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World peace has broken out! Cheers!

Nobody told you about bacon? It's a photoshop gag. I have to say, I don't like this watch at all - looks like something a 12 year old girl would buy. Just one opinion though. Cheers!

Yeah, you kept that one quiet! [Hmm squirrel - makes me think of Formby Point Squirrel Reserve down Merseyside way - where a certain Mrs Rooney-Shopper chucked her ring ]

English media are awful come World Cup time. That said, I think it is just a great story for them - a bit like the opposite of Cool Runnings. It is also the fact he plays in a lower league and now he is at the World Cup. And he is, after all, English and playing England (but other members of the team are too). If it is any consolation, the whole of Scotland is smitten with Jason Scotland (he lives in Scotland)!!

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Hehehe...that's the spirit! Let RWC do their bit to help the boob-deprived people of New Orleans!

They play a different class of football in Perth! These Chelsea and Real players won't know what hit them!

Thanks for the tip!

$1.4 billion of Hurricane Katrina relief funds blown on strip clubs and 'Girls gone Wild' videos (in the news at the moment) Hey, they needed cheering up didn't they?! Top work! You can't expect the fine people of New Orleans to go cold turkey on drunken women showing their boobs can you?

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Yes, I am out by a factor of ten! Simple arithmetic mistake! I had turned 9.1859 x 10^4 into 9185 when it is 91859. So the proved oil supplies = 91,859 kg of mass. Divided by your 16840 days = 5.45 kg. So in other words, the world's daily oil consumption is in more like 10 tins of beans (including the tin) rather than 1. Took me a while to work out where I had stuffed that up - quite relieved now! Cheers!

Probably because their star player plays in Australia! We need more AFL talk for the poor man I think this will be a walk in the park for England. They might even score 4. It fits with the usual hysteria - one bad match means they're hopeless, beating T&T will mean they're World Champions elect...and they'll still go out in the QF in some comical manner.

I forgot to square c too the first time I did it! Couldn't work out where I was going wrong! Yes e=mc^2 is perhaps more properly done in ergs, but in this case then m becomes grams and c becomes cm/s - this is where your 10^7 goes. 1kg = 89,875,517,873,681,764 joules. There are 6119323945 joules per barrel of crude oil (5800000BTU). However, I might be out by a factor of ten with the beans - will check this out later when I get a mo! Right now I only seem to get 8 million barrels a day, not 80! Cheers!

This is always the key to these situations! You might as well start off nice and see if that works. If you start off mental, you've got nowhere to turn. Must confess - I'm a bit of veteran at standing my ground. I once inadvertantly started a criminal prosecution because Sainsburys wouldn't give me my money back.... Not my fault the PF agreed with me! I've taken shoes back too because I didn't feel they wore well - that takes some arm twisting!

@Chronus - select the text below to reveal! The colour is EEF2F7

Panerai watches - saving the world energy crisis hand in hand with beans. In no way mentioned to make this post more interesting and relevant.... Okay, I have a second revelation. Not only can baked beans save the world - Panerai watches can as well (including reps! ) Taking ArtM3's figures as a point of reference it is possible to take the number of joules of energy in a barrel of oil and multiply this by the proved reserves. Done this yet? Oh, okay I'll save you some time (assuming my pet monkey is any good at abacus). That gives a proven oil reserve of 8.25588 x 10^21 joules. Einstein, also the name of my pet monkey, says that Energy = Mass x (Speed of light)^2 8.25588 x 10^21 = Mass x (8.98755 x 10^16) Means Mass = 9.1859 x 10^4 Mass = 9,185 kg. There is the equivalent energy in 9 metric tonnes of any mass to equal the entire global reserves of oil (used as oil, not its own mass). Taking ArtM3's figure of 16,840 days (or the daily consumption) this means you can get the world's global daily consumption of oil out of: 9185 / 16840 = 545 grams of baked beans or some Panerai watches Oh, and the technology has to be invented to split the particles involved, etc, etc. Minor details(!) But the energy is there..... RWC saves the world energy crisis. Bing! Next!.....

You hurt my eyesight doing that with the colours! Take it easy Cheers!

No doubt it's French!! Very Eric Cantona - "When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" My question is, how did this thread ever get off the important topic of beans?

Unless they're deep fried! (Oh, okay, not that old chestnut.) Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!

I wonder what the other patrons thought with all those watches on the table!! What great collections!

This is either brilliant sarcasm or slightly disturbing!

You're doing great Some of these are classic! Having a good chuckle here! Cheers!