I am going to come in my pants

[Squeamous]

OMG.

8pm Monday evening, C4.

Richard Dawkins......the thinking woman's aged crumpet, doing a documentary on only the most influential and bestest scientist in the world, Charles Darwin.

I am so damned well going to watch it :pinch:

[chalice]

Richard Dawkins is going to hell.

He turned me into an atheist.

Yay!

[Squeamous]

He can be a bit of a knob, but mostly I think he's ok. You could have a blazing row with a man like that and then make up after :smilie4:

Were you religious before then?

[Mr JP Fugley]

Do we really think that Darwin was the bestest scientist ever.

I mean he explained stuff, fair do's and we have a better understanding of how life on Earth works. But surely other people also did stuff which resulted in the betterment of man's life.

[chalice]

I was religious by default but I reached (at least) agnosticism by the time I was 14.

It certainly wasn't Dawkins who confirmed my doubt. He's the Idiot's Guide To Nihilism like.

Not saying he's wrong.

[Squeamous]

No, he wasn't the bestest I suppose: the second bestest. Robert Hooke was better.

[Squeamous]

I was religious by default but I reached (at least) agnosticism by the time I was 14.

It certainly wasn't Dawkins who confirmed my doubt. He's the Idiot's Guide To Nihilism like.

Not saying he's wrong.

No, me neither. I like to keep an open mind and he's a bit too anti for me. He's sure there is no God and I'm happy to say there isn't until proven otherwise.

My parents had a funny mix of religiousness and irreligiousness, but were bigger on personal morality than answering to a higher being. I think what sealed it for me was when my dad baptised me in the River Jordan when I was 14 and I was furious and it felt really really wrong. Follow your heart whatever it tells you I guess.

[The Flying Cow]

Dawkins is a cunt.

True story.

[Mr JP Fugley]

I was religious by default but I reached (at least) agnosticism by the time I was 14.

It certainly wasn't Dawkins who confirmed my doubt. He's the Idiot's Guide To Nihilism like.

Not saying he's wrong.

No, me neither. I like to keep an open mind and he's a bit too anti for me. He's sure there is no God and I'm happy to say there isn't until proven otherwise.

My parents had a funny mix of religiousness and irreligiousness, but were bigger on personal morality than answering to a higher being. I think what sealed it for me was when my dad baptised me in the River Jordan when I was 14 and I was furious and it felt really really wrong. Follow your heart whatever it tells you I guess.

There was you just having a wee paddle as well.

[chalice]

I was religious by default but I reached (at least) agnosticism by the time I was 14.

It certainly wasn't Dawkins who confirmed my doubt. He's the Idiot's Guide To Nihilism like.

Not saying he's wrong.

No, me neither. I like to keep an open mind and he's a bit too anti for me. He's sure there is no God and I'm happy to say there isn't until proven otherwise.

My parents had a funny mix of religiousness and irreligiousness, but were bigger on personal morality than answering to a higher being. I think what sealed it for me was when my dad baptised me in the River Jordan when I was 14 and I was furious and it felt really really wrong. Follow your heart whatever it tells you I guess.

Was that the purpoise of the journey or did your dad seize a romantic opportunity/whim?

Was your dad truly religious or merely spiritual/romantic?

Or was he a cunt?

:fear:

[Mr JP Fugley]

No, me neither. I like to keep an open mind and he's a bit too anti for me. He's sure there is no God and I'm happy to say there isn't until proven otherwise.

My parents had a funny mix of religiousness and irreligiousness, but were bigger on personal morality than answering to a higher being. I think what sealed it for me was when my dad baptised me in the River Jordan when I was 14 and I was furious and it felt really really wrong. Follow your heart whatever it tells you I guess.

Was that the purpoise of the journey or did your dad seize a romantic opportunity/whim?



Woah, that's going too far chav one.

[chalice]

Was that the purpoise of the journey or did your dad seize a romantic opportunity/whim?



Woah, that's going too far chav one.

Been re-reading Lolita recently.

Latent cuntibilty abounds.

[Mr JP Fugley]

:pinch:

[Squeamous]

There was you just having a wee paddle as well.

Running water tends to have that effect on me :pinch:

[Squeamous]

Was that the purpoise of the journey or did your dad seize a romantic opportunity/whim?

Was your dad truly religious or merely spiritual/romantic?

Or was he a cunt?

:fear:

He called it a 'pilgrimage'. I reminded him that I distinctly remembered him slagging off my nan the year before for only getting back into religion when she was old and frightened and how he'd said he'd never do that, but then I was drowned out by the water :pinch:. I think it was a spur of the moment thing. They call it 'Jerusalem syndrome' I think. He's probably quite spiritual. I think sometimes rational people want to believe but can't, and it causes them unhappiness.

[Squeamous]

Been re-reading Lolita recently.

Latent cuntibilty abounds.

Is the book better than the film?

[Mr JP Fugley]

There was you just having a wee paddle as well.

Running water tends to have that effect on me :pinch:

:drummer:

[Something Else]

Been re-reading Lolita recently.

Latent cuntibilty abounds.

Is the book better than the film?

It depends on whether you need the visual stimulant.

[Squeamous]

I am a female, it's not usually necessary :mellow:

[chalice]

Been re-reading Lolita recently.

Latent cuntibilty abounds.

Is the book better than the film?

Infinitely, if you're a lover of language. That novel, despite the subject matter, is a slap in the face for the English language.

Personally, I don't think Kubrick was nearly successful, like.

Still, David Lynch says it's his favourite movie ever so...

So?

Exactly.

[Squeamous]

In what way is it a slap in the face? In a good way?

I quite like the film, but then I haven't read the book. I can only think of one film that's been better than the book: One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

[Biggles]

OMG.

8pm Monday evening, C4.

Richard Dawkins......the thinking woman's aged crumpet, doing a documentary on only the most influential and bestest scientist in the world, Charles Darwin.

I am so damned well going to watch it :pinch:

I like Dawkins despite not entirely sharing his absolute certainty on the lack of teapots flying around Jupiter. Darwin was an interesting chap too. I shall give it a look.

Prolly won't moisten my underwear though :ermm:

I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists. :idunno:

......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.

[Biggles]

Is the book better than the film?

Infinitely, if you're a lover of language. That novel, despite the subject matter, is a slap in the face for the English language.

Personally, I don't think Kubrick was nearly successful, like.

Still, David Lynch says it's his favourite movie ever so...

So?

Exactly.

Mason and Sellers were excellent in the original film - haven't seen the remake. I think it is best to treat films as additions to the book rather than a direct replacement. If one has even half an imagination the pictures in your head are going to be better.

[chalice]

In what way is it a slap in the face? In a good way?

I quite like the film, but then I haven't read the book. I can only think of one film that's been better than the book: One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest.

His prose slapped me in that I was painfully aware that a writer, writing in his second and adopted language was able to far surpass in lyricism and depth anything I'd read hitherto.

Read the fuck out of it or do something else.

[Squeamous]

I like Dawkins despite not entirely sharing his absolute certainty on the lack of teapots flying around Jupiter. Darwin was an interesting chap too. I shall give it a look.

Prolly won't moisten my underwear though :ermm:

I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists. :idunno:

......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.

Actually I forgot about Da Vinci :pinch:. Ok, he was the best, then Hooke and then Darwin. For now :ermm:

I really appreciate polymaths. I think it takes something special to even only be able to do lots of things moderately well rather than one thing very well. Da Vinci gets top billing for doing everything very well :yup:.

[Squeamous]

His prose slapped me in that I was painfully aware that a writer, writing in his second and adopted language was able to far surpass in lyricism and depth anything I'd read hitherto.

Read the fuck out of it or do something else.

Ok, I will. Read it I mean :yup:

[Biggles]

Polymath

That is for wallpaper, right?

[Squeamous]

I think probably Da Vinci's wall could do with some :pinch:

[Mr JP Fugley]

I like Dawkins despite not entirely sharing his absolute certainty on the lack of teapots flying around Jupiter. Darwin was an interesting chap too. I shall give it a look.

Prolly won't moisten my underwear though :ermm:

I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists. :idunno:

......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.

Actually I forgot about Da Vinci :pinch:. Ok, he was the best, then Hooke and then Darwin. For now :ermm:

I really appreciate polymaths. I think it takes something special to even only be able to do lots of things moderately well rather than one thing very well. Da Vinci gets top billing for doing everything very well :yup:.

I'm sure I've said it elsewhere, probly started a thread about it and everything.

Leonard of Quirm is the greatest genious the World has ever produced.

So far.

[Squeamous]

I agree. And it's nice to see being a heemasex didn't hold him back. He's an inspiration to Benchez fairies everywhere :yup:.

[Biggles]

I always read that as Leonard of Quim - which of course he wasn't. :unsure:

[Something Else]

I agree. And it's nice to see being a heemasex didn't hold him back. He's an inspiration to Benchez fairies everywhere :yup:.

Wait till you see my clubbing outfit. :naughty:

[Squeamous]

I'm sure you'll be able to pull it off

:ermm:

[Something Else]

I'm not pulling it off in a club. I'd be ejected. That's just sick.

[Squeamous]

Not if they don't see you :naughty:

[The Flying Cow]

His prose slapped me in that I was painfully aware that a writer, writing in his second and adopted language was able to far surpass in lyricism and depth anything I'd read hitherto.

Read the fuck out of it or do something else.

A bit like Joseph Conrad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad) (a Pole) writing The Secret Agent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent). As I read it (which is the current status quea), I revel in it's magnificent command of the language.


I thought Maxwell was the bestestist scientists. :idunno:

......actually there have been a lot of bestestist scientists over the years.

My thoughts exactly. Darwin is dead. There have been dozens of geniuses to help us progress since his passing.

[Skweeky]

Yous all forgot the most important one; Al Gore for inventing the internetz :snooty:

[thewizeard]

Darwin got a wrong. If Darwin had had Google Earth, we would have had a creationist theory!

Next we'll be believing that The Pyramids and say (for example) the stonework at Cusco are from human hands. :noes:

[Mr JP Fugley]

I always read that as Leonard of Quim - which of course he wasn't. :unsure:

:lol::earl:

You didn't really think that at all, now did you.