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Sæl öll. Cappuccino, coffee, tea donuts and fruit are on the bar.

Frothy cappuccinos for al, HH, and W_Y
Coffee and caramel frapachino for IB
Coffees for COYH, Frenchie, Kev rob theo and vic-rijrode
Strong coffee for Sandy
Milky coffee for Yorkie
Espresso for SuffolkHorn
Strong black coffees for Bragi Norway and zen
Black coffee half hot half cold and no sugar for Charlie
A peppermint latte for DanH
Tea for BHD Cornish Mark jsybarry Lloydinio and BCFCRed
Tea with skimmed milk and no sugar for GG and Leon
Hot chocolate with marshmallows for BBW
Caramel latte for Hornette Scullion Canary Dave Fossefilberto and Maestro
Una paloma for Mexican Hornet
Redwine for NZ and kiwiqpr as they are ahead of us in time


The lögreglan say they caught 17 drug runners in Keflavík airport last year. Only 5 were of Ísland. The year befor was 16 with 4 locals. Lögreglan said they had 11kg amphetamine 2kg cocaine over 14.000 extasy tablets and some cannabis. Throw these drug mules all in the ocean and let them swim home.
 
Morning all, bright and sunny here, quite mild as well.

Our not so loved President has reacted to a magazine publishing details and photographs of his current affair. Seems as if he is not denying it, just doesn't want it in print, although it has been over the internet for ages.
 
Morning all - your nasty windy, wet weather appears to be set to hit us up here finally. :(

Don't normally ask this sort of thing, but this is for a cause close to my heart - and my niece, being an Environmental Scientist in Oz, has helped organise this. It seems that the authorities in Queensland are proposing to dump toxic waste - mining spoil - into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Marine Park Authority are still considering the proposal, which is beyond belief really - if anyone would like to add their voice to a petition to stop this, they can do so here:

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/...uthority/good-news-for-the-great-barrier-reef
 
An interesting development in the French government's war with Amazon. They have now banned free delivery on books, in addition to there being no discount of more than 5% of the cover price. France has one of the highest number of traditional book shops in the world – with a total of 3,500, of which around 800 are single independent businesses.

This compares with the United Kingdom – which has less than 2,000 bookshops – whose numbers are being steadily eroded by web competition.

They are also saying that Amazon and Google are not paying their taxes by being based abroad and using the tax regime of countries such as Luxembourg to hide behind. That sounds familiar to me.
 
Bolton's Boots said:
Morning all - your nasty windy, wet weather appears to be set to hit us up here finally. :(

Don't normally ask this sort of thing, but this is for a cause close to my heart - and my niece, being an Environmental Scientist in Oz, has helped organise this. It seems that the authorities in Queensland are proposing to dump toxic waste - mining spoil - into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Marine Park Authority are still considering the proposal, which is beyond belief really - if anyone would like to add their voice to a petition to stop this, they can do so here:

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/...uthority/good-news-for-the-great-barrier-reef
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It doesn't seem that there is much to consider for the Marine Park Authority, it sounds like a disaster. I thought there were enough problems with it without adding to them. Done!
 
Bolton's Boots said:
Morning all - your nasty windy, wet weather appears to be set to hit us up here finally. :(

Don't normally ask this sort of thing, but this is for a cause close to my heart - and my niece, being an Environmental Scientist in Oz, has helped organise this. It seems that the authorities in Queensland are proposing to dump toxic waste - mining spoil - into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. The Marine Park Authority are still considering the proposal, which is beyond belief really - if anyone would like to add their voice to a petition to stop this, they can do so here:

https://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/...uthority/good-news-for-the-great-barrier-reef
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Signed it for you BB, I can't believe they even considered it!
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
An interesting development in the French government's war with Amazon. They have now banned free delivery on books, in addition to there being no discount of more than 5% of the cover price. France has one of the highest number of traditional book shops in the world – with a total of 3,500, of which around 800 are single independent businesses.

This compares with the United Kingdom – which has less than 2,000 bookshops – whose numbers are being steadily eroded by web competition.

They are also saying that Amazon and Google are not paying their taxes by being based abroad and using the tax regime of countries such as Luxembourg to hide behind. That sounds familiar to me.
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I have never quite understood the attraction of the 'traditional' bookshop apart from the ability to physically handle the books.

I have approximately 2,000 books (mostly non-fiction), a Kindle (with 400 books on it) and used to shop extensively in small 'local' bookshops. However, they are simply not competitive in these times. Most are still selling at RRP or very close and the relatively few discounts they offer are usually in the 'best-selling' fiction category. I still visit them but, sadly, now only to browse. Then any book of interest I look up at Amazon (and many other sites - Abebooks is a good one especially for rare books) and invariably I find it on sale at much less than the bookshop. If the difference for a book was a pound or so then I would probably buy from the bookshop - but £5-£10 difference is just too significant.

If bookshops are not flexible enough with their prices then they will go out of business - like Borders did a few years ago. Waterstones try hard but even they are expensive for most non-fiction books.

As for French bookshops, I find them grossly expensive - I didn't realise that the discount is a maximum of 5% which is ludicrous and a virtual tax on books. This is surely an artificial device to retain bookshops. Is this not against EU competition rules?

Retail Price Maintenance on books was abolished in the UK 50 years ago which has benefited the book trade here enormously. As with the 'preservation of the purity' of the French language, the French Government surely is pushing water uphill trying to protect the 'traditional' bookshop.
 
geitungur akureyrar said:
None of the Þorri foods in this article will be available here.

http://www.grapevine.is/Home/ReadArticle/Pickled-Rams-Penis-Hot-New-Dish-For-Thorri

Svið is good and the sausages, hákarl is quite bad. There is no chance I will eat ram's testicles or pickled rams penis, that just sounds wrong at every level.

Þorri is the old winter festival.
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I have a recipe for sheep's head soup in one of my grandmother's recipe books. My grandfather used to say that a sheep's head soup could see you through the week,
 
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