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Just saying hello.
So...Erm...Hello all
Carry on.
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Hello and welcome :)
Defendants might as well have said: Beneficent creatures from the 17th dimension use this bracelet as a beacon to locate people who need pain relief and whisk them off to their home world every night to provide help in ways unknown to our science.
Judge Frank Easterbrook commenting on the Q-Ray bracelet
"For Gods sake you're an American! Stop thinking of the consequences and blow something up" - Stan Smith, American Dad!
Good day to you, H3LL.
Mine's a large single malt :)
I don't know what the hell is in there, but it's weird and pissed off whatever it is.
Welcome all recent newbies....... 8)
Why is cheese?
Hello - nice to meet you all
Welcome, Catwoman.
Pull up a comfy chair and make yourself at home.
The speed of light, expressed in FFF Units, is 1.8 mega-furlongs per micro-fortnight, or approximately 1.8 terafurlongs per fortnight.
Gravity makes the heart grow heavier.
Any use of this product, in any manner whatsoever, will increase the amount of disorder in the universe. Although no liability is implied herein, the consumer is warned that this process will lead to the heat death of the universe.
Wow, it's Michelle Pfeiffer - all my fantasies are about to come trueOriginally Posted by CatWoman
Hello - nice to meet you all
Hello CatWoman, and welcome :)
I look forward to being part of UK-Skeptics discussions.
crabsallover
WASPS
World Atheist Secular Proselytiser of Science
http://waspofscience.blogspot.com/
Welcome, crabsallover. Interesting username you have there!
Thanks for the welcome
Think of me more of a woman with cats - I do also have a dog, but DogWoman doesn't quite have the same ring to it
In that sense of Catwoman, I am Catman! That has a bit of a ring to it too ...
Thanks for the welcome
Think of me more of a woman with cats - I do also have a dog, but DogWoman doesn't quite have the same ring to it
I keep bats. ???
Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na...... BaseballMan.
Well, I recently finished reading "Why people believe...", and it was an impressive read, especially for my non-scientifically trained, and definitely non-brilliant mind. I did find myself skipping the odd paragraph when the author went in to the details of the American legal system in relation to the teaching of Creationism, and the section "Dr Tipler Meets Dr Pangloss" was a bit above my head!Hello Bindeweede and welcome.
I have not read that book but I can imagine the sorts of things it covers. I would recommend "Why people believe weird things" by Shermer and "Flim Flam" by Randi for other good reference examples of these texts
The section which probably had most efect on me was "Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things" - a list of common errors in logical thinking. But I would recommend the book to anyone who has not already read it.
I might move on to something by Randi, only having read a few articles I downloaded from his site. "FlimFlam" is quite an old publication now, I think, although I don't suppose some of the tricks he might describe will have changed much. But we now have the glories of Psychic TV and the internet , of course.
I wonder if anyone else can recommend a book they were impressed by - in relation to threads in the forum.
What about a "Recommended Reads" thread? (I hope I'm not suggesting something that already exists.)
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear
bright, until you hear them speak.
We're one step ahead with this. We'll soon have our own on-line skeptics' book store with books reviewed by fellow skeptics.
It should be a great resource once it builds up.
Hi everyone, just found this forum through the James Randi foundation boards and thought I'd sign up. Looking forward to some good discourse.
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