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Maybe one for UK posters? Should Northern Rock be nationalised?
>>By planet ear (Friday, 28 Dec 2007 21:50)
Benazir Bhutto...Whodidit?
>>By planet ear (Tuesday, 1 Jan 2008 14:17)
Ok maybe Jack needs a bit more frivolity.
"There is no excuse for inflicting coasters on one's guests"
Discuss ;)
>>By planet ear (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 16:49)
Coaster inflicion really gets my goat. Why, oh why, oh why, oh why do people think this is acceptable behaviour.... ;-)
>>By Diane76 (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 18:49)
Because they haven't yet filled their entire day with writing letters of complaint to Auntie Beeb protesting their disgust regarding shots of baboons showing off their testicles on Life on Earth.. or similar :))
>>By planet ear (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 18:57)
Baboons showing off their testicles IS bad PE.....adds another 5 years of therapy for quite some men without balls...who shall not be named here.
Here's one to watch and discuss. I may not have posted it if Gryphon wasn't an American himself.
http://www.youtube.com/ [ lose space ] watch?v=3cBiOTvxXcY&feature=related
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 23:31)
oh God.. before the hate mail starts to get in... I mean 'without balls' FIGURATIVELY speaking.
Of course.
>>By Lynn (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 23:35)
From context I have to ask if you actually meant "with out balls LITERALLY"?
But come Lynn where do you stand on the Great Coaster Divide? :))))
>>By planet ear (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 23:43)
Youtube takes ages on my temporary dial up netn so I dunno what the link shows :(
>>By planet ear (Wednesday, 2 Jan 2008 23:46)
Dutch are too cheap to buy decent furniture so what's the point of coasters?
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 00:10)
Well I can't see the point of a coffee table you're scared to put coffee on FFS! :))
Come lv2bs you must have a solid platinum coffee table you can thrill us all by describing! Or just boast about how much it cost! :)))
>>By planet ear (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 00:33)
With all the 'coffeeshops' we got in Holland why would we consume anything at home ;-)
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 00:39)
Ok, time to put my wooden shoes outside my windmills door and get some sleep
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 00:43)
Yes I too should get some sleep really so I can prepare for my ordinary hearty breakfast of bacon, eggs, toms, m'rooms, fried slice and a side helping of stereotypes :)
>>By planet ear (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 00:48)
Maybe Tchock can play you some soothing going-to-sleep music on her bagpipes.
>>By Flagg (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 01:52)
What are any of you talking about? Coasters, balls, Americans, Dutch (???) and the like? DSCo I sense sarcasm or hostility...
special note...according to Lynn...9-1/4 years until continental shelf is breached...so long Manhattan!!
Who buys this here?.....other than Diane76, Ear, and Lynn??
am waiting.
and Ear,,,that platinum table would fit you know where...
>>By lv2read (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 02:58)
PE, that side helping of stereotypes...... you get those....where?
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 16:42)
Hoots man fas like us damn few an' 'ere all deed.
Coffee ya say - aye... many a time we up in the heeghlands of scotland dream of they days we get coffee... nout but porridge an' stale oatcakes for us loons an' queans! Back in the good auld days of the Jacobites mind... Bonnie Prince Charlie - now 'eres a man who could wear a kilt - nae like these times we bide in...
Auch aye, Aye haeve tae toddle off noo - wee Jock's lost his sheep again an' aye got tae get a buckeet o' water from up glen fer the week - they say we'll have running water soon, but i'm nae intae a 'een, give me a blackhoose an' i'm fine!
>>By Tchock (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 17:04)
Good auld days of the Jacobites mind & Bonnie Prince Charlie... now that I think about it, how popular was he still after Culloden?
>>By Lynn (Thursday, 3 Jan 2008 17:24)
To be honest........ I'm not sure if he was really that popular to begin with. Take everything I say here with a pinch of salt because I'm no great expert... (last studied this when I was nine) but it was mainly an upper class war....... He was the "rightful" heir - and he was also Catholic, whereas the Monarchy was Protestant at this time & everything got really confused, and I think most of the peasants didn't really get all that & just wanted to get back at England for all the years of hardship they'd endured... but after Culloden there was nothing - all our "Scottishness" - bagpips, tartan, gaelic was banned..... Charlie himself was dead after the battle........ It is really strange, the chance of history - he marched his army down way passed the English Border & beyond - didn't harm a single civilian & paid for everything they bought at markets........ they come back up chased by the Hanovarians & they turn around at Culloden, when if they'd stopped forty miles south in the Cairngorms they would have won the battle perhaps..... meanwhile after the English had won they of course pillaged & destroyed all the surrounding settlements on their route back home.......
Another weird twist of chance - Hitler tried to kill himself in December 1923 - during his failed revolution of Munich.... had the gun to his head & was about to pull the trigger until the woman whose house he was in kicked it out of his hands due to the fact that she'd just learnt jiu-jitsu...
Bhutto ....... who knows what happened on that day.... but I don't think the Pakistani government are telling us everything... big shock there from Musharraf....
>>By Tchock (Friday, 4 Jan 2008 01:32)
I think he was quite popular with the Scottish, at least until Culloden. After that perhaps only with the upper class ladies.
"Charlie himself was dead after the battle......" you mean figuratively speaking? I know he died in Rome in 1788 which is 42 years after the Culloden disaster.
"don't think the Pakistani government are telling us everything" uhm..you mean there's any government that does?? ;-) I believe it's called healthy sceptisism to be suspicious of any administration :-)
>>By Lynn (Friday, 4 Jan 2008 11:13)
No... I did actually mean he died at Culloden... I thought he did....like I say though - I really know very little about it... I probably should - seeing as I live in the heart of it all...
Oh I'm quite sure there is a government out there that tells us everything. I mean, the probability might be two to the power nine hundred billion eleven million eight hundred and thirty-three thousand seven hundred and five to one.... but it COULD happen !!!!
>>By Tchock (Friday, 4 Jan 2008 19:45)
*special note...according to Lynn...9-1/4 years until continental shelf is breached...so long Manhattan!!
Who buys this here?.....other than Diane76, Ear, and Lynn??
am waiting.*
Lynn didn't say that as far as I can see, she did post some links indicating that some scientists had made what might be called worst case scenarios along those lines.
*and Ear,,,that platinum table would fit you know where...*
Honestly you really should stop this homo-erotic flirtation with me...... it just makes you look a bit sad.
>>By planet ear (Friday, 4 Jan 2008 21:32)
*PE, that side helping of stereotypes...... you get those....where?*
They're almost everywhere you just have to go harvesting. :)))
>>By planet ear (Friday, 4 Jan 2008 21:33)
special note...according to Lynn...9-1/4 years until continental shelf is breached...so long Manhattan!!
Who buys this here?.....other than Diane76, Ear, and Lynn??
No idea what you're on about...... I don't buy coasters, does that help?
Oh, and PE -
>Honestly you really should stop this homo-erotic flirtation with me...... it just makes you look a bit sad.< PMSL!!!
>>By Diane76 (Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 10:14)
Your discordant sounds PE are your strong suite....have you forgotten about Iran?
There is no possibility that the continental shelf will be breached in 9 or 90 or 900 years....climate change is measured in millions of years.
>>By lv2read (Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 18:43)
Nope I haven't forgotten Iran lv2bs I just thought it a bit dull to continually remind you that my predictions were spot on. :))))
Actually I think lv2bs isn't nearly as weathly as he makes out.
Let's see you put your money where you usually put teenager's semen.
Given many think sea levels will rise in coming medium term this will have made investments in Dutch Real Estate a fantastic investment opportunity for you. Clearly when evryone begins to accept that Holland won't be underwater anytime soon you'll make killing with a smug "I told you so"...
Let us know when you'e adjusted your investment portfolio and how you can prove that to be the case to us. Ta. ;)
>>By planet ear (Saturday, 5 Jan 2008 21:39)
This one might be for sale:
http://www.planet.nl/ [ LOSE SPACE ] upload/2833312_7988_1165498921385-wn5.jpg
;-)
>>By Lynn (Sunday, 6 Jan 2008 01:05)
Bangladesh... Netherlands.... All those primative African countries..... who cares...
But I'm sure the day Balboa Island goes under, you'll be the first to cry we shoulda done something....
And climate change is NOT measure in millions of years....
For instance:
20 000 years ago was the end of the Ice Age... the climate has changed quite a bit since then. There are localised climate changes - anyone noticed how the Thames river never freezes over these days? There are heatwaves and mini iceages and cold snaps and run of the mill british weather where it rains all day & you get a good hammering of drizzle early next morning. We don't REALLY know whats going on with the weather. It could be a natural progression - periodic, we've know idea because we didnae have a barometre back in 4000 BC, funnily enough. But there is a definite correlation between MORE carbon dioxide in the air... and HIGHER temperatures... The Ozone didn't decide one day to make a hole over Oceania... I doubt the carbon dioxide spontaneously burst into existence.... what is happen, and i'll put this in layman's terms for you just in case you can't handle big phrases such as "melting ice caps" and "you're going to have to change your ways"....
The more fossil fuels we burn, the more pollution that goes up into the atmosphere, locking in the solar rays that carry heat with it and thus keeps us all nice n' warm during the day. If that heat doesn't escape like it should, it's going to build up - rather like a greenhouse, hence the name - GREEN HOUSE EFFECT !
Fossil Fuels are used in strange things called automobiles - as well as most electrical power stations.
I'd really rather not depress myself by knowing exactly how many cars there are on the roads in the entire globe, but lets just evaluate it at "a lot". So A Lot of these cars are spewing out pollution every day. More and more people are buying cars because more poverty striken countries are coming out of poverty, and can now afford cars - and why shouldn't they, we can... who are we to tell them they can't...??
Perhaps any old monkey can guess what's going to happen if this cycle of car usuage continues. Oh - christ... not global warming ?
Now, looky what happens here:
The global temperatures go up - even a wee bit.. a degree or two
The ice caps melt - the water rises. Many species of animals go extinct (not that mankind is unfamiliar to this accident.... "that animal looks nice - lets shoot it"). and many countries suffer severe flooding and changes in the atmosphere due to the differing pressures now experienced in certain parts of the globe.
Now the weather could be doing this anyway - but we might just be helping it along its tracks. But to be honest, what does it really matter if we have made any real difference on global warming. We should all be using less fuel. We ain't talking running to the hills with a bucket of water & a banjo, here. We're talking walking somewhere instead of driving. We're talking recycling all those christmas cards & shit you wrapped your no doubt lavishily expensive gifts that some poor child slaved over to get less than a dollar a year no doubt. We're talking attempting to buy reasonably local food instead of having lettuce shipped over from Papau New Guinea (do they grow that there??) when two miles down the road they have a fuckin' hectre devoted to the babies!!
We're talking switching off a light when you don't need it on, we're talking changing to more energy efficient products, we're talking using more and more renewable sources of energy....
And no doubt
you - along with countless others of selfish, lazy bewildered by their own self importance and lack of any awareness of their surroundings, people who by some unfortunate gene are as thick as two short planks are too fucking absorbed in their own goddamn fucking suburban sewage works of a life, that they really, really don't wanna fucking think about changing anything about the way they live because that would just be too much fucking effort.
So it really doesn't matter on the whole, if the planet burns up through spontaneous combustion, or floods and all the animals die of extinction, and we all suffer from famine and disease and whole countries go submarine and we blow each other up with nukes from all those goddam muslim countries who got the fucking plutononium from us in the first place, and so what if we all bear arms and our kids shoot each in the street because of a fucking car park space, who cares if we've fucked up the earth & every living organism on it - because we just fucking amused ourselves to death.
>>By Tchock (Sunday, 6 Jan 2008 04:25)
In 9-1/4 years, WHAT is going to happen?
You have no idea what you are saying.....you make NO sense. Next year there will be more cars, more houses, more roads, more people, etc. You are chasing windmills.
>>By lv2read (Sunday, 6 Jan 2008 18:35)
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