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dvo4fun
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TV advert spotted today. A part-work with the aim of constructing your very own Spanish Galleon. The really important info. was on screen for but a few moments but as far as I could see it's £6 a pop and 139 issues. But first issue is only £1.99.
I assumed that it would be full size, given the cost and amount of home-labour involved but it seems to be a small scale model.
A hobby that got out of hand? Well, a little over 18 months ago I started writing a couple of spoof news stories, and I had one published on a website that does that sort of thing. I soon became addicted to positive comments from other contributors and to what I saw as 'success' of having my efforts make the main site.
The more I wrote the more positive comments and 'success' I got, and the more addicted I became. It's a classic 'vicious circle' situation. It got to the point where I couldn't think about anything else; everywhere I went, everything I looked at, I saw potential for a new story. I started spending hours on end on the internet looking for potential material and feeding my addiction, to the point where my work and social life started to suffer as a result.
I've lost two jobs and three girlfriends over the amount of time I spend trying to write, trying to satisfy my endless cravings for acclaim, and for 'success'.
I'm now out of work, alone and a social outcast, and still I write and refuse to seek help.
All I've got to show for it all is a mug. And I don't even drink hot drinks...
As for these magazines being a rip off - if you can find a full size Spanish galleon cheaper than 830 quid I'll eat my own face.
charlies_hat
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I once bought a magazine in 60 installments that you put togther 1 page at a time to make a full sized magazine.
Al OPecia
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How about the following:
The planet will get warmer
There will be an increase in storm frequency and intensity, leading to increased flooding
The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets will shrink, year on year.
For example, this from a 1981 paper:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/213/4511/957.short
All predictions made 20 - 30 years ago. If you are after "what will the weather be like in my back garden on June the 18th 2034 at 3.17 p.m.", you are going to be out of luck.
All predictive models of complex systems will contain levels of uncertainty, dependant on the sample data set.
John, you are an idiot.
You can make whatever predictions you want and then twist the facts 20 years down the line and present them in a way to suit your argument, it doesn't mean you're right.
I don't believe the world is getting warmer, not permanently anyway. It's just a cycle and it will cool down again in future.
See, you agree with me, so what's the problem?
I reckon it will be much quicker than that though. Within about 10 to 15 years we'll see it starting to cool down.
Just based on a gut feeling mostly, but I normally have a pretty good instinct for things.
Also, I’ve got a friend who’s a white witch, very, very in touch with nature, uncannily so really, and she says everything is going to be fine.
charlies_hat
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It said on the radio this morning that things will be getting cooler as from today. Well predicted VCG.
I hadn't expected an argument on global warming on NB. I actually tried to get away from it as its a pretty sterile debate.
But still:
How about the following:The planet will get warmer
The planet "sort of" warmed up to the late 90s, after which the global mean temperature appears to have stabilized. There are now predictions of cooling as the solar cycle has got longer and solar activity weaker.
There will be an increase in storm frequency and intensity, leading to increased flooding
That hasn't happened. There has been variation in tropical storm intensity from the early 1970s but recent hurricane activity globally has been near historic lows and previous to (just barely) Hurricane Isaac, the US has gone through the longest period of lack of hurricane strikes since the early 20th Century (no hurricanes have hit Florida since 2008)
The Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets will shrink, year on year.
That hasn't happened. Although Arctic ice has shrank, Antarctic sea ice has grown, almost exactly compensating for the Arctic loss
All predictions made 20 - 30 years ago. If you are after "what will the weather be like in my back garden on June the 18th 2034 at 3.17 p.m.", you are going to be out of luck.
I wasn't expecting such precision, but even a cursory glance at what happened to climate over the last 30 years do not support the contentions made in that paper.
All predictive models of complex systems will contain levels of uncertainty, dependant on the sample data set.
But what if the uncertainty is greater than the effect you are trying to isolate?
John, you are an idiot.
Obviously.
Sorry for the size of the images, but I don't know if the BBCode supports width and height parameters
Cheers Charlie. After that I reckon it might get warmer again for a little while, and also it will probably rain at some point.
charlies_hat
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Yeah, best get your brolly out I reckon VCG. My dad predicted I'd need a brolly in September 2012 in 1972 - he's a genius.
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