"Beefy's Corner".......For all off Topic threads

Haha there's some language I haven't heard in a while. I guess I would have to say my preferences leaned towards hesh, but I was never very good.

 

I'm sure that will be a tough year. The prison scenes on Goodfellas springs to mind.

 

You don't even get sent to prison until you have used up your first appeal. They obviously don't have much faith in their justice system. And don't get me started on the scientists who got six years for not correctly predicting (ie guessing) an earthquake.

 

The Tony Hawks, Playstation and Ramones connection..? No, I just about got that.

As to that 21st CSM riff, I am pretty sure I know the one you mean. With my limited knowledge, am I right in assuming that part of it is a fast run up and down the scale..?

 

If you like punk, listen to The Smoking Popes and Bayside. You won't regret it!

 

Tell me more about these scientists and earthquakes? When was this Qwerty?

 

2 Days ago Italian scientists were jailed for failing to warn about L'Aquila earthquake in 2009. Ridiculous...unless they were all hammered or had scuppered equipment (which they hadn't). They have just about guaranteed that scientists will issue many wrong warnings, resulting in unnecessary evacuation (with resulting panic and deaths) rather than risk prosecution.

On a side issue, saw that apparently 98% of prosecutions result in plea bargaining in America because you have virtually no chance of being found innocent and risk massive prison sentences. In paper because a British businessman pleaded guilty (despite feeling strongly about his innocence) because he had no faith in the system and faced 35 years in gaol.

 

Surely they can't actually jail scientists for that? They must have been negligent or something, the only way that could happen here was if you saw the volcano erupt, start spewing out ash and lava etc, and said to everyone "nah it's fine don't bother evacuating, it's fineeeeeeeeeeee".

 

I took a cable car up Vesuvius in the seventies and lying below us was the wreck of the previous cable car system...filled me with confidence.

It's expected to erupt soon, meaning that Naples has a plan in place to evacuate the citizens. Mmmm...plan organized by Italians!! Though they are good in retreat

 

It's Campi Flegrei that we really don't want erupting any time soon, and just next door to Vesuvius too. Those lucky people of Naples.

 

Even the Italians will know when Vesuvius is going to erupt. Not very difficult to see the danger signs of a volcano that is going to erupt.

 

No, I didn't. He'd be 84 by now...wonder if he's still there.

In the 70s, we were told that all the people in Herculaneum escaped because they found no bodies. A few years ago they found a load of bodies in a cave by the beach where the people were waiting hopelessly for rescue. Now we know better and have systems in place, but Naples is massively bigger...one of those when rather than if situations. Scary.

 

Yeah more or less. It's very fast, but a good grasp of the blues scale and economy picking and you barely have to move either hand. I'm very pleased to have learnt the song the entire way through, but it's a lot simpler than I thought it'd be.

 

Hmm, a good point. Vesuvius is part of a chain of volcanoes, which includes Etna. We know that Etna pops off at the merest hint of pressure and appears to act as an unreliable safety valve. One wonders how long it can continue to do so. That's a big lump of magma under there.

 

Talking of doom and gloom, there was a programme on recently talking about Earth's magnetic fields which protect us from cosmic rays. Apparently, the magnetic field reverses at regular intervals and we are overdue for such a change. The reversal may take 5000 years of chaos, but could start within 500 years (a blink of the eye in cosmic terms). It was pointed out that the whole of human civilization has taken about 7000 years in a period of relatively stable weather conditions and could be wiped out in a short space of time. It seems Mars had a magnetic field and surface water, but has neither now. Hope you are all feeling cheered up now.

 

Anyone seen any of the series by Prof Iain Stewart? Recently did one called 'Volcano Live' alongside Kate Humble. He was my Lecturer for a Geohazards module I took last year at Uni and was advisor of a presentation I did

Oh and cheers for that Fran...although at least you said it before the game and not after!