quote:Originally posted by Andy-Laa: I so wish I could recall specific facts about this, but I know it's true - it was confirmed by the company itself a little after-the-fact.
In the 70s/80s, there was a company manufacturing nerve agents in England (for the Cold War I think) and, to test it, they found a small town in the countryside and gassed the population - to this day there are still a higher-than-average percentage of children born with defects in the area.
Similar thing happened in America around the same time I believe, but it was never confirmed.
Have you got any links for this? I find it very hard to believe and it sounds like an urban myth more than anything.
Name of the company: Porton Down (a Gvt research facility)
And I got the facts a little skew-whiff; it wasn't civilians. They dropped the nerve agent on their own soldiers - a military barracks/town or whatever you would call it - they had to move out, so there were no known birth defect problems.
Also, as the above article points out, they did laboratory tests in which it was pretty clear the men had no clue what was going on. Hope that helps
quote:Originally posted by Andy-Laa: I so wish I could recall specific facts about this, but I know it's true - it was confirmed by the company itself a little after-the-fact.
In the 70s/80s, there was a company manufacturing nerve agents in England (for the Cold War I think) and, to test it, they found a small town in the countryside and gassed the population - to this day there are still a higher-than-average percentage of children born with defects in the area.
Similar thing happened in America around the same time I believe, but it was never confirmed.
Have you got any links for this? I find it very hard to believe and it sounds like an urban myth more than anything.
Name of the company: Porton Down (a Gvt research facility)
And I got the facts a little skew-whiff; it wasn't civilians. They dropped the nerve agent on their own soldiers - a military barracks/town or whatever you would call it - they had to move out, so there were no known birth defect problems.
Also, as the above article points out, they did laboratory tests in which it was pretty clear the men had no clue what was going on. Hope that helps
Ah yes Porton Down. Privately the army has done a few tests on themselves in the past, but nothing like that could ever happen on the public here. The backlash would destroy any government or company doing so. What I love about England is the attitude that it's not we who should fear the government, it's the government that should fear us.
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quote:Originally posted by kingler: Ah yes Porton Down. Privately the army has done a few tests on themselves in the past, but nothing like that could ever happen on the public here. The backlash would destroy any government or company doing so. What I love about England is the attitude that it's not we who should fear the government, it's the government that should fear us.
Well I'd agree with that, but the thing is, contrary to America, the Government is producing new laws which are quelling their fears - prime example being making all concealable guns illegal - in America's constitution, due to the way they got independence, it says all of them have the right to "bear arms" due to the possible resurgence of a civil movement.
From what you've said, I'm assuming you are English and are also being asked to take part in this fucktard new survey. There's no way it's for anything other than having information on you they can hold against you. Ditto ID cards...ugh. Lame
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I remember back in the late 80s I was really sick and stayed home from school for about 3 weeks. So I had a minor stint of the Days of our lives buzz.
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Mostly, they are bastardisations of Arabic, Italian, French and other generally European words, so more accurately, he used the English versions first.
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quote:Originally posted by Andy-Laa: The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
You also posted this:
"The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters. Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine."
So, which is it?
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