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An old Frank Carson joke

Ireland’s worst air disaster occurred early this morning when a small two-seater Cessna plane crashed into a cemetery. Irish search and rescue workers have recovered 1826 bodies so far and expect that number to climb as digging continues into the night.

Russia is crazy...

Clicking on the YouTube link sent me down a rabbit hole of Russian fight videos.

Most of it looks like playfighting.

vote in tories because you think windfarms ruin your view of the countryside. get fracking.

A fracking company's reply to the fact pointed out to him on the Beeb....

Presenter: what about the conclusive evidence that fracking caused earthquake or seismic activity in Blackpool?

Company Rep: it won't happen in Yorkshire.

Oh well if you say so, that's ok then.

To be fair, many bits of Yorkshire don't need to be that tall.

Anyway, this is pleasing - the gods have been toppled:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/23/no-religion-outnumber-christians-england-wales-study

outstanding

Yes it's a relief we won't be oppressed by the violent, dogmatic and far reaching authority of the anglican church anymore. Phew.

Be interested to know how many of the 48+% eventually have a Christian funeral though.

i do look forward to being told this is a 'christian nation' by some self-serving arsehole who thinks his/her religion should afford them special privileges. also, the increasingly irrelevant anglican fucking church has how many seats in the entirely undemocratic house of lords? fuck them. sky high.

They do have lizards people in high places though.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/10/shell-exxon-gas-drilling-sets-off-earthquakes-wrecks-homes

its an old and growing problem, while Exxon and others continue to search for gas we are all at risk, forgot Yorkshire..

..this led to another question about future UK energy reserves.

We depend heavily on EDF supplying electricity to the South East of England via nuclear power stations in northern France. Could leaving the EU leave us with a chronic shortage.

The gods have been toppled in Republic of Ireland for some time as well...as long as self-serving politicians ignore the fact most ppl don't give a hoot about what the church tells them to do/just go for a christening or wedding things won't change.

No belief/atheist is on the up in NI too, from 8% to 16% to last census. It doesn't help a lot of people are culturally christian and then put christian on the form...but they don't really believe.

The rise of tolerant, progressive secularism is definitely a Good Thing. Just not sure about some of the jubilance around the diminishing of certain harmless communities.

Groningen involves no fracking.

Could leaving the EU leave us with a chronic shortage.

If they don't sell it to us they'd have a surplus of electricity or they'd need to turn off/down some of their other plants which makes it cost more for them. It's in their best interests to generate electricity for us.

Wikipedia says we get about 5% of our energy from France: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HVDC_Cross-Channel

We've also got cables connecting us to Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Rep of Ireland. There are also cables under construction for connections to Norway and Iceland (both homes to huge amounts of cheap clean hydroelectric and geothermal power).

Unlikely. Although it might cost more to import.

I agree unfortunately in very few countries religion goes strongly together with secularism. It needs to lose power first.

As for harmless...faith schools are anything but and most religions aren't nice to women. This is obv. driving by cultural factors (see liberal Christianity and Muslims VS mainstream) but if it quacks like a duck...

As for harmless...faith schools are anything but

Plastic church attendance is probably responsible for at least a quarter of all Christian primary school places in many areas of London so there's a large amount of very liberal Christianity going on.

hnnnnng

that is radicool

That is the first thing that has made me consider voting out.

The website is worse: http://votin.co.uk/