Comments on: Tin Foil Hat Time

By: john

john — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:40:48 +0000

test

By: Jon d

Jon d — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:40:40 +0000

It’s perfectly legal to sell in pre-metric units; so long as the seller quotes metric equivalents so that customers, critics and casual passers-by can make comparisons.
didn’t it have to go to court before several local authority trading standards departments realised this though?

By: Alan Ji

Alan Ji — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:58:28 +0000

Gordon Bennet @ 3 July 2009, 2:19 pm

“Nothing wrong with representing the Metric Martyrs, however; quite the reverse.”

It’s perfectly legal to sell in pre-metric units; so long as the seller quotes metric equivalents so that customers, critics and casual passers-by can make comparisons.

By: JuliaM

JuliaM — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:17:14 +0000

“I assumed Cramner was having a laugh with this!”

I think he was..

By: Demetrius

Demetrius — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:26:51 +0000

In his post on Cardinal Newman, up for sainthood, Cranmer thinks that 2012 is the right date. The inconsistency of celebrating a man like Newman in terms of the modern Olympics, a secular arrogant self regarding commercial event, and the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty, the Head of the Anglican Church that Newman deserted, does not occur to him.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:10:32 +0000

I assumed Cramner was having a laugh with this!

By: David T

David T — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:09:28 +0000

I will put this in a thread of its own.

By: xyzzy

xyzzy — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:57:03 +0000

It’s the idea of a conspiracy to coverty bring down Comets that I’m enjoyed. If ever there’s an example of fatigue flexing of metal happening in an unexpected (at the time) fashion and re-writing the book on materials design, it’s the Comet crashes. It’s on a par with the deck hatches of Liberty Ships as a defining engineering event.

By: venichka

venichka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:56:17 +0000

Also, the endorsements of the blog down the right hand column include those of the Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Herald (and “Catholic correspondent of the Telegraph) , Damian Thompson; Daniel Hannon MEP – who may or may not be Catholic, I have no idea, but who has written pieces in the aforementioned Herald; and the Great Joanna Bogle “Catholic journalist and Author” (and who, in the absence of anyone from the BIshops’ Conference, took it upon herself to be mauled on Channel 4 News in defending the Pope’s recent, and wholly correct, observations about the ill effects of the contraceptive culture).

So, even if he is as anti-Catholic as the real Cramner was, he is still immeasurably less so than the vast bulk of today’s sick-secularised press and media and general cultural ambiance.

By: venichka

venichka — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:49:23 +0000

Name apart, he seems like less of an anti-Catholic conspirator than a good number of the bishops of England & Wales, Scotland or Ireland…