JonM
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Saw a Little Egret up a tree in the village today. Never seen one before and thought it was a heron, but some knowledgeable people came along and checked it on the internet and from the photos, seems they were right.
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1 hour ago, Ullman said:
I really like The Dead Kennedys' "I fought the law and I won" take on it.
Well, their lead singer Jello Biafra has definitely lost a few court cases in his time too. Including one for defrauding the rest of the band of royalties for a decade...
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13 minutes ago, ckn said:
I also like the speed of modern trains.
Shame the UK only has one such line (maybe two?) Going from Peterborough to Edinburgh in under three and a half hours is pretty impressive.
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Two red kites and a barn owl while out on my run this morning. When I was kid, you had to go to Rhyader and be lucky to see a red kite. Pretty much seem them every day around our village now.
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14 hours ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:
Sorry Clash fans but the best version of " I Fought The Law " - The Bobby Fuller Four.
I really like the Oysterband cover, but there's some great ones on Youtube - Springsteen, The Stray Cats, Dead Kennedys. The original (I think) by The Crickets ain't bad either.
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Luton Town came pretty close - they were relegated on the last day from the top division the year before the Premier League started, by failing to beat Notts County, who were already down. They had five years in the conference/national league.
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On 11/27/2018 at 7:21 PM, Old Frightful said:
Just to prove he can keep up with them?
They're more scared of the neighbours cat than they are of people. They don't even run until I'm within about 10 feet.
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13 hours ago, Leeds Wire said:
Why do you need to chase them off?
Cos they're eating my garden. And they seem to do a pretty good job of working out what's a weed and what's vegetables, flowers etc. At least they don't seem to kill the trees like bigger deer do.
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Three muntjacs in our garden this morning. I'll need to work out where they're getting in and chase 'em off without my wife noticing.
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1 minute ago, gingerjon said:
I'm honestly not sure what DNA evidence proves either way.
I think the main conclusion is that the historical evidence, the archaeological evidence, linguistic evidence and the DNA evidence don't match up very well.
Also that the people of the Mendip Hills and the Fens haven't had too much outside DNA since the end of the last Ice Age
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On 11/25/2018 at 6:47 PM, gingerjon said:
The same people who gave us our language and who were, in 1016, consolidating into a powerful unified kingdom were within 50 years facing a genocide that would wipe their entire culture out.
A genocide that left us all speaking English? One that statistical DNA analysis shows is barely detectable in the genetic make up of England's population? (Although, to be fair, the genetic evidence suggests that the Anglo-Saxon invasion in the first place was mostly people already living here adopting a new culture rather than a large population change.)
Couple of new housing estates being built on the edge of the village where I live. Both turned up quite a lot of Anglo Saxon remains. They were running free tours of the digs on Saturday - estimated around 500 people came to have a look round.
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2 hours ago, stimpo-and-kat said:
Part of the toughness of this race is a lack of finishing line.
Yeah, hadn't really thought of that. Knowing that you *could* stop at any minute makes it that much tougher.
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7 hours ago, Copa said:
I did 10k in 44 minutes a few years ago but really bad plantar fasciitis put an end to my running. I still really miss it and wonder if I should sign up to my local park run but I’m worried the pain will return.
Plantar fasciitis should be reasonably preventable - arch strengthening exercises etc. Once you've got it, it does seem to be one of those things that takes forever to heal though.
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11 minutes ago, tim2 said:
Still a good effort.
Good effort doesn't really cover it!
I did 100km in 2007 and remember spending the last 20 miles thinking "I'm never doing this again." I think blisters and leg pain will heal up faster than mental scars
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3 hours ago, gingerjon said:
There are a couple of teams round here who, because of the reality of where their ground is and what can be done with it, play on pitches that fall beneath regulation. As a result they can't enter the full FA competitions nor be promoted from intermediate to 'senior' football.
In this case, Cambridge City owned a ground in the north of the city which was worth many millions - a lot of money for a non-league club. They sold that in 2006 to property developers and after a few years bought a landfill site and adjoining farmland in a village near where I live. They were eventually able to get planning permission to build a stadium + community sports facility on the site (long saga involving a greenbelt site, permission granted then withdrawn, appeals etc.) but have yet to start building, although it seems like all the funding etc. is in place.
This FA Cup match was played on a college sports pitch, probably all that needed to be done was to try to get the college groundsman to hastily paint some new lines. Beating your local rivals from the division above in a cup game and then being ordered to replay at their ground because the pitch size was wrong... could be a bit of a grudge match.
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Imagine the comments on here if this happened in RL.
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I've been up and down Ben Nevis, Snowdon & Scafell Pike in the past couple of years with my teenage sons and we had a few days walking in the Andes last year.
Pretty nice feeling when they're off to university, thinking back to the times when it felt like you had to drag them outside away from the computer or console.
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2 hours ago, Robin Evans said:
Someone put four onions on the top of my car overnight.
Some odd souls in Rovrum
Some right little scallions.
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5 minutes ago, Shadow said:
I can just about handle Asterix in the original
It was quite a surprise to find that the translations have lots of jokes that are not there in the original.
I only own two welsh language books - Asterix is one and Fireman Sam the other.
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You both lose marks for reading Proust in translation, rather than the original
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31 minutes ago, Gerrumonside ref said:
Deep thinking by Garry Kasparov
Interesting book.
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57 minutes ago, tonyXIII said:
Is this just normal market fluctuations or is someone manipulating the price? I ask because the price of oil is Putin's 'achilles heel', though he probably doesn't care as he wouldn't suffer personally.
Not really my area. But the FT says it's dropped 40% since June, still double what it was a couple of years ago. FT reckons it's simply production unexpectedly up and demand unexpectedly down (fears of global trade war) and that Russia will suffer quite a lot at this level.
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50 minutes ago, ivans82 said:
Usual crack . Barrel of crude oil is apparently at it`s lowest in years , yet petrol prices stay the same .
Oil price is nowhere near its lowest in years, that's completely wrong.
It's fallen 10% in a week though, expect prices at the pump to come down pretty soon.
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Ours is 322 mg/l - gave up with the softener long ago.
spuggies and jackdaws and hedgehogs and frogs
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Sounds like you know a lot more about it than I do. Herons are relatively common here (although I only see them once or twice per year at most.) Egrets used to be very rare in the UK, but their range has gradually expanded from France into Southern England over the last 20-30 years. Ibis are currently very rare visitors, but the expectation is that if we continue to get warmer, they'll start breeding here.