Never pay any attention to ManU...may be worth doing so this season. They managed to win last season with a poorer side than usual...allowed to win by no other team really putting up much of an effort. Will be a transition phase for them.
Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread
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Not very politically savvy, but isn't there a danger that the EU will get too cumbersome. I'll probably regret even starting that debate.
Cor..! NZ is just as pretty as when I lived there. I've driven some of the 55 miles of 90 Mile Beach and driven on Oreti Beach where they filmed the bike race in The World's Fastest Indian. That bit where Clarkson is about to drive through Auckland and expresses a worry that it might be jammed with traffic..? Not on your life. No part of NZ has ever been jammed with traffic unless there has been a major accident. There just aren't enough people there.
BTW, thanks for the heads-up, tom.
they still didn't explain why it's called 90 mile beach .... and it's only 55 miles?????
Massive wildfire in the States - 19 firefighters dead (the largest number dead in one incident since 9/11.)
Massive, drought-fueled fires are becoming an annual occurrence in the American Southwest as conditions get drier and hotter with each passing year. But don't you dare suggest that it's climate change.
US firefighters have a high death rate than ours do when fighting similar fires (obviously not massive wildfires as we don't have many of those). Apparently it is due to a more gung ho attitude, especially when other lives are at stake. Admirable on one level, but they carry on trying even when it is sensible to back off.
you may have got the wrong end of his message Dan, he may well be "in Paris" .... I recall a video made public about that a few years back
They weren't regular firefighters, they were "hotshots". Their job, apparently, was to go into the fire and create a "fireline" (which I think something they do to control which way the fire will spread and keep it away from towns), and they apparently miscalculated their escape route. That's pretty much what their entire job entails and it's dangerous as ****.
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