It is quite extraordinary.

But then the Atom is at heart a very simple proposition so it seems obvious in hindsight that soemone would do this.

I applaud his enginuity.

Neat article that.

Though I do find it strange that they include a wee shopping mall and a theme park yet fail to list the Daddy of all ghost towns Chernobyl.

I went back and ahad a really rthorough look at the slide show, and sure enough the boats are painted not scratched in. Which blows my line of thinking out of the water.

But it does throw up some very odd things, a lot of the "modern" drawings are painted over older paintings.

THis as far as I kow simply doesn't happen with in aboriginal art/tradition.

The pantings are semi mystical in themsselves and are maintianed generation after generation, going back a SERIOUSLY long time.

So it would be frankly bizarre for some one to decide that drawing a a biplane or the missionaries should be domne over the old sacred paintings.

It may well be from the 19th century but it does seem very strange to attribute it to aboriginal peoples.

As their population has gone into decline many of the old sites simply don't have enough informed people to maintain them, and quite a few have had significant vandalism problems.

19th century vandalism?

Just a thought.

And I forgot to say, she should of course be Elizabeth Windsor privatre citizen of the Republic of Britain, the bloody parasite.

Mati

"Aboriginal Art" uses a very distinct visual lexicon and system of symbols that is not used by Occidentals.

And within the definition of Aboriginal to mean The aboriginal peoples of Australia including the Torres Strait Islanders even there ther is no homogeny. But they do have more in common artisically than they do with the European traditions.

Are you saying it's racist to say Aboriginal art?

Queen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Not Queen of England, although she is that too.

A bit like saying George W Bush President of Idaho, although true, it sort of misses the larger reality.

I don't think it is particularly cynical to see a fraud at work when all the visual cues scream HOAX.

All the drawings scratched into rock supposedly in the 19th century but oddly have not weathered back to the colour of the rock in a century.
And they are all the same state of unweathered, like they were all done at once.

Also the pics are all obviously photo referenced, thr sailing boat is at an angle, which wold be a big leap from no perspective non realist art to an action shot including fore shortening.

Sofar

I thought that one rung bells.

ANy car ,let alone a limo that is in that hot bubblegum pink always depresses me.

It is the colour of forced brittle pretend joy, of articicial limbs from Russia, of spent bubble gum, anorexia and abuse.

It's just this damn syneathesia kicking in again.

If you were to have your last meal, would you want Ice cream? or a burger or any of that crap?

I'd ask for soemthing exotic that I'd never had before but always fancied the idea of, like Unicorn au Poivre.

Do you get a stay of execution until they can find your meal?

Also, capital punishment is a bad idea, even Chales Ng.

I have no romantic notion about the sanctity of human life, just a realistic understanding of the fallability of human judicial process.

Many in the UK wanted to bring back hanging before the Birmingham Six and The Guildford Four went to trial in the 1970s, so they could be hung when convicted.

Convicted they were.... quite illegally convivted of things none of them did, nd if the more reactionary amongst us had had their way they'd have swung for them too.

Incidentally despite all the convictions having been over turned and the people set free, the govt has yet to pay a single penny of the compensation that was awarded.

Proteus Disease also causes the distinctive walnut shell look to the areas affected, the souls of the feet if affected are particularly effected. But Miss Sellars feet were smooth.

I don't think there has been a definitive diagnosis yet that everyone could get behind.

I saw her on TV a couple of weeks back and she came across as a splendid sort of person, very kindly.

She was debating whether to have her legs amputated as they are demanding so very much from her body, as the article says she is very slightly built, or as they say round her neck of the woods "more meat on a butchers pencil".

I do hope she doesw get an an absolute diagnosis, and some relief, be it amputation or stem cell miracle.

ted

Well I have been known to enjoy a good P once in a while.

Well I got a reply to my futile application.

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Hey hey

Cheers for this, not sure if i should be thanking the guy who posted it for the free PR, or wanting to unleash on him for the hundreds of spam emails i?received?over night :P

Here in Kiwiland a P addict is a person who is addicted to?Crystal?Meth

Geordie

Meat is Murder!!

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Ya gotta love a burger joint called murder burger whose motto is Meat Is Murder.

Well I applied.

I'm only about 10k miles away but it sound lie a good gig, and Ponsonby is meant to be nice in a small town way.

Fingers crossed.

MEMRi seem to me to be peddling a view of arabs which serves their agenda.

But the Arabic world doeas seem to fal over itself to supply the world with stories of their idiocy and intolerance.

And to say that the Westboro Baptists don't represent Xians, is to be deliberately disingenuous.

For none of the Phelps family are anything else than knuckle dragging religious zealots from the very fringes of society, like Anne Coulter with out the stylist if you will, while Sheikh Muhammad Munajid is a senior cleric and former DIPLOMAT TO WASHINTON CD.

Sure the MEMRi are spinning this cr*p for all they're worht but there is a lot of crazy sh*t to pick from there and a lot of it emanates from very high up the food chain.

Could have doen without quite so much of his underpants on display.