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To be honest there are many reasons I am glad I do not live in China, hornets being just one of the lesser ones.
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Er, yeah, because Luton is so much better than one of the oldest and greatest cultures in the world.
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Well, it has indoor toilets and no internet censor.
Also we do not have a one child policy and smog choked cities.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Well, it has ... no internet censor.
Yet. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Don't knock GCHQ, they are the only part of government that actually listens to the people!
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Dalek Dave wrote: it has indoor toilets
???
So does everywhere. I don't get how you think that's a point, unless you're thinking of Tibetan hermits, or some-such.
Dalek Dave wrote: no internet censor
!!!
OK, nip and see what the latest is on piratebay for me, will you?
Oh, and whole you're at it, tweet that you're going to blow up Luton airport.
Dalek Dave wrote: we do not have a one child policy
Only because no-one wants to raise children in Luton, so they've stopped breeding, thereby resolving the local overpopulation problem without the need for intervention.
You can have two kids in China, now, BTW, and if you were willing to pay a small fine, you could always have had as many as you wanted. My wife's sister's got... Dunno, about 27, I think, but I might have counted some of 'em more than once (if they insist on running around, they could at least make an effort not to look so much like each other!)
Dalek Dave wrote: and smog choked cities
You're kidding, right?
The Only problem that Chinese cities have is pollution from motor vehicles, which is a purely numeric thing.
You could eat your food off the floor in most streets -- Hell, you can't even find the floor in most English cities!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You're kidding, right?
The Only problem that Chinese cities have is pollution from motor vehicles, which is a purely numeric thing.
This article[^] would tend to disagree... 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: This article[^] would tend to disagree
Or not, given that it's all about air pollution, which would not be a problem at all if it weren't for the umpty-gazillion cars now in use.
I like quotes like this: "The biggest drop was among Japanese visitors"
Er, yeah. The fact that China and Japan are almost at the point of going to war with each other has nothing to do with that, does it?
The drop in tourism from other countries is all to do with the bird-flu risk, earlier in the year (and was very small -- only 4% of US tourists? hardly a drop) so the reporter from Japan (remember the "close to war" thing?) is just soapboxing.
And this: "dead pigs found floating in Shanghai's main river"
Right. This was a one-off event, resulting from a criminal, black-market farming ring being caught and imprisoned, and the water purifiers already in place meant that no contaminated water arrived at any taps.
Note how the reporter doesn't even know the name of the river, and obviously couldn't even be arsed to look it up on a map.
But who needs facts, when you can use shock and disgust in an article, to make the enemy of your friends look bad?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: The Only problem that Chinese cities have is pollution from motor
vehicles, which is a purely numeric thing.
Cars don't pollute the rivers - so you are saying that the cities don't use the rivers at all?
Mark_Wallace wrote: You could eat your food off the floor in most streets -- Hell, you can't even
find the floor in most English cities!
Perhaps because they prefer to use tables rather than the streets for their dining experience.
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18 < dozens.
21 < dozens.
At which point am I to start believing anything this amateurish idiot reporter says?
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The sentence in question didn't say dozens died *this* year. The linked article reports 36 deaths between 02 and 05.
36 >= dozens.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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36 = a quarter-dozen dozens if you will.
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Gheddadahere!
Dozens between 2002 and 2013 is less than five average dental surgeries manage to bury.
The guy was going on as if it were some terrible mass invasion causing huge numbers of deaths, not a millionth of the number killed by gum infections in the same period.
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BrainDead Reporter wrote: can grow pretty big, as this photo from a Canadian wasp expert shows (don't worry, they're dead)
Yikes! That's big! Now, wasps don't bother me, so I don;t bother them. But those... I want a shotgun.
But come on Mr B D Reporter: "don't worry, they're dead" - why the elephant would I worry? Do you think I think that huge insects can travel via ADSL and zoom out of my monitor to kill me?1
1Everyone knows only cats can do that...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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Dang them's some big hornets, the small one's here in the states are bad to the bone I can just imagine.
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Never knew some hornet types were this big, yikes.
Now I'll view Canada's F-18 hornets with more credibility.
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Furore as breasts are shown on Breakfast TV
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People are complaining?
WTE?
Firstly, it was a medical piece and could be life-saving.
Secondly, it was not pornographic, except in the actual original and academic meaning of the word, rather than the lurid meaning that morons think it means.
Thirdly, they were claiming it was not suitable for any children who may have seen it.
It is this third claim that made me spit out my pinot grigio!
Since when is a women's breast not suitable for children?
Seriously?
Some people need to get the F**k off my planet because they are too stupid and ignorant, and too full of prudish fascism.
To those people who think breasts are not suitable for children please explain WTE they think breasts are actually for?
Twats.
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Well I think it's absolutly shocking! I thought no one was still watched Lorraine.
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She has seriously roped up in recent years and now requires more time in the make up department than John Hurt did in The Elephant Man.
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I've dated worse.
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So have your dates.
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Amazing, but not in a good way.
I remember an episode of "This Morning" where Fern Britton and some other woman reviewed "lady's massagers". Aat 11am. And be under no illusion, these were "massagers" in the sense that the vibrated and were [mostly] phallic in shape. Poor Phil Schofield looked like a rabbit caught in the headlights when he introduced the section, if you'll pardon the pun. Not a peep in the rags that I saw the next day, still it's in keeping with my theory that straightened times lead to less liberalism.
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Hell, pieces of plastic come in all sizes, so no-one's jealous if a piece of plastic is bigger than them.
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