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Friday news story
It's about space
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12573413
Also robot butler who cleans and shit, how cool is that?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:42, 135 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I have a wife for all that

I would love to go to space, must remeber to buy a lottery ticket.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:44, Reply)
A shitting robot is disturbing

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:44, Reply)
Depends, is it house trained?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:45, Reply)
It's a pretty scary robot.
I don't know why they made it look like some sort of gold plated ninja.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:46, Reply)
if they look too real
people get freaked out. Uncanny valley, in't it?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:47, Reply)
Because Americans like shiny things

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:47, Reply)
who doesn't?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:06, Reply)
I just found out that the opposite of a quark is a squark
then I learn that the LHC is getting close to proving they don't exist. It's been an emotional rollercoaster
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:45, Reply)
Interesting link
www.boingboing.net/2011/02/22/what-happens-when-yo-6.html
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:50, Reply)
woah

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
I know!
I now want to put more things into particle beams!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:56, Reply)
let's build one!
what goes in it first?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:02, Reply)
Chompy!
Then, a sandwich, some grass, glass, ice-cream, matches, lipsalve and a wig.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
how about a balloon full of custard?
and an old TV (the ones with vacuums in)
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:07, Reply)
Wut?
I've been telling everyone how cool quarks are and now they don't exist. That's me looking stupid.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:51, Reply)
quarks exist just not necessarily squarks
t.co/rW3Ag0Z

I had a hamster called quark once, and another called neutrino.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
Quarks exist, squarks probably don't.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
Oh! that's ok then.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:54, Reply)
I think the "We've been looking hard and can't find it, so it doesn't exist."
way of going about things is a bit suspect. It should be "We have found every possible combination of particles which seems to explain all known possibilities, and can I have a lolly now please?" type of statement before they give up.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
I don't think they are giving up
so much as wedgying supersymmetry
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:55, Reply)
It's not that simple obviously.
The can infer the properties of a particle before finding it. If they then put an experiment in place that will create the particle and detectors that can detect the properties, then run it for months and nothing comes up, it's time to look back at the theory.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:56, Reply)
My head hurts.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:00, Reply)
amazing what you learn at paperclip school

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:01, Reply)
Well duh.
It was more a comment on the simplified way that CERN are communicating with the media. I suppose I could buy New Scientist to find out, but it is so boring.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:01, Reply)
new scientist is cool
and has pretty pictures for us dumb artists
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:02, Reply)

ti t e
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
I guess the fact that this took me ages to get
proves your point :(
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:06, Reply)
it has to be simplified
journalists are mostly stupid, people are mostly even more stupid than that. Things need to be dumbed down.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
I know, I find it a shame though
There should be telly and radio for smart people, and our vote should count twice at elections and that.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:09, Reply)
Smart people don't sit and wait for knowledge to be handed to them.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:09, Reply)
What can I say, I'm a lazy underachieving person.
Like most people here I should think.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:12, Reply)
Some people are smart at some things and not others
there are some things I will try and find out about, others I will find out about by accident, other things I will ignore until someone tells me in idiot language
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:13, Reply)
CERN's website is actually brilliant, and they're very good at talking to the media
the problem is most reporters dropped science at GCSE
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:07, Reply)
You can use Quark instead of Philadelphia on Slimming World but it sucks

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:16, Reply)
Haha.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:23, Reply)
The robot butler has a camera in it's mouth.
So, the first gentleman's relaxation space videos will be on U-pron before we know it.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:49, Reply)
URGH!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12569011
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:51, Reply)
Why is it weirder to drink human milk than milk from another species?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
Only hemp wearing hippies would stoop to this sort of thing.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:54, Reply)
boobs
that's what's wrong with it
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:54, Reply)
But why bother.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:55, Reply)
Don't get me wrong
I'm not advocating sheds full of women linked up to milking machines, it's just funny how people react so strongly to the idea of drinking breast milk, but will happily guzzle milk from another species.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:58, Reply)
I think it's to do with the sexualization of boobs.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:59, Reply)
I like boobs

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:59, Reply)
I'm with you

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:02, Reply)
*chest bumps*

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:03, Reply)
Boobs are magnificent

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:03, Reply)
I don't think you can say that of all of them

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
I have boobs.
But I'm keeping them.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
:(

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
Borrow your missus.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:08, Reply)
it's ok.
my mrs has enough to share with me.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:05, Reply)
She's a very generous woman.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:07, Reply)
indeed she is

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:14, Reply)
After a short think, I think it is more to do with being anti sexualized by your mother.
Perhaps a conditioning that drives offspring away from their own mothers to avoid inbreeding and increase population spread.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:06, Reply)
I don't see what's so wrong with that
But they do appear to be fetishising it by selling it with the rusk and calpol.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
that's the thing
although I do like bongela
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:54, Reply)
Hemp wearing hippy.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:58, Reply)
I'm not saying I'd eat it
But mainly because it costs £14, and that is ludicrously exorbitant.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:03, Reply)
that is pretty outrageous
I'd eat it if it was free though
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:05, Reply)
They only pay her £15 for 10oz.
Ludicrous mark-up.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:10, Reply)
I bet you'd want it handed out by the state to asylum seekers don't ya? Commie.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:05, Reply)
Free breast-milk ice-cream for gypsies!

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:09, Reply)
i was sickened a while ago
by a story about a woman in new york who makes tit-cheese and gives it to her FRIENDS to eat.

fucking hell that is rank. i wouldn't even share a straw with my friends never mind creamy curds that had been squeezed out of their nipples.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:13, Reply)
you are a prissy weirdo though

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:14, Reply)
oh hello darling
happy friday to you too xx

you big grumpy twat, you.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:15, Reply)
I'm rarely grumpy dear
I just can't stop myself from saying things like that. It happens in real life too.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:17, Reply)
at least you're honest i suppose

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:34, Reply)
it's always said with a grin

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:36, Reply)
it's hard to grin properly
with your tongue in your cheek
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:42, Reply)
I love the way he describes it
as "free-range", as if he's got a field of naked, post pregnancy women roaming over his estate, getting fat off the land and then being called in every morning to be hooked up to his milking machine.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:03, Reply)
is that your
fantasy, then?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
Hah!
I'll admit I probably wouldn't be entirely against having a Heff-style mansion, but the idea of fattening and milking them doesn't really appeal.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:06, Reply)
friday news story
my new trainee starts on monday and just came up to say hi.

fucking hell, he's hot. work is going to be much more interesting!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:52, Reply)
Does this mean you'll give him less shit than you've given to your current trainee?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:55, Reply)
oh god yes
it means that all his instructions will start with gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:59, Reply)
And end with a vacuous stare?
"Gaaaaaaah... Could you... uh... hmmmmmmm"

*stares*
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:12, Reply)
how very dare you
i am professional and formal at ALL times.

he will just find that all his work is either on the floor or very high shelves.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:14, Reply)
"Miss Swipe, did you turn up the heating?"
"Of course not. Feel free to take off your shirt if you feel uncomfortable".
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:18, Reply)
maaan, how do you get to meet
so many hot guys? I need a new career
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:18, Reply)
BELIEVE ME, i don't
this is an exception. there are about 2,000 people in this firm, and i could name 5 hot guys. this is not a great ratio!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:35, Reply)
Will you allow him to eat bacon?

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:28, Reply)
maaaaybe

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:34, Reply)
Damn you and your windowshopping opportunities
there is nobody hot in my building, and all the passable ones are married.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:01, Reply)
this one could be in a shop window
broad rugby playing shoulders, lean stomach, long legs, chestnut hair, chocolate eyes. it's a good look.

will have to see if we can drag you into the office at bash time to meet him!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:11, Reply)
Mmmmm he sounds lovely
almost certainly too good for me though, but I'd be perfectly happy to come and say hello if you can smuggle me in!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:29, Reply)
we'd need to make him work the weekend
*plots*
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:34, Reply)
Friday news
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/vatican-confirms-report-of-sexual-abuse-and-rape-of-nuns-by-priests-in-23-countries-688261.html

Fucking lovely thing, organised religion.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:15, Reply)
Too many dirty habits.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:17, Reply)
Badum-tcch!
Seriously though, my head is about to explode with fury now.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:19, Reply)
Calm down,
You have to get used to my crap posts.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:21, Reply)
so they'll admit to abusing nuns
but not children?

seems to me that they don't mind being stopped from abusing nuns, but don't let them take the children away....
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:18, Reply)
And also, as it was mostly 'them Africans', they can own up to the vile things they've been doing
But please stop telling people what the nice caucasian priests did, ok!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:21, Reply)
I just read the whole article
it's unbelievable. Those people are seriously fucked up. They should be fucking locked up, not allowed to claim spiritual and moral superiority.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:24, Reply)
I'm disgusted. Seriously, seriously disgusted.
I can't believe that even ONE priest could try to justify doing that, let alone dozens.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:27, Reply)
and that they don't seem to think that in anyway it contradicts their beliefs and what they are preaching
aside from it being completely fucking wrong by anyone's standards.

at least the people who are stoning women to death in the middle east aren't lying about it
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:30, Reply)
Why do they think that AIDS is so widespread among the local women?
It really is just fucking foul, the whole lot of it.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:32, Reply)
It would be really wrong to lock a priest up
Only God can lock a priest up. even if he's a rapey, butchering cunt.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:27, Reply)
Time to break out
This again.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:21, Reply)
Forcing women to have an abortion?
VERY Catholic.
Bastards.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:19, Reply)
My mind is boggled.
Rape, abortion = OK.

Condoms = bad.

Does not compute.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:22, Reply)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kJHQpvgB8
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:23, Reply)
Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great
except for the ones priests chuck up nuns, because they're not supposed to be boning.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:24, Reply)
it's ok
it's in Africa, so celibacy means you don't get married, but are free to rape whomever you want, particularly nuns or young girls.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:25, Reply)
Or babies
because that cures you of AIDS.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:26, Reply)
You can commit a mortal sin to cover up, erm, a mortal sin.
Which bit aren't you getting, heathen!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:25, Reply)
ah, the old "two wrongs make a right" defence
thank God for that
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:26, Reply)
It really is simple.
See also 'putting your daughter in the loony bin because boys fancy her'.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:28, Reply)
That's stupid,
they're not saying any of it is ok, or not sinful.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:30, Reply)
the people doing it clearly don't think there's anything wrong with it

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:31, Reply)
This ^

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:32, Reply)
Well that's all very dependant on the person
I don't think you can put it down to ignorance it's deliberate systematic abuse, the abuser will either justify it to themselves and feel no guilt, or feel a lot of guilt but not be able to stop.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:35, Reply)
it's mainly the hypocricy that makes me froth at the brain about it
that it happens and yet they still preach catholic morals etc.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Well, just as the Met was once found to be 'institutionally racist',
couldn't certain branches of the Catholic Church be 'institutionally rapey and kid-molestery'?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:38, Reply)
Err excuse me?
'...a vicar in one African diocese had talked "quite openly" about sex, saying that "celibacy in the African context means a priest does not get married, but does not mean he does not have children."'

He seems to think it's perfectly ok. The whole thing is fucking disgusting, anybody who goes round fucking nuns or pre-teens or babies so as not to get HIV deserves to have their cock ripped off quite frankly, and acid poured in the hole.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:33, Reply)
That doesn't necessarily mean non consensual sex though does it.
And yes that is disgusting but thinking that the church is pro rape is a massive leap from what's actually in this article.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:37, Reply)
A blind eye has been turned to these things for years by the Catholic Church
Cardinal Ratzinger hmself ignored pleas to deal with abuse. So it does make you wonder what the unofficial concensus might be.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:42, Reply)
Did you even read the article?
I'm not saying the church is pro rape, per se. I'm saying in areas that this is happening, the local priests obviously think it's ok to force nuns to have sex with them. So yes, I guess in some of those cases the nun is consenting, in return for favours such as help with studies or placements etc, but the very fact that Catholic fucking priests think this is an okay thing to do is repulsive.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:47, Reply)
This is how so many arguments start on here
Bella said "Rape, abortion = OK."
I said, don't be stupid
You spoke to me like it was the continuation of that conversation but looks like you wanted to start a seperate conversation.

I'm not dissagreeing with anything apart from what bella said at first.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)
Fair enough
in that case I apologise.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:00, Reply)
...
you're not allowed to apologise online, I'm confused.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:07, Reply)
what is "the African context" though
does this tie in with the point about women in third world countries being more conditioned to subservience to men?

this is perhaps even more at the heart of the problem, and you don't need to be catholic to do it either... burkha anybody? or how about having your thumbs cut off for wearing nail varnish?? or maybe a nice rape followed by a cheerful stoning for daring to have sex outside marriage...
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:41, Reply)
Yes people use Allah as an excuse too.
I think what we've learnt here today is that globally-marketed gods make you rapey.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:44, Reply)
or people will use any excuse
to do what the fuck they like
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:48, Reply)
Sorry, I just found God, I'm off out for a bit...

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:49, Reply)
And that a higher-than-expected number of African priests have a penguin fetish.

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:50, Reply)
Ha!

(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:54, Reply)
or that men simply can't keep it in their trousers
find me an example of a NUN raping or molesting children or priests...
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:51, Reply)
Oh there have been plenty of nuns who molested children, unfortunately.
Obviously, proportionately far less than men, so they're still more rapey than us.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:53, Reply)
child abuse i have heard of
but not in a sexual context. the nuns at my primary school (i was only there for a year) were all far too old and papery to molest anyone!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:55, Reply)
I don't know if any were public like the priest cases
but I know people who were scared of nuns for more than just violence.
I must add, I'm not talking about myself!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:57, Reply)
not having sex is an unnatural way to be
it is not surprising that it drives these people a bit insane
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:59, Reply)
Why don't they just let them have relationships?
It seems to be that a shagging clergyman is a happy clergyman, so why make them all bitter and tortured and repressed, when maybe if they'd been able to get their rocks off they'd have been pillars of the community. My Nana says this all the time, because we had a boss priest but he ended up leaving to marry a nun. Then we lost a good community leader and the nanas were sad.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 12:04, Reply)
I wish His Naziness would do a Sin Chart.
He could make it really clear that whilst putting on a little latex condom is a sin, and it will make God very cross, it won't make him as cross as RAPING A WOMAN THEN COMMITTING THE SIN OF ABORTION ON HER FOETUS!
Why do they fear the retribution resulting from one sin, but are then happy to commit gazillions afterwards?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:37, Reply)
We're gonna rape people anyway, so might as well make it the nuns because we might get aids and then it would be your fault.
"When the superior refused the priests explained they would otherwise be obliged to go to the village to find women and might thus get Aids."Sister O'Donohue said her initial reaction to what she was told by her fellow religious "was one of shock and disbelief at the magnitude of the problem".
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:37, Reply)

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