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[quote=""MattShizzle""]Wouldn't changing them even slightly majorly fuck shit up? Like new parts not fitting older equipment, things like railroads, etc? Also, things like athletic records - not really fair if someone beats a record if they beat it on a smaller meter, for example...

[quote=""Hermit""] Most scientists do not express a religious reverence for the universe. You're reading a religious aspect into the fact that they are awestruck by its immensity, beauty, monstrosity and total indifference to everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you eve...

[quote=""Jackrabbit""]

DMB;669450 wrote:Many Muslims think dogs are unclean.

Duh, try giving them a bath.[/QUOTE]

And then half an hour later they go and roll in shit.

A furlong is an ancient measure. It is a furrow-long. In mediaeval times villages had huge fields that were divided into furrows An area that is one furlong by one chain is what a man with a horse can plough in one day and is called an acre. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/...

Umm. 12 inches is 1 foot. 3 feet is one yard. 5 and a half yards = 1 rod. 4 rods is 1 chain. 10 chains are 1 furlong. 8 furlongs is 1 mile. 10 square chains is one acre. (And a rod can also be called a pole or a perch.) It all makes lovely sense. With metric there is an intermediate length between a...

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Oh dear! http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-hotel-exclusive-idUSKBN17S13O Public pension funds in at least seven U.S. states have invested millions of dollars in an investment fund that owns a New York hotel and pays one of President Donald Trump's companies to run it, according to a Reuter...

...and I don't understand why men do it. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-growing-movement-of-men-who-secretly-remove-condoms-during-sex Two years ago, a 19-year-old Florida teen posted a call for advice in the subreddit askgaybros. In the post, he said he met a guy on Grindr and went back...

[quote=""JamesBannon""]Yes, the EU, and in particular the eurozone, is not popular, but a complete break with the EU is like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. (I don't have any particular axe to grind about the Euro.) You have to balance what is gained, which isn't much...

http://www.newsweek.com/isis-fighters-iraq-killed-wild-boars-ambush-civilians-589816 “Three fighters from ISIL were near the Peshmerga checkpoint in al-Rashad. They met some feral boars and the boars killed the three fighters,” Jelal told The Telegraph, using an alternative acronym for ISIS. “Some ...

[quote=""MattShizzle""]Well, there's nothing that make C better than F for cooking temperatures. People don't normally take the temperature of water to see if it's boiling, they just notice when it starts boiling. I meant 0° F is extremely cold. Around here (not a particularly wa...

Le Pen is against the EU. She wants to withdraw from the eurozone and reinstate the French franc and she would offer a referendum on membership of the EU. No-one knows what the result of a referendum would be. Italy is another country where the EU is not all that popular. http://www.reuters.com/arti...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/cassini-s-first-grand-finale-dive-milestones https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/cassini20170425.jpg? NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to make its first dive through the narrow gap between Saturn and its rings on April ...

[quote=""MattShizzle""] I like Celsius. 0 for freezing point of water and 100 for boiling point seem simple and memorable. Most of the time when someone is talking about temperature they aren't talking about water, they're talking about outdoors or indoors. 0 is extreme cold, 100...

Macron was involved with the deeply unpopular socialist government and he is a banker, one of a class of highly disliked people. His main virtue seems to be that he is not Le Pen.

http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/4/24/15379046/4-days-river-millennia-disappeared Nearly a year ago, scientists noticed that the water level of the Slims River in British Columbia was extremely low. So they hopped into a helicopter and flew upstream to investigate. What they found startle...

I like Celsius. 0 for freezing point of water and 100 for boiling point seem simple and memorable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/nyregion/pads-tampons-new-york-womens-prisons.html?_r=0 When Tara Oldfield-Parker, 24, was arrested on charges of shoplifting, she had just gotten her period. She asked the officers in charge of her holding cell in a police station in Queens for a sanitary pad. Su...

I really despise people who kill leopards etc. for fun. http://www.alternet.org/environment/6-rich-white-people-who-get-killing-wild-african-animals http://www.alternet.org/sites/default/files/trumps-460x307.jpg In 2011, Donald Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. went to Africa to kill wild animals. Th...

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/04/22/ray-comfort-wrote-a-book-about-his-infamous-banana-video/ The book’s not out until September 1, but Ray Comfort sent me an advance copy of Banana Man. It’s all about his infamous argument about how a banana is the “atheist’s worst nightmare,” ...

I found this an interesting article. I think it takes a lot of courage for a priest to give up completely on the church.

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/511 ... onal-story

...despite what the Prime Minister may say from time to time. http://www.secularism.org.uk/blog/2017/04/this-is-not-a-christian-country Theresa May's father was an Anglican priest, as she likes to remind us frequently. And on Easter Sunday, like her predecessor last year, she urged Christians to be ...

An interesting comparison:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/ ... nce-215062