Comments on: Must be something in the water…

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:41:59 +0000

Only during Summer VIIIs. It’s too cold during Torpids.

By: Rafe Champion

Rafe Champion — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:41:54 +0000

Do they still throw the cox of the winning boat into the water?

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:43:12 +0000

SkepticLawyer:

…. And in one case, to find a tractor that had been left in a paddock several months before No, that was the result of a cane-fire, not a reason it was done [true story though]. You are right about getting rid of the very deadly snakes.

Wonder if any competitors in the Olympics. on returning a positive drugs test, can claim “No, I didn’t take any drugs …. though I did drink the water in London.” ??

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:51:10 +0000

They burnt the cane for other reasons, too, though - it chased snakes out, and stopped the cutters getting tropical sores. Weil’s is quite a problem over here. Before coming to the UK, I’d not heard of it still being around. My dad (who cut cane when he first migrated to Oz) mentioned it, but always in the past tense - ie well before I was born.

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:38:03 +0000

SkepticLawyer:
Bloody hell! Thought England was too cold for a “tropical” disease like leptospirosis [Weil's Disease]; the disease that caused the Aust. sugar cane crops to be burnt off prior to cutting [harvest] so as to protect the cane-cutters.

The enthusiam in Aust. for household rainwater tanks might wane slightly if a thorough analysis was made of the rainwater in such tanks across the country.

What’s in English tapwater these days sound like enough to get the Temperance Society banned.

By: Adrienswords

Adrienswords — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:11:31 +0000

Iâ€™m gonna get medieval on your ass!

You’re going to need some large ordinance for that job. I suggest one of these. Extra large.

By: GMB

GMB — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 02:33:19 +0000

They haven’t have they. Not the authentic skeptics they make themselves out to be.

By: skepticlawyer

skepticlawyer — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:01:25 +0000

You turn my water post into an AGW thread, Graeme, and I’m gonna get medieval on your ass! BTW, do you never sleep?

By: GMB

GMB — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:41:28 +0000

Hey have our skeptics sussed it out that global warming is a racket yet?

Because Ian Plimer made a presentation to them and they didn’t believe him THEN!!!

But you would have thought they would have sussed it out by now.

Its like everyone is triangulating these days. Like maybe you’d join the skeptics for phoney street cred and to give you a license to believe any damn rubbish you like.