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Love and other Drugs, were it not for Anne Hathaway's nudity, an unremarkable chick flick.

But the nudity saves it, quite a lot of times, enough to make me watch the chick flick all the way through. num num.

I think it was Rodney Rude who said "I'm sorry I'm late, but when I was driving here, I saw two dogs rooting. Well I had to stop and have a look, didn't I !".

I've finally seen someone on TV who isn't an idiot, commenting on 'merican politics.

Bill Maher

now get him to run for pressie

92? looks like most 40 year old euros to me

You have to hear his voice

Gilbert Gottfried's Japanese jokes, but I'll let you google them as some may find these offensive so close to the event

Once again, I haz WMD

send billions and I will oppress my fellow citizenry

J S Bach's toccata and fugue in d minor for the organ, live at the Auckland town hall 1968 ish.

Alice in Wonderland, the Johnny Depp one, very good, kidult stuff 3/5

There's too much panadol in your sandwich...

I wonder what a cat looks like once Tasered.

In which case you can exempt your self by being dead

But he didn't steal his booze!

And in Scotland, there is nothing, nothing, as serious as stealing a man's booze...

A palace compared to what I had...there were 17 of us living in a ditch in the middle of the road, and we were lucky to have it...

middle o' road ?

you were lucky!

Ah, the one world, one government theory? Unworkable for the foreseeable future I think. As nice as it sounds, and I do feel it would be a wonderful thing if we were all one big happy world human family, all paying taxes to help our children have a bright future, no more wars over silly boundaries (much like this stupid horseshit the Thai Yellows are stirring up with Cambodia at the moment), free education at the lowest to highest levels for all, etc, etc. I just do not see this becoming even close to a reality in even my grandkids lifetimes.

I agree if it's intended. Governments worldwide, would never cede.

What I'm seeing is, with the netweb, people behaving en masse, across borders for the same aims, see Egypt thread.

So the regard for borders is lessening in the behaviour of the masses.

Organised one world? never!

Mass flocking? probably.

Borders are going to become a thing of the past soon (well maybe medium term), much like tribal borders in western countries have diminished to a state of unimportance.

Yes I agree though I don't know Sun Tsu.

The probability of aliens bursting out of the chests of all the world leaders is virtually impossible - until after it happens, and then we all say, we shoulda seen it coming.

You have to have all the information for probability to stand up.

i.e. you have to know that, all the world leaders are presently, not incubating aliens.

How can you know that? I wouldn't put money on it.

only the one photo?

Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’

A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be wrought by a major earthquake.

 

It sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic action movie, but scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned federal and state emergency officials that California's geological history shows such "superstorms" have happened in the past, and should be added to the long list of natural disasters to worry about in the Golden State.

 

The threat of a cataclysmic California storm has been dormant for the past 150 years. Geological Survey director Marcia K. McNutt told the New York Times that a 300-mile stretch of the Central Valley was inundated from 1861-62. The floods were so bad that the state capital had to be moved to San Francisco, and Governor Leland Stanford had to take a rowboat to his own inauguration, the report notes. Even larger storms happened in past centuries, over the dates 212, 440, 603, 1029, 1418, and 1605, according to geological evidence.

 

The risk is gathering momentum now, scientists say, due to rising temperatures in the atmosphere, which has generally made weather patterns more volatile.

 

The scientists built a model that showed a storm could last for more than 40 days and dump 10 feet of water on the state. The storm would be goaded on by an "atmospheric river" that would move water "at the same rate as 50 Mississippis discharging water into the Gulf of Mexico," according to the AP. Winds could reach 125 miles per hour, and landslides could compound the damage, the report notes.

 

Such a superstorm is hypothetical but not improbable, climate researchers warn. "We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes," Geological Survey scientist Lucy Jones said in a press release.

 

Federal and state emergency management officials convened a conference about emergency preparations for possible superstorms last week.

 

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With the floods in Australia, Germany, Sri Lanka and Brazil..... feeling a bit left out are we?

We are notorious for the 'tall poppy syndrome' here in Oz, and I think we got a lot of it from the Irish and British working class people who came here from the First Fleet on. As one observer remarked 'Australians are happy to see you get ahead, they just dont want you to get ahead of them ..'.

 

For all that, we persist with the belief that ours is a 'classless' society - talking to an Irish guy recently it was clear that they dont grow up with the same illusion, and his relatives in Boston sound like they are still carrying a lot of that baggage around with them. 'Good Will Hunting' meets 'In the Name of the Father' - naive of me to think that it all went away with the 'Peace'.

Same same NZ

Though we do still get a lot of Brits walking in like they own the place, I think I lost my last job because the female boss was taken with a smooth talking Brit marketer....

I got LK here at the moment, fishing and then a bottle of that er.. lovely wine you gave me, I'm off the wine, gout you know, LK will have that lovely drop all to himself

Fortunately MiWiMee is cooking so it'll all be completely hetero...

guests ....

My worry about "Chateau Cardboard" is that no matter how high grade, the plastic used to line the bag, it's still plastic and thereto will leach chemicals into the wine, turning an otherwise drinkable wine into a hangover, the likes of which may not have been achieved, with a similar quantity of glass encased wine.

There I've said it!

Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane

 

 

A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.

 

That "suspicious package" turned out to be keys, a bagel with cream cheese and a hat.

 

Ognjen Milatovic, 35, was flying from Boston to Washington D.C. on US Airways when he was escorted off the plane for disorderly conduct following the incident.

 

Monday's incident is another example of other passengers essentially becoming the authority on terrorist activity on planes.

 

Recently, passenger complaints have resulted authorities taking action against innocent passengers who went to the bathroom too often on a flight and who were just being annoying.

 

In the hyper-sensitive world of flying, sneezing too often could get you kicked off a flight and questioned by the FBI.

 

Milatovic, who is a mathematics and statistics professor at the University of North Florida, was minding his own business when other passengers turned into super sleuths.

 

[color:red]Passengers reported hearing strange noises coming from a plastic bag. State police said later that the bag contained a set of keys,

a bagel with cream cheese, some other small food items, a hat and a wallet.[/color]

 

When confronted by the US Airways crew about his "suspicious package," Milatovic got on his cell phone. The crew asked him to hang it up and sit down. When he refused, he was cuffed.

 

Milatovic was also charged with interfering with the operation of an aircraft.

 

 

 

Talking bagels

Faaaarrrk!