On Sunday, 19 January 2014 17:04:37 UTC, Jim Cannon wrote:
On Sunday, January 19, 2014 3:48:34 PM UTC, Dawlish wrote:

Bonkers, but so true of so many: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-25793358 It is these kind of bigoted, entrenched religious and far right-wing views, which have no place in society, that science simply has to defend against. Nutters like this one lurk in many streets in the UK.



Those eyes... reminds me of that character in the Boys from Brazil. He looks like many of the sort of chaps you see wandering around Borough High Street on a Sunday, lurking on the street. Theres probably a few bigots lurking on this newsgroup, too. I wonder what his views on AGW are?

Who are the bigots?

Is it not possible that the move to clean shaven faces made the switch to open homsexuality easier?
It started as a good idea in the British Navy IIRC so that fighting men could not be grabbed by the beard.

As if there were no grease on ships in the days of sail.

Only a few decades ago most of this country was subject to military routines and bullying so the culture was brought up in more or less one way. Since we know that fluidity is a measure of urbanity, a cultural influence shears in large cities where what people tend to do in private, they get away with in public. Social mores are soon evapourated.

But having beards as a mark of male adulthood would perhaps reinforce the idea of manliness. Something not evident in metrosexual cultures.

So what?
We can never know what went on where and how often in private. Instead we have silly and irresponsible ninnies like Dawlish posting crap left right and centre and a flow of fish swimming mightily after him to prevent catastrophe. Something he can't stop himslff doing nor can anyone catch him up. More especially since he has discovered the power of multiple addresses.

I wouldn't have though the death of this newsgroup would come this way but I did know it was on its last legs for some time before this.

I'm not sure I think it is sad. Just deserved.
Perhaps if you minnows could persuade yourselves that there is nothing more putrid than a dead whale speeding past. And that if you keep chasing it you will be exhausted by the time it comes around again.