I've had a garden forever and believe it or not this is the first time I have ever seen a yellow ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

The big score for me was the couple of times I saw a Humming Bird Hawk Moth in the garden. They may be so common with you that you think nothing of them, but here in the UK they are something special.

Worth a shot.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

Overused.

Six things you might like to know about Sark, a small island in the English Channel.

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

And it is only two and one tenth square miles in area.

I considered just going in to the drugstore and getting another covid shot as a booster but I didn't...

Fernapple comments on Aug 14, 2021:

Well done. Though it has to be said that in the UK second doses are organized anyway, you get an appointment for your second shot when you make one for the first. And the plan is, that if it is thought that people need a third, so called booster shot, then they will be messaged. The US is a strange place.

I hope that translates to something.🤣

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Oh. I would like to make flopping noises with her.

Apparently, two thirds of Americans don't have passports (while one fifth of Brits don't have ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Some would say perhaps that it is just a matter of size, Britain is quite small in square miles compared with the US, to make similar journeys for a Britain you have to travel at least across Europe. But on the other hand Europe is huge compared with the US in terms of cultural differences, so that in human terms travel in Europe take you much further than travel in the US, so it could be that Americans are less open to adventure yes.

I survived covid / grass screaming

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Great ones. And why gardening. Gardening is a Science. Gardening is Mathematical. Gardening is a Foreign Language. Gardening is History. Gardening is Physical Education. Gardening develops Insight and demands Research. Gardening is all of these things, but most of all. >>> Gardening is Art This is why we should teach Gardening. Not because we expect you to major in gardening... Not because we expect you to smell the flowers and listen to the birds all your life... But so you will be human... So you will recognize beauty... So that you will be closer to the infinite beyond this world... So you will have something to cling to... So you will have more love and compassion, More gentleness, more good... In short more LIFE.

Global prayer to end atheism

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

No but I seem to be fading away.

Why are all those idiots that believe that the virus is not real, that vaccines are bad, that ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Because it is only a bad case of flu. Or so they say. Mind you next time they get on a plane, ask them if they mind flying in one without instruments, as long as the pilot has a map of the world drawn by a very religious three year old.

"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

It may happen in any sphere, but the whole point of religion is to provide a mechanism to avoid having to review. By providing a perfect justification for any existing view you wish to take, and which can be supported by interpretation. It is the bolt hole for the avoidance of questions.

Why Aren't We All Conspiracy Theorists?

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

The bottom line is that real working intelligence, the sort that we use in the every days world, has little to do with brain power or problem solving skills, of which most of us have more than enough to solve most real world problems. It is much more to do with commitment, effort, and the skills which come with practice when you do commit. But of course there is only limited profit and power to be gained, in helping others who can do things for themselves, there is however vast profit to be made from indulging other peoples laziness. Every supermarket is filled with ready made meals, and every newspaper and web-page with ready made answers and opinions.

How did QC miss that???

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Groan.

An Ancient Woolly Mammoth Trekked So Far, It Could Have Circled The Globe Twice : ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 13, 2021:

Twice round the earth though, for an animal twenty eight years old, would only have been about six miles per day. Just slow meandering really.

At this point in my life I’m not going to be able to respect Bible thumpers.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2021:

Nice rant. But you do not have to put up with bullies at work whatever they are doing.

I had my routine check-up this morning and I appear to be in quite good health.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2021:

I suspect that a lot of people are on medications, mainly because they have been taken by a marketing ploy, or because they are still taking something that they once needed but never stopped.

Creatures in the fog. Mount Washington, NH

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2021:

With the Covid lockdown, I have not been near a mountain for ages, I miss them like old friends.

I think I see the problem...

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2021:

There are 10 sorts of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Deja view all over again.

Fernapple comments on Aug 12, 2021:

Once a man may have tried to promote a party to his friends. Perhaps he said. "I will be there in memory at least, (and perhaps spirit in his view) whenever you get together and have some fun." And now we have a solemn ritual, only to be conducted by a robed priest for a fee. Funny how things turn out.

Anyone for Ass. Fudge?

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2021:

It is not good for my donkey's teeth anyway.

5 Billion bibles have been printed according to the Guinness Book of records, and a further 100 ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2021:

It is a fact, that most of the fundies and evangelicals, almost universally, prefer the King James. Which is almost universally regarded by most biblical scholars, as the most mixed up confused and inaccurate of all the versions. Funny that ain't it.

America Without God by Shadi Hamid "As Christianity’s hold, in particular, has weakened, ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2021:

Perhaps people will always fall out with one another. But I still think it is an improvement, if they fall out over something rather than nothing. ( PS. Contrary to what most Americans think, the US is only one small sample taken out of a big planet. If you should visit Europe or even most of the world, you will find that the most secular countries are usually the most peaceful and humane, BY FAR. )

The First Tablet User

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2021:

Went up the mountain and got the tablets downloaded by god miraculously. And the only person who went with him to witness this, was his bother in law Aron. Who, incidentally, the bible also tells us, was by profession a stone mason. Just saying.

I’m now curious as to the rate of suicides among non believers U.

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2021:

Being part of a marginalized and distrusted group, in a country with a huge Christian majority, only adds to the pressure that most people today are under. Another score for religion, which is not of course divisive and does not push people apart. Or at least, as many apologists say.

Naked lady after a shower

Fernapple comments on Aug 11, 2021:

For the none gardeners. They are called Naked Ladies, because the flowers and the leaves come at different times of the year, so the flowers have no leaves around them. ( Hope that adds to the fun and is not a spoiler. )

Atheist Agenda How do they know us so well? PS – Not sure what time 8:80 a.m. is. 😄

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2021:

If you are eating that many babies, you should make sure they are cooked correctly all the way through.. Moslem babies can be dry, (I think its because of all the deserts in Arabia where it started.) they should be roasted therefore, under a thick layer of bacon rashers to keep them moist. Jewish babies are extra dry, and need coating in pork lard, and then slow cooked in a bath of milk and shellfish. Christian babies, are best served with a bread and red wine sauce. Hindu babies are best roasted in beef dripping. Buddhist babies are bland and they tend to dissolve to nothing when cooked. But atheist babies should never be attempted, they are just too tough and strong.

[yahoo.com] cartoon grandmother helps hispanic area get vaccinated.

Fernapple comments on Aug 10, 2021:

Pity nothing from the actual cartoon appears in the article. It would be nice to know what it was that got such a positive response.

How?

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Concentrate on doing things, to stop the mind dwelling on the bad, is my way. But especially concentrate on what you can do for other people, other creatures and the world, then you can at least be content that you have done all you personally can. And, lets be honest, if everyone of the billions of people on the planet spent only half their time doing that, then that vast bulk of human power would solve all the problems easily. But then there comes the big bonus, because if you do, work in your local charity shop, take phone calls for mental health lines, help out at the animal shelter, march with human rights groups, join tree planting volunteers, pick up litter in the park etc. etc. whatever suits your nature and preferably several such. Then you get a big extra. Because, besides having you mind occupied, and gaining self contentment, you also increase vastly your social network and your prominence in that network. Which brings vast opportunities for companionship, love, education, physical health, health care, travel, wider horizons, and learning from others to appreciate the local gifts, around you which you may have overlooked, and all that is all an extra.

"Holy goosebumps"? Facebook rolls out a bizarre, idiotic prayer tool.

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Please, please, please Admin, give us back the puke emoji !!!!

How Much Of Life Depends Upon Placebo Effects?

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Evolution by natural selection has no foresight, it merely adjusts any creature to be better at living in the existing environment, from the starting point of its existing adaptations to former environments. Therefore when the environment changes suddenly, as it sometimes does, all creatures are ill adapted, and only a lucky few may just survive, to go on and slowly get better adapted to the new conditions. When humans developed language they gained a great benefit, they could pass on information better and thereby develop better technology. Which meant at first, many good things like, better tools, better hunting plans, cooked food with higher nutrition, etc. But they also, with that, gained, as a side effect, the ability to tell and pass on lies and fantasy, ideas quite divorced from reality, to a vastly greater degree, than ever before. Indeed to such a great extent that you could say that, lying, which is mainly the gift of language, is the really great human skill which sets us apart. ( The lion is strong, the swift is the fastest in flight, the whale dives deepest, and the human is the best at lying. ) That in turn meant that we could grow a vast body of collected lies, and pass it on as never before. Though being vain we like to give that body of lies a nice name, "lies" sounds a bit negative, so in our vanity we call it our "culture" and cultures. But there was no limit put by nature on the growth of culture, so that eventually, culture, (or our collective lies, ) became all pervasive for many people, so that most modern humans in fact live in a mainly cultural environment, where all their knowledge and understanding comes from culture, as does their food, shelter, and entertainment. Yet here is the big problem. We are not adapted by evolution to live in the cultural environment. The cultural environment has grown to be our main environment significantly only in the last few thousand years, perhaps to a small extent in the last few hundred thousand at most. And that is one of the most rapid environmental changes any animal has ever experienced. We are not therefore even remotely adapted to life in the cultural environment, even though it was an environment we created ourselves. We are adapted to life in small family groups on the plains of Africa, and therefore we do not inherit any biological adaptations, or any of the tools we need for life in the cultural world. Such as, natural inherent skeptical inclinations, or the ability to resist junk food when it is pushed at us with social pressure, including intellectual junk food. We can therefore spot a lion stalking us though the long grass very well, most of the time, but a salesman stalking us through a field of adverts, no chance.

I stole this from one of George's sources... (thanks George!)

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2021:

Sadly it would not work, spinning on the spot would have no effect. To achieve that, you would have to run, row or swim around the world going west to east.

I have two acquaintances and one good friend who cannot stop talking.

Fernapple comments on Aug 9, 2021:

I never managed that one myself.

Hello. New member here. I like what I see so far.

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site.

"COVID-19: Common question, Can the fully vaccinated spread Delta?

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2021:

My understanding of it is that, if you are vaccinated you can still both catch and spread all strains of the virus. BUT, IT IS MUCH LESS LIKELY. That however will be very hard to explain to the anti -vac crowd, especially the religious fundamentalist section, since they have been trained for years to think only in terms of absolutes, good and evil, black and white, etc. It is certainly very doubtful, that many of them have been encouraged to study probability theory, since it does not sit well with faith based teachings and belief systems. Which would not be good for the pastors, casinos, on line conspiracy theory groups, or any of the many others, who set out to exploit those failed by the education system.

Nutball right winger says to me, "I'm not taking the vaccine cause I don't know whats in it".

Fernapple comments on Aug 8, 2021:

1. It is very unlikely they know what is in any of the food and drink they take either. 2. It is probably easier to find out what is in the vaccine, than in you food and drink. (Tiny amount of research needed.) 3.The main active part of the vaccine is, obviously, based on small parts of the virus. So this is arguing that a small part could be more harmful than the whole thing. Which is possible, but highly unlikely. A bit like troops running from the battlefield saying. "They have taken their guns apart and are throwing the bits at us. Its just too dangerous." I could go on, but will that do for a start.

Pastor: Christians Should Reject Vaccines Since God’s Law Overrides Man’s Law | Beth Stoneburner...

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

I was going to point out an obvious, logical flaw, in the pastors thinking. But it is so pathetic I don't think I can be bothered. Sorry.

This guy....what can I say? How'd he stay alive this long? [aol.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

I bet he was opposed to assisted death too. But being over weight sedentary, unvaccinated, and not following health and safety rules, well that is not "really" suicide is it ?

Wearing masks is such a minor inconvenience and so simple to do.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

Like you say. "Wearing masks is such a minor inconvenience and so simple to do." Can not doing it therefore really be counted as a "Liberty", in any real meaningful sense of the word. But then protesting against masks is also easy to do, and a cheap way to virtue signal. It is not like defending your neighbors equal right to a vote, or get health care, is it, now those cost you.

Is there not more Darkness than there is light?

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

Technically there is no such thing as darkness, just light levels lower than the human eye can detect. We only think there is darkness because we are insensitive, even inside a sealed can some waves of electro-magnetic radiation get through. Just as there is no absolute zero, so no cold , only too low a level of heat for us to survive in.

For tomorrow's breakfast I'm making synonym roles, just like Grammar used to make.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

I gin-really git there spill chicker too pooh grit short if jibs fur meow.

If christianity is a mind virus organism that causes mental disability.

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

No.

Dr. Becky - An unsolved Martian methane mystery! Is methane on Mars produced by life?

Fernapple comments on Aug 7, 2021:

Wonderful speaker.

Oh, crap, this is something I didn't know.

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

I can strongly recommend the book 'Rubicon' by Tom Holland. It charts the tragic history of the Roman republic, and how democracy was gradually eaten away, until the fall into dictatorship and eventual social and economic decline became almost inevitable. The really interesting thing is that you could insert the word America nearly everywhere the word Rome appears, and it would still seem like history.

Algeria is big country and very rich but very poor because they do not know the value of life.

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

Hello and welcome, enjoy the site. And yes it is true that every coin spent on a church or a mosque is a coin which could have been spent to help someone.

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

Heard before, but can't be repeated often enough.

Prehistoric viruses found and revived from ice core samples from glacier.

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

Could be that they are viable, since a virus is hardly alive to start with, technically they are not considered living at all, and they are often so simple there is little for the ice to destroy.

While LOTR is a much better read than the Bible, which set of books do you think would make a better...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

The Lord Of The Rings has a big advantage which is also one big disadvantage over the Buy-Babble. In that it is a written text, with an author who intended it to be entertaining, logical and understandable. Where the Buy-Babble had no author, but was edited together by a number of committees, over several centuries, from scraps of many different texts, by many different authors and centuries, some complete and some not, many badly copied and none from originals. So that if you used LOTR as a holy text then you could be asked. "But is that what Tolkien really meant ?" Whereas with the Bible you can find a part of the text which supports whatever you wish, interpret it how how wish, and then claim that your wishes are sacred perfect and unquestionable , and that is the key to why the Bible is a popular holy book, and LOTR is a popular read.

While LOTR is a much better read than the Bible, which set of books do you think would make a better...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

I Think that it is best not to set up any text written by humans as an infallible god. There is really no difference between the worship of an invisible sky daddy who is perfect and beyond question, and the worship of a text which will soon be seen as perfect and beyond question.

[news.yale.edu] Machu Pichu older than thought

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

The early Spanish records always have to be questionable, not only did they have little reason and little time to worry about accuracy when making records of what took place before their arrival, but they may well have had good propaganda reasons to falsify many things.

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 6, 2021:

Because my invisible daddy in the sky says so, designed to crush all arguments. ( PS. Does not always work. )

Yeah it’s such a scam

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

An invisible product which will only be delivered after you are dead. LOL

Simplifying English for The Americans | Michael McIntyre - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

Well I am pleased an American posted that. Would have seemed bad coming from this side of the Atlantic.

The Case of the Missing Delta Where is the material that was where the Grand Canyon is?

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

At a very rough estimate, and given that I can only find a area for the Grand Canyon National Park and not for the canyon itself. And taking an average depth of one mile, which is probably an overestimate, given the first bit, and taking the Sea Of Cortez at 62,000 square miles, the canyon could only have filled the Sea Of Cortez with sediment to a depth of between 120 and 150 feet at most, probably less. Which is less than a sixth of the seas current average depth, and that assumes that all of it remained in the sea for all those years and that the sea has not widened. In short the problem does not exist anyway.

This tiny monkey is so small I couldn't believe it was real until I saw it move.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

I do hope that this is a shot from a proper wildlife sanctuary or rescue service, and not from someone who is keeping such an inappropriately young animal, from a threatened group, as a fancy pet.

Emotions, beliefs, and absolute certainties belong in one category, and a willingness to look at the...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

Then you mean to tell me, that you are taking back, all that which you wrote about your absolute certainty that the biblical authors, editor and scribes all wrote in the one literary genre, namely the metaphorical one ?

We should return the favor, and in greater numbers.

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

Another proof of the ineffectiveness of prayer on its way. (No need to do anything.)

Australian mathematician discovers applied geometry engraved on 3,700-year-old tablet Old ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

Interesting and fun. Although it could be slightly misleading, since it has always been well known that people knew some of the Pythagorean tripes long before Pythagoras. One the 3,4,5 triangle was even called the Egyptian, since it was widely used by the ancient Egyptians. What Pythagoras, ( If he existed, since he is rather like Jesus, in that we can not be certain about him or his history.) gets the credit for, is seeing the rule which connected them all and inventing the formula that enabled an infinite number of them to be created at will.

Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

That is why the theist religions work so well, since they let their members evade that need for effort and growth. "I am humble before my imaginary friend, (Which is not hard, since I invented him in my own image. ) and therefore that puts me vastly above everyone else and all other sources of moral, economic, and intellectual restraint. "

Isn't this what the Olympics are supposed be?

Fernapple comments on Aug 5, 2021:

Your story has disappeared, the link now goes to something else.

Does anyone know what this pretty flowering perennial bush is?

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Anemone hybrida also known as Anemone japonica or the Japan Anemone. A lovely thing, a little invasive but great in shade, there are a number of good types including a beautiful white one with a golden heart.

Double your pleasure, double your fun...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Squeak, Squeak, squeak, SQUEAK, squeak, Sorry forgot to turn the mike on the computer off !

What life is all about !!

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Its just simple. The small pieces with little power get killed first. Applies to either.

So I'm watching the Olympics tonight (Aug 3) and those two talented women ran and won medals, and ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

" I would like to thank the airline all the people in the aviation industry, and all the scientists and engineers who developed aircraft. So that I could fly quickly and cheaply to Japan, just to take part in these games." Honest speech yes. But it is never going to happen.

I need to read the manual before using.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Henry the eighth of England, had a special official appointed to wipe the kings rear, called the Groom of the Stool.

An argument against the conspiracy theories.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Now that is funny. Or at least it seems so from this side of the Atlantic.

& they'll use the pseudonyms Matthew, Mark, Luke & John, tho they are actually Larry, Moe, Curly & ...

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

They all forgot to record Jesus last words . "And look I don't want four or forty different versions of this going out OK."

This might work better than wrapping it in peanut butter.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Going back for my seventh jab this week.

Online Dating Vocabulary: What You Need to Know.

Fernapple comments on Aug 4, 2021:

Here is the bottom line. MEN ARE EASY. Most of us will fall over, roll on our backs, and play dead for any female who can stay awake long enough to give the orders. Therefore it follows that any man who is on a dating service, is a reject who has been passed over by the last thousand and a half women who met him and could not get out of the door fast enough. Good men are rare, and it is in the nature of life that all of them will already be taken. Therefore if you want a good man, the only way to get one, is to murder his wife.

Incredible.......

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

I think that may be 4.5 million visits to flowers. The same flower may be visited several times.

Solarizing definitely works killing the vegetation.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

Oh the weeds will come back. They always do, perhaps not the same ones, but some just like them. The best trick with weeds is to learn to enjoy weeding.

Peace of mind is so underrated and I can do anything to have it.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

Peace of mind comes from being able to accept everything, which is the opposite of sacrifice everything.

People just believe a lot of rubbish these days

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

Yes I believe there is a lot of rubbish in my dust bin, ( "Trash can", to you.) this week. But it has been a busy week and I have been distracted, it wont happen again, promise.

Well, our wave of ignorance, denial, and anti-vax nonsense made this inevitable.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

The other sad thing is that an American has to come looking at the BBC, for an objective overview of what is happening in his own country.

What is the universe made of ? Just curious

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

The universe is made in our minds, out of inputs from our senses, beyond that all is postulation.

We stand on the shoulders of giants: [yahoo.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

Interesting history, well worth the read. There should be a monument, though I suspect that it would cause a lot of trouble.

I broadcast fennel seeds in my shady beds in hope of attracting swallowtail butterflies.

Fernapple comments on Aug 3, 2021:

I love fennel for its own sake as well, it is not just a great herb but looks so attractive too. I don't know why more people don't grow it, though the fact that there are the two forms both the root vegetable and the leaf herb can cause confusion.

The long View

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2021:

No they would soon get bored with that, more likely they look down and say. "Wow ! That one looks almost like an intelligent ape."

Who did you love the most in your family As for me my mom What about you?

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2021:

Hello and welcome enjoy the site. And do check out the groups if you have time, there is something for everyone. But sorry I don't have a family, so if you asked me who I love most, it would have to be my best friend.

This guy has done this deepfake well [tiktok.com] [tiktok.com]

Fernapple comments on Aug 2, 2021:

A-huh.

I’m on the fence about whether or not a person named Jesus existed 2000 years ago.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2021:

And perhaps no one is further from god, than those who like to make him in their own image.

"I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics.

Fernapple comments on Aug 1, 2021:

Or you could use Jupiter's years. Then you you would only be five and a half. Its not the planet/god of old age for nothing, well it is on this site. LOL

Irony is that the Dove is the symbol of peace, and all it does is say coup.

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2021:

And they are really vicious, some of the most aggressive birds you can meet.

Scars are beautiful

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2021:

I think I got it. "Get your ass in the mother f#####g house right now, because I birthed ya all.."

@Admin.

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2021:

I get the opposite, likes and no notifications.

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2021:

Yes, but such things often bring about a reaction in time, we could be on the verge of a new age of faith in traditional education and the idea of 'good taste' as and objective standard, which can be taught. When everyone can have unlimited trash delivered to their screen for free, the real distinction will be in what you choose, not how much you can get.

Haven't gotten one of these in awhile. Do elder guys really respond to these??? 😆

Fernapple comments on Jul 31, 2021:

Being in business, I quite often get fake invoices, from fake companies I don't know and I have never ordered anything from. I don't suppose that they often get a payment, but since it is the nature of email that they can send dozens out to thousands of different businesses for pennies, they only need one distracted employee in an accounts office every now and again to send a payment, and they are on to a good living.

There is an unmentioned benefit to having your appendix removed. I tend to use footnotes instead.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Groan. I bet you are a member of. Writers, index, society of. The.

I'm sure all the men on this site already knew this but occasionally you guys need a reminder.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2021:

My grandmother used to say. Horses sweat. Men perspire. But ladies glow.

I'm glad I don't live in Anchorage Alaska ...but wait I live out with the Wasillabillies?

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2021:

Why am I reminded of Amity Island, so many things sound so familiar, certainly nobody is coming up with any new plot lines ? ( Joke only for those over a certain age.)

Many people dying in hospitals think that Covid is a "hoax" and have a "cold.

Fernapple comments on Jul 30, 2021:

You may be basically right, but I would ask where you got the stat if any which proves the "many people" statement from. While I have heard anecdotally of an odd case or two of people dying in hospital, still claiming that the virus is a hoax, it was not many, and it was only anecdotal. You are certainly right I am sure, because it is in the nature of the human condition, that whatever you can imagine, there will be someone out there doing it. But it is well I think if you are going to use statements like "many people" to have a good source of information and be able to cite it, if needed, otherwise you will give an easy handle to your opponents.

[cbsnews.com] Water vapor found on a moon of jupiter!

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

OK. I admit it, I was boiling a kettle to make some tea. But its a long way from home, and I get thirsty.

Just wondering the same thing!

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

If you know where there is a hospital that would let them in, except on a stretcher. Move house.

"California restaurant demands diners to prove they aren’t vaccinated before being served" ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

If they are really stupid enough to be anti-vax, is it really likely that they can put a logical statement on a sign ?

True dat!!

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

The fun is hidden in the wrinkles. Always.

1972 study predicted world collapse by 2040 - New research shows we're right on track.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Nothing can sustain a non-stop growth cycle forever. That is such an obvious bit of basic mathematical truth in a finite universe, that you just have to goggle at the fact that, our so called political elite, have used it as the standard economic ideal for more than a century. Cognitive dissonance rules the world or what.

Another term from my Gatland novel Paedo Pronounced 'Pedo', Paedo is a slang word for ...

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Paedophile of course originally meant, someone who really loves and cares for children. The correct word for someone who sexually preys on children, is a paedorast or paederast, but when the inter-net was new and some of them started to form porn and exploitation groups, they of course did not like that name, so they called themselves paedophiles. So that when the alarm first went up it was about self styled paedophiles, and the name stuck, so that the modern use of paedophile is a slang term as well. This is not very important as a part of modern history, though the abuse of a perfectly good word is not a good thing. But it is worth remembering if you encounter the word in older books, that to writers before the late twentieth century it had exactly the opposite meaning to what it commonly does today.

A godbotherer in touch with reality!

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

I think that people who predict the future, based on simply projecting forwards present trends, are on a hiding to nowhere. History is way more complex than that, and there is far too much unpredictable noise in the longer term especially. My first contact with the great pseudoscience of futurology came when I was at college, and we were told that we were especially lucky, to have as a guest speaker, the top government advisor, on futurology. A man so highly esteemed that he would not normally speak outside of government closed rooms. I remember it well, and fifty years later I can with hindsight tell you exactly how many of his predictions came true. It is a very small figure, exactly zero, he was very consistent and got exactly everything wrong. Having said that, C. H. may be on to a few things of value here. But of course the one thing that he leaves out, is what happens to the religions which once propped up the worlds lost empires, and provided them with the means to scare and pacify the people into doing the empires work, and justify their imperial belief in their racial and cultural supremacy. Let me see now, the Gods of the Roman pantheon are not much of a force in the world today, nor those of the Greeks, Horus and Anubis are not much seen in North Africa these days, and the Church of England, is only a shadow show, acting out its role as an imperial church to empty pews, and making excuses about it all being metaphorical. I wonder what will happen to American evangelical Christianity ?

The world is changed by your example not by your opinion. - Paul Coelho

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

Now that is perhaps the greatest truism of all, and is probably the main thing that will cause the decline of religion, and the increase of sceptical thinking, if that happens.

I just spent a great day and a half with our friend Strarving Artist.

Fernapple comments on Jul 29, 2021:

It would be lovely to meet other members in person. We are so wide spread, I must get round to doing the zoom at least.

Just making a point.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

They made their slaves Christians, because they thought that allowing them to keep their own cultures would make it harder to crush them, and could even encourage them to rebel. Its as simple crude and brutal as that.

Today’s poppy has two layers of petals — an inner pink layer and an outer red layer.

Fernapple comments on Jul 28, 2021:

And how will it fade, I wonder ?