to retire from the march for progress.".....
» 25/11/2013 12:52:03 PM [Pericles, your comment made sense in that Secret Internet Fatties would think internet ac.....
» 21/11/2013 9:45:30 AM Looks like there may be a winner in the gender wars... "We seem destined to continue.....
» 14/11/2013 6:10:16 AM As long as established religions cop tax exemptions the rest of us (the subsidisers) shoul.....
» 13/11/2013 10:00:12 AM Don't sweat it, Pericles... "Now you tell me." 'Cause it's not true. Commonwea.....
» 13/11/2013 8:13:54 AM What a sad indictment on the competence of Australians... "Professor Andrew Markus o.....
» 7/11/2013 5:45:17 AM "I wonder how the global average compares to 1931? Not ‘greater’ at all, I would thin.....
» 6/11/2013 8:47:36 AM It is unnecessary for the Federal Government to separately continue to regulate marriages......
» 4/11/2013 9:31:05 AM Peter Sellick has demonstrated matters of faith are, at the least, flexible... So, even .....
» 31/10/2013 6:44:35 AM "False premise; invalid conclusion." Okay... you do realise from the paragraph .....
» 29/10/2013 9:04:12 AM Bit extreme, Tony Lavis... ? "If you sold to the highest bidders you could make a kil.....
» 29/10/2013 8:46:51 AM Well yes, Belly... "However,and yes as the filth so far caught are not to be named!&.....
» 28/10/2013 6:07:03 PM Sorry to hear there are frictions... Young people, eh? It's all about 'me, me, me' when y.....
» 28/10/2013 8:29:09 AM Thanks for sharing that portion, RandomGuy... I can agree with the premise that women are.....
» 27/10/2013 9:59:58 AM Because this can be a convoluted process, Poirot... "I know it can be hard but in th.....
» 25/10/2013 8:07:15 AM "Good post, Poirot, Sarah Palin and our Suseonline seem to have much in common, histo.....
» 25/10/2013 7:33:27 AM I believe you, Belly... "I hope with every inch of my being Labor joins with the mad.....
» 25/10/2013 7:28:09 AM Surely Pascoe's analogy is inaccurate... "A caterpillar emerging from its cocoon as .....
» 24/10/2013 11:10:20 AM Not on a winner with that, Paul1405... "You can't see them, they are camouflaged.&qu.....
» 23/10/2013 5:12:56 PM It might work, though how you could know escapes me... the half-dozen or so al-Shabab terr.....
» 23/10/2013 9:34:37 AM "(well, I do not believe in Gaia, do you?)" No, because I see no reason to belie.....
» 23/10/2013 7:27:28 AM It has been an interesting conversation to observe... thanks. Yet, despite all that has b.....
» 22/10/2013 11:46:51 AM Yesterday's episode of BBC 4s Analysis programme on Quantitative Easing will yield you hea.....
» 22/10/2013 11:03:05 AM Is this the story? http://livingwiththebush.org/dp/book/export/html/13.....
» 22/10/2013 10:46:50 AM Graham, I've considered how to 'enhance the user experience' and think options for modifyi.....
» 22/10/2013 7:17:01 AM "Either that, or it was never immoral in the first place - they just hadn't thought o.....
» 21/10/2013 9:04:32 AM Cheers, Tony... A Bit of Fry and Laurie for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVkckG6zw.....
» 19/10/2013 9:38:34 AM Sorry, KarlX... it wasn't my intention to have you tell us how you find yourself bored by .....
» 18/10/2013 7:49:46 AM "It's a shame OLO isn't more like this:" Poirot, did you mean with only four go.....
» 17/10/2013 7:26:38 AM Thanks, Tony Lavis... the updated galaxy song goes to the big picture of how inter-related.....
» 16/10/2013 8:33:37 AM "Activities like that are good for developing your creativity." But if you're l.....
» 15/10/2013 9:53:23 AM Houellebecq, from memory it was around 5:32:47 AM way back on 13 June 2011 (a Monday if I'.....
» 15/10/2013 9:52:57 AM No… Not a defensive response but resigned, mournful agreement from the void at the pit of .....
» 14/10/2013 9:51:54 AM To "Pigs. Trough. Swill." we could add 'Dog's breakfast', to yield PTSD... Or k.....
» 14/10/2013 8:37:08 AM "I don't know why there is such a political environment around child birth. " O.....
» 11/10/2013 10:09:44 AM “I’m in a same-sex marriage... the sex is always the same.” - Alfie Moore.....
» 11/10/2013 9:40:47 AM That is not true, Philip S. "...we have a prime minister who earns more than the Ame.....
» 9/10/2013 7:08:07 AM Pericles, you may wish to add Dr Zulkifli Hasan's (University of Durham) observations of 1.....
» 8/10/2013 8:24:48 AM That's probably a bit of overreach, Joe... "Whatever, the doctor seemed to assume th.....
» 7/10/2013 11:14:12 AM That would be an invalid comparison, Poirot... "Using that measure, should we assume.....
» 7/10/2013 9:07:56 AM Funny old world, isn't it? Wasn't sure if I was reading the same thing as mentioned in ea.....
» 4/10/2013 8:23:12 AM Many of the examples struck me as idiomatic language or jargon rather than euphemisms... .....
» 3/10/2013 4:12:50 PM Given that Bristols is a rhyming slang term... does that make Bristol Pounds a décolletage.....
» 2/10/2013 3:09:28 PM Spookily deja vu-ish... I've experienced workplaces like that. "In my workplace ther.....
» 2/10/2013 8:10:39 AM "So far, many individuals and organisations in 57 countries have signed the Nonviolen.....
» 30/09/2013 7:58:28 AM ...and what's more older people are more literate and know how to spell 'reasonable' even .....
» 30/09/2013 7:53:55 AM Incredible... "Fifteen per cent said older workers "complain a lot'', and 11 pe.....
» 28/09/2013 7:24:35 PM It wouldn't need to wait for a sell off, Jonathan... "Your advertising approach can .....
» 28/09/2013 8:45:06 AM Isn't there an additional step in this process, Pericles/Fester? "You gave the suppl.....
» 27/09/2013 10:14:59 AM A little tinkering with a well known advertising claim will be a good start... "We w.....
» 27/09/2013 9:28:46 AM Obviously the singular/plural issue was a mistake... but what about the conjunction? Not .....
» 27/09/2013 7:51:18 AM Interesting list chrisgraff1000... Iran just about ticked all the boxes but fell down wit.....
» 26/09/2013 10:18:19 AM Don't use my name when you have a phantasm, SPQR... "Hmmm both you and Trevor have n.....
» 25/09/2013 5:11:57 PM Thanks, Vickie... you mean the speech to Amanie Australia Islamic Finance Forum on Tuesday.....
» 25/09/2013 10:51:01 AM "Thanks SPQR - it really is that straight forward. " "We've just seen what .....
» 25/09/2013 9:01:31 AM "Labor too is busy remaking its image..." I hope not, Don. Until Labor is not .....
» 24/09/2013 10:43:48 AM " Dominating women in a society are a disgrace." Grammar, runner... "Domi.....
» 24/09/2013 9:59:12 AM Well there's your problem right there, Bernard... "For two things to be equal they m.....
» 22/09/2013 8:09:03 PM Word count and 4 post limits, Vickie, prevented me from tacking this on earlier... ".....
» 22/09/2013 9:40:01 AM "So while I believe there still is Muslim only swimming in Coburg (am I'm happy to be.....
» 21/09/2013 4:52:16 PM Not everyone was happy though... "Islamic women’s leaders also panned the order. Is.....
» 21/09/2013 4:48:03 PM The Dandenong Leader reported this on 16 September 2010: " DANDENONG’S mayor has cal.....
» 21/09/2013 4:44:36 PM "'Muslim only swimming' (Coburg & Dandenong area for example) - we also openly see di.....
» 20/09/2013 1:05:38 PM Of course 'we' can, Shaggy Dog... "We can do better folks." But 'they' can't! .....
» 20/09/2013 12:38:26 PM "...by the promotion of this product." Sorry, not sure what product this is? Bu.....
» 20/09/2013 10:50:41 AM Perversely, given the subject, morality is unlikely to have anything to do with it. ".....
» 17/09/2013 7:32:49 PM Let's face it, whatever the gender make-up of the front bench there would have been critic.....
» 17/09/2013 11:27:42 AM Don't worry Gemma... some of us actually read the article. For everyone else here is the .....
» 16/09/2013 4:12:02 PM Phew... I'm glad that's been cleared up, Is Mise. But doesn't that leave us in the positi.....
» 16/09/2013 11:11:53 AM Can't imagine it influenced any voting intentions: "I must admit that I performed an.....
» 16/09/2013 9:23:23 AM "It's hard to be a fully conscious being at all times, in all areas." "A re.....
» 16/09/2013 8:04:10 AM Couldn't PM Abbott just stay at Kirribilli House and use the NBN to videoconference with C.....
» 16/09/2013 7:44:03 AM sovereign! dammit (I think God just proved my point about chaos.....
» 16/09/2013 7:41:13 AM Thanks, Pericles... So basically people (as always) are the problem whichever way you loo.....
» 15/09/2013 8:06:18 PM Am I missing something in the analogy? If weather forecasters were also a causal factor a.....
» 15/09/2013 6:45:21 PM "It leaves them performing an unnatural act and thus debasing marriage." "T.....
» 13/09/2013 10:05:23 AM "In Australia one is not allowed to possess any thing for the purpose of self defence.....
» 13/09/2013 9:34:49 AM "(I say 'almost' because of the nature of the subject, enough to make any half decent.....
» 13/09/2013 8:40:12 AM Even though, as you example, the "International Monetary Fund's short-term forecasts .....
» 13/09/2013 8:12:52 AM Dear Humph and dear Applebee, you might seek the advice of Sir Arnold Robinson regarding A.....
» 12/09/2013 8:45:02 AM "We've stopped them for the present." That is seriously impressive, Arjay... si.....
» 12/09/2013 7:48:23 AM It is almost Aristotelian... "The trutch is always harder to swollow. We can all con.....
» 11/09/2013 7:16:09 PM "That looks like 'first past the post' to me..." That, Saltpetre, is because it.....
» 11/09/2013 8:34:04 AM To address the anomaly of a Senator being elected on a small fraction of primary votes due.....
» 10/09/2013 1:09:19 PM We're in furious agreement, Pericles... I was only drawing attention to the fact that the .....
» 10/09/2013 12:47:55 PM Junaid even if, as Robert Holmes wrote in 1976 for Doctor Who in the first appearance of '.....
» 10/09/2013 9:37:12 AM I must get out more... "...a few yonis on Honi Soit are far easier to explain away t.....
» 10/09/2013 8:33:55 AM " Proportional representation voting, as used in the Senate, is designed to secure th.....
» 9/09/2013 12:45:35 PM Struth can be stranger than fiction, Houellebecq... http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-ne.....
» 9/09/2013 9:33:16 AM Sorry, Lyle, but your analysis is wrong in thinking that same-sex marriage was sufficientl.....
» 9/09/2013 8:49:41 AM "Torturers, including those who are psychiatrists or psychologists, need our understa.....
» 6/09/2013 8:17:01 PM I think you are misreading the nuance in Rhian's position, Kipp... "or to allow relig.....
» 6/09/2013 2:25:42 PM (Seriously, Pericles? It couldn't have been pardon for Sorry, place for hang and particula.....
» 6/09/2013 2:06:49 PM Quite right, Longy... "We have been mislead on homosexual marriage, it is not geneti.....
» 6/09/2013 8:23:32 AM "...and poverty for all?" Obviously not, Shadow Minister, all politicians have .....
» 5/09/2013 2:10:21 PM "I say they accepted the request with good grace..." Would that be WG Grace?.....
» 5/09/2013 11:45:44 AM Just as well Fawad Ahmed wasn't a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites and had ma.....
» 5/09/2013 10:58:13 AM On that theory of 'Christianity', progressive pat, unless the LNP Leader is campaigning fo.....
» 4/09/2013 3:04:06 PM About time. It seems we are past misogyny... "Tony Abbott has hot daughters though.&.....
» 4/09/2013 2:34:06 PM "(Whilst we're at it, what is the furthest you can walk into a forest?)" Wasn't.....
» 4/09/2013 9:06:45 AM "Still, I'm wondering how I would have felt if, instead of OUG, I'd clicked on OLO th.....
» 3/09/2013 9:07:22 AM Remind yourself, chrisgaff1000, that this is not our forum but Graham Young's... so by all.....
» 2/09/2013 9:10:37 PM You may wish to check out the BBC's More or Less program from 3 February 2012, wobbles... .....
» 2/09/2013 7:24:06 PM "The almost uniformly negative coverage doesn’t make sense to the hundreds of thousan.....
» 2/09/2013 9:39:01 AM Fascinating discussion full of philosophical complexities... As far as I can remember, ra.....
» 28/08/2013 10:02:32 AM "Does the weight of our very existence within the social structure preclude us from e.....
» 27/08/2013 8:39:12 AM "Australia can clear the smoke by asking the right questions." Which could be t.....
» 26/08/2013 8:55:14 AM "With enough votes like mine, we will at least have another hung Parliament and hold .....
» 22/08/2013 12:39:35 PM And here's me thinking the A in AGW stood for Anthropogenic rather than Athiest Global War.....
» 22/08/2013 9:33:57 AM Thanks, Poirot... I had understood those categories. I was responding to the reply declaim.....
» 21/08/2013 10:35:53 AM "Sign of a beaten debater..." Welts, I would have thought. Does Sharia Law man.....
» 21/08/2013 9:02:22 AM "My children were NEVER caned or punished or even scolded for soiling nappies." .....
» 20/08/2013 5:56:33 PM There should be a rider to any paid parental leave scheme payments that if the kids turn o.....
» 20/08/2013 5:43:19 PM "Let no man tell me how I should discipline my children"... Well, there's the p.....
» 20/08/2013 9:52:52 AM Did you get your titles confused, Shockadelic? "This Little Piggy Got Whipped?".....
» 15/08/2013 8:17:55 AM I might have voted if limited preferential voting had not been proscribed. Then, I had pl.....
» 15/08/2013 7:59:32 AM "W Trevor says that the fact that 3 Islamic countries do not support specific and par.....
» 14/08/2013 12:16:42 PM "...as the surveys I have referred to show, all Muslims from all countries want shari.....
» 8/08/2013 9:09:11 AM There are at least two more ways to consider the 'maths' George... "Well, Mohamed w.....
» 4/08/2013 10:09:10 AM I'm disappointed antiseptic – in my explaining ability, that is – that you seem to have mi.....
» 2/08/2013 1:01:21 PM Another way to correct the headline, spindoc, is this... "Gonski is just a bazaar&qu.....
» 2/08/2013 10:56:30 AM "God meets a different standard of proof" Not in my universe... But, being gen.....
» 31/07/2013 1:30:06 PM "Another massive secular failure along with the destruction of the normal family that.....
» 31/07/2013 10:19:24 AM I've seen lots of TV dramas and reckon, usually after someone is shot, the most heard name.....
» 22/07/2013 2:17:22 PM david f, I heard the position was left vacant following the tragic accidents of the applic.....
» 22/07/2013 2:11:49 PM Ignoring the clever use of 'prolixitive' Paul1405, or not comprehending it? "...mayb.....
» 22/07/2013 8:41:36 AM Paul1405... you make it sound like you're so bound up with your ideas you need to take a p.....
» 20/07/2013 2:17:29 PM "What is most important to remember about the ATAR is it is not a measure of intellec.....
» 18/07/2013 9:26:59 AM I didn't have anything I wanted to offer other than to help this thread catch up to the nu.....
» 16/07/2013 8:21:01 AM "thanks to dr spock and co who fooled the gullible in to not smacking a couple of gen.....
» 6/07/2013 7:22:33 PM Finally got around to being able to watch the episode, Arjay… and it was as I suspected. .....
» 5/07/2013 8:58:11 AM An excellent point, SM... "It is only the immunity they have as parliamentarians tha.....
» 5/07/2013 8:43:13 AM On the face of it proscribing a group of people (property developers; and can't builders a.....
» 4/07/2013 8:18:45 PM Thanks Arjay... silly me only looked at the News, Russian Politics, Business sections of R.....
» 4/07/2013 9:13:09 AM "Notice our detractors have fallen silent." That is the result when people are .....
» 4/07/2013 8:56:48 AM Haven't stopped laughing Candide. "...and the rest of us can continue the discussion.....
» 2/07/2013 8:32:43 AM Belly, I'm not sure I fully understood your response though it seemed you thought I impugn.....
» 1/07/2013 6:21:30 PM "Now you will never be sure will you ;)" True, of course, R0bert... but I have .....
» 1/07/2013 11:44:55 AM I'm curious about how the tariff agreement is worded, Belly... Seems ridiculously unfair......
» 30/06/2013 6:54:32 PM A most intriguing experiment, Philip S... "...see how long before the federal police.....
» 28/06/2013 11:08:42 AM I'm sure Mr. Abbott would stand for old ladies on public transport... but that's not impor.....
» 27/06/2013 1:36:46 PM "Why should Abbott's personal religious beliefs disqualify him from leading."? .....
» 25/06/2013 12:05:29 PM "Well.......?" Yes, thank you, Poirot, and relaxed and comfortable. But not, I .....
» 25/06/2013 11:15:02 AM It's nothing to do with feminist conscience, Poirot... But it is to do with human conscio.....
» 17/06/2013 12:51:58 PM I don't know that I can agree with "The idea of respect for the office of PM is about.....
» 14/06/2013 10:47:14 AM My favorites are when you combine Lego and biblical correctness... http://twentytwowords......
» 11/06/2013 6:05:23 PM My golliwog was called little black sambo (after the story) and because I liked the idea o.....
» 7/06/2013 10:02:49 AM The aftermath (or is it the after-match) is incredible... I'm trying hard to really care. .....
» 5/06/2013 10:05:40 AM I couldn't work out whether this qualifies as a laughing matter or not... http://blog.sfg.....
» 4/06/2013 10:57:42 AM Hah... during a scrum not so much enuresis, as in your ear? Having read the link, now we .....
» 4/06/2013 10:31:04 AM "I'm sure there must be term for it." Poirot, you know I cannot avoid being a p.....
» 3/06/2013 12:38:25 PM "What bl00dy Planet do you people live on?" The one apparently, Jayb, where you.....
» 3/06/2013 11:50:23 AM "Just because it is invented doesn't mean it's without value." That is true. So.....
» 2/06/2013 10:39:29 AM To the thread's original point... "A very close non-Aboriginal friend recently bought.....
» 1/06/2013 12:13:37 PM This is from a few months back, but it is an interesting perspective that sometimes the cr.....
» 30/05/2013 1:17:46 PM "Would it have been as offensive if she'd bought a white dog called it Jigga Boo?&quo.....
» 30/05/2013 10:54:16 AM ">Because this good money can't be the same thing as the government's bad money so.....
» 30/05/2013 10:52:51 AM Thanks for your attempts to answer questions I posed, JKJ… I really intended them as indic.....
» 27/05/2013 2:22:40 PM Claims that "Ya big ape" is racist? Dunno. Seems more of a specious argument to.....
» 24/05/2013 9:57:11 AM If we demolish the government's monopoly on the supply of money and someone else supplies .....
» 23/05/2013 12:45:35 PM "Blind freddy can see the problems. more money, more money. What a pathetic mantra.&q.....
» 23/05/2013 10:43:04 AM Poirot, if you subscribe to endothermic theories the answer is no of course there is nothi.....
» 23/05/2013 10:14:12 AM Re water... "I think they'd prefer it to parasites and cholera." Once you get p.....
» 23/05/2013 8:28:53 AM Seldom do I react with intense desire to reach through the computer screen to throttle an .....
» 23/05/2013 8:04:52 AM "In this regard, I very much doubt legalising gay marriage will achieve the positive .....
» 22/05/2013 7:46:26 PM The link is correct Arjay once you change the '.govt' to the correct '.gov'... then it wor.....
» 22/05/2013 10:28:28 AM To be fair to Arjay... maybe he believes that net exposure is held against his Commonwealt.....
» 21/05/2013 11:19:23 AM "Remember Bannockburn!" There is now a cream you can get that will provide some.....
» 21/05/2013 10:28:26 AM I preferred the good old days when all someone needed to know about money was that they di.....
» 21/05/2013 8:15:56 AM "The great majority of us will reach a point in time where we are forced to choose be.....
» 20/05/2013 11:30:57 AM As a test I asked two friends about Rahman's gripe that Delta Goodrem was 'stupid and raci.....
» 17/05/2013 4:11:17 PM Thank you for the thank you, Ludwig... and for understanding it is possible to link to ref.....
» 16/05/2013 9:03:10 PM You're too kind, H... I do admire your perspicacity and OLO could do with more of your ill.....
» 16/05/2013 11:17:15 AM "Jolie was merely consumable. But the sad reality is that the moment one stands in fr.....
» 16/05/2013 10:33:26 AM I do try to see things from runner's point of view... "well I suppose if he had of c.....
» 16/05/2013 10:05:15 AM First the good news… The expectation of a quality preschool education is a good one. But .....
» 16/05/2013 7:47:08 AM Peter, you need to improve your comprehension skills. In an effort to assist Ludwig with .....
» 15/05/2013 12:08:20 PM Here you go, chrisgaff1000... http://www.health.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.nsf/.....
» 15/05/2013 9:18:25 AM Thanks for the article, David. I'm increasingly convinced that the basis for all human ac.....
» 15/05/2013 8:35:53 AM Ludwig, rationalwiki.org has a 'bemused' take on von Mises. Referring to "Human Actio.....
» 14/05/2013 6:25:33 PM "You're forgetting Galileo's Ship." True, Tony. I didn't think the phenomenon a.....
» 14/05/2013 2:57:21 PM SM, my only surprise is that you didn't seem to have noticed the country is drifting sligh.....
» 14/05/2013 10:05:17 AM Ahem, SM... check bottom of p.2......
» 14/05/2013 8:48:54 AM Where exactly IS this country heading ?? Barring tectonic shifts in expectations, current.....
» 13/05/2013 8:52:12 PM Has there ever been: i. a politicians pay rise without cross-party support, ii. a proposa.....
» 13/05/2013 9:14:50 AM It matters not of whom it is said, the expression "leading monetary economist" i.....
» 11/05/2013 12:34:35 PM The credit you are extending, individual, should be directed to praxidice who wrote the qu.....
» 11/05/2013 8:35:34 AM Sincerest apologies, rehctub... obviously the previous was to praxidice. Although the gen.....
» 11/05/2013 8:20:05 AM What have you got against heterosexuals, phanto? "To want government to sanction you.....
» 11/05/2013 8:09:02 AM I can't see how the problems are a bad as you suggest rehctub... "Whilst the concept.....
» 9/05/2013 4:40:21 PM And if God provides the backdrop... perfect viewing conditions. http://tobycettera.blogsp.....
» 9/05/2013 4:24:14 PM That's too potentially divisive, stevenlmeyer... "Eventually we'll Balkanise Austral.....
» 9/05/2013 3:49:33 PM Not sure, csteele… context is everything. "How would you feel in upon entering a pub.....
» 9/05/2013 12:03:48 PM The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierachy has as its antithesis, absence of data, mis.....
» 9/05/2013 11:07:50 AM "The next step on the path to nonsense is that because individuals are different and .....
» 9/05/2013 10:28:39 AM I fully support the rights of Christians to exercise their freedom of speech to really off.....
» 9/05/2013 10:02:59 AM Just up to the first paragraph on page 9... Does this help? "Still, on a per capita .....
» 9/05/2013 9:54:18 AM Just found this, published in March 2010, but covering an analysis of 1997 to 2002... stil.....
» 9/05/2013 8:28:02 AM It is reasonable to be concerned about issues of who controls, accesses and uses public CC.....
» 8/05/2013 2:29:51 PM Thank you, david f. "In their unhappiness rootless men and women are more likely to e.....
» 6/05/2013 6:32:01 PM runner, FU are going to post in contractions can we have some warning... otherwise we wi.....
» 6/05/2013 10:03:02 AM Shock, horror... "(That's the second "pubic" (public) blunder I've made in .....
» 5/05/2013 2:34:56 PM Gosh, Yuyutsu... "According to Judaism, activating an electrical current is equivale.....
» 5/05/2013 10:11:06 AM Firstly, "a run through the daily program guides leaves one dumbfounded at the absolu.....
» 4/05/2013 12:20:23 PM It is clear that whilst 20% is one fifth, the statement "that Lebanese make up the fi.....
» 3/05/2013 4:03:23 PM I'm prepared to throw the bouquet for "...I stuffed up", sonofgloin. You deserv.....
» 3/05/2013 10:11:35 AM ">>...many countries have escaped the yoke of IMF and World Bank austerity and .....
» 3/05/2013 8:53:09 AM Does this link help as well? Mentions the Channel 4 blog but has some other info and is da.....
» 2/05/2013 12:31:58 PM What agendas, real or imagined, are in play here? Is it us, the marketers, Foxtel, Wendy .....
» 2/05/2013 11:32:34 AM "...or am perceived" Sorry, that's probably my fault for making the Elizabeth M.....
» 2/05/2013 8:50:11 AM "Don't drive like aw fixed wooden-stocked fluked ship's anchor"? Doesn't make a.....
» 2/05/2013 8:34:09 AM You argue, "Moynihan wrote that "A community that allows a large number of young.....
» 1/05/2013 10:40:01 AM Don't be too sure, Poirot... "So perhaps things aren't as bad as you think : )".....
» 1/05/2013 9:28:43 AM On the face of it you seem to begrudge the results of 2000 years of Christianity shaping w.....
» 30/04/2013 7:53:13 AM As the thread was started by Josephus... http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?dis.....
» 29/04/2013 10:05:36 AM "What does it mean to be 'Australian'?" Too easy... It means whatever I think.....
» 26/04/2013 10:41:51 AM Before suggesting, "Alan Jones could be the official patron, and the day could close.....
» 26/04/2013 10:07:48 AM But not all news is a dead end… Without Arjay's leads regarding Glenn Beck as well as La .....
» 26/04/2013 9:36:32 AM "Though Republican extremists may be conflicted and given to creatively crude stateme.....
» 23/04/2013 9:52:26 AM "But the unfortunate truth is that a good proportion of the population are making pre.....
» 23/04/2013 9:35:35 AM Here is the Christian Post's report on Beck's 'report' http://www.christianpost.com/news/.....
» 22/04/2013 12:44:21 PM I blame tinted windows… Road rage incidents were virtually unheard of years ago when all .....
» 22/04/2013 8:26:11 AM "Obviously, there are other important aspects of marriage, but the link to children i.....
» 22/04/2013 8:11:52 AM Is there a chance of an alternative water source for you, chemifree...? Old Bob would be .....
» 20/04/2013 9:20:15 AM It sounds as though you're above mere vigilantism or retribution… Fortunately, there's a .....
» 19/04/2013 9:46:06 AM As for the other points... I agree. But it would be boring just to say that......
» 19/04/2013 9:38:33 AM Sooo transparent... a provocative title "...a lesson from Marjorie Pollard for moder.....
» 19/04/2013 9:03:43 AM Appreciated the explanation, Dan Germouse... and as for "...genius. " thanks, we.....
» 18/04/2013 8:35:08 AM "Do we have sufficient information to develop an informed opinion? If we don't, shoul.....
» 18/04/2013 8:25:17 AM "We will now have fatherless and motherless children in society based on the emotiona.....
» 17/04/2013 10:32:14 AM Not sure of the assistance The Confession of Faith of the Assembly of Divines at Westminst.....
» 17/04/2013 9:06:57 AM My brain hurts... The dilemma is that the entity identifying as Yuyutsu tells us that the.....
» 15/04/2013 5:10:52 PM My own sidebar, which as it is set in Earth relative time of 2087 AD and elsewhere in the .....
» 15/04/2013 4:28:26 PM "‘In (or at) the beginning’ does not equate with ‘Once upon a time’. The first define.....
» 15/04/2013 4:26:38 PM Showing discussions for articles published one year back… Congratulations to all of us. Fe.....
» 11/04/2013 6:28:19 AM Interesting. "Women are perceived to be more flexible, accommodating and less selfis.....
» 10/04/2013 10:44:48 AM Same story, ateday... only 35 years ago. Now reread my last sentence in that comment......
» 10/04/2013 9:26:36 AM Whose fault is it really, ateday? "It is your grandchildren who will pay the price f.....
» 10/04/2013 9:00:13 AM Persevering with Mr Sellick's offerings seemed important… In that I might eventually compr.....
» 9/04/2013 4:48:31 PM Could that personally signed election manifesto be something like a contract detailing Fai.....
» 9/04/2013 7:02:49 AM With sincere apologies to Charles Aznavour... Xi May be the beauty or the beast May be th.....
» 8/04/2013 4:51:52 PM Sorry, I had got out of the habit of checking back here regularly… But now I understand, &.....
» 8/04/2013 8:43:19 AM "Delving further into the importance of placebo research, 97% of GPs participating in.....
» 5/04/2013 8:16:29 PM It seems there is no dispute with the principle, Ludwig... you are in total agreement with.....
» 5/04/2013 8:54:12 AM If you were really genuine about this 'band of brothers' concept, Babette, you would be ar.....
» 5/04/2013 8:16:15 AM You're right, Suesonline… Though the circumstances weren't funny the look on the consultin.....
» 4/04/2013 2:58:06 PM Isn't this all a waste of time... Iftikhar himself, despite starting the thread, tells us .....
» 4/04/2013 10:24:44 AM Should have started the thread two days earlier on 1 April, spindoc... I struggled to fin.....
» 4/04/2013 8:57:51 AM "Should we get rid of the Marriage Act?" No... as it constitutes compensation i.....
» 3/04/2013 2:32:14 PM "Does anyone else have a problem with this scenario?" Implies that you do, Lexi.....
» 3/04/2013 8:18:25 AM "Firstly, our bodies should not be regarded as fair game for the public to survey, an.....
» 2/04/2013 8:38:40 AM "Young people as school leavers now have the benefit of the Arts Ready program and in.....
» 28/03/2013 10:06:06 AM If there is blame to be homed, there are many sheets in this history, Constance... Acknow.....
» 26/03/2013 2:35:01 PM After you get along to Aldi for your new computer, o sung wu, you might consider poping in.....
» 25/03/2013 5:03:46 PM This sounds like you're uninterested in any tests of faith, Dan S de Merengue... "To.....
» 25/03/2013 9:35:40 AM "what "strange" pseudonyms", Crackcup... and one for a container of .....
» 23/03/2013 9:03:54 AM Maybe I'd better understand opinions centred on no distinction between 'something' and 'so.....
» 22/03/2013 5:21:40 PM "...going to change the world with a strongly worded letter?" That would be sil.....
» 22/03/2013 11:15:08 AM "Multi-nationals want to control the market, control the prices, control the salaries.....
» 22/03/2013 8:12:42 AM "But I've noted at various points above the importance of recognising the philosophic.....
» 20/03/2013 10:46:01 AM More's the pity, Pericles... a sentiment shared by Fr. Michael Fitzpatrick. Or was it Fr. .....
» 20/03/2013 10:07:34 AM Why public transport? What is good enough for the boss should be good enough for the staf.....
» 20/03/2013 9:17:41 AM "WmTrevor, I'm having difficulty following you." I should have been more explic.....
» 19/03/2013 4:58:25 PM I appreciate the examples, Dan S de Merengue. Has anyone ever tried claiming Popper's repu.....
» 19/03/2013 8:42:39 AM "...all the best intentions in the world often lead to bad outcomes." I don't d.....
» 18/03/2013 9:10:36 AM "Incentivising..." really, SM, you're usually better than that. Here's an idea......
» 17/03/2013 6:18:26 PM "Your idea of the scientific method, that it, “assumes what we think is wrong and kee.....
» 16/03/2013 10:24:15 AM This confected outrage, Banjo, might be more easily dealt with it you could indicate which.....
» 15/03/2013 8:18:57 AM "They knew the man the Holy Spirit wanted." If you say so, Alex... I can't hel.....
» 15/03/2013 6:29:10 AM Q: Who would win if Gillard and Abbott both fought to the death? A: We all would......
» 14/03/2013 8:04:56 AM "How would you reduce alcohol abuse by people who don't receive benefits? " Sac.....
» 11/03/2013 7:42:17 PM Thank you, Lexi, for the leading contender for the OLO "Best Line of the Year When Qu.....
» 11/03/2013 7:21:47 PM So am I correct, Dan S de Merengue, in taking it that your answer to my question is ".....
» 11/03/2013 11:41:12 AM But this is at the heart of the issues, Dan S de Merengue... "They say let's presume.....
» 11/03/2013 10:46:20 AM Heaven forefend I'd ever think you would "...want to sound at all ungracious," w.....
» 11/03/2013 10:07:51 AM Whilst male posters haven't, as yet, told Suseonline what she really thinks - so I know wi.....
» 11/03/2013 9:19:47 AM Not necessarily, Pericles… "If we did that, we wouldn't have the word helpmeet anywa.....
» 10/03/2013 6:55:55 PM Just a thought on behalf of all of us who are still clicking on the "Show discussions.....
» 5/03/2013 8:23:35 AM "...involved as never before in these debates about what constitutes a quality press......
» 3/03/2013 1:29:10 PM Technogies are economies based on technology. Similar to how a knowledge economy is techk.....
» 2/03/2013 10:18:18 AM A consideration tried some years ago... too many splinters. I now prefer Crocs to little .....
» 2/03/2013 9:40:25 AM Sometimes the consequences of circumcision are beyond comprehension: http://www.straitsti.....
» 1/03/2013 6:50:55 PM "Where am I going wrong?" Surely a metaphysical dilemma rather than an astrophy.....
» 1/03/2013 5:30:00 PM "One explanation has a logic problem;" Does it, csteele? "So even if this.....
» 1/03/2013 8:09:08 AM Wish I'd been clever enough to create this: "Say what you will about popery, but at .....
» 1/03/2013 6:42:23 AM That is a tad unfair, Tony Lavis... "He just thinks he is far superior to everyone.&.....
» 1/03/2013 6:35:26 AM csteele, regarding your unfathomable black hole (which Poirot is also pondering)... To su.....
» 28/02/2013 7:14:32 PM R0bert, you might want to try the Attorney-General's Department Crime Prevention Archived .....
» 28/02/2013 9:21:19 AM George, of course you are correct in describing the difficulties about our understanding o.....
» 28/02/2013 8:26:42 AM Afterthought... Does famed scholar, theologian and Vatican Library custodian Leo Allatius.....
» 28/02/2013 8:01:44 AM "The more we look, the more we learn." Fun, isn't it? For me one of the most am.....
» 28/02/2013 7:20:44 AM I can only cope with all this stuff by analogy… Which is always inadequate. In this discus.....
» 27/02/2013 11:52:51 AM csteele, I think the answer was in the sentence after the one you cited, "The princip.....
» 25/02/2013 4:14:25 PM Mania from haven for geezers to eat up...?.....
» 24/02/2013 4:11:33 PM Having checked online with the LA County Museum of Art, the frame of reference for 'The tr.....
» 21/02/2013 8:41:58 AM Surely it is ironic that an article about single parenting is based on misconceptions… Bu.....
» 20/02/2013 10:18:58 AM Is this point of view from Oct 2009 still relevant? http://www.agrometeorology.org/topics.....
» 20/02/2013 6:16:19 AM I believe, as usual, that david f is correct. Turning to the earlier topic and to rephras.....
» 18/02/2013 4:28:43 PM Poirot, it depends on the unit of measure... For example in the ancient Eygptian units of.....
» 18/02/2013 8:43:34 AM So much with which to agree... There seems to be consensus that stereotyping makes for si.....
» 18/02/2013 6:36:20 AM Are there too many esses in occasionally? Can be if you type on an autorepeat keyboard wit.....
» 18/02/2013 6:33:02 AM Are there facts? Yes. Is there wisdom? Maybe... okay; occassionally. Is there insight?.....
» 16/02/2013 1:37:03 PM It is thrilling to think that Graham Kerr is still alive to appreciate that his TV show wa.....
» 15/02/2013 1:50:37 PM "...no Pope has ever, in his office as Pope, contradicted the teaching of the Christi.....
» 15/02/2013 10:10:20 AM "I reckon Jesus was a leftie..." Or else ambidextrous if He was God's right han.....
» 15/02/2013 9:46:41 AM "Can the Petrine Ministry of popes seriously be compared with the tenure of global CE.....
» 15/02/2013 8:35:45 AM You could have asked 'Grampa', ""Where'd you get all the money?" "The.....
» 12/02/2013 10:27:21 AM If I'm not preaching to the choir and can lend a hand, H... Be careful, because if you let.....
» 12/02/2013 8:21:23 AM Given, "Even in my workplace, people can be so aggressive on email, so gentle over th.....
» 12/02/2013 7:29:59 AM Hugely disappointed in the article... not only were these supposed 'rules of business' not.....
» 10/02/2013 12:28:36 PM "Before WmTrevor intervenes - yes that should be "toeing the line"." .....
» 10/02/2013 8:36:28 AM Appreciated, Banjo Paterson… for the record, the analogy had nothing to do with your initi.....
» 9/02/2013 10:07:29 AM Are you sure you've got the right target in mind, Poirot? Since technically there's been .....
» 8/02/2013 9:24:11 AM This responsibility and self actualisation stuff is complicated. "I'm sure I'd be co.....
» 7/02/2013 9:12:42 PM This is how the 'execution' of Agenda 21 is implemented in Australia: "In order to o.....
» 6/02/2013 1:34:43 PM Which would be a pity since I wanted to hear his comments about this on page 64 of 'Answer.....
» 6/02/2013 12:29:18 PM A shout out to Tiddles from my two, Soot and Princess. "Yep Pericles, you got it in.....
» 6/02/2013 12:01:36 PM Incidentally, if you are planning to do work for General Practice Workforce, wouldn't your.....
» 5/02/2013 10:36:50 AM The number of years is irrelevant... and having wisdom, experience and knowledge to 'impar.....
» 5/02/2013 7:42:38 AM A difficult discussion... made more so since there is no way of knowing the liaison wasn't.....
» 4/02/2013 4:07:58 PM Even non-atheists (or more precisely non-Young Earth Creationist Christians) have issues w.....
» 4/02/2013 8:21:02 AM "Only when I realized my own magnificence, my own perfection, my own self worth as a .....
» 3/02/2013 11:01:19 AM "Obesity, an increasingly communal problem requires a communal response, but it is un.....
» 3/02/2013 10:45:11 AM "Humans are capable, given the right nurturing, of living many different ways. Histor.....
» 2/02/2013 7:16:05 AM This, from page 4, was overlooked/ignored/unanswerable and is resubmitted for consideratio.....
» 1/02/2013 6:24:50 PM The eating in public may not work as the welfare of street cafes, etc. would be compromise.....
» 30/01/2013 9:27:49 AM "Taking offence is a feeling, voluntarily chosen. No matter how bigoted, ill-informed.....
» 30/01/2013 9:05:42 AM You are right to say, "While this may be the goal, the reality is that science is alw.....
» 29/01/2013 12:13:06 PM And there was me thinking I'd solved your problem, Houellebecq as to where to look when ta.....
» 29/01/2013 9:11:19 AM Some earlier arguments remind me of comments about gays and lesbians... "Why do they .....
» 28/01/2013 5:08:53 PM Just to remind those who know the joke that ends... "and she woke up and there in the.....
» 27/01/2013 10:46:02 AM "Finally, the formation of a World Gov’t was not my idea. It was the UNFCCC that sugg.....
» 26/01/2013 10:06:24 AM "When I pick my nose, I can do it 'discretely'." But wouldn't the more accurate.....
» 25/01/2013 8:27:00 AM Don't forget the importance of each citizen's share (select convert to USD and scroll down.....
» 24/01/2013 10:51:13 AM Having already "been there and done that", Pericles… Whilst you're there see if .....
» 24/01/2013 7:00:39 AM Shouldn't vegetarians be more concerned that the foods they eat are irradiated by the sun?.....
» 23/01/2013 10:27:37 AM "Why didn’t they police these bylaws?" Well, one guess might be that they were .....
» 23/01/2013 9:55:32 AM It's only a pity that the legislation is not enacted already… I've already prepared a hug.....
» 22/01/2013 4:02:14 PM I knew we had much in common, Squeers... I've said I'm an 'idealistic realist', you've ide.....
» 21/01/2013 8:17:53 AM "You seem to take a Wildean approach to things and I can certainly relate to that.&qu.....
» 19/01/2013 8:09:33 PM Depending on who told what to whom, when... if the conversation was something like "Y.....
» 18/01/2013 4:44:21 PM Hey Squeers, "…and I’m surprised if you’re persuaded by this transparently neoliberal.....
» 18/01/2013 8:29:23 AM Disclosure Statement: I am not 'Bob'. (signed) WmTrevor. "'US software engineer out.....
» 18/01/2013 7:07:08 AM I thought a popularity contest plus bribery was traditionally how one got the votes to be .....
» 17/01/2013 1:00:28 PM "As you are aware I took the last paragraph of that report and simply quoted it.".....
» 17/01/2013 12:37:23 PM I know it's not cricket, but not all the buffoons belong to Australian sport... http://ww.....
» 17/01/2013 9:46:43 AM Here's a suggestion which might help, David G... Since your comment that "And if ho.....
» 16/01/2013 9:59:58 AM Overthinking it? Possibly… Let's test the basis of the argument by substituting some other.....
» 16/01/2013 9:25:12 AM Exemptive laws need to be very carefully considered… In a secular society, equality before.....
» 14/01/2013 12:19:42 PM Seems so, Pericles... "The labours of Sisyphus... " (Did you know he pioneered r.....
» 14/01/2013 8:15:15 AM Rebound attempt or slops? "You're my fave trev." I take it you tanked on Christ.....
» 14/01/2013 8:08:37 AM I was enjoying nodding my head to the general dilemmas of economic problems created by eve.....
» 13/01/2013 10:15:22 AM Enjoyed the Faust, George… Thanks for noticing, 'all parties' does include "those of.....
» 13/01/2013 9:19:30 AM “Do our atheist friends here agree that not only those of the 'secular community' but also.....
» 13/01/2013 7:57:18 AM Of course, david f, since taxation expenditure is orders of magnitude more than any taxati.....
» 12/01/2013 9:04:50 AM "Are we becoming internet addicts?" Only as long as the electricity holds out, t.....
» 11/01/2013 8:11:31 AM Enjoyed the levity, SPQR… showed "if someone on the left…" to some of my upstair.....
» 10/01/2013 1:41:32 PM In the original article Amanda Vanstone says, "The answer is simple. Just do not look.....
» 10/01/2013 7:53:00 AM "Let us not panic." We weren't... because some of us had the intestinal fortitu.....
» 10/01/2013 7:19:07 AM Good luck with your alternative book distribution experiment. You say, "The problem .....
» 9/01/2013 8:15:55 AM Here is a more detailed discussion paper about some of the definitional and legal aspects:.....
» 9/01/2013 6:16:31 AM The AEC Electoral Backgrounder - Constitutional, Disqualifications and Intending Candidate.....
» 7/01/2013 2:36:53 PM Though very nearly a centenarian in 1892, when Sir James Dewar invented the vacuum flask, .....
» 5/01/2013 7:07:02 PM As far as I can tell, runner, you regard the eternal damnation of the everlasting punishme.....
» 4/01/2013 7:24:07 AM To quote the Man in Shack, Saltpetre, "I have no opinion. How can I have?" But......
» 3/01/2013 7:03:47 PM Having nothing better to do before the start of QI, Arjay, I thought I'd check out Max Kei.....
» 1/01/2013 5:37:46 PM I don't think I'm getting the hang of this collective punishment business… Are there any .....
» 30/12/2012 12:14:32 PM Things have moved a long way from the fatwa that really wasn't that started the thread, Be.....
» 29/12/2012 8:54:42 PM What do you mean by *our* "solar sytem"? Harelipped or harebrained?.....
» 28/12/2012 9:47:55 AM "Sandy Hook Elementary is attended by 600 students. Yet there is no photographic or v.....
» 28/12/2012 9:47:27 AM "While it sounds like an outrageous claim, one is left to inquire whether the Sandy H.....
» 27/12/2012 8:50:21 AM "I think it is time to end this ridiculous and absurd level of political correctness .....
» 26/12/2012 10:13:45 AM Not entirely on topic... but not off-topic either. And an amusing antidote for any who ha.....
» 23/12/2012 6:20:17 AM "An entire thread about me!!" Not necessarily... some of us responded based on t.....
» 21/12/2012 1:27:22 PM Dyslexic... no, nor usually innumerate. Obviously my extreme nervousness worrying in case .....
» 21/12/2012 12:17:20 PM Dear GrahamY, the OLO clock is out of sync by 4 minutes......
» 21/12/2012 12:16:01 PM I don't have anything to contribute... Just wanted to have a post dated 12 December 2012,.....
» 19/12/2012 8:20:15 PM The great thing is, david f, you are not expected (or need) to alter saying 'different fro.....
» 19/12/2012 12:23:35 PM "Is our destiny to become gods or dodos?" It is a daft question because if, as .....
» 19/12/2012 7:54:21 AM What is “Wm”? Standard contraction of William. From at least Elizabethan era, maybe earlie.....
» 19/12/2012 7:12:28 AM Only rugrats I presume, TPP?.....
» 18/12/2012 12:16:51 PM Whilst in a more perfect world no one would be or would need to be persecuted... ".......
» 18/12/2012 8:05:44 AM "I suggest you examine the recent TV presentation on SBS where Dawkins proposes that .....
» 18/12/2012 7:46:20 AM It's not all tinsel and glitter, onthebeach, and happy National Day of Qatar and Niger to .....
» 17/12/2012 10:47:50 AM Just felt I had to be clear and acknowlege that I agree with your point, Pericles. As you.....
» 17/12/2012 9:58:09 AM To be totally historically accurate, Pericles, please note that it was the Borg who said, .....
» 17/12/2012 9:47:12 AM But SPQR, that won't apply because the first post said, "For me [rehctub], protectin.....
» 17/12/2012 9:09:37 AM But the point, rehctub, is that it was spelt correctly. The word was also used in correct .....
» 16/12/2012 8:16:44 PM "Surely the words 'boarder protection' have a meaning. For me, protecting our boarder.....
» 15/12/2012 11:22:14 AM For serious, like? You had me totes emotes at "2B honest...".....
» 14/12/2012 8:59:50 AM Apparently, 78% of sentences that begin with the word 'apparently' include statistics that.....
» 14/12/2012 7:21:08 AM Just because there is always someone who has never heard them... but I self-limited it to .....
» 13/12/2012 1:22:26 PM Hi Lexi... "The classic fairytales showcase "passive, helpless, females"&qu.....
» 13/12/2012 8:18:35 AM Suseonline... I know. Hence my - apparently inadequate - use of irony. Still, it's Christ.....
» 13/12/2012 4:55:16 AM "Unless the bus-stop doesn't exist. If there is no bus-stop they can't come any close.....
» 12/12/2012 4:54:18 PM "Perhaps the tale's implication is that females are inadequate to males?" Silly.....
» 12/12/2012 9:30:35 AM Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood, Lexi? My ars... pert little behind... it was......
» 12/12/2012 8:27:20 AM Silly Mayans… they didn't even prophesy the end of their civilisation by 900 A.D. Though .....
» 12/12/2012 8:02:00 AM Oops… Thought I'd clarified the last sentence to: It's never clear whose being is the mor.....
» 12/12/2012 7:56:24 AM Sorry Yuyutsu… I've been closely following all lines of argument and whilst philosophicall.....
» 11/12/2012 7:43:23 AM Interesting… So what you're really saying – without actually saying it – is that any mind.....
» 9/12/2012 6:38:30 PM "Ahhh, there is SFA that we can do about it. In fact, I think that our best possible .....
» 6/12/2012 8:35:55 AM Instead of pretending that corporations are interested in obtaining a gender balance for i.....
» 5/12/2012 5:06:51 PM "I don’t expect to be confronted by a bikini clad women selling herself when I go to .....
» 5/12/2012 4:10:01 PM How was the beach, Ludwig? Did it ever occur to you that your presence not only despoiled .....
» 30/11/2012 7:54:28 AM Something for everyone... just pause the slider at the historical point you prefer: http:.....
» 28/11/2012 4:58:17 PM "I am finding now that I have no christmas spirit." You are not alone katheedavi.....
» 23/11/2012 6:49:46 PM "This model is consistent, not because I am a genius, but because it is conferred in .....
» 23/11/2012 8:37:52 AM As long as humans contest with resolving mind/body/consciousness questions some people wil.....
» 22/11/2012 8:47:33 PM "Now an interesting exercise: as an aggregation of quantum probabilities, should anyt.....
» 22/11/2012 6:51:21 AM "My body is mortal, my memories are mortal, but that has nothing to do with who and w.....
» 22/11/2012 6:32:11 AM Mostly because it seems initially counterintuitive, number 8 on the list of the top 10 mos.....
» 21/11/2012 4:45:38 PM Here's some data that only mentions GDP twice... First with "Total health spending a.....
» 21/11/2012 9:25:32 AM "This is all about immigration." Thanks for the clarification, Pericles... here.....
» 20/11/2012 7:33:09 PM Let's see if I've understood the logical consistency correctly… Population growth "….....
» 19/11/2012 4:00:33 PM Even Kevin Donnelly isn't arguing against the idea of universal compulsory education in ou.....
» 18/11/2012 9:29:00 AM There being no provision for inserting GIFs... this will have to do: http://s577.beta.pho.....
» 18/11/2012 7:01:50 AM "...So no need for religion." If I require self-worship, yes there is......
» 16/11/2012 7:17:03 PM No disrespect to Dr Jane O'Sullivan, Divergence… I'm certain her 18 soil science papers fo.....
» 16/11/2012 9:30:12 AM ...inertia........
» 16/11/2012 9:28:14 AM I had such high expectations of your expert witnesses, Arjay... so I thought I'd look at M.....
» 16/11/2012 8:45:56 AM "WmTrevor, If you really cared obout Koalas, you would have an active breeding progra.....
» 15/11/2012 6:09:04 PM That which you characterise as ridicule, Matt Moran, I regard as satire – and self-depreca.....
» 14/11/2012 8:02:11 PM I couldn't help it but to think about this State intervention thing anew, Pericles - the s.....
» 12/11/2012 8:04:49 PM "As that proverbial barman asked that proverbial horse, why the long face?" Was.....
» 12/11/2012 7:43:04 PM But what exactly, Arjay, do you believe that puckish Mr. Putin knew? "In this episod.....
» 12/11/2012 11:43:39 AM "They simply could not help themselves" got me to thinking about "this twil.....
» 12/11/2012 9:07:20 AM I suppose, Daniel Rawlinson, the most apt comment now is: case proven......
» 12/11/2012 8:11:34 AM So you don't think, Forrest, that my minor aside wasn't merely an attempt to be part of a .....
» 10/11/2012 9:38:06 PM Tut, tut ! Mes amis... Surely?.....
» 10/11/2012 10:38:47 AM I trust supporters for 'Queen Elizabeth Terrace' don't rub salt into the wounded pride of .....
» 8/11/2012 10:51:28 PM Someone mentioned the war, I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it all right. B.....
» 8/11/2012 9:20:19 AM The Internet, the gift that keeps on giving: http://girlfriendology.com/3876/february-int.....
» 7/11/2012 6:59:20 PM As you say, TPP, lots of issues - not the least being the chasm at times between the law, .....
» 7/11/2012 7:25:38 AM The mention of a drinking game got me searching... for the teetotallers this can be played.....
» 6/11/2012 10:15:51 PM 13 months… wow! Some children annoy their parents by not doing what is wanted. But only th.....
» 6/11/2012 7:58:51 PM This topic came up some years back when my oldest younger sister had her first... When th.....
» 6/11/2012 2:51:28 PM After years of letterbox drops and collections from local businesses, the latest being fro.....
» 6/11/2012 12:41:38 PM Is there a way of achieving maximum utility in all this? The basic premise is paying some.....
» 6/11/2012 10:10:47 AM ''I literally door-knocked and people opened their doors and started crying [about the lac.....
» 5/11/2012 11:21:34 AM I did say 'Australian rewrite' so shouldn't it be "Fried Green Dingos"? But I'm .....
» 5/11/2012 10:31:56 AM "...plum coloured smoking jacket..." I blame Titivillus or Spooner......
» 5/11/2012 10:19:00 AM "Heavy green mangoes" sounds more like an Australian rewrite of a Kathy Bates/Je.....
» 5/11/2012 8:03:03 AM Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate le.....
» 2/11/2012 7:46:34 PM "...but am now having second thoughts." There was a first? Please don't, Poirot.....
» 2/11/2012 7:34:25 PM "In June 2012 net foreign debt, inclusive of the public and private sectors, increase.....
» 1/11/2012 5:54:52 PM CHERFUL, although Syria doesn't rate a mention I thought you might like to compare 'Why Di.....
» 31/10/2012 4:43:18 PM "What would yours be?" A Bombay Blue Sapphire gin and tonic, thanks. But that's .....
» 29/10/2012 8:17:01 PM "It was your own words!" What a disappointing attitude. The next thing you kno.....
» 29/10/2012 11:58:17 AM It's not like you, Houellebecq to make errors of ascription… was it my admission of 12 Sep.....
» 29/10/2012 10:24:22 AM The article's headline - 'Refugee children vulnerable to online predators' - made me think.....
» 29/10/2012 8:04:37 AM The topic needs a fecund opinion... world population projections are open to complication......
» 26/10/2012 9:53:10 AM It's not so much a question of population growth – as a question of the rate of growth. T.....
» 26/10/2012 8:18:25 AM I knew that tomorrow marks the end of National Children's Week in Australia – though, in s.....
» 25/10/2012 11:15:49 AM It is a given that effective communication takes skill. But if all that is effectively bei.....
» 24/10/2012 12:02:37 PM It's only online anonymity that allows me to publicly admit that I'm usually in agreement .....
» 24/10/2012 10:18:58 AM True. "Who wants to be neuro-typical anyway? - it's the folks who think outside the s.....
» 23/10/2012 8:43:40 AM What an odd concept of non-sexist disparagement you have, SPQR. From the comment in quest.....
» 23/10/2012 7:42:03 AM GrahamY, when I experience the intermittent, but occasionally frequent, 'freeze-up' the on.....
» 23/10/2012 7:22:39 AM One point, SPQR... http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=5433#148386 I.....
» 22/10/2012 7:38:23 AM A possibility for you, Houellebecq... http://theconversation.edu.au/hes-my-mother-motherh.....
» 22/10/2012 7:23:26 AM I'll see your Mormonism, Tony Lavis... and raise you the Baha'i Faith founded in 1844 - mo.....
» 18/10/2012 7:43:03 AM "...on interesting times in childhood." Sometimes I wonder if in our decline int.....
» 17/10/2012 6:10:00 PM I shared your waif like status, Poirot, but only up until secondary school when the paper-.....
» 17/10/2012 5:37:30 PM "After seeing some of the intense looks Abbott has directed at various women in and o.....
» 17/10/2012 4:27:30 PM "...5 seconds ahead of the rest..." You call that high frequency trading? Now, .....
» 15/10/2012 7:11:37 PM I've suggested before, Arjay... if you want to stuff the banks the easiest way is to not b.....
» 15/10/2012 6:49:34 PM Are you referencing The Two Ronnies, Pericles? ...if memory serves it went something like:.....
» 15/10/2012 4:48:37 PM Pericles, thought you'd like this extract from the Casey Research web site about the autho.....
» 15/10/2012 8:21:25 AM No, Arjay, Max Keiser tells us exactly where that figure came from in his blog posted on 2.....
» 11/10/2012 12:31:44 PM When a religious perspective, runner, allows you to view the world with the zeal of a miss.....
» 10/10/2012 5:45:08 PM Hang on a minute... or as Arte Johnston might have said, ""veeeery interesting&q.....
» 9/10/2012 9:46:03 AM Re: Commercial radio and "I was looking for that law but couldn't find it." Did.....
» 8/10/2012 4:53:06 PM All the uncalled for calls for Alan Jones' demise are so short sighted… His only importan.....
» 7/10/2012 10:26:25 PM It was intriguing to read Prof Judith Curry's take on the PBS Newshour program 'Skeptic no.....
» 6/10/2012 11:19:22 AM "Gore has taken the precaution of divorcing his wife of 40 years, and transferring si.....
» 4/10/2012 12:05:07 PM But people wouldn't do any of this unless it made them feel good… As long as it is someon.....
» 4/10/2012 10:25:33 AM "...do you have to actually believe it for it to work?" No, Banjo it isn't like .....
» 3/10/2012 8:37:56 PM Say what you will against them at least public burnings at the stake allowed people to ven.....
» 3/10/2012 10:50:03 AM Agreed, Poirot, "…although mostly we're not consciously aware how much impact it [pat.....
» 3/10/2012 9:03:43 AM Greetings all… The best thing about mind, consciousness and thinking is that we can all be.....
» 2/10/2012 9:33:46 PM I have to admit, Nick, that I started to tune out about a week ago when you wrote, "….....
» 1/10/2012 7:42:28 PM Intellectual autogamy… An excellent example, Poirot. In the universe – which is the exper.....
» 1/10/2012 6:21:41 PM Where have I heard that before, Squeers? "… it's a nice illustration that thought is.....
» 1/10/2012 5:50:04 PM Thanks, Jayb… There hasn't been much in 75 pages to raise a smile or (pun intended) the sp.....
» 1/10/2012 11:57:51 AM The only conclusion I can come to, Arjay is that Susan Lindauer's article was a conscious .....
» 30/09/2012 5:35:16 PM Regarding the article - that you linked to - by Susan Lindauer posted on 28 September titl.....
» 27/09/2012 8:13:38 PM The Lord must have heard our hearts' yearning prayer… Awesome! The Lord Melvyn Bragg of W.....
» 27/09/2012 1:29:25 PM "Finally I think we agree on something." I have with you, runner, but it was a .....
» 27/09/2012 9:17:42 AM An interesting Indonesian take on Tuesday regarding Yudhoyono's proposal, runner: “How ca.....
» 23/09/2012 2:48:40 PM "Anyway what's this got to do with the Cory thing?" If you check out snopes.com.....
» 23/09/2012 11:00:51 AM Hmmm... extracted from The Star.com today: "A man who was mauled by a Siberian tiger.....
» 22/09/2012 7:54:31 AM I am convinced that Bernardi's comments say more about his fetid imagination, desires and .....
» 20/09/2012 7:18:35 PM I'm curious as to where, when and which society was un-rotten… My guess is that it could n.....
» 20/09/2012 10:16:22 AM Let's face it, everyone who doesn't think and act like 'us' is borderline personality diso.....
» 18/09/2012 5:15:34 PM For anyone who cares, the podcast of Serena Ryan and Pete Dillon's interview with Major An.....
» 18/09/2012 3:03:40 PM So, Tony, a shared love of poetry (sometimes my major intestine feels like it's insistent .....
» 18/09/2012 1:45:47 PM I'm sorry Brian, but if God is everything he's cracked up to be in the brochures then Chri.....
» 18/09/2012 8:42:54 AM It's a simple and elegant solution, Tony Lavis… And I foresee a trend for weddings occurri.....
» 17/09/2012 12:38:12 PM Eventually some lawyer will countersue the parents for creating such deficient DNA as a ch.....
» 17/09/2012 12:14:39 PM Neither is acceptable behaviour for protest in a democracy, but we have forgotten that the.....
» 14/09/2012 7:19:06 PM I can't see why some are getting their – or other's – knickers in a twist… It's not as tho.....
» 14/09/2012 2:04:01 PM I'll give you some assistance for future reference, sonofgloin… "There is a differenc.....
» 13/09/2012 10:48:27 AM Thought experiments can be fun… and economic ones even more so. For example, rehctub: i.....
» 13/09/2012 9:10:32 AM "Other key drivers are ethnic, religious and tribal divisions many within national bo.....
» 12/09/2012 8:07:24 PM Hadn't seen it, Rhian… I know it's ego, but I think my axis labelling is inherently more d.....
» 12/09/2012 4:13:05 PM Here is my attempt at a self-evident system – straightforward as a diagram – hope it works.....
» 11/09/2012 1:24:29 PM Sometimes it's important to try and laugh – it's better than osteo carcinoma… "I awa.....
» 11/09/2012 12:25:09 PM Too true, too true, Pericles… But for the moment I still live in hope – faint not fond. O.....
» 10/09/2012 6:55:22 PM If you won't have me as a friend, Arjay, at least have me as an amicus curiae… Those 171.....
» 10/09/2012 5:54:27 PM Oh, the shame of it all! A secret I had intended to take with me to the grave… But Belly'.....
» 10/09/2012 12:41:15 PM It's really not that difficult, Belly… Just make a point of avoiding injurious words in pu.....
» 10/09/2012 10:21:51 AM I've learnt that the less nuanced the statement the higher should be the analytical 'DEFCO.....
» 9/09/2012 9:45:57 AM I don't want to have to paint my roof white – the moss on the crenellations and flying but.....
» 7/09/2012 10:57:31 PM For Pericles, five from the funniest joke of the Fringe Dave awards... and because I regar.....
» 7/09/2012 9:37:13 AM "So, what is your take on the lefties then ?" Is this asked by a, of a, or abou.....
» 5/09/2012 12:54:23 PM You make it sound like a situation of rocks and hard places, KarlX… Is there fault to be f.....
» 4/09/2012 1:02:51 PM I very nearly got to the end of the article in total agreement with Jocelynne Scutt – rega.....
» 3/09/2012 1:44:21 PM I've seen enough episodes of the Antiques Roadshow to know that a growler is one of those .....
» 30/08/2012 8:14:29 PM I'll help you get started, Arjay… Here is an example of one of the representatives of the .....
» 30/08/2012 10:40:34 AM i acordan eac Noelreg... titigga eac hwam gere? Hwam ymbutan baem 12 aeldu? Faciunthic sy .....
» 29/08/2012 2:57:19 PM Sorry, Yabby, I can't accept that... "America is the most religious country in the W.....
» 29/08/2012 12:21:13 PM What we need is a trial scheme for the basis of the concept... Let's start with a group o.....
» 27/08/2012 2:27:23 PM For anyone who needs more – give the McDonald Observatory in Texas or the Apache Point Obs.....
» 26/08/2012 5:15:38 PM But does it now qualify as contemporary art Poirot? If the same parishioner had gone to F.....
» 25/08/2012 12:30:09 PM I enjoyed your mention, R0bert, of a 'minor tweak' even if in the context of this thread, .....
» 24/08/2012 11:19:47 AM Actually Arjay, it's the House of the people's representatives... To get to speak there y.....
» 24/08/2012 9:51:47 AM We still have no answer to the question... "What is the risk posed to an 'unaccompan.....
» 22/08/2012 5:28:49 PM If you're interested, Leo Lane, all of the available and recent GOSAT images are here… ht.....
» 21/08/2012 9:36:33 AM I wonder if the statistics would bear out that it is mainly women who were responsible for.....
» 17/08/2012 10:38:35 AM It seems an appropriate point, sonofgloino, to pop back and acknowledge your name contract.....
» 15/08/2012 5:12:51 PM The only characteristic that is uniquely un-Australian, gloinie, would be the failure to c.....
» 14/08/2012 8:31:39 PM We're all doomed to perceive the world based on our own experiences, Killarney, and I can .....
» 14/08/2012 2:12:56 PM It's kind of you, Killarney to repeat, for the benefit of people who may have overlooked t.....
» 14/08/2012 8:36:00 AM It is entirely possible that articles will continue to be presented until posters demonstr.....
» 13/08/2012 1:47:36 PM I'm annoyed at not thinking of a way to make this post an entertaining read. But… I've ju.....
» 11/08/2012 8:09:19 PM I know the MailOnline is not a 'journal of record' and James Nye follows the house style, .....
» 11/08/2012 7:05:53 PM For a more complete understanding regarding Europe, you'll need something like the Handboo.....
» 11/08/2012 7:00:32 PM "However, give me my answers to the questions above." Sometimes, Belly it can b.....
» 11/08/2012 9:09:44 AM Saturday Extra has long been a delightful start to the weekend for me and I admit that par.....
» 10/08/2012 10:33:57 PM But it must be true, Anthonyve... Because it can't just be coincidence that backwards the .....
» 10/08/2012 7:36:37 PM Thank you, Poirot… I've already admitted I'm not an art expert – even of 'nudey man' ones .....
» 10/08/2012 4:02:33 PM I agree, Poirot... and though I'm not an art expert, if you zoom in sufficiently on the Ti.....
» 10/08/2012 3:28:46 PM Modesty prevents me from correcting you Tony... but you might wish to google the word 'kyn.....
» 10/08/2012 10:36:51 AM I know I'm not up on the legal stuff to the extent that you and R0bert are, Houellebecq – .....
» 10/08/2012 8:46:24 AM I did, I didn't, I don't think so. I am. Of course the preceding posts stand as a public .....
» 9/08/2012 10:11:29 PM In the hopes that those chocolates would contribute to my chances of becoming an alert-min.....
» 9/08/2012 11:52:37 AM I fail to understand why this presumed elite has been so thoroughly incompetent at creatin.....
» 9/08/2012 9:00:50 AM It was silly of me to assume, Arjay, that in your general thread, "Ignoring Fukushima.....
» 8/08/2012 8:56:14 PM Option 1: Dr. Pietro Antonio Bernabei of the Careggi hospital in Florence and Prof. Massim.....
» 8/08/2012 8:07:15 PM "WmTrevor where are these extracts from the Busby Report? Do you make things up as yo.....
» 8/08/2012 10:57:11 AM Jocelynne Scutt's point "That prejudice has no place in sport. That sporting capaciti.....
» 8/08/2012 9:20:35 AM Just because the subject doesn't get the point, Poirot doesn't mean the rest of us didn't .....
» 7/08/2012 11:19:23 PM About that $100… I think I'm safe to state categorically that no scientist would accept th.....
» 7/08/2012 11:29:24 AM I see it as a flaw in my psychological make-up that even by the end of the article all I c.....
» 7/08/2012 9:42:32 AM Lying? Not me, Arjay… It really was 13 April that I posted those extracts from Busby's rep.....
» 5/08/2012 2:07:17 PM "poirot,I do not claim to be any expert but I listen to alternative experts amd form .....
» 4/08/2012 1:25:30 PM I read the link on Friday, GrahamY and was surprised at the conclusions from the experimen.....
» 3/08/2012 7:02:01 PM "The ceremony's focus on multicultural Britain ahead of historical Britain is another.....
» 2/08/2012 2:22:33 PM You're misconstruing. My assessment was of your argument, Tim.Lumsden. You claimed being .....
» 2/08/2012 9:19:25 AM I think I've worked out where you went wrong Tim.Lumsden… you should have just saved yours.....
» 2/08/2012 8:37:42 AM "I will always remember, too, the expression [of] joy on his face after the win and t.....
» 1/08/2012 9:14:40 AM Once, inadvertently, I saw a catalogue of XXX-rated heterosexual DVDs – mostly German I th.....
» 31/07/2012 10:09:56 PM "… accept consensus science." So how does this work, Arjay? Does only the revers.....
» 31/07/2012 6:46:38 PM Meanwhile… on the other hand, and despite all of the above and the environment (or gilded .....
» 31/07/2012 8:58:46 AM "There are ways of curing the Olympics of nationalism." Not voluntarily. Espec.....
» 27/07/2012 7:17:51 PM G'day R0bert, I actually share your bit of empathy for the point runner may have been tryi.....
» 26/07/2012 8:31:59 PM I wouldn't expect feminists to feel the need to be silent on any issue of obvious selfless.....
» 25/07/2012 9:26:59 PM So true, and well described, Joe... "most of us are not half-wits. We're not puppets......
» 25/07/2012 10:03:35 AM My only surprise with Jocelynne Scutt's article is that she has not recommended the obviou.....
» 25/07/2012 9:12:05 AM "...and you can't eat archaic and have it, too." Brilliant. Should be nominated.....
» 23/07/2012 10:05:02 AM It's all because we've got two brain hemispheres… Have you noticed that just about everyt.....
» 22/07/2012 10:55:50 PM You may not have picked it because of my amateur status since I just don't think I'm very .....
» 21/07/2012 10:35:26 AM Claims of males thinking of "…women as little more than holes for men’s pleasure on t.....
» 20/07/2012 3:34:01 PM "Me, Trev, 'Shoulder to Shoulder'!" Amen (funny) indeed. Our concern is not pat.....
» 20/07/2012 12:02:43 PM "The book is the product not just of interrogation (and occasional torture) of the fa.....
» 20/07/2012 11:04:01 AM Firstly a word of congratulations to OLO for its forthrightness in printing an unexpurgate.....
» 19/07/2012 12:54:30 PM That mindfulness is crucial in coping with obesity is a given. Fat people should be mindfu.....
» 19/07/2012 10:17:08 AM Before we get too excited about your new money-taking champion Houellebecq, I think we nee.....
» 17/07/2012 11:01:38 PM I admit that at first I was confused about… "My detractors are morons.They see nothi.....
» 17/07/2012 3:53:17 PM StG, because of the way the General Discussion Index displays you may not have noticed OLO.....
» 16/07/2012 10:01:29 AM There are potentially so many… though often it is difficult to be certain the fault is wit.....
» 15/07/2012 9:28:24 PM Squeers, I'm finding Wikipedia excellent for following up on authors and book series or ti.....
» 15/07/2012 3:08:55 PM Your daughter sounds like an eminently intelligent person with exquisitely good taste, Poi.....
» 15/07/2012 11:03:28 AM "Wm Trevor,you know little of the US Constitution." That's quite true, Arjay… a.....
» 15/07/2012 10:06:21 AM Since no one else has restricted themselves to just one – why should I? I've always espec.....
» 14/07/2012 9:04:52 PM It looks like you're in luck, Arjay… Since it begins with, "By the authority vested i.....
» 14/07/2012 9:45:23 AM Sorry... all the Graham's I know are Graeme's. I'm castigating my editor as I type this........
» 14/07/2012 9:42:35 AM It might be slightly more accurate, GraemeY, to say that you've seen the newest user to OL.....
» 13/07/2012 10:18:36 AM I blame women. Not all women. Just most women throughout most of history. Never has a ma.....
» 12/07/2012 10:26:21 AM The sense of entitlement of anyone, rich or not, seems worse when they don't think about w.....
» 11/07/2012 8:54:38 PM "…the security is poor and there ar reports of plans to evacuate London." Hang .....
» 11/07/2012 8:07:40 PM "Never happened though." True dinks, did so – the misogynist patriarch of the ho.....
» 11/07/2012 5:59:45 PM Verging on the namedropping there Everald… "SPEAKING at the Prime Minister’s Economi.....
» 10/07/2012 4:06:08 PM Though A or is it B-mused(?), I don't doubt your claim Tony, that "There's no mystica.....
» 10/07/2012 12:12:48 PM I was slightly disappointed – from the title I thought you were going to take three pages .....
» 9/07/2012 2:24:34 PM You're right about Doctor Who, crabsy and the word is not even a heteronym… but I thought .....
» 9/07/2012 12:58:24 PM Congratulations on your consolation... your Loganamnosis Award is waiting at reception. J.....
» 9/07/2012 9:27:24 AM Allow me to extend you modest recognition, Poirot… You may also remember I recognised that.....
» 8/07/2012 7:56:07 PM Is it worth being patient while things decay for a bit? So far it's only the low mass Hig.....
» 8/07/2012 7:13:12 PM Don't forget that there are other children who might like to play in this sandpit sometime.....
» 4/07/2012 9:05:23 PM Not all scientists have "…enough blind faith to believe something comes from nothing......
» 4/07/2012 10:29:19 AM Too difficult a question. A bit like asking who's your favourite child. There have been so.....
» 3/07/2012 10:23:48 AM The apprehension of violence encapsulated in language is far from being one-sided… On Mond.....
» 3/07/2012 9:42:03 AM Almost there. One more step - everyone has... ODDSOCKS Opportunists & Denialists & Doome.....
» 2/07/2012 10:06:10 AM Thank you David, I feel considerably more perked up for the – lonesome – chuckles I enjoye.....
» 28/06/2012 5:35:29 PM Not really "…behind closed doors", more ajar. Our guard has to be able to keep a.....
» 28/06/2012 4:11:45 PM After checking with the Downton wiki to find, "She is very stoic, but she is ethical .....
» 28/06/2012 3:48:42 PM As constructive as always, Killarney, I hope you do keep posting because I'll make sense o.....
» 28/06/2012 2:47:51 PM Having got myself this far I'll just have to keep digging… like Charles Bronson in The Gre.....
» 28/06/2012 10:11:05 AM "Terminology that privileges a particular gender is discriminatory. And discriminatio.....
» 28/06/2012 8:39:30 AM I take your point, Squeers, but it works for me as I imagine your writings in Jim Carter's.....
» 28/06/2012 7:59:31 AM Originally considered for the role of the Earl of Grantham, Pericles was unavailable due t.....
» 27/06/2012 4:38:17 PM This might help undent it, Poirot… I think I've stumbled across a picture of M. H! http:/.....
» 27/06/2012 2:55:41 PM HaHaHa... Do you know the old joke? She's had so many facelifts, one more and she'll have.....
» 27/06/2012 12:52:57 PM 'Scuse the sidebar Squeers… I doubt you miss anything, Poirot. It was a backwards referen.....
» 27/06/2012 6:16:05 AM Thought I'd try something different for a change… Here's something to chew over – with apo.....
» 26/06/2012 2:44:16 PM I suppose it must be true, Arjay, "If our banks collapse,there is no way they can be .....
» 26/06/2012 11:33:45 AM It is "an odd little construct", Poirot, or should I say, Countess Grantham? Whi.....
» 25/06/2012 11:05:00 AM I just knew it was no coincidence that there are eleven letters in both names - Maggie Smi.....
» 25/06/2012 10:42:51 AM Hey, Squeers, some of the fun is seeing how people react, thinking that they're being mart.....
» 22/06/2012 8:16:56 PM Alan, thanks for that… regardless of Scripture I prefer the idea that love is at the core .....
» 22/06/2012 5:05:57 PM Grim, I'd be disappointed if it was a fairytale… as I recall it was woot's example of prej.....
» 22/06/2012 12:35:05 PM I think I've been very patient waiting a whole month in case there might be an answer to a.....
» 22/06/2012 10:11:08 AM Thank you... I have fired my sub-editor. How do I get YOUR million dollars?.....
» 22/06/2012 9:46:16 AM Why do you have to be 'old enough' to know about the Carter Williams and Dewey Cooper K-1 .....
» 20/06/2012 11:59:36 AM Now I better understand so many people's preference for civil partnerships - much easier t.....
» 20/06/2012 11:25:22 AM I'm a simple soul – at least that's what it sounds like people call me – and I just don't .....
» 17/06/2012 8:06:27 PM It just occurred to me, Squeers, that A Modest Proposal could be an ultimate benchmark of .....
» 17/06/2012 10:17:41 AM One attempt at finding an answer has been around for nearly 300 years – though limited to .....
» 16/06/2012 1:36:29 PM This commentary thread seems to have really hit the Fan… I don't have any 'answers' eithe.....
» 16/06/2012 1:00:59 PM The rest of the commentary is description of purported effects of exposure to environmenta.....
» 16/06/2012 12:59:41 PM I'm surprised some wit didn't describe it as a chem trailer, Arjay… You know I like to ch.....
» 15/06/2012 8:15:57 PM And the cleverness of the metaphor goes further, josephine, in that whenever it happens th.....
» 14/06/2012 8:33:58 PM What a pity that Tarpley wasn't clearer for longer for you, Arjay. Three days after the C.....
» 14/06/2012 11:26:33 AM "...but by then it will be too late." Surely present indicative tense is requir.....
» 14/06/2012 8:50:02 AM Interesting… My experience has been that most intelligent people are not treated as morons.....
» 13/06/2012 5:49:37 AM If you're making an analogy, SM, she is certainly no zephyr. I prefer to think of Poirot .....
» 13/06/2012 5:40:11 AM "Perhaps religious teaching of respect for neighbours and for all life has an opportu.....
» 12/06/2012 4:17:25 PM Halo, halo...? Did I understand correctly Poirot - you're expecting another ethereal ligh.....
» 12/06/2012 4:07:31 PM "A hero to me would be someone who did something amazing, and fled the media and neve.....
» 12/06/2012 6:47:03 AM Recently Belly on one of your threads, trying to be light-hearted, I posted this: "I.....
» 11/06/2012 10:05:47 AM Forgive moi… selections are not closed and auditions are still open. Even I didn't consid.....
» 10/06/2012 9:46:58 PM Thanks, Squeers… it is a much more interesting view of things being hoi oligoi. For the l.....
» 10/06/2012 4:53:59 PM Despite previous efforts, I don't know where I stand… So can I be on your list please, Squ.....
» 10/06/2012 1:40:11 PM Most people when acting selflessly still have self-interest, to a greater or lesser extent.....
» 10/06/2012 1:12:27 PM I appreciate the personal complexities you describe, R0bert… though the swappable plans ha.....
» 10/06/2012 11:14:37 AM After achieving step 1 which would be the gender neutral expression of all laws pertaining.....
» 10/06/2012 10:21:56 AM It could be explicable depending on your point of view… I would understand that from Davi.....
» 9/06/2012 11:20:02 AM "…debate the ins and outs of being anatomically challenged." No thanks. Such a d.....
» 8/06/2012 11:00:16 PM You're welcome of course, Lexi… But on rethinking my arithmetic I'm not sure that I worded.....
» 8/06/2012 9:23:06 PM "…as usual I am quite prepared to do my bit to lower the average IQ" In that ca.....
» 8/06/2012 8:54:20 PM Lexi/Poirot… It should be of some comfort that it only takes the two of you to raise the a.....
» 8/06/2012 1:04:37 PM (Giggling with hand over mouth) I asked me hown-dawg what he thought of them thar dog-leas.....
» 8/06/2012 8:55:45 AM Even after a couple of readings, I couldn't detect any hint of self-reflection or irony in.....
» 8/06/2012 8:36:28 AM My reading of Keith's article was more sympathetic than yours Jon J… for anyone who skippe.....
» 7/06/2012 7:41:02 PM So-called 'slippery slopes' have being around for a long time, runner… I'm sure you'll r.....
» 7/06/2012 3:53:30 PM Nurse has just been in with the medicine trolley… so I thought I'd check back here. Que, P.....
» 7/06/2012 1:27:48 PM So, Poirot, not a double but a triple whammy comment… congrats. But the bigger picture no.....
» 7/06/2012 11:14:18 AM Am I free? Most certainly not! However, despite an exorbitant hourly rate, I have on nume.....
» 7/06/2012 10:57:06 AM Whilst it is being ignored so far by both The Guardian and RT.com, some of the social medi.....
» 7/06/2012 8:54:32 AM So, from the example cited, the best way for Australia to extend its 'soft power' overseas.....
» 7/06/2012 8:24:56 AM I feel genuinely sorry for the many good and loving parents whose valuable work in society.....
» 6/06/2012 6:49:41 PM "That's how the truth was subverted." Huh… ? So is Putin correct and it was a t.....
» 6/06/2012 6:23:27 PM But the confusions, like Russian dolls, must mount up when RT.com subsequently agrees with.....
» 6/06/2012 9:19:29 AM It's amazing how selfish some people are about words, Houllebecq… But sometimes words them.....
» 5/06/2012 5:06:16 PM Why not take all the credit, Poirot? Anyways now that we're all agreed that Houellebecq i.....
» 5/06/2012 9:52:52 AM Now I'm really creeped out... The only explanation I can come up with as to how Arjay kno.....
» 5/06/2012 7:55:07 AM So all surrogacy is wrong... is it Mr. Wallace? See if you can think of at least one exce.....
» 5/06/2012 7:37:26 AM Marriage on the Skids marks a remarkable ignorance of the history of marriages and the tre.....
» 4/06/2012 9:32:51 AM Unfortunately, Alan your most interesting article with its irrefutable slam-dunk logic onl.....
» 2/06/2012 10:29:07 AM Laugh? Sure… Couldn't hurt. But I do have some sympathy for those who think 'their' word i.....
» 31/05/2012 8:02:49 PM Just to put that design sensitivity into some perspective… If the equivalent of such &quo.....
» 31/05/2012 7:40:54 PM As for political shenanigans – since that topic has been raised… Whichever way you cut it.....
» 31/05/2012 7:33:20 PM The distortions in the way the figures are defined, collected and calculated have basicall.....
» 25/05/2012 7:08:55 PM "LF demeans women's sexuality…" Hardly, if anything it demeans men's. Which is w.....
» 25/05/2012 9:34:41 AM "And it is a fact of life that authority is diminished once personal principles are a.....
» 24/05/2012 10:07:42 PM Not fair... runner's doing his best to set an example. Speaking of Genesis... I could nev.....
» 24/05/2012 6:28:40 PM Literalism has its own problems... if we're trying to define 'scholarly'. One of my favor.....
» 24/05/2012 5:50:41 PM No, not the same person, Uaskt… I trust that GraemeY's sign up procedures preclude that. B.....
» 24/05/2012 4:42:28 PM Davelon and Uaskt - welcome to the forum. The two newest users to OLO, then two subsequen.....
» 23/05/2012 9:15:45 AM A few thoughts… This sort of attempt at satirical writing doesn't suit you – best stick t.....
» 22/05/2012 8:51:19 PM G'day Rhian... Alan may wish to add others... A start for your reading would be the late .....
» 22/05/2012 8:36:23 PM There are so many ways of measuring money and, as with distances in astronomy, the numbers.....
» 22/05/2012 3:08:05 PM I've come all over, well, moist - teary-eyed even... such a gut-wrenching story. But we l.....
» 22/05/2012 11:24:39 AM "…this self-enforcement should still work. Why doesn't it work??" I just had a .....
» 22/05/2012 10:52:53 AM "…we can be changed by God." Interesting concept Mr. Nym. So, we can just plod .....
» 22/05/2012 10:26:37 AM Sigh… "Listen to granny. She's usually right." Considerate but wasted advice. .....
» 21/05/2012 11:10:49 AM And you're very welcome… Really! Please don't tell us you live in the south – I like the i.....
» 21/05/2012 8:54:01 AM "...we differ only in the degree of threat we perceive..." Priceless, I'm still.....
» 21/05/2012 8:16:46 AM [Psst... Squeers, I knew exactly how selective I was being in my quoted extract and from y.....
» 21/05/2012 7:57:46 AM A tool at work? Just looking at one aspect... If by "the West" you were drawing.....
» 21/05/2012 6:38:00 AM Nuclear war by religious nutters is as acceptable to me as nuclear war by irreligious nutt.....
» 20/05/2012 10:02:30 AM "in my experience it's usually the heterosexual males that appear to have eight hands.....
» 20/05/2012 9:14:01 AM Here we were continuing to raise the average IQ and interest level of this thread when ant.....
» 20/05/2012 8:38:13 AM "Crapathiesm"... Poirot?.....
» 20/05/2012 8:29:26 AM Oops. Hit the post button before finishing typing... ...to the ground with a gust of brea.....
» 20/05/2012 8:25:35 AM No... the lads are just good acquaintances. But Captain Feathersword on the other hand........
» 20/05/2012 8:06:11 AM Sometimes, Belly a 'lot more' may be following a thread with great interest, though withou.....
» 20/05/2012 7:42:53 AM No twisting on my part, runner, and I neither want nor need to… I suspect you deliberatel.....
» 19/05/2012 8:30:07 PM I must have been distracted by the hagiographical nature of your article, David, and overl.....
» 19/05/2012 7:59:18 PM Runner, what don't you understand about Jesus' clear reference to divorce? Remember this .....
» 18/05/2012 4:46:20 PM I wish you'd given us some warning, Pericles… It was almost somnolent looking at "so.....
» 18/05/2012 9:18:21 AM Now, now, Houllebecq… As you consistently prove you don't come to this issue with a rigid.....
» 18/05/2012 8:53:36 AM Thanks for your report on GAC con and the range of feelings "from elation to euphoria.....
» 18/05/2012 7:58:15 AM You know you're getting old when what you find hardening most often is your attitude… Whi.....
» 17/05/2012 3:42:44 PM Dear Dr Kok… (Ahem, sorry I was distracted by a rogue thought)… I have no desire to gag yo.....
» 17/05/2012 2:54:06 PM Danielle, if I had meant a one-state solution I would have said so… if by one state we ref.....
» 17/05/2012 9:49:24 AM But the test of the sincerity that 'Doctors the Family' is simply rising to the defence of.....
» 17/05/2012 7:23:25 AM Sorry, Yuyutsu, it is only as detailed as the two words - strata title... Whistler's conc.....
» 16/05/2012 10:04:16 PM A botanist who is a flagellate – or at least a self flagellator. Now that's funny, Ludwig.....
» 16/05/2012 9:27:05 PM How very nice of you to ask, Dan S de Merengue… and it's obviously reciprocal as I also ha.....
» 16/05/2012 8:43:32 PM G'day Loudmouth… I'll have to finesse my writing style if I gave, even for a second, the i.....
» 16/05/2012 5:01:30 PM Here was I quietly moseying back to a thread in the interests of trying to comprehend Yuyu.....
» 16/05/2012 12:41:08 PM I'm sorry to break the bad news to you, Pericles… But it is worse than: "The one tha.....
» 16/05/2012 10:32:04 AM Let me see if I've got this right, Kay… "Thinking about a persistent cough I was ex.....
» 16/05/2012 9:45:12 AM Grim, did you mean Lorikeet? Cherubs might be angels but they were usually shown as male i.....
» 16/05/2012 9:21:22 AM Another further to… "When a couple come together in purity, having previously kept th.....
» 15/05/2012 7:00:10 PM Much easier to understand now that I know it was more than a single constitutional questio.....
» 15/05/2012 8:01:21 AM Thank you for the clarification, whistler… My misunderstanding was that I thought you were.....
» 14/05/2012 5:37:29 PM It couldn't be as simple as whistler's disquiet arising from misunderstanding that the use.....
» 14/05/2012 12:53:39 PM Sadly, for the joke, it is a parliament of owls... But it is a congress of baboons when i.....
» 14/05/2012 12:21:26 PM Whilst I agree, Jon J, you did ask, and I couldn't resist answering… "Can anyone nam.....
» 14/05/2012 11:35:52 AM "Finally, few would argue that the marriage of a man and a woman is the basis of a st.....
» 13/05/2012 11:59:37 AM I appreciate the information, Poirot… since I'm not an expert in dentition – better at mas.....
» 13/05/2012 11:17:51 AM It's not so much that 'guys don't get the breastfeeding thing'... but, in my humble psycho.....
» 12/05/2012 3:11:19 PM "Anyone can make a mistake." That is, of course true, Lorikeet… But not everyone.....
» 11/05/2012 7:39:32 PM I try to be as evenhanded as possible in all situations, Athene… And though I don't know a.....
» 11/05/2012 12:24:13 PM Hmmm... for some reason Tim Minchin's song "Inflatable You"* keeps going through.....
» 10/05/2012 11:54:24 AM Just when I thought the day was not interesting enough… You're wrong, Houllebecq… This is.....
» 10/05/2012 9:03:32 AM Initially, Bernard, I didn't agree with runner that "You are wise and courageous and .....
» 9/05/2012 6:30:16 AM Does the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA) list at: http.....
» 8/05/2012 9:23:57 PM "The facts are there for all to see."… Some are, Killarney, but so are assertion.....
» 7/05/2012 12:39:24 PM Of course my parents thought that, Lexi, after I'd told them… that's the privilege of bein.....
» 7/05/2012 11:03:06 AM The autocratic sci-fi geek in me, david f, wanted to suggest Jean-Luc Picard's "Make .....
» 6/05/2012 7:28:04 PM Perhaps, Lexi, it would be easier for your niece to decide if her son is a cut above the r.....
» 5/05/2012 7:16:38 PM duh... it's where they grow aceutical products for chemist shops......
» 5/05/2012 11:40:44 AM Careful you three… Whatever you're stroking may not be Mr H's ego – and then you may just .....
» 5/05/2012 7:56:11 AM G'day Saltpetre… You threw the kitchen sink at that first post, but always an interesting .....
» 4/05/2012 4:52:26 PM Squeers, I'm sure Ibsen would have laughed at your Enema Of The People concept, as did I. .....
» 4/05/2012 12:11:11 PM So much for gender equality Athene… I've heard males use the expression giving birth to a .....
» 4/05/2012 11:45:30 AM I'm not sure that I understand your point about influence in government, runner… It was yo.....
» 4/05/2012 11:09:59 AM If Elizabeth Farrelly is fair dinkum about… "I'm sorry to see them go, the toothles.....
» 4/05/2012 10:34:03 AM Chris C... there's a helpful icon below a post to copy the comment URL to the clipboard fo.....
» 4/05/2012 6:43:59 AM It seems the academic journals face being in the same situation as record companies and fi.....
» 2/05/2012 10:02:40 AM Whilst we await the author's reply to the question Pericles raised, I was curious enough t.....
» 1/05/2012 9:17:42 AM Another example of the philosophy that nothing is impossible to those who don't have to do.....
» 29/04/2012 12:30:28 PM "a very well reported compensation case…" No, definitely not well reported. Wide.....
» 29/04/2012 7:07:14 AM It's even more ironic than you think, GrahamY… The Internet and much of computing is not.....
» 26/04/2012 2:55:53 PM War is not a good arbiter for your position, Josephus… Otherwise we are left with 'love fo.....
» 24/04/2012 12:19:10 PM G'day, Trav... I'd be more inclined towards your analysis if the title had been, "42 .....
» 24/04/2012 10:02:06 AM "The entire article is about the meaning of life…" No. The entire article is ab.....
» 21/04/2012 4:45:50 PM I'll accept it, Saltpetre but it isn't necessary… I was just hoping that someone better qu.....
» 20/04/2012 8:48:34 PM I'm disappointed Poirot... You haven't taken the opportunity to make the ironic observatio.....
» 20/04/2012 2:54:27 PM What "outrageous travesty of free speech"? An imagined one by the Press Council.....
» 20/04/2012 1:46:19 PM George, you might appreciate Houellebecq better by regarding him as the OLO version of pre.....
» 19/04/2012 7:33:13 PM Kipp, for context see comments at 'The house that Bob Brown built' and http://forum.onlin.....
» 19/04/2012 1:32:22 PM "I am nearly there myself now." I'll take your word for it... but wierdo or wit.....
» 18/04/2012 8:01:04 PM There will be any number of posters better qualified to answer your questions, Saltpetre… .....
» 18/04/2012 5:18:04 PM Best of luck, Stezza. Whatever you do don't try this (my feeble effort)... http://forum.o.....
» 18/04/2012 4:54:12 PM A jamboree of atheists, Luciferase? Yuk! I'm glad you didn't think it up… Here is a colle.....
» 18/04/2012 4:26:31 PM Multitasking, Lexi? Maybe, but not multi-screening… I've set up two PVRs that are capable .....
» 18/04/2012 8:41:19 AM I did… But that might just be my superego talking. If you ever feel so motivated please f.....
» 18/04/2012 8:23:43 AM Thanks, runner… I knew we could find something to agree about – and like you I want people.....
» 17/04/2012 7:08:45 PM I appreciate your more considered responses, runner… and I'm sure you will appreciate they.....
» 17/04/2012 6:14:11 PM Does this help, Houellebecq? And as far as I know BTW, I haven't been rampant for years........
» 17/04/2012 11:33:56 AM I suspect this makes me dogged in responding to your Pavlovian bell, Arjay… And I can for.....
» 17/04/2012 10:36:27 AM The repetition, runner does get a tad wearisome… So please be reassured we have read and u.....
» 16/04/2012 2:46:14 PM "On this article, I had the same reaction as I often do when reading Sellick- sometim.....
» 16/04/2012 1:52:51 PM "Am I alone in looking forward to the author's follow-up article. What happened to hi.....
» 16/04/2012 11:42:53 AM Ahhh… souls – and haven't we met some amazing ones courtesy of OLO Lexi? (My excuse for t.....
» 16/04/2012 8:50:56 AM Fair enough, Alan... Even my own atheism has no trouble with the concept of Jesus represe.....
» 16/04/2012 8:05:46 AM Greetings Alan. Bonsoir? The question of the beloved disciple seems to have been overlook.....
» 15/04/2012 4:36:17 PM Isn't it just as well, Josephus, that scriptural interpretation has no place in setting th.....
» 15/04/2012 6:51:50 AM Human history is replete with a lot of making one flesh which didn't seem to require marri.....
» 13/04/2012 5:46:14 PM And, pelican, given the ageing demographic of Australia's population, there are other loom.....
» 13/04/2012 10:21:41 AM So much material in one article… Thank you David. I've no doubt much of it will be explore.....
» 13/04/2012 9:31:46 AM Please try to be consistent, Dan… Regarding creationists: "However, we are right to .....
» 13/04/2012 9:02:32 AM I still find myself in some confusion, Alan… I've lost track of what is still asserted, in.....
» 13/04/2012 8:26:09 AM Regarding Iraq and Busby... Was that the report, titled "Cancer, Infant Mortality and.....
» 12/04/2012 4:42:07 PM Appreciate the explanation, Josephus… That make sense now that I know the words exclusive,.....
» 12/04/2012 10:34:00 AM Titfer, stickman... congrats to the faster typist......
» 12/04/2012 10:27:41 AM Back atcha... For god's sake, let us assume that theism is true and that every human being.....
» 12/04/2012 9:52:27 AM Now I'm really confused... re David: "Marriage is an exclusive life-long mutual sexu.....
» 12/04/2012 9:35:16 AM Your reality is a concern to all of us, Houllebecq... doesn't stop me agreeing though. Yo.....
» 12/04/2012 7:28:59 AM This is verging on the tiresome, JP… Here in and in other threads you've had it explained .....
» 11/04/2012 10:18:48 AM *Here is a simple question for theists, especially those theists who won't be attending th.....
» 10/04/2012 8:51:06 PM Poirot, thought you might like this from William James' The Varieties of Religious Experie.....
» 10/04/2012 7:07:28 PM Well it seems that there's nothing funny about toilet humour… for some So the only equita.....
» 10/04/2012 3:40:01 PM Here we were quietly going about our Easter reflections only to discover that Jesus was no.....
» 10/04/2012 12:07:01 PM Appreciate the explanation of your line of thinking, runner. I have to - shamefacedly - a.....
» 10/04/2012 11:12:31 AM Just trying to make sure I understand that business about the "warped reasoning".....
» 9/04/2012 7:43:11 AM Thanks for the Chris Mulherin quote, DdeM – more interesting than other lists I'd seen, li.....
» 7/04/2012 11:43:45 AM I like to try to find solutions, but I suspect you may be doomed to failure, woot. Every c.....
» 7/04/2012 7:45:51 AM One of the moral dilemmas being presented here, JP, is your continued pretension of logica.....
» 6/04/2012 6:12:18 AM David, Overnight a/numbers of poster(s) has/have been in contact asking me, for reasons b.....
» 5/04/2012 8:43:46 AM Please don't, bonmot, there are too many conspiracies in play here without ripping the sca.....
» 4/04/2012 5:40:48 PM Everyone knows it's where Doctor Who was born. Poirot used it out of context......
» 4/04/2012 4:49:53 PM An interesting approach to argumentation JP… A more word dense version of the three-year-.....
» 4/04/2012 12:12:49 PM Lexi loaned me this david f… :) Though I don't twit myself, I think #athiestcon was an u.....
» 4/04/2012 9:16:35 AM All of which is true… "whatever else it is, atheism should not - must not - become a.....
» 4/04/2012 8:35:37 AM The beauty of philosophers – just like the beauty of God – is that in our society we can s.....
» 3/04/2012 4:29:18 PM The point has been well made that "I suppose my equivocating detractors will attempt .....
» 2/04/2012 12:59:30 PM Champagne comedy gold, Poirot… I'm still all a titter. So, not so much Shakespearean as Re.....
» 2/04/2012 7:29:26 AM I wonder if we all got it wrong… Maybe Baldrick had a cunning plan on the 29th to set up a.....
» 2/04/2012 7:17:15 AM Too early for the fingers, rubric of course......
» 2/04/2012 7:15:15 AM Good luck in keeping the discussion gender neutral. Surely the only valid comparative rub.....
» 1/04/2012 10:18:46 AM Morning all. If we regard this twisted thread as Shakespearean... Then being the Fool (of.....
» 31/03/2012 7:35:57 PM "I have not seen one ounce of proof from you.Just assertians." Not sure whether .....
» 30/03/2012 9:21:56 PM And... this isn't a puzzle as such but you could turn it into a competition question for t.....
» 30/03/2012 9:10:02 PM csteele, a hint re TRTL... "If I asked someone from the other village... what would t.....
» 30/03/2012 8:38:58 PM Don't panic R0bert, your link to the government website of federal documents worked fine f.....
» 30/03/2012 8:04:49 AM G'day, Belly I hope your health doesn't require you to be chipped any time soon. Arjay wha.....
» 29/03/2012 10:43:11 AM "Obama Care mandates RFID Chip Implants" got my attention Arjay… It also took m.....
» 29/03/2012 9:44:17 AM I was hopeful, Yuyutsu, when I got to "…and science is only good within the realm of .....
» 27/03/2012 8:41:17 AM Mmmm... one with optional death benefits? Or is that irrational?.....
» 26/03/2012 9:41:57 PM "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition" to be cited as the worst excess of reli.....
» 21/03/2012 6:38:26 PM Newest user to OnLine Opinion and first post all in one day – congratulations Sven that mi.....
» 21/03/2012 6:21:42 AM So there's no mental trauma... Here is the hint and the answer: >> There are only 4.....
» 21/03/2012 6:16:44 AM "Add iron to?" Don't know, csteele… Are you trying to put your nickname through .....
» 20/03/2012 4:54:15 PM Maybe there really is something in it… I certainly felt better after the "thigh slapp.....
» 20/03/2012 2:52:54 PM Redemption available - A Harder Fork... In the Road. (A bit of an oldie - but a goodie) .....
» 20/03/2012 12:35:33 PM Should that plinth not have read "Ligare equos ad".....
» 20/03/2012 12:29:16 PM Big sigh of relief… After 20 minutes of maths that's what I hoped, but your "Dear Per.....
» 20/03/2012 12:05:32 PM Please put me out of my misery… No matter how I calculate it those amoebas are going to ta.....
» 20/03/2012 9:32:55 AM Hi csteele, This time with answers (for a cut and paste): 1) How long did the Hundred Yea.....
» 19/03/2012 10:36:11 PM Do you mean things such as, "How much soil is there is a hole in the ground 2.3m long.....
» 19/03/2012 8:06:01 PM Lexi, you're too young to remember this, but thanks to YouTube you can share the experienc.....
» 19/03/2012 1:47:22 PM G'day Banjo? "words normally do not change their meaning…" Really? I hope you'r.....
» 19/03/2012 6:21:24 AM Since there seems to be no automatic guarantee that heterosexuals getting married accept t.....
» 18/03/2012 6:01:04 PM Lexi, Suesonline. It's not necessarily a laughing matter – the environment can and does se.....
» 18/03/2012 5:22:31 PM Like you I expect "the ignorant minority to attack" and I'm sure Warwick would a.....
» 18/03/2012 7:30:02 AM If, sometimes, solutions to environmental problems are hard to swallow it's time to get a .....
» 17/03/2012 11:40:20 AM The devil's in the detail and I'm unsure about the Swedishness... but it does provide the .....
» 16/03/2012 4:45:09 PM Words are insufficient to convey the range and depth of emotional engagement the 'right' m.....
» 16/03/2012 3:20:15 PM From the responses I know you've elicited from some/many posters in the past, Houellebecq,.....
» 16/03/2012 2:36:05 PM GrahamY is right Chris C… "It is a usage which regulates the laws and conventions of .....
» 16/03/2012 1:19:48 PM Maybe women like Dame Bridget Ogilvie should become the benchmark of achievements – but th.....
» 16/03/2012 11:13:20 AM If this poster contributes to answer your first question, spindoc... http://forum.onlineo.....
» 16/03/2012 9:33:25 AM If you wrote it, Kees, congratulations on the funniest article heading I've yet seen on On.....
» 16/03/2012 9:11:55 AM You should be grateful Warwick… Saltpetre has given you an excellent example of the way to.....
» 16/03/2012 8:04:49 AM There you go Crackcup – there's nothing to be concerned about, the proposal would seem to .....
» 15/03/2012 7:44:53 AM Linguistics? Really? I acknowledge you're a more interesting read than runner... but you .....
» 2/03/2012 11:31:17 AM Had you considered, Jon J, that the article merely had a typo and should have read "a.....
» 2/03/2012 6:10:33 AM I didn't follow the full coverage of the story Houllebecq but apparently the eponymous UK .....
» 28/02/2012 9:20:36 AM Thank you gentlemen… If, from now on because of my beliefs (and like my lesbian friends),.....
» 28/02/2012 9:04:05 AM I don't understand what the difficulty is… Most of the problem issues with the Westminste.....
» 19/02/2012 4:28:31 PM "How do others OLO's view the world of the mega rich" From a very, very long wa.....
» 18/02/2012 4:51:57 PM Not forgeries, not conterfeit, not real... This from the NY Times might explain better: .....
» 17/02/2012 11:38:59 AM Because it is difficult to keyboard a comment whilst voting in this way, Houllebecq, could.....
» 15/02/2012 8:52:53 PM Paradoxes galore, Saltpetre. Not much comfort in the fact that it was always so in the wor.....
» 15/02/2012 5:19:18 PM Squeers, whatever your grounds for suspecting Houllebecq is seldom earnest about 'feeling .....
» 14/02/2012 11:50:40 AM That first assertion of yours (unlike most) intrigued me though, individual… "In Mal.....
» 12/02/2012 8:02:27 PM Since Gen Clark seems to have been left behind while you focus our attention on the banks .....
» 10/02/2012 11:10:43 AM Some do... but that's because my parrot is pining for the fjords - not the approval of big.....
» 10/02/2012 10:56:01 AM Whilst we are in the mood for language correction, Trav and others… I'd like some suggest.....
» 10/02/2012 10:07:22 AM "The field of spirituality is the newest frontier in medicine." No, actually it.....
» 10/02/2012 9:34:32 AM Now I'm really confounded – when I read the article I just giggled thinking it was an atte.....
» 9/02/2012 7:45:00 AM The two longest lasting same-sex partnerships in my direct experience – both in excess of .....
» 8/02/2012 7:56:33 PM No wonder I couldn't find it. I was looking on the new (anti)social networking site for or.....
» 8/02/2012 7:02:02 PM Daffy, by comparison Bohr is boring – at least Schrödinger didn't hide the fact he hated a.....
» 8/02/2012 3:21:56 PM >>Why DO you think the marriage laws didn't apply to ALL people EQUALLY in the first.....
» 8/02/2012 2:27:29 PM Thanks, Pericles – the Sunday school teacher/church elder me remembered, but the atheist m.....
» 7/02/2012 5:46:25 PM Jesus must be spinning in his grave at the brazen hypocrisy… And rather than having been .....
» 31/01/2012 10:57:36 AM To paraphrase Her Majesty's '92 Guildhall speech: "...it has turned out to be an 'An.....
» 6/01/2012 9:24:36 PM Thanks David... and part of his legacy is surely the promulgation of good ideas and the re.....
» 4/01/2012 3:50:14 PM "Although to be honest, I'm not entirely convinced that everyone you mention is compl.....
» 3/01/2012 1:24:45 PM Something else that can be added to the mix; or if you prefer the mix-up… In the total re.....
» 30/12/2011 6:19:12 AM "Why can't we let people believe whatever they want to believe as long as it doesn't .....
» 29/12/2011 6:51:32 AM An entertaining exercise in drawing lines in the sand or is it building castles in the air.....
» 23/12/2011 12:06:22 PM Stezza, did that include the departure tax from Australia? Did you require an export licen.....
» 20/12/2011 7:43:06 AM also… isn't it sad to think that 98% of lawyers give the rest of them a bad name?.....
» 20/12/2011 7:39:53 AM Dearest Lexi, thanks – an excellent demonstration of contrasting the important difference .....
» 19/12/2011 6:28:49 PM That explains it Pericles, I've always got the concept of injunctive relief arse backwards.....
» 19/12/2011 4:53:21 PM I was chilled, Lexi, and the intention was convivial, not in the slightest was I meaning t.....
» 19/12/2011 3:38:18 PM No need for me to trawl over ground already covered well by earlier posters… But a trip ba.....
» 19/12/2011 10:10:26 AM "And you're both wicked!" "Ut est scaphium dico kettle niger", Lexi… .....
» 19/12/2011 7:08:01 AM Dear Lexi, your advice to plead 'religious beliefs' is a bold tactic and prompted me to do.....
» 18/12/2011 10:47:14 PM Pericles... it won't matter what you plead if the evidence doesn't stand up in court......
» 18/12/2011 9:32:03 AM The Christmas Rush I hit the mall spending dollars to show people what they mean to me Go.....
» 18/12/2011 9:31:25 AM Belly, this is a slightly different way of addressing your topic… It's only two minutes, .....
» 16/12/2011 5:53:55 PM Agree or disagree with him - I think Christopher Hitchens death is an unfortunate extingui.....
» 15/12/2011 11:28:45 AM Greetings, GrahamY… I've lost track of who is preaching to which choir at this stage of t.....
» 15/12/2011 10:19:41 AM Greeting david f… I'm sure you thought when: "He told me he proposed and was accept.....
» 14/12/2011 4:39:37 PM As someone once said, david f, though probably not in Latin… Time heals all wounds but not.....
» 14/12/2011 9:10:05 AM "After millennia of silence, God is now speaking to us" For the postulation of .....
» 14/12/2011 8:07:18 AM I would have considerably more respect for the religious convictions of people whose opini.....
» 12/12/2011 10:40:18 PM I might be able to assist, david f and runner… FACT AND VALUE JUDGEMENT IN SCIENCE, Austr.....
» 9/12/2011 10:13:56 AM You're welcome, Arjay… and regarding [...Robert Baer also went on to say that...] I'm as.....
» 8/12/2011 3:02:28 PM I hope this is of assistance to the thread… I've transcribed the relevant part of the 2GB.....
» 3/12/2011 9:04:03 AM I'm laughing with the typo, Arjay, not at it… Do those privet banks control the hedge fun.....
» 26/11/2011 6:18:19 AM If you find this episode description from the BBC world service program "Hardtalk&quo.....
» 10/11/2011 3:15:48 AM Do I cease to exist when God realises he is a metaphysical solipsist?.....
» 7/11/2011 2:57:16 PM Excuse the interruption, but I just wanted to thank you Pericles for the ongoing tutorial......
» 4/11/2011 5:44:39 PM "So a proper Christian response from the church should perhaps come from a scientist….....
» 2/11/2011 8:02:39 AM Can't pretend I'd even heard of or read Craig before this thread – and after studying (not.....
» 1/11/2011 4:18:28 PM You should direct your complaint to the correct place Hasbeen. The ABC hasn't and doesn't.....
» 23/10/2011 3:19:56 PM This is preceded with criticism of Dawkins failure to accept an invitation to William Lane.....
» 23/10/2011 3:14:04 PM So much faux outrage… In an article subheaded "Atheism needs a better spokesman than.....
» 14/10/2011 6:49:38 PM Turning your question, Poirot, into a chiasmus sums it up for me… There is no meaning to .....
» 13/10/2011 5:55:07 AM Next someone will post a link to youtube for the Tony Ferrino (Steve Coogan) song Valley o.....
» 25/09/2011 4:06:41 PM Pericles… I would have laughed harder, but I had already heard that joke next week. My on.....
» 22/08/2011 6:38:02 PM <<suzeonline, Lexi, McReal & Pelican etc, i see none of you have dared to comment… &.....
» 22/08/2011 6:21:55 PM Csteele, I was rummaging through the census data for 1911 and 1921, prompted by your menti.....
» 30/07/2011 10:35:08 AM Bearing in mind his advice to Bernard about constructing a survey on national service, Sir.....
» 30/07/2011 9:06:36 AM Not really true, a597… Isn't it, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition? And I've met both.....
» 21/07/2011 1:50:29 PM Arjay, I know I'll come across as a fwit for having to ask for clarification, but I didn't.....
» 21/06/2011 8:31:34 AM Next time I'll wait until I'm not too tired/lazy to check past the topmost search results,.....
» 20/06/2011 10:04:36 PM Houellebecq, "… juvenile jester routine…" I thought the soubriquet was because y.....
» 19/06/2011 8:33:28 AM Step two: Complete 10 million iterations of the 38 year data sample. Step three: Consider.....
» 19/06/2011 8:28:00 AM You've opened a window of opportunity, oneundergod. Readers who have struggled this far m.....
» 17/06/2011 10:20:07 PM As evidence that this thread can evolve ideas which just might be worth clicking the one-q.....
» 16/06/2011 11:32:10 AM It has been reminiscent of the finale of The Amazing Race… 30 days, 300 posts, 190 A4 page.....
» 14/06/2011 9:19:20 AM One under god, I'm concerned that we are being disrespectful of other posters who were sha.....
» 14/06/2011 8:54:37 AM Istvan, valid questions. Thank you for showing my description might imply mushrooming 'new.....
» 13/06/2011 8:48:10 PM Saltpetre, 'twas an expression of admiration for the great post I'd just read. It was why.....
» 13/06/2011 2:06:00 PM Wow, Saltpetre. Smiley-face. (Sorry, I promised myself to never use an emoticon) Is there.....
» 13/06/2011 5:38:17 AM Crabsy… exactly what I was thinking. Plus, the eternal internal battle between our emotio.....
» 13/06/2011 5:32:47 AM As I read your kind words, Saltpetre, they turned that red colour you see when you exceed .....
» 12/06/2011 1:02:31 PM Trav, talking about science to OUG got me to remembering how inherent in scientific enquir.....
» 12/06/2011 11:41:43 AM OUG, trivia first… I was complimenting the other pun - tree of… (lief, an archaic word pro.....
» 11/06/2011 8:03:28 AM cont: Would it help if we got rid of the word evolution and replaced it with emergence? .....
» 11/06/2011 8:01:17 AM OUG, why am I being chided when I have already answered your gripe? My silence may just sp.....
» 9/06/2011 3:17:52 PM I was always amused by claims that Australia's political stability was a consequence of ou.....
» 9/06/2011 1:54:49 PM OUG, you frequently raise questions of evolution, genus, etc… Answering is difficult becau.....
» 2/06/2011 1:05:55 AM Trav, you're interested in being earnest about reflective thinking, you obviously understa.....
» 25/05/2011 8:48:00 AM Is a settlement/compromise possible? Pericles… Would you accept that religion's role in w.....
» 22/05/2011 8:12:42 PM Trav, it's easy to agree with you that human nature is the cause of war – as you say, prid.....
» 21/05/2011 2:30:10 AM If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but is a long way from reality does that m.....
» 20/05/2011 1:08:03 PM Dear Graham, thank you for OLO. I am suprised that you have time to consider the hippocam.....
» 19/05/2011 2:03:40 PM AJ Philips: Enlightening posts as always. Thank you. As a bit of a nod to last month's 300.....
» 17/05/2011 10:21:48 PM Don't think I'd take the £400 test. It won't tell if you're going to be run over by a bus .....
» 17/05/2011 4:31:03 PM Banjo: "...wonder what the recomendations will be in relation to this?" I can o.....
» 11/05/2011 3:12:55 PM Whilst the 2003 article quote seems to reinforce the importance of the guy at the top… I'm.....
» 4/05/2011 8:07:28 PM Bojanco, your knowledge of what Dr. Cannold wants and believes is suspect because you don'.....
» 29/04/2011 8:21:25 AM If only all self appointed parasites were royals it would be easier to recognise them. Th.....
» 29/04/2011 7:42:41 AM Let's see if I've got this correct. The rational argument against same-sex marriage is… T.....
» 28/04/2011 7:48:31 AM You can do nothing about The Royal wedding but accept weddings are a standard plot device .....
» 23/04/2011 4:25:05 AM Yesterday's BBC News featured in their magazine section (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin.....
» 21/04/2011 3:37:58 PM And an afterthought… I suggested the 'hold gold' idea as a personal solution for oneunderg.....
» 21/04/2011 2:58:06 PM Dear Pericles, As they say on some television shows, here is one I prepared earlier… Or i.....
» 20/04/2011 10:34:25 PM Oneundergod, this from Wikipedia about the Austrian School: "Accordingly, many Austr.....
» 20/04/2011 8:46:52 PM Dear oneundergod, With one link and only a couple of main points you made it much easier .....
» 19/04/2011 2:38:41 PM Dear Peter, In defence of the earlier posters I wonder if, in their enthusiasm to engage .....
» 19/04/2011 7:36:42 AM Dear Lexi, Interesting information and statistics, thank you. However, if you'll allow on.....
» 17/04/2011 9:18:24 AM rehctub, what about... What's the useless bit of skin on the end of a penis? A man......
» 16/04/2011 10:53:21 PM Dear one under god, You obviously care very deeply about the issues you raise… I'm sure m.....
» 16/04/2011 7:03:42 PM Suzeonline, it seems you're familiar with the Washington Post's Style Invitational which h.....
» 16/04/2011 3:55:06 PM Dalma, the thread to discuss your 'aged old euphoric dictum" is yesterday's one start.....
» 16/04/2011 8:23:42 AM Dear Belly, please accept my best wishes that your health is as easily fixed (despite the .....
» 13/04/2011 6:48:53 AM Suzeonline has it totally correct ('cept the plural is courts martial) on this one, I thin.....
» 12/04/2011 10:35:11 AM I remember a work colleague observing that, "A man it is only truly happy when he kn.....
» 29/03/2011 6:26:31 AM Belly, I want to support your idea of the need for welfare reforms. Welfare is such a hug.....
» 27/03/2011 3:32:40 PM Three initial reasons in support of this: It is democratic. Anyone would still be able t.....
» 27/03/2011 3:31:34 PM David f, Agreed. We don't need professional politicians. We do need politicians to be pro.....
» 27/03/2011 2:31:00 AM Interestingly as I'm sitting here reading through the threads (I'm a newbie to OLO) Tim Mi.....
» 26/03/2011 5:39:23 AM Runner, appreciated your response, thank you. It never occurred to me to think as you do… .....
» 25/03/2011 1:56:40 PM Runner, as with VK3AUU I also strongly agree with you that religion is dangerous. Though .....
» 24/03/2011 8:31:43 PM Runner, Did your comment this morning upload correctly? The last sentence read, "Reli.....
» 17/03/2011 9:35:16 AM Having been away for a couple of days. I hope that posting protocol allows the courtesy of.....
» 14/03/2011 4:19:39 AM Dear david f, I deliberately omitted any reference to 'ratsakh' lest it be misconstrued as.....
» 12/03/2011 8:21:45 AM Rear runner, try this (simplified) thought experiment: The easiest to understand verses i.....
» 12/03/2011 8:19:10 AM Dear runner, Alan Austin's cleverly crafted article is a parable. Clever because he weave.....
» 12/03/2011 5:56:21 AM Dear Alan Thank you for your teasingly erudite article. I especially enjoyed the way you .....
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