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Marc Lurie
11th Oct 2006, 09:02
Well, obviously it's a garbage bin! But what's the whole steel contraption all about? :confused:

Answer to follow soon, but here's a clue: You probably won't see one of these in the UK :D

Cheers,
Marc
BigJim
11th Oct 2006, 09:04
bear proofing?

or monkey proofing in south Africa?
si_guru
11th Oct 2006, 09:08
It is to stop homeless people stealing the remains of my Marks and Spencers Delux chicken tikka masalla and Super Delux double cream chocolate fudge cake?
freelanderPX54
11th Oct 2006, 09:37
If that is copper pipe near the bottom corner then I would go for a Still
Marc Lurie
11th Oct 2006, 09:40
or monkey proofing in south Africa?

10 points to BigJim :)

It's actually for baboons not monkeys, but close enough. ;)

The pic was taken at Cape Point, outside Cape Town last weekend. Brigid and I went down for the weekend and had a great time.

Friday lunch was at the Blue Marlin near Cape Point. Magnificent seafood platter, great wine, and 10 to 12 whales splashing about in the bay about 100m away from us.

Marc
adafish
11th Oct 2006, 10:37
stop TOPPA leaving is house......:D
Marc Lurie
11th Oct 2006, 10:58
Stop being nasty to poor old Toppa. It's not his fault that he's antipodean...
Alane
11th Oct 2006, 11:07
It is to stop homeless people stealing the remains of my Marks and Spencers Delux chicken tikka masalla and Super Delux double cream chocolate fudge cake?


Oi!!!! you send that in my direction!!
Roger Whittle
11th Oct 2006, 22:30
Stop being nasty to poor old Toppa. It's not his fault that he's antipodean...

Don't call him antipodean Marc :eek: - he won't know what it means and he'll sulk because he thinks it means Australian. :D

Roger.

PS: I thought it was a methane digester!
DEANO3528
11th Oct 2006, 23:29
[bush mode]North Kowrean nukiler deevice[/bush mode]
olo
12th Oct 2006, 00:06
if bush was on this forum he'd say its some nuclear device aimed at exterminating the americans, he'd then invade south africa :D
Marc Lurie
12th Oct 2006, 08:23
if bush was on this forum he'd say its some nuclear device aimed at exterminating the americans, he'd then invade south africa :D

If Dubya invades us, we have a secret weapon against which there is no defence: It's called Peach moonshine. Ask ROY, POODLE, and Weedy about it... ;)

I wish Dubya would just invade Zimbabwe. If he did, we'd be rid of Mugabe, and South Africa would get all that yummy aid money, just like Pakistan did for helping with the American invasion of Afghanistan.

Fact about South Africa Number 76598: Did you know that South Africa is still the ONLY country in the world to have voluntarily dismantled its nuclear weapons program?
Marc Lurie
12th Oct 2006, 08:31
Don't call him antipodean Marc :eek: - he won't know what it means and he'll sulk because he thinks it means Australian. :D

OHMIGOSH!!! You're quite right Roger.

Please forgive me Toppa. I would NEVER be so impoilite as to call someone an Australian!!! I just wasn't brought up to talk that way. ;)

Here's an extract from Wikipedia:
In geography, the antipodes (from Greek anti- "opposed" and pous "foot") of any place on Earth is its antipodal point; that is, the region on the Earth's surface which is diametrically opposite to it. Two points which are antipodal to one another are connected by a straight line through the centre of the Earth.

In Britain, "the Antipodes" is often used to refer to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and other African countries with a British colonial background, e.g. Kenya, Tanzania etc. (and "Antipodeans" for their inhabitants), despite the fact that neither Australia nor New Zealand actually overlap the antipodal points of Britain. However, New Zealand (or more precisely the North Island) is antipodal to Spain, as shown on the map on this page. In this case it simply means people of British descent who live in countries fully or partially in the southern hemisphere.

So, in reallity, Hawaiians are antipodean to me. :D
Geobloke
12th Oct 2006, 13:55
Hey hey! I know exactly what that is, I designed and made them for some peeps in Brunei when I was at school. Anti-monkey devices!! Damn critters used to get up to all kinds of mischief, unscrewing light bulbs and throwing them at passers by and stuff!! :D :rolleyes:
Roger Whittle
13th Oct 2006, 01:17
Hey hey! I know exactly what that is, I designed and made them for some peeps in Brunei when I was at school. Anti-monkey devices!! Damn critters used to get up to all kinds of mischief, unscrewing light bulbs and throwing them at passers by and stuff!! :D :rolleyes:

We've done that Geobloke - we're on to the Antipodes and peach moonshine. I didn't drink it, but I saw the wreckage afterwards. :eek: Mind you, Roy was still standing - mostly - but his glass wasn't.:eek:

Roger.