Further irony, Australian navy had a radio station in WA for sub surface (i.e under water) communications. It was called, you guessed it, HMAS Harold Holt.
Jump to postWouldn't a more constructive thread be remakes whch are BETTER than the original. That said I'm struggling to come up with much; - Zombies Dawn of the Dead (though arguably a different movie really) - The Dam Busters (possibly) The originals were great movies for reasons that can't simply be improov...
Jump to postThe real answer to this post is that countries like Australia quite rightly don't want domestic pets (or any other animals really) entering from coiuntries that already have nasties like rabbies, Lyme tics, etc. The restrictions are dxesigned to (A) ensure those animals coming are clean, and (B) to ...
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And so the A-net dating service fades into the wastes of internet history.
Points about Texas; - weather is appalling !!!! - cities are generally awful and badly planned (must drive everywhere) - boring geography, with only a few interesting pockets as exceptions - the climate again - full of the most ignorant, blowhards I've ever met (not all of course but you know ...) -...
Jump to postThat was superb, All Blacks 2 - France 13 I'm not sure I've ever seen a better performance from the <acronym title="Air Berlin (Germany)">AB</acronym>'s than this. people giving France some stick for their game today but they weren't so bad - ewxcept line outs were shocking - just that they playing ...
Jump to postWorld cup 1966, not really an upset. Less favoured team beat the favoured team amd that's all. For soccer USA beating England 1-0 in 1950 is a much better example. Soviet Union beats USA at basketball in 72 Olympics. Soccer again, North Korea beat Italy, 1966 world cup again I think. That Australian...
Jump to postAt the risk of being ludicrously pragmatic, all dark colurs are hopelss on flags. I have 6 flagpoles at my place and have experimented with what lasts and what doesn't. The German one for example is hopeless as the brwon/black panel fades very quickly and looks like an old coffee stain. Like wise al...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Giancavia" class="quote" target="_blank">Giancavia</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>Nope, Pretty ridiculous question to be h...
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Maytag - dryers, washing machines, have 15 of these and they are bullet-proof and reasonably priced as well
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Cannondale bike frames
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Jack Daniels
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Turkey bacon ...... NOT !
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Max+Q" class="quote" target="_blank">Max Q</a> (<a href="#0" class="quote">Thread starter</a>):<br/><i>but transportation to another hotel and a...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tu204" class="quote" target="_blank">tu204</a> (<a href="#32" class="quote">Reply 32</a>):<br/><i>but I have about no clue what you said there</...
Jump to postCongratulations, just 17 posts for tu204 to get his hoary chestnuts out for us all to ogle ! You did it once so now it's <acronym title="CSA Czech Airlines">OK</acronym> for us to do it, don't take that feed of <acronym title="British International Helicopters">BS</acronym> from my 7 year olds, don'...
Jump to postYou would struggle to do both Islands justice in 2 weeks, better I think to pick one and do it properly rather than race around and spend the whole time on the road, see that all the time. Not to mention the expense of taking your camper on the ferry. You will be going past the Tongariro Crossing so...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BarfBag" class="quote" target="_blank">BarfBag</a> (<a href="#220" class="quote">Reply 220</a>):<br/><i>It's absurd that these two parties hate ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BarfBag" class="quote" target="_blank">BarfBag</a> (<a href="#218" class="quote">Reply 218</a>):<br/><i>There's a disconnect between the views o...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#193" class="quote">Reply 193</a>):<br/><i>I'd say Kherson and Nikolayev are easily...
Jump to postYou've really got to take tu204's rhetoric with a grain of salt. Nothing economically backward about the Crimea at all, he talks like Russia wold be taking on a basket case when it's nothing of the sort. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, H...
Jump to postFair comment but my original point is that the likes of TU204 seem to just avoid is that he and Russia in general suddenly seem so in love with the democratic process and the right to self-determination but don't practice it one jot in their own country and never have. It has been stated that the pe...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tu204" class="quote" target="_blank">tu204</a> (<a href="#160" class="quote">Reply 160</a>):<br/><i>Because we know how objective the OCSE is</i...
Jump to postYes it's well known as a conduit for arms and other smuggling as is ossetia and Trans-niestra. Yes I have been there as monitor for the OCSE, did quite a bit more than talk to a few friends and the criminal element in those areas run the place Now, how do you know they are happy being art of Russia,...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tu204" class="quote" target="_blank">tu204</a> (<a href="#155" class="quote">Reply 155</a>):<br/><i>It may be similar to the case of Abkhazia an...
Jump to postTrue Story. Several years ago some tourists from India decided to ignore "stay behind the ropes' sign at one of our glaciers and 2 of them were subsequently killed under a big piece of ice falling of the glacier. Rescuers unable to reach the bodies for several days in case they too got squashed. Tur...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tu204" class="quote" target="_blank">tu204</a> (<a href="#122" class="quote">Reply 122</a>):<br/><i>Visit Grozny and ask around.</i></font></td>...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tu204" class="quote" target="_blank">tu204</a> (<a href="#118" class="quote">Reply 118</a>):<br/><i>What about the right to self-determination?<...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#116" class="quote">Reply 116</a>):<br/><i> My oldest son lives in Norway, has dual...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tu204" class="quote" target="_blank">tu204</a> (<a href="#100" class="quote">Reply 100</a>):<br/><i>The people of Crimea clearly support Russia ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#40" class="quote">Reply 40</a>):<br/><i>Ukraine gave up all it's nuclear weapons, ...
Jump to postRegardless of weather the sub could be detected and then destroyed surely it's unworkable because any landing beyond a small scale raid that depends on stealth of the landing vessel - as opposed to large protected fleets of amphibious craft - would be a doomed operation anyway. The need for such ste...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ImperialEagle" class="quote" target="_blank">ImperialEagle</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>Quoting aloges (Reply 1):If only...
Jump to postMy wife (Ukrainian) just read on some police blogs that Police from Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Rivne are heading to Kiev to 'protect the people'. Sounds like the shit hitting the fan to me !
Jump to postI recall some years ago the a South Korean president proposing some kind Reunification tax - a 5% sales tax I think. The money at covering the eventual costs of re-unification. Does anyone know if this was enacted and in place now. Surely something like this would be the greatest threat to this loat...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#53" class="quote">Reply 53</a>):<br/><i>BTW 196,000 Indians died in traffic accide...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/blrsea" class="quote" target="_blank">blrsea</a> (<a href="#37" class="quote">Reply 37</a>):<br/><i>One, it was elected representatives, and Ind...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/blrsea" class="quote" target="_blank">blrsea</a> (<a href="#34" class="quote">Reply 34</a>):<br/><i>Yes, partition was a fiasco, and a big human...
Jump to postCome on Rob, India was paradise on earth before and since the Raj. Look how nicely they handled partition for instance.
Jump to postI hope the vote is no, far too many unknowns involved which starts to look like a 'Yes' vote being change for the sake of change only, never a good thing. I lived in Scotland for 3 years in the early 90's and hated Alex salmon and the SNP, everything was the fault of the English - make that the Aing...
Jump to postYou Ozzie soap fans luckily aren't old enough for the godfather of them all, The Young Doctors. Makes Neighbours and H& A look like positively cerebral ! To answer the OP 1 = <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> and Canada 3 Singapore 4 = Ireland and Australia 6 Botswana 7 Hong Kong 8 B...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Bongodog1964" class="quote" target="_blank">Bongodog1964</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>Sports such as luge and skeleton...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Airontario" class="quote" target="_blank">Airontario</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>Hey nobody's forcing you to care abo...
Jump to postLook on the bright side, it's the Winter Olympics so virtually no one cares. The sooner they call time on this travesty the better. I can see cross country skiing and speed skating as actual sports requiring strength and technique BUT Luge, bob sleigh, skeleton, figure skating, curling, etc .... com...
Jump to post[Quoting KiwiRob (Reply 35): My taxes, of course! For the 31% income tax I pay I get pretty good value for money, certainly better value than you get. New Zealand does have a good system. We have friends who moved there for a year - the husband is an <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym> and ...
Jump to post<a href="http://www.howardslodge.co.nz" target="_blank">www.howardslodge.co.nz</a> This is my place on Mt Ruapehu. Early season here for Whakapapa and Turoa fields. We also do ski rental. These are the largest in <acronym title="Air New Zealand">NZ</acronym> and on a live volcanoe and next to Mt Doo...
Jump to postSo basically you want to steal from the hotels. That's your choice of course but if you do get caught the very least they will do is charge you the extra for the unbooked people, they may even boot you out <acronym title="Anderson - Regional (County) (AND / KAND), USA - South Carolina">AND</acronym>...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Geezer" class="quote" target="_blank">Geezer</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>So, is it really that far, or was that globe "...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mariner" class="quote" target="_blank">mariner</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>But Queenstown could probably do well out of...
Jump to postI think you are cprrect OP, nothing wrong with someone genuinely changing their mind on something - to absolutely never do so is completely irrational really. The term flip-flopping however is valid when (a) someone changes their mind/postion but isn't honest about it i.e. a politician doesn't want ...
Jump to postI've been to Ukraine many times and lived there for quite a bit as well. The women are super hot but as mad as women are anywhere (their hotness alowing you to see pass this however). They aren't as easy as most foreign guys seem to think except the ones who are in it for the cash either casually or...
Jump to postSaw my first episode of South Park in ages the other day - Do you like fish sticks - You must be gay fish !
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