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Be careful if you go to the pharmacy asking for citric acid. My mum, a well to do lady in her then mid 60s wanted to make lemonade and the recipe required quite a large quantity of citric acid. When she asked the pharmacist they looked at her apprehensively and scurried off to the back. She...

My aunt and uncle went to Egypt on a Nile cruise in 2011 right in the middle of their Arab Spring riots. They said the cruise was great, very quiet on board and the staff were excellent and happy to have tourist there at such a time. I'm sure they were aware of the trouble, but chose to go...

Your link appear to be articles about weather events. One particular in Morocco that is seemingly reported by locals as positive as there has been a significant period of drought. It should also be remembered that the Sahara was once fertile and green and became a desert without any help from...

I would encourage anyone making an argument that implies that 'scientific concensus' means there is no longer any need for further exploration or discussion of a topic to look up Galileo Galilei, Ignaz Semmelweis, Alfred Wegener, Barbara McClintock, Lynn Margulis etc etc etc.

I forget where I heard it, but someone had a 3.5 inch floppy disc on their desk and their child walked up, saw it and said "ah cool!! You've 3D printed the save icon!"........... My child thinks it's crazy that there was a time when you only knew what your friends were up to once you had...

If you are ever short of satisfaction........ I have shirts and windows, please feel free to ask.

Its not that I'm closed minded to your analogy, it's that it doesn't make sense! Reading Mein Kampf will not make you want to annihilate a particular race or religion, just as reading the ramblings of a cannibal will not make you want to eat a man. You're free not to read them, but others...

So the suggestion is that reading Mein Kampf is akin to murder and cannibalism? Baffling!

I've had some success with coffee grounds, but they need to be very finely ground. The issue as some have mentioned above is whether you can get it to down to the bottom of the crack, or whether you need to. Milliput is something else I have seen that looks good, but I have no experience using...

1. No one has insisted you read anything. 2. No posts other than yours have suggested what information or musings should or shouldn't be available for someone to read, should they choose to. 3. The Mein Kampf analogy does not reflect your position as I understand it in this thread. Your...

Part of post #8 is anecdote about an interview in which an individual made a link between communities living somewhat harmoniously under a certain style of authority, and subsequently under a differing style of authority being at odds/conflict with each other. I do not see how looking at...

I'm not sure anyone in this thread has espoused the benefits of an authoritarian or fascist regime. Certainly not me, I think my meter for authoritarianism may be set lower than yours as you seem unconcerned by our past or current governments decision to ban ICE vehicles (the topic of this...

I think the initial suggestion was that all authoritarian ideas are wrong, and then that a policy cannot be authoritarian if it is introduced by a democratically elected government. Now it seems to be that a democratically elected government cannot be authoritarian. All interlinked but slightly...

You'd like to think so wouldn't you, but if you have a look there have been several power outages in hospitals this year in England and Wales that have resulted in cancelled appointments. The post you have quoted was clearly an exaggeration for effect, but the concern that even planned power...

Should it not be to provide a framework and laws that supports an individuals freedoms in balance with those of other individual members of the society? To suggest the whole idea of society is to impose limits on individuals seems to propose little in the way of checks and balances for such...

Does a policy mandated by a government that limits or removes the freedom of individuals not seem authoritarian?

Would you consider it an authoritarian belief that led to a policy that no manufacturer will be permitted to sell a car with an internal combustion engine after a certain date?

Nuclear powered cars? Are all 'authoritarian beliefs' wrong?

And once you have walked to the hospital it will be in utter chaos as all the IT systems will be down. Not to mention the inability to do anything in a hospital without power. Better to freeze to death peacefully at home.

Never heard this one before!!! I'll have to keep it hidden from the wife...... Like the sycamore that's drying behind the sofa... Shhhhhh!