[rod_grant]

settlement of Australia, celebrated a week ago.

You mean invasion day!
That's when we invaded and brought housing and health care and air conditioners and other stuff that many of the invadees use but don't acknowledge.
(along with some disbenefits!)

[MarkJerling]

Well there is a 15 minute break at halftime.

So, is half-time at the 2 hour mark, or at the half hour mark?

[MarkJerling]

And I live 30 minutes from the Daytona 500.

Have you been?

[tim60]

Happy birthday, old man.
(I won't catch up to you until May.)

Do you mean to having A birthday or to having THAT birthday?

[tim60]

You mean invasion day!
That's when we invaded and brought housing and health care and air conditioners and other stuff that many of the invadees use but don't acknowledge.
(along with some disbenefits!)

I carefully used neutral language so as not to get involved in politics discussion.


Even though one of my points recently has been that Australians know how to have genuine reconciliation with people with whom one has just had a vigorous sport or political discussion. This is an interesting distinctive feature of Australian culture. May be the practical impact of a harsh environment and few people, and so the realisation that you might be dependent for your own survival on people with whom you have significantly disagreed.

[tim60]

Have you been?

I went to Daytona a couple of times. Went to he airport just across the road from the car track, and went to a meeting in a building belonging to the local university which provides a large proportion of the aircraft movements at that airport.

[savoche]

Hard to get used to how old some stuff is here. My church serves communion with vessels of various ages. One is over 100 years older than English settlement of Australia, my home. And another is over 50 years older than the settlement of Australia, celebrated a week ago.

I have the same issue when going to southern Europe where you can ffind buildings from several centuries BC still standing. Up here we think of 1,000 years as a long time (I was baptised in a 12th century baptismal font, and that's considered old here). Of course, places like Damascus and Aleppo have been continuously inhabited for at least 10 millennia. A dizzying thought.

[savoche]

Cool, another Aquarius! I turned 58 today....happy birthday Bob! ...and Bob's brother.

Hey, happy birthday to the both of you!

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[savoche]

Our last day of paradise....tomorrow I will be shovelling snow.

Welcome home to the joys of winter!

At least you got a long and nice break from it all.

[Racer X 69]

Hey, happy birthday to the both of you!

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I sure am glad I didn’t get a camera that sings.

[Racer X 69]

And I live 30 minutes from the Daytona 500.

Actually I think you meant you live 30 minutes from the Daytona Motor Speedway.

The Daytona 500 is a race that takes place there, and is two weeks from today.

[Racer X 69]

This is yet another example why auto racing is so much better.

The green flag drops, and it's go time.

The big races, the 500 milers, can take 4 or 5 hours. And those are action packed hours. Door handle to door handle, wheel to wheel, bumper to bumper, at speeds three time the national speed limit.

Even when there is a caution, you don't want to make a run to the loo or grab more snacks and beer from the kitchen. No way, there will be pit stops, plenty of drama getting in and out, and keeping position. Then, the most exciting part, the final dash for the checker, some beer or champagne, and a big kiss from the pretty girl.

Unless you are Danica Patrick.

Then you kiss the good looking guy.

One point I forgot to make here.

When they go to commercial, they have a double window, and continue race coverage as the commercial plays. And if something happens during the commercial break, they quit the commercial and go right back to the race coverage.

The viewer doesn't miss any of the action.

In ball games, the action goes in spurts, with lots of slack time in between plays.

[Racer X 69]

The livE hociR lurks:

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[robtcorl]

So, is half-time at the 2 hour mark, or at the half hour mark?

Let it go Mark, just let it go.

[tim60]

I have the same issue when going to southern Europe where you can ffind buildings from several centuries BC still standing. Up here we think of 1,000 years as a long time (I was baptised in a 12th century baptismal font, and that's considered old here). Of course, places like Damascus and Aleppo have been continuously inhabited for at least 10 millennia. A dizzying thought.

Some places are ancient.


In the church to which I referred, the site has been used as a church for about 1300-1500 years. A few years ago they opened up the floor to change the heating system, when they were doing some other building works, and found some old graves. They called in the archaeologists who determined that they were Saxon Christian graves. They were Saxon in period, laid facing east, a mark of Christian graves and without the jewellery and other artefacts that would be expected of pagans of that era, and so also a mark of Christian graves. The oldest stonework which is currently visible is a small piece of Norman era stonework.


The silverware probably is limited in age because of the Civil War, king vs parliament, and king's head came off. Seems the civil war killed about 10% of the population. Parliament got the idea of their army wearing uniforms, so they could easily distinguish their own men from their opponents. Imagine fighting in a pre-uniforms army in set-piece battles.