What’s your most controversial opinion? **Read OP** **Mod Note in Post #3372**

N word also going unpunished. Is this place a free for all?

Edit, removed now but poster still allowed. Should be booted if only for their own health. Clearly not well.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Fair enough. I don't think the Isreal would leave them in peacebif they surrendered.

You might think hamas deserve favourable terms like not being ethnically cleansed from the area, but I think Palestinians do deserve that. If they're nothing a position to negotiate not being ethnically cleanses from the area, then there's little difference between surrendering and not surrendering. The bar is pretty low.

You have the last word and we'll leave it for this thread.

100% agree. It's dark in morning and evening anyway in December and January so it makes no difference. But the brighter evenings would make a huge difference in November and February.

The clock and the calendar are perfect examples of technical debt - i.e. the going forward with legacy suboptimal solutions rather than re-design everything from scratch.

So let's not half-arse it: 10 hours a day, 100 minutes to one hour, 100 seconds to one minute. Unfortunately there is no way around Earth rotating 365.2422 times for every revolution, so no matter what we do one year cannot be defined as an exact number of days. But we should do away with months, and have 10 days weeks. What's today? 260. Simple.

I'm pretty sure the bloke responsible for July got what you're calling for. "Et tu, Brute?"

The calendar is ridiculous. The Julian and Gregorian calendars were great improvements on what came previously, and I think we could do another big improvement in the 21st century.

200% agree.

We have to go and update systems at work twice a year, because the clever system updates itself, and these "less clever" ones don't and production stops if they are out of synch by more than 2 minutes!!!!

haha got me! :)

I agree. But I remember reading that if this ever comes to pass (i.e. we just set on one time throughout the year), then we'll instead get the extra hour in the am. I can't remember the exact reason for this, but I seem to recall made some sense at the time.

'Why don't the Palestine/Israeli folk just turn their energies towards a United Ireland and apply their points to this cause?'

I suppose because if you're unlucky enough to be Palestinian, you are currently being ethnically cleansed by the IDF, who are now officially recognised as committing genocide. Further, your apartment or house is likely to be a mound of rubble and when you go to queue for food supplies which are withheld to the point of mass starvation amongst you & your fellow countrymen, you are likely to be shot at by the IDF.

If you are still actually alive after all that, and that is a big IF, you are likely to only have enough 'energy' to try to survive the next day aswell, though nothing is guaranteed with an aggressive, invading foreign power committing a genocide in your country while the rest of the world looks on....

Not one of the Spice Girls would hold a candle looks-wise to any of The Saturdays or Girls Aloud.

They are very 'of their time'.

And musical-wise none of them and most boys bands aren't really proper bands. They were formed by management companies and didn't write any of their songs. They are products, not bands. Milli Vanilli like.

Why don't you come over to the Israel/Palestine thread and discuss your views seeing as you've so much to say on it?