Belle Lettre wrote:DD: "Can't be arsed"
It was just some drunken grumbling.
I did thank that maybe...
Belle Lettre wrote:DD: "Can't be arsed"
It was just some drunken grumbling.
Diamond Dog wrote:nev gash wrote:What is point?
Indeed, what is point?
Geezee wrote:Lars Ulrich has just done a summer programme on Swedish radio - sort of like Desert Islands - and I'd never put 2 and 2 together that his father is the famous (in Scandinavia at least) tennis player Torben Ulrich, and that Lars moved to California to become a professional tennis player himself. His father seems really absolutely too cool for school - on top of being one of the best tennis players of his age, he was deeply involved in the 60s jazz scene in Denmark (which was very happening). Lars's godfather is Dexter Gordon.
The programme is in English for anyone interested - Lars himself comes across awkward as usual. He describe's Cliff Burton's death as the biggest setback of their careers.
Fonz wrote:Geezee wrote:Lars Ulrich has just done a summer programme on Swedish radio - sort of like Desert Islands - and I'd never put 2 and 2 together that his father is the famous (in Scandinavia at least) tennis player Torben Ulrich, and that Lars moved to California to become a professional tennis player himself. His father seems really absolutely too cool for school - on top of being one of the best tennis players of his age, he was deeply involved in the 60s jazz scene in Denmark (which was very happening). Lars's godfather is Dexter Gordon.
The programme is in English for anyone interested - Lars himself comes across awkward as usual. He describe's Cliff Burton's death as the biggest setback of their careers.
Lars 'awkward'? He usually comes across as a motormouthed overconfident type, surely. I think he's mellowed a bit in recent years though. Less to prove, maybe.
In the 1990s, [] Kenya passed Israel to become Europe’s biggest provider of cut flowers, which now exceed coffee as its main source of export income.
A flower, like a human, is two-thirds water. The amount of water a typical floral exporter therefore ships to Europe each year equals the annual needs of a town of 20,000 people. During droughts, flower factories with production quotas stick siphons into Lake Naivasha, a papyrus-lined, freshwater bird and hippo sanctuary just downstream from the Aberdares. Along with water, they suck up entire generations of fish eggs. What trickles back whiffs of the chemical trade-off that keeps the bloom on a rose flawless all the way to Paris.
Lake Naivasha, however, doesn’t look quite so alluring... The rotting tissues of hippo carcasses reveal the secret to perfect bouquets: DDT and, 40 times more toxic, Dieldrin—pesticides banned in countries whose markets have made Kenya the world’s number-one rose exporter.
GoogaMooga wrote: The further away from home you go, the greater the risk of getting stuck there.
Snarfyguy wrote:In the 1990s, [] Kenya passed Israel to become Europe’s biggest provider of cut flowers, which now exceed coffee as its main source of export income.
A flower, like a human, is two-thirds water. The amount of water a typical floral exporter therefore ships to Europe each year equals the annual needs of a town of 20,000 people. During droughts, flower factories with production quotas stick siphons into Lake Naivasha, a papyrus-lined, freshwater bird and hippo sanctuary just downstream from the Aberdares. Along with water, they suck up entire generations of fish eggs. What trickles back whiffs of the chemical trade-off that keeps the bloom on a rose flawless all the way to Paris.
Lake Naivasha, however, doesn’t look quite so alluring... The rotting tissues of hippo carcasses reveal the secret to perfect bouquets: DDT and, 40 times more toxic, Dieldrin—pesticides banned in countries whose markets have made Kenya the world’s number-one rose exporter.
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Diamond Dog wrote:"Neorxnawang" is a word in the English language.
Toby wrote:Diamond Dog wrote:"Neorxnawang" is a word in the English language.
Old English.
It's the Anglo-Saxon for the translation of "paradise".
Similarly, the actual word "paradise" actually comes from the Persian, which was used to describe huge reserves of game created by the Kings.
GoogaMooga wrote: The further away from home you go, the greater the risk of getting stuck there.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
Geezee wrote:Until today, on the anniversary, I had never heard of the Aberfan disaster. What an awful, awful event. .
Rayge wrote:Geezee wrote:Until today, on the anniversary, I had never heard of the Aberfan disaster. What an awful, awful event. .
It happened just after I had started at University. I had been billeted sharing a room with a guy called Roger, who had grown up in Abercanaid, the next village up the valley from Aberfan: his little brother knew many of the kids who died. It was seen as an appalling event at the time, dominating the news for the latter half of that year. I'm not sure why the anniversary is so little marked.
Diamond Dog wrote:...it quite clearly hit the target with you and your nonce...
...a multitude of innuendo and hearsay...
...I'm producing facts here...
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.