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Not to worry about frozen balls. Sister lives and married a Glaswegian and visiting for the past 15 years I can report that even in the middle of winter the lads n lass' of the city seem perfectly happy to be more than half undressed any Friday evening after 8

At best 1.5 You'd be astounded how much fabric goes into a single kilt - over 2.5m - hated making one years ago because all that bloody pleating is worse than doing even a fitted wedding dress. Long trousers on 90 width around 2.5m about the same for the jacket.

Well I am gay ... and my husband might get worried if i wasn't looking at it that way:roflmao:

Memories - Vincent and Bex powders in the little cardboard box of folded paper - shame some of them were removed from sale ... apparently some of the ingredients were highly addictive in those little powder folds

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The equivalent of the terry toweling hat for glider pilots??? ... ducking for cover and grabbing the bone dome now ...

Dream on - the Hillman Hunter couldn't reach 45 if I drove it off the cliff down at Taroona!

Oh well then nothing has changed since I left in 1993 then

Ok this is the humour section - so are Hybrid drivers the Volvo drivers of the 20 teens???

But Phil... UK national debt per person is 27.54 stirling each head ... around $60 vs. Australian national debt per person is $19,800 ... just for the Federal debt ... and $32,650 each when you add in the state and local debt. The UK can borrow at really low interest rates for for a reason

Ah but "he" chose not to smite you down with a nice bolt of lightning or break you in two with turbulence ... and given 'he' is all knowing he already knew what you were going to think eh??

LOL Yeah she was a hoot. And what I continually find interesting is that as an avowed atheist myself I did read quite a lot of the religious texts (new/old testament, the torah) and so few of the religious people who who want to chat have not ... I put it down to what is required to be religious - its a faith thing

Well member Robbo offered to do it within 7 minutes of your original post ...

If that's the type of translation/validation you are on a very slippery area as cultural background of the translator comes into the equation as does the need to form poetic/sound patterns within the result to match the music - its both contextual translation and lyric alignment. Online translators vary in their capacity to provide contextual translation separate from literal translation and from your post you are looking for full contextual not literal. Contextual translation is very translator specific and that comes down to their personal language history. For me I cover English, Spanish and Japanese languages spoken and English and Spanish written for translation and I have been watching Google translate over the years and for English/Spanish its actually pretty good at giving contextual translations that align with actual spoken Spanish or English (depending on the direction I am checking) ... but here is the issue, MY Spanish form is South American Spanish and Google is a modern Spanish Spanish form ... my 'native' or contextual translation into Spanish comes out sounding the equivalent English from 200yrs ago to a modern Spanish speaker from Spain while Google puts the sentences into modern Spanish. On that basis I use google translate for German/English translation and English/French because my German and French are not adequate and the results still come out in fair English and people I am corresponding to in German and French are able to understand ... and most of that is on technical issues. BUT none of that covers the additional need to not only do contextual translation but to then ensure it fits lyrically to the music ... you might end up with a movement of the wording for lyic purposes that makes for an 'odd' form when translated.

It has both the City of London and Canary Warfe within its lands ... sort of explains the slightly darker shade I would have thought ...

Well our primary school was tiny - never more than 12 kids from Kinder - 6 and the nearest 2 towns were more than half an hours drive away so religion was delivered by visiting people from the towns. As there were only 4 families at the school and the parents were either hippies or apathetic on religion the outcome was ALL kids went to ALL religious instruction - Catholic, Anglican, Uniting and Jewish - we did the lot. Rector Hart from the Catholic faith knew he was on a loosing wicket - nice pictures but all rather a lot of thou shalt not and only a single chocolate egg at Easter for us Rabbi Levi for Jewish faith was even worse off - salt fish as a celebration food and no Christmas with presents or Easter with chocolates - no way! The Uniting church was quite good - lots of friendly booklets and singing to the guitar - got a pass but didn't understand his audience ... The winner was the Anglican - he bribed us with sweets and chocolates every time he came and gave out colouring books AND pencils But overall the winner was atheism - we may have been only kids but we could see that four different groups who could not agree on anything and had to bribe and swindle little kids had problems ... and the idea of evolution sort of made more sense PLUS anything that gave you dinosaurs beat them all! We all turned out rather an unreligious lot. Now that may sound like a made up story ... but it really happened in the 70's in central west NSW.

Hmmm ... if there is a god I think I must have been naughty because he just sent me the most incompetent and painfully thick auditor ... it took all my self control to avoid actions that tend to lead to 5-12 years with a non parole of 3 :-(

Or is QI Clarsons attempt as writing IQ ...

Ummm I have seen her comedy performances and been at recordings for both QI and the News Quiz and actually Steven has a script and works away from it on QI ... and Sandi has a script AND works away from it on the News Quiz. And for clarity I am probably classed as a a gay Luvvie Leftie Uni Tasmania Law and went to Sandi's wedding in London so I am definitely biased ;-)

I moved the two laptops from 7pro and 8 to 10 through download at a public web point (save my home bandwidth) ... then watched the entire months 21gb of home data get gobbled up in 10 days of the damn win10 updates ... rolled back to the old OS and suddenly the months data lasts a month. Outcome - Simple update process and mostly fault free BUT far too many HUGE bug patches and you cannot stop it downloading them ... though I believe of the the patches AFTER I rolled back now allows the use to chose to download and apply patches - may return in a year or two.

Hmmm - Liberals not able to govern in their own right ... probably agree In the House Lib have 73 or 74 with CLP and 76 is a majority. Minority government possible given the likelihood of Nationals supporting part of the policy platform. Labor at 55 would never work as a minority so its either coalition or Lib minority. BUT In the Senate Lib/CLP is only 28 where 38 is needed as a majority So in reality neither Lib not Lab can realistically run a minority government on their own parties platform with the current elected reps. and the right within the Liberals would not accept the level of party platform move that might work through a minority government with the current senate And then there is the peculiarity of the Australian party system - a Liberal party that is a fused liberal and conservative party compared to other countries where the two political philosophies stand separate. Apart from can a minority government work now is the all mighty bust-up that would occur IF the Lib/Nat coalition was not in place as they went into an election. Having potentially/probably 2 conservative/liberal candidates in electorates would appear to be a brilliantly fun political science experiment to see run its course to confirm if mutually assured destruction of both parties or simple annihilation of one is the outcome. Not something I hazard anyone in either Lib/Nat fancy rolling the dice on.

Not quite the same threads: 1. is titled pre-axing (other thread) 2. is titled post axing and appears to support Abbot by having 'say it isn't so' in the title (this thread) This thread may have been populated primarily by people for whom alignment with the 'say it isn't so' sentiment is not applicable but this thread is an 'after the fact' thread and shows that several posters are perfectly happy to say 'Yes, it is so, and about time too' ... and that's the cleaned up for public consumption version

Why close this one? is it not going the way you might have liked??