British and proud of it

[gmc]

Originally Posted by Richard Bell

Close...but not quite ...

Here's the real story :


How the Scots Invented the Modern World: the True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/d...=9780609606353

Actually I know all that but it seemed a bit churlish to mention it.

[spot]

Originally Posted by joesoap

Anyone remember Professor Laithwaite demonstrating magnetic levitation with a modle train on "Tomorrows world", in the late 1960s.
He was never supported and indeed his idea was scoffed at by many at the time. Now the Japanese have the "Maglev", train using that exact technology. What a shame no one here gave the inventor a bit of encoragement and support at the time. What a wast of fine British talent

He reminded me in many ways of Sir Fred Hoyle. Yes, I remember the aluminium tray that he'd shoot off like a bullet across the studio - goodness knows how he was allowed. I bet he just didn't tell people first what it was going to do. I'm sure he could take out internal walls with it.

He had a thing about gyroscopes too.

That's my excuse to link to The Brennan Gyro-Monorail which "was 40 feet long and weighed 22 tons, and was designed to carry 10 tons. Speed on the level was 22 mph. The vehicle was balanced by two vertical gyroscopes mounted side by side, and spinning in opposite directions at 3000 rpm. Each gyroscope was 3.5 feet in diameter and weighed 3/4 of a ton each."

This is in 1909. It's huge, and it runs on a single rail, and it doesn't fall over, and it worked!

For some reason we didn't use this either. Think how different the world would be if we had done.

It's terrifying just to look at the photos.

[spot]

Did anyone mention Folk Rock?

I have an appointment with a field, and with a well brought up daughter who has spent most of her second Sunday in Augusts there since birth and who wants to do it again.

I'll be back on Sunday evening.

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by spot

I think a thread of great British notions is in order.

This is the Fairey Rotodyne and the world would have been a more amusing place if it hadn't been scrapped. It worked perfectly well.

Question is ( british ) part of the anti-christ that reavelation speaks about just wondering ?

[spot]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

Question is ( british ) part of the anti-christ that reavelation speaks about just wondering ?

Daniyal, what you're doing with Revelations is interpreting the words from then from the facts of now. The writer of Revelations wasn't writing about now, he was writing about what he knew in his own day. There are no prophetic seers. If there were prophetic seers then we'd not have a Stock Exchange, the world would be owned lock stock and barrel by the prophetic seers instead. It's an inbuilt rule of existence that the future's what you make it.

[gmc]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

Question is ( british ) part of the anti-christ that reavelation speaks about just wondering ?

If jesus is the son of god and god is the only one and so has no sisters then how can jesus have an anti christ? When did americans start spelling auntie anti? We have an auntie beeb but i think she's fairly harmless although mary whitehouse might disagree. She had her own pornymag at one time, called whitehouse magazine, whose content would surprise many as it's very different from what a whitehouse magazine in the states would contain indeed it would have had the bible belt spluttering in their coffee and accusations of being disrespectful to the good old us of a even if the whitehouse in question had no connection whatsoever to the one in washington apart from the rather tenuous one that it was our fault you had to whitewash it in the first place. Just imagine if we'd been any good at burning things to the ground. I dare say the irony of it being in a late georgian style is completely missed. Course the british all got forced to live in wales by the romans and everybody else that followed them but retaliate regularly by setting fire to the houses of the english settlers. Now if any of them (the welsh that is) had been there that day the job might have been done properly and the whitehouse rebuilt in a neo colonial style more fitting to the nature of the occupant but just as ironic.

Course it was the british that made talking drivel in to the art form that conspiracy theorists never quite manage to do properly.

Voltaire

"We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by gmc

If jesus is the son of god and god is the only one and so has no sisters then how can jesus have an anti christ? When did americans start spelling auntie anti? We have an auntie beeb but i think she's fairly harmless although mary whitehouse might disagree. She had her own pornymag at one time, called whitehouse magazine, whose content would surprise many as it's very different from what a whitehouse magazine in the states would contain indeed it would have had the bible belt spluttering in their coffee and accusations of being disrespectful to the good old us of a even if the whitehouse in question had no connection whatsoever to the one in washington apart from the rather tenuous one that it was our fault you had to whitewash it in the first place. Just imagine if we'd been any good at burning things to the ground. I dare say the irony of it being in a late georgian style is completely missed. Course the british all got forced to live in wales by the romans and everybody else that followed them but retaliate regularly by setting fire to the houses of the english settlers. Now if any of them (the welsh that is) had been there that day the job might have been done properly and the whitehouse rebuilt in a neo colonial style more fitting to the nature of the occupant but just as ironic.

Course it was the british that made talking drivel in to the art form that conspiracy theorists never quite manage to do properly.

Voltaire

There Hasn't Been Anyone Able To Prove Jesus Ever To Have Existed . So That Has Nothing To Do With The Question / Anti -Christ .

[spot]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

There Hasn't Been Anyone Able To Prove Jesus Ever To Have Existed . So That Has Nothing To Do With The Question / Anti -Christ .

How would you demonstrate that Pocahontas ever existed?

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by spot

Daniyal, what you're doing with Revelations is interpreting the words from then from the facts of now. The writer of Revelations wasn't writing about now, he was writing about what he knew in his own day. There are no prophetic seers. If there were prophetic seers then we'd not have a Stock Exchange, the world would be owned lock stock and barrel by the prophetic seers instead. It's an inbuilt rule of existence that the future's what you make it.

You Know Reading Your Post Sometime I Get The Impression Your High On Something . But Like You Said Your Belief / Religion Was Made Up . I Have To Remember Your Lock Up In Your Own World Looking Out .

[spot]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

But Like You Said Your Belief / Religion Was Made Up

What I actually said was that Christianity works as a practical spiritual exercise. I have no belief that I'm aware of. What I do is Christianity.