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Very nice, Elichivo! Hope you're enjoying my Jikan script; if you do half as good a job on that as you've done here, I'm a happy bunny

I like both - is this what's known as cross-dressing?

Yeah, Colin told us he used a mouse for that pic in the Yap Shop last week. I was very impressed. Anyone who's tried to produce anything even vaguely artistic with a mouse will understand just what a feat of visual engineering that actually is. Phenomenal.

(Colin may even be in the Yap Shop tonight if you feel like dropping in to praise him.)

Scientists don't know much, really. They don't know how the universe began. They don't know where life comes from. They don't know what keeps atoms from falling to bits. They don't know how gravity works. I guess this explains why they're so loath to give up any "laws" they've discovered that do seem to work. It seems to me that trying to explain the universe in fundamental mathematical terms is rather like trying to empty a swimming pool armed only with a colander and a fork.

I guess Sunday Lunch is a tradition harking back to the times when families could only afford one really good meal a week. I haven't had one for years, but I'd gladly eat one every week if I could be arsed making one or kidnap and enslave a woman.

The scientific impossibilities of yesteryear are the commonalities of tomorrow. I hope this does work - then we can all have our own little power plants in our homes.

1st reaction: Absolute piffle, this thing is mad and pointless and anyone who believes it is a moron.

2nd reaction: Whilst it may seem to function in the way described, there is obviously some physical process occurring which offers the appearance that the device functions.

3rd reaction: We knew it worked all along.

4th reaction: How do we tax this?

Pfft, amateur...

Using the Revised Asgard Set I play my Odin's Spare Eye Card and move to

Seven Sisters.

The Bakerloo Line is now anticlockwise and and everything east of the Northern Line is in knip. Get out of that, if you can.

I think they'd rather sell this stuff than give it away at the moment. The station's always begging for advertisers which, let's face it, are probably very hard to come by given some of the content about the evils of globalism and big business(not to mention some of the more loopy subjects covered). I guess it's kind of difficult to run a show about the unpublicised chemicals being pumped into our foods and then cut to a Tesco ad. God bless 'em for tying, though.

Fuck me, if it's not an arse it's an elbow.

I didn't know there was a difference...

I bow before your superior webbery, My master.

Morally superior? Dear boy, I'm positively divine.

I think the previous pictures do however serve to undermine your 'everyone loves to share' arguemnt.

That depends on how one chooses to interpret the images. The first shows a black man in a silly hat with what appears to be a large knife in one hand and a half-eaten French stick in the other. It's obviously a sinister image because the man is black and there's some fire in the background. Insert the caption "Kenya Descends Into Sinister, Fiery Madness!" or "Kenyan Bonfire Night Hailed a Success" according to whichever view you wish to promote. Could it be that this guy is nothing more than a farmer engaged in clearing his land ready for planting? No, he's black so he must be up to something horrid - the picture is concrete proof of this.

The second shows several people with sacks containing something or other. Again, these images are very sinister because of the fire and black people. Because the man is black, whatever's in the sack (probably severed white babies' heads) cannot possibly belong to him. The fire proves that he must have stolen it.

The third image is of some sinister black people doing something sinister with a cardboard box (probably full of voodoo dolls and white virgins' blood) with loads more sinister black people standing around in a sinister fashion in the background. This image is possibly the most sinister of all because there is no fire.

If you remember some of the "reportage" to come out of Hurricane Katrina, you'll recall that white people carrying boxes out of flooded shops were reported as foraging for much needed food and medicine whilst black people engaged in the same activity were reported as looting.

In any tough spot, most people will pull together as much as possible. A few will act selfishly and even ruthlessly. Photos of people helping one another are boring; nobody wants to see that on a front page. Photos of the one person losing it and thrashing about like a madman are much more interesting and -gasp- sell more newspapers or hook more viewers.

All you have to remember is that a picture is worth a thousand words, but only fifty of those words may be true.

Context.



*edit* It's neither my wish nor intention to start a war with Buttonman here, it's his arguments I'm attacking, not him. That said, if Buttonman gets upset by this, I don't care. 

Truth is subjective. Take what you think is plausible and leave the rest.

Two shows that are worth watching on Edge TV are Democracy Now! and Matrix News. On the Edge with Theo Chalmers is also good but depends on the guest. As with all things, approach with an open mind.

Kenya again.  (From this BBC report:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7165736.stm   Picture #5)

I enter all the beauty contests, but I never win because I take my research too seriously.

Isn't this an image from Kenya?

You should seriously consider working for Fox News as dropping unrelated, context-free shock-images like this into the mix for whatever reason is exactly how they go about pushing their agendas.

And yes, I have an agenda too: Freedom for humanity.