Bilboro-lad
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Oh I see. You believe in conspiracy theories too. You only believe in the science you choose to believe in. You disbelieve other science because you choose to because it's trendy. I bet you say you are an atheist too as you believe in science - yet you refuse to believe the leading scientists of our time. You would rather believe the crack-pot extreme fringe scientists that say it's all linked with sunspot activity (though they can't say how that is). Can you tell us HOW you came to your beliefs? Was it a whim? An idle fancy? A trendy thing to do?
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NASA are leading lights in the global warming by human activity camp. They believe it - so why don't you?
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The scientists disagree. Every warm cool phase in the past has had a reason (earth wobble, volcano, meteorite impact etc), this time, despite all the scientific testing equipment no cause can be found. You either believe in science or you don't. You can't cherry pick. What evidence do you have that the earth is in a normal climatic cycle? None? Then what you believe is an act of faith. Are you religious by any chance?
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I know an unconventional way to play the trumpet. I don't even need the trumpet.
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Learned with Trent but not the Trent here. It was the Peter Trent driving school in Sydney in 1975. The instructor was a cantankerous old bugger named Cliff. Chainsmoker. Twelve lessons and passed first time. Took the test in Five Dock, lived in Ashfield at the time.
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I lived in Sydney for 14 years and never saw smoke in the city. There were bushfires (obviously) and we were pretty close to one just past Sutherland on the way back from to Nowra. Probably about 100 metres from the leading edge, but this was in high summer. My brother still lives in Villawood and he says it's getting much hotter much earlier than it did. Climate change has never been in dispute, just whether it is man made or or not, and all the evidence suggests that it is.
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This is climate change. I lived in Oz for 16 years (25 years ago) and we didn't have this problem then (not on this scale).
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That's what I was reading. I never realised what a terrible place Nottingham was. Parents would give their kids to the sweep to get rid of them.
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I've been in the underground one at Papplewick.
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I reckon we are in for a cold one. In 1962 we had the coldest spring on record. We've just had the coldest spring ever since 1962.
Summer of 62 was nice. We've just had a nice summer.
We all know what the winter of 62/63 was like.
Not only that, there is 60% more ice in the arctic this year than last year. When the winds blow over that lot they'll be pretty cold when they head our way. They only have to meet mild air from the med and it'll bring blizzards.
The Met Office are hopeless. They provide the info that the BBC gives out.
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Just been reading about the old victorian sweeps. The reason that the boys had no shoes was that the soot caused cankers so they always went barefoot no matter what the weather,
They were also prone to some kind of cancer of the dangly bits that was fatal in every case. I read a coroners report about a boy who they couldn't get down from the chimney so the sweep thought he'd gone to sleep so put straw in the hearth and lit it. He still didn't come down. They had to call the builders to break down the breast to retrieve the body. Another case was a boy that turned up at the hospital minus his kneecaps and the all the tendons were showing bright white around his legs. Apparently he'd slipped from the top of the chimney to the bottom.
How old were these lads? 15? 16? No, the best lads were just six years old. These are cases right here in Nottingham when Britain had an empire that ruled the world.
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Peas £1, Brandy snap £1, most kids rides £2, Cyclone £2,50, Big Wheel £4.
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What about the one where 'happy shopper' used to be?
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The labs were around the corner from the Priory. A new brick built building surrounded by high wire fences.
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My brother was lead scaffolder on the opera house in the 60s. I worked at Darling Harbour when I joined the railways in '74. I lived there for about 16 years. I used to go to the 'gong' as a guard on the coal trains down to Pt Kembla/Cringila. Best job ever. My Mum was buried in Bathurst about 4 months ago.
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Dunno why but I still think of 1975 as not long ago. Was in Sydney back in those days where my lad was born. The fair today is nothing to shout about, but it's a tradition over 20 years that I go with my daughter. First went when she was 5 and starting school. Now she's 25 and starting a PhD. Still in education after all these years.
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Does anyone remember the Paratrooper? Top corner on the right not far from the big wheels. Best ride on the fair - ever.
Also, what happened to the rockets? Pulling the joystick was great fun.
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Bruce Petford was a maths teacher. I first knew him when he was a student teacher then we had him for two years as a form master. I heard unofficially that he's died (heavy smoker) but not sure. We didn't learn much with him as we were always playing cricket in the nets.
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What about those white youths that talk like black youths. What's that all about?
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I don't understand why people think the government has money. It's just plain silly. They have to attempt to balance the books via taxation but it isn't their money. They don't take it with them when they leave office.
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How about "Can you tell Stork from butter"? I think they called it the Stork taste challenge or something similar where they used such salty crackers that it was impossible to tell (other than Stork was like candle wax).
BTW I think number three was Daz.
Can you imagine calling a soap powder 'Omo' these days?
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I think he means that most sincerely folks.
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The shops will probably have to go back to using brown paper bags like we did in Oz in the 70s, or boxes that the shop had spare when packing the shelves, or even shopping trolleys that old people still wheel around the streets. Plastic bags will one day be a thing of the past.
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We dump 20 million bags per day in the UK - that's a waste in anyone's language.
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Australia's on fire again
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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They are out to make money selling books to the gullible. No credible scientist doubts climate change, it's just the amount they can't agree on.