Ocean11

Girls are just weird.

> Also heard visibility out the back window is very poor. That's certainly true. When I test drove it, I had to wonder why they chose to cover up half the rear window. That was a really big sale breaker for Mrs11 too. That's a major point in favour of the first Prius.

Jeez rach, where's your sense of romance?

More here; http://disaster.yahoo.co.jp/1163595304/meteo.yahoo.co.jp/weather/jp/tsunami/index.html Arrival times of tsunami on the right column. But since the arrival time has passed for Hokkers and there's no news on Japanese websites yet, it may be safe to assume that nothing's happened (?)

Quote: Originally posted by daver: how could you dislike anyone who comes up with a line like, "besides i hear england is ass soup"? Very easily. They'd probably American (or 'North American') for a start.

It was on the news tonight at dinner time and I grabbed young H11 by the neck and said unto him, "Your mother tells me you're having difficulties with the Lupin IIIsei theme tune on the piano. If you commit suicide because of these difficulties, I'll f**kin' kill you." To which he replied, without missing a beat, "Mon pere, if I felt suicidal about the Lupin IIIsei theme tune, I would sooner give up the piano than kill myself." His mother, taking things rather too far I feel, added "And if you were bullied at school, you could give that up too." What interesting times we live in.

Oh shit, this looks bad. 2m for the orange, 0.5m for the yellow.

There's not that much to choose between the Stream and Prius in looks is there? There are about 4 cars around at the moment that can pretty much be mistaken for Priuses head on. I believe the Stream is one of them. All sort of cockroach-like to my mind. If you're going to drive a cockroach, you might as well get the mileage too...

fjef, the old version don't come with a plug do they? When you're actually selling your old Prius, I'd be grateful if you'd give me a shout, because I might be interested. I prefer the old ones to the new ones.

For a single person going snowboarding a Legacy is over the top, as is the Stream. You might want to think about your footprint. (I've driven the Stream too and it's not a good handler.) And since the Impreza 1.5 l lacks power so conspicuously (I was lent one when my Impreza's gear box broke), why not look for a similar type from another maker? Anti-lock braking is horrible. I prefer to handle crises myself.

If you can make do with an Impreza 4WD, why not go for that? (The 1.5 l versions have no power though) But as a current owner of an Impreza 1.8 l rattlebox, I'd be inclined to look at a Toyota wagon if I was still in the market for a petrol vehicle. Subarus are overrated.

Sorry to hear about that CB. Headmasters topping themselves seems highly reprehensible to me. What sort of example is that? I generally have sympathy with people who can no longer face life, but headmasters should at least have the gumph to resign first and go and do it somewhere where they won't inspire the next generation of suicides.

It depends how many people you're going to be taking with you. The Stream is a bit of a whale, so unless you're taking a group of 5 or more nearly every time, or planning to sleep in it, it's probably too big. In my experience, 4WD is no safer, but it does help to get started on a slippery surface, so it's better to have it, as long as you don't get any wrong ideas about having more leeway for foolishness. Is there any particular reason why you can't get a smaller car?

> I sense some hysteria coming on, which just makes people fall into a sense of despair and not caring. Well the hysteria can easily be explained by a lot more people suddenly becoming aware of the problem and nothing at all being done about it. If you got some obvious action going, the hysteria would give way to a more practical search for better solutions.

> Are we speaking the same language? Apparently not. I think Professor Gray's analysis of why climatologists argue for GW is barmy, and believe that there are enough scientists of integrity and without ulterior motives to merit measured confidence in their current conclusions. And unfortnately we do have to base our conclusions on current scientific knowledge and always have had to. That's where judgement comes in. Some people like you and some Bush people want to postpone judgement endlessly, but the rest of us who have reached that concensus that you lament are not keen to do th

coldcat, your experience with climate modeling software just shows that it's being improved accorded to standard scientific practice. I expect us to create a software model to mimic climate through trial and error, as you do. The fact that errors have been identified doesn't in any way invalidate the whole project, and Professor Gray has nothing of any substance to say on that matter by the looks of it. Terrorism is funding lots of science. An uncle of mine is getting lots of funding for preparing responses to bio-terror. Lots of money is being spent on robot warfare and other science-bas

> About the Antarctic, sincerely, I just don't see why your argument proves me wrong. It doesn't exactly prove you wrong, you're right about that. But what careful reading of the article shows is that while the edges of Antarctica have been warming significantly, parts of the interior have been cooling on the surface due to loss of warming from wind. If you put that into the context of what the warming models acknowledge, that some parts will indeed cool in an overall picture of warming, you can see that the data for Antarctica is not an anomally that disproves the whole picture. And i

Perhaps you could get a Zao tattoo on your forehead to remind yourself that you actually went there. It would be really mean of the management to then throw you out of the baths. I spent a jolly few moments checking out these really bad tattoos . (WARNING - not work safe, and some people are not discriminating about where they choose to get tattooed.)

Relax Bushpig. Chill out.

> But even more important than the truth is to respect other points of view, even if we don't understand them or share them. Yes, Mr Stalin, you have a very intersting point of view about economics, civil society, and race, and I respect it. What a load of nonsense. And boys, you have no control over whether you turn this into a debate or not. You unhumbly seem to imagine you can dictate how people are to respond to you posting stuff you can't defend.

coldcat, I wonder if you can actually read. All the articles you're posting either do not support your assertions, or contradict them directly. When you feel a sense of discomfort in a discussion, it might be a sign that what you are saying can't be defended (if it could be, you'd probably do a better job of defending it. Do you understand now, the issue with the satellites? Do you understand now, that Antartica as a whole is not getting colder?). As for being humble, I'll start when you start. As for my expertise, I have none. But I do make an effort to understand what I read, and to pla

The cooling thing was almost entirely a media-driven thing, not a science-driven thing, that's why 'nobody remembers it' (although they do, especially in discussions like this one). And 30 years ago, there wasn't the computing power available to model climate. > The antarctic cooling down? The satellites stating the earth is cooling down? Read your Antartic article again, carefully this time. And Google "satellites earth cooling" and come back again with your controversy bag a little lighter.

> Instead of answering the questions those scientists pose, the main stream media just discredit them by saying they are funded by oil companies, and things of the like. That isn't actually true. What happens is that scientists knock big holes in what these dissenters have proposed, again and again, and then pointed out the reasons why they might be ignoring the science - i.e., they're paid to do so. There's an article currently in The Independent that has this to say about it: "The warming effect of the gas was first pointed out in 1827 by the French scientist Jean-Baptiste Fo

Home missile guidance program. You're in good company. Hope you work out the bugs before you decide to launch!

> I would like to know how have people with tats been treated in different resorts. Unless you've gone in for a Mike Tyson tat, how would the resort know? And if it's a question of going to the hotel onsen, if they didn't make the tat issue clear when you booked, there's not much they can really say.