Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting.

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Tony Baloney

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April 21, 2017, 11:35:25 PM
Britain's National Grid generating electricity today without coal fuel for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.

seafoid

#335
July 28, 2017, 10:21:05 AM
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/28/witch-history-of-fear-ronald-hutton-review

For the final section of his book Hutton narrows his focus to Britain, and answers the question that has long kept sensible people awake at night: in a battle between witches and fairies, who would win? The answer, cheeringly, turns out to be the fairies, along with their cousins the elves, pixies and imps. During the early-modern period, these quaint little people were much in evidence in the folk traditions of the Celtic fringe. And crucially it was in these areas – Wales, Ireland, the Highlands – that witchhunting failed to catch fire. While East Anglia trembled under the terrifying visitations of the Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, and Lancashire got busy torturing the citizens of Pendle, the outlying parts of Britain and Ireland jogged along gently.



There have been all sorts of attempts to explain this – the Irish didn't want to shop anyone to the Protestant authorities, the Welsh had a culture of reparation towards witches rather than prosecution – but this isn't enough. Hutton suggests instead that believing in fairies provided a kind of  inoculation against witch

rosnarun

#336
July 28, 2017, 10:57:43 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on April 21, 2017, 11:35:25 PM
Britain's National Grid generating electricity today without coal fuel for the first time since the Industrial Revolution.
that's pretty big.
is that a permanent thing ?
If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well. Moliere

StGallsGAA

#337
July 29, 2017, 06:32:37 PM
Frampton weighs  in 1lb overweight so the bout cannot be classed as a world title eliminator.  A few hours later Gutierrez falls in the shower so the fight has to be rescheduled when presumably Frampton will make weight!   :o

Orior

#338
August 03, 2017, 01:19:00 PM
Bad graffiti painted on top of good graffiti.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-40773446
Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

armaghniac

#341
June 17, 2018, 03:47:26 PM
If at first you don't succeed, then goto Plan B

DrinkingHarp

#342
November 26, 2018, 03:23:59 AM
Spacecraft launch as seen from the International Space Station

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouBfzCgXHgk
Gaaboard Predict The World Cup Champion 2014

Denn Forever

#343
December 18, 2018, 12:27:49 PM
I have more respect for a man
that says what he means and
means what he says...

MoChara

#344
December 19, 2018, 09:04:13 AM
Like Behan, Bob Dylan used the melody of "The Merry Month of May" for his own song "With God on Our Side".[1] Behan criticized Dylan publicly by claiming the melody as an original composition.[5] He was annoyed because the first two verses of Dylan's song were a parody of his own song. Behan took the view that the provenance of Dylan's entire body of work must be questioned. Mike Evans writes that "legend has it" that, during an early tour of the UK by Bob Dylan, Behan rang him at his hotel room with an uncompromising tirade. When Bob Dylan suggested that "My lawyers can speak with your lawyers", Behan replied, "I've got two lawyers, and they're on the end of my wrists."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Patriot_Game
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