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Dust to dust, so we leave this mortal coil...................
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... the most obscure post yet - and all Deeej can do is play noughts and crosses! Clue me in, somebody!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Its been like a cemetary in here the last 2 days
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
Messages: 4729
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It's Summer.......
People have lives apart from the computer but even more so when there is nice weather outside.....
Actualy, it's been rather busy here compared to past years.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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On this side of the Atlantic, we've been having another heatwave and nobody has the energy to do anything except slurp cold drinks. Even Timmy's been hiding in the refrigerator instead of posting two new chapters a day, like a well-trained webmaster should!
You may be used to these temperatures in Rednecksville, but we aren't. In these parts we don't bat an eyelid in Winter if the odd polar bear ambles across the road in front of us, but it's the first time I've seen giraffes in the field opposite my house. And GWB isn't convinced about global warming? Timmy and Deej'll probably have to move North in a couple of years, 'cos South-East England is turning into a desert - I mean, it always was an intellectual desert, but now it's gonna be a real one, too!
Oh, and on top of all that, we've all been watching the funeral of English Football, so the cemetery comment was very appropriate!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Ecclesiastes 3:19-22
For in respect of the fate of man and the fate of beast, they have one and the same fate: as the one dies so dies the other, and both have the same lifebreath; man has no superiority over beast, since both amount to nothing. Both go to the same place; both came from dust and both return to dust. Who knows if a man’s soul does rise upward and if a beast’s soul does sink down into the earth? I saw that there is nothing better for man than to enjoy his possessions, since that is his portion. For who can enable him to see what will happen afterward?
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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Location: Made in NZ
Registered: March 2006
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Don't think you'll get anyway sympathy, re. the heatwave, from down here. We're freezing our nads off!
Cheers
E Te Atua tukuna mai ki au te Mauri tauki te tango i nga mea
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I'll send you a couple of wintery pictures in half a year's time, to tell you what 'freezing' is. By the way, here we usually keep our nads covered during winter.
(I won't ask you for a picture.)
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I would ask, doesnt mean Ill get it. lol
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... which you rebellious colonials insist on calling Soccer, England was knocked out of the World Cup by Portugal (Oh the shame, the shame!).
Of course, the United States team was knocked out at an earlier stage, but I'm much too polite to mention that!
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Grandfather? Did Portugal beat France today?
I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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I believe in Karma....what you give is what you get returned........
Affirmation........Savage Garden
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Hey Cossie, I am curious as to what constitutes a heat wave for you Brits. I know we use farenheight not celceous so hot around here is when it is above about 85F. Well we have a lot of humidity and so 80% to 90% is not unusual here. I have not turned on the A/C yet as it is only 83F right now with a nice breeze blowing.
When I lived in Lawrence, Kansas attending the Univ or Kansas it would routinely reach the 90's so often I would not go swimming in the local pool unless it was over 90 and I could go almost every day in the summer. It was not unusual to have several 100+ days in a row there, but the humidity was normally in the high teens or maybe sometimes 25% to 30% so it was much more bearable.
Ken
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timmy
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Has no life at all |
Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800
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It's just what you are used to. We start to get excited at anything over 25C, but it has been in the early 30s.
Now you get to multiply by 9, divide by 5 and add 32.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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cossie
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On fire! |
Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
Messages: 1699
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... in the UK - at least that's what the forecaster on our local TV station said a couple of days ago. It seems to be based upon the amount by which the temperature exceeds the seasonal average, and is the level beyond which there is a considered to be a potential health risk for those who are very young or are aged or infirm.
He said that the heatwave level for South-East England was 32C (90F); for North-East England the figure is 28C (82F).
I'd never heard of this before, and I haven't done any research to confirm it.
The temperatures mentioned may not seem very high in comparison with parts of the USA but, because Great Britain is a relatively small island surrounded by very large amounts of sea in every direction apart from South-East, high temperatures are often accompanied by very high humidity. It can feel like walking around in a Turkish Bath! We only get pleasantly dry heat when the wind direction is from Central Europe.
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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Cossie, I can sure relate to the high humidity thing as we often have very high humidity and temps in the 90's in summer here in Minnesota. In the southwest as in Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, it gets hotter but with a much lower humidity of maybe 10 to 30%. In Centigrade I am sure they reach 40C on a routine basis there.
Up here in Minnesota and North Dakota it has a much larger range of temps than in the south. Where my friend lives, near Fargo, North Dakota, it can range from being 110F on some day in the summer to being -70F in the winter. I have personally experienced -40F and my friend had it so cold once that a mercury thermometer had all the mercury down in the bulb and he estimated it to be about -70F. He had to go outside and use a propane torch to heat up the line from the propane tank so he could cook as the propane would not flow. Too cold for me!
Ken
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