Guest alex Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 (edited) Clarification Mancy! Just noticed the mistake like. Edited March 24, 2006 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 He makes up stuff like. In one bit of 'Down Under' he alters the lyrics of 'Waltzing Matilda' to make a point about Banjo Patterson who wrote it. Not to mention his tiresome, middle class suburban attitude to things, his complete inability to engage with his surroundings on anything other than the most superficial level, his 'funny' anecdotes, his ridiculously hackneyed caricatures of the locals and my idea of interesting travel writing isn't really stories about 5 star hotels and 1st class travel. Need I go on? 110053[/snapback] I'd question the word "need" there personally. Want is more apt, in everones case 110058[/snapback] Do you still want that ticket dickweed? 110061[/snapback] Ticket for what? You better not be giving him a ticket for a game you can't go to, I'm not having that taxi abusing bastard behind me. 110071[/snapback] Spurs at hyem. Me Dad's away so he's with me so he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 43943 Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 We'll have to go somewhere other than the Trent pre-match. His name is still muck in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetleftpeg 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Anyone want a ticket? Spurs at home a week on Saturday... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Nah, I was taking the piss out of Alex to be fair for boring us half to tears. I was parodying Renton mind as he's eminently parody-able. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Nah, I was taking the piss out of Alex to be fair for boring us half to tears. I was parodying Renton mind as he's eminently parody-able. 110082[/snapback] As I thought Wanker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieshandy 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 He makes up stuff like. In one bit of 'Down Under' he alters the lyrics of 'Waltzing Matilda' to make a point about Banjo Patterson who wrote it. Not to mention his tiresome, middle class suburban attitude to things, his complete inability to engage with his surroundings on anything other than the most superficial level, his 'funny' anecdotes, his ridiculously hackneyed caricatures of the locals and my idea of interesting travel writing isn't really stories about 5 star hotels and 1st class travel. Need I go on? 110053[/snapback] Fair enough, but I don't remember anything like that from a "Brief history of time". 110054[/snapback] In all honesty, it's the one book of his I would consider reading in the future as I need stuff like that simplifying. Bet he's hoyed in a few dubious stories about the scientists like 110059[/snapback] Then I would suggest John Gribbon's books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 We'll have to go somewhere other than the Trent pre-match. His name is still muck in there. 110078[/snapback] Blue plaque on the wall one day, sunshine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10648 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieshandy 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? 110183[/snapback] Quite likely, or could have responsible for the heat needed to kick off a reaction that led to life forming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 20969 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? 110183[/snapback] Quite likely, or could have responsible for the heat needed to kick off a reaction that led to life forming. 110185[/snapback] Bollocks! Where did you hear that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? 110183[/snapback] Quite likely, or could have responsible for the heat needed to kick off a reaction that led to life forming. 110185[/snapback] Bollocks! Where did you hear that? 110189[/snapback] Bill Bryson told him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? 110183[/snapback] Quite likely, or could have responsible for the heat needed to kick off a reaction that led to life forming. 110185[/snapback] Bollocks! Where did you hear that? 110189[/snapback] You sanctimonious scouse bastard! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? 110183[/snapback] Quite likely, or could have responsible for the heat needed to kick off a reaction that led to life forming. 110185[/snapback] Bollocks! Where did you hear that? 110189[/snapback] It was on this morning last week. They had dry ice too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieshandy 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 more likely to get hit by a meteor than die in a plane tbh. Is there not also a theory that life on this planet was actually kick started by a meteor impact that kicked various proteins and minerals into the air when it struck the ground? 110183[/snapback] Quite likely, or could have responsible for the heat needed to kick off a reaction that led to life forming. 110185[/snapback] Bollocks! Where did you hear that? 110189[/snapback] I made it up, I'm allowed to do that, I call it a hypothesis, based on the fact that some chemical reactions require an activation energy, and incoming meteors would provide that. I'm not saying it's FACT, more POSSIBILITIMUNDOLICIOUS. I should keep thoughts like that to myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob W 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 By the way we don't need a Saturn 5 rocket to intercept any incoming meteor There are plenty of ICBM's around that can be modded or we can use the rockets they use to launch the interplanetary probes to Mars etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordieshandy 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 By the way we don't need a Saturn 5 rocket to intercept any incoming meteor There are plenty of ICBM's around that can be modded or we can use the rockets they use to launch the interplanetary probes to Mars etc 110201[/snapback] Or we could just accept our fate, and realise we're not invincible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10648 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 but Jason Isaacs says the only way to stop a meteor is to drill into it and explode it from the middle with a nuke..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15304 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 We could stick HTT on top of a geet big mountain as a hot-air deflector shield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 We could stick HTT on top of a geet big mountain as a hot-air deflector shield. 110212[/snapback] Online campaign and petition to stop the meteor tbh. Sky Sports News wrapped in a flag of Mars outside SJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Anyway there's a bit in it about meteors hitting earth and the effects it would have. It goes into a bit of detail about previous incidents - one in Manson, Iowa and one in the Yucatan Peninsula that's thought to have done for the dinosaurs. According to the scientists he spoke to, if we're going to be hit by one of these things, the first time it'll be visible to the naked eye is when it hits the earth's atmosphere. One second later it'll hit earth. It'll be travelling at such speeds that it'll compress the air beneath it (he compares it to using a bicycle pump) which will cause temperatures of 60,000 degrees centigrade. The resultant blasts and the cloud of ash and dust would kill 1.5 bn within minutes and the clouds would hang around for months, possibly years, blocking out the sun and causing irreparable damage to earth's ability to support life. Even if by some sheer fluke we got a year's warning - which we wouldn't because although these things are massive they are unlikely to be picked up until it's far too late - we still wouldn't be able to do anything about it as we no longer have rockets capable of getting up high enough to do any damage to it - the plans for the Saturn 5 rocket launch were destroyed in a NASA "spring cleaning". Anyway, just something to think about. 1 second away. If we ever got to a cup final where we were comfortably in the lead you just know something like this would happen in injury time. 110012[/snapback] Ive always understood these things are pretty easily picked up? I thought us earthlings constantly searched for them. i know we probably couldnt do much about it except and though! Anymore cheerful friday topics Gemmill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 43943 Posted March 24, 2006 Author Share Posted March 24, 2006 I'm reading Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Anyway there's a bit in it about meteors hitting earth and the effects it would have. It goes into a bit of detail about previous incidents - one in Manson, Iowa and one in the Yucatan Peninsula that's thought to have done for the dinosaurs. According to the scientists he spoke to, if we're going to be hit by one of these things, the first time it'll be visible to the naked eye is when it hits the earth's atmosphere. One second later it'll hit earth. It'll be travelling at such speeds that it'll compress the air beneath it (he compares it to using a bicycle pump) which will cause temperatures of 60,000 degrees centigrade. The resultant blasts and the cloud of ash and dust would kill 1.5 bn within minutes and the clouds would hang around for months, possibly years, blocking out the sun and causing irreparable damage to earth's ability to support life. Even if by some sheer fluke we got a year's warning - which we wouldn't because although these things are massive they are unlikely to be picked up until it's far too late - we still wouldn't be able to do anything about it as we no longer have rockets capable of getting up high enough to do any damage to it - the plans for the Saturn 5 rocket launch were destroyed in a NASA "spring cleaning". Anyway, just something to think about. 1 second away. If we ever got to a cup final where we were comfortably in the lead you just know something like this would happen in injury time. 110012[/snapback] Ive always understood these things are pretty easily picked up? I thought us earthlings constantly searched for them. i know we probably couldnt do much about it except and though! Anymore cheerful friday topics Gemmill? 110219[/snapback] Too far away and too small to be picked up apparently. Unless some nerd happened to be pointing a telescope in the right place at the right time, but it's unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonraider 0 Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 oh well....im sure we will kill our own planet and/or wipe each other out long before a meteor decides to pay us a visit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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