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You haven't seen these cops then. They don't mess around
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Funny you should mention that with a psychic fair here soon
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My planet? It would be great without swindoners in it.
As for life on other planets, the stuff of which it is made is plentiful and commonplace out there, but the enviroments for it to flourish must be incredibly rare. Life started on earth because the warm shallow seas were common after the 'snowball earth' of early ice ages melted. It was circumstantial. Without those conditions, all those chemicals were going to sit around doing nothing. It also appears that life made a 'false start', and started over after the second 'snowball earth'.
Well - since vulcans and romulans have common ancestors and don't get along, you have to assume their just humans with pointy ears and clever philosophy.
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I can see the tv ads now....
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Fear not. DVD's and book sales to follow... How about a Caldrail Attenborough T-shirt? Or for the man in your life, how about a Planet Alleyway Chest Wig?
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I tremble in paranoia....
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Cool. Can't wait to hear it. Especially if it has something to do with trained animals. Those cows keep looking at me as I walk past. They're up to something you know...
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Well now you come to mention it, they have placed a tin roof over it and it is rather discrete in there.... and I haven't seen anyone working... Business as usual?
Oh no... You mean... I can't blame America for the weather? But surely the CIA has weather-inducing satellites that are making my life a misery? Please don't crush my happy little world by saying it isn't so.... I so want a conspiracy that can't be utterly destroyed by reasonable and rational argument...
Oh lets just blame the Chinese. They keep firing crystals into clouds.
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They'd have probably tried to feed it sugar-lumps....
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Oh yes, forgot that Saab ad. Trying to make eveyone believe they're driving a jet fighter. As if they didn't already, which is why the advert failed I think. Then again, I remember one ad where a jet fighter pilot flies inverted above a car to ogle a drivers girlfriend. Not that it explains how he was able to fly upside down below his stalling speed, or how his jet blast didn't force the car off the road when he powered up to escape the bridge. Little things like that don't matter in advertising obviously. But hey, I'm nit-picking. Nice aeroplane.
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Yes, but he was an indentured slave (or should that be 'undentured'?). I on the other hand am a pleb (since my UNRV seniority for some strange reason means nothing to the authorities, or anyone else for that matter, and protesting to people I meet that I am in fact a senator results in baffled expressions and raised eyebrows. Life can be so cruel....)
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Interesting point of view. The problem is that these athletes come to public attention by media coverage of their physical exploits, not because of any superior personal traits, and therefore represent an ideal for competitive spirit rather than any inspirational virtue. Which is more important to the child? I suspect the image and the success that attracts a child to join 'with the winning team' is something that is countered in adolescence by an increasing individualism and natural desire to compete for status amongst his peers as opposed to an athlete they couldn't possibly compete with on any physical level.
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Well thats the problem. We don't big claws and sharp teeth, or poisonous barbs for that matter, so we compensate by being clever and making alternative pointy things to hurt each other (or perhaps threaten). Since this means we must defend ourselves, we want bigger and sharper and more threatening weapons... and you get an arms race. Nature has done that sort of thing before though. The fossil records show an interesting 'arms race' that went through cycles in prehistory.
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Possibly, but the council are concerned with the leaf litter in the water being a maintenance problem. In any case, whoever is responsible for Swindons parks doesn't seem concerned with anything except social engineering. They want parks filled with happy families wandering around in the sunshine, having picnics, playing ball games, and generally looking like a community at peace with itself. Truth is, most families haven't got time for such easy-going living and these days I doubt the average family can be dragged away from its tv and playstations. Certainly the families I saw at Lydiard just wandered aimlessly around the paths and certainly didn't spend their social quality time the way the park-keepers intended. Nonetheless, these people have a wooly-headed vision about how Queens Park will look. Without the wooded hillside at the back, the natural vista will be lost, and the whole thing will resemble a grassy crater - which is pretty much what it is under all that foliage. I don't blame them for wanting rid of the japanese knotweed though - that stuff is unstoppable.
What you say about biodiversity is correct. There a wonderful collection of ducks, geese, swans, gulls, and smaller waterfowl who use Queens Park as a home - but they only do so because there's enough foliage and islands to make it possible.
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.... Help abandoned Kitten....
Ok, thats in my Book of Excuses. Cheers A
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Yes indeed... If the ultraviolet and water pollution doesn't get you, offialdom will!
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No, but if you suddenly turn up with a suntan it means you've done something different, perhaps a holiday or a job outdoors. The claims advisors are quick to spot stuff like that.
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Our government thinks we drive like idiots regardless. I do think they'd rather we had gizmo's fitted so the we all get chauffered to our destinations by a microchip. Then again, they'd rather we didn't drive cars at all. That way their gas guzzling limousines would be a sign of status and not a green embarrasement.
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Yes I've seen that problem in the railroad mags we get over here, and I've wondered how you guys cope with it. Over here, train services are cancelled until further notice. But hey - our country grinds to a halt after three snowflakes hit the asphalt.
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It caused network delays over the weekend, but very kindly they had it fixed for my return to Rushey Platt This sort of thing is expected on british railways. In autumn we get too many leaves on the track, in winter its the wrong kind of snow.
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The TA? They're too busy plugging the gaps left by deployment overseas.
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I can see where this is going Caldrail............ You go down the pub, have a few beers, get a little bit tipsy and then on your way home who do you bump into but non other than DS wandering aimlessly around Rushy Platt, feeling a little bit sorry for her because she has that lost puppy look about her, you decide to perform your good deed for the day and invite her back to yours to watch the latest zombie flick. Obviously once the movie gets going and starts getting scary, she cuddles up to you and buries her frightened little head into your manly chest and before you know it you're returning the favour and have your head buried in her ample chest!!!!! And then one thing leads to another...............
Erm... No. DS is banned from Rushey Platt as a social undesirable. Even we have our limits!
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Armed officers? Not many. Such men are armed after selection tests and specialised training, we don't arm policemen as a matter of course in Britain. If the policemen fires his weapon for any reason and a death or injury results, there's a good chance the officer concerned will be subject to an enquiry and possible prosecution depending on circumstance. The media jump on any story of trigger happy policemen in this country and the authorities don't want an image of gun totin' marshals wandering around the capital. They're also concerned about an arms race between police and criminals although since the ban on handgun ownership the numbers of illegal weapons in circulation has rocketed.
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I think that puts Swindon Library to shame! Although the new site is nearly ready now (its a new permanent building on the site where the old temporary building was... Hope that didn't confuse you) so perhaps we might get a dozen or more new books?
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Its that tough guy image thats important. The programs selling point is these are not caring sharing cops helping old ladies across the road. They're no nonsense paramilitary troops responsible for administering violence to restore peace. Watching them overfly jungle clearings in Blackhawk helicopters armed with miniguns (heavy calibre gatling guns) does look a lot different from a pair of polite officers knocking on the door of a jungle hut asking "Excuse me Sir, we're just making some door to door enquiries. Have you seen any drugs?"
The point is that the program is.. well, maybe not quite glorifying the violence, but certainly using it as a selling point for the series. There's a feel to that it that suggests if youu were a member of these ploice units, you too would be hard as nails. Thats a strong image aimed at would be rambo's.