Reply to: New Zealand earthquake

[SupremeSpod]

I doubt if you could hit a cow's arse with a banjo!!

Shooting fish in a barrel I "get" but who would want to hit a cow's arse with a banjo??

PS "Barel" very good

Cows arse - Big and round.

Banjo - Big and round.

Therefore the chances of missing said cows arse with a banjo are pretty slim - unless of course you're MarillionFan.

Spod - In "Public service broadcasting" mode!

[Gonzo]

Apparently, it cost a small fortune to fly all the stars out there for filming. However, they more than recouped their outlay through the savings they made in make-up and Costuming by simply employing the locals as the Orc hordes.

I believe that the Orc hordes were in fact computer generated based on a template of English cricket fans at the matches in Australia.

[shaunbhoy]

I knew a lot of LotR was filmed in NZ; but are those places where they actually filmed the indicated scenes? That's amazing.

Apparently, it cost a small fortune to fly all the stars out there for filming. However, they more than recouped their outlay through the savings they made in make-up and Costuming by simply employing the locals as the Orc hordes.

[OwlHoot]

Hopefully, the population of Middle Earth was unaffected.....

I knew a lot of LotR was filmed in NZ; but are those places where they actually filmed the indicated scenes? That's amazing.

[Drewster]

Oh dear. It's like shooting fish in a barel.

I doubt if you could hit a cow's arse with a banjo!!

Shooting fish in a barrel I "get" but who would want to hit a cow's arse with a banjo??

PS "Barel" very good

[MarillionFan]

Is it not a service or bi-product of interacting with others that they point out our failings or their own superiority? If we didn't highlight your stupidity how would you work it our for yourself?

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Oh dear. It's like shooting fish in a barel.

[oracleslave]

The sound of half a dozen CUK pedant's keyboards can be herd tapping away into Google at this very second.

Is it not a service or bi-product of interacting with others that they point out our failings or their own superiority? If we didn't highlight your stupidity how would you work it our for yourself?

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[MarillionFan]

*I am passing on a figure that I have read without doing any further checking or verification - it is the local way.

The sound of half a dozen CUK pedant's keyboards can be herd tapping away into Google at this very second.

[Gonzo]

Isn't the airport in South Auckland?

OK pedant.

Yes, geographically the airport is on the south-side of the city but it is away from the population centres that get described as South Auckland. Anyway, Wikipedia tells me that I am completely wrong about the location for that movie and it is in fact much further south. Oh well, it was at least 12 years ago that I watched it when a New Zealand friend insisted that I watch this film all about life there.

Back to the quake, indications today are that 20% of homes* in the quake zone have been rendered uninhabitable. Ouch.

*I am passing on a figure that I have read without doing any further checking or verification - it is the local way.

[Moscow Mule]

That's in South Auckland.

Mrs Gonzo won't go there so I have never actually been there other than through it, on the motorway, very quickly.

Isn't the airport in South Auckland?

[Gonzo]

The natives are getting restless.

That's in South Auckland.

Mrs Gonzo won't go there so I have never actually been there other than through it, on the motorway, very quickly.

[Hugh Jardon]

Well it didn't predict that one did it.

It's for Major quakes MF.

I wonder if the bit about their prediction software accuracy is another way of protecting their backs, besides the disclaimer........................

Or they offshored that piece of development, and guess what it's now doing...........

[MarillionFan]

It sounds like it has caused some major inconvenience.

I heard on the radio not long ago that the Mayor has asked for the army to be called in to provide security because the police cannot cope.

The natives are getting restless.

[Gonzo]

It sounds like it has caused some major inconvenience.

I heard on the radio not long ago that the Mayor has asked for the army to be called in to provide security because the police cannot cope.

[MarillionFan]

BBC News - Strong earthquake rocks New Zealand's South Island

Lucky no one seems to have been killed. My frends in Wellington said that the 'earth moved for them'.

Great earthquake website at this link, I've followed it for more than 5 years and the predictor is pretty darn accurate....

The World-Wide Earthquake Locator

Well it didn't predict that one did it.