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7 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Two points surely - one preparing for an event that has never happened before (hurricanes) and one that has (storms). Asking them to prepare for an event that has never happened before would be like asking the UK to do similar.
A hurricane or cyclone as they are called there is a storm. A storm creates a storm surge which is a rise in sea level due to the low air pressure. As the storm moves into land so does the storm surge and this surge along with a normal tide, unlucky if the tide is in can send seawater flooding on the land. Deserts are extreme environments and its not uncommon for rain events to be extreme. We see this all around the world where there are deserts, the coast of the UAE should not be an exception just because some people claim 'it has never happened'. Not having any storm defences including storm drains is just f***ing stupid and the authorities should take responsibility for this.
Not having a go at you, I'm just asking how do you know that a storm the size of a hurricane has never hit there, historical, before anything was built, before Dubai? I'm looking at historical weather maps and I have say Dubai has been very lucky so far. It does occasionaly happen but usually if a cyclone or tropical storm reaches that far and that far north usually the Arabian peninsula protects the UEA but all it take is one to track further north of Oman and reach the gulf and there you go and we have seen so much unusual weather in recent years. Unusual in the sense that it has not been recorded before.
Similar I've heard the storms never reach this side of the island (Puerto Rico)claim a few years ago, reasurance that the sister factory to the one I work in was perfectly safe. Absolute BS as Hurricane Maria proved in 2017. It would be no surprise that geologists and climatologist are aware of the risk but also aware of the rarety of such an event. It never ever says that will never happen because the odds are that it will happen eventually. Just like County beating Rangers.
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46 minutes ago, hk blues said:
Ach, that's like saying we should make buildings in the UK earthquake-proof like they have to in parts of Japan and elsewhere. You can't, and shouldn't, allow for every possibility when creating something . I do agree with the point that they should have anticipated storms given their past experience.
Which point are you making the analogy for since I only made one point?
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Bonnyrigg Rose 2-2 Spartans
Clyde 0-1 Stenhousemuir
Elgin City 2-1 Peterhead
Forfar 1-2 East Fife
Stranraer 2-1 Dumbarton
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Inverness CT 0-0 Raith Rovers
Arbroath 1-3 Morton
Dundee Utd 4-0 Ayr Utd
Dunfermline Ath 1-2 Queens Park
Partick Thistle 1-1 Airdrie
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I'm sure I'm late to the party here in listening to this song, but this is actually, I could even say I don't hate it-
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1 hour ago, carpetmonster said:
I think I’d have probably agreed with that after the first LP but the Seahorses being awful kinda shoots it down. There’s an argument (that I have some sympathy with) to say Brown saved The Second Coming from being properly bad by not being able to sing; if he had a big rawk voice, it’d just have sounded like a bad Led Zep tribute.
Its sad thing that there would and should have been a real second album around 1990 or early 1991 from the Stone Roses. Completely ruined by the fighting over contracts between record labels. They weren't allowed to even record new music.
I'm not sure if some of that new material that had been written back then is on the Second Coming, I assume so. That would have been problematic since that sound would have been out of date in 1994 plus no John Leckie to produce and mix, so those songs would have had to be changed. The Second Coming was actually a pretty good album looking back now and came out just after the start of what was called Brit pop in the music press so came out exactly at the right time for um .....a third album. They hadn't been forgotten about which was good, but some of the comments I got about the album was that some fans expected the Second Coming to be similar to the 1st and were dissappointed. I'm not surprised since the gap was about five and a half years and music had evolved and changed so much very quickly. It did sell well and continued to sell well for a good couple of years more.
I'm listening to the new material John Squire has recorded with Liam Gallagher for the first time just now, track - 'Just Another Rainbow' sounds quite psychedelic.
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6 minutes ago, Stevie Kirk said:
I read Telling Stories a few years ago. Cracking read, though you would be forgiven for wondering how he is still alive given his substance shenanigans.
I've just ordered that, cheers for letting me know. I'll look forward to reading it. I'm reading Gary Numan's autobiography just now and I have the Bernard Sumner one lined up as well for after that. Thank you.
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I was listening to the Mayhem album Esoteric Warfare at half four in the morning, track 3 Trinity - The lyrics each line starts with a Vrill! or a Hail! before each line like Vril! Babylon followed by Vrill! the Antichrist, Vril! the Rocketeer etc and so on.
lyrics of the song to get the context of what I thought I heard -
„Now, I am become Death.
The destroyer of worlds“
Vril!
Babalon
Antichrist
Rocketeer
Trinity
a-bomb
holy grail
Manhattan
shangri-la
black sun
coming race
golem-makers
open abyss
twilight
Bohemia
moonchild
incarnate
I am the god of war and vengeance
I will give you a war engine
Hail!
Critical mass
Atomic fire
Thousand suns
Road of death
Wormhole
Apocalypse
Gate of stars
Zero hourHalf asleep lyrics I misheard inserted after one of the Hails!!
It was something like -
Hail!! The morning baker who opens at 8.
I perked up and cracked up laughing, ....''some people just want to watch the world burn, don't they?''.
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30 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:
Be mad to think 30 years ago that Tim Burgess would be the top boy while Ian Brown would be reduced to doing his own karaoke by way of gigs.
I don't know, I think most people would say that John Squire was the brains behind the Stone Roses and by miles a better songwriter while Ian Brown's strength was purely being the frontman with an easily recognisable singing style and an attitude. Ian Brown's solo career has proved this, initially he had some success built on his previous reputation but it quickly got old.
I didn't didn't go to Rock Ness the year Ian Brown performed but I could hear him sing 8 miles away as the wind carried the music up the glen to where I lived at the time and I got the full experience of his recognisable singing style
, .....what would that be at the time maybe 15-18 years of performing live and he still can't f***ing hold a note, flat as a pancake. It was dreadful for someone of that experience not to learn and push himself to improve. I also heard the The Prodigy's set blown up the Glen by the wind in my direction and there was nothing wrong with how they sounded, even if the sound would fade and then come back. That was quite enjoyable, sitting in the garden 8 miles away from Dores and being able to hear The Prodigy.
Tim Burgess I think is a far better frontman and songwriter and just solidly a decent guy. The Charlatans have a lot more staying power than many of the other bands that were born around the same time that became part of the 'scene' Much of that down to the quality of the songwriting consistancy and band members that generally didn't end up hating each other due to egos. I would like to read their story, if Tim Burgess ever writes an autobiography.
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11 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:
Barras in 95 for me IIRC. The long-forgotten Northen Uproar as support.
Northern Uproar, that's a blast from the past, that made me go to YT and watch a couple of their music videos just now. Still going according to wiki, though their last album was in 2015.
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37 minutes ago, Hiram Holliday said:
Anyone intelligent out there?
Unfortunately you need to reply to posts and offer discussion, so forum rules apply here that you lose the right to the topic after three hours doing nothing and therefore it become a free space in which any topic can be disscussed such as The Charlatans, Spider Man gifs and pizzas.
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The Charlatans are legends, never seen them live unfortunately. Missed them last year when they toured.
Going to be playing Glasgow, Queen's Park Recreation Ground on the Sunday 30th June. Maybe go along this time.
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I actually have zero f***s about Dubai, their preps for this ever happening is zero, so much focus of excess and so much complacency. In the desert with more money than common sense and have never concluded that a storm that occurred in 1949 might just happen again but with a much bigger population and zero place for the water to go, eg. no storm drains. First time I saw pictures of Dubai years ago and the vast speed of development, my first though about it was its built at sea level, this would be a disaster if a hurricane struck the place. Of course experts would claim that this has never happened. I would say yet!!
Every now and then nature reminds us that she is in charge, despite our best efforts to control what cannot be controlled.
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1 hour ago, Hiram Holliday said:
Here’s another chance for the climate change charlatans to jump on this latest band wagon.
ok I'll bite.
Climate change charlatans?? Does this include the scientists who have proved that the planet warms and cools through natural processes for millions of years and that our world climate is very dynamic?
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1 minute ago, Mackie The Staggie said:
Might want to change plans again....the Brora vs Brechin game is in Golspie this Sat (Brora doing drainage work on their pitch as somehow it's worse than Dundee's)
Ah, thank you.
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19 hours ago, Comrie said:
The only place in the Highlands stauncher than Inverness.
I might have changed my mind, could be a good game up in Brora.
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Of course Dundee have no ambition to finish in an achievable 5th place, but let it be all about Rangers and a blue tinted glasses view point of other clubs ambitions.
3 points tomorrow would see Dundee level on goal difference with St. Mirren and they after the wet wipe showcase last week over the pitch at Dens and Clement's comments on this 'different situation' and that County easily outplayed and beat the mighty Rangers will be highly motivated to pile on more misery.
I could argue that Dundee have just as much to play for as Rangers do. 5th place right after a promotion would a tremendous achievment, Rangers finishing 2nd is not an achievement, even if Rangers win the league it will be less of an achievement than if Dundee finish 5th.
Funny how after claiming a moral victory last week Dundee are happily living in Clements head rent free. Now we all know Clement is easily rattled.
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18 minutes ago, KirkieRR said:
If any Sevco player picks up an injury at Dens, I wonder what the club, the manager, he board, the fanbase and their tame lapdogs in the press will blame it on?
The Dens pitch is perfect for this game, I don't see why they have a problem with it. Everyone has to play on it during the season twice and its not held back Dundee by any means as their way of football has gained them a top six place. So if the second placed team is good enough then they should have too much for the team in sixth regardless and any excuses are just that.
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Never stops amusing me that the biggest group of football supporters in Scotland that make up around maybe 40-45% (maybe more) of the football supporting population feel they are persecuted by the same authorities that over decades has bent over backwards to accomodate them and their gravedancing beliefs much to the disgust and detriment of everyone else? The establishment club selling itself as anti-establishment, anti SFA corruption, and anti anything that denies them an advantage over the other arsecheek including Dundee's pitch, their gormless fanbase completely buying into it.
Not one person cares that moving the match to Perth might disadvantage Dundee in some way, its all about Rangers and that buckled entitled, self important view point. Dundee FC's needs reduced to mere indifference and a supporting role in the big movie compared to the main character role in their heads Rangers have in this season's instalment of 'Winning The Title Against All The Odds'.
C'mon Dundee (Latest entity to be entered in the little boo book as an enemy of Rangers), finish them off.
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Dubai Floods.
in The General Nonsense Forum
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It feels like the Dubai and their idoicy is going of topic so I will focus on the more interesting one, music.
The so called grunge genre was going out of fashion before Britpop appeared. It was pretty much done by 1993. Many of the bands were gone by then so was many of the labels that supported them. A new wave of punk grew out of the west coast universities and collages as grunge faded, much of the impact of this is still felt in music today and in culture even in the UK. In my time listening to music over 50 years I have found that the British are very good inventors of different types of music but the Americans copy and take it to a new level and own it. No issues with this as if you know the influences then you know were they are coming from. What influenced the Butthole Surfers though back in the early 80's, that is a good question?