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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...

loCAtek wrote:...right, bring on the 72 virgins and bottomless flagons of mead!

I was prepared to get very upset until I re-read it. It doesn't say flagless bottoms of meade

Relieved
Meade

Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, has made its name by staging protests at funerals of people who died of AIDS, gay people, soldiers and even Coretta Scott King. I don't know what's wrong with them but they are indeed sick and repulsive, to say the least. The atavistic urge to just beat th...

Crackpot wrote:are you saying something about Scooters backdoor Meade?

Is it toe-curlingly boring?

And does warming a pew on Sunday mornings and contributing a few bucks towards the bricks and mortar and staffing of whatever religious club to which to one belongs, letting whatever they hear while there go in one ear and out the other and being a misanthropic SOB the rest of the week, make someon...

Oh yeah, some Cricket on the tube, some Leonard Cohen on the stereo.... That's living baby..... Set me up with that combo and you could perform a heart transplant on me without anesthesia.... Just out of curiosity Meade.... Is there anything toe curlingly boring that you don't like? :mrgreen: http:...

Fantastic game, eh Gob? One of the advantages of living in SA is I get to watch cricket on the silly free TV stations. I've enjoyed the England/India game - sweat bullets. Today's fantastic show by Ireland was one I'm glad not to have missed - and sorry about the result. From 118-5 to beat 328 is am...

Refreshingly this doesn't seem to be a simple case of "deep pockets". The three entities seem to have genuine liability. Seriously, the crime is horrific. The women will never have a day in which they don't shiver at the thought of strangers observing their most private moments. The long-term effect...

Other good Welsh things

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Mary Hopkin
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The Scots have their whisky, the Welsh have their speech
And their poets are paid about ten pence a week
Provided no hard words on England they speak
Oh Christ! What a price for devotion!

Andrew I was guilty of sloppy language. The hypothetical is not the “infinite set of moments” but the “infinite set of all moments” – whether past or future. That should have been understood since I was not identifying “past” moments but an actual infinity which includes all actual past and all actu...

Big RR

Not for me it wouldn't. Good luck to the young man.

I'm sorry that you and I have fallen out (again).
Cheers
Meade

Gob - the answers are: "yes +"