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Tidgy's Dad

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algie/ plankton? please excuse my spelling
Nope the most successful group of organisms on Earth are the bacteria.
They win on many count ; profusion, diversity, ability to live under adverse conditions.
All other life depends on them.
Chicken would taste of nothing if bacteria didn't give it flavour.
Only a few are dangerous.
in one gram of soil you will find about 40,000 different species of bacteria, let alone the combined numbers of each.
And each species can be as different from one another as a rhinoceros is from a primrose.
They can live in boiling acid, ice, nuclear cooling water and under 6,000 atmospheres of pressure.
75 % of the bacteria in the Human stomach are yet to be identified.
They divide parthenogenically, by splitting into two,like the amoeba.
 

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Evening all
(singing at top of voice!!)

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.

Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,

O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

After an undisciplined start - Wales beat Uruguay 54 -9
A good start but a long way to go yet!!
 

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I like the bit about you being able to relax but not the sacrificing bit.
'Tis essential for the religion, the animal is killed quickly and a lot is given to charity, people are happy and it's all pretty good really.
It's not compulsory to be there or watch it happen.
I also think it good as in the West, many people think meat comes in a supermarket, they aren't really aware that an animal has to die to give us meat.
The children often become 'friends' with their pet sheep, so there is much wailing and crying come the day.
It teaches life and death, like gerbils and hamsters do for kids in some places.
 

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Evening all
(singing at top of voice!!)

Gwlad, gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad.

Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau,

O bydded i'r hen iaith barhau.

After an undisciplined start - Wales beat Uruguay 54 -9
A good start but a long way to go yet!!
Yep, the Welsh go top of the group.
England up next.
 

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Didn't see their match v Canada but in the words of one numpty Welsh commentator today when he was talking about Uruguay,
'They've obviously come to play football!'
?
Ireland thrashed Canada, Japan pulled off possibly the biggest shock in World Cup history, by beating two times winners South Africa.
 

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Torus is the Latin name for a bulge or protuberance and is used today to describe doughnut shaped objects like the particle accelerator.
Torus is also the name for the fleshy part of an apple.
Some believe the universe is torus shaped.
 
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