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Old 19-04-2019, 07:46 AM
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How are you spending the Easter Long Weekend? Joining the queue on the M1? Cramming yourself into the popular holiday spots with the tribe?
Looking at the cloudy rainy weather predicted for the long weekend here in Brisbane, it doesn't look like I'll be able make any use of my scope.
It was drizzling rain when I woke up this morning about 5am.
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Old 19-04-2019, 08:56 AM
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Looking at the cloudy rainy weather predicted for the long weekend here in Brisbane, it doesn't look like I'll be able make any use of my scope.
It was drizzling rain when I woke up this morning about 5am.
There is always online astro shopping, which can be dangerous to the bank balance. I have been browsing the Teleskop-services website this morning.
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Old 19-04-2019, 09:07 AM
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Yup, going to be a wet one here, apparently. We sure need it, summer was very lean on the rain front.
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Old 19-04-2019, 09:40 AM
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Relax, eat and drink. Happy Easter.
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Old 19-04-2019, 11:33 AM
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I think I have over done it I have had four cups of tea and two salami sandwiches plus four sweet biscuits. ..but why not indulge...I even have a can of sardines to fit the occasion.
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Old 19-04-2019, 04:56 PM
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I dont like blood sports other than cage fighting...I like it because thats what we did when I was a kid...but never blood back then...it was fun I often think to take it up again.
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Yes, sorry but it is just me, perhaps my autism, I hate anything like that, fishing, game shooting, call me a hypocrite because I eat meat.

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Old 19-04-2019, 05:24 PM
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Yes, sorry but it is just me, perhaps my autism, I hate anything like that, fishing, game shooting, call me a hypocrite because I eat meat.

OK..you are a hypocrite because you eat meat.☺

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Old 19-04-2019, 05:26 PM
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Yes, sorry but it is just me, perhaps my autism, I hate anything like that, fishing, game shooting, call me a hypocrite because I eat meat.

We had an interesting thread here some time back re fishing.

Some thought it was cruel some did not but none one sought testimony from a fish.
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Old 19-04-2019, 09:23 PM
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We had an interesting thread here some time back re fishing.

Some thought it was cruel some did not but none one sought testimony from a fish.
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Many lessons were learnt that thread. As I understand it, since biblical times the fish themselves were divided.
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Speaking of things Biblical and fish... As a kid I was accustomed to spending Easter watching one or two Cecil B deMille epics - usually Ten Commandments or Samson and Delilah... replete with a long list of the big movie stars from that era.

Yvonne de Carlo and Hedi Lamarr... sigh...

Or Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in Band Wagon... she was easily the most superb dancer Hollywood ever had, and what a figure...

Seems the FTA channels have forgone that tradition.
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Old 20-04-2019, 04:16 PM
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Speaking of things Biblical and fish... As a kid I was accustomed to spending Easter watching one or two Cecil B deMille epics - usually Ten Commandments or Samson and Delilah... replete with a long list of the big movie stars from that era.

Yvonne de Carlo and Hedi Lamarr... sigh...

Or Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire in Band Wagon... she was easily the most superb dancer Hollywood ever had, and what a figure...

Seems the FTA channels have forgone that tradition.
You can still find those old movies on FTA occasionally, especially in non-rating periods around Christmas. White Christmas had some outstanding dance numbers with Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen (who would be my pick for the best dancers of the era.).
They also pop up on late night TV now and then. I wonder if nursing homes have a stock of these things on DVD.
There is a modern (2016) remake of Ben Hur appearing on Ch 9 tonight.

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Old 20-04-2019, 07:03 PM
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Nick I loved that movie, The Ten Commandments.
When I was a kid we never had meat on any Friday, and when out with my patents before we had a meal we would have to bless our self's in front of every one before eating, I nearly shrunk under the seat with embarrassment.
However we survived and i am still here.

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