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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12619069)
Yes, it's tidal. There's a bore and some people travel from afar to surf on it. Honestly, though, it's barely a ripple compared to the Severn bore.
But it really is very brown. Not known as the chocolate river for nothing. :nod: Your brown river reminds me of the Yarra in Melbourne, sometimes called the 'upside down' river due to suspended clay particles contained therein. |
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Originally Posted by caretaker
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Originally Posted by BEVS
(Post 12618996)
I hope so too.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKCN1P50QF Saudi teen to depart Thailand for Canada asylum: Thai immigration chief |
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Originally Posted by caretaker
(Post 12620104)
And as Bevs did hope, so it did come to pass....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKCN1P50QF Saudi teen to depart Thailand for Canada asylum: Thai immigration chief Well done Canada. |
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Originally Posted by caretaker
(Post 12620104)
And as Bevs did hope, so it did come to pass....
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-t...-idUSKCN1P50QF Saudi teen to depart Thailand for Canada asylum: Thai immigration chief |
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Originally Posted by spouse of scouse
(Post 12620273)
I'm glad she wasn't forced to return to Saudi. I do wonder though why it was deemed necessary to reveal the country that granted her asylum. Won't that just make it easier for her family to find her? In the same vein, publishing her flight details was totally unnecessary. I hope she makes a good life for herself and doesn't face any reprisals for renouncing Islam.
Hopefully she'll be given a new identity, and her family members will be put on some kind of watchlist. |
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The more eyes the better until she is safe.
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Meanwhile, just across the road....
https://leaderpost.com/news/local-ne...d-039962708469 |
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From my local English language news provider (VRT):
EU makes Belgium bigger! The European Union has insisted on changes to the way that Belgium calculates its size. In future our golden beaches too will be included in Belgium’s size in calculations that will include the area that is above water at low tide. Belgium is now 160 square kilometres bigger than it was only two years ago. :blink: |
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Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy
(Post 12620484)
From my local English language news provider (VRT):
:blink: Is all of Baarle Hertog included? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle...-Hertog-en.svg |
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Originally Posted by Partially discharged
(Post 12620497)
Wouldn't it make sense to calculate at it at the point midway between high tide and low tide.
Doubtless it would take years of debate to decide what was the true midway tidal point.
Originally Posted by Partially discharged
(Post 12620497)
Is all of Baarle Hertog included?
We found a café, bought beers in one country, stepped across the street with glass in hand and supped in the other, just for the hell of it. ;) |
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Originally Posted by BuckinghamshireBoy
(Post 12620522)
Makes perfect sense to me, but that's the EU for you. :o
Doubtless it would take years of debate to decide what was the true midway tidal point. Being beach-free, I would think so. We were travelling through there about 18 months ago, OH put on her best SatNav accent and said "You are now entering Belgium" "You are now entering the Netherlands" "You are now entering Belgium" "You are now entering the Netherlands". I thought that she was just in dire need of a beer, but then she explained the enclave thing. We found a café, bought beers in one country, stepped across the street with glass in hand and supped in the other, just for the hell of it. ;) I had the standard photo taken with a foot in each country. I've done the same in a building half in Vermont and half in Quebec. If the Donald were to know about this place, his head would explode. |
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Originally Posted by Partially discharged
(Post 12620550)
Interesting place. The border isn't even just a standard line in the town..there are places with 2 or 3 houses in one country surrounded by another, houses split in half. Schooling, municipal services, postal services, municipal infratructure and its maintenance, policing etc must be complicated.
I had the standard photo taken with a foot in each country. I've done the same in a building half in Vermont and half in Quebec. If the Donald were to know about this place, his head would explode. One of my favourite photos is of OH and eldest SD kissing, one standing in pre-unified East Germany, the other standing in the west. The less the Donald knows about Yuurp, the better. :blink: |
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