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That's ok then, I'd hate to think that crowds of them were freezing their bollocks off. My wife wouldn't mind though... for some reason she loves the show Outlander.

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

How many Scotsmen are running around kilt-less to provide her with that outfit????

Long trousers on 90 width around 2.5m about the same for the jacket.

You're looking at that...and it makes you think of aspirin?Realllllllly?????????????????????????

And all that's missing here, most evidently, is the rock 'n roll???

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Speaking of Volvo drivers ...When Volvo decided to enter cars in the Supercar series, there were a lot of jokes along the lines of the Volvo cars doing the whole race with the left hand turn signals flashing. Another one was that the Volvo drivers would be wearing hats instead of helmets.

... ducking for cover and grabbing the bone dome now ...

Well yes, Davey St would've had a 60 limit then. You'd be doing 15 under instead of 5...

Your town's lights are obviously set up differently to Hobart's. You have to maintain about 45km/h in the 50 zone in order to get all the lights in Davey St.

A thing that I have seen more and more is that people who (over)pay big money to by a hybrid car (such as the Toyota Prius for instance) are so obsessed about saving a few petrol dollars that they travel between 10 and 15 km/h below the speed limit.

Is this in order to make even greater petrol cost savings? ...I am not sure without asking those drivers but there certainly seems to be a pattern in my highway encounters.

I didn't SAY I believed that mate. . . . when you bear in mind that ALL of the funding we send to the eu is 100% BORROWED as we have a Gynormous deficit and NO MONEY whatsoever in the kitty, it would be difficult to 'Divert' non existent funds to the NHS without also borrowing that and increasing the deficit further at the same time.

I cannot see the UK EVER paying off that deficit, in the trillions and rising, within ten generations. Even when you consider that the credit agencies said yesterday that the UK can Borrow at 0.16% pc interest over ten years, and not much more over thirty years, the debt is already ionospheric and rising.

 

Interesting times eh ?

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

I have to admit to becoming a bit religious when I was 200k from home at 1500ft in a glider on a 44 degree day.And it did work, well at least a thermal turned up and as I climbed back to 10,000 ft my atheism returned. What an ungrateful bugger, the almighty must have said, in between looking after all those planets and stuff.

My faith in the university system has just been restored.

Just watched the Weekly with Charlie Pickering (that sentence alone is enough to make any religious nutjob stop reading).

 

A guest was Professor of Theology and Head of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, Francesca Stavrakopoulou. Two things struck me as being a bit different to my mental image of a Head of Theology and Religion... one, she's extremely hot, and two, she's an atheist. (Three, she's got a sense of humour...)

 

To sum up the segment, it seemed that she knows a shedload about the bible but considers most of it to be bullsh1t. My kind of theologian!

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

So, with all the replies, no one is prepared to help other than fob me off, rather than saying they speak German and be prepared to indulge me this "favour". :(

If anyone is still looking here.......back in the 90's Nina released he song 99 red baloons in both English and German. from whatI can tell the lyrics pretty well translate literally.There is another song and I want to know if it is the samee in translation.

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.

OK, OK,. . . NZ and Canada, as well as a couple of other Scandinavian places. . . .

Makes yer proud doesn't it ? ? This graph MUST be true and accurate, as I found it on the interweb.

 

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The UK is shown as a slighty darker shade of yellow worryingly, . . .surely our Country doesn't contain that much corruption ? ? ?

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 ...

CLARKSON FOR QI

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.

The Liberal Party cannot govern in its own right - that has been the case for a long time. The conservative vote is split between the über-right National Party and themselves. Turnbull had to sign another coalition deal (every Liberal leader has to do this) with the Nationals who are frothing at the mouth over Abbott's downfall whether anyone liked it or not, or have the "LNP" no longer be the "LNP" and no longer able to govern at all.

Even if he took it to cabinet, it would be a case of "we do this, or die". They wouldn't have had a choice! And yes, the Nationals are that bloody-minded.

 

There is nothing more ironic than having the far-right elements of the LNP scream and shout their bitter disgust about treachery, disloyalty, disunity, and betrayal, prior to commencing exactly that process with Turnbull!

 

It's like: "WE'RE the only ones allowed to do that, DAMMIT!"

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.

Because there is already a topic on the exact same subject so what is the point of having two ?

Just makes the entire subject confusing to follow if you have multiple 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

Admin,

Can we close this topic as we already have one running.....

 

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