SteveStrummerUK

How dare you ......

Uages Of this forum. I wonder in all the time this forum has been opened anyone has thought about the money and effort put in to it to make this forum possible? I wonder if it were not free if the inane postings would be so numerous? I wonder if the idiotic banter that is only humorous to a few would be tolerated if those doing it had to pay for every silly post. I don't come here much because it is rather depressing to be here any length of time for all the nonsense that permeates most every thread. Ones that might be interesting become a home of buffoonery for no purpose. All this will be on the net in perpetuity. How sad. The opportunity to enlighten to have an interchange of ideas and to further our understanding is being stolen by a few that have absolutely nothing to say, none the less, say something anyway. An occasional funny thread with real humor would be a good thing but the constant droning of inconsequential verbiage makes this place a vacuum. There I said it. Something I have been thinking for a very long time.

"I don't get it" ~Strummy (2006-2020)

Haz me fred been locked again yet ? I may have to cheer myself up by sinking a few jars and chatting to some birds ?

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly, Thy micturations are to me As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee. Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes, And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles, Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

Harsh ... .... but fair ?

I made that avatar for him, many years ago. True story that.

A woman, a baby and a dog walk into a bar bath ....

Wibbs - +1 for Magazine and Tubeway Army before Numan went solo.

I'm eventually going to get this whole dang album into this fred ?

Some really interesting stuff here. I'll be honest, I always find the 'humans have evolved to be omnivorous' argument a little unconvincing. In saying that I'm not dismissing the obvious fact that we can eat and digest animal-based food in addition to plant-based nutrition. Rather I believe humans have more or less 'guided' our evolutionary path with respect to our diet to have arrived at our current state of omnivorousness. Without a doubt in my opinion, the over-riding evolutionary impetus in our species' history was our mastery of fire. Ignoring for this discussion the obvious heating and animal-repelling advantages of control of fire, important as they were, I believe the most significant benefit was the use of fire to cook. Cooking food, aside from (usually) making it taste nicer (although it could be argued that cooked food tastes nice because of evolutionary pressures), also makes it more nutritious and more digestible than (pound-for-pound) the raw ingredients. Another massive advantage that cooking their food conferred on early humans was an incredible saving of time and to a lesser extent, effort. This benefit manifested itself in two ways; firstly that requiring lesser amounts of food to obtain the same nutritional value meant less time spent hunting and gathering, and secondly that cooked food can also be eaten and digested much more quickly than most raw food. I would argue that current humans (especially those in the west) wouldn't be that well adapted to consuming raw meat; not just because we would need to eat a lot of it but that it would take us hours to physically masticate and swallow it. Hence my initial statement regarding our omnivorousness.

A genuinely talented guy. RIP.

I guess I do deserve my reputation for being ever-so-slightly grammatically pedantic ☺️