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Please.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 11:57 am
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I'm just going to collect 2 frames from the powdercoaters.

*does little side-to-side hopping-dancey thing*


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 11:59 am
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Which and where? What frames and what colours?


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:03 pm
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1 Cotic Soul - dark blue.
1 Gary Fisher Ferrous - pale blue 'leatherette' finish (due to some rust pitting on frame - decided a matt finish would hide it better than gloss).

South Coast Blast Cleaning in Newhaven.

pics when I'm back 🙂


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:06 pm
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snowflakes


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:12 pm
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The sun is shining!

I've just seen a woman lock her dog in the car whilst she goes to get some shopping.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:14 pm
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Oh yeah.. snow.. hmm.. I like snow, may move to Scotland... Or Scandinavia.

That reminds me, I should get back in touch with that company in Oulu, see if they still need people 🙂


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:15 pm
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It snowed in Zurich last night


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:17 pm
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I'm going to see cut chemist tonight


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:18 pm
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I have three and a half months off work starting from the beginning of September.

vague plan so far is to go to Iquitos, Peru to drink ayahuasca and then hopefully on to Indonesia to start a beginners course in Satria Yoga.

Kev


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:21 pm
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If you give me your iPad, I can hand it back to you 4 minutes 38 seconds later and will have most of your stored passwords off of it.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:23 pm
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Apparently marmottes really do exist


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:24 pm
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in the future, everyone will look like yul brynner


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:26 pm
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Iquitos, Peru

Been there, jumped in a swimming pool with my watch, it was never the same (this counts as interesting right?)


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:27 pm
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A snail can pass through a bird's digestive system and live to tell the tale.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:27 pm
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i recently got a new bike

😀 oh and marmots really do exist 😉


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:29 pm
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Last night, whilst riding towards Hayfield, I saw a ferret (type of thing) walking along the pavement. It looked quite big and well fed. Wondered if it was an escaped pet.

Funnily enough, it was walking towards the Waltzing Weasel pub 🙂


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:33 pm
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I am going to walk up 2 Munroes with my dogs after lunch, and then have curry for my tea.
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Posted : 13/07/2011 12:36 pm
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The resting heart rate of a laboratory mouse is around 600bpm.


 
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A snail can pass through a bird's digestive system and live to tell the tale.

I find that fascinating. I hope its true. Power to the snails!


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:38 pm
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[i]A snail can pass through a bird's digestive system and live to tell the tale. [/i]

This is indeed, very cool and interesting.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:38 pm
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Sorry for the newspaper
[url] http://www.****/sciencetech/article-2013782/Land-snails-survive-eaten-alive-says-new-research.html [/url]


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:39 pm
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The railway viaduct in Stockport is the largest brick built structure in Europe and Preson has the largest bus depot in Europe, so clearly there are things we are better at than the Germans.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:40 pm
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I hate soaps, but my be tempted as a comic book [url= http://www.frisnit.com/?p=142 ]DVB-to-eBook[/url]

Needs a aha "take on me" black and white mode


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:43 pm
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if your breathing apparatus packs in underwater and you breath out slowly all the way to the surface, you could still arrive at the surface with a greater volume of air in your lungs than when you left the bottom.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:45 pm
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oh, and cops don't like when they knock on your door and you answer with
"and how can I help you sonny?". Seriously drops the odds of your being able to weasel out of a speeding ticket.
neither cool nor interesting, but worth bearing in mind. Especially if you're me and have a bit of a tendancy to operate with mouth in gear, brain in neutral


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:53 pm
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[i]The railway viaduct in Stockport is the largest brick built structure in Europe and Preson has the largest bus depot in Europe, so clearly there are things we are better at than the Germans. [/i]

Yes. Avoiding Stockport and leaving Preston. 😉


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 12:57 pm
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Scorpions glow in the dark. Nobody knows why.


 
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A pounds worth of current UK copper coinage in any combination, weighs a exactly pound in weight.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:05 pm
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dope dealer eh ? 😉


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:15 pm
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Gestation period of a sow is 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:17 pm
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Venus is the only planet* that rotates clockwise.

*in our solar system


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:22 pm
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Here goes......since its discovery in 1846, Neptune has completed only one full orbit of the Sun - in fact, it takes 165 years for the planet to go around the Sun..........heard it on the telly the other day and thought wow!

I'll get my coat.............


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:45 pm
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I have tonsillitis, and, much as I have tried to, am not enjoying it.

Edit:oops, pressed return too early.

What I wanted to say was:

Tattoos are contagious and can be caught from swimming pool water*

*according to the rambling incoherent letter/consent form brought home from our primary school yesterday.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 1:46 pm
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Johann Hari decided to lose weight after the Dalai Lama called him fat. Really.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:16 pm
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The traditional English dish [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toad_in_the_hole ][i]Toad in the hole[/i][/url] doesn't require real toads.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:19 pm
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I invented the Pot Noodle.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:20 pm
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I invented CFH


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:25 pm
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Shhhh! Don't tell everyone! How's the patent application coming along, by the way?


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:26 pm
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Just took delivery of my Ti Chris King nothreadset 😀
Mirror shiny.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:26 pm
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Panaracer Mach SS cross tyres need to be at 75psi to allow one to 'rag' ones crosser. Pressures below this make the bike feel like its riding through treacle.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:28 pm
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I invented the Pot Noodle.

You bloody liar, I invented the Pot Noodle and to a lesser extent, the Pot Rice.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:41 pm
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Just outside Madrid there is a village called Daganzo de Arriba (Upper or Higher Daganzo), but there isn't a corresponding Daganzo de Abajo (Lower Daganzo). 😯
[url= http://www.elpais.com/articulo/madrid/MADRID/Daganzo/Abajo/elpepuespmad/19940528elpmad_40/Tes ]It is important...[/url]


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 2:48 pm
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My weight and blood pressure are a lot lower than they were when I started eating the iDave way, 2 months ago.

And they're lower than they were about 10 years ago too.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:14 pm
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Just tested Michelin all mountains and I like them, more surprising than interesting... but they look cool.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:26 pm
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You personally may find this interesting Mol, because there will be uber cool people there discussing the why's of modern art ad nauseum..

Great Birds of the British Isles are four female artists,
Milk, K148, Dora and Amour currently living and working in Bristol, England.
They bring site-specific beautification, to exhibition spaces and disused shops, the diamonds in the rough.
The collective formed in 2009, working closely together incorporating their visuals and individual styles, whilst all concentrating on their own creations - their delusions of grandeur, in the feathered revolution.

The birds combine paintings, prints and photography, with their use of colour, form and essence, allowing the viewer to find each space unique.
Spreading their wings, dropping their liquid styles onto the walls and floors. Decorating, and simplifying, all in one stroke.
Tails become entwined for the 3rd time, the birds are back to 4 again,
a hefty 2 year wait is over and they’re back in their hometown.
We take you up a floor to,

The Upper gallery,
The Island,
Bridewell St,
Bristol, BS1 2LE.

16th-24th July - 12-7pm daily.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:27 pm
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On a pedestrian crossing, underneath the box with the 'press and wait' button on it, there is a knob (like a volume control) pointing downwards towards the floor, which rotates when the beeps are going to give blind/deaf people a tactile way of telling them it's safe to cross the road.

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Posted : 13/07/2011 3:34 pm
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Marilyn Monroe had six toes. On one foot. I forget which one.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:37 pm
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Nice one BigJohn


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:38 pm
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You can see the Great Wall of China from space.

Maybe.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:39 pm
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luton is a really nice town


 
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Poole has the largest "natural" harbour in the world..

[/i]Allegedly[i]


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 3:43 pm
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You can see the Great Wall of China from space.

This is an urban myth.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:19 pm
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Poole has the largest "natural" harbour in the world..

I've played pool in Poole. I've also played Carcassonne in Carcassonne, and am really looking forward to visiting Lesbos some day.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:20 pm
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This is an urban myth.

yeah, I bet the average motorway is wider that the Great Wall of China.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:22 pm
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The Great Wall of China is longer than your average motorway.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:29 pm
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On a pedestrian crossing, underneath the box with the 'press and wait' button on it, there is a knob (like a volume control) pointing downwards towards the floor, which rotates when the beeps are going to give blind/deaf people a tactile way of telling them it's safe to cross the road.

just blind people, deaf people can see the green man 😉


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:31 pm
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just blind people, deaf people can see the green man

blind people can hear the beeps 😉

some people are deaf and blind.

I suspect it helps whoever needs helping.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:32 pm
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Not especially cool, but interesting: stretching doesn't stop you from feeling sore [url= http://www2.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab004577.html ]info here[/url]


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:46 pm
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Length of English motorway/trunk road (i.e. not local roads) = Length of English coastline.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:48 pm
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IIRC, what you can see is a dust cloud built up along the Wall.

I was meant to be in Beijing next week and was going to go and see it, but now I'm not going. 🙁


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 4:49 pm
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Any coastline is theoretically infinitely long, the more close and detailed your measurements the longer it gets


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:11 pm
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Length of English motorway/trunk road (i.e. not local roads) = Length of English coastline.

The English coastline is infinitely long. Fractals, innit.

Gah. Beaten to it!


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:12 pm
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ITV are overprotective of some of their documents and it's starting to annoy me 🙁


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:20 pm
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Any coastline is theoretically infinitely long, the more close and detailed your measurements the longer it gets
nah can't be. The coast line of Peter Viggers' duck pond is smaller than the coast line of the Americas.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:25 pm
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You can see the Great Wall of China from space.
This is an urban myth.

Yes but space starts just a few miles up. Get to 50 miles and you've achieved astronaut status.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:27 pm
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Genuine fractals can't exist in the real world, the idea that any coastline is infinite is merely a metaphor that in reality doesn't hold. The coastline of Britain is finite (as are all coastlines).

But just to be pedantic..

nah can't be. The coast line of the isle of Wight is smaller than the coast line of the Americas.

Just because two things are infinite doesn't mean they're the same size. You can have different size infinities.

For example,

lim (x->inf) of x = inf

but the lim (x->inf) of x^x = inf too

Surely for large x, x^x > x ?


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:28 pm
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lim (x->inf) of x = inf

but the lim (x->inf) of x^x = inf too

Surely for large x, x^x > x ?

that is definitely cool and interesting in some circles... 8)


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:41 pm
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Yeah, IGMC.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 5:43 pm
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The height of an elephant equals the circumference of its foot.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 6:21 pm
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I can fit an entire orange in my mouth, peel it in my mouth and gob the bits back out, thanks to;

A: spending a lot of time working with and observing the behavior of greater primates

and

B: Having a mouth like a black hole


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 6:26 pm
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[url= http://www.flightradar24.com/ ]What's that plane?[/url]


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 6:38 pm
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The Great Wall of China and Space the [url= http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/workinginspace/great_wall.html ]Answer[/url]

So yes they can be seen but no not the only object.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 6:40 pm
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Yeti's exist but aren't a primate, they're a type of rare bear which walks with it's rear paw stepping into the front paw marks making it look like a long foot.

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Posted : 13/07/2011 6:45 pm
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The root cause of a bug I was looking into earlier today was that the date being passed into the database was not being translated into a recognised Oracle format.

The tailwind I had on the way to work was indeed a chronic headwind on the way home today.

The selection of a new car you share with your wife is not easy ...

Sorry none of this is interesting or cool.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 7:24 pm
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Just because two things are infinite doesn't mean they're the same size

Infinite things aren't any size at all, they're infinite. So that's a semantically invalid sentence you have there.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:14 pm
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Some branches of particle physics research deny the existence of infinity.

Partly because of logical calculation. Mostly because it messes up their equations, and they'd be better off without it (and they might get another research grant).


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:19 pm
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Infinity exists as a mathematical construct - whether or not anything in physics is infinite is another question.


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:23 pm
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If you ever get stuck in an avalanche, the best way to get out is to dribble what ever way the dribble goes, dig the other way to get out. FACT


 
Posted : 13/07/2011 8:23 pm
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I can fit an entire orange in my mouth, peel it in my mouth and gob the bits back out, thanks to;

I want to see a video of that 😀

Infinite things aren't any size at all, they're infinite. So that's a semantically invalid sentence you have there.

Define size. There's many people who would disagree with you I think.

Some branches of particle physics research deny the existence of infinity.

In reality? Seems fairly obvious. In mathematics, maybe not.


 
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