He's pegged it !!

No question.

I fold. I've done the requisite 100 lines, you'll have to trust me.

I blame the wetware meself...

 

And that's correct usage, too. 'Whose' is the possessive form of who. Some
folk get confused because most possessives are indicated by the apostrophe;
but 'who's' is a contraction of 'who is' or 'who has'. If you're not sure
whether to use 'whose' or 'who's', try it first with 'who is'. If it makes
no sense, then you should use 'whose'. E.g., "How the **** can anyone be
'shocked' by the death of an 84-year-old who had been suffering for ten
years, and who is heart gave out a week ago?" Obviously not right, so
'whose' is the way to go. The original sentence was, and is, correct.

 

I did and I see what you mean ;o)

 

I was in St Peter's Square a few days before his death. I *think* it's a
coincidence.

Actually I agree and somewhat mourn his passing because he had standards and
beliefs and stuck to them come wind or hail, always spoke his mind and
appeared to tell the truth. Kinda the same reasons I have some respect for
George W although he might also be a ****.

 

I disagree. Some of his machine might lie, he might occasionally be
economical but he simply *doesn't need to lie*

 

*snort*

and *double snort*
http://www.ianpaisley.org/new_details.asp?ID=276

Sistine Chapel was closed an' all, grumble grumble.

 

International law sucks. It's not even a bad joke.

 

*nice*
VBG

 

I agree it's an imperfect world but I favour having a large power block
which is mainly democratic, has voter populations from most ethnic groups,
favours business folk and understands that the world is going to die
screaming when the sun goes Nova and it doesn't matter if we consume all the
resources over 5000 or 5,000,000,000 years. He who dies with the most toys
wins.

 

Your a bugger for correction, ar'nt you?

 

... who helped the spread of AIDS in Africa by telling his priests that
they were to tell the masses that condoms were evil and wouldn't
protect you anyway.

Who helped cover up (or at the best didn't crack down on) abuse cases
by Catholic priests.

To his credit he did at least recognise and apologise for (at last) the
systematic persecution of the Jews by the Catholic church.

It's called complications from Parkinsons. The very same thing that my
father is going through at the moment. Although I very much doubt that
the Pope was compos mentis to the last - one of the side effects of the
Parkinsons medication is a slow and inevitable degradation in the
mental facilities. And withdrawal of the medication makes the situation
much much worse.

You think he was monitoring the media from his sick bed? I doubt it
very much.

Phil.

 

Parkinsons does usually have an element of faciltative degradation - if
not from the condition itself then from the various drugs taken to
enable the patient to move.

Phil

 

It can be. Parkinsons effects vary from patient to patient - my father
(being a medical pharmacist) is doing work with the Parkinsons Disease
Society on it. And he is doing it from the perspective of a patient as
well.

The tremors are a side effect of the degradation in brain chemistry -
and the neurotransmitter involved has far more effects than just
enabling movement. It also controls mood (it is involved in the cocaine
metabolism process for example) as well as mediating a whole host of
other neurotrasmitter reactions (seratonin for example)

Part of the problem is that brain control of dopamine is usually very
precise and in Parkinsons patients taking the dopamine supplements that
fine control is lost with the brain being either flooded or deprived of
dopamine depending on which part of the drug cycle they are at.

Indeed it is - and critical damage to one part (as occurs in
Parkinsons) is unlikely to be an isolated incident - the brains of
people with Parkinsons often have degradation in other areas - which
would explain why the severity and symptology of Parkinsons is so
varied.

They are. Even if it is only from the hallucinatory effect of flooding
the brain with high dopamine doses on a regular basis. And it's quite a
severe effect - my father has constant waking hallucinations caused by
the drugs he takes to mitigate the effects of Parkinsons.

Phil

 

It does - in some cases. It doesn't in others. I have a friend in his
80's who has had Parkinsons for 30 years and it hardly shows yet my
father (who has had it for 10 years) is very badly affected.

Phil

 

He personally brought AIDS there? Kinnel' though he was a bit of a busy
bugger, but not that busy. Very easy to attribute that to the Pope. Wouldn't
it be nice of the people though to listen to the complete sermon given by
the priests, as in: don't use condoms, but also don't go and ****
everybody's goat and uncle?

 

Assuning he wasn't talking out of his are, I don't see a problem

 

Monotheistic religions with hang-ups about sex aren't the most appropriate
for traitionally poligamous societies.I guess.

 

Wishful thinking and easy to say

or what ?

 

Tough. Deal with it.

But if they _all_ started using condoms that would (eventually) solve
the problem. Does that not represent sufficient change?