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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 would love to go to space, must remeber to buy a lottery ticket.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:44, Reply)
I don't know why they made it look like some sort of gold plated ninja.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:46, Reply)
people get freaked out. Uncanny valley, in't it?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:47, Reply)
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)
www.boingboing.net/2011/02/22/what-happens-when-yo-6.html
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:50, Reply)
Then, a sandwich, some grass, glass, ice-cream, matches, lipsalve and a wig.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:04, Reply)
and an old TV (the ones with vacuums in)
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:07, Reply)
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)
t.co/rW3Ag0Z
I had a hamster called quark once, and another called neutrino.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
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)
so much as wedgying supersymmetry
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:55, Reply)
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)
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)
proves your point :(
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:06, Reply)
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)
There should be telly and radio for smart people, and our vote should count twice at elections and that.
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(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:09, Reply)
Like most people here I should think.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:12, Reply)
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)
the problem is most reporters dropped science at GCSE
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So, the first gentleman's relaxation space videos will be on U-pron before we know it.
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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)
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)
But they do appear to be fetishising it by selling it with the rusk and calpol.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:53, Reply)
But mainly because it costs £14, and that is ludicrously exorbitant.
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(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:05, Reply)
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)
happy friday to you too xx
you big grumpy twat, you.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:15, Reply)
I just can't stop myself from saying things like that. It happens in real life too.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:17, Reply)
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)
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)
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!
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it means that all his instructions will start with gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 10:59, Reply)
"Gaaaaaaah... Could you... uh... hmmmmmmm"
*stares*
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:12, Reply)
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)
"Of course not. Feel free to take off your shirt if you feel uncomfortable".
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:18, Reply)
so many hot guys? I need a new career
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:18, Reply)
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)
there is nobody hot in my building, and all the passable ones are married.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:01, Reply)
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)
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)
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)
Seriously though, my head is about to explode with fury now.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:19, Reply)
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)
But please stop telling people what the nice caucasian priests did, ok!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:21, Reply)
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 can't believe that even ONE priest could try to justify doing that, let alone dozens.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:27, Reply)
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)
It really is just fucking foul, the whole lot of it.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:32, Reply)
Only God can lock a priest up. even if he's a rapey, butchering cunt.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:27, Reply)
Rape, abortion = OK.
Condoms = bad.
Does not compute.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:22, Reply)
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 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)
Which bit aren't you getting, heathen!
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:25, Reply)
See also 'putting your daughter in the loony bin because boys fancy her'.
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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)
that it happens and yet they still preach catholic morals etc.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:38, Reply)
couldn't certain branches of the Catholic Church be 'institutionally rapey and kid-molestery'?
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:38, Reply)
'...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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
I think what we've learnt here today is that globally-marketed gods make you rapey.
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(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:50, Reply)
find me an example of a NUN raping or molesting children or priests...
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:51, Reply)
Obviously, proportionately far less than men, so they're still more rapey than us.
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:53, Reply)
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)
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)
it is not surprising that it drives these people a bit insane
(, Fri 25 Feb 2011, 11:59, Reply)
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)
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)
"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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