expatasia

I've had my fill. Any more fallout up there from the explosive Old Firm clash the other day?

ROMFT_WO2RN

not that i've noticed. usual platitudes about engaging with the fans, it's a societal problem etc

don't think i'll be going down the local hun bar anytime soon though

Pollyana

GingerDom

Awwww......well make the best of what may be a bad situation.....

Pollyana

Did discover one bright spot about the new office overnight, the new TV and AV system has a wonderful sound system and the accoustics in here are great - I think the cleaners fled with their ears bleeding as I blasted The Wall for every corner

GingerDom

Coolio........what were you playing - Iron maiden??

Pollyana

Not last night, Floyd's The Wall, suits my current mood then a mix of Rainbow, Bon Jovi and Journey. Can't plug my ipod into it so I need to actually gring a few cds in each night. Last night was some of the stuff I have on cds keep here. Tonight I'm gonna do the whole spectrum, Iron Maiden through to Gordon Lightfoot and back again

ROMFT_WO2RN

as it was The Wall most likely Pink Floyd ;-)

Pollyana

GingerDom

Wowsers, quite the varied taste in music.....rock on Sister!!!!

Pollyana

Oh very varied indeed!!! Can't live without music around me, and it reflects my moods, so I need a wide variety

GingerDom

Same as me.........I cannot do anything in silence, I just gotta have some kind of music on from Abba to ZZ Top!!!!! YAY!!!

Pollyana

The possoms say they will leave your TEDS alone and behave angelically as long as you promise to visit one day somewhen in the future........


It wasn't THAT silly Please come back



How's things over there today? Watching footage on TV and it looks dreadful around the worst hit areas, conditions being made worse by snow and ice

expatasia

What's giving me the willies is that friends from Britain & France are telling me to get the f out pronto, for the moment I'm sticking with advice from the embassy & the missus


Sir John Beddington speaking to the British Embassy in Japan:


[Even] if you then couple that with the worst possible weather situation ie prevailing weather taking radioactive material in the direction of greater Tokyo and you had maybe rainfall which would bring the radioactive material down - do we have a problem? The answer is unequivocally no. Absolutely no issue. The problems are within 30 km of the reactor.

And to give you a flavour for that, when Chernobyl had a massive fire at the graphite core, material was going up not just 500m but to 30,000ft. It was lasting not for the odd hour or so but lasted months, and that was putting nuclear radioactive material up into the upper atmosphere for a very long period of time. But even in the case of Chernobyl, the exclusion zone that they had was about 30km. And in that exclusion zone, outside that, there is no evidence whatsoever to indicate people had problems from the radiation. The problems with Chernobyl were people were continuing to drink the water, continuing to eat vegetables and so on and that was where the problems came from. That's not going to be the case here.



Any thoughts, anybody?

Pollyana

Well, it may be rather a traditionalist view but I'd be following the official British Embassy advice. The Brits aren't know for allowing their people to stay in a real danger zone, are they. Likewise we have been on alert ever since the original quake expecting to be called on to repatriate Aussies (we have to organise reception and liaise with all the other agencies involved) However not only are AUssies not coming forward in their hordes asking to be repatriated, but Australia has put out no advice telling them to leave - like britain they don't hang around if they think the need is there to get people out fast. They are bringing out some families of Aussie officals in Tokyo but that is because of the general situation in the aftermath of the quake.