Yup, you get a little present in the post from the NHS when you turn 60 and every 2 years thereafter.
Yes I thought your post 292 was a very accurate pastiche of James's debating style. :D
The tendency to portmanteau words seems to be a feature of German. A nice one I learned a few years ago is "backpfeifengesicht", which has no...
No because the chances are you won't have any appetite. It's not like awaiting execution, when you are in good health.
Along the Tokaji axis, a small glass of a good Sauternes might fit the bill for me.
Agree. My father, when he was dying at the age of 94, asked for a glass of beer, which he sipped a little of and said how good it was. Tokaji aszu...
As I understand it, though, what this work does is explore a possible mechanism for how glyceric acid may be synthesised extraterrestrially. It does...
I don't know enough about this field to follow it all. What is this hammerhead all about?
I agree. However I am concerned that the end game for Ukraine is undefined. If Ukraine insists on retaking all lost territory, including Crimea, I do...
Indeed. That would be a pity as some of us would really rather talk about science.
Hmm. Actually, I have an idea why I get women's fashion: Luzia:- [IMG] I once, on another forum, got by chance an ad with this girl and thought...
Ah toenail fungus. For some reason I’ve escaped that. I get mainly funeral directors, women’s fashion (??), drilling equipment and prostate...
I’d very much like to see the one on synthesis of sugar and RNA world. But I’m staying out of the snakepit of this thread. It seems like an...
Hahaha, bloody Avi Loeb again! He’s a head case. I actually remember this shit about alien spherules and thought at the time it seemed rather...
Yes, Europe needs to rearm, because of the twin threats from Trump and Putin. Trump has just destroyed the deterrence of NATO and the US Republican...
There was a question in the post about rotation of microplates. There is a nice explanation of how they arise and why they rotate here:...
The Victoria microplate in the African Rift Valley is rotating anticlockwise, apparently.
With Mac OS you can set 2 reminders, including one the day before if you want. I often do that, one the day before and one an hour or so before the...
Wot da point, if de calen'a sen U a reminah anyways?
Yes, you are right, the ads seem to stop when I log in - which is more than can be said for a lot of sites. What are foot mushrooms? I've looked...
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