I thought they sounded lovely, but having had a couple I now think they are awful. Emptying them involves clouds of smoke-like dust going everywhere. The filters get clogged up and need to be tapped...
Has anyone here read L'histoire d'O (the Story of O)? My version (English translation) claims to be unexpurgated, but ends without an ending! I find it far more literary than 'Grey'. Fascinating...
I have a vague memory of Biblical quotes wherein Jehovah exhorts his chosen people to smite the Midianites and to destroy them and their cattle and their children and to spare only the women who...
I'm just reading 'Homo Deus' by Yuval Noah Harari (having read his earlier book, 'Sapiens'). In chapter 1 he states that nowhere in the Old Testament is there any reference to life after death; god...
Why do some people disbelieve the current scientific consensus regarding e.g. evolution or man-made global warming? There are people who cherry-pick comments from a tiny minority of scientists so as...
Odd question, I know. Bottled waters have distinct flavours, which is I presume because of dissolved minerals in them. But pure water seems to me to have no taste, and I find that odd. There's only...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/trump-russia-asset-claims-former-kgb-spy-new-book Looks like Trump was an unwitting friend of the Russians for years. And we still have naive pawns at...
I'm overstating my feelings, but I do find them pretty awful. I don't understand the appeal of caterwauling cats, and 'saucy Jacks', and phantoms of the opera; all got laboured plots and casts of...
Is there any sense in which theology could be considered a science? I mean, I know it uses the suffix 'ology' but is that a valid claim for it to be considered a branch of knowledge, any more than...
Are there any Muslims here who would be interested in talking to an atheist? I'm not looking for an argument; I'd like to understand a bit about Islam.