prince charles and the moon

Are the Royals still sleeping under pyramids and taking the occasional "High Colonic"?

Ah, the ruling class...
 
DavoMan said:
Whats sheep dip?
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A gary Larson cartoon about wolves at a cocktail party.
"Well, I'm addicted. Have you tried Carol's sheep dip?"
 
Dr Adequate said:
So what's going to happen when he becomes head of the Church of England?

* rubs hands *
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Oh he's all for re-defining that, in his own words, he wants to be the Defender of faiths: "Defender of the Divine in existence, the pattern of the Divine which is, I think, in all of us but which, because we are human beings, can be expressed in so many different ways."

And his views on other religions are quite funny "... More than this, Islam can teach us today a way of understanding and living in the world which Christianity itself is poorer for having lost. At the heart of Islam is its preservation of an integral view of the universe. Islam - like Buddhism and Hinduism - refuses to separate man and nature, religion and science, mind and matter, and has preserved a metaphysical and unified view of ourselves and the world around us"


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DavoMan said:
This also worrys me because of New Zealand's 'Green' image. No GE foods or anything. Everything is 'natural' here. What a crock. It is really annoying that the environmental movement is so strong here. It really seems science is only good when it benefits the wacko's philosophies.
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Hmm. Looks like you just missed by half an hour the opportunity to watch "The Future of Food" at the ChCh International Film Festival...
Nobody could call that film unbiased, and I went in there with BS meter on hair trigger (having just seen "Bleep", none the less :D ). It actually presents the best justification for the "clean & green" agenda I have seen until now. Quite woo-less, but deals with Monsanto a lot.
 
Darat --- and Charlie-boy will be the head of the Church of England in the same way that the Pope is the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

Mmm... cognative dissonance...
 
Floyt said:
When the dag falls off.

(and more power to Kiwis for having a special term for the sh!t-plastered bit of wool at a sheep's nether end...)
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Giving rise to that delightful expression 'Must rattle me dags and be on me way...'
 
I thought 'dags' were what some dialects of the British language called their dogs.
 
The BBC have something on Ian and Denise Bell, the woo farmers who influenced Chuck into this biodynamic malarkey
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/southwest/series6/biodynamics.shtml
selected extracts:
Ian says, "I'm a Virgo and a natural sceptic.."
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Yeah, sure.....

Their butcher:
"The first thing I noticed was how the fat was so pure and clean - I've never seen that on other reared animals.
"It's like a hand cream, it smells lovely - I almost want to take my clothes off, put it all over my body and rejuvenate myself!
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That article is so funny, the couple "gave up high-flying careers to tend this difficult land the biodynamic way".

High-flying careers, what was that - Captains of Industry, Ministers of State or world-renowned researchers? Well not quite they were an interior designer and a hairdresser!

It gets better, regarding their livestock:

"These animals were around millions of years before the drug companies came along with their solutions."

So I take it they are farming a few tortoises and crocodiles... :)
 
Floyt said:
Hmm. Looks like you just missed by half an hour the opportunity to watch "The Future of Food" at the ChCh International Film Festival...
Nobody could call that film unbiased, and I went in there with BS meter on hair trigger (having just seen "Bleep", none the less :D ). It actually presents the best justification for the "clean & green" agenda I have seen until now. Quite woo-less, but deals with Monsanto a lot.
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Damn, I'm always late for everything. What's monsanto
I am all for a clean country free of nasty things. But I sure would like to know more about why things are nasty. I don't think most of the 'Green' New Zealanders around the place would though.
 
DavoMan said:
Damn, I'm always late for everything. What's monsanto
I am all for a clean country free of nasty things. But I sure would like to know more about why things are nasty. I don't think most of the 'Green' New Zealanders around the place would though.
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Monsanto produces GM seeds and such.

http://www.monsanto.com/monsanto/layout/default.asp

When I was a kid, they sponsored a ride at Disneyland called "Innerspace".
 
I sincerely wish Prince Charles would shut up about everything for ever.

Thinking about Prince Charles makes me lose any form of rational sentence making.

"Let's do everything 'natural' and 'as nature intended' and all live harmoniously. Right, who fancies dressing up in silly clothes and joining me on a horse back ride to chase a fox across farmed land with a pack of domesticated dogs to rip it apart for fun? What could be more 'natural'?"
 
Not sure why people are getting upset about this.

This Thun idea seems perfectly open to scientific testing. The problem will be correcting for stuff like the effect of global warming, the tides, negative sceptical vibes and precession of the equinoxes.

All I hope is that accurate records are kept and made available.
 
The first thing I noticed was how the fat was so pure and clean - I've never seen that on other reared animals.

It's like a hand cream, it smells lovely - I almost want to take my clothes off, put it all over my body and rejuvenate myself!
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Suddenly satire seems futile.
 
Ashles said:
I sincerely wish Prince Charles would shut up about everything for ever.

Thinking about Prince Charles makes me lose any form of rational sentence making.

"Let's do everything 'natural' and 'as nature intended' and all live harmoniously. Right, who fancies dressing up in silly clothes and joining me on a horse back ride to chase a fox across farmed land with a pack of domesticated dogs to rip it apart for fun? What could be more 'natural'?"
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Ahh, but foxhunting is 'traditional', which almost as good as 'natural'.
 
Soapy Sam said:
Not sure why people are getting upset about this.

This Thun idea seems perfectly open to scientific testing. The problem will be correcting for stuff like the effect of global warming, the tides, negative sceptical vibes and precession of the equinoxes.

All I hope is that accurate records are kept and made available.
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The funny thing is, I was sitting (re)reading a science fiction book in which the heroine was carrying out experiments regarding the planting of certain crops according to the phases of the moon. I'd just got the the bit where someone stole her notebooks and was denouncing her for practising witchcraft when the radio news broadcast I was listening to at the same time announced this stuff about Charlie-boy.

Maybe we should just burn him at the stake and be done with it.

Rolfe.
 
A few points:

Bikewer - royalty is not the ruling class, they haven't ruled this country in a long time. They are the parasitic class.

Dr Adequate - what will happen when laughing boy becomes head of the C of E? Look on the bright side. Chaz is pushing 60, his mother could go on for another 20 years. With any luck, he'll never make it to the throne.

Ashles - so Charles wants everything as nature intended? He didn't seem too bothered about nature taking its course during the many visits of his grandmother to hospital for 'unnatural' treatments to keep her alive, did he?

I read somewhere that he should be commended for making Duchy Originals a profit-making business (that's the highly overpriced range of organic food he 'sells'). Yeah right, like he doesn't have a whole slew of business and farm managers working for him, doing all the hard work. I'm sure he sits up at night working on business plans, tax returns and distribution logistics.

Charles is a man with great wealth but absolutely no power at all. More worryingly, he is a man with almost no education, intelligence or understanding of ... well, anything. The fact that he is allowed to talk in public is a gross oversight. His vocal chords should have been cut at birth. But then, what do you expect from such a bunch of inbreeds?

They should all be pensioned off to a theme park for tourists. Vive la république.
 
Ashles said:
I sincerely wish Prince Charles would shut up about everything for ever.

Thinking about Prince Charles makes me lose any form of rational sentence making.

"Let's do everything 'natural' and 'as nature intended' and all live harmoniously. Right, who fancies dressing up in silly clothes and joining me on a horse back ride to chase a fox across farmed land with a pack of domesticated dogs to rip it apart for fun? What could be more 'natural'?"
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And then he drives home in his Bentley.
 
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