nzlegend
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no prob here. I myself hate things half screen I open them all full screen and if I want to switch, just click the windows bar to change between windows - easy
soub - clean up your desk top, it`s full of crap!
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Originally Posted By: elswitI agree. 'his slow starts' made me chuckle there
thats the scary thing, he could be a lot faster! his starts arent great compared to other explosive 100m runners, but his finishing is second to none. He reminds of Carl Lewis: average starts but an amazing top gear at about 60m. If you could somehow combine the faster starter of them all - Ben Johnson with the fastest finisher - Bolt, you would have a low 9.6 something record, perhaps even a high 9.5.
I saw Bolt last year at the World champs in Osaka and I was pretty impressed with him, he was a raw 20 year old, but blessed with smoking fast `wheels`. I thought he had potential - but not this much! -
I came home from work and my roommate was channel surfing and stopped on CNN, by chance it was the breaking news of one plane hitting the tower at the point when they (CNN) thought (assumed) it was a Cessna or something, we then watched and saw the second plane hit and were "holy s**t that was a second plane and a damn big one, the CNN reporter wasn't paying attention and took a while register that is was the second plane.
We called over another friend and my second room mate came home and we all sat there gob-smacked until 4-5 am glued to the tube, when the first tower went I was in the kitchen and one room-mate was like "the whole f**king thing just collapsed!" I accused him of smoking illicit substances, there was no way, but sure enough seconds later the replay came on. Soon after I saw the 2nd tower implode.
Having stood on top of the South tower and remembering the immense size of those towers is I still can not fathom them collapsing, it must have been absolutely insane be be near that, you could never truly grasp it just seeing it on TV.
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the dude is the size of a basketball player (1.96m) Michael Jordan was 1.98m.
once he gets the long legs pumping he is awesome, his coach only relented and let him run a 100m race after he broke the Jamaican 200m record...5 races later he has the WR.
He used to be known as a 200-400 runner and here is he defying his size and slow starts by blowing everyone out of the water.
He could set records in 100-400m, yes even Michael Johnson's mythical 19.32 could possibly fall to this guy.
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Originally Posted By: Oyuki kiganMeaning, assuming the photo was real, means that either the person or the capera that took the photo had to escape the attack...
...SPOOKY!
that photo was a huge hoax, that did the rounds in late 2001, if you see the large version, you will laugh at the tacky photoshoping skills.....besides the observation deck was on the South tower ( I once stood on it personally) the first plane that hit the North tower was the one that was flew from the north along manhattan island, the south tower was the second plane (175) which flew in from the south - that photo has the plane flying in from the north...if you are going make hoax photo at least get the basics right!
also amazing sharpness on the image of the plane in that photo, especially considering it was doing 900Kph at the time, a totally awesome shutter on that camera! I want one! -
I have ratios to keep
, so often it's on all the time. Also I watch pretty much all my tv these days on the train (20hours a week I spend on the train - gotta amuse myself!) on my psp, so everyday I am converting video files to AVC video files (playable on the psp) that takes time, so I leave it going at night churning away encoding (currently I am watching '24' just started series one, I am up to 11am and cranking through 1-2 episodes a day chilling on the train)If there is nothing for the the PC to do, I turn it off, though these days it always seems to be busy, like its owner! My p.c gets a thrashing, it certainly earns it's keep.
I turn the monitor off when I am not using it.
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there are a lot of them out there, as many as the Zidane headbutt!
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Originally Posted By: tsondaboyTanegashima, a very small island southern of Kyushu, which is also one of the most beautiful places in Japan.
also occasionally the noisiest ( the JAXA rocket launching pad is down there)
my wife's friend and her family moved there ( we moved into their empty apartment at mates rates
They love it there, they are both surfers and can live the life style they want.
I'd say a JET teacher would be the best candidate for this title, some of them get sent out to bumf**k nowhere, where they are only gaijin for hours. -
that jeep one is great, isn't that a scene from the movie zoolander?
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hey chaps, lets get back onto the F1 2008 hey?
anyway, that was a great race to watch, watched it live via speedtv (good english commentary) at a resonable hour (japan time) on the internet (free streaming).
Raikkonen is wont be on Sutil's Xmas card list this year at all, Sutil must be absolutely gutted.
Nick Heidfield had an appalling race, 4 -5 times on the pits?
Jenson Button must be the easiest guy to overtake, even my nana could get past him.
I just know Piquet would stack it when they put slicks on his car, Alonso was barely holding it together and then they put Piquet on them, crazy stuff. Unless he improves his overall game, it will be a very quick first stint in F1 for Piquet,
Lewis must have been gutted to lose his 40 secs lead at the time, didnt matter in the end though.
Kubica is going to get a win soon, its inevitable.
Barrichello in the points - hisahiburi for that!
Webber is having great season, he will get a podium before the season is out.
Vettel, good to see him get some points.
Nakajima is quietly achieving.
Massa was Massa
Monaco is crazy race, I would love to take a lap in a sports car around it.
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I get one every year these days when the kids get theirs - our pediatrician is top bloke and does them at pretty much cost price.
Haven't had the flu since the 90's regardless of a flu shot ( touch wood).
My company back home used to pay for flu-shot for everyone, cant imagine too many tightass companies here doing that.
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Originally Posted By: pie-eaterI'm not a ManU person. I support Wigan.
SG, if I rememeber correctly you just hate footie so
a) you probably really don't care +
you probably are just being a troll.
Don't need to hear your 'why I hate footie' outburst again, we know it.
But anyway, how about these for a few:
- if he had scored that penalty, his team (of which he is captain) would have won the biggest prize in club football. He slipped and shot wide.
- similar jovial fun would have happened whoever lost, though it being Terry made it super fun, because.....
- he is a full on chav thug (and apparently a rather racist one too)
- it's called 'harmless fun'
- we can
a) I was curious.
I asked a simple genuine question out of curiousity, nothing more.
c) thanks for you reply, the first explanation I know, but I believe your "thug" explanation anwsered my question, sounds like couldnt have happened to nicer bloke.
p.s. to tell the truth I havent had football "rant" for quite a while, in fact I have started to turn to the dark side and have been trying to develop a taste for the game, aquired taste that it is, takes some time...
I by chance happened on the Portsmith -v- Reading game last year and must admit in was one of the most thrilling games of any sport I have seen for a long time.
So many of my friends are into football now, it's a case of - if you can't beat them - join them.
So cut a guy some some slack. -
can someone briefly explain why people are ragging on Terry so much?
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Iwatake used have a pretty decent downhill course, I went there in summer 2002 and that gondola wasnt running anymore so I rode up the course then bombed it down - more than 2 hours up, less than 10 mins down. In 2002 other than that there was nothing much at all in Hakuba. Dave at Evergreen gave me heads up on some local spots but nothing like they have now. Wanna try it out up there in the Hak!
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want to see smilies? here are smilies!
p.s. soubs there is probably a limit to how many you can have in one post, thats why they dont work.
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My option was not there: I dont care - I had that column turned off anyway...
new changes look good, the more functionability the more enjoyable the experience.
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Originally Posted By: tsondaboy
was the razzing guy. 
I like the neener neener better
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smilies rule
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I downloaded the entire Blackadder series a while back - great show.
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Originally Posted By: thursday.
Notice that the Chinese are helping themselves.
I did notice that China are turning down help! thousands are buried in rubble, it's a race against time and the Chinese Govt are declining help (just like Myanmar). Too damn proud to accept it.
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Originally Posted By: tsondaboyVery few buildings can withstand a M 7.9 earthquake, not even in Japan.
indeed, especially if they have no re-bar in them, some of the footage I have has a disturbing lack of rebar protruding for the rubble, 7 stories buildings that were absolutely smashed to smithereens - a pile of rubble about 2 meters high?
A properly reinforced building may not have been able to withstand that 7.8 quake(it got revised) but it would have given more chances for survival - more pockets of space in that rubble. 7 stories down to 2 metres? how many survival pockets in that? sweet F.A.
Those poor people had no chance in hell what so ever. They will find very few survivors in situations like that.
Also those poor Burmese people, what shocking timing to have two major disasters, the focus will be shifting away from Burma who seriously need the all help they can get. Lots of losers, no winners.
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I was...going to try and make that beer festival, but worked then went to Namba for an all nighta Sayonara party...got untidy! so was the beer any goodb then? what channel were you on?