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^ Very good. I only have a couple of those. Thanks

Wow, proper old planes right enough. Stalling speed 39mph, range 500 miles - you could have a lot of rural fun in a thing like that.

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Hi again, you could change the title to "Japanese Martial Arts" and start a different thread in the History & Culture section or Anything & Everything Else to discuss Scottish Gaelic. Unless it is shinty you are hoping to discuss, inwhich case you could title a thread like that too. To ask about Japanese, and Gaelic in a Sport section of the forum is a bit of a broad topic. Feel free to start more than one thread to discuss several subjects, hope that helps and welcome to the forum.

Hi aeolius. I notice you have posted this question in the Sport forum, I'm not sure what this has to do with sport? Can you elaborate?

Fantastic! I had a digital watch with Pacman in it in the aftermath of the game's success, until the dog chewed it up. That would have been a classic collectors item now. Meh.

Wise words Johan. The merging of the thread was an unfortunate consequence of the immediate response from the cynical zealots. It is a shame that those so fanatical are so intolerant. If I had time I'd raise the philosophical point that any for of mind-reading or divination, even if totally unproven, could still be considered a valued service to society - to those that enjoy it. Derren Brown, champion of the antithesis has made a tremendous career from cold-reading and autosuggestion and the cynical follow him with a passion. He may explain what he's doing, but he's still performing the same age-old sideshow antics, and being handsomely reimbursed for doing so. I watch movies from time to time, and read the occasional book but, when I come across some fiction in either, I don't jump on a soap box and cry "Foul!" So are authors and film makers fakes and parasites on society also? Hopefully anyone with the info originally requested will pm Redz.

Yeah, it's yun really, really big heathery clumps dat you fin in Kergord and Scallawa Twerto, it turns oot dat dir no da result o a nuclear incident in which some heather was working late in the lab one night and in a freak accident, etc, etc, but dir actually a different species caad "trees". Apparently dir wis a lok mair o dem here in da distant past, But "Why did da trees leave?" I hear you ax, Because, "They would", apparently. (sorry jenesequa, this is not helping your original question )

Plenty of local trees mid-west. Min du surely canna see da wid fir the lack o trees.

Hmm, local Halle Berry lookalike.... gorgeous. http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t175/kezziecr/DSC00814.jpg

Cheers GR.

Any reference for this story, a link or something?

Well said, (though I'd have to change the summary to say that I appreciated it a lot in the first place) The two thing that perhaps are overlooked here, Simon King has been a pretty much unsung cameraman as much as he's been a 'star' and has done some amazing filming in documentaries that many of us have watched without so much as a doubt as to their excellence, and so, I don't distrust his integrity as a guy who loves nature and loves Shetland - what's not to like, we are in a wildlife paradise. I've thought that since I could walk and still think it now. Secondly, to the Beeb, Simon King is a product, and that product will be sold, and the idea of combining a fantastic wildlife location with a personal biography of a well-known, well-liked and amiable presenter and his family was great in its appeal. It was not so much a serious wildlife documentary, more a dramatisation, but it did have some superb footage within it, and yes, I did cringe a bit too, at times. (Episode 2) And as has been said, it has done wonders for the tourist profile of Shetland, and it won't just last a year, as for every wildlife tourist who comes here to see a draatsie and succeeds, another will come again from hearing about it. King also used local photographers for his book, which should be appreciated too. I don't get the comparison with Oddie either, Oddie came here anonymously and went straight to Skerries to spot migrant birds for years. In Skerries he was just another guy, no-one special and nor did he try to be. I mind sitting in the Skerries hall at a do once and marvelling at how one of the Goodies was sitting at the back, while all the local notables were at the top tables. He never tried to capitalise on Shetland, or not in any highly visible way. Shetland is a birding mecca - those that bird flock to Shetland, pardon the pun, and he's a nutty birder. As to the Snowy Owl, there was one in Unst the other weekend which caused quite a stir Some folk still do literally fly up here to catch a glimpse of a rarity, even in this jaded media-rich day and age. I'm peeved I missed it.

The feet? Not sure what you mean there. In the most exposed areas a simple square of plywood screwed to the top of a fence post serves well enough without fear of blowing away. To stop the feed blowing off you just need to panel-pin a bead around the edges, leaving the corners open to allow run-off.

It is usually the opposite that people find fault with, that is, when connecting to a new computer the old content gets wiped in the update. Has he modified it it in any way? I'm happy with iPod/iTunes. all my older music still sits in its separate album specific folders, completely manageable, with the 'one-stop' UI for listening and iPod updating. I also have all my contacts back-ed up on it, (one checkbox tick), video, photos and those all important podcasts, updated automatically for some, left alone for favourites. It's a horses for courses scenario as much as a marmite one, some say restrictive, but all I deal with is my own tunes & media from my own collection and don't require any other functionality, not even sure what it would be. If, at some point in the distant past, I collected some of my tunes that were 'stored' on a friend's computer, I bought a shareware app that took them off his iPod effortlessly, for about $10. Simples. Having said that, I do use a Mac, (so it does cross-link to all the other mac apps, Address Book, iPhoto etc.) and I know Quicktime and iTunes do seem to be quite processor heavy on PCs for no apparent reason.

^ Or, as I was thinking, following that logic, if Scottish flights have been cancelled and Scotland is part of the Universe, then all universal flights must have been cancelled too. Bad news ET, no holidays for you this week.

Good point.

The door? Min, du's missed da point, it's an enclosed private garden being photographed without release from a potentially exclusive vantage point and then published on the internet. Yun quote I pay abun is fae a law firms website on the findings of cases relating to invasion of privacy and states that photographing private gardens is risky from a legal point of view.

Spret and rive am happy enyoch we, but fir da venerable unkan linguists dat visit here, could you no maybe pit a bit o description we eens lik soolpeens an slent? Please. edit....and scoodered.....crofter.

Not being funny shetlandpeat, but was that photo taken from a reasonable public viewpoint? Otherwise is it not an offence/invasion of privacy to photograph somebody's private home area like that? Just checking, fair's fair and all that. Edit: Snippet for example

http://www.shetlink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6048

My point exactly. Rubbish yourself.

Would this be a good time to trot out the chestnut that the internet and computers have as large a carbon footprint as air travel? My other pedantic observation is that all humanity still consists of a large percentage of people who are not messing up the planet, even now. It is only us industrialised consumers who are a part of this perceived planetary poison. 10000 generations existed without doing so before our immediate ancestors and in certain cultures across the globe, they were fully aware of the consequences of over-exploitation, it is not a new discovery, it has merely been re-introduced by the pompous religion of science and hailed as the intellectual second coming. (If you'll excuse the pedantry and equally pompous terminology, and yes I am messing up the planet and I admit it, but in ever-increasingly less ways) If you want a focused tirade to dwell on, consider the obscenity revealed by the volcanic eruption. A snapshot of the opulently wasteful and and absurd world in which we live where 150,000 people from the UK alone were due to travel home on those days. Imagine trying to explain this to aliens. We live in a culture where people have the expectation to burn large quantities of a finite fuel resource in the upper atmosphere so that they can get a tan, or have a change of scenery, and for some, this is several times a year. How do we justify to our descendants that we used up the planet's resources for leisure fripperies and cosmetic fashion. 50 years ago how many people outside of Iceland would have been affected by this volcanic event?- probably none. It is consumerism and fashion/trends that needs sorting, more than capitalism, and as an integral part of any 'planet saving' that occurs. I would hope that the eruption and it's consequences would encourage people to rely less on globe-trotting for leisure. (And I don't eat kiwi fruit and I never will!)

Erm.. What? Feminists are going to prevent volcanoes erupting? TOPIC!

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