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Are you sure you hope so? Can you imagine the 6 Nations plus 1 planet tournament when it turns out that all the Blxxrgaglians are at least 7' 3" and weigh 22 stone?

Roger's post is a useful reminder though. I am baffled though that somebody didn't clear their phone. When I replaced my iphone and gave the old one to a friend, the first thing I did was to find out on the internet what steps you should take to return it to the original settings. It's not...

Out of interest, if you tried to have tattoos removed from your face, wouldn't you end up looking like you'd been in a car crash?

I was only being lighthearted ... honest! Actually, I'd heard about the sea level rise thing and about sunken cities off the coast of India which would, of course, have once been coastal cities. I don't have any difficulty in accepting that ancient civilisations could have been hot on the...

I suspect you're right. Unfortunately he has a lot of company.

I've been desperately trying to resist this but I just can't. You do realise that you're implying that the Babylonians had not only a grasp of the existence of the Milky Way but also the fact that it rotates about its centre and that that idea is bread and butter to the people who are convinced...

Nah, I had always intended to get the crest of Lancashire done on one shoulder and my old regimental badge on the other but never got around to it. Then tattoos became fashionable and who wants to end up in the same camp as the likes of David Beckham? If the day comes when the masses start...

FWIW I've read a fair bit about Naziism in an attempt to understand how such a political movement could emerge, thrive and nearly come out on top and surprisingly it is very difficult to come up with a brief summary of what defines how monstrous it was. To brand it a "hate group" won't do, if...

Droogs, what you suggest may indeed have been the case but if we are to discuss this dispassionately - probably the best way to discuss any potentially worrying set of circumstances - I suggest that as a rule it is best to stick to what is known fact as opposed to what might be, although I do...

You're slightly misrepresenting what I posted: most folk wouldn't have recognised anything on his face just by normal "looking" - witness the general reaction on here to the allegations and I know I certainly didn't - therefore the people who recognised what they did must be obsessive saddos to...

I suppose that theoretically it must be OK. Yep, a lot of people are going to be offended, especially anybody Jewish. The question is: to what extent are you prepared to alienate everybody else? Were parliament to outlaw the displaying of the swastika (as is the case in Germany) then the matter...

I wouldn't for one minute suggest that you are low quality. I do wonder if you are perhaps a little over-sensitive as I don't see how you can read that into what I've tried to explain.

I had a bit of a think about this last night and it occured to me that the bloke's choice in tattoos is his business. What can reasonably be of interest to others is how he conducts himself and as far as I can see he was perfectly pleasant to the black bloke, so for me that means that he is...

If I remember aright, no less an authority than the late Dean Martin would beg to differ with you. Did he not sing about the moon being in the sky being "Like a great pizza pie"? And he was Italian!

That's where dividers come in, although in the case of a Pizza, you'd have to do the old 2 x Pi x R first. Come to think of it, there's a challenge for a resourceful type: a pair of dividers designed for working out where to make the cuts in Pizzas. It's beyond me but I bet some geometry...

That's about right. FWIW, I'm with Phil on this: I'm about 1/4" under six foot and probably around 14 Stone (haven't weighed myself for a couple of years). Even though I'm happy with metric when e.g. reading a book about astronomy (I decided a while ago that it was time to learn something...

Terry, I agree entirely with your historical take on new developments. However, it seems to me that the danger with smart phones (or any other new technology for that matter) is to allow ourselves to form the view that such things are beyond our control. It was to illustrate that that I...

I think you're right and he did come across as a friendly enough sort of bloke. In any event, with all those tattoos, he's surely a blue supremacist. As for the prog: the actual woodworking was quite interesting (as you would expect) and I was impressed that the contenders could produce work...

I'm a 1.83m, 95 kg bloke if thats any help.😁

It sounds like you've adopted a sensible approach with respect to your lad's phone. The only thing I'd question is the idea that smart phones are here - omnipresent in fact! - and that we just have to adapt to that. The point I made earlier is that we still haven't found a place for or...