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So there's thunder in the distance and suddenly purple lightening fills the sky - half a minute later a wind rips through the street, the strength of which I have never witnessed before, knocking off roof tiles, overturning bins and even garden sheds!
There's around two inches of water outside the front door as if it was just dumped from the sky in 5 seconds.
I think a mini cyclone just passed through Cambridge UK 
...or maybe it's the upcoming tribulation...
Just been out to look at the roof of my flat and there are a few tiles missing from it.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 25-Jan-14 11:27am.
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We had something similar over here in Woking about the same time. At least part of a large tree was knocked over just up the road from where we live, and lots of other detritus scattered around.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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In spite of how it is being reported by some news channels my experience is that it wasn't just a strong wind it was a very sudden and extremely high energy squall.
What leads me to thinking it was a cyclone/tornado was the incredibly sudden onset of the high wind and it's very fast end - I went out to the kitchen and saw one roofing tile, which much weigh around 1kg, flying through the air I don't think I'll lose too many man points in admitting that a slight wobble of the upper lip occurred too.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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...and in Kent too, about an hour later. All was calm & serene, then sudden severe winds, lightening & hail. Lasted no more than 5 mins but apparently trains are in chaos because of trees down on the tracks all over the place...
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The hospital with the daughter.
She was at a friend's house. 5 Double Bundy OP's and on to The Convoct.
It's now Sustsalua Dsy. Rral Austrslians don't get sick.
That's why she's a half wog.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Is this some kind of Australian slang I just read?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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It's DrunkenGiberish: Google can translate it if you have the ChromeBooze Option(TM) (I use it for the CCCs, it works pretty well)
"I have been to the hospital with my daughter, who was drinking at a friends house. She had too much to drink because it's Australia Day, and is rather the worse for wear. I suspect she may be half Aboriginal Australian"
I think.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Not quite. She turned 14 20 days ago
I'm the one drinking. Hence the spelling.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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 I was drinking when I was 14... when I could get hold of it...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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So, something happened to this article of mine[^], and the images disappeared. Since I don't often read my own articles, I didn't know, until this elephant gave it a 1 vote because he didn't understand it without pictures (which, I admit, is slightly dificult).
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Of course it is! It's your fault that he doesn't understand! 
I'm really starting to worry about the next generation now... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Ask Sean to fix the images and to remove the vote, which is clearly an abusive one for the given context.
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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It's a blog post article, and the images have disappeared there, when I changed hosts, so Sean won't be able to help, but I've already restored all but the last one. I'll just recreate it if I have to.
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check the links to where you have uploaded the photos to.
you may need to upload them to your article.
Some people here will give a 1 for anything, Don't take it personal.
If the article is good enough then the up votes will outweigh the downvote.
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It's quite unfortunate, but there's people all too happy to pull the trigger.
BTW, the last image ought to be bigger, it seems like it's the most important pic and it's not very readable.
Marc
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Thanks for the feedback Marc. Unfortunately the image is small, and stretching a bitmap is a smelly affair. I am hard at work recreating some images and will update soonest.
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Members can vote any dang way they like. All are valid.
But for missing images or such, I wouldn't downvote, I'd report it.
This space intentionally left blank.
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Downvotes reflect the reader's experience. If it was obvious to the reader that the missing images were because of broken links or other publishing glitch then no, a downvote is out of order.
On the other hand, if it looked as though you just hadn't bothered to publish the images that were needed to understand the article properly, then it's understandable.
The images are there now, so I can' judge what it looked like - but gave you a 5 to compensate 
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Stumbled upon this[^] news article. All I can say is, respect.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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I must be missing something in the article.
If the Cows were Sacred ,Why did they just sell them at market ?
Something just seems wrong about that.
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In order to get money to send their sympathy. Masai, although not these days, are away from the World we live in. Their folk who came back from abroad would have told them the easier way. Cow has a really big importance in entire African culture. It is extremely different from Hindu (in India) culture though.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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ok perhaps it was already understood that they would sell them for the money then, because that was the most valueable thing they had to give or donate.
When I read that it seemed like, if you gave Someone your most prized possesion as a blessing and they just went out and sold it on ebay for how ever much they could get.
Not like, Here take this and sell it and use the money for helping.
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The thing is that these guys have little to no idea of what US is. so, someone must have guided them. I am no expert at Masai culture, but they would have preferred to send cows.
It is amazing someone who have no real clue about rest of World did gave away something that is divine to them. These guys are considered to be most violent/dangerous people, predominantly due to their amazing hunting skills. But they are really considerate.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Yes
They must have had great concern to give away something so valuable to them.
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