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Syncop8r · **Reply #210 on:** July 26, 2016, 12:35:45 PM

Quote from: dks on July 26, 2016, 12:12:05 PM

NZ people like to exaggerate.. just think of Zoid.....

I have told you a thousand times, we do not exaggerate.

dks · **Reply #211 on:** July 26, 2016, 12:38:53 PM

LIKE !

Kev D · **Reply #212 on:** July 26, 2016, 01:16:57 PM

Crazy knife laws about to hit Japan next I bet

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36890655

dks · **Reply #213 on:** July 27, 2016, 07:10:22 AM

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2016/07/26/koalas-smarter-your-average-bear

koalas smarter than the average bear

dks · **Reply #214 on:** July 27, 2016, 07:47:04 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3709726/Is-seemly-Royals-crass-ad-Land-Rover-Car-maker-receives-favourable-publicity-special-relationship-Royals.html

Land rover and the royals

firiki · **Reply #215 on:** July 29, 2016, 03:43:30 PM

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"The publication of the results is likely to generate major confusion, with each bank likely to spin the outcome in the most positive way in the absence of a clear pass/fail mark from the European Banking Authority," analysts at brokers Kepler Chevereux told Reuters.

Testing times for Europe's banks http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36898619

dks · **Reply #216 on:** August 23, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

NAZI officers pictures
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nazi-monsters-revealed-chilling-rogues-8684457

dks · **Reply #217 on:** August 26, 2016, 09:41:30 AM

Another KFC recipe which seems to work, according to the article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3758052/Finger-lickin-good-KFC-s-recipe-FEMAIL-puts-test-does-compare-fast-food-version.html

dks · **Reply #218 on:** August 26, 2016, 11:10:22 AM

Canadian catches fish

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3759343/Pig-Nose-legendary-Canadian-sturgeon-caught-British-Columbia-s-Fraser-River-local-fishing-tour-guide-Nick-McCabe.html

dks · **Reply #219 on:** August 26, 2016, 11:23:20 AM

Canadians forced to live separately
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3758461/Saddest-goodbye-Heartbreaking-moment-devoted-couple-married-62-years-forced-separate-t-care-home.html

dks · **Reply #220 on:** August 29, 2016, 08:56:25 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-airlines-pilots-arrested_us_57c3456be4b085c1ff29d667

United Airlines Pilots Arrested After Allegedly Found Drunk On Plane

dks · **Reply #221 on:** August 30, 2016, 08:06:34 AM

http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/e-cigarettes-bad-you-smoking-8731169

dks · **Reply #222 on:** August 30, 2016, 08:10:42 AM

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/taiwanese-navy-accidentally-fires-nuclear-8730387

do not buy Tawanese nuclear bombs... They appear to be knock-offs...

"The Taiwanese navy has accident blown a fishing vessel out of the water with a nuclear missile
...
One of the projectiles was disabled by the ship’s simulation device - used to prevent missile launches during military exercises - while the other shot towards the Taiwan Strait and struck the fishing boat some 40 nautical miles out, near Taiwan’s outlying Penghu Islands, killing the skipper and injuring three of his crew."

firiki · **Reply #223 on:** August 30, 2016, 09:19:32 AM

Quote from: dks on August 30, 2016, 08:06:34 AM

http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/e-cigarettes-bad-you-smoking-8731169

There are no long-term studies yet as the e-cig is a fairly recent thing. So, in a sense, everybody vaping is a sort of guinea pig.

I tried the e-cig once. It felt like vaping liquid soap or some of those aromatic oils for use on burners. I didn't like that. The problem is you can't tell what chemicals are contained in the various mixes and there's no regulation about that as far as I know.

I'll stick to my 2-3 cigarettes until I quit for good this time.

firiki · **Reply #224 on:** August 30, 2016, 09:36:26 AM

Quote from: dks on August 23, 2016, 08:44:12 AM

NAZI officers pictures
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nazi-monsters-revealed-chilling-rogues-8684457
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Just as you [Eichmann] supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations—as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world—we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.

Hannah Arendt in Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

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Personally, I don't condone capital punishment in times of peace

dks · **Reply #225 on:** August 31, 2016, 08:17:10 AM

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/539933/Big-cat-sightings-lion-panther-lynx-terror-nature-stalk-danger-Britain-countryside-map

big cats in the UK

DaveK · **Reply #226 on:** August 31, 2016, 12:30:43 PM

Quote from: firiki on August 30, 2016, 09:19:32 AM

Quote from: dks on August 30, 2016, 08:06:34 AM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/s...s-bad-you-smoking-8731169

There are no long-term studies yet as the e-cig is a fairly recent thing. So, in a sense, everybody vaping is a sort of guinea pig.

I tried the e-cig once. It felt like vaping liquid soap or some of those aromatic oils for use on burners. I didn't like that. The problem is you can't tell what chemicals are contained in the various mixes and there's no regulation about that as far as I know.

I'll stick to my 2-3 cigarettes until I quit for good this time.

It's a shame that the negative press headlines cause people to think you as you do, but as with most of the headlines on e-cigs they are usually based on very flawed studies and those studies were usually funded by people with interests in stopping people switching to vaping. That specific study referred to isn't new and was debunked a while ago as actually not being significant as the comment in that piece by Tom Pruen (a friend of mine) shows. You have to keep in mind, that everybody involved in tobacco control (including research professionals) have an "interest" in ecigs!

To date there's only been one, true review of all the studies on e-cigs that could truly be considered independent and that was done by Public Health England. If you really want a balanced view of what is known (and we know an awful lot, ecigs have been around for a decade now) I'd recommend you read this one: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-less-harmful-than-tobacco-estimates-landmark-review

Sorry to be a bit defensive, but I've dedicated the last 6 years of my life to fighting the ill-informed (and often blatantly corrupt) attempts to find problems with ecigs where they are demonstrated not to exist. I'm not an evangelist or anything, I believe people should smoke, vape - do what they like, but I'll always shoot down dodgy headlines where I can!

It sounds like your experience with vaping wasn't a good one, which is a shame, but I'll throw a couple of links for you to check out if you are genuinely interested. Maybe you bought some dodgy liquid or something (certainly shouldn't be vaping "oils" that's for sure)!

New Nicotine Alliance deal with the science: http://nnalliance.org/
Clive Bates deals with the politics (very clever guy): http://www.clivebates.com/

For general vaping discussion I'd recommend this forum (disclosure: I part own it

) : http://ukvapers.org/

dks · **Reply #227 on:** August 31, 2016, 12:35:50 PM

I was wondering when were you going to reply to that

DaveK · **Reply #228 on:** August 31, 2016, 12:38:08 PM

Quote from: dks on August 31, 2016, 12:35:50 PM

I was wondering when were you going to reply to that

Dave "Predictable" Kitson

DaveK · **Reply #229 on:** September 01, 2016, 03:56:08 PM

Faroe Islands fit cameras to sheep to create Google Street View

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jul/12/sheep-view-360-faroe-islands-google-mapping-project

DaveK · **Reply #230 on:** September 01, 2016, 10:36:17 PM

Re: the Daily Mirror headline above about ecigs...

They actually picked the story from another part of the English gutter press - The Sun. These rags often regurgitate each others "stories". Anyhow - to the point, this is a far more balanced response on the subject matter printed as a direct response to those scare stories the other day form a proper paper, The Spectator:

https://health.spectator.co.uk/vaping-as-bad-as-fags-the-suns-strange-splash-runs-counter-to-everything-we-know/

I've been watching this pattern for a few years now, lol.

dks · **Reply #231 on:** September 06, 2016, 08:41:32 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3775030/It-s-flying-car-Ingenious-firefighters-lift-classic-Trabant-air-just-using-powerful-hoses.html

flying Trabant

DaveK · **Reply #232 on:** September 06, 2016, 08:45:12 AM

Quote from: dks on September 06, 2016, 08:41:32 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.u...using-powerful-hoses.html

flying Trabant

How wonderfully random!

dks · **Reply #233 on:** September 06, 2016, 08:52:59 AM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3774630/The-ghosts-U576-German-U-Boat-30-miles-coast-North-Carolina-72-years-sank-Nazi-campaign-terror-44-soldiers-entombed-inside.html

German U-Boat has been spotted 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina - 72 years after it sank during a Nazi mission.
Wreckage of the submerged U-576 submarine was discovered by sonar near Ocracoke on August 24, seven years after the search began.

dks · **Reply #234 on:** September 06, 2016, 09:08:12 AM

That should bring back memories to many of the British members

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3775106/Don-t-tell-social-services-new-book-proves-yesteryear-s-little-darlings-real-toughies.html

Author Chris Wild has unearthed some historic photos for his new book — The Retronaut Guide To Raising Children: The Past Like You Wouldn’t Believe.