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Alarming indeed.Quote:However, even in the best-case scenario, the long-term consequences are dire. The nuclear threshold will have been crossed by a nuclear superpower against a non-nuclear country. Many more countries will rush to get their own nuclear weapons as a deterrent. With no taboo against the use of nuclear weapons, they will certainly be used again. Nuclear conflicts will occur within the next 10 to 20 years, and will escalate until much of the world is destroyed. Let us remember that the destructive power of existing nuclear arsenals is approximately one million times that of the Hiroshima bomb, enough to erase Earth's population many times over.
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I really like the yellow one, nice and bright.
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Well the first one they showed was one of those drivel movies. You'd think they might open with a decent movie. Oh no.
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And the teachers probably say that as if it's a big joke in front of the kids, right?
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Scary stuff.
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I like wearing jackets, this time of year suits me just fine.
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You're really stretching yourself there rahul - we got a time this time round. You've even pinpointed "north eastern" Honshu rather than just "Eastern".
I think the whole area should be evacuated without delay.
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Switzerland if you're loaded perhaps.....
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I once came back with a Guest Information folder thingie. It wasn't much use that.
But shampoo etc - of course!
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Yeah I was surprisingly warm yesterday. Moving about I was sweating quite a lot.
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I just read this article about teachers judging students by their name - and thinking up front who were the good kids and the bad ones.
Good list:
Kate, Gregory, Sean, Charlotte, Jamie, Daniel, Lucy, Isobel, Ben, Sam, Harpreet, Imran, Asam, Alice and Joseph
Bad list:
Bobbi-Jo, Kloe, K'tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Wayne, Charlie, Liam, Ryan
Jordan, K'tee, Kloe and Bobbi-Jo are all names to make some teachers' hearts sink, apparently.
Teachers have confessed to making snap judgements about children from their names on the register.
In a light-hearted debate on a teachers' website, they have listed the names they associate with problematic and charming pupils.
Poppys are seen as hyperactive, Kayleighs as a pain and Ryans as hard work, according to chat on the website of the Times Educational Supplement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4274318.stm
Interesting subject. I know I often have some 'images' (?) associated with names - mostly based on people I know with that name even though obviously it has nothing to do with that new person.
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Have you seen those queues for Expo today and yesterday. Those people must be totally nuts going today, unless of course they just want to waste their money on lining up in huge crowds and seeing nothing. Well, thats the way it looked just now on the news.
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Always a welcome sign.
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...and hows the leg thunderpants...?
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I thought they were surely cgi until I read they weren't. Nice one.
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The Quo were rockin' until they went all soft pop.
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Yeah, it seems a bit weird all this predicting of earthquakes and hoping to be right about them!!!
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It would not be just one meal, it would be an eat all you want of all my favorite foods.
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I want to get 20 days in this season.
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A bath even better.
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I'd have to be pretty long for sure, though I suppose direct from there to Naeba may well be shorter than we imagine.
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Not as memorable, no.
I've been listening to a bit of Air recently - Talkie Walkie, Moon Safari...
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Funny. Pity about the beer (if it's the same one I think it is!!)
Good concerts recently
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Anyone been to any? Haven't been to one for ages.