29-07-2005 22:59									#1
	Birmingham, England devastated by tornados! Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

Shocking appalling!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/...nds/4727107.stm

quote: Homes and businesses have been overwhelmed by one of the most devastating tornados seen in the UK. On Thursday afternoon, people ran in terror as vicious winds overturned cars, tore up trees and ripped slates or entire roofs off properties in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham.

	29-07-2005 23:08									#2
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Its obviously part of the al'quada campaign of terror

	29-07-2005 23:12									#3
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Climate change is a disloyal lie. Please ignore the environmentalists. Continue with your lifestyle. Move along. Move along.

	29-07-2005 23:43									#4
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The very first (edit: er... second. I thought the bolded part was a subtitle) line in the story:

quote: Yet just over 70 years ago a similar whirlwind struck the same spot.

	29-07-2005 23:47									#5
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The End Is Near! Repent, Sinners!

	30-07-2005 00:02									#6
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Global warming yet again. I'm surprised we've not hit 40c this year.

	30-07-2005 00:07									#7
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT The very first (edit: er... second. I thought the bolded part was a subtitle) line in the story: quote: Yet just over 70 years ago a similar whirlwind struck the same spot.

I remember hearing a couple of years ago that England has the highest tornado rate per square mile in the world. The tornados just aren't particularly powerful.

	30-07-2005 01:04									#8
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This month has got to have been the wirdest month I have ever lived in. And it is not even over yet.

	30-07-2005 01:17									#9
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quote: Originally posted by St Leo Climate change is a disloyal lie. Please ignore the environmentalists. Continue with your lifestyle. Move along. Move along.

Tornadoes are pretty common in northern europe, but not as much or powerfull as in Tornado Alley in US., so yes, please move along, nothing special has happened except that this one hit something.

	30-07-2005 01:21									#10
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I saw that on a Brit newspaper at the supermarket.

	30-07-2005 02:08									#11
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Voldemort! Damn him!!!

	30-07-2005 02:11									#12
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I thought this was going to be a disguised sports thread.

	30-07-2005 02:43									#13
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Looks like it's improved Birmingham vastly

	30-07-2005 03:10									#14
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ha ha.. yeh, Tornado hits Birmingham, and causes several million pounds worth of improvements ..

	30-07-2005 08:10									#15
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Wish we had your problems.

	30-07-2005 13:33									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Park Avenue Global warming yet again. I'm surprised we've not hit 40c this year.

oh yeah, after the lovely summer what we've had so far. damn that global warming.

	30-07-2005 15:28									#17
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Now all we need is for a tornado to head in the direction of West Yorkshire

	30-07-2005 16:07									#18
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I'm sorry, but Birmingham needed it.

It's vile. Worse than Coventry, and that's saying something.

quote: During the 1960s city planners eradicated its historic downtown, turning swaths of the city into a concrete-wasteland habitat for cars and roving gangs of unemployed youth. Having learned its lesson the hard way, the city is now attempting to re-create the downtown as a gathering place for people, in what currently is Europe’s largest retail regeneration project. At the core of this rejuvenation is the Birmingham BullRing, a £500 million ($700 million) shopping, dining and meeting area that will bring 1.2 million square feet of new retail space to the city.

http://www.icsc.org/srch/sct/sct0402/page39.php?region=


And the bright new future:

http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/selfridges.htm

	30-07-2005 16:48									#19
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Y'all are handling your once-in-seventy-years tornados far better than Che handles his weekly hurricanes.

	30-07-2005 16:51									#20
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England gets about 30-35 tornados a year. Birmingham needs more of them.

	30-07-2005 23:49									#21
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Finish the quote:

quote: Homes and businesses have been overwhelmed by one of the most devastating tornados seen in the UK. On Thursday afternoon, people ran in terror as vicious winds overturned cars, tore up trees and ripped slates or entire roofs off properties in the Kings Heath area of Birmingham. A young girl was seen holding a small black dog and mumbling, "Oh Toto, I don't believe we're in Kansas anymore."

	31-07-2005 00:00									#22
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Tsunami effects maybe? England isn't really known for tornadic activity.

	31-07-2005 03:01									#23
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Why is it such a discovery that climate is changing? Global warming began over 5000 years ago

	31-07-2005 03:11									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Datajack Franit Why is it such a discovery that climate is changing? Global warming began over 5000 years ago

Will you please stop spreading such nonsense - it has been proven over and over that only human interference can destroy natures equilibrium

	31-07-2005 03:13									#25
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like volcanoes, sure

just pick up a history book and check temperatures in the mediterranean basin from Roman Ages to nowadays- pff

	31-07-2005 03:18									#26
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Yep, there are no more volcanoes than nature can handle - actually, new research has proven that human destruction of nature started long before the industrial age - it was the start of growing rice that began to mess things up.

	31-07-2005 03:22									#27
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Maybe we should start eating plancton, or does it affect nature too?

And don't fart, it could affect world climate

	31-07-2005 03:22									#28
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quote: Originally posted by BlackCat it has been proven over and over that only human interference can destroy natures equilibrium

If you're going to characture an environmentalist, couldn't you be more creative about it?

	31-07-2005 03:24									#29
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara If you're going to characture an environmentalist, couldn't you be more creative about it?

Well, as long that there is a fish that bites ... Besides, those of you who knows me wouldn't belive it even if I used all the right words .


Edit : Btw, that cold beer that I have promised you - well, forget about it - maybe a warm but don't be too sure - here I had a wonderful marlin with hook and sink and all I had to do was to reel it in