Cold Ale - The Blokes' Thread!

[prendrelemick]

From Gilliatt.
“…womanly name of “Iu-i-si-a-wih-si-wih-ti-tsa”, the [Zuni] governor called her a “bag of hard howls,” and said that she had the habit of storing up breath like a horned toad, which accounted for her extraordinary circumference, and her ability to make a noise in the world” - Frank Hamilton Cushing; Zuni ethnologist

I knew a girl like that once, she was called Sh-ar-on-Heg-gin-bo-tt-om. She went from one nomenclaturely challenged group to another when she married my mate, David Pratt.

[Emil Miller]

[QUOTE=soundofmusic;948451]The Breakers Beach Club
“Come in the water. The water is fine”
The summersault layout maneuvers starting at 1:20 are superb:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFsu...eature=related

......they should fire the coreographer.



I hate to think what you would do to this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjxzKZYAWvo

[The Atheist]

I must admit, when my son was walking in New Zealand, I had every confidence I could just go there and find him if need I needed to. After all, I knew he was somewhere on the South Island. How hard could it be?

I'll just ring my mate to go and get him if need be.

I think it is rather nice of him to run around in a Lexus instead of a limo; what does the queen go about in?

Rolls Royce. Gold carriage.

I guess I won't visit England during rainy season then; when is it cool and dry over there?

March 11th.

I walked into the hospital today just for a medical clearance form; just the thought of them touching me and I feel 100%; tell parker I'm ready for that Kahlua...

Excellent!

Your Kahlua's at the table and I'll bring over a couple of those really healthy, hand-made Belgian dark chocolates when I get a sec. (Freud at play? My finger the "X" first time I typed that!)

Was she American; I thought we were the only ones who thought that there were no other countries in the world...

No worries there, ignorance is pandemic.

[Paulclem]

Just seen on the news that there's been an earthquake in NZ.

Hope things are going ok.

[OrphanPip]

I think Atheist is in Auckland, which is reasonably far from where the earthquake was, but ya, hope everything is well.

[The Atheist]

Yes indeed, a long way from us, but a large earthquake hit Christchurch this morning. 7.1 on the Richter, with early damage estimates over $2billion.

Thakfully, as it struck at 4.30 am, nobody has been killed, because the devastation and damage is unbelievable. Roads & bridges destroyed, thousands of houses either flattened or severely damaged.

Pics here:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/im...113677#7073686

[Nightshade]

I hate to sound like a twit but if houses were flattened where were the people who belong in them at 430 in the morning??

[dafydd manton]

Just glad you're OK mate!

[prendrelemick]

My brother and his family, who live in the area are all OK. They were able to reassure us nearly straightaway because of facebook. It has been some use at last.

[The Atheist]

I hate to sound like a twit but if houses were flattened where were the people who belong in them at 430 in the morning??

A combination of lucky escapes and most of the buildings that actually fell down were commercial buildings in the central city and therefore empty at 4.30 am.

Just glad you're OK mate!

No worries, it's volcanic eruptions we have to worry about, not earthquakes!

Auckland has had one every ~600 years for the past several hundred thousand years and the last one was 800 years ago, so we are well and truly overdue.

My brother and his family, who live in the area are all OK. They were able to reassure us nearly straightaway because of facebook. It has been some use at last.

Dead right!

I first heard about it on the internet at about 5.30, so I switched the tv and radio on... nothing.

Back to the internet - information everywhere, the best source being NZ chat pages.

[dafydd manton]

Typical TV - nobody dead, not news!

[LitNetIsGreat]

Forgot that our Atheist lives in New Zealand, glad to read that you are OK and that it is just damage, not people. Scary stuff though.

[The Atheist]

Forgot that our Atheist lives in New Zealand, glad to read that you are OK and that it is just damage, not people. Scary stuff though.

Yes, it would have been terrifying.

I've lived in lots of places that get frequent earthquakes, but about strength 5 is the worst I've felt, and that was scary. 7.1 is 100 times stronger.

Still only the two injuries, although it looks like it has scared at least one bloke to death with a fatal heart attack occuring straight after it and lots of other cardiac "events", apparently.

Just the one bloke left in ICU and they're quietly confident he'll be ok.

Injuries coming through now are from the Darwin Award-wannabes who are determined to kill themselves trying to fix damage they aren't competent to fix.

[Paulclem]

We're lucky in the UK - no vlcanoes or earthquakes of any note. We had a tornado in Birmingham a few years ago where a few streets were damaged.

We do get flooding, which is perhaps the worst event.

Facebook is good for keeping in touch. Most of it is complete ******** but it saves phoning the relatives when you can just chat and send messages.

[Nightshade]

You forget the earthquake in Lincoln a few years back too. Then there was the hurricane in October 87. Of course its technically not a hurricane but a great storm because it was in the wrong part of the world but who is quibbling?