Plan B Forum

Crackpot wrote:I'd more or less agree, though as everything old is new again we may regress to polytheism eventually.

What's with "may" and "eventually"? Don't you watch Oprah?

DEVIL’S FORK There was a time when a lot of English visited Bloemfontein (Oom Willie declared), like the one I met at Slightly Nutty. My wife’s Oupa on her mother’s side would tell how the khakis came here on their way to Pretoria after he and General de Wet taught them not to wear red. The khaki u...

[Actually, the statement wasn't so much about me, because I don't have anything to do with any of the gods. More about the people moving over to Catholicism. They are saying that they are "for" this god who is against equal rights for women. As for gays. Maybe it is a sin, but those very people who...

I just can't help feeling that for me, any god who was against women being equal or against people being gay, which is not a lifestyle decision after all, is not a god I would want to have anything to do with. Neither is the case. All are equal - slave and free, Greek and Jew, etc etc (Colossians 3...

Stoat, I think their idea is more that sin destroys all things. Ordaining women bishops, accepting homosexual practise in the clergy and in solemnizing marriage (in church) is, in their view, as sinful as the actions of the lovely people that you list. There seems to be no claim about "destroying th...

So he's saying Clinton was passionate about America as well? Kinda but that was Monica's mouth, nichts wahr? I apologise. My passion for some country or other drove me to that remark. Hope I don't have to become a Roman churcher. And rubato, yes passive voice there - well spotted - but in the follo...

keld feldspar wrote:I blame it all on Pleistocene beavers...

They sure look guilty

Student basketball star suspended for pre-marital sex

When I first read that headline I thought "Well those Mormons are certainly getting adventurous".

But I guess it was just the compulsory missionary position thing after all

Meade

A lovely week all in all. First Arse Whinger moaning about how Arse-nil wuz cheated by the evil referee. Rubbish. They lost to B-arse-lona not to the referee. Typical cheese eating surrender monkey stuff - "We just didn't know Uncle Adolf could be so mean". Then last night Spurs ground out a tough 0...

Any similarity between Julia Gillard's well-received speech to the US congress and a monologue by U2 singer Bono at a concert is a "complete coincidence", according to the PM's people. Ms Gillard received eight standing ovations during her historic address, in which she reiterated the strength of t...

Glad you were not rear ended! dgs49 - you are quite right that risk factors are legitimately taken into account in premium rating (or should be). But I think on the burial policies the analogy to term life, while bearing superficial resemblance, was actually different. Burial policies were mostly so...

Wasn't it called "Dances with Wolves"?

Big RR - oh but they did! http://www.insure.com/articles/lawsuitlibrary/prud-metlife.html December 2009: Prudential Insurance Co. of America and Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. are facing potential class action lawsuits that allege they charged blacks higher life insurance premiums than whites and s...

OK Meade, but who decides what is a valid distinction and what is not? Again, if insurers were to come forward with actuarial data that showed some racial/ethnic/religious group had more accidents than the others, I doubt EU law would permit differential premiums recognizing this. Why is gender (or...

Ok, that's fine, but it still doesn't solve anything. The car accident death rate for teen male drivers and passengers is more than one and a half times female teen driver And if teen males on average drive 1.5 times as much as females, then it is the amount of time behind the wheel, and not the se...

and a man who had worked with the developmentally disabled.

A busman's holiday then......

Aha! Not in CA perhaps but today in SA, nasty cricket is very much associated with the Proteas. Missing the chance to down the rooinecks - nay, humiliate them (even if they are one third hansoppers) - is a bitter end to the struggle http://www.horsejunction.co.za/embedded/discussionForum/133275/1332...

Gob.... what a day! It began with the conviction that 171 all out was a worse disaster than Boy Shakira. And then with SA at 124-3 it really looked bleak. I had to drive into town to a friend's house and when I got there he dragged me into the house (ahead of my wife and 6 kids we had with us) excla...

thestoat wrote:Damn. The Americans get all the best schools. Mine had a grumpy old git who'd throw a black board duster (aka heavy piece of wood) at you if you said anything out of turn.

Shorely not Bill "Spitball" Lister?

Dear Andrew But did she compete (when she competed) against equally trained men? Or were her competitions in the women's divisions of martial arts - which is her teaching area. I would not be surprised if some of those 20 who lost to the young lady hesitated in selecting a hold or subconsciously hel...