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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostAnd they kept using French words throughout the match. Speaking of which, the scoring is weird/French too. First of all it goes up in units of 15, for no apparent good Anglo Saxon reason. And just as you're getting used to that, it starts going up in 10's At which point they start using French words again.
And "Love" is derived from "'l'oeuf" (which as I'm sure you know means egg in French) because that's what a zero looks like, apparently. Except in France they say "Zero"...
Anyway - nought, one, two, three, three-an-a-bit... I mean, where's the romance?Blog? What blog...?Comment
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Originally posted by malvolio View PostAnyway - nought, one, two, three, three-an-a-bit... I mean, where's the romance?Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghostI ignored the tennis & watched the thing about Building 7...Comment
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Originally posted by zeitghost"Exactly as the laws of physics predict"...
It still seems a little odd... it couldn't have fallen down more neatly if it had tried...Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostFor it not to fall down neatly requires a horizontal force to be found from somewhere.Comment
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Originally posted by realityhack View PostPlenty of those in a collapsing steel lattice structure. I think Zeity's on about the apparently unhindered, near freefall velocity descent into it's own basement.Comment
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Looks like we have our very own conspiracy theorists and expert structural engineers on CUK. Not to mention global warming experts.
The reaction of one of the chief conspiracy theorists on the program when presented with the evidence against was instructive. It was something like:
"Don't be ******* silly, man".
Anyone who has to deal with any sort of political structure knows that the competence to engineer and maintain silence in a conspiracy is non existent.Hard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostLooks like we have our very own conspiracy theorists...
It's simply that this:
Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostWhat do you expect except free-fall if a building comes straight down?
I also don't believe the US govt are competent enough to pull off any 'conspiracy' of this kind.Comment
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Originally posted by realityhack View Post...is highly unlikely to happen in a natural building collapse.
.Hard Brexit now!
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