Anyone interested in a balanced study of why societies fail or succeed with in depth analysis of ancient and modern societies (including Haiti and Easter Island) and the environmental problems they face should read:
http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed/dp/0670033375
It also addresses the two very different ways in which societies plan to succeed (top-down or bottom-up planning).
Originally posted by DraxusYes, the discussion will go a lot more smoothly if you ignore the facts and believe the fairy tales. Maybe the thread should be moved to Spirituality; that the standard MO there.
Just ignore no1marauder, the discussion will go a lot more smoothly without his insults. I find discussion about the reasons why Easter Island was destroyed interesting.
Originally posted by HumeAThis has nothing to do with the thread, I just noticed that you refer to yourself as the fluffer in chief. I was just wondering if you knew that a fluffer is the person, usually a women, that is used to give a pornstar a hard on so that they can continue filming?
Well done Hunty boy. It's irrelevant though, in as far as it doesn't change my original point.
I don't really care one way or another, I was just wondering if it had a different connotation in the UK.
Originally posted by HumeAHelp me with this: "Codswallop". Is that where someone "wallops one in the "'cod-sack" (ouch!!), or is it where someone wallops one upside the head with a "Codfish"?....just curious about this obviously English idiom. 😛
Codswallop. You can take a moral from a story that is entirely untrue (How about Jesus' parables?). Of course there can be a moral here, even if the facts are not definitively proven.
Edit: I do not have time now, but will read that article later, it looks interesting.
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Originally posted by CliffLandinI did know that, yes.🙂
This has nothing to do with the thread, I just noticed that you refer to yourself as the fluffer in chief. I was just wondering if you knew that a fluffer is the person, usually a women, that is used to give a pornstar a hard on so that they can continue filming?
I don't really care one way or another, I was just wondering if it had a different connotation in the UK.
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Originally posted by chancremechanicI think the Codfish actually get off scott free with this one.
Help me with this: "Codswallop". Is that where someone "wallops one in the "'cod-sack" (ouch!!), or is it where someone wallops one upside the head with a "Codfish"?....just curious about this obviously English idiom. 😛
As far as I'm concerned it just means that something is a load of balls.. but if you want more:
"The origin of the term codswallop is unclear. The most widely quoted story has it that of Hiram Codd, an English soft drinks maker during the 1870s, who developed a technique for bottling lemonade. This process involved the insertion of a glass marble as a stopper into the neck of the bottle. When the bottle was shaken the resulting pressure from the fizzy pop forced the marble against the neck to form a seal. The device was called, not unreasonably, the Codd Bottle.
Wallop is a slang term for beer, and beer drinkers would certainly be disdainful of bottled soft drinks. It's not difficult to see how a soft drink in a Codd Bottle could have come to be called codswallop."
Sounds a bit fanciful to me, but you never know.
Originally posted by HumeAI always thought codswallop was what was left in the bucket after you've cleaned the codfish ,, in other words .. cod-guts, cod-heads, cod-tails, cod-blood = codswallop.
I think the Codfish actually get off scott free with this one.
As far as I'm concerned it just means that something is a load of balls.. but if you want more:
"The origin of the term codswallop is unclear. The most widely quoted story has it that of Hiram Codd, an English soft drinks maker during the 1870s, who developed a technique for bottling lemonade. ...[text shortened]... ould have come to be called codswallop."
Sounds a bit fanciful to me, but you never know.
I could be wrong, i'm American with few Brit friends .. but a few.
Originally posted by HumeAThanks, mate...by the way, did anyone ever tell you that your avatar slightly resembles an overweight Al Gore, with a bad facelift-job and a cheap hair-piece? No offense....LOL....just what my eyes see...hope it isn't a pic of you....is it? 😉
I think the Codfish actually get off scott free with this one.
As far as I'm concerned it just means that something is a load of balls.. but if you want more:
"The origin of the term codswallop is unclear. The most widely quoted story has it that of Hiram Codd, an English soft drinks maker during the 1870s, who developed a technique for bottling lemonade. ...[text shortened]... ould have come to be called codswallop."
Sounds a bit fanciful to me, but you never know.
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Originally posted by chancremechanicLol, nope, it's Boris Johnson... a british MP.
Thanks, mate...by the way, did anyone ever tell you that your avatar slightly resembles an overweight Al Gore, with a bad facelift-job and a cheap hair-piece? No offense....LOL....just what my eyes see...hope it isn't a pic of you....is it? 😉
Originally posted by no1marauder"...religion is totally worthless..."
The Easter Island statutes were part of their religion. Unless you think religion is totally worthless, you would do well to not keep showing your extreme ignorance of other's cultures (and your own).
This is the best thing you have ever said. Agreed.
Originally posted by chancremechanicThe Haitian side is in the rain shadow of the mountains. I hope you're not implying there is some racial or political reason for what you saw.
Wanna go to a similarly horrible place? Take the next flight to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. From sattelite footage the Island of Hispaniola is brown on the Haitian side and green on the Dominican Republic side....real shocker!