Quote:No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

-- H. L. Mencken

Ticket touting is perfectly legal in the UK, except for football tickets. I think they'd be fine here.

We can't have an outright ban on animal testing. There are still a few cases where in vivo testing is the only thing we can use - though we're getting close to the stage where it isn't.

Animal testing isn't necessarily evil either. As I said the last time this topic came up, experimental biogerontology depends on animal testing not because they can't ethically test on humans, but because humans live too damn long to take place in trials that measure life expectancy.

But testing for cosmetics is beneath any civilised society...and most cosmetics advertise themselves as being able to you look younger, while simultaneously ageing your skin, and causing you to look older and need cosmetics to make you look younger in the first place...

All in all, I don't oppose animal testing - I just think the animal testing rules need to be updated to include all animals; if you wouldn't do it to an animal that happens to be the same species as you, you shouldn't do it to any animal at all.

Irresponsibly.

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You can make pectin stock using cooking or crab apples. Crab apples are best for making stock.

Seems it takes ten years for a crab apple tree to bear fruit. I'll get started tomorrow.

Round about now, your blackberries are starting to get a bit dodgy, and you're either going to waste them, or turn them into jam.

Turning them into jam is a massive pain in the arse because you've got to find pectin from somewhere, and what's the point of paying for pectin to cook foraged berries?

What you can do instead, is make blackberry and elderberry jam - which can also be forraged. Elderberries have their own pectin, so you don't need more. Mix at an elderberry to blackberry ratio of around 2:1. Just cook in a tiny bit of water, until the fruit starts splitting, then add sugar of equal weight to the fruit, boil it all in, and...that's it.

In B&M Bargains you can get a massive bottle of brown sauce for 89p.

Hell, man! (Geddit?)

If you moved Jupiter pretty close to the Earth, the far side of the Earth would want to orbit faster than the near side of the Earth, and the resulting force would tear the planet apart after it croses the Roche limit. That should take care of it.

Disclaimer: I'm not sure Jupter is big enough. You might need to use the sun instead.

It is useful for ascertaining the location in which particular members were invented.

wombatqueen wrote:

BouldRake wrote: I was born in the shadow of Rombald in the Skyrack, in the Great Jorvik Empire, in the legendary Danelaw.

We were defeated by Wessex in 878, but we shall rise again. Just as soon as our Nordic neighbours send over one of their trolls to help their kin.

Are you going to come across the pond then, and show us how you totally "rule"?

If I left, who would reclaim the Danelaw and restore her to her historical prominence?

Hi, I'm Michael Williamson...

In light of the thread that was closed before I got a chance to pipe in, Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World - YouTube

I don't remember seeing it, but they must have been visible, because I remember somebody commenting on it.

The "anyone earn over $5,000" thread, IIRC.

I was born in the shadow of Rombald in the Skyrack, in the Great Jorvik Empire, in the legendary Danelaw.

We were defeated by Wessex in 878, but we shall rise again. Just as soon as our Nordic neighbours send over one of their trolls to help their kin.

dsbe wrote:

tasman1 wrote: Bad times , We must change everything

Soon I am sure I will get this

To be safe on line please change your wife

What about my pants? Do I have to change my pants?

If one were to read the news section, they'd discover that PTC is pretty much a loss leader anyway. The PTC section is Clixsense doing something to promote.

Opera and Windows Vista?

Poor sod.

Dunno then. For a few ads, it's not surprising at all. Ads expire. If you've ever run an ad here, you'll know they expire quickly. If it's everyone,and it's hundreds of them, and it's regular, dunno.