Recent content by Pappa

It looks like cuckoo spit, from a froghopper. Although it does seem an unusual place to find cuckoo spit. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22cuckoo+spit%22+froghopper Pappa

Yep, I've still been lurking on this thread; just to see if anyone cares. Before I go for good, I'd like to make my reasons for departure perfectly clear. It's not just the departure of Adi that offended me, but other decisions by the mods recently. The public rebuke of Leon was enirely...

When I posted the above, I was being intentionally positive. At the time, I didn't realise Adi Fiddler had been banned over his thread. I think that sort of judgement by a moderator is unfair and childish. I won't be using this forum again. Could someone please close my account. Goodbye.

I think there's a little I can add here. I have crossed paths with the moderating team on three occasions: One of my posts was removed as it mentioned that part of a certain common plant was psychoactive. Over commercial links in my signature. Over an argumentative thread which eventually...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5098748.stm

While they're not plants, I suppose it's relevant to the discussion: I have read that eating too much rabbit can cause death by malnutrition. Rabbit meat provides less vitamins than it takes to digest, so slowly leads to vitamin deficiency (I forget which vitamin). Apparently, it was quite...

What's to stop someone trapping any squirrel and just keeping the grey tails? :confused:

Why thank you, kind sir. :D

I don't think that's really a true reflection of reality, just the way it's portrayed in the press at the moment. A couple of years ago it was paedophiles; a while before that it was dangerous dogs. There aren't more kids, teachers and police actually being stabbed. The press have just latched...

Sorry, I think my skim reading gave me a skewed idea: I was thinking that this suggested the police had advised the school to let the boy wear it outside school, but really its just the police advising the school of what was going on. Not that I think wearing a stab vest is a good idea...

This one tells a slightly different version of events: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/10/nvest10.xml

Sorry everyone, I think I've just got seriously mixed up. It was another, completely unconnected law I was thinking about. The Drugs Act 2005 made being in posession of drugs on school premises (and other areas used by children) an agrivating factor. Sorry. Also, from the Criminal Justice Act...

Aren't other premises also included too, such as buildings where youth clubs are held etc.?

I get sick of all the local supermarkets filling their shelves with England flags, shirts, keyrings, bottle openers and all the other pointless World Cup tripe. I wouldn't mind if I was English, but I'm Welsh and I live in Wales. Why would any of us lot want to buy an England flag from the...