And now something completely different

DED - 21-11-2006 at 20:21

I need 2 tyres on a car
Problem is that it is in fact a very old car
An not only old, small as well
It is a rare Dinky Toy
Austin Cambridge A50

I'm scanning the net, but haven't found anything yet.
The car I own (somewhere in an aircraft between California and Amsterdam) , it only misses two tyres.

DED - 22-11-2006 at 21:25

Find myself a inetrnet site with spareparts and emty boxes.
Price of tyres is 0,25 euro.
www.modelcarparts.com

For everything there is a solution:bouncing:

scallopino - 24-11-2006 at 16:49

Wow. This certainly makes up for you not being able to get hold of those Australian tape guys last week. the internet has redeemed itself.

DED - 25-11-2006 at 13:32

I'm still looking for that one.
Maybe there is a telephonebook for australia on line

And I am also looking for family of me in Australia.
Last thing I know was that they had a large hotel of chain of hotels. The children were mainly musicians, one of them was on australian tv many times playing the piano. The familyname should be that of my mothers Postma. Any thoughts? My mother is visiting us tomorrow and I will ask here if she nows more.
Now we have the time of internet family connections could be restored simply though?.

[Edited on 25-11-2006 by DED]

yoko - 5-12-2006 at 17:16

does water goes down in different direction in the toilet in australia than here iin the north side of the earth?

DED - 5-12-2006 at 21:27

It goes up :P

For a normal drain the direction of turning is different but on a toilet?

punknaynowned - 5-12-2006 at 21:53

I've heard this too. Also the threads on screws and bolts are manufactured to go the other way for use in the southern hemisphere.

BBP - 6-12-2006 at 00:59

Haha!

I'll never forget that story my history told me about when he went to Indonesia and went on a day trip to the partition between the hemispheres. His company had brought containers with holes in it so they could play with the drain.

What happens if you're on the exact border? :puzzled:

scallopino - 6-12-2006 at 03:42

Quote:

Originally posted by yoko
does water goes down in different direction in the toilet in australia than here iin the north side of the earth?

am i now expected to go outside, get my bike, and ride 50 kilometres to the neighbours? ;-)

like ded said, the toilet doesn't display any common circular direction. it just goes down after splashing around a bit.

for drains... i'll just check.

it goes anti-clockwise.

BBP - 6-12-2006 at 18:14

You sure? It should go clock-wise...

yoko - 7-12-2006 at 06:39

in the north it goes clockwise
in the south hemisphere it goes to the left
it's like if you move a spoon in a glass
if you move it clockwise and you see it from the top it goes to the right
but if you look to the glass from downunder with out stoping moving it
you'll see it going to the left side...
am i clear or crasy?

aquagoat - 7-12-2006 at 08:07

clear.

BBP - 7-12-2006 at 18:36

I was going to say crazy, but you're right! But I'd like to see you sitting below a toilet pot checking which way the water goes from there.

yoko - 8-12-2006 at 00:28

...

BBP - 8-12-2006 at 01:22

Sorry! Didn't mean to offend you...

yoko - 8-12-2006 at 20:20

no offence i was only doing a typical autoconmiserative manipulation :-P

DED - 9-12-2006 at 10:43

:umm:
How's the fire in australia
(and the storm in France)

aquagoat - 10-12-2006 at 08:59

I don't know about the fire in Australia, but the tempest in France is over. It didn't do as much damage as it did a few years ago (in 2000 if my memory doesn't fail me) but unfortunately a few people were killed by falling trees. :umm:

[Edited on 11-12-2006 by aquagoat]

BBP - 10-12-2006 at 13:05

Anything happen to you or your neighborhood, or do you live way out of the way?

aquagoat - 10-12-2006 at 20:08

nothing happened around me, I wasn't in the danger zone.

BBP - 11-12-2006 at 20:06

Good to hear that!

punknaynowned - 11-12-2006 at 23:28

Anyone, did you get to hear the Radio 6 broadcast of MOFO the other day??
:bouncy:

DED - 12-12-2006 at 15:14

no, tell us, did we miss something.
Did you tape it?

BBP - 12-12-2006 at 17:36

Forgot Punky, sorry. :pissed:

punknaynowned - 12-12-2006 at 22:28

it's ok. I just don't know if y'all have got to hear any of it yet as well, y'know, there have been . . . obstructions.

BBP - 13-12-2006 at 18:55

Obstructons? :puzzled:

DED - 11-4-2007 at 16:36

Quote:

Originally posted by DED
I need 2 tyres on a car
Problem is that it is in fact a very old car
An not only old, small as well
It is a rare Dinky Toy
Austin Cambridge A50

I'm scanning the net, but haven't found anything yet.
The car I own (somewhere in an aircraft between California and Amsterdam) , it only misses two tyres.

BTW the car has new tyres and has reached its final destination.
Money is returned by TNT. I had to pay tax for 99$ instead of 99 cents.

BBP - 3-9-2007 at 20:55

Quote:

Originally posted by yoko
in the north it goes clockwise
in the south hemisphere it goes to the left
it's like if you move a spoon in a glass
if you move it clockwise and you see it from the top it goes to the right
but if you look to the glass from downunder with out stoping moving it
you'll see it going to the left side...
am i clear or crasy?

Actually the effect of the Coriolis effect is not nearly as important as the shape of the sink, or so I saw on Brainiac.

punknaynowned - 4-9-2007 at 03:50

Just finished reading The Balcony, by Jean Genet. Complicated, symmetrical, symbolically structured about symbolic offices of state and society corrupted by . . . the oldest profession, a brothel, but all of the johns are wanna be's: their fantasies are to be judges and bishops and generals. But this is all happening while an ACTUAL revolution is going on outside. and one of the girls at the brothel is actually working for the rebels . . . and so on. Interestingly the madame at the brothel ends up becoming queen so her hero the chief of police can have his mausoleum enactment, strange all in all, but lots of good points I think are made . . .

but its hard to represent the image of a thing without making fun of it, at least
as well as see how necessary it is . . .

BBP - 4-9-2007 at 10:16

Sounds a lot like a book by Bordewijk, called Rood Paleis (Red Palace). Not his best work, but enjoyable.

DED - 8-2-2009 at 21:30

At this picture you see me between my two older brothers. On this pic I was aprox. 15 months. (summer 0f 1956)
The next picture you see my youngest older brother playing with a car and car station. On the left you see part of an old radio. That radio I bought again last saturday.

[Edited on 8-2-2009 by DED]

[Edited on 8-2-2009 by DED]

MTF - 8-2-2009 at 23:49

Cute pictures. Must have been Sunday, because you're all wearing your church clothes.

BBP - 9-2-2009 at 13:52

Were you a churchgoer Dad? You've come a long way since...

punknaynowned - 10-2-2009 at 17:45

those are really good pictures.
amazing how old pictures take me away
far away.
maybe it's the near sepia tone that does it, almost brown of the black and white photo?

Anyway, church was forced on me as a child.
We moved from the center of suburbia in southern california to very rural (forests and hills and creeks) West Virginia when I was nearly eight.
There we most often went to a single room church several miles out a dirt road. They had a single wood burning stove in the rear of the place and rarely more than 30 people would attend on a Sunday service. Methodist churches and there were two that we went to. One on the ridge and one in the holler. They weren't more than 10km apart, three as the crow flew. Rarely did the different church groups ever meet though they certainly knew each other. Had to have grown up and gone to the same school. One church had music, the other didn't much at all.
But the one that did, the only woman who did play the piano and lead the singing couldn't do either and had a poor sense of rhythm as well. It was embarassing for me to try and sing along. So I wouldn't, only maybe squeak a little out and mostly mouth the words.
As an adult, for the longest time, when I was supposed to sing along with something, my memory would tell me that MY singing was wrong, when what I was doing was remembering my early memories of singing along at that church. That lady that couldn't sing and so would only do it loudly!
Also, my father would give me a dollar a week and expected me to put some of it in the bowl they passed around. So that was the day I got my allowance, too. And I had to wear my nicest clothes early in the morning and go and listen to boring old men talk and pray and smelly women hug me and sing too loud and out of tune. I knew that a piano could sound a LOT better than THAT. Is that what it was supposed to sound like praising God?
Well, no, I found out later.
None of it made any sense to me at the time at all.

scallopino - 11-2-2009 at 12:06

Does it make sense now? It never has to me I must admit.

BBP - 11-2-2009 at 14:27

Not here either. Fortunately I grew up in a home of atheists. But I did go to church on occasions, usually after being dragged there.

punknaynowned - 24-2-2009 at 16:54

I understand that a great deal of faith, however it's organized, can help people through the hardest of times. And provide a world view that gives them some space to sort things out. Whichever system however it is organized certainly may not be for everyone, but there is something very human about the willingness to trust in something unfathomable. There are so many examples.
A few years ago when the Bush Admin wanted to cut National funding for the Arts, someone made the claim that it was all well and good when we had lots of money to go and cut funding for the arts, but if the economy should drop and everything else falls apart, the one thing everyone will want is the one business that will survive nay downturn:
theater and entertainment shows. Like in the Depression in the '30's.
Interestingly Pope John Paul II was a lifelong theater advocate, an actor, director and even going so far as to say that the Sacrament offering at High Mass was the best kind of theater.

But for something completely different:
WORD. A couple days ago, this chick put up as the ugly word of the
day, the word 'crust' and asked for submissions in the text comment
section for a new ugly word. here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPjlJjeZWe0&feature=chann...
but there are at least seven different topics that she mentions as
well as her standard outro where she excerpts a few of the many
thousand comments she gets and talks briefly to/at them. She claims
to read all of those text responses and watch all of the video
responses. But as you can tell, she's just some chick talking about
her stuff.
What makes it especially funny is the responses she gets. A few
months ago there was a new button on the youtube page that will read
whatever you've typed in the text comment box. But in a computer
voice with its funny pronunciation and often incorrect emphasis on
certain words in a phrase, makes the distraction at least a passing
laugh. But she asked her viewers to use it and send her the good
ones. Well, she got over a hundred videos sent, many hours of human
hilarity generated and shared all from a simple request.
So as she's been on quite a run of fantastic viewer response (200,000
views in a day, several thousand text comments and top ratings in
Australian internet usage) for several months now, what does she do to
keep it going? The same shtick she always has, she just gets better
at it: using multiple shots and angles of herself to play different
parts in the little skits she makes up to illustrate her stories, in
different environments, getting the light and audio right, more and
more showing a finesse in the editing technique.
But this next one she seems to take it a step further, still I'm not
sure how. In the comment time towards the end, someone asks, 'why so
many views', and she's like 'mate, I don't have any idea'. At the
very least an astounding anthropology study!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4u0YYkGJc4&feature=chann...

scallopino - 25-2-2009 at 14:59

I agree with you that religion can help people through tough times. Even so, I don't think it's reasonable to be religious just for that reason. I think a commitment to what is reasonable and natural (as opposed to supernatural) is more important than pursuing a worldview that is in contradiction with reality, even if it is consoling. There are other sources of consolation. I'm not accusing you Punky of advocating it at all, just saying.

I also agree that it is very human to want to trust in something unfathomable. I also think that it's completely irrational to do it and that people would be better off if they searched for non-mystical answers to their problems.

As for Ms Channel - she's quite the phenomenon ain't she. I think people find self-deprecating humour really refreshing. I'm sick of the opposite, which is all around us. I'm sick of every motherfucking hip hop star telling me how good they are in every one of their songs.

punknaynowned - 25-2-2009 at 16:12

yeh, crazy, innit?

When I was in high school, studying the brain and studying religion were two of the most fascinating subjects to me. Why would so many hang so much on so little? How could people justify so much vicious behavior over centuries on a guide that was seemingly or supposedly so caring? And their proof were things like what the preacher told me then, like "I believe that Jesus died for my sins more completely than I do in the existence of this chair I'm sitting in. If I had to choose, then I'd have to say this chair does not exist."

Crazy talk.
A couple years later my eldest brother became a born-again Pentecost. It was and still is a kind of shock to all the rest of us. He was always supposed to be the smartest of us kids with the biggest grasp on how stuff really works.
But as one thrashes around in life there is much to see that doesn't make sense. 'Rational decisions' that beget irrational consequences.

DED - 25-2-2009 at 19:15

Quote:

Originally posted by MTF
Cute pictures. Must have been Sunday, because you're all wearing your church clothes.

No it was not sunday, at least I think so. But for sure it was not for church :P:

Back then it was normal that you dressed up for a photo. That was something special. My grandad hobbyhorse was to make and develope pictures, so since 1923 there are more pictures then in other Dutch families. But since 1945 when my mother escaped from the re(li)diculous home in Nothern Netherlands to the big city. Photomaterial was poor. An old KODAK box camera with 8 pictures on a roll was sufficient for a period of at least 12 months. including winter and summer holidays. Only since the introduction of the 126 cassette with square negatives and the 110 cassette with unstable camera's the number of pictures ingrease. esp. after the birth of my sister (the youngest) in 1963.

And Bonny don't call us atheists. We are NOT.
You are raised in a family without any religeous roots.
Only them with a religion calls you an atheist
as in a-technical or asocial

punknaynowned - 26-2-2009 at 02:47

:P
an old friend of mine used to ask as a joke
'Do you know the difference between an atheist and an agnostic?'

His answer was 'Balls', meaning it takes conviction, strength, fortitude to make a decision like that and stick with it.
That makes sense to me.
But I guess you can say I'm a relativist. I think it takes all kinds.

BBP - 26-2-2009 at 12:36

I like calling myself a heathen. Or anti-religious, which is more "to the point" than atheist.
But for communication purposes, well... I am trying to be less harsh on people who grew up with religion. At least to the point when I'll stop being scared of crucifixes.

scallopino - 26-2-2009 at 13:28

People who aren't religious can choose whatever name they like, but atheist is still technically correct...especially since 'atheists' are in the minority! My grandfather has the same problem with the name that you do Ded ("Why should THEY get to name ME?"). I don't really have a problem with it. It would be better if people asked if you were a theist instead of an atheist, since i reckon NOT believing in something is the default position.

Punky: I think the only reasonable position is to be an agnostic, in the strictest technical meaning of that word, because you are being irrational if you say "there definitely is no god and I can prove it." There is really no way to prove it either way. It's all about what is more likely and what makes sense according to the different types of information around. For me personally, the fact that there are non-supernatural explanations for almost everything, which can be tested and verified, is one reason why it's highly UNLIKELY that there is a god. Also, all of the other arguments like the existence of evil and such are other (really really good) reasons not to believe in god. I will never say that there is no god, just that i've never known a reason to believe in one.

Also, if an agnostic says that they are not an atheist, they are kind of missing the point altogether. Being an agnostic means you don't know whether there is a god or not, and that position includes a non-belief in god. Therefore, all agnostics are atheists.

BUT, if agnostics define themselves as being "in the middle", that they can't really decide whether to believe in god or not, then that position, as you say, lacks balls. It's not like there are equally good reasons for believing in god and not believing in god. Like i said, i've never seen a good reason to believe.

scallopino - 26-2-2009 at 13:31

Oh, one more thing: I really really hate it when people classify atheism as a religion. Don't being me down to your level! And it's just stupid besides. I once read somewhere: IF ATHEISM IS A RELIGION, THEN NOT COLLECTING STAMPS IS A HOBBY. :lol:

BBP - 27-2-2009 at 14:07

Well, whether atheists are or are not in the minority is still a matter of doubt. There are estimates that 15% of people is atheist, and there are estimates that 80% of people is atheist.

DED - 27-2-2009 at 21:02

o yeah, now we know :P

If you try someone to convince of the advantages of not being a theist, you act as religious people spreading theirs.

Apart from that if you manage that someone gives up his religion he/she often get mental problems.

You take a away someones reality, that hurts

[Edited on 27-2-2009 by DED]