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[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Godzilla Blues

I think you answered your own question, it's not a quick death, thirst, starvation, exposure to the elements all add up I think. Maybe some blood loss if they sever veins etc in the wrist...

"Crucifiction's a doddle."

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Why is it that every pub / restuarant / takeaway that's ever reviewed in the Evening Express is absolutely fantastic, great value for money and piles of delicious food?

(When in reality places like Soul and Revolution charge about a tenner for half a plate of food).

Typical EE restaurant review:

"Me and the wife went to the Royal Thai. For starters I had spring rolls [like every other week], and the wife ordered a prawn cocktail. The spring rolls were too hot and not greasy enough. The wife seemed to enjoy her prawn cocktail but found it a little spicy. For main course I ordered sweet and sour pork with boiled rice which was tasty but not as good as Liddels. The wife ordered Chicken Maryland which she found too spicy. The food was very expensive at £10 for 2 main courses, you can have an all day buffet for the entire family in The Mains of Scotstown for that! And the portions were very small, I was able to finish most of what was on the plate and the wife had to nip out for a fish supper afterwards. I was disappointed that there was no desert trolly as I had been looking forward to some black forrest gateu with jelly, We also found everything much to spicy. Overall 4/10."

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by TheTickingTime-Bomb

Light is made of photons, which are particles (although they seem to think they are waves sometimes...) and hence mass.

You didn't understand the question. Clearly you are a scientist.

[TheTickingTime-Bomb]

So your question was: where is the piece of mass, or quantum of energy that defines the speed of light. Or in simple terms where is that speed of light stored?

The answer is... in the photons which all light is made of!

Or do you mean: Where is the metaphysical idea of "the speed of light" as a measurement? Or something?

[idol_wild]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

About 12-14 years ago when I worked in a restaurant they got a call from a certain local paper asking them if they wanted to take out some not-all--that-cheap advertising slots.

The restaurant declined, and not long after that got a negative review in the same publication, despite being the only establishment in Aberdeen that was in The Good Food Guide at the time.

So it works on the same premise and principle as the NME with record labels, in that case.

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

Typical EE restaurant review:

"Me and the wife went to the Royal Thai. For starters I had spring rolls [like every other week], and the wife ordered a prawn cocktail. The spring rolls were too hot and not greasy enough. The wife seemed to enjoy her prawn cocktail but found it a little spicy. For main course I ordered sweet and sour pork with boiled rice which was tasty but not as good as Liddels. The wife ordered Chicken Maryland which she found too spicy. The food was very expensive at £10 for 2 main courses, you can have an all day buffet for the entire family in The Mains of Scotstown for that! And the portions were very small, I was able to finish most of what was on the plate and the wife had to nip out for a fish supper afterwards. I was disappointed that there was no desert trolly as I had been looking forward to some black forrest gateu with jelly, We also found everything much to spicy. Overall 4/10."

Ha, it's funny 'cause it's true.

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by TheTickingTime-Bomb

So your question was: where is the piece of mass, or quantum of energy that defines the speed of light. Or in simple terms where is that speed of light stored?

The answer is... in the photons which all light is made of!

Or do you mean: Where is the metaphysical idea of "the speed of light" as a measurement? Or something?

Nope nothing metaphysical about it. Light (is believed to) travel at a particular speed. It has a speed limit. For something to exist it must have either mass or energy. A speed limit sign on a road has mass for example. Where is the mass or energy of the law that says that light travels at this particular speed. These so called 'laws of the universe' possess neither mass no energy so in strict terms these laws do not exist. Yet clearly they still apply. So perhaps all that stuff about something have to possess either mass or energy in order to exist is nonsense. It's necessary to take the blinkers off in order to grasp this concept.

[Le Stu]

I've been wondering how a Lord can be part of a prime minister's cabinet. ie. Lord Mandleson. I can't recall seeing him in the commons but aren't peers prohibited from entering the commons?

[TheTickingTime-Bomb]

Originally Posted by Flash@TMB

Nope nothing metaphysical about it. Light (is believed to) travel at a particular speed. It has a speed limit. For something to exist it must have either mass or energy. A speed limit sign on a road has mass for example. Where is the mass or energy of the law that says that light travels at this particular speed. These so called 'laws of the universe' possess neither mass nor energy so in strict terms these laws do not exist. Yet clearly they still apply. So perhaps all that stuff about something have to possess either mass or energy in order to exist is nonsense. It's necessary to take the blinkers off in order to grasp this concept.

I think I understand now.

You are saying that because the natural laws/universal constants themselves exist (we can observe the effects of their existence), but have no mass or energy, then we might be wrong about existing "things" requiring mass and energy. Well, just mass because all mass is energy!

Would this be analogous to asking why gravity which has no mass, exists?

Gravity is a force which is an effect of mass itself - so it does really exist in the form of mass. The laws of the universe are probably like this, an effect of the universe itself.

Existence really does depend on mass and energy. A thought for example has laws and is unobservable, but is simply an effect of physical activity in the brain which obviously has mass.

There is an accessible book about this sort of shit that I'd recommend called "The Never-Ending Days of Being Dead" by Marcus Chown which clears up in simple terms a lot of these beard-scratchers.

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Le Stu

I've been wondering how a Lord can be part of a prime minister's cabinet. ie. Lord Mandleson. I can't recall seeing him in the commons but aren't peers prohibited from entering the commons?

The Government can be made up of MPs or Lords. So basically the ruling party can have just about anybody in the government, so long as they are eligible to become a Lord.