Paper yoghurt pots, which I assumed are very similar to paper coffee cups, break down within two years in our compost heap.

I crumple them up and throw them in along with the labels off tins, the cardboard slips on food packets, coffee grounds, mango stones, all uneaten food and peelings etc. Even meat, which you're not supposed to put on heaps works fine in the tiny quantities we ever leave.

What comes out of the bottom has no recognisable trace of paper cup.

A few years ago, my then boss lived in Neilsen's flat
she knew when she bought it, and it didn't bother her at all. She just said that the roses often did very well.

I wonder if it ate flies as well. That'd make beelzebufo most appropriate.

What next, if they find a bigger one? helluvabufo reallyquitelargia?

That sucks.

"Have you seen my nuts?"

I wonder how they seperated cause from effect in this.[1]

Might it not be possible that the sort of family who has lots of kids is also the sort of family that intermarries? (I'm not going to insert a comment about rednecks here, 'cos being British I don't know enough about it!)

[1] Actually I wonder this about almost all the research I hear these days.

What doesn't help is calling it a geep. A geep is a chimera from a sheep and a goat - so in that case the chromosome count doesn't matter. This is purportedly a true hybrid. There have been a small number of sheep-goat hybrids before, at least one of which had 57 chromosomes.

Trouble is, there are precious few films actually worth sitting down and watching. The bulk of them are sufficiently old that this kind of equipment is overkill considering the quality of the original sound and image.

Yeah, Jennifer's right. If he wants to make a statement about hunger or bananas then paint a picture of some bananas or whatever. Just wasting a bunch of bananas is fruitless.

Most lenses allow you to take a clear photo of an object a mile away - the clever bit is to take clear photos of /small/ objects a mile away!

Looks more like a blood-soaked bandage.

I would expect if you looked closer at the tarmac you'd see it was indeed crazed all over. It's just that the bits would be likely to stay in place as there was no compelling reason for them to move sideways, being locked in by their neighbours.

After all, the actual twist in degrees per meter length of bridge is quite small. It looks much more dramatic in some shots because of the compression of perspective from the telephoto lens.

The good news is they do grow out of it. Unless they're Barbara Cartland, of course, for whom the phrase "Cruelty without Beauty" was coined.

The reason Australia isn't anywhere on there is simple. Queen Elizabeth the Second is queen of UKoGBaNI but /also/ the queen of Australia. And New Zealand. And Canada. And a handful of other places as well. There is no longer a political connection between those states, they just happen to have the same queen.

I am not connected to my neighbour though we have the same milkman.

In England we have bloody awful hotdogs, but at least we have proper mustard.