Recent content by Frost

Well, clearly the general readership around here on the whole likes the big brother keeping unsavory things off the radar (so utterly unpleasant and wholly unnecessary drama, dear), so bully for you, I guess. You do you, and I'll find people who might give a damn somewhere else.

Google is optimised to your preferences. Your search results are yours only. They won't be the same for others.

Yeah, that's not going to happen. As a locked thread it's not going to be activated ever again, and that's going to push it down at a great speed. There are always going to be people making domain-specific searches, but that's a tiny minority. That tiny minority is often enough to keep a subject...

Oh, it'll sink soon enough in the google search as well and the whole thing can be forgotten and buried, but sure, be happy with the admin team and compliment them frequently on their not entirely overt censorship on the issue. Maybe that'll do you some good.

The reason to purge the thread and then lock it, but let it remain as a lifeless zombie is simply to be able to pretend simultaneously that you are "allowing" discussion and free exchange of ideas (while aggressively removing any other discussion on the matter) and effectively strangling it...

Heh. That's an interesting question. There's a phenomenon called the Dunning-Krueger effect that might be working here. I'll quote the first paragraph from wikipedia: "The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority...

Oh, for heaven's sake. You do realise that these are the kinds of images people are accustomed to seeing: http://modernfarmer.com/2014/12/11-photos-donkeys-carrying-heavy-loads/ Yes, the animals clearly seem overloaded to anyone who knows anything about equines, but that's the baseline for...

I know I'm far more strict about this than others, but in my opinion a dog owner should call his/her dog to heel whenever *anyone* - be it a horse and a rider, another dog walker or even just some lone human taking a stroll - comes close, and only allow the dog to approach the other party if...

I dug out some old notes from my own research into travel distances, but now I notice that you say "would", not "could". Oh well, I'll paste my notes here anyway, might be of interest to you despite not being exactly what you requested. -- mounted knight & destrier - up to 100km/d but "normal"...

I take it that it's not common in the UK to use studded shoes during winters, then. Is it because there is relatively little time when they would be useful, or is there another reason? Around here (I'm Nordic) winter studs are something that's par for the course, but of course our icy season is...

It's UAE. They get away with treating large swathes of creatures, including a huge number of humans, worse than trash. Nobody's able to take them to task for their treatment of e.g. the migrant workers either. What can I say? Money is the ultimate green light.