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#1
Posted 18 February 2005 - 9:57 PM
Thanks!
#9 toomuchstash
Posted 19 February 2005 - 12:37 AM
chemicalreaction Escribi�:
what? please tell me about this so called 'kit' i am very much interested in doing some horticulture myself.
www.psychedeli.co.uk
just one of the reasons the UK is
sneakerbeater Escribi�:
fast propagation!!! i think you should have a harvest festival!!
Oh yeah... the 'Finding Nemo' DVD has this one section that's just a long continuos loop of a giant field of pink jellyfish, and I think the Orb's 'Little Fluffly Clouds' and 'Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld' and some of the more downtempo tracks from PTB will go along nicely with it.... just gotta remember to program the CD player BEFORE I drink the tea, or else all will be chaos.
Will report back later. I'm betting I'll know for sure what they're saying at the start of Surface to Air by the time we're done.
#11
Posted 19 February 2005 - 4:47 AM
sneakerbeater Escribi�:
toomuch'stash Escribi�:
www.psychedeli.co.uk
just one of the reasons the UK is
look at that web site!!! they have even taken the kate gibb/surrender infuence!!!
That's what I noticed too, with the muted earth tones and silhouettes...
#12
Posted 19 February 2005 - 1:54 PM
oh and if your british lend your support to the campain to host the olympics. http://www.london2012.org/en it would be so cool to have something like that here. obviously the world cup would be better, but the olympic would be cool.
#13
Posted 19 February 2005 - 6:21 PM
Couldn't get away from those Olympic advertisements while in London. I think it would be cool to have them in London. I'm not much a sport fanatic, but I enjoy the Olympics and try to watch as much as I can. Politics seem to always get in the way, but I do like the tradition of the Olympics.
I remember when we had the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984 - some of the tournaments were held out in the suburbs near where I lived. And everyone knows how marketing crazy the US is... everywhere you went there was ads and Olympic priducts - couldn't get away from them. It was nice because people in L.A. were so afraid there was going to be traffic, everyone kept off the roads and the freeways which were usually knotted with cars were clear. Some of the foreigners were asking where all the smog was!
#14
Posted 19 February 2005 - 7:18 PM
oh and if your british lend your support to the campain to host the olympics. http://www.london2012.org/en it would be so cool to have something like that here. obviously the world cup would be better, but the olympic would be cool.
You'll get no backing from me.
#16
Posted 20 February 2005 - 1:05 AM
toomuch'stash Escribi�:
hey Sneak, the 'kit' (wink wink) we bought in camden town was harvested the other day, things grew fast, almost like, like, uhm, mushrooms!
How was it getting through customs? Any suggestions for those too poor to fly overseas? I assume your narcotically-challenged country doesn't approve of grow kits. I'd love to grow some here in Canada, but I'm pretty sure its frowned upon, to say the least. (God, every single day it seems there's another record pot bust here in Manitoba.)
#18
Posted 20 February 2005 - 4:01 AM
mc marsh Escribi�:
You'll get no backing from me.
i find that comment a little sad. in my life time this (great) country has hosted nothing on the magnitude of these games. we are a great sporting country, we need something like this!!! the only thing bigger than this is the world cup, christ knows when we will get that. i dont know, i have got very excited about seeing the new wembley stadium being built. you can see it form miles away, its fantastic!! but what it is is a statement on how this country loves its sport and could be the center piece of the olypic games. i don't see the olympics as a london games, its an english games festival. dont be so negative about it being in london, after all they will never be hosted in leeds. it will be a good thing for the whole contry!!
#19
Posted 20 February 2005 - 12:24 PM
I'm just sick of millions and millions of pounds being poured into London all the time whilst the rest of the country gets very little. In London at the moment �7.5 billion is about to be spent on a new CrossRail system, millions of pounds spent on new high speed rail services from London to places like Ramsgate and Gravesend and various other expensive schemes. Leeds has waited 15 years for a supertram system only to be told by the government it is too expensive and more recently consultants have been sent into the North of England to investigate how public transport services can be cut to save money. And now people down south are telling us this is good for the whole country!!
I'm not bothered that it isn't been held in Leeds, although Manchester did an excellent job of hosting the Commonwealth games a couple of years ago, recieving little credit for it.
I think you're right about restoring national pride to a sporting nation etc, but I can't help thinking they are putting money into this at the detrement of everywhere else!!
Apologies for boring the rest of you to tears with my public transport views, I will not inflict them on you again ;-).
#20
Posted 20 February 2005 - 1:06 PM
Be glad that at least some money is being poured into your rail network. Or public transportation for that matter. Here in the States it's an ongoing battle. We just got word from Bush that our passenger rail system, Amtrak, is on it's way out. We're told it costs too much money to run, that it doesn't break even every year so it's a loss. And seeing how our rail system works and how little money it costs just to keep it running I can see the point. But it's still a loss, Amtrak isn't considered worth rehauling or saving at this point. But in the end we'll have thousands of people out of jobs and thousands of people shit out of luck if they want to travel by rail during off peak and weekends. Putting more stress on an economy that's still touch and go...
So. I guess we've bored everyone with our train talk! ;)
And how this fits in with the Olympics.
Sure, a lot of money pours would pour into this *possibly* at the expense of other places like you mentioned. But also take into consideration how much revenue something like the Olympics could generate for your country. Not just for London, but your country as a whole. I was young in 1984, but I do remember bits and pieces of the cashing in the Olympics brought when it was hosted in Los Angeles. If the Olympics were held in the UK It would probably even benefit the rails, too - seeing as it's a much more reliable source of transportation (unlike how it is in many parts of the U.S.) and ots of people there and abroad will be travelling on trains during the Olympics! Extra revenue, the pride of being the host country -all of this has a positive side.