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Nice People 12: Nice in Nice
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Evening all....
Have driven 2000+ miles around Scotland in the last few days looking at a half dozen vehicles for the big adventure, none of which were right to buy. It's at times like this I wish I lived in the South East, where the choice of everything is greater and all a lot closer.
On a positive note however, have seen and heard a lot more support for the No vote than I was expecting.
Tomorrow will be interesting...“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Evening all....
Have driven 2000+ miles around Scotland in the last few days looking at a half dozen vehicles for the big adventure, none of which were right to buy. It's at times like this I wish I lived in the South East, where the choice of everything is greater and all a lot closer.
On a positive note however, have seen and heard a lot more support for the No vote than I was expecting.
Tomorrow will be interesting...
Have William Hill paid out on that £400,000 bet you put on No the other month yet?!0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Evening all....
Have driven 2000+ miles around Scotland in the last few days ....
I half expected you to write 'campaigning' then
Shame you couldn't find anything. It's a long way to go for nothing.
I agree I think the momentum is back with 'no'. I think it'll be close but no will edge it; fortunately.
Either way there are going to be a lot of P'ed off people Friday morning. Reuniting Scotland is going to be a challenge whatever the result.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
Last night, looking at the paper, there were twenty channels to choose from, and not a single thing I wanted to watch. In the end, I watched 10 minutes of Jools Holland, then went to sleep.
Yep! I'm glad it's not just me that's fussy. I do wonder who watches half this stuff.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Evening all....
Have driven 2000+ miles around Scotland in the last few days looking at a half dozen vehicles for the big adventure, none of which were right to buy. It's at times like this I wish I lived in the South East, where the choice of everything is greater and all a lot closer.
On a positive note however, have seen and heard a lot more support for the No vote than I was expecting.
Tomorrow will be interesting...
It will, in fact it's today for me. I've noticed a lot of apolitical English mates posting things on Facebook along the lines of, Please Don't Go Scotland. If the vote was across the UK then Scotland would be going nowhere I suspect.
It's a glorious morning today, only slightly spoilt by me having woken up with a horrible sore throat. I've got to go out for drinks with my colleagues after work too which I don't really feel like but as one of them is off getting married I should make the effort. Free champers is always a good thing.:T We're going to a nice place down by the harbour socan watch the sun set over the water.0 -
We're going to a nice place down by the harbour socan watch the sun set over the water.
Aye, that view and a few drinks with mates is a fine thing to experience.
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
My BT line went down for a few hours this evening, what a night mare, my mobile was ringing like mad with people wanting to know why i wasn't responding to emails.....0
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Apparently Aberlour single malt is on offer in Tesco, so I might treat myself while staying up to watch the results I don't know much about whisky but I've liked other Speyside ones I've had so I'll give that a go I think.
The ark programme was quite interesting. I still find the idea that anything that size was built by these people as a bit fanciful. It would take bloody ages to build a boat that size without modern tools, and with no forewarning of such an epic storm there's no way you'd commit so much time and resources when you've got things like day-to-day survival to worry about. Building the one they did was a huge task and that was smaller than the things mentioned in the tablet.
Oh, and they kept going on about how amazing it was that it worked... while it was taking on water and they were pumping it out (the pumps weren't mentioned in the tablet). I'm not an expert in maritime affairs but I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen
Still, I did like the boat they built, and the history behind it was interesting.“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” - P.G. Wodehouse0 -
Urgh. This is too early to be leaving the house
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The study the woman did, who took the soil samples in Iraq, showed that the area didn't have one flood.... it had LOTS of floods, almost every year - and a HUGE flood every 10 years and a monster flood every 100 years. So, the area was prone to lots of flooding - and maybe one bloke decided to start building the ark to live in, to protect his family/animals when the big one came.I still find the idea that anything that size was built by these people as a bit fanciful. It would take bloody ages to build a boat that size without modern tools, and with no forewarning of such an epic storm there's no way you'd commit so much time and resources when you've got things like day-to-day survival to worry about. Building the one they did was a huge task and that was smaller than the things mentioned in the tablet.
If it was a big project, he might have taken 10-20 years to do it.
They didn't have the full build details, so maybe they got the bitumen mix wrong.
They did show the researcher man the whole house built of those reeds, which was massive and showed that twisted reeds can keep a whole house together for hundreds of years.
So it'll have just taken one fairly well off bloke, with an inquisitive mind, who set out to guarantee to never be flooded out of his house/home again.
Maybe there was a monster flood when he was 10 - and it became his lifelong goal to build the ark for the next huge flood.
And it's just the story of one bloke saving his family and farm animals.0
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