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Cricket is (up to recent times) a man's game.
Baseball is a variant of a family game that involves women and children. This game the English refer to commonly as Rounders.

One of these games, Cric ...

I was thinking about Little Red Riding Hood (aka Little Red Cap) and wondered if a red hood being eaten and vomited could have originated from wolves ingesting fly agaric,

Oh my god Hatty. So bril ...

In The Megalithic Empire we make occasional reference to salvia (sage in English) without ever discovering what it is -- or was in ye ancient times. This little story from today's medium.com suggests ...

Can someone tell me the differences between British Criket and Indian Criket?

The reason I asked this question is as follows.

The British controlled India from 1757 to 1947. Presumably some vers ...

only the one I sent to Graham Hancock's website (quite why I still don't know) had any lasting effect. And then only because you were the editor.

I've been riding around Tanzania on a motorbike. I ...

I've been riding a motorbike around Tanzania and have been away from the boards more than usual. However; I've had some thoughts while riding (and indeed have made some observations I intend to share ...

This is a real discovery. My provisional assessment is that he never existed but is a vehicle for other people's chicanery. There might be a real Simons d'Ewes, an obscure backbencher by the sound of ...

Stop badgering me about my trip to the London Stadium to watch West Ham vs Arsenal. I will tell you in my own time and in my own way. The first weird event was arriving on the sparsely attended eastbo ...

Soon you'll catch up with me on Pitt the Younger.

Speakers spewing SOV cannot just gradually switch to the more reasonable SVO.
More terms I do not understand. And I found the rest a bit hard to follow. Maybe slow down a bit but apart from that... ...

I'm riffing off (or ripping off) a book proposing that the autochthons of Britain (or at least the first-comers) were a racial group that spoke an English that was no more different from what we speak ...

My pet algorithm sent me something of mine from twenty years ago. It was an article commissioned by the official Graham Hancock website where I had been selected as Author of the Month (for THOBR).
...

It's autism.

If you want to understand the origins of cyclical time, "have a look at a map of China."

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Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:48 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Cricket is (up to recent times) a man's game. Baseball is a variant of a family game that involves women and children. This game the English refer to commonly as Rounders. One of these games, Cric ...
Topic: Crying Wolf
Ishmael Replies: 817 Views: 212817	Forum: Life Sciences Posted: 11:44 pm Subject: Crying Wolf
Ishmael Replies: 817 Views: 212817	I was thinking about Little Red Riding Hood (aka Little Red Cap) and wondered if a red hood being eaten and vomited could have originated from wolves ingesting fly agaric, Oh my god Hatty. So bril ...
Topic: Mega-Talk
Ishmael Replies: 742 Views: 155569	Forum: Megalithic Posted: 11:42 pm Subject: Mega-Talk
Ishmael Replies: 742 Views: 155569	In The Megalithic Empire we make occasional reference to salvia (sage in English) without ever discovering what it is -- or was in ye ancient times. This little story from today's medium.com suggests ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:27 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Can someone tell me the differences between British Criket and Indian Criket? The reason I asked this question is as follows. The British controlled India from 1757 to 1947. Presumably some vers ...
Topic: Principles of Applied Epistemology
Ishmael Replies: 484 Views: 125583	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 9:40 pm Subject: Principles of Applied Epistemology
Ishmael Replies: 484 Views: 125583	only the one I sent to Graham Hancock's website (quite why I still don't know) had any lasting effect. And then only because you were the editor. I've been riding around Tanzania on a motorbike. I ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:37 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	I've been riding a motorbike around Tanzania and have been away from the boards more than usual. However; I've had some thoughts while riding (and indeed have made some observations I intend to share ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 707 Views: 188519	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 4:17 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 707 Views: 188519	Yay!
Topic: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Ishmael Replies: 2435 Views: 409102	Forum: British History Posted: 8:38 pm Subject: Inventing History : forgery: a great British tradition
Ishmael Replies: 2435 Views: 409102	This is a real discovery. My provisional assessment is that he never existed but is a vehicle for other people's chicanery. There might be a real Simons d'Ewes, an obscure backbencher by the sound of ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 8:28 pm Subject: The Importance of Sport
Ishmael Replies: 2767 Views: 329502	Stop badgering me about my trip to the London Stadium to watch West Ham vs Arsenal. I will tell you in my own time and in my own way. The first weird event was arriving on the sparsely attended eastbo ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Ishmael Replies: 286 Views: 99277	Forum: History Posted: 7:30 pm Subject: All Things Roman
Ishmael Replies: 286 Views: 99277	Soon you'll catch up with me on Pitt the Younger.
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 707 Views: 188519	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 6:02 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 707 Views: 188519	Speakers spewing SOV cannot just gradually switch to the more reasonable SVO. More terms I do not understand. And I found the rest a bit hard to follow. Maybe slow down a bit but apart from that... ...
Topic: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 707 Views: 188519	Forum: Linguistics Posted: 6:00 pm Subject: How Fast Do Languages Change?
Ishmael Replies: 707 Views: 188519	I'm riffing off (or ripping off) a book proposing that the autochthons of Britain (or at least the first-comers) were a racial group that spoke an English that was no more different from what we speak ...
Topic: Principles of Applied Epistemology
Ishmael Replies: 484 Views: 125583	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 5:45 pm Subject: Principles of Applied Epistemology
Ishmael Replies: 484 Views: 125583	My pet algorithm sent me something of mine from twenty years ago. It was an article commissioned by the official Graham Hancock website where I had been selected as Author of the Month (for THOBR). ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Ishmael Replies: 1523 Views: 232278	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:16 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Ishmael Replies: 1523 Views: 232278	It's autism.
Topic: Matters Arising
Ishmael Replies: 3559 Views: 696578	Forum: The History of Britain Revealed Posted: 3:31 pm Subject: Matters Arising
Ishmael Replies: 3559 Views: 696578	If you want to understand the origins of cyclical time, "have a look at a map of China."