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Wriggling Snake May 2020 1:34pm, 11 May 2020 26,610 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I lover HoG, gone back to series 1 which we didn't watch, I foten get quit close in the guestimates, I said to myself, hmmm, 350 million, maybe a couple of wings each, 700,000, still way out. What it shows, and the UK is no better, is just how many people there are, just how many mouths to feed (albeit greedy ones in this case, and ours) and how industrial scale farming and distribution is an absolute must, and the way forward, in terms of environment, is population control rant over, I actually meant the figure to be a blog, but politics is a sore point these days, especially people who ask to treated as adults, get treated as adults, and then say they want their hand held to be able to make a quite obvious decisions. oops.
Groundhog May 2020 1:35pm, 11 May 2020 808 posts	0 Groundhog [DQ, that's very odd not to be picked up in eye tests before now, usually found and treated in first years of school]
SteveCRunner May 2020 2:28pm, 11 May 2020 78 posts	0 SteveCRunner That two fingers was nothing to do with Agincourt archers - that's a myth. There are no reliable records of its use until the early 1900s.
GlennR May 2020 2:37pm, 11 May 2020 49,824 posts	0 GlennR [I did know that. It's like finding out there's no Father Christmas.]
Mouseytongue May 2020 2:55pm, 11 May 2020 4,348 posts	0 Mouseytongue ^ What!
Night-owl May 2020 6:30am, 12 May 2020 33,735 posts	0 Night-owl That you can see all edited comments on Facebook
mushroom May 2020 10:18am, 12 May 2020 1,134 posts	0 mushroom The actor Sean Bean was actually born as Shaun Bean. en.wikipedia.org
Diogenes May 2020 10:49pm, 12 May 2020 48,485 posts	0 Diogenes A villanelle is a poem form of nineteen lines, 5 lots of 3 lines (terrestrial) followed by 4 lines (a quatrain) following a rhyme scheme featuring pairs of rhymes such as aab aab aab aab aab aabb. Sylvia Plath wrote a famous Villanelle which may well have been the inspiration for a certain tv show, or the name of one of the main characters at least. Mad Girl's Love Song By Sylvia Plath "I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"
Diogenes May 2020 10:49pm, 12 May 2020 48,486 posts	0 Diogenes (Terrestrial = tercet)
Serendippily May 2020 11:03pm, 12 May 2020 17,683 posts	0 Serendippily I liked that Dio. Proper black hearted teen stuff