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  Most Popular Boys Name in England?

  by cofty in

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  anybody want to guess?

  for some years the office for national statistics tried to hide the answer by counting different spellings as different names.

  it no longer matters.

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  Skepsis - You say that "some of them are Muslim radicals". But for some reason you are not concerned.

  Guess how many Muslim radicals are too many?
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  Most Popular Boys Name in England?

  by cofty in

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  anybody want to guess?

  for some years the office for national statistics tried to hide the answer by counting different spellings as different names.

  it no longer matters.

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  Europe is in no way responsible for the Syrian civil war.

  Syrian refugees make up a fraction of European immigration. Of course many young men from Eritrea destroyed their ID documents and claimed to be Syrian children.
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  Most Popular Boys Name in England?

  by cofty in

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  anybody want to guess?

  for some years the office for national statistics tried to hide the answer by counting different spellings as different names.

  it no longer matters.

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  Just to be clear I disagree just as much with Dogon's ravings as I do with those he rants against.

  This is the problem with discussing mass immigration. For too many people it is all or nothing/black and white.

  Real life is more nuanced.

  Not all Muslims are the enemy.
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  Most Popular Boys Name in England?

  by cofty in

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  anybody want to guess?

  for some years the office for national statistics tried to hide the answer by counting different spellings as different names.

  it no longer matters.

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  Obfuscation Scotsman.

  All three variations of Mo are transliterations of the same Arabic name and are pronounced identically. This does not apply to other examples such as Sophie/Sophia and Ollie/Oliver.
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  Most Popular Boys Name in England?

  by cofty in

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  anybody want to guess?

  for some years the office for national statistics tried to hide the answer by counting different spellings as different names.

  it no longer matters.

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  Anybody want to guess?

  For some years the Office for National Statistics tried to hide the answer by counting different spellings as different names.

  It no longer matters. All the variations are now topping the lists.

  The winner is....

  Muhammed.
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  How do I quote on this site?

  by Nevuela in

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  every time i've asked this in an existing thread, i've never gotten an answer, so forgive me for starting a new thread in order to ask again.

  i simply cannot figure out how to quote someone with the standard yellow box.

  i can copy/paste the quote, sure, but nothing i do makes it appear in a yellow box like everyone else.

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  I simply cannot figure out how to quote someone with the standard yellow box.

  Copy-paste the bit of text you want into the "Have your say" box.

  Click at the end of the text and enter a new paragraph or two.

  Click anywhere inside the paragraph you are quoting

  Click the quote box ...

  
  

  Type new stuff below
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  Why is the white race so different?

  by Crazyguy in

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  what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?

  is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?

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  What races? Give me the formal names

  Conversations about racial differences always end up as pointless semantic debates.

  Every attempt to divide humans up into groups is doomed to failure. There will always be exceptions and anomalies. What groupings somebody uses depends on their purpose. All systems are of course social constructs but they reflect real things.

  A doctor considering a diagnosis of sickle-cell might have a more nuanced system in his mind from a policeman who has been asked to look out for an IC3 male.

  We fear that paying too much attention to what distinguishes one group from another leads to discrimination. It is a legitimate concern. It's uncontroversial to observe that exceptional athletic ability is more commonly found among men whose ancestors originate in sub-Saharan Africa or that people from China are more likely to be lactose intolerant. According to some contributors to this this thread asking why some groups have more variety in hair and eye colour is highly controversial!

  Should investigating questions about other potential differences be taboo for science? I'm not certain either way.
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  Why is the white race so different?

  by Crazyguy in

  1. jw
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  what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?

  is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?

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  100m Olympic final - no gingers.

  
  
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  Why is the white race so different?

  by Crazyguy in

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  what i'm saying is the white race is the only one that has a verity of eye and hair colors , so what gives?

  is it that this race was influenced genetically by a group of pre humans that didn't mix with other races?

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  Anthropology abandoned the whole concept of race more than 70 years ago - TD

  It is an affront to common sense to deny the obvious differences that are shared by groups of people whose ancestors share a particular history. It would be absolutely incredible if observable differences did not happen.

  Racial differences are real, the can even be observed by forensic anthropologists from skeletons alone. . All racial differences are on a spectrum or more accurately a bell-curve. All such curves overlap. The interesting bits are at the ends. If you want to train the next 100m Olympic record holder don't waste your time coaching ginger kids in Glasgow.

  In the UK the police use six "IC" radio codes to denote the ethnicity of persons they are looking for. IC1 is White - North European, IC3 is Afro-Caribbean, IC4 is Asian etc. These codes are used because they are meaningful and useful in most cases. When a policeman hears that a suspect is IC3 they can quickly eliminate a large percentage of people they observe.

  All attempts to define race are of course imperfect and subject to exceptions.
  
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  What Was/Is The Dumbest JW Belief?

  by minimus in

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  i think the finished mystery book probably contains the stupidest beliefs ever recorded!

  almost any prophecy publication but especially anything to do with revelation, is unbelievable!

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  Rutherford said a lot of crazy things.

  There was an example of him pacing out how many yards it was from the room where he wrote some of his ravings to the place where was printed and somehow that fulfilled a prophecy in Daniel.

  I read a lot of his stuff when I was in the process of leaving.I recommend it.