h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

it's a bad day when you can't throw a pudding around your own house

Hi Sho;

do you know what the nationality of the baby is.

perhaps since it was born at Camp Bastion its a bast...

Ecce... Monachus?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/09/20/fresco-jesus-botched-lawyers.html

"A Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a century-old fresco of Jesus became an international laughingstock now wants a slice of the revenues the work is generating, as thousands of tourists are drawn to the church."



I think this would do very well on T-shirts....

>>"A Spanish woman whose botched restoration of a century-old fresco of Jesus ... thousands of tourists are drawn to the church."

I think this would do very well on T-shirts....<<


So she replaced one boring sterotypical western styled white jesus painted 100 years ago by a far more interesting post-modern monkey boy jesus painted by an "inspired" octagenarian. I think they should definitely keep it. Yes I agree, they should make T-shirts, mugs, fridge magnets souvenirs etc.

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>>It is hard to see how Latvia could get accepted into the EU, some of their citizens were actually shooting at us in WWII<<

Umm, if we didn't let the former Axis powers in the EU, there wouldn't be an EU. Germany in particular stands out.

Cheers Honest;

I don't think Germany celebrate the Waffen SS and their economy is nearer ours than these satellites are, and Latvia has two grades of citizenship, or so it is reported as apartheid.

Sounds like Oldham.

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>>They don't ever talk to me but talk about me in their own language<<

Unless you speak their language, how do you know they're talking about you?

As for Latvia supporting the Germans in WW2, as with all history you've got to put yourself in their shoes before you understand what's actually going on. After centuries of occupation by foreign powers (Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Germany, occasionally Sweden) the Baltic States gained their independence between the world wars. The Russians, as part of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, invaded and occupied the Baltics, including Latvia.

The Germans then invaded the USSR, 'liberated' (from their POV) the Baltics and offered the Baltics independence again. Latvia wasn't fighting a world war, they were fighting a war of independence supported by the enemy of their enemy (much like the Finns - should they be booted from the EU?). Not everyone considers WW2 to be a world war, nations were fighting for a myriad of reasons.

What matters is that, since independence, Lativa has gone on to build a strong, pluralistic civic society that some core members of the EU could envy.

"Unless you speak their language, how do you know they're talking about you? "

Well if someone leans out of a van and shouts directly at you, or if a neighbor has a party and is laughing and joking pointing in my general direction then throws empty vodka bottles in my garden, or if the skinhead who allows his dog in the shop off the lead is seen teaching it to go on my doorstep.

I think they are not very nice, and don't believe you with the history lesson. My grandad was at a concentration camp liberating jews, he wouldn't talk about it but I found somebody else that would. Apparently if you shook their hands their skin fell off.

I think that was something to do with the SS wasn't it.

Didn't the Germans demonise the sick and disabled before starting on the Jews; looks like history just keeps repeating itself.

Actually there only a Daily Mail story linked with evidence in hidden; the post wasn't exactly flattering though.

>> Didn't the Germans demonise the sick
and disabled before starting on...<<

Yes, Darwinism gone wild. Survival of the fittest
is the basis of natural selection; certain observable traits
are 'destined' to survive and dominate. It follows logically
that anything and anyone with less than ideal capacities and
abilities ought not to be a drain on limited public resources.

Also, by getting rid of all undesirable traits and establishing
policies to prevent their reproduction it was believed to be
helping nature along the road to the inevitable perfection of
the master race.

Similar policies have long been followed by gardeners and
farmers who use euphemistic names for it like weeding. And
selective breeding.


~jwf~

It was a most rational plan based on social Darwinian, Nietzschean, race, nationalistic, social engineering and selective scientific principles. God was certainly dead.

http://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2012/09/21/ivf-withheld-from-couples-who-smoke/

Fife NHS is refusing IVF treatment if the couples smoke and/or the woman is overweight.

What next? Refusing diabetes treatment if your partner picks their nose?

Their smoking habit could be a danger to the fetus, so that part seems a good idea.

And a woman's weight (under OR over) can also have an effect on her fertility.

It is probable that having a partner who picks their nose is unlikely to effect her fertillity (but MAY reduce the likelihood of becoming sexually aroused).

PP

Well I'm going to die soon anyway. A surgeon said that, so what do I do to make a noise

Facebook uses facial recognition software to tag you when you upload photos:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19675172

Re: the IVF story. OK, I get it now. Smoking decreases fertility and therefore lessens the likelihood of IVF being successful. Makes sense really.