Ken

RX8. Got it two weeks ago and drives like a dream... once I worked out how to put it in reverse.

What about Steve McClaren's fake accent, nobody can beat that surely!

Bassong has all the attributes to be a top line defender, in the mould of William Gallas when he was at Chelsea. I'm not saying he's in the same league yet, but if he continues his steady rise he'll get there in 3 seasons I reckon. Will probably be sold before that though...

We were absolutely shit. In saying that I could only watch the first half as I was so bevved up while watching Federer vs. Nadal and alas I couldn't stay awake to see the whole 90 minutes through. By all reports it was quite a decent second half performance... typical.

haha love it can you smell what barack is cookin' barack says...

Happy new year everybody. Got a bird's eye view of the Sydney Harbour fire works display from my balcony. It was absolutely fabulous. Nothing would beat that, I can't stand being in frenzy of people. I'm a quiet lad me, who enjoys life with a few friends on New Year's Eve, having a few quiet ones with good food to go. Just come back from Coogee Beach now. Bloody scorcher at 35 degrees celsius today. It's time I break out a Corona and get a few prawns out. I hope 2009 brings better luck for all us suffering supporters and I hope everybody's lives are a treat this year!

There are no good or bad in this. Hamas are getting what they deserve for lobbing rockets into Israel imo, it's not Israel's fault Hamas store them in schools and homes, although the response has obviously been brutal and disproportionate. Hamas and the Palestinian (not all) statement that they are going to 'wipe out the Jews' previously before being elected is a reminder of Holocaust sentiment (which Israel use as a propaganda tool). Israel, or people who support it, saying Palestinians should all be wiped out is no different at all. There'll be a few more hundred that'll die on the Palestinian side with Israel maybe having 5-10 casualties before there is another ceasefire and we can wait for the countdown for the next round of hostilities to begin. Israel only have to give dignity back to the Palestinians for all this to stop. It'll never happen.

You got issue with my opinion Stevie boy? Tough. he's Steve, not Stevie. He's also a wallabee. Originally from Melbourne aren't you Steve? Anyone who's been unfortunate enough to have traveled to Melbourne should understand that it isn't a great place and they should pity the poor lad. He can't help originating from there.

Egypt is a modern country, well it combines modern and ancient/traditional, and is actually the safest country in Africa imo. When you look at the country, you can understand why many live in poverty; 90% of the country is desert, and the major cities (Cairo and Alexandria) are way overpopulated, 80 million crammed into 3% of Egyptian land it is obvious they have a problem with urban sprawl. Northern Egypt is quite exotic and modern and European like with skyscrapers, modern subway, hotels, restaurants and stores selling a lot of western gear. Middle Egypt is more leaning towards Arabic and Southern Egypt is African influenced. Visiting Egypt can be as safe as houses provided you meet up with ex-pats or travelers/backpackers like yourself and you're best avoiding going with tourist groups which are a scam, are targeted by terrorists and have a dodgy safety record when it comes to bus accidents which account for more fatalities than terrorist attacks incidentally. Respecting the values and customs while over there (moral laws) goes along way to having a great time with the locals as well as knowing a bit about the place first as the locals are quite a proud bunch. But back to the topic of Mido; he is a pest, and all of this has been blown out of proportion imo. Yup, remember to sexually harasses any woman you see, just to be polite. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7593765.stm Hmmm, you demonstrate a talent for finding articles which denigrate one's society. Well done, applause for you, I can also do the same, and do it for every country on this planet if I wanted to. I am not condoning the behaviour as described in the article though. Egypt and Egyptians are far from a perfect country or society. Women are expected to be modest in dress and manner- no flimsy attire or loud talking and laughing for example, and quite peculiarly, you don't see very many women in public places over there at all. This is quite obviously something which occurs in all non-secular Middle Eastern Muslim nations I would presume, although most Egyptians consider Egypt to be semi-secular. There are bars that serve alcohol over there (Northern Egypt), although you won't see any fundamentalists or women for that matter visiting those types of venues of course. Truth is the truth, don't get upset because I'm well versed in it and you don't like it. Upset?.. I wasn't upset at all. I'm sorry you interpreted it that way. How can I be upset by someone who in strong likelihood looks like this;

Egypt is a modern country, well it combines modern and ancient/traditional, and is actually the safest country in Africa imo. When you look at the country, you can understand why many live in poverty; 90% of the country is desert, and the major cities (Cairo and Alexandria) are way overpopulated, 80 million crammed into 3% of Egyptian land it is obvious they have a problem with urban sprawl. Northern Egypt is quite exotic and modern and European like with skyscrapers, modern subway, hotels, restaurants and stores selling a lot of western gear. Middle Egypt is more leaning towards Arabic and Southern Egypt is African influenced. Visiting Egypt can be as safe as houses provided you meet up with ex-pats or travelers/backpackers like yourself and you're best avoiding going with tourist groups which are a scam, are targeted by terrorists and have a dodgy safety record when it comes to bus accidents which account for more fatalities than terrorist attacks incidentally. Respecting the values and customs while over there (moral laws) goes along way to having a great time with the locals as well as knowing a bit about the place first as the locals are quite a proud bunch. But back to the topic of Mido; he is a pest, and all of this has been blown out of proportion imo. Yup, remember to sexually harasses any woman you see, just to be polite. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7593765.stm Hmmm, you demonstrate a talent for finding articles which denigrate one's society. Well done, applause for you, I can also do the same, and do it for every country on this planet if I wanted to. I am not condoning the behaviour as described in the article though. Egypt and Egyptians are far from a perfect country or society. Women are expected to be modest in dress and manner- no flimsy attire or loud talking and laughing for example, and quite peculiarly, you don't see very many women in public places over there at all. This is quite obviously something which occurs in all non-secular Middle Eastern Muslim nations I would presume, although most Egyptians consider Egypt to be semi-secular. There are bars that serve alcohol over there (Northern Egypt), although you won't see any fundamentalists or women for that matter visiting those types of venues of course.

25-26 units per week. This will rise acutely over the festive season though, followed by a dramatic fall after it.

We are well and truly fucked. Fucked with an F

Egypt is a modern country, well it combines modern and ancient/traditional, and is actually the safest country in Africa imo. When you look at the country, you can understand why many live in poverty; 90% of the country is desert, and the major cities (Cairo and Alexandria) are way overpopulated, 80 million crammed into 3% of Egyptian land it is obvious they have a problem with urban sprawl. Northern Egypt is quite exotic and modern and European like with skyscrapers, modern subway, hotels, restaurants and stores selling a lot of western gear. Middle Egypt is more leaning towards Arabic and Southern Egypt is African influenced. Visiting Egypt can be as safe as houses provided you meet up with ex-pats or travelers/backpackers like yourself and you're best avoiding going with tourist groups which are a scam, are targeted by terrorists and have a dodgy safety record when it comes to bus accidents which account for more fatalities than terrorist attacks incidentally. Respecting the values and customs while over there (moral laws) goes along way to having a great time with the locals as well as knowing a bit about the place first as the locals are quite a proud bunch. But back to the topic of Mido; he is a pest, and all of this has been blown out of proportion imo.

Bloody Hell,its a bit abbatoir! Good mind. Its one of my favourite films, the last hour of it is just fantastic. Watched it yesterday and expected very little, but it gave me the most enjoyment out of any movies I've watched in a very long time. I don't know why it took me so long to watch it tbh.

- They were transported by barges. - What about Abydos? - The Sphinx is an interesting topic, I agree. The fact the head was disproportionately smaller to the body suggests it may have been re-carved. Also the weathering on the body when it was supposed to have been buried under sand for thousands of years is also very interesting. Could be much, much older as Graham Hancock and Colin Wilson hypothesise. - The kings were buried in the valley to hide them away from looters. Forlorn attempt as it has turned out. - No hieroglyphs but the bent pyramid and step pyramids show a progression to perfection that was the Giza Pyramids. There are over 100 pyramids in Egypt and Nubia. Also a village was unearthed on the Giza plateau which housed approximately 20,000 which was about the size of the work force involved. - They had a lot of time and dedication to cut those stones.

I find it hard to believe it was just patrol lights from a police car when evidence suggests otherwise. Patrol lights or light from a lighthouse do not explain the high readings of radiation taken from a geiger counter in the area, the radar readings, the imprints left by the object, and witness accounts from civilians in the surrounding area. And of course the testimony from trained and experienced military officers who not only saw lights, but a solid black, glassy triangle object which they were able to see a foot away from them. All but one person's story corroborated with one anothers, and he blamed his ridiculous story on being injected with some chemical by the CIA which fucked up his memory. Always a good excuse when you know you've dug yourself a hole you can't get out of. Tbf Ken, the above was bollocks too (according to the primary evidence anyway which is far more believable than stuff people added years later). Oh come on now Alex, the testimony on tape you think was a complete fuckup on their part?? All jokes aside, you can't deny what they saw, and to downplay what they saw to lights from a lighthouse or from a police car makes them look like complete fuckwits. Do you think they are all complete fuckwits? Oh come on, indeed. Ken look at the primary evidence (i.e. the statements of the people involved at the time). In the first instance, the two people who saw the lights initially only one thought it was mechanical and he never got closer than 50 m (I think he embellished the story much later. Obvious to guess why tbh). And they saw a blinking white light in the exact position there should have been a lighthouse. Coincidence? When a second party went out 2 nights later they followed a similar blinking light for quite a distance until (guess what) they realised it was a lighthouse They also saw some star-like lights. At night. What could they have been I wonder? A Guardian journalist debunked the whole thing about 3 years after in happened. The radiation readings and the landing site have been largely discredited too. There was nothing unusual there according to people who knew the area. The whole thing is a bit of a joke in all honesty. But UFO buffs ignore all that in general because they like to view as some really significant event. And btw, if you have a look at the written testimony of the two people from the first night's 'sighting', they do indeed come across as complete fuckwits. So you are not taking into account the fact they knew they would be ridiculed by telling the truth. You are not taking into account the fact the military hierarchy, for whom they were answerable to would not like exotic descriptions like these. Alex, you aren't even thinking of these possibilities. This is a faux pas officialdom has avoided throughout history Alex. Ken, I don't quite follow your logic but it sounds like it came from something like a tv show sensationalising what happened. They made statements at the time whereby they saw something they couldn't explain. Their superior believed them and made further investigations. He went out to what he thought was a landing site and told the police who also investigated it. Nothing was covered up at the time. What I do question is the embellishments made later. I think the bloke who saw what he described as 'mechanical' altered his story because it made him a UFO celeb as it were. Nick Pope made a lot of it later but the 'Inquiry' he spoke of turned out to be little more than a rather dreary handwritten sheet of A4 which he wrote. I wouldn't totally discount what you say but the body of evidence just doesn't back it up man. The trouble is, because UFO enthusiasts view this as so important they don't want to look at the facts. My take on it is this - a very bright meteor (documented on said night btw) was mistaken for an aircraft that crashed. Two men who went out to investigate saw lights (the smaller ones haven't been fully explained btw, I accpet that). The main light was a white/orange light that appeared to move when they approached it. It blinked at a frequency of about 5 seconds (just like the nearby lighthouse) in a position where the lighthouse is. Because the forest is above sea level the lighthouse beam looked to be at a level fairly close to the ground. They also heard what sounded like a woman screaming and farm animals going a bit crazy. The nearby farm was an arable one but both of those things can be explained away by muntjac dear and the noise they make when distressed / disturbed. Basically the two blokes were shitting themselves in a wood in the pitch black (minus the lights) and hearing stuff. Their imagination went wild. Read the following article Alex, again by Nick Pope, and pay particular attention to paragraph 3. clicky here Alex the only person who I think has discredited himself in this whole thing is Larry Warren. He refused to give his real name for starters, and he made claim after claim which included being interrogated in a base underneath Bentwaters and being injected with something which distorted his memory of the whole incident. Halt and Penniston both claim he was never there. I don't buy into the theory that they sensationalised their stories as doing so, and making the claims that they did would hardly do wonders to further their careers in the military, and both stayed in the military long after this incident occurred. Neither have profited from this incident. You believe it was a meteor which spooked them, and this may be what it was, but how do you explain this occurring on two nights? As for the lighthouse theory; clicky 1 clicky 2 clicky 3 There are arguments both for and against on this subject, and I accept that their stories changed slightly over time which weakens their argument, but I also accept human error is natural especially as time elapses and also because they were in a particular mental state caused by fear, anxiety and panic. But because there are slightly different versions to the events that occurred doesn't mean that what had happened was not a natural phenomena. We will never know Alex.

No cataclysm. This thing has happened before in human history, and fuck all happened. Just another day is all; December 12th 2012.

I find it hard to believe it was just patrol lights from a police car when evidence suggests otherwise. Patrol lights or light from a lighthouse do not explain the high readings of radiation taken from a geiger counter in the area, the radar readings, the imprints left by the object, and witness accounts from civilians in the surrounding area. And of course the testimony from trained and experienced military officers who not only saw lights, but a solid black, glassy triangle object which they were able to see a foot away from them. All but one person's story corroborated with one anothers, and he blamed his ridiculous story on being injected with some chemical by the CIA which fucked up his memory. Always a good excuse when you know you've dug yourself a hole you can't get out of. Tbf Ken, the above was bollocks too (according to the primary evidence anyway which is far more believable than stuff people added years later). Oh come on now Alex, the testimony on tape you think was a complete fuckup on their part?? All jokes aside, you can't deny what they saw, and to downplay what they saw to lights from a lighthouse or from a police car makes them look like complete fuckwits. Do you think they are all complete fuckwits? Oh come on, indeed. Ken look at the primary evidence (i.e. the statements of the people involved at the time). In the first instance, the two people who saw the lights initially only one thought it was mechanical and he never got closer than 50 m (I think he embellished the story much later. Obvious to guess why tbh). And they saw a blinking white light in the exact position there should have been a lighthouse. Coincidence? When a second party went out 2 nights later they followed a similar blinking light for quite a distance until (guess what) they realised it was a lighthouse They also saw some star-like lights. At night. What could they have been I wonder? A Guardian journalist debunked the whole thing about 3 years after in happened. The radiation readings and the landing site have been largely discredited too. There was nothing unusual there according to people who knew the area. The whole thing is a bit of a joke in all honesty. But UFO buffs ignore all that in general because they like to view as some really significant event. And btw, if you have a look at the written testimony of the two people from the first night's 'sighting', they do indeed come across as complete fuckwits. So you are not taking into account the fact they knew they would be ridiculed by telling the truth. You are not taking into account the fact the military hierarchy, for whom they were answerable to would not like exotic descriptions like these. Alex, you aren't even thinking of these possibilities. This is a faux pas officialdom has avoided throughout history. ET has been here for about 10,000 years. Probably much longer. But Parky, you think pyramids were made by ETs, no? Explain all the evidence recorded that points toward a contrary viewpoint.

I find it hard to believe it was just patrol lights from a police car when evidence suggests otherwise. Patrol lights or light from a lighthouse do not explain the high readings of radiation taken from a geiger counter in the area, the radar readings, the imprints left by the object, and witness accounts from civilians in the surrounding area. And of course the testimony from trained and experienced military officers who not only saw lights, but a solid black, glassy triangle object which they were able to see a foot away from them. All but one person's story corroborated with one anothers, and he blamed his ridiculous story on being injected with some chemical by the CIA which fucked up his memory. Always a good excuse when you know you've dug yourself a hole you can't get out of. Tbf Ken, the above was bollocks too (according to the primary evidence anyway which is far more believable than stuff people added years later). Oh come on now Alex, the testimony on tape you think was a complete fuckup on their part?? All jokes aside, you can't deny what they saw, and to downplay what they saw to lights from a lighthouse or from a police car makes them look like complete fuckwits. Do you think they are all complete fuckwits? Oh come on, indeed. Ken look at the primary evidence (i.e. the statements of the people involved at the time). In the first instance, the two people who saw the lights initially only one thought it was mechanical and he never got closer than 50 m (I think he embellished the story much later. Obvious to guess why tbh). And they saw a blinking white light in the exact position there should have been a lighthouse. Coincidence? When a second party went out 2 nights later they followed a similar blinking light for quite a distance until (guess what) they realised it was a lighthouse They also saw some star-like lights. At night. What could they have been I wonder? A Guardian journalist debunked the whole thing about 3 years after in happened. The radiation readings and the landing site have been largely discredited too. There was nothing unusual there according to people who knew the area. The whole thing is a bit of a joke in all honesty. But UFO buffs ignore all that in general because they like to view as some really significant event. And btw, if you have a look at the written testimony of the two people from the first night's 'sighting', they do indeed come across as complete fuckwits. So you are not taking into account the fact they knew they would be ridiculed by telling the truth. You are not taking into account the fact the military hierarchy, for whom they were answerable to would not like exotic descriptions like these. Alex, you aren't even thinking of these possibilities. This is a faux pas officialdom has avoided throughout history.

That Ken bloke appears to be from Sydney. Ignore him, they're all full of shit. I work in medical imaging injecting people full of radioactivity for laughs. Aye I currently reside in Mosman, Sydney. You are from Melbourne, no?? What a fuckin' cesspool of shite that place is. And here's you trying to be proud of that place, time and time again.

Yes, that's a possibility, but he doesn't like the theory that technology, ideology, and customs may not be indigenous. Or it could mean there was a civilisation that rivaled Atlantis in the same time period. Mu, Lumeria?.. only in folklore currently but so was Troy not too long ago. I'm well aware of changing sea levels. I'm also well aware of shifting geology, hence why it's possible that the structures off Japan are man made and are now deep below sea level. Hawass and the Egyptian Govt are basically peddling lies. Not telling lies, just not seeking evidence to dispel alternate theories. The only theory he has dispelled is the Pyramid/alien connection. But anyone with an ounce of knowledge about the subject would have known that that was bollocks. Aliens didn't create the pyramids, man did, Egyptians. But the watermarks on the sphinx theory has been avoided by Hawass. He's a nationalist, and a traditionalist. What has been written should stay that way. Are you going by the dynastic time-scale for construction? Yes. Pyramids built beginning 2500BC to match up stars in Sirius and Orion belt, to symbolise heaven on earth. You have to go back to 10,500BC for the sphinx, along with the pyramids to all be aligned. So there were priests with astronomical knowledge in 10,500BC and this was all a grand master plan to map out a heaven on earth. This was a very brief summary. The stones weigh upto 1oo tons to some that are 200/300 tones. There are over two million stones in the biggest pyramids at an allignement (sat pics) which shows the center is 1/4 inch out...At that size it is something we can't do today. The biggest lifting land crane on the planet has a limit of 180/200 tons in 2008. If you're going by dynastic build times bearing in mind we know the quarry was 3km away across the river and official build times were 20 years, they would have to be laying a stone every 5 min or something......You see it's a joke. If they were burial chambers why was there never anybody inside....They were buried in the valley were they not? Why in the slavishly accurate and covering every wall they could get hold of is there no story of the pyramids in the hyrogliphs of that period? And why do they ignore Abydos? Parky, the largest boulders weighed 8 tonnes maximum. As I've said, Richard Hoagland has no idea what the fuck he's going on about at times. We don't know how the Egyptians did it, but they did somehow.

I find it hard to believe it was just patrol lights from a police car when evidence suggests otherwise. Patrol lights or light from a lighthouse do not explain the high readings of radiation taken from a geiger counter in the area, the radar readings, the imprints left by the object, and witness accounts from civilians in the surrounding area. And of course the testimony from trained and experienced military officers who not only saw lights, but a solid black, glassy triangle object which they were able to see a foot away from them. All but one person's story corroborated with one anothers, and he blamed his ridiculous story on being injected with some chemical by the CIA which fucked up his memory. Always a good excuse when you know you've dug yourself a hole you can't get out of. Tbf Ken, the above was bollocks too (according to the primary evidence anyway which is far more believable than stuff people added years later). Oh come on now Alex, do you think the testimony recorded on tape was a complete misunderstanding on there part?? All jokes aside, you can't deny what they saw, and to downplay what they saw to lights from a lighthouse or from a police car makes them look like complete fuckwits. Do you think they are all complete fuckwits?

I suppose you take one look at the applicants postcode and if it isn't to your approval their application goes no further. haha geordies are hard people to move, so set in their ways. Jocks though always up for it and a few more grand. It's good crack though, I spend a large portion of me day talking about football. Of course you do you fucking bludger. And here's you slagging off the Pakistani-born English. You'll have to explain this one to me pal. JawD how many people have you got working for you? You've expressed your feelings about Pakistanis before. You've made yourself very clear, they offer nothing. Yet here's you, admitting you wank off on your job.

Do you have any ans for the questions btw? Regarding labour they love to tell us the stones were rolled on wooden logs...Err where exactly did thousands of hardwood logs come from? One of the myths is this hired labour lark. Most of the work in the official versions was done by farmers who at the same time were looking after their crops in the fields. There is no way with the tech they had (vine rope, pulleys, copper tools )and the official time line you could knock up the bigger pyramids in 20 years. I think someone worked out you'd need 100,000 men working 24/7 without sleep. Parky, there's a lot of different theories about it by lots of different archaeologists. I'm not saying the construction methods are certain but there is evidence they had 10,000s of men at their disposal. I think this sort of thing is very interesting. Where it becomes boring (imo) is when stuff is just blatantly made up (like the size of the stones and that type of construction not being possible today etc) to push some half-baked theory that they used alien technology or whatever. Look man. You get hung up about the crane thing there are stationary cranes that can lift 4,000 tonnes it's not important. The cranes example was just to show the average readily available tech today would have trouble with the pyramid stones. 10,000 men is just not enough. The people making stuff up is the Egyptian Govt. Like the Abydos temple. Unable to explain the erosion patterns and the fact it is on a lower layer (dating it at 10,000 BC ) they tell people the egyptians dug down specifically to build it, cause it doesn't fit in (nor does the Sphinx) with the dynastic timelines. I don't know how or who built them, but I do know it wasn't the Egyptians. Look man, you quoted something that exagerrated the size of the stones 100+ times I'm casual. The pyramids discovered under the sea near Japan can be carbon dated cause of the coral. Guess what? Yes they are 10,000 yrs old. There are similar pyramids in China (the Govt farmed over them to hide them). The pyramids along with other important stuff in south american was built around 9,000 to 12,500 years ago. This is no coincidence. The Egyptian Govt are just lying. Unless you supply a source I'll just assume it's all off some crank site tbh. The very crux of your argument was that modern technology couldn't even handle stones like the ones used in the pyramids because they weighed over 100 tonnes. They weigh 2-3 tonnes (there are helicopters that could easily lift that, let alone modern cranes - I realise they didn't have helicopters back then btw ). Hence my scepticism at the rest of the info. I'm not saying everything is explainable but it just kills my interest when blatant bollocks is used in stuff like this. And there's a very obvious reason (which I've already alluded to) why you get pyramids all over the world. Before arches / flying buttresses etc were discovered it was the only method of constructing tall buildings. I supplied a source. I don't supply sources for fun mate. The university (whichever it was) made scientific analysis regarding the site. 13Kane has basis for an argument. Listen and learn Alex, listen and learn.

I suppose you take one look at the applicants postcode and if it isn't to your approval their application goes no further. haha geordies are hard people to move, so set in their ways. Jocks though always up for it and a few more grand. It's good crack though, I spend a large portion of me day talking about football. Of course you do you fucking bludger. And here's you slagging off the Pakistani-born English.