The thread of learning something new every day
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
I thought the worlds tallest geezer was Robert Wadlow ?
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Thanks don't know that. Our population problem would be much less if we still acted like the 'good old days'
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@Bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
both of those are very interesting, the carrot thing i had assumed (as well as being a vegetable that rabbits world eat0 was some kind of smoking analogy, cartoon version of a cigar...thread does what it says on the tin
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@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Didn't realise these had failed ...
He who builds his house on sand…
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@MiketheSnow said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Didn't realise these had failed ...
He who builds his house on sand…
well compacted sand is great till it liquefies.
Seriously though, reclamation is hard. Singapore does a bit of it, so do the Netherlands. Dubai is a fascinating place - but I have no urge to visit
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@nzzp said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@MiketheSnow said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Didn't realise these had failed ...
He who builds his house on sand…
well compacted sand is great till it liquefies.
Seriously though, reclamation is hard. Singapore does a bit of it, so do the Netherlands. Dubai is a fascinating place - but I have no urge to visit
Feel exactly the same way
Friends rave over it though
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@MiketheSnow said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@nzzp said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@MiketheSnow said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@booboo said in The thread of learning something new every day:
Didn't realise these had failed ...
He who builds his house on sand…
well compacted sand is great till it liquefies.
Seriously though, reclamation is hard. Singapore does a bit of it, so do the Netherlands. Dubai is a fascinating place - but I have no urge to visit
Feel exactly the same way
Friends rave over it though
look, if I had enough money to race and crash range rovers in the desert after smashing soft drinks, it'd be great fun - but I just can't get excited. SO I guess I'm not a Sheikh.
I so wanted to make a 'no great Sheikhs' joke, but I didn't
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