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You're right, those who've not been touched by cancer know nothing - like me. So thanks for posting this Kitt, and keep on counting As for the PSA, Mike, from docs I've spoken to there seem to be real issues about its reliability as a diagnostic with false positives and false negatives, never mind the ops done where none was needed - so it's all a bit confusing for guys as to what they should do for the best - until a better and more reliable test comes in

Here's your pitch ... At the beginning of each episode, off-camera announcer gives a brief description of the convoluted storyline and gives a teaser of what's to come ... "In tonight's episode, Mark arranges a football date with gay-but straight Gary-The-Builder hoping for something more, but Gary thinks straight-but-gay Mark is looking for something less - more or less. Confused? You won't be, after this week's episode of... "It's All Just So ...... Gaaaaayyy!!!" At the end of each episode - as the credits roll - off-camera announcer asks a series of life-or-death questions in a deadpan style: "Will Chester discover Jessica's secret lesbian love-child ...?" "Will Jessica discover Chester's hidden stash of rubber dresses ...?" "Will Benson discover Chester's hairy chest?" ... and concludes with the trademark line: "These questions - and many others - will be answered in the next episode of..."It's All Just So ...... Gaaaaayyy!!!"." ---------------------------------------------- *apologies to the makers of Soap *

Yes, it's a good word http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/stereotype

No, I'm saying a comedy show writer would say "why bother making this guy str8-acting-gay?" He would ask "What comedy opportunities does a str8-acting-gay guy give me?"

Hmm, trying to think of any comedy show where a gay character is just a regular guy. Stumped. I guess a writer would ask "what's the point of a gay character unless that gives an 'angle' I can use to make gags" - and if the character is no different from str8s in terms of appearance or behaviour ... then what would be the point of making him/her gay? Because the only opportunity that sexuality would offer the writer for gags would be the reaction of others to that sexuality - and that would become very old very fast. So if anyone has an idea how to do this then ... make it so!

Sorry for those clouded in - bummer Cloudy across UK too but I got lucky Sat night / Sun morning 00.15 BST and saw the super moon high in the sky unobscured by clouds for about 15 mins. It was very bright - apparently 30% more than normal. Usually you can't see colour by moonlight but after about 10 mins my eyes had adjusted and I could see the red and blue colours on my shirt and read normal sized print in a newspaper (wouldn't have wanted to read the whole thing that way though No need to worry about the little guys getting thirsty - seems there may be plenty of water on the Moon at the poles, where it's very dark and cold, where the Sun never shines http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/ice/ice_moon.html Good luck with the alien spotting - would make a cute pet

:lmao: :rofl:

We wouldn't want to be without the Moon, Bill, it's our friend - stabilizes the Earth's axis tilt, deflects asteroids, provides free tidal power ... and gives us something nice to look at

Look out for the Moon this weekend when it rises above the horizon on 22/23 June. It will appear unusually large for two reasons - it's proximity to landmarks / features near the horizon increases its apparent size due to an optical illusion but it will also in fact be bigger than a normal full moon because it will be at perigee, the closest it comes to the Earth in its orbit, and it will also be the moon’s closest encounter with Earth during 2013. These things happening together mean the Moon should be well worth looking at. Unless you're clouded in - which it will be in the UK, guaranteed Here's what the 2012 supermoon looked like from Rio *OK, OK - it was taken with a long lens * http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/19/next-supermoon-to-appear-on-june-23/

Does that include the accessories?

Shame the designer and model couldn't make the bulge more explicit ...

Make way for The Stylemeister - oh yeah, baby, lookin' cool ... *previously posted in Questions, Questions - too good not to post again *

out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ...

Hahah, reminds me when my Dad used to record TV shows on VHS *history lesson for the young: it was a tape recorder for TV *. I ALWAYS checked the end first - to make sure it was there! - having had many nights ruined watching a 2 hour movie only to find the last 5 minutes missing Just remembered another sad movie Running On Empty with River Phoenix, whose family are continually on the run to avoid the Feds who are after his Dad for doing something bad as a student, so River can never make proper friends because he knows they'll be off again somewhere else - and he just wants to have a normal life. So many crap films are repeated again and again but this never seems to get shown on TV. Worth checking it out on Netflix even though it will probably make you cry http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096018/

You've been absorbed by the Borg

Interesting overview of how we got to where we are. But what it means for us now and into the future is unclear. How do you make the unaccountable accountable? How do you square the need to spy on the enemy [and when an atrocity happens we always hear the inevitable cry "why didn't they know about it and stop it?"] when today's reality is it's "the enemy within" that poses some of our greatest threats - our own citizenry, often young impressionable males who have been allowed to be radicalised - without compromising the freedoms that we claim make our countries so special? Because those freedoms - so hated by many of our enemies and which we believe distinguish us from them - have already been compromised. And once you've crossed a line where do you re-draw it and at what point does it become not worth defending? So the challenge is how do we defend ourselves from external and internal attack - which the public expects and demands - and at the same time preserve meaningful "freedoms" when our enemies will always seek to exploit them against us?

You sappy sentimental old croc, you

Is there a treatment program? Or maybe we could set up a self-help group ... on GA

Yeah have a good one And Dennis says to be good ...

Now we know what he looks like

And it's neatly offset by Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law

Sorry, Graeme 1. as a moderator it's unfair to make loaded posts like this that we mere mortals are not allowed to respond to 2. the concept of "normal", to describe the conditions on Earth that have prevailed during the very brief spell of human existence compared with the extremes of conditions that have comprised so much of the 4.5 billion years the Earth has existed, is both unscientific and absurd 3. likewise "beneficial for the planet" has no meaning - the planet simply doesn't care, it has no "plans for self-improvement" or "personal management strategy", it's just a ball of rock whizzing around an insignificant sun located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy

Question makes no sense. There's no such thing as "normal". Never has been, never will be. The thing that's not "normal" is the existence of human beings on this planet. We've been around for a mere spec of time and we only exist because current planetary conditions allow us to exist. If we cease to exist, planet Earth will continue doing its thing very nicely without us. We need Earth, but Earth does not need us

Moore's Law of 1965 predicting the logarithmic increase in computing power every two years or so has proved uncannily accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law