Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org

She's trying to make a come-back!

Luxembourg is a very civilized country! All salaries, benefits and pensions are index linked to the rate of inflation. We all received a 2.5% increase in October and a further 2.5% increase payable in February has been triggered.

As a Luxembourg pensioner, I will receive this pay increase - thank you very much!

No such generosity from the fuckin wankers in Whitehall!

the average NETT income per HOUSEHOLD in Luxembourg has just been calculated to be £1,264 a week (at current rates of exchange).
Does anyone one know what that figure would be in other countries, particularly the UK?

Some years back, when I worked for an insurance company, we ran some queries against the motor insurance database just for fun. One of the queries we ran effectively asked the question if there was any difference between the accident rate for different coloured cars.
To our surprise there were significant differences between the accident rates for some colours as against others. The cars with the worst accident rates were dark grey, black, dark blue and dark green and those with the lowest accident rate were white, banana yellow, orange, pillar-box red and lime green.
we assumed at the time that this difference was down to the enhanced visibility of the colours with the lower accident rates.
Ever since then, when buying second hand cars, I have always preferred vehicles that are in the “safer” colour range although they are extremely difficult to find. For whatever reason, people seem to prefer buying cars that are dark grey or black or dark blue and those colours dominate the second-hand car market!

I wonder what attitude religions will take if, or personally I rather suspect, when, evidence comes to light of the current or past existence of life forms on other planets.
I used to work with a devout Muslim and this subject came up in conversation over lunch in the canteen. He asserted with a startling degree of certainty that no life exists now, has ever existed or will ever exist anywhere else in the universe as that is the Muslim belief!
I am assuming that such people will simply deny the reality of any discovery that goes against their entrenched beliefs. I'm not sure what devout Christians believe in that context but it wouldn't greatly surprise me to find them holding egocentric beliefs similar to those held by some Muslims.
I'm not familiar enough with other religions to know what their attitude to such a discovery might be. Perhaps followers of other faiths might like to contribute to this thread.

https://bgr.com/science/nasa-is-getting-ready-to-examine-mars-rock-samples-that-may-hold-proof-of-alien-life/

Well! According to Tweetsmap, I lost 7 followers last week, all but one of whom appear to have closed their Twitter accounts!