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I was there in 76 & it was much more developed than that. No traffic lights or anything but more buildings. Here's what is now Walking Street - here's where I stayed - and here's the lovely white sandy beach next to Beach Road with a couple of fishing boats -

Neither would I but I can't help feel your above sentiment is at odds with your earlier post, below - So why yes? Or are you being ironic?

Fawk, imagine a Dreadnoughtus taking a dump! It must have left coprolite specimens the size of a house...

Sony have just announced two new versions of the QX10 & the QX100, the camera modules they released for mobile phones last year - the QX30 & the QX1. These clip onto the front of a smart phone & use the LCD as a viewfinder. The QX30 is amazing enough, it has a 20MP sensor with a 24-720mm equivalent optical zoom lens with image stabilisation. With a decent size sensor that blows standard mobile phone pictures out of the water. But the QX1 is literally a DX format camera without the body. It hosts an ASPC sensor with a lens connector that allows compatible lenses to be attached. This is revolutionary & it remains to be seen if it gets adopted by serious photographers or if it falls into the category of a catchy gimmick. What I love about these modules is they are fully self contained cameras which can be operated independently of a phone, albeit without any viewfinder. Just point it in the right direction & press the shutter. Who would suspect they had just been photographed by a top-of-the-line camera? They also do HD video plus the QX1 even has a pop-up flash.

This is the Museum of New & Old Art based in Tasmania. It houses art worth over 100 million dollars & is of international significance. It was built by a former maths professor who donated it to his home state. He made his money at a young age in a short period of time. He was the subject of a large taxation office investigation who finally ruled that his money was legitimately his & wasn't taxable. I'm sure there are many trivia questions that could arise from the contents of this museum but more interestingly, how did the owner make his money?

It is estimated to weigh 65 tons & was 26 metres in length & still growing. I suspect we'll see another movie made - Jurassic Park: Return of the Dreadnoughtus.

While not denying the right to these gentlemen to have their own opinion I find their comments extraordinary. I love Joan Rivers humour. Her schtick was to pillory people by saying what we all knew but were too politically correct to say. She just cut through all the BS with her wicked observations & her caustic wit. Not everyone's cup of tea, granted, but she was very good at what she had made an art form. I have always been curious at how our culture influences our humour & what we find funny, Joan is a litmus test for what side of the comedy fence we fall on. Had she been born Australian she would have been declared a national treasure & given a state funeral. Vale Joan Rivers.

The ancient Greeks & Romans beat him by thousands of years. If you are specifically looking for someone we can name, sorry I can't answer that. Or perhaps I can suggest 'Julius Caesar'....

Nepal?

The Academy Award winning documentary The Fog of War is one long interview with Robert Mcnamara who reveals the whole pretext for invading Vietnam was based on a lie. He says the USA should never have been there, it was 5 Star Generals in the Pentagon who demanded the President do something. And the attack on the US ship in the Gulf of Tonkin was most likely a school of dolphins that an 18 year old sonar operator couldn't detect the difference between them & a torpedo. He quite simply panicked & caused the US to go to war. The mind boggles.

Carbon Monoxide? You got the chemical formula right, you gave the wrong name. I guess you pass even if you have divulged my source. That Catalyst is a good show, I did think there would be other watchers among us.

It's true we store fat to provide energy for later but when we burn that fat, what actually departs the body that shows as weight loss? It's the other 85% I am referring to.

Part right. 15% of the weight lost leaves the body as water. I assume that includes urine but sweat is the obvious form of water.

When we diet & lose weight, in what physical form is the weight we lose? In other words, if we drop 5 kilos of fat, what is it that we lose?

The Earth has frozen over thanks to a failed experiment to stop global warming. The survivors live aboard the Snowpiercer, a train powered by a perpetual motion engine that has only one rail track, a course that goes around the globe while those inside wait for temperatures to start to rise. This is a hell of a train, the elites live in the front part with every luxury they could wish for while the underclass occupy the rear of the train & survive on protein blocks & not much else. This is the premise of Snowpiercer, a Korean film based on a French book. After 17 years & several failed attempts to break out of the back of the train, a new protagonist (Chris Evans) emerges who is urged by a very ragged looking John Hurt to try again. Evans is a reluctant hero until a random comment alerts him to the possibility the rifles carried by the guards may be out of bullets. As is typical of a Korean director, the fight scenes are violent & bloody & are not for the faint hearted. This is not a date film. The CGI is first class, scenes of the train crashing through avalanches (snow piercer - geddit?) & the look of a post apocalyptic world are well done. The train is utterly implausible yet what action film made today doesn't involve scenarios that aren't straight out of somebody's fertile imagination? The entire film is a metaphor for life comparing the lot of the haves with the have-nots & the eternal fight for social equity. It moves along with great purpose yet when the film gets towards its climax, the hero's desire for justice does over-ride his common sense. It may not matter to many of the audience but it was pivotal to me as to whether I could recommend it or not. The film starts off so well & has the potential to be great but just when I was considering it to be worthy of a nine out of ten, it falls to a seven. Reviews here reveal an either love it or hate it reaction but despite playing at one small art cinema, it has been going for weeks on the strength of a word-of-mouth campaign that has more arriving to see it each week. The caste is impressive - John Hurt, Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris & a bunch of Korean stars who I have never heard of. This is not a cut price copy of a Marvel movie, it has all the hallmarks of a film that has had a ton of money thrown at it. So despite my misgivings I suggest Snowpiercer as an alternative to some of the action films currently on release.

Bullets & Burgers. The Ultimate Outdoor Machine Gun Adventure. If ever one was looking for a portent indicating the end of modern civilisation, this is as good as any. Shooting guns pointlessly followed by junk food? Wow, what more can any knuckle dragging cretin ever wish for? And since when did burgers ever belong in anything considered "The Ultimate". It's a sad indictment on anyone who thinks this is the ultimate adventure. Throw in helicopters & Harleys which really pad out the bill & there must be plenty of people with more money than sense. I really liked this tweet put out by the NRA - When I say I like it, I only like it because it reveals the depth of stupidity of the NRA & how they just don't get it.

Uhhh... damn, you're right, it was Kermit Roosevelt. And I'm not going back 169 pages but I still think the question has been asked in this forum.

Has this question been asked already? I'm sure I've seen it recently. I think it was Herbert Hoover if my memory is correct.

There's a cheese that has grubs in it. Or was it maggots? I saw it on a TV program years ago & wondered how hungry you would have to be to eat it.

My American friends would be frustrated to hear how this is being portrayed outside America. Interview after interview with poor blacks in Missouri talking about how they have to live under a racist police regime plus family members & everybody who ever met Michael Brown describing him as a saint who wouldn't harm a fly. Now I learn he was 6'4 weighing 300lbs who was walking down the middle of the road. Sounds like he was on something. No policeman is going to shoot someone for walking on the street so what happened? Evidence from the police is going to be considered biased, evidence from the locals is not going to be "fair & balanced", this isn't going to end well IMO.

I don't know how a 9 year old girl copes with that on her conscience. No doubt she'll be in therapy for years. Meanwhile I look forward to kiddies size Uzis being released for Xmas with a pink model for girls....

I'm guessing it must be a country in "old Europe" which still has colonies in the Pacific. Somewhere like Portugal or Spain. A shot in the dark but I will guess France.

Two Pookies!! I need to get out more...

I'm going to stick my neck out here & will risk being scorned by all & sundry but.... I don't think that is Pookie. Check other pictures of her when she was new, she doesn't look like this lovely maiden. And if I am wrong, sorry. Ahhh Pookie..... "when she took off her clothes, she was a boy" .....