Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

As we near '9/11' the remembrance of it to commemorate the deaths of all those who lost their lives, is now flooding into the media for us to watch and read about.

Here is such a piece on the BBC web site:

9/11 timeline: The story of the day

I was at home when this happened and actually saw the second plane hit the second WTC tower as it happened on Fox News.

As I watched some of the clips above, I still cannot believe the sheer audacity of it all.

But there again, there was absolutely no security on internal USA flights that we could see, when my wife and I once met our son who flew in from Chicago to meet us in Sarasota, Florida, to spend a few days with us.

We were able to meet him at the steps inside the airport building as he walked from the runway up the stairs into the airport building to meet us at the top of them, and similarly, but in reverse, on his return.

So if you were a terrorist, I guess it didn't take too much working out 'how to do it' really.

The main thing that the US authorities hadn't cottoned on to, IMHO, was that these fanatics had absolutely no trouble committing suicide, whilst they committed their atrocities.

It is interesting to look back at the old days of safe travel and lack of restrictions in various ways. I remember visiting my parents in Canada when they lived there. Iwas getting the plane at Regina airport to comeback the UK and they walked with me to the foot of the stairs that were against the plane. I was travelling on to Toronto so there was no customs and it was just an internal flight.

I can also remember just parking my MG for 10 minutes or so in Picadilly to pop into a shop.

9/11: An interesting movie piece telling 'How the Twin Towers were built'

Hmmmm. Probe pictures Moon landing sites

You one of them there 'conspiracy theorists' Skinny?

;-)

I loved watching it at the time as a child - but I do like a good conspiracy theory :-)

Those images are obviously 'doctored' - as are the telescopes that they are selling people to look at them with

:-)

If you want cheap petrol then go to one of these places

Algeria: Algiers 20p per litre
Oman: Muscat 20p per litre
Egypt: Cairo 19p per litre
Qatar: Doha 15p per litre
Bahrain: Manama 13p per litre
Turkmenistan: Ashgabat 12p per litre
In Turkmenistan they give it away literally. Every driver in the Turkic state is entitled to 120 litres of petrol for free every month. If they exceed this, the pump price is only 12p per litre.
Libya: Tripoli 9p per litre
Saudi Arabia: Riyadh 8p per litre
Venezuela: Caracas 2/3p per litre
if you have a 70 litre fuel tank in your car, you could fill it up in Venezuela for around 1.50. While In Britain it would cost you a whopping 95.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/lab-chimps-laugh-hug-taste-freedom-162813744.html

Lab Chimps Laugh And Hug At Taste Of Freedom

The emotional moment a group of chimpanzees saw daylight for the first time after being kept in a laboratory for their whole lives has been caught on film.

The video shows the animals edging out of the door hesitantly at first and looking curiously up at the sky. But they then appear to celebrate their new found freedom by hugging each other and laughing.

The 38 chimps were taken from their mothers shortly after they were born and kept in a research facility in Austria. They were used for tests based on diseases such as HIV and hepatitis and kept in isolation. They were rescued in 1997 after the pharmaceutical company behind the research was sold and taken to a farm where keepers have since tried to reintroduce them to the outside world.

It is only now that experts felt the time was right and the chimps were ready to experience fresh air.

Assassin bug sneaks up on spiders

Assassin bugs hunt spiders on their webs by stalking or luring their victims before stabbing them with their long, sharp snouts.

Researchers studying these aggressive arthropods have now found that they use noise to cover their tracks.

Looks likely that katia will bring some wind!

And the Gulf of Mexico by 'Nate'.

Lets not forget Maria.

British flowers are the source of a new cancer drug


The search for more effective cancer treatments may soon harness the healing power of the Autumn crocus.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Germany-Readies-Surrender-bloomberg-2533229394.html;_ylt=Am2YU.YtK2LseamMgvi3ngm7YWsA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1YXJxMzQ0BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN0b3BTdG9yaWVzBHNsawNnZXJtYW55cmVhZGk-?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=

'Leak risk after explosion at French nuclear plant'

There is a risk of a radioactive leak after a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, media reports say.

Breaking news

'Leak risk after explosion at French nuclear plant'

There is a risk of a radioactive leak after a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, media reports say.

One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste, Le Figaro newspaper said.

The plant is in the Gard region.

It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and operates a pressurised water reactor used to produce tritium.

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beat me to it by a minute

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How very sad.

Just look how fit and strong this guy looks in the picture below, which was taken in connection of his portrayal of Spartacus in the recent TV series, "Spartacus: Blood and Sand".



Father of two, SPARTACUS star Andy Whitfield has died aged 39 after an 18 month battle with cancer. He discovered he was suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma just ahead of shooting on the TV show's second series.

More at http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/3809382/Spartacuss-Andy-Whitfield-dies.html

NM.

that which we call a rose, By any other name would stink as much;

Recently been told that, "I live in a kleptocracy".

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Just been reading through the thread.

Amazing that a cabinet minister can pay back what appears to be an attempted "fraud" and later sit in a cabinet, while a "rioter" nicking a TV and having to return it gets 6months.