Mantas
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I took two 8 year old boys on a Hash run last night. (they took me would be more accurate). It was 8km. I'm gunna be sore today.
Do they do Hash in Japan? (not the sticky brown kind that you smoke.)
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Originally Posted By: soubriquet
The first earthquake nearly chucked me backwards out of my chair, so I knew it was coming from the east. It went on for a long time, and there was a distinct transition in the motion from P- to S-waves. The duration told me it was a long way off and the magnitude told me it was very very big.
Bloody hell Soub! You did well to note all that in the middle of a disaster. -
I was circumcised later in life.
My dad needed a new fan belt for the car.
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Quote:OK, so to recap then....
Rules are rules, and things are clearly signposted, but you decide which ones you and others should follow or not.
I see.
I'm not sure why you decided to compare road safety rules with skiing out of bounds at resorts and the resulting danger to others, but I'll entertain it all the same. 1616 people died on Australian roads in 2007
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Thirty-one per cent of fatal crashes in 2007 occurred on roads zoned 60 km/h or below;
Twenty-two per cent occurred in 65-95 km/h zones and 47 per cent were in 100 km/h zones or above
The same year there were 2 deaths in Australian ski resorts, neither related to out of bounds skiing.
I am someone who has lost somebody from a selfish arse-hole that thought speed zones weren't important. Sure, I'll concede that they are primarily a revenue raising exercise, but hey, governments need money to operate and I'm more than happy for them to extract the money from those that put others lives in danger. -
The chances of me killing someone by ducking the rope is pretty slim,hey.
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Originally Posted By: HoTRoDDo you hate people going 50kmh in a 40kmh zone, one that is a straight stretch of road and has good visibility? Does everyone deseve to be nabbed there?
It wouldn't matter if it was 30km/h or 70km/h, people will still go over the limit. Too many lives are lost to speeding drivers, including a member of my family.
Yes, 40km/h zones annoy me too but the law is the law and it is clearly sign posted.
Why do people need to speed? Are they late for work? Are they going to miss Opera on TV. I just don't get it. -
It's a massive source of revenue here.
All residential areas are 50km/h and school zones are 40km/h. Some wide open stretches of good straight road are 80km/h. Suits me, I hate people speeding.
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I like to run on the beach. Low impact on the joints. I think I'd fall apart if I started to jog seriously on the road.
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Originally Posted By: grungy-gonadsWhat floor are you on?
Sometimes the installation and parts add a fair whack onto the price of the machine itself.
It certainly does. When I used to do domestic installations, the install price was often higher than the machine itself.
I'm not sure if I'd be happy about a 50mm hole in the wall, patched up with some kind of goop, if I owned the building. -
Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver
I don't get what you mean. I know that having the window open would not be effective cooling system....thats what I said.
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What the??Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaveryeah, those things just recycle the air in the room right? They may well cool the air but the outside unit style is much more effective, drawing in and cooling air from outside
Tubby, try keeping your beer cold with the fridge door open all day.
Portable A/C units.
Pros
Portable 'doh'
Relatively cheap
Cons
Noisy inside the room.
Usually come with maximum capacity of 4kW, not big enough for large rooms.
They draw your lovely cool air, that you just paid to have conditioned, into the machine then exhaust it outside through a tube. Not very efficient. (The 4 kW could be discounted to about 3kW)
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Hot Wheels
with a loop the loop...whoo hoo !!!
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But is it free to air? Meaning not via paid subscription.
In Oz we have about an hour and a half of news and current affairs every evening. Most of these are broadcast by commercial networks, and they are free. The government has a couple of non-commercial channels that are free as well.
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Originally Posted By: MitchPeeYou have to understand American media is the epicenter of global attention and this is why everyone gets a one-sided view of this country. British, Australian, etc.
Maybe it was just the places I visited in the U.S. but I found free to air news and current affairs difficult to find at all on T.V. -
Ironing!!!! What a waste of time. All those people standing there for hours wasting precious time and electricity, and for What? So the clothes look flat?
We should start a revolt.
Maybe a 'Wear Crinkled Clothes Day' to get the ball rolling.
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I think Chernobyl has become a euphemism for a nuclear disaster, much in the same way Mc Donalds is a euphemism for junk food.
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Yes, French and Swiss not polling very well at the moment.
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Friendly
US
Indonesia
Fiji
Canada
Japan (more polite than friendly)
Chile
Brazil
New Zealand
Not so
UK
Mexico (because they think your a gringo)
France (because your not French)
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I was just making light of the absurd numbers of dead people.
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Sorry, my bad, I put one too many naughts on. I got the figure from Wikileaks.
Quote:The Iraq War documents leak is the unsanctioned disclosure of a collection of 391,832 United States Army field reports, also called the Iraq War Logs, of the Iraq War from 2004 to 2009 to several international media organizations and published on the Internet by WikiLeaks on 22 October 2010.[1][2][3] The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.[2][3][4][5][6] The leak resulted in the Iraq Body Count project adding 15,000 civilian deaths to their count, bringing their total to over 150,000, with roughly 80% of those civilians.[7] It is the biggest leak in the military history of the United States,[1][8] surpassing the Afghan War documents leak of 25 July 2010.[9]There, sixty thousand dead civilians is much better.
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That's an interesting article from the Guardian GN. How can casualty estimates range from a around 6000 to nearly 1000 000 ? I guess they were quite happy to blame every single case of cancer in Western Europe for the next decade on Chernobyl.
Somewhere in there we could put the figure 600 000 in for a bit of a reference.
That's how many Iraqi civilians have been killed by coalition forces.
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Aunty Jack. This stupid Aussie TV show when I was a child.
"I'm gunna come round to ya house and rip ya bloody arms off"
I really thought he was going to do it.
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Originally Posted By: BillTheBinManAlways wondered what a field day was
It's very unfortunate that it is sharing headlines with Cherynobyl which it will be forever associated with now.
I always thought it was a universal expression.
There was a lot anti-soviet sentiment in the 80's. Western media had 'field day' with it. It's like nobody bothers to check the facts. -
The media are having a field day with this as you would expect.
If Rueters are to be believed then the comparison is not justified.
It's also no surprise that the anti-nuclear activists and people from the coal dominated energy sector are seizing on this as a golden opportunity to push their collective barrows.
Jogging 2011
in General off-topic discussions
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When you said Hash run I immediately assumed you smoked a giant bowl of hash with two 8 year old boys and went running?
From what I can gather, it's a loosely organized, non competitive group of people with connections to either the defense forces, expat communities or both.
Runs usually consist of following a marked trail through the bush,scrub,forest, desert, whatever. Last night we were lost in the bush for a while, then 1/2 an hour later we were running through the concourse of a suburban shopping centre. All the while shouting at the top of your voice.
There's usually a lot of drinking and ceremonial rituals performed at the conclusion of the run.
All very silly really.