Feel free to start arguments with me about any or all of the following assertions.
- 01
- Factional terrorism is no excuse for state terrorism. [True in the nineties, true now!]
- 02
- Faith is incompatible with Occam's Razor.
- 03
- Babylon 5 was the best SF ever to hit our TV screens (but not perfect – see under Mark Two).
- 04
- Noam Chomsky should stick to politics, Roger Penrose should stick to interior decorating, and Andrew Lloyd Webber should stick to the ceiling if hurled aloft with sufficient force.
- 05
- Anyone who advocated celebrating the millennium on 31 Dec 99 was a party‐pooper (see under Y2k).
- 06
- Come to that, weeks don't start on Monday, or spring with the equinox. And everyone on 0° should keep permanent GMT.
- 09
- Heinlein's predictions for 2000 AD were laughably inaccurate (see under RAH).
- 10
- No nation to which children are routinely expected to declare their allegiance can be entirely “free”. [Let alone the UK…]
- 11
- Free‐market “Libertarians” are a greater threat to civilisation than Marxists.
- 12
- All philosophy written before the Industrial Revolution is best forgotten.
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- “Dehumanising” technology is a step in the right direction.
- 15
- Time does not literally “move” (see under Chronophysics).
- 16
- English spelling doesn't need a reform – it needs a bloody revolution! (See under Spelling Reform.)
- 17
- Society owes me a living.
- 18
- Green chilli peppers go nicely with lapsang souchong.
- 20
- Esperanto is rubbish – for rather technical reasons (see under Ranto).
- 22
- You aren't necessarily entitled to your own opinion.
- 23
- A single word is worth a thousand pixels.
- 24
- It's perfectly possible to do without fame, wealth, domestic bliss, adventure, consumer goods, mystical enlightenment, sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll… and still have an enjoyable and fulfilling lifestyle!
- 26
- The interesting thing in the news is the gaps. [The tabloids' coverage of John's disappearance hasn't improved my faith in journalists.]
- 30
- The only moral answer to “You're either with us or against us!” is “Then we're against you”. (What is this, a War Against Pacifism?)
- 31
- Wikis (with one glorious exception) function mainly as a way of losing documentation.
- 32
- The only real “racial” link between Barack Obama and Colin Powell goes via the British Isles.
- 33
- Given enough monkeys with enough typewriters, you would undergo gravitational collapse.
(The missing numbers were retired as boring.)