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Spiny echidna. Reason? They break all the common assumptions about mammals! Monotremes: core temperature of 32 celsius, egg-born, no real mammary glands so to speak of, most "primitive" mammal still alive on earth. Oh and the name, "monotreme"... means "single opening". Everything comes...

They could try formulating proper sentences... they're on national TV, for chrissakes, they could at least speak properly :lol:

Unfortunately we are devolving at the moment.

"I must admit" is generally followed by a statement that really doesn't require an admission of any sort. Why?! "At the end of the day" has to be the most annoying one, and there should be legislation to make the word "c*ck" flash up on the TV screen every time some moron appears and says...

:lol: # I was a vegetarian for about a fortnight. I was enjoying it OK until I ate an absolutely vile vege sausage. The only thing I have ever eaten that made me feel sick. Apart from that time I tried to stir mayonnaise into a risotto. yuck! Oh, and barbecue season arrived. God I love...

Ah, but in the case of the Lightning it was... erm... errrrr... nah, the MiG-25 was a bit of a crazy plane. The Russians produced a very powerful jet engine for a proposed supersonice missile. They then put two of them in a plane, and this meant they had a fast fighter (later adapted to a...

Hey, I'm A Rh Neg too! Yeast isn't an animal: it's a fungus. :idea: This is back to the ages of life. You have 5 kingdoms, arguably in order of complexity: Monera - Bacteria etc. Protista - Amoeba etc Fungi - mushrooms Plantae - plants Animalia - animals Animals and plants must be...

I know Pip'll like this article! Wonder if that was in a ballistic trajectory or if it could maintain such an altitude? :shock: Ah, that would be the MiG-25 that was basically a huge pair of engines with a pilot strapped to the top... overpowered and dangerous, highly unreliable but it...

Wonder what brought this on? :lol: Obviously it is healthier for a human to live on a purely vegetarian diet than it is to live on a carnivorous one. Even cats, which are obligate carnivores (they must eat meat as they metabolise proteins for energy and cannot metabolise carbohydrates)...

Now now, "mentally challenge" is the correct term now! :shock:

One neighbour was keen on this, but I'm just concerned that if we do that he'll just start parking right outside my front door (opens onto the street!) so I'll be faced with a big slab of white van everytime I look out! I'm fine just so long as I can get parked, in reality. :lol:

Cheers buddy I've signed myself for the radio times now, but I'll give that one a look! What I like on the radio times one is you can add whatever channels you like and say what programmes you want to include in a list of "my programmes" Great stuff. Oh, and it's free :wink:

From what I've read it is just easier to hoik around a tank of nitrogen than a compressor.

Sometimes we come to the wrong conclusions about neighbours and they are really nice people, but you can't deny the fact that there are many a**eholes in life. I have a neighbour who got permission to build a big extension to his house. Then he decided he wanted to build it bigger, I got a...

I went to Wickes last night, saw a couple park up in the disabled spaces (the car park was empty, but following rules is part of being British!) I had to laugh though, because the guy's girlfriend was ugly with a saggy bottom, bitched at him inside the shop (they were looking at the same tool...

The problem I have with van trackers is this: They shouldn't be necessary! There should be some law where companies either have to supply parking for all their vehicles, or allow the driver unlimited private use of the vehicle. There are far too many company vans parked on my street, each...

Noooo, I want one that will DISPLAY 1080 for that! :D And I need the HDCP-compliant connector because any HD-DVD, BD or HD-SKY boxes will need it (well, first gen Sky boxes don't, but I would rather not limit the life of my equipment if I can help it0 So, whilst I wouldn't turn down a...

I've been holding fire on HDTV: The sets are pretty decent value in my opinion, and I was quite tempted by a 32" LG recently. But I am yet to see any 1080-line hardware at anything less than super-premium prices. Certainly not in the UK at least (need that HDCP-compliant connector!) I...

Ah, the joys of single occupancy... for me, the wearing of trousers and the closing of the bathroom door are only obligatory when I've got visitors. :lol: Although my lovely lady does occasionally play the trick of opening the bathroom door and pinching me whilst I'm having a wee. :shock...

One tries :lol: That's probably a good thing :lol: They have those leaflets though, the "Good Ideas" ones... including the one I saw on "How to install a combi boiler" :shock: Hmmmmm, cos if you need a Wickes leaflet on how to install a gas appliance, that's a really "Good Idea" :lol...