v for frequency?

Mar 13, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1290 Replies

Don't bother. Two sexes allow us to shuffle our DNA, which give enough variation in each generation to let us adapt to a changing environment. Asexual reproduction - cloning - doesn't. Evolution isn't great at optimisation - it finds good enough solutions and sticks with them.

Optimisation programs need mechanisms to reach beyond the local optimum, and evolution hasn't come up with that yet, any more than it has come up with error-detecting and -correcting data coding.

Bidet? Wash your mouth out with soap and water!

I thought washing feet was for the British. (not moslems)

FFS! I'm trying to cut down on my massive cheese bill and now I go and read this! £70 a month on cottage cheese alone is absurd.

Far too much hassle, especially if you're hungry!

I would of guessed that's composted tomato.

You mean bothering to say macaroni? Yes I know, it's unfair to ask an American to pronounce three syllables in one go.

If you only count the English, you would be correct. But we keep letting the foreigners in. The island is f****ng well full, go back to your own country!

Scotland would do very well indeed, because it isn't as overpopulated as England.

They are happy and good at working hard, so let them. Better than using Irish, they're thick as f*ck.

When I were a lad, the binmen lifted the bins. Now it's hydraulic. Lazy bastards.

It's high time the NHS was deleted. he average taxpayer pays in £300 a month to the NHS. I can't think of anyone who's got remotely that back out. We'd all be better off paying privately if and when we need it.

You and your silly guages. You still use that American Wire Guage crap, where the higher number is smaller!

You smell it when it's in your mouth, provided you're breathing at the same time, giving you time to spit it out. I feel rather off all day if I drink sour milk.

Milk can be frozen without losing flavour (unlike cottage cheese). You can also buy filtered milk which lasts longer.

For shotguns it is logical. The gage is how many balls of the diameter of the barrel will weigh a pound.

In message <op.18inm7bemvhs6z@ryzen>, Commander Kinsey snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com writes

The British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG) does exactly the same, ie more is less.

In message <op.18intzjrmvhs6z@ryzen>, Commander Kinsey snipped-for-privacy@nospam.com writes

Indeed. We get a (single) delivery of five 2-pint bottles each week, and they go straight in the freezer. They are subsequently transferred (as required) join the tail end of a row of four in the fridge, where they slowly thaw out, and get moved up the queue when the oldest is empty and removed.

As did/do BA screws.

I quite like green macaroni cheese. You add green pesto to the sauce and frozen peas just before you brown the topping in the oven or under the grill.

I had a Lee Enfield .303, bored out to 410 shotgun gauge. I put the odd .303 up it.

I wouldn't drink it if I could smell it. Anyway I mainly use milk in tea, especially in the summer (when I have grapefruit, fresh or canned, for breakfast rather than cereal or porridge with milk); milk goes blobby in hot beverages.

Did it rattle? The .303 used the black powder convention of measuring land to land so the actual bullet* diameter is .311. Many 7.62x54R Mosin Nagants are happier with .303 Enfield bullets that the .308 bullets used by the 7.62x51 NATO.

  • Note for liberals: a bullet isn't a cartridge

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