It's pretty obvious that what you need is a Dragon. If you can get your yearly net and gross profit figures straight in your head and explain your business plan for the next 5 years you should be in with a shot. Obviously this is assuming your idea is any good and it's possible to make money for it.

I live in the UK too and I don't think even the worst global warming will affect us here, at least where I live anyway.

For a start we could certainly do with some nice sunny weather, all our water comes from Wales so that shouldn't be a problem. It's possible some places like London and all those run down sea side resorts or dull northern towns like Newcastle, Hull and Liverpool might disappear under the waves but so long as we put in place a system of containment to stop the residents migrating anywhere else in the UK we should be able to maintain a sustainable population and cut down on the majority of crime and anti social behaviour.

Bring on a lifetime of BBQ summers I say !

Well I have no problem with her at all, especially not compared with the sort of craven slime crawling toadies we seem so happy to elect; Mr Brown, Mr Blair, Mr Mandelson, Mrs Jaquie Smith, Mrs Harriet Harman etc etc.

Surely this is irrelevant now that it's obvious the whole ID card scheme is going to be canned anyway. There is no way on earth the Labour muppets are going to win the next election.

What's ridiculous is the number of background checks these idiots now force people to go through. A friend of mine is a guitar teacher who occasionally works in schools but in order to do that he has to pay for a background check himself and then wait for ages whilst it is inevitably delayed and screwed up by whichever lazy and incompetent branch of government is responsible for doing it.

Personally I would be much happier to just ditch the background checks altogether and save an awful lot of money and pointless hassle into the bargain.

Fair enough you could argue that this might cause one more child a year to be brutally raped or tortured to death by her guitar teacher but thousands of children die horribly every day so I am quite happy to accept a couple more if it saves me money and the hassle of filling in a few forms.

The fact is almost everyone knows who the weirdos and scum are in the world, without pointless background checks, just by looking at them and talking to them for a while, if the government were to ditch all this idiotic equality legislation employers would be free to choose the right person for the job and not some borderline psychopath just because she ticks the black lesbian box on some form.

As the basement in which all this nasty shit was going down, not to mention being incinerated in this fire to boot can't you all just FUCK OFF and leave me alone please ?

So you're saying ice falling from the sky in Alaska is some sort of unnatural "freak" event ?

So you're saying that scientists just reject all phenomenon that don't fit in with their preconceived view out of hand ?

In an article which explains the latest results of scientists scientifically investigating what was originally the observations of various people which didn't fit with their previous model.

You will forgive me if I think you're not really making much sense.

If you really did just pay your own way for everything you'd get absolutely nowhere and be living in a cave rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. The whole point about society is that everyone depends to some extent on everyone else.

Maybe you have a car, or a truck that you have been lucky enough to afford to buy. The reason you could afford to buy it is because hundreds of thousands of other people have bought the same truck allowing the manufacturers to bring the price down to something you could afford. To live truly according to your purported principles you'd eschew this sort of communist system and contract someone to build you a truck entirely from scratch relying on nothing developed by anyone else. Good luck affording to buy that truck !

I think we know the answer to that, just look at the fate of the ( non American ) owners of gambling websites not based in America but accessible to American citizens. I believe the US caused them to be arrested and brought to "justice" in the US.

Yes, if you decide to call someone or to text them then you will pay for it. Many Europeans find it bizarre that you would be charged because someone decided to text you !

Offer him a "positive motivation gradient" ?

The guy's a dweeb, a dork, a gomp, a trofflehamet, a waster, a spaz and you suggest I go out of my way to fashion him a "positive motivation gradient". I don't think so buddy the only thing I'll be fashioning for him is a chuggle rod to beat his head with.

He is a sad, vicious, manipulative, delusional, lazy, big head and before anyone else goes out of their way to help him he needs to make some attempt to see himself as he is and do something to fix it. If throwing him out on the street helps that then fantastic, the street it is although personally I think a good long stretch in prison for him and his trolling subordinates is the best possible medicine.

So called "geeks" are no different to anyone else. So like anyone else your marriage will be a success if:

1) Your wife has no other man but yourself
2) Your wife should not encourage any other man to make love to her, or kiss or caress her
3) Your wife should remember to kiss and caress you, to honour and obey you and obey your every whim and fancy seven days a week and twice on sundays
4) Your wife should honour your name so that all other women will honour it also
5) Your wife should no provoke you to anger
6) Your wife should not search your pockets or night or annoy you with her hearsays
7) If you are walking in the street with another woman your wife should not shout at you in the street but wait intelligently until you get home where the matter can be dealt with decently.
8) Your wife should neither drink nor smoke
9) Your wife should not commit adultery since if she does she risks forcing you to murder her
10) Your wife should not covet her neighbours dress, nor her shoes, nor her bureau, nor her bed nor her hat nor anything which is hers. Your wife should not call your attention to anything which may be for sale in any stores since you will provide her with everything she needs for her daily purpose.

Smell works in an entirely different way to vision and is not at all comparable whilst the way cats see is different to the way humans do and works by amplifying what light there is in low light conditions to more normal levels so they can see in it.

They aren't waiting long enough. For fuck's sake, you won't lose massive amounts of weight after three days of 30 minutes a day.

This is true, having spent all winter, and most of spring and last autumn, doing no exercise at all and eating lots I decided to start doing some exercise again 2 months ago. Now I do 2 hours swimming a week and around 30 miles cycling split over the week.

Day to day I've noticed no difference to my size/weight at all except that various muscles ache constantly. However I can now cycle and swim much further and faster and yesterday I could wear a pair of trousers which haven't fitted around my waist for years so the message is that even if you don't think it's making any difference so long as you keep it up it will make a big difference in a couple of months time.

but if you are lost it's impossible to work out how to get to where you want to be - as you don't know where you are to start with

No it's not, that's what map reading is all about. OK it might take you a couple of minutes but it's far from impossible.