Can someone put Gareth to bed?

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Look, just comfort yourself with the thought that you have some nice weather over Manchester way sometimes and it certainly does not rain hard every day. Last time I went to Manchester it was a beautiful calm sunny day, I could not have enjoyed the row over from the mainland more.

Creation stories the world over often have features common in other creation stories.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

If you create nine vague categories everything will fit one or more of them. I will now go make myself a cup of tea, fits 8. Sorry I see my girlfriend put the kettle on for me, fits 7.

Heard on our classic music station, "Wise men sometimes make mistakes, but fools can, at times, get ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Most of the time, who would know the difference anyway.

Red-crowned cranes in Japan by Fuji Tang

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

That's a wonderful photo. If it is not photo-shopped, then it took a lot of care and time to get that just so. Looks like a ritual dance to the sun.

The post about using tires for making raised beds reminds me of my raised beds.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Good friend.

Stag horn ferns.

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Great post, he has some lovely designs on his page, gardening which is plant led the best sort , and especially epiphytes, of which we have few in the UK. A dream is to visit the tropics to see them one day.

Make Yourself a Solution, Not a Problem - IIT Delhi Students with Sadhguru, 2017 - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

No I do not think this is woo. Some of it may be idealogical, some may be banal, but it is not woo.

NASA Weighed the Wind Billowing Out of the Cigar Galaxy, and It's Unbelievably Massive [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 12, 2019:

Yet why do some galaxies behave like that when many like ours don't ? Is it just age, or the lack of a central black hole, or a bigger black hole ? Like all the good things in science it leaves me asking more questions.

"I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

I think you may be preaching to the converted. But its a nice quote.

anyone up for using skype?

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Not with a face like the one I got landed with.

True. So true.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Would it were only blindness and not madness, heart break, loneliness and cruelty.

Say WHAT?!

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

I am not neutral, I fizz and react when in contact with people lower down the scale.

For me... assassination of JFK.

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

The Death of Winston Churchill.

Woo alert! Another example of the species, although you almost have to expect Woo! in the Philosophy...

Fernapple comments on Mar 11, 2019:

Wow, has anyone ever tried one of those sentence generation programs, which make gramatical sentences out of random words ?

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.....Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Wow! That is a great post, but even so it is hard to believe it is Newton since from what little I know of him, it is said that he was certainly one of histories least tactful people, and he made enemies hand over fist.

Beautiful after a rain

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Wonderful photo. What plant is that ?

Did you know this? I didn't know this! How to eat a pineapple. [facebook.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Neat way to do it.

Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness...

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

Can't argue with that.

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.....Frank Tyger (1929 - 2011).

Fernapple comments on Mar 10, 2019:

"Do what you love, and you will never need to do a days work in your life. " Not sure who said that.

Read a good book yesterday and wanted to pass it along.

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2019:

Well things may have moved on a little, in my day in the UK, (long time ago) if you had an original thought, the teachers would slap you.

Well. it might have, could have, maybe just would have.

Fernapple comments on Mar 9, 2019:

For a sperm, it is a multi-trillion to one shot, not much of a life.

"Western people don't care about life or death.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Sanctions are usually aimed at governments, often supposedly for their performance on the human rights of their people. And who suffers from the effects of sanctions, would that be the governments or the people ? Don't think too long.

PLEASE don't blow up this post with idiotic comments and joke replies.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Wood pellet fuel.

A Mathematician Wrote a 'Hipster Equation' to Figure Out Why All Hipsters Look Alike ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

This is great fun, but at the risk of being too serious. It could be that people who adopt an alternative subculture early in life, assume they have been and are original already, so they stop questioning things. A sort of Dunning Kruger effect of ideology. And given some of the ones I know.....

I had a trully upsetting and shocking experience today.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

Very sorry to hear that, and more than sorry to hear that you are upset by it , as you naturally will be. But you must keep the stiff upper lip both for the sake of your students, and because if you allow it to ruin even a small part of your life, then you are letting the racist bullies win a small victory, since they no doubt would like to hurt you for your crime in their eyes of not being racist, nearly as much as they would like to hurt your students.

Thought I might show you something from my stone pickings in my fields, I know what it is, do you?

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

I know what I think you want us to guess, but my vote would go to flint.

And I don't like bugs at all, sigh.

Fernapple comments on Mar 8, 2019:

I have managed a very large garden and a plant nursery now for over twenty years using only organic methods. Sometimes there is the odd white patch on a leaf, but that is it, and nobody but me ever seemed to notice.

How many of yall believe in a historical Jesus? And why?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Neither he grew from several stories told about several people. Most myological figures start that way, because people find it easy to remember stories but harder to remember names, so one name gradually gets attached to several stories.

The more we try not to conform, the more we conform to the others not conforming .

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Always did. True none conformity is invisible to all but history.

What is your favorite word or phrase quirk?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

I do not have any personal ones, but I love some of our local dialect words. Such as "clarty", which means half way between firm and softly sticky, like cake mix. And also "nesh" which means over sensitive to the cold, as in. "My illness has left me feeling a bit nesh."

After graduating from university with a rather good degree, my eldest son has struggled to find ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

He will find something, the one thing about Aspergers is that you can not do nothing. But why limit him to a job have you talked to him about starting a business, Anyone can do it, and not all businesses need high social skills or a large investment.

This seems so common sense, but so many people refuse to see it.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

The bottom line on fairness/justice is that it can of course never be achieved. BUT having said that, you are either working towards it or you are not, and if you are not, then what else could you possibly be doing with your life that is worth the effort.

This seems so common sense, but so many people refuse to see it.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

I was always a devotee of chaos theory anyway, not only is everything due to luck, but luck is too complex to ever be understood as well.

I really don't know why we keep celebrating Christopher Columbus when he was clearly a Johnny come ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

His real discovery was the Atlantic wind patterns, the trades and the westerlies. Many of the people who came before, including perhaps fishermen from northern Europe, who possibly were already using the Grand Banks and therefore almost certainly knew of Newfoundland, would of course have kept their discoveries secret.

OMG IT'S ME.

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Story of my life. If the green romance grabs you.

Everything is blooming, budding & turning green! Are you as excited as I am?

Fernapple comments on Mar 7, 2019:

Lovely photos.

How to prevent falls on steep descents

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

The first three work well for going up hill too.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

From a man who slowly degenerated into an alcoholic wreck as life went on. Sad.

Works like a charm every time.

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

A lot like. Totally failed as the government of a nation state, blame "the" foreigners.

Why do many of us see beauty in nature?

Fernapple comments on Mar 6, 2019:

We are evolved animals, who evolved to live in nature and therefore to understand which bits are good for us and which bits are not.

Hello!!! I am Jamie from Oklahoma.

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Welcome, and I hope you will make it back to the UK again one day. Though sadly this does not seem to be a very active group, but sometimes it can be interesting.

It's not admitting defeat, it's admitting that it was an impulsive childish and stupid idea from the...

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I have loads of impulsive, childish and stupid ideas, in fact most of mine are. But I never voted for Trump.

Build someone up.

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I love it very true, and good way to make a contribution to the world, and that's the only good and real way to raise your own self esteem.

Democratic Socialist. BythePeopleForthePeople NotMeUs Bernie2020 FeeltheBern

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Socialism says, “place more faith in the state”. The only trouble with that is that, in many nations placing faith in the state means placing your faith in an institution far more cruel, ruthless and exploitive than the worst of capitalist corporations.. Socialism only works well in states which are well educated and highly democratic, where people have real control over the state in which they invest their hopes and wealth. Which is why socialism works well in countries like Switzerland and Denmark. The more education and democracy you have the more socialism you can enjoy, but the democracy has to be maintained. Especially since there is another form of economics, in which the political and economic establishments are one and the same, and it is called feudalism, into which socialism automatic degenerates in counties which have weak democracies. Which is why socialism works badly in countries like Venezuela.

15 Psychological Facts That Will Blow Your Mind! - TopThink [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Love the way he does the graphics.

The Hubble Space Telescope Has a New Camera Glitch [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

Given that it has done so much for so long, I think that the world has had good value from Hubble already, a few glitches now are not a big deal.

Improvement Suggestion - Can we split the Grrr/Dislike into two emojies for a post Like vote?

Fernapple comments on Mar 5, 2019:

I think that would be good, though I asked for a "thank you" emoji but got nowhere despite support.

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Burns knew nothing of course about evolution by natural selection, which would not become widely understood for another hundred years. Moreover he worked for the Revenue, which is likely to give you a strange view of the human race !

Well, this was a weird glitch.

Fernapple comments on Mar 4, 2019:

Quite a few words like that especially if you use UK English, get flagged by the spelling thing.

This must be the right place to ask this question.

Fernapple comments on Mar 4, 2019:

The ancient Romans used sponges on sticks, which they then cleaned by dipping them in salt water. Unfortunately they often used the same salt water more than once!

My favorite quote by Christopher Hitchens: "The four most overrated things in life are ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Cricket, French cooking, Hollywood films and tomatoes.

"Ye" wasn't really a word - we just used to use a single letter for the "th" sound, called thorn, ...

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

The Ye, is often combined in popular culture with "old" with an "e" as in "Ye olde mobile phone shop." And people often pronounce the "e", yet it make sense to spell old with a silent e since the "o" vowel is soft. Who I wonder made us change the spelling.

Your shitty childhood isn't an excuse to be a shitty person.

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Yes and if you are a shitty person more shit sticks to you.

Just know that

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

It usually is.

Gun slips from waistband, shoots man in genitals

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

He was lucky, most hit a leg artery and die of blood loss.

This must be the right place to ask this question.

Fernapple comments on Mar 3, 2019:

Certainly a really interesting question and some really interesting answers too. No problem with posting it, good post.

The infamous "chat" has been a hot topic around here recently.

Fernapple comments on Mar 1, 2019:

Never got involved with chat, the few times that I clicked on chat to see what it was like I was the only one there, so I gave up.

Woo alert! "The biosphere is calling to you via ultrasonic energy. Can you hear it?

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Full cream woo alright.

Felix Mendelssohn.

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Not a Mendelssohn I knew, great.

Dual senate?

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Would anyone really bother with both, I doubt it, then you would just have two going their own ways.

I realise that by and large Real Estate Agents are greedy bastards but this latest missive, even in ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 28, 2019:

Obviously someone has profit-sized a bright future for themselves.

Concrete. Savior or villain? [theguardian.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

A lot of carbon is produced in the making of cement.

Possessions are like flying birds, never to find a permanent dwelling.

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

A lady in my village acquired a small inheritance and she spent it on a lifetime membership in several clubs she liked. She said it was the best thing that she ever did, because the very next year her house burnt down and she lost everything except of course her social investments.

Awaiting flooring installers today.

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Its been done yes, but I would not restrict yourself to indigenous plants, most food plants cause little environmental damage if grown on a small scale, and that cat is out of the bag anyway. And since you will be growing mainly food plants, which means a narrower range of plants anyway, the local wildlife will probably benefit from a bit more diversity, even if it is artificial.

Yesterday's model. A spontaneous shot of a cute dog?

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

The best models are timeless.

Growing old

Fernapple comments on Feb 26, 2019:

Always did, went bald by eighteen, often mistaken for brothers.

“It is our suffering that brings us together.

Fernapple comments on Feb 25, 2019:

If only life was that simple.

Just a suggestion to you "posty linky" people.

Fernapple comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Yes and put your remarks at the top, don't comment on your own post please, is one that we get often. And I would add, perhaps not a good idea to give likes to people who do.

Interesting shoe that would sell if it was on the shelves of a shoe store today. [mymodernmet.com]

Fernapple comments on Feb 25, 2019:

Amazing state of preservation, but how do they know it was a womans shoe and not a mans.

Religion fills a social void, how do you get social belonging? Outside of this site of course

Fernapple comments on Feb 24, 2019:

Keep busy, a busy person soon attracts plenty of people who want something. Now, sorry I must leave I have to go in search of a social void to escape into.

Don't know if this has always been here and I never noticed, but there is the emoji notification and...

Fernapple comments on Feb 24, 2019:

There used to be a thumbs up yes, I noticed the change, it makes it more difficult to glance quickly down the list and respond to the comments first.

If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.....Lewis Carroll.

Fernapple comments on Feb 24, 2019:

The important thing is to keep moving, then things happen. See. H. G. Wells "A history of Mr Polly."

Imagine...

Fernapple comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Always assume the worst, then you nearly always get a pleasant surprise.

Finally found that crystal

Fernapple comments on Feb 23, 2019:

Don't put it under your pillow, or in your navel during sex.

Scene from a small village

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2019:

Wow, the Med. it haunts my dreams.

Just wanted to thank those who created and those who run the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 22, 2019:

Yes love it, even the odd techno bumps and grinds are more fun than annoying.

What are your thoughts on transhumanism? Should we try to improve ourselves through technology?

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2019:

No one has ever got a technology genie to get back in the bottle. It will happen good thing or not.

I can't help myself, I had to do another one, Chiricahua National Monument Arizona.

Fernapple comments on Feb 21, 2019:

Best yet.

Three days ago it became a year since, I freed myself from religious bs and became an atheist.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

General protestant might have been good, as would never was in religion, which is me.

This has been happening since I came on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

This may be a daft thought but I just tried it on one of my posts, and when the new page comes up your post appears at the top looking exactly like it did before. To see the list you have got to scroll to the bottom. Forgive me if you have already done this.

This has been happening since I came on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

It may be your op. system, mines Windows 7. try looking for it if you can on someone else's computer. It could be if you are mobile, from reading these posts over some time, a lot of this sites features only work on desktops and perhaps laptops, don't expect too much on a phone or tablet.

This has been happening since I came on the site.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

When I click on the "see more" button it takes me to another page where everyones photo is displayed, Its quite a nice feature but I have no idea why people are not seeing it, only that perhaps you have to wait, some things on here are slow.

One of 6 Dragon planters I made of free salvaged redwood and 1/8" oak plywood.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

That's wonderful. Do you use a fretsaw or a router ?

Three Conservative MPs have resigned.

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

Usually the two main parties get together and squash them flat. Sad but true.

First frog-spawn of the year on the garden pond, I do not know how cold blooded creatures do it when...

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

We just hit mild weather though it wont last, but our pond is spring fed and never has more than a little ice round the edges. In fact in cold winter it steams.

Wonderful fashion statement with succulents... Low water requirements a plus!

Fernapple comments on Feb 20, 2019:

That is really quite beautiful, but what really amazes is that it seems to be several flats and yet everyone somehow has got together.

One frosty day on the St. Clair River.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2019:

Wonderful

Hey everyone! I'm a new member here, and I'm looking for some guidance from someone who has been ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2019:

If you have the support of two "out" sisters is it not just a small step for you ?

I have noticed a graying out of some posts.

Fernapple comments on Feb 19, 2019:

No not seen that, maybe it is your device.

Does the "Share" function actually work?

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

I copy and paste, its quick easy and gives you the chance to easily change a post slightly for each group.

Mario Lanza.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Its a good tune but those have to be the most dire words ever.

Scotland’s Antonine Wall — scars of the past

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Maybe it will serve well as a linear nature reserve. Large parts of the old Iron Curtain are now doing a good job of providing wildlife with a much needed safe corridor.

If you work hard.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

The harder you work the more damage you cause to the planet.

@Admin, I'm not so sure this new feature that kicks posts in the general discussion to the top on ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

It is not good things move around too much, you want to go back to something and its gone, its nearly as bad as facebook.

Shot taken with GoPro, hanging the line of my kite.

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

Kite much better than a drone, well done and much more fun.

@Admin, I'm not so sure this new feature that kicks posts in the general discussion to the top on ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

My vote is for liked the old way better.

The origin of the hokey pokey can be traced back to Shakespeare

Fernapple comments on Feb 18, 2019:

How sayeth he truly, yet miseth that leg which men of all manner do call the right one. Ti's but half a hokey which forth not thy lovers pokey.

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than Answers which can't be questioned.

Fernapple comments on Feb 17, 2019:

He nailed the difference between the science and the religious outlooks in one short sentence.

Yes It Is!!!..

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

Socialism means placing more faith, hope, and more of the power in the state, and that depends on the state. The trouble is that, in many nations placing faith in the state means placing your faith in an institution far more cruel, ruthless and exploitive than the worst of capitalist corporations.. Socialism only works well in states which are well educated and highly democratic, where people have real control over the state in which they invest their hopes and wealth. The more education and democracy you have the more socialism you can enjoy, but both the democracy and the education have to be maintained. Especially since there is another form of economics, in which the political and economic establishments are one and the same, and it is called feudalism, into which socialism automatic degenerates in counties which have weak democracies.

Gnostic Gospels - In 1945, 52 texts that came to be known as the Gnostic Gospels were discovered at ...

Fernapple comments on Feb 16, 2019:

So what.