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| JohntheFinn | First Free Expression meet - join us in Romania this May | 9 | Oct 4 2008, 5:00 AM EDT by kamihi | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 6 2008, 10:14 AM EDT
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I'm meeting up with Claes and hopefully a few other old chums from VT in Romania next month. Do join us.
I thought of having the get together in Dracula's castle, but I can't see myself staying in a place with no mirrors. (Waits for chuckle - not a sausage.) I look forward to getting pleasantly sloshed on bats' blood fermented in goat's bladders or whatever it is they drink down there.
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| Gedda | HELLOooooo, its very quiet in here !!! | 8 | Jul 2 2008, 7:05 PM EDT by Adelaidean | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 19 2008, 10:16 PM EDT
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Where is everyone ?. Gone on holiday ?. Nothing to say ?. Saving seals ?. Oh well, back to the house painting, Gedda
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| JohntheFinn | First date nerves | 9 | Jun 14 2008, 4:35 PM EDT by MrsFlower | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 25 2008, 5:06 AM EDT
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As my date with the former Louise80 approaches, I'm in a panic over what to wear. I've narrowed it down to a white Boss jacket with a charcoal-grey Marimekko shirt, but I'm totally at a loss for trousers. Pants. Legwear.
Got any suggestions? For background, here are my plans for the evening: posh island restaurant, great food, fine wine, and a romantic stroll on the shore in the sunset culminating in a clumsy seduction attempt.
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| Purpleshade | Have you ever seen a cloud of dragonflies? | 3 | May 17 2008, 12:56 AM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: May 13 2008, 9:13 AM EDT
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I'm on holiday at the moment staying with friends in Exmouth on the northwest coast of Australia.
Exmouth is usually extremely dry, it only rains rarely, usually in connection with a cyclone. Even the cyclone that actually hit the town earlier this year didn't bring any rain. But there was a LOT of rain here a few weeks ago, the tail end of a cyclone at sea. It caused a fair bit of damage, with roads washed away and the town was cut off for a few days. Locals are saying that there's probably been some damage to the reef as loads of sand has moved on the beaches. Great areas of land in the bush that are usually bone dry are now lakes. It means there are a lot more insects than usual. Lots of mozzies of course, stick insects all over the garden with lizards scampering about feeding on them. I missed the butterflies but there are still great clounds of dragonflies near the flooded areas. I wouldn't have thought it possible to see so many dragonflies in one place, they were quite amazing to drive through on the way back from the Cape National Park, hundreds and hundreds of them. Occasionally a clound of them makes it's way into town or along the beach.
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| mkirkwood | A Universal Truth | 7 | Apr 25 2008, 4:59 AM EDT by JohntheFinn | ||||
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Thread started: Apr 2 2008, 12:07 PM EDT
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This is the start of a painting I've been meaning to create for ages. It's just a sketch at the moment but it's supposed to show that people of all faiths can live together in peace. (on a canvas anyway)
A mate down the pub saw it and said "Are you really trying to get your brains blown out by an Islamic fundamentalist who might take acception to a veiled figure glaring in the background at Buddha wearing a "Star of David" pendant, contemplating a crucifix. What do you think? http://freeexpression.wetpaint.com/page/A+Universal+Truth
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| mkirkwood | Giant Panda | 2 | Apr 2 2008, 7:27 PM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 30 2008, 9:47 AM EDT
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Listening to the radio the other day someone suggested allowing the "endangered" giant panda to become extinct arguing that it has served it's purpose on earth. Initially I thought it was a ridiculous suggestion but then started contemplating.
Do human's have a moral duty to "save" all living species? What makes us think that we even can? Is the giant panda endangered because of human activity on earth? Are human's mind boggling arrogant thinking they can and must control everything? If our ancestors had saved endagered species we would be sharing the earth with dinosaurs today. I for one, do not relish the thought of strolling home from the pub late at night and bumping into a hungry tyranosaurus rex.
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| Gillbob | I ordered no snow! | 12 | Mar 31 2008, 3:01 PM EDT by Gillbob | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 22 2008, 2:50 PM EDT
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OK - which of you Southern Hemisphere weather hoarders has our sunshine?? Hands off! Give it back! Its Spring and it has hailed AND snowed today.
Thieves I claim!!!!
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| Gedda | Daylight Bloody Saving | 5 | Mar 31 2008, 8:27 AM EDT by Gillbob | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 29 2008, 10:00 PM EDT
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Thank God thats over, at least until we have to go through it all again next year !. Far as I can see it causes havoc and nobody seems to know the correct time anywhere in the world. Its hillarious listening to the radio and hearing the radio announcers trying to work it out and usually giving up, or getting it wrong. I really do hope that when it goes to a refferendem next year it gets voted out, forever !. As if Australians NEED more exposure to the sunlight or even MORE time to cram more stuff into the day. So, YAY I'm glad its over. Gedda
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| JohntheFinn | How to Do In a Seal Pup | 3 | Mar 29 2008, 6:27 PM EDT by JohntheFinn | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 28 2008, 5:30 AM EDT
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If baseball bats are unacceptable, how could the slaughter be made more media-friendly?
Points will be awarded for aesthetically pleasing entries. Extra points can be earned for environmental friendliness and cost-effectiveness. With the boom in "experiential tourism", would you join a seal clubbing tour, and how much would you pay for yet another thrill of a lifetime?
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| mkirkwood | Global warming. | 8 | Mar 28 2008, 8:38 PM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 20 2008, 7:03 PM EDT
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What is all the fuss about global warming? There is nothing we can do about it.
Climate change is caused by the "precession of equinoxes" and the earth wobbling on it's axis. Cutting CO2 emmissions will not make the slightest bit of difference. There have been recorded periods of warming and "ice ages" over millennia. Discuss.
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| mkirkwood | Annual seal cull.. | 1 | Mar 28 2008, 5:26 AM EDT by JohntheFinn | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 26 2008, 4:45 PM EDT
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Thsi week Canada's annual seal cull will begin. According to the Daily Express the Canadian government have confirmed that more than 275,000 seal pups will be bludgeoned to death.
Discuss.
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| mkirkwood | Logo competition. (page: 1 2) | 26 | Mar 26 2008, 10:21 PM EDT by Gedda | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 28 2008, 12:27 PM EST
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Add you votes for your favourite logo here or upload your own.
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| mkirkwood | Internet integrity. | 4 | Mar 26 2008, 7:47 AM EDT by mkirkwood | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 24 2008, 10:33 PM EDT
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I hate starting a thread with a link but...
http://forum.virtualtourist.com/discussion-410931-1-1-Technical-0-0-World-discussion.html Can someone with access there please post. "Well that's going to bugger up trying to figure out who is the 1 millionth member. On behalf of Pickledonions." Thanks. I type it myself but I just get zapped. :))
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| mkirkwood | Say hi to Claes | 15 | Mar 25 2008, 11:25 PM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 30 2008, 5:27 PM EST
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Claes Andersen Founder of the Virtual Enquirer has signed up and joined. say hi to Claes, he's a great guy.
Martin
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| mkirkwood | A feisty Mancunian bird signed up. | 8 | Mar 23 2008, 6:55 AM EDT by Gillbob | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 18 2008, 6:16 PM EDT
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Hiya Gilly without a "y" welcome to my little web experiment that might descend into total anarchy. :))
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| mkirkwood | OK, I've finished faffing about... | 11 | Mar 22 2008, 10:26 PM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 16 2008, 4:18 PM EDT
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What do people think about the new format of the homepage.
If you don't like it then redo it your bloody self. I'm knackered. :))
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| mkirkwood | WAYN. (page: 1 2) | 36 | Mar 22 2008, 10:21 PM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 17 2008, 5:24 PM EDT
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OK so I got an invitation to join WAYN, supposedly an acronym for "Where Are You Now?".
I took a look around and it seemed interesting so signed up. Apparently I now have 7 new friends that I've never even heard of who's profile pages blast crap music at me when I click on them. I just closed the window to shut up the noise. "Where Are You Now"???? "Why Are You Noisy"???
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| Gedda | Four wheel drivers | 4 | Mar 21 2008, 11:55 PM EDT by Purpleshade | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 20 2008, 9:49 PM EDT
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I hate the bastards, hate them, hate them, hate them. Bloody stupid obnoxious, unnecessary, obstructive, space filling piles of shit !!!. I'm sure they come with a special license allowing them to be intimidatory, follow their own road rules, arrogant, rude and a general pain in the arse. Every time I venture out I come home mumbling abuse at them all. There, I feel better now, Gedda
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| Purpleshade | Can anyone help? | 12 | Mar 19 2008, 7:55 PM EDT by mkirkwood | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 2 2008, 2:40 AM EST
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It seems not possible to change the title or the template(which I found awkward to use) after the first save. Does that mean if I want to change my mind Iayout the layout I have to re-do it and ask for the old one to be deleted?
Lesley
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| Purpleshade | Happy Birthday Gedda! | 3 | Mar 19 2008, 3:19 AM EDT by Adelaidean | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 17 2008, 6:01 AM EDT
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It's Gedda's birthday today, so MANY HAPPY RETURNS GEDDA.
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