Good writers are those who keep the language efficient.

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

True as far as it goes; but fortunately you do not need to be a good writer to be an interesting person, and sometimes a little bit of extra effort in the reading is well rewarded. Otherwise it would be a waste of my time, and a lot of other peoples, being on this site.

I'd like to request an opt out toggle in the settings menu for the Members section of the front page...

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

Always ignore those bits, I sometimes wonder if anyone has ever had a face to face from this site, or if the whole dating, friend finding, thing is just a waste of time for those who are here for the community.

Hypothetically speaking...

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

May also have had feathers. Imagine a big peacocks tail as well.

Remember the comedy musical play "The Producers"?

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

If you sign up for a con-trick you are quite likely to get sucked in to more con-tricks, by the nature of things those who have so little moral compass that they are will to accept and preach religion, are not going to show any more moral quality in the fiscal world..

Finch's Bite Is 320 Times More Powerful Than T. Rex's [livescience.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

Interesting, but the essay about early mammals, which I found a link to at the bottom of the page was even more so.

This will make you smile!

Fernapple comments on Jan 13, 2019:

Socks on a nudist beach will always make me smile. He is really cute, I presume it must be a rescue foundling.

Stockholm Syndrome - I have difficulty understanding how any reasonably thinking person can have the...

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Richard Dawkins is worth looking at on this subject, he makes the point in several books, that, the child's mind is programed to accept and believe all information given it by an authority figure. Because the child has no experience of its own and disobeying an order like. "Do not go near the lake on your own." Could get it drowned or eaten by a crocodile. Therefore there is an evolved advantage in this sort of brain in children. When people attempt brainwashing their first act is to reduce their victim to a child like state, with no power to make choices of there own, yet rewarding any signs of attachment to the kidnapper, then when the victim accepts the kidnapper as a parent, and the only source of rewards, they are ready to be brainwashed.

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Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

I think a lot better than average since it is not a site where people usually come to sell things, for one thing.

If you hear someone speak with a heavy, southern, country accent, do you instinctively think they ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Only if its a cockney accent.

What makes you happy? Different things make people happy... Let me hear your thoughts....

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Knowing that I have done something useful, as when I see a customer smile. Sorry it may sound cheesy but it really is what make my day.

Bear this in mind, my American friends. [bbc.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Does this mean that all my attempts to amuse the US members on this site with little bits of witty banter, have all failed. Oh well " I'm sure its my fault."

Earth with no water

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

Pretty and interesting, but I am sorry to say that it is a distortion in which the highs and lows have been exaggerated to a great extent. The difference between the highest mountains and the deepest trenches is only about ten miles. On a globe of just over eight thousand miles diameter most are only 1/1000 of the whole; making the world as smooth proverbially as a pool ball. This is interesting since as the tallest mountains push out through the breathable atmosphere, it makes you realize just how thin are the layers of air and water in which we live. If the world were a soccer ball they would be thiner than a coat of paint.

Considering both the collapse of ancient societies due to resource scarcity and climate change, and ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 12, 2019:

It is almost impossible to predict the future, even ten or twenty years ahead let alone eighty plus, while we must assume the worst in order to act in a responsible way if we can, the one certainty is that almost no predictions ever prove correct. The whole thing could be thrown out by a huge range of factors, a global pandemic could, for example, destroy human civilization next year.

Shouldn't we be more eager to get there?

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Religion sets out to make the fear of death worse in quite a purpose full way, with threats of hell and judgement, so that it can control people more easily. Chaining you up so that it can sell you the keys to the lock. I think that this post is intended more in a tongue in cheek way, but I have to wonder why in a post religion sub culture anyone would be so interested in the details of superstition, even those around death, if we were not still living in a culture where religions false values still held deep sway. For example, in a post Christian world, why would the health services not be able to offer euthanasia to those who want it ?

This lady literally can't hear the voice of a man [dailydot.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Mostly I can hear most people fine, but my hearing was damaged many years ago while working for a short time in a factory. So I lost one very narrow range of tones. I now find that the village's self styled witch/faith healer/ alternative medicine seller/ woo pusher, has a voice at exactly that pitch, how good is that.

It seems that being atheist or agnostic is now looked at as a type of religion

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

It is a line of BS pushed by theists, whose next move is usually to try to change the burden of proof from, prove there is a god, to, prove there is no god. They think that if they can force an acceptance of atheism/agnostic as a religion, then you have to prove your faith in your religion just as much as they do.

What do you believe in?

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

"I think (badly) therefore I am." The rest is either evidence or BS. But why ask such a question on a site like this ?

How Aspirin Changed Medicine Forever - SciShow [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

It also gives an answer to the woo often put out by the alternative medicine industry, that natural products are safer, it is not hard to point out that willow bark was actually much more damaging than the modern pills.

And do you think that unto such as you,/ A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,/ God gave the ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

That God can not be all good and yet have favorites, is one of the best arguments there is, for if he does not have favorites, then who needs religion. And it seems to be an old argument too, and better put than I can.

Stores have just received the bulbs for the year, so bought a bunch .

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Bulbs will usually grow regardless of the time you plant them within reason, the flowering season may be a bit out of time, and they may struggle for a year or two. But in real teams your one month difference is trivial for bulb and seed sowing times and should not have much effect at all, variations in weather from one year to another could have a greater effect than that. Don't worry as long as your window boxes do not freeze solid they will be fine.

Violence is bad, mmm'kay? (But quite funny, sometimes) [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 11, 2019:

Not recommended a a technique to be used in debates by the Oxford Union, (unfortunately).

This is just a test.

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2019:

There is, at least to my mind, one important truth contained in the story which I do not think any reasonable person would dispute. The idea that at some stage in human development; it does not much matter when; the biological and evolutionary ground work needed for the development of human language and culture had been completed, and since that day most of our growth and evolution has been of a technological form, language and culture being themselves only technologies in the broadest sense of the word. Nor would I think that many would argue when I say that it is technology which has created almost all that we have gained since then. Yet the truth is, it is not merely religion alone but culture as a whole, to which we have no defenses, both being new developments which genetic evolution could never have foreseen, and because genetic development moves more slowly than technology it will never catch up. Therefore we are left as creatures who are almost totally undefended by our genetics against any attempt to reprogramme us using any technology such as language and text.

Well said!

Fernapple comments on Jan 10, 2019:

Lacks a coma, I think.

@Admin @SiteSupport and everyone here.

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Agree

When I was a child I asked my dad what a Slut was

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Your dad may not have been perfect, but that is a true pearl of wisdom.

Cricket- What's up with that sport?

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Its very like baseball, except that there are only two bases and you run back and forth between them until you are out, instead of round the diamond in the same way as baseball. There being two batsman on the field all the time so the bases are always loaded. The main other difference is that the batsman has a set of stumps (sticks) behind his base, which are a target for the bowler (pitcher) to aim at, if the batsman can not defend the stumps and the bowler hits them the batsman is out. This means there are not three strikes, the batsman has to hit the ball first time.

A Few Random Thoughts About Cosmic Black Holes Every now and again a thought about this or that ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Black holes it is now thought, do lose a small amount of mass over a long period of time. You really do need to study the physics a lot more deeply before you post on the subject. There is a hypothetical time towards the end of the universe called the time of black holes. There are several good videos on the future of the universe on U-tube which could get you started. But you need to take several in from different view points so I can not point you to one, and I am sorry but you will not get a good answer in the short space of a comment on this site.

Secular humanism?

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Humanism is the idea that human beings are the most important thing in human life. Therefore it is impossible to be a religious humanist, because religion means believing that there is something supernatural above human life.

Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

He was either very careful and very clever, or he was suffering from the Dunning Kruger effect.

American Psychological Association links 'masculinity ideology' to homophobia, misogyny

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

People being payed large sums of money have to do something to justify it, and when they can't think of anything (a lot of the time ) they can always use, point out the obvious.

Sugar cube...

Fernapple comments on Jan 9, 2019:

Grow your own car by photosynthesis, and then think how easy it would be to recycle.

These were very accurate, for me. [huffingtonpost.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Funny thing is, that is exactly the same list that I would say makes a woman attractive.

Money lying in the purse is just coins.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Someone on this site posted a stat. a week or two ago, which seemed like it should be true, which said that if everyone in the US gave up what they spend on Xmas presents it would be enough to feed all the worlds hungry for the year.

Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Flash drive I use for backup and the box with passport and house deeds etc.

I do not know if I believe this is all circumstances, but someone once told me that, "There is no ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Most jokes are about the release of tension. A threat is set up and then knocked down, for example. 1. The observational joke works because we realize that we have faced the threat many times before and survived. 2. The silly joke works because we realize that the threat was illogical, and therefore harmless. 3. The racist sexist etc. joke works because we realize that the threat was directed at someone who we want to suffer or be humiliated. Therefore if you use those jokes, it tells the world a lot about you.

This has probably been discussed before but here goes.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

You do not need to go that far, whether it works or not, if the universe is natural and deterministic then there is no free will, it is just an illusion. Full stop. Free will would only exist if we had supernatural powers and could avoid obeying natural laws.

I did not take this, but I am in love with it!

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

Wow, love that. Must be feeding time.

Me as a kid.

Fernapple comments on Jan 8, 2019:

So what comes after, "poisonous to other trees" ?

But everyone knows they flew through the Suez and Panama Canals..... In 1931.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

I really hope that it is a joke. But since I have been on this site and read such a lot about creationists and flat earthers I am not sure any longer. Help!

Can I block myself on this site?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Just delete your account.

Who are some of your favorite contributors on this site?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

There are many on this site who make good contributions, some all of the time and some just now and again. There are also some who make poor efforts all the time, but I still like it that they are here because it all adds to the interest of the site if only because it helps you to understand the rich diversity of human thinking. Sadly however I would not like to risk embarrassment to the ones that I think are especially good by giving out lists of names; especially as I am fallible and may miss off some who should be there.

Today, find what is positive within you! So, please plant a tree.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Some trees grow fast you can never be sure that you will not sit in their shade, I sit often in the shade of those I planted, and I am a young 61 as yet.

As I contemplate this development, I wonder, if/when we were to find intelligent life on an ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

It is quite possible that life is only just reaching the technological stage everywhere, since it has taken quite a long time on this planet, and we know that life can probably only form around second generation stars like ours, so it probably did not form in the early universe, so that all life therefore started everywhere only in the last few billion years. It is also possible that there is a yet to be discovered, (by us) doomsday technology, which can not ever be foreseen by it discoverers, but which always destroys the species which discovers it, and therefore technological species are just short lived anomalies. And lastly the difficulties of traveling across the vast distances of space are so great that it seems likely that we will never do it, unless we discover as yet to be even imagined new and probably impossible technologies, and therefore given that intelligent life is almost certainly very rare, it is most likely that no two life forms from different star systems will ever meet before their stars die, anywhere ever, even though across the univers there may be millions of them..

The Latin word for right is dexter and for left, sinister.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

It is certainly mainly prejudice, two theories are, that it is just a prejudice against left handed people simply because they were seen as different, in an age of little travel and closed minds when people thought that just being different meant that you were cursed or a devil associate. The other comes from misogamy because it was the custom to put the female half on the left hand side on coats of arms and family trees.

Hello, I am new to this site.

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

You sound just about the most perfect fit for a member there could be. To find the real life on this site don't just go to the main page, check out the groups, it will take a while there are a lot but also there is something for everyone. And fill in your bio as soon as you can other members really like that.

Has Evangelical Christianity Become Sociopathic?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Old saying. " Those who know that they are bound to lose the arguments reach for their guns."

Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Christian

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

That certainly covers most of it.

Bookworms, how do you organize your library?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

Total chaos, it sometimes takes ages to find one when I want it but I always tell myself that I enjoy the challenge.

These people scare me. I see them everywhere. Does anyone know their names?

Fernapple comments on Jan 7, 2019:

I know them. They are the ones who write all those silly, distasteful, badly spelled, and inarticulate posts on this site.

Things that make NO sense: I am sure you have all heard that your bedroom should be totally dark, ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Fire light is both much less blue than daylight and a lot weaker, our eyes and brains compensate for the low light so much that we do not notice how dim it really is. You do not really need to cut out all light only full spectrum light with a high blue content, which is how your brain tells daylight from firelight. Interestingly there has been some research done which shows that we are just the opposite when very young, and that babies sleep better with some light and noise, perhaps because that means that adults are near and therefore they are safe.

Why is Christianity called a monotheistic religion, when in church every one chants they believe in ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Don't expect logic or reason, the whole point is to make it difficult, so that those in control of the religion have a baffle screen to hide behind when they want to, and so that they can claim to be special because they claim to understand it, which helps to keep the sheep in the pen.

I just finished reading this insightful book by David Frye ' Walls: A History of Civilization in ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Thank you for that, I will look at it.

MITHRA.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Thinking more about it, what sort of a failed broken education system do we have which lets people leave school with such a complete lack of historical knowledge anyway ?

After hearing horror tales from my daughters, friends, and women on here, I feel compelled to put ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Part of the human tragedy is that people, men and women both, are not attracted to people they like. People are attracted to damaged people because they seem either exciting and dangerous or needy, and strong self reliant people without issues seem boring and dull. Only when the first excitement wears off do they then find out that they do not actually like the damaged goods.

MITHRA.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Don't hold your breath. Theists who join such groups are not usually wanting to learn, only to have their prejudices confirmed.

All women become like their mothers.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

I do however get more like my father every day, especially the nasal hair and the balding head.

Today has been a men and women have different roles day.

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

We were made to live in small social groups where everyone was known to all as an individual, in the modern world that does not work any longer, so people try to cope either the hard way by treating everyone fairly until they get to know them, or if we are lazy we try to fit them into groups as a short cut. That is encouraged by religious and political institutions, because lazy is a weakness that stops us asking questions and therefore makes it easy to exploit people.

I won the rat race! FuckingFlea (my petite tortie female cat) brought it into the house AND LET IT ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Rat vary in character a lot. I use a live cage type trap to catch the ones that sometimes come into my loft, then let them go several miles away. I have noticed that when I pick the cage up some of them cower in a corner, curling up to make themselves small, while others attack the bars of the cage and do their best to bite me.

These Atheist Activists Are Picking the Wrong Battles - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Atheism is just not believing in one thing, I am sorry to say that does not always mean that you have great social and political skills if you fall in that group. Like every social group Atheists and Agnostics have to accept that there will be people who sometimes shoot themselves and the movement in the foot, that is why it is so important to keep talking, educating and setting good examples even to those close to us.

I want to do a tour of the UK. Ideas?

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

London is great, but do not spend all your time there. There is a lot more to the UK, and if you have never been to Europe before and you really want to widen your experiences, then of course you need to get out of the cities with their international culture to find genuine and different cultures. Scotland and Ireland are great, but do not forget Wales, Cornwall/Devon, East Anglia (very close to London.) or the North of England, all of which are not as far from London and very different.

Hey Dominos TV commercial just had the teacher run out of her math lecture for a Dominos pizza ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Anti education, but of course they know that anyone with half an education, or even the power to think for themselves is not looking at or paying any attention to TV adds. Therefore all TV commercials are targeted at the most vulnerable people in society. Just like religion it is all about exploiting the weak, and if you are happy to do that, then why would you baulk at feeding their prejudices.

Hey Dominos TV commercial just had the teacher run out of her math lecture for a Dominos pizza ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 6, 2019:

Anti education, but of course they know that anyone with half an education, or even the power to think for themselves is not looking at or paying any attention to TV adds. Therefore all TV commercials are targeted at the most vulnerable people in society. Just like religion it is all about exploiting the weak, and if you are happy to do that, then why would you baulk at feeding their prejudices.

Longtime no hear from me to you.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Nerd heaven.

Is the image moving? Don't hurt your eyes now.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No sorry.

Admiral Nelson's flagship, undergoing restoration.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Is there a link or a photo ?

So, as I've said before, I'd love to have a filter for selected topics.

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

No you would end by making everyones view narrower, diversity is what makes this site not only exciting but useful as well, and if some posts are boring and shallow, well you just have to move on, that's life.

These were taken in 2017. Do you like the trellis for the honeysuckle?

Fernapple comments on Jan 5, 2019:

Really like the spider day lily. Do you know its name ?

New to the site and stoked to find that it's legit.

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Take the time to check out the groups, (there are a lot) because there is something for everyone. And enjoy.

Apparently we are getting a lunar eclipse later this month - 20 January.

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Just for interests sake some of the names given to the years full moons, mainly here in the UK, are: January: Wolf Moon February: Snow Moon March: Worm Moon April: Grass Moon May: Flower Moon June: Rose Moon July: Hay Moon August: Grain Moon September: Harvest Moon October: Hunter's Moon November: Frost Moon December: Cold Moon And when there is an extra moon in a month it is known as a Blue Moon. It is of no practical value today, though once it may have been vital, but it is quite cute.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Irina Pomeranseva

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

It makes you question your faith in the bell curve.

The Psychology Of Materialism, And Why It's Making You Unhappy | HuffPost Life

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

There is of course one irony here, which is that the big spenders tend to make things cheaper to buy, and that helps those who are happy on low incomes afford the few things they do need more easily.

Almost all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Very true, and I am sorry to say that most people fail that test badly. Including of course all people want power in the first place, which is why there are few in politics who are not basically sociopaths.

Summer has come 04 January 2019.

Fernapple comments on Jan 4, 2019:

Very funny. Now tell us how you manage to hang upside down without falling of the planet ?

'Ultima Thule': Nickname for New Horizons' Target Celebrates Exploration, Not Nazis, Scientist Says...

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Make a positive use of the name and win it back from the Nazis. In any case I for one have been long familiar with the name , had no idea of its use by the Nazis. If you do enough research you will after all find that there is hardly any name they did not use at some time. OK not many people are called Adolphus these days, but lets leave it at that.

Two shots from Olbrich Botanical Gardens Conservancy, featuring a blooming Alocasia and an Amaryllis...

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Were those taken recently ? I looked up the Olbrich Gardens they look wonderful, you are very lucky to be near such a beautiful garden.

Propaganda is to a democracy, what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state....Noam Chomsky.

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Nor are the two mutually exclusive.

Virginia Satir

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

Very true, though I think that we all fail to cope for the most part, and that it is our failing that makes the biggest difference. Or maybe I'm just a glass half empty sort of person.

This one may generate some discussion... Apolitical Atheism - BionicDance [youtube.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 3, 2019:

One of the great failings of representative democracy as it exists in most of the world, is that voters are only offered a choice between joining and voting for two great tribal lumps, called the left and the right. Which means that any voter who thinks, is forced into voting, if at all, for a whole range of things they will not agree with. Why add another item to the list. And remember when mixing politics with religion; in most of Northern Europe where there are state churches, there is a largely secular population, while in the former soviet union where the state tried for many years to enforce secularism, the churches could hardly be stronger.

My wife is going on a cruise, I drove her to Chicago airport.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

You have to make the most of every second of not hurting you get with everyone you meet, even those you only half like let alone the ones you love. They all get hurt or leave one day.

He's coming home.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Great, I hope the new year goes on getting better and better for you.

Awesome Homemade Inventions 2018 - YouTube

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Wonderful, though it is hard to see the point of one or two of them.

I highly recommend this book.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Thanks, it is good to get a book recommended, especially since having seen some of your posts I now have an idea of your tastes. It may be that you have to forgive the lack of mentioning the facts on paternally inheritable mitochondrial DNA as this is fairly new science and it can take five or more years to get a book to print. Who is the publisher ?

I seen this on a friend's Facebook post.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

A bit contrived but still funny, and I have never seen that picture before but I certainly have no problem with the naked truth.

I would like to get in touch with agnostic people because it changes the view on the world and ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Welcome, if you like photos there are lots of interesting photography on the groups pages.

Someone in Cheltenham, United Kingdon, has more money than sense.

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Reminds me of the cans of darkness that were once sold at the time of a solar eclipse. Though those were intended as a joke.

On This Day in Space! Jan. 1, 1801: Giuseppe Piazzi Discovers Ceres [space.com]

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

That is just under twenty years after William Herschel discovered Uranus, in March 1781, so people at the time were probably expecting to find new things in the solar system. It was also a time when telescope technology was moving forward fast; thanks in part to Herschel himself, who not only did astronomy but also made his own telescopes and lenses with the help of his sister, which he sold to other people to help support their work.

3.6 million years ago, two (early) people went for a walk... [humanorigins.si.edu]

Fernapple comments on Jan 2, 2019:

Interesting and I liked the art work, but it is a pity there are no photos of the footprints, or did I miss them.

Happy New Year! peace freedom solidarity terraprotectivityispriority respectterralife ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Happy new year. Nice links.

I don't mind being called "unattractive" or "ugly" but please don't assume I or anyone else is ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Real working and worldly intelligence, has little to do with problem solving ability. It is much more to do with personalty; especially, honesty about the limits of your knowledge, caring enough to work at things and not being happy with second best and most of all, having the strength to change when you find you are wrong.

Fascinating and horrifying

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Make the most of it, it will soon be the Forties and you will be engaged in a world war again.

One of the things I've always noticed about the bible belt is they have a grudge against "book ...

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If you only read one book, bad enough. If you only have one book selectively read to you for half an hour every Sunday ? But if there is an intellectual elite in charge of the state in the US, why do they allow people to finish school without a suitable education anyway ?

Most plausible theory on the Princes in the Tower?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

High infant mortality in those days. Especially when locked in cold dark towers and not fed much, the connection between food and staying alive was not well understood then.

Spiritual but not religious?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

It is an attempt to make Woo sound respectable by giving it a vague but fancy name.

Happy New Year Y'all..

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Thanks, nice picture, happy new year.

To achieve greatness you must listen to the smallest voice.

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

I am very bad at looking its true, I should pay a lot more attention and look a lot more carefully.

Is my brain weird?

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

If your brain is not weird you should not be on this site. Thanks for the images they are now lodged in my brain too.

Happy New Years from our family and yours! [youtu.be]

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Happy new year.

The Wooest thing I've ever found by accident.

Fernapple comments on Jan 1, 2019:

Could not watch all of this, she lost me at "guardian angel" it is really yuk. And I have the terrible thought, I REALLY hate the fact that she probably earns more than me for doing this. If only I had no taste or conscience.

Inspired by a recent post, I made this - which I thought might be fun to add to some of the more ...

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Boy that would be brave. Having said that there was a post just today, on this very site, about how alien genetics could account for hybrid animals in mythology. A woo hooter would be really useful, if it does not get you banned.

Happy new year everyone.

Fernapple comments on Dec 31, 2018:

Happy new year, to the only man on this site who admits to being older than me. Best wishes.