The end of days ?

Sluffy wrote:There are 100 billion galaxies - each with a 100 billion stars - so that is 10,000 billion stars.

If you consider that each star only as one planet circling round it (Huble spokesman guess not mine) then that is 10,000,000,000,000 planets (not to mention possible life on moons around the planets).

So there is undoubtedly life out there but I don't expect to know about it in my lifetime.

largehat wrote:RT, I think there has been a fundamental misunderstanding in what we were discussing yesterday.

Reebok Trotter wrote:
Largehat, you come across as an an intelligent bloke so how the fuck do you believe that people can be fat because of emotional problems ?

Reebok Trotter wrote:
I marked you down as reasonably intelligent but HTF do you think eating more than is necessary makes you feel better ?

From this I understood it that you were denying that comfort eating exists, and that one of the reasons that some people are overweight is because they have emotional problems. Taking drugs is a great example or s similar phenomenon. Some of the people who develop drug habits or dependencies do it because of emotional problems too. Anyway, now you've cleared that up, I'm happy to move on from that discussion, I don't think we will ever fundamentally agree.

With regards to the Daily Mail and Daily Mail readers. My mother reads the Daily Mail every day. If I go to buy a newspaper I sometimes buy a Daily Mail. Reading the Daily Mail is not in itself the problem, it's when people read it and allow their views to be formulated by it that is. Foe example. my mother has a bee in her bonnet about the winter fuel payment being higher for pensioners below a certain income level (which she isn't). She resents people getting things for free. But then when I ask her if she wants elder people less well off than her to die of cold in the Winter, she doesn't want that either. There's something about the editorial policy of that newspaper that warps people's priorities, creates a sense of outrage and plays to populism and xenophobia. Other newspapers have influence too, I don't like the Guardian because it is too pro-Labour, pro-Unions, politically correct and 'trendy', but on this forum I pick up on Daily Mail readers because it seems to me that there are more people on here who display intoleranct attitudes than overly tolerant... if that makes any sense.

I'm not in a position to decide or judge to what extent people are capable of thinking for themselves on an individual basis, but most people's view of the world is formed in some part by the media they consume; it is almost inevitable.

Richard Littlejohn is a complete and utter cunt.

Anyone who has visited or worked in Japan will tell you it is like landing on another planet... They are militantly racist and in the past have been capable of great cruelty.

The spectacle of a giant furry mascot dressed as a chicken bowing his head in mourning is beyond preposterous. It is football’s equivalent of those teddy bears you see tied to railings at the scene of every road accident.

But let’s imagine for a moment that one of these unfortunate women had met a man in a Tiki Bar on St Lucia, got off her head on rum punch and invited him back to her hotel room for a drunken tumble.

The following morning, through her hungover haze, she was consumed by self-loathing. Would she be entitled to cry ‘rape’?

On Sunday, Manchester United and Wolves staged a pre-match display of synchronised applause for Muamba, despite the fact he isn’t dead.

Angry Dad wrote:
Tell me what's your main beef with littlejohn never read him myself saw him on tv and he did seem a bit of a twat.

[mention][/mention] wrote:
But, then again, you might just as well try to convince an Islamist suicide bomber that if he’s expecting to be greeted in Paradise by 72 virgins, there’s an outside possibility he may be disappointed.

largehat wrote:

Angry Dad wrote:
Tell me what's your main beef with littlejohn never read him myself saw him on tv and he did seem a bit of a twat.

I've no issue with someone holding right wing views necessarily. Some of my views on certain subjects could be considered right wing. I also appreciate that editorials and opinion pieces are there to be thought provoking and to engage readers.

My main issue with Littlejohn is that he is consistently offensive. Have a look at this piece about global warming.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2157831/Its-raining-pouring-thatll-global-warming-.html

Apparently because it has rained a lot in June, global warming is a myth. A fairly harmless observation I suppose, even if it's a lie. But here's where he takes things too far:

[mention][/mention] wrote:
But, then again, you might just as well try to convince an Islamist suicide bomber that if he’s expecting to be greeted in Paradise by 72 virgins, there’s an outside possibility he may be disappointed.

Littlejohn can't even lie about global warming without using offensive and imflammatory language to pander to xenophobic idiots.

He appeals to the lowest common denominator, he doesn't stand for anything, he is a dickless gobshite and genuinely nasty.

largehat wrote:I don't think you're alone in disliking Clive Anderson. He had a reputation as a real diva. Apparently he abused the cameraman one too many times when he had his television programme. He kept complaining to the cameraman that he was showing his face from an unflattering angle. One day the cameraman snapped and said "it's a camera, not a magic lens. There's no way to disguise both your bald head and your double chin at the same time".

Anyway, I was reading on the BBC website this week that Mr Anderson is very very poorly indeed and is talking as though he is coming to the end of his life, so I guess he won't care about flattering camera angles any more.

Angry Dad wrote:Not saying you are a lefty by the way,don't know what you are it does not matter to me how a person votes.

largehat wrote:

Angry Dad wrote:Not saying you are a lefty by the way,don't know what you are it does not matter to me how a person votes.

No that's fine. I'm a disenchanted Tory at the moment. I'm probably just right of centre overall.