Greg. Tingey

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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  Charlie Contrariwise (what a suprise!) there are, & always have been "artists" who suvive by passing-off incomprehensible bollocks as "art" & making a nice little earning from it, as long as they can talk fast enough. Which is why it...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  err ... paws @ 106 Queen Street - Waverley via Falkirk (NBR) Queen St LL - Waverley via Airdrie/Bathgate (NBR) Central - Waverley via Shotts (mostly CR) Central - Waverley via Carstairs (CR) makes FOUR routes by my book, all...
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  @ 142, 143 Ditto Diane Duanes last book in the chronicle of the five. Oh dear. Trouble is, DD seems to have been infected by the christianity-meme & it's getting worse. oh & Arnold in 143 ... an Arab world...
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  von hichthofen @ 188 One Lizzie is a direct descendant of Alfred the Great .... Two, one could argue, as was stated at the time, that in 1688 the throne of England was vacant, & William (& Mary) were "invited"...
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  Charlie @ 114 Hope the medicine worked!...
• Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
  I'm an engineer, of sorts, so he doesn't even have that excuse! He should, automatically, understand the existence of interlinked systems-with-feedback, shouldn't he? /snark...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  Last killing for atheism ... Thomas Aikenhead 8th January 1697. (I think) I'd be careful about being a "republican" - like "Monarchist" it can mean so many things, apart from USian political parties. I presume you would not want a...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  No-one speaks of it much, but Merthyr Tydfil in S. Wales is much like that .. a zombie town. However, being here, there ars some attempts at state support, and similar, to try to bring employment back. They've finally decided...
• Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
  Given that nojay is claiming to be in Scotland, I'm suprised he has never heard of Bord na Móna existing mainly to extract & sell burning peat. There was even the project, devised by the eccentric genius-designer O. V. S....
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  Oh shit - sorry about the typos - not enough cups of tea to wake brain up & check "preview"!...
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  dsgood @ 99 Untranslatable USianism, there. What: "12-step meeting" ?? oh & @ 100. BEGIN "No BiigSykFairy [insert preferred name here] is detectable. Not detectable directly, indireactly or as an emergent phenomenon. This is a testable proposition. Uless or until...
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  Arnold Indeed. During my shortish time as a teacher I was astounded to find creationists on the loose (& I'm sorry to say, my reaction was not nearly as aggressive as it should have been). Note here ... the followers...
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  gmuir77 @ 83 But the number of "believers" even in the USA is dropping & the rate of the trend is also increasing. paws@ 85 But the xtian bigots made sure there was no film sequel to the "Golden Compass"...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  TRX @ 82 It looks more like the increase is mostly due to the city dwellers breeding like rabbits. Utter rubbish, total codswallop. Where do you claim that this has any solid basis in reality, or are you just spouting?...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  TRX @ 77 Why, then are people still flocking into cities? Oh, & Meanwhile, the rates of crime, mental illness, and physical illness say that cities are unhealthy places to live. Really? And what are the actual crime rates in...
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  Oh dear, dearie me ... Charlie, & Vanzetti @ 4 err ... what was that about panopticons?...
• Commented on In the pulp
  Well, just done my first bit to keep Charlie in beer for a day or two - went out & bought the revised "Traders War" series ... with Mermaid boobies to look forward (down?) to next month .......
• Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
  @ 25 (Charlie) 28, 31 We are omivores (look at your own teeth in a mirror!) However, unlike (as far as we know) the other animals we are (supposed to) have morals & ethics. So, I have no intentione, ever...
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  Charlie @ 77 OOPS! FBCK I did NOT meanr "inversions" - which I've had for years, I meant ... "Transitions". Clang. Soory folks....
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  Just starting oN "Inversions" which was mis-sold as non-SF until I realised, that it was a non-Culture SF story - bad information feeds there to blame! Sun-Earther Gregory Hairy-Beerdrinker (Nick/Gascoine) Tingey of Walthamstow....
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  SEF @ 71 Precisely Which is one reason I saked the question after I nominated the Taliban. How can we be sure we are correct ( I won't say "right" in this context ) in condemning these ? people ?...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  A huge volume of NYC [ & London & Amsterdam & Hong Kong & .... ] IS ALREADY "UNDERWATER" i.e.below normal hight-tide levels. What's the problem? If you have to follow the Seattle solution, simples - you fill up the...
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  von hictofen @ 50 Thanks for the link (& its' sub-links) Like the "rules, especially the last one ... after all the ambiguity: 11. There is a definition for evil, after all. There may not be any form of good...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  London has the Thames Barrier ( Google for more info, if not Brit ...). We know that it will require raising sometime 2040-2055 & low-level planning is already in place. There are associated works, of course - raising downstream flood/sea...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  gravelbelly 22 @ 75 The second sign will be an independence movement forming in the Shetlands... Already happening. Neither Orkney nor Zetland want much (any?) part of Salmond's nannying & centralist control - London is so far away, they're left...
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  jj @ 35 Well, now ... there's another author, also suffering from various affliction, who has made me both laugh & weep in the space of a single page. [ It's in "Soul Music" ] As it is, unless we...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Merchant Princes
  Went into local "Waterstone's" this AM ... "Oh, those, no we haven't got them in stock.." Never mind, I'm going into town on Wed, so I'll just pop into Dark they were & Golden-Eyed err, Forbidden Planet & buy them....
• Commented on "Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying" — Iain Banks, 1954-2013
  Note: The quote Charlie uses is from one of Iain's an SF non-culture novels ... "Against a Dark Background" actually. I have it in my commonplaces book ... Sorrow be damned & all your plans. Fuck the faithful, fuck the...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  hetromeles @ 51 You have just described how & why people support repressive regimes, even if they privately think that regime stinks. It provides them with the only living that they can get .... Neat trick if you are crooked...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Jennifer Morgue
  SHIT BBC News 18.00 hrs... we were talking about "health" ?? Ian Banks just died. See HERE Like I said, SHIT!...