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alexsarllIt's a bit close out there, isn't it? Feels like walking through soup. A storm would be very welcome.
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guntrip's post reminds me of one of my two brilliant legal innovations from last night*. Ticket touting is, so far as I understand, illegal. Non-online ticket touts normally stand within earshot of the venue security, certainly near to the venue. So why don't the police arrest them? The ones I saw last night were on Tottenham Court Road, an area where they can be found almost every night, in the heart of the heavily-policed West End. They're fairly indiscriminate in their solicitations. One plainclothes officer with a bit of uniformed backup around the corner, and you're done. Why isn't it happening?
*The other was that anyone walking down Oxford Street texting, and looking at their phone rather than the people around them, should have their thumbs chopped off.
guntrip's post reminds me of one of my two brilliant legal innovations from last night*. Ticket touting is, so far as I understand, illegal. Non-online ticket touts normally stand within earshot of the venue security, certainly near to the venue. So why don't the police arrest them? The ones I saw last night were on Tottenham Court Road, an area where they can be found almost every night, in the heart of the heavily-policed West End. They're fairly indiscriminate in their solicitations. One plainclothes officer with a bit of uniformed backup around the corner, and you're done. Why isn't it happening?*The other was that anyone walking down Oxford Street texting, and looking at their phone rather than the people around them, should have their thumbs chopped off.
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Date: 2004-07-16 07:32 am (UTC)Global Warming sucks big poo. Yesterday a man was on the interweb saying how all of our coastal cities are set for c#nt creek in the near future, because of melting ice caps. I thought, "oh yeah. Another end-is-nigh crackpot." It turns he was an actual leading, well-respected scientist type bloke.
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Date: 2004-07-16 07:37 am (UTC)(Not that I don't believe in global warming, but it's always worth bearing in mind how much of what we 'know' will turn out to be nonsense)
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Date: 2004-07-16 07:50 am (UTC)This sciencestist has loads of data from arctic cores to back up his theory that the amount of CO2 in the atmos has a direct bearing on the historical warmth of the globe. We are shortly about to have the most CO2 we have ever had since there has been an ice-cap. and I live by the rive-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-er.
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Date: 2004-07-16 07:54 am (UTC)Like I say, I suspect this particular scientish probably is right, at least as far as regards the amount of CO2. What will actually happen then...I've seen half a dozen scenarios. Whatever does happen you'll have approximately 15% of scientists looking smug and the rest claiming they never said that, they were quoted out of context &c. Unless of course all six scenarios are wrong.
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Date: 2004-07-16 08:07 am (UTC)Them C19 sciencetists that claimed yer eyeballs (or whatever) would explode when travelling above 30mph were clearly wrong by all the accepted standards of the day, seeing as Newton had already established that acceleration and not motion would be the thing that carried any destructive force. Also, it is quite quite possible that humans would have been known to travel at >30mph by that point, using nothing more than a sledge and hill or a quite good horse.
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Date: 2004-07-16 08:28 am (UTC)"its a Molko rip-off"
Date: 2004-07-16 08:33 am (UTC)"Comes across all shy and coy, just another abstract painter".
Re: "its a Molko rip-off"
Date: 2004-07-16 08:43 am (UTC)It's Friday
I'm tired
I'm looking forward to my CCP
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Date: 2004-07-16 08:53 am (UTC)Baden-Powell there,
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Date: 2004-07-16 08:51 am (UTC)NB I was in the cubs and then the sea-scouts, and they have had to constantly re-write the rules cause old Lord BP's ideas have fallen so farther and farther grace ever since his demise.
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