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Ok to while away this Friday night whilst watching the football, I thought it would be very community spirited to ask some questions about life, the universe and everything in hope someone will reply with helpfull answers, and in turn could ask three other questions which we could help with.
So Poster First in hope this thread will not die on its arse....
1. What is the significance of the curves that the referees and managers shirts have on the front at this years world cup? They seem to be on shirts from Adidas and Umbro, yet I am unable to find anything about it.
2. Pigeons - the little bastards have nested under my bench on my balcony - I have obscured the eggs so the chicks are dead as the parents keep retunring, but how can I stop them from permanently returning ? I don't want to stream wires and silver foil everywhere as I like to use the blacony myself - any ideas?
3. How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: 1. What is the significance of the curves that the referees and managers shirts have on the front at this years world cup? They seem to be on shirts from Adidas and Umbro, yet I am unable to find anything about it.
It's an artisitic representation of the amount of swing off the ball in the air..Seriously, I have no idea. Maybe it creates an electro-magnetic field prohibiting the referee from making a decent decision. Either that or it's an extra pocket for keeping your third yellow card in...
quote:2. Pigeons - the little bastards have nested under my bench on my balcony - I have obscured the eggs so the chicks are dead as the parents keep retunring, but how can I stop them from permanently returning ? I don't want to stream wires and silver foil everywhere as I like to use the blacony myself - any ideas?
They don't like the smell of moth balls, ammonia or WD40. Trouble is, you might not like them either.
quote:3. How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?
1. I've been using dadamail to run a series of mailing lists on a Linux server. It's fine but has a habit of crashing.I don't have root permissions on the server and don't want the hassle of mailman or anything similar. Does anyone know of a simple to install mailing list prog that can handle discussion lists?
quote:Originally posted by Niffer: Oh...um...right..three questions:
1. I've been using dadamail to run a series of mailing lists on a Linux server. It's fine but has a habit of crashing.I don't have root permissions on the server and don't want the hassle of mailman or anything similar. Does anyone know of a simple to install mailing list prog that can handle discussion lists?
quote:2. Ice-cream - choc chip or raspberry ripple?
Raspberry Ripple - haven't had one for ages actually...
quote:3. The footy - Holland or Argentina to win?
You mean the finals? They drew nil nil the other night... What about Brazil? Germany? Or even, dare I breathe it, England? Too early to call, though Argentina must be fancied at the moment.
That's the same thing dude..they changed the name because of a copyright dispute...
quote:You mean the finals? They drew nil nil the other night... What about Brazil? Germany? Or even, dare I breathe it, England? Too early to call, though Argentina must be fancied at the moment.
Yeah the finals. I just can't see us getting there. Not without Owen given the squad selection. Don't get me wrong, it'll be great if we do.
Brazil aren't looking on top of their game and they did lose to Ecquador and someone else during qualifying so I can't see that either. They're great going forward but their defence is looking old and tired.
Germany. Possibly. If they get lucky. They're just not as good as the Dutch.
Right now, I'll settle for Togo sending the French home. Hey Freddy, what's the French for nil-nil?
quote:Originally posted by Niffer: Hey Freddy, what's the French for nil-nil?
Not the same as the French for 2-0, obviously. Not only am I at home on a Friday night but the cheese eating surrender monkeys have scored twice in 6 minutes. Bah.
quote: Germany. Possibly. If they get lucky. They're just not as good as the Dutch.
Really! That is who I have in the work sweepstake! I assumed they wouldn't be any good, on account of not having any hills...or something?
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We had finches trying to nest in our stove exhaust fan, but we turn it on quite regularly (since that's the only spot in the house we smoke), so they moved on. But! The day I spotted them trying to do so, we went out and bought a bird house for them. The lil bastards aren't using it though...guess they found somewhere else to lay their eggs.
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get your local council to put a speed hump in the area of your home. pigeons enjoy sitting on them and almost getting run over so i figure if someone was to drive fast enough... squish
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