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papa_smurf
08-12-10, 04:56 AM
Just when you thought the wildfires couldn't get any worse, now its reached areas affected by the Chernobyl disaster.

From the report; "Environmental groups, including Greenpeace, have warned that radioactive particles which settled into the soil after the 1986 disaster could be thrown up into the air once again by wildfires and blown into other areas by the wind."
Oberon
08-12-10, 07:53 AM
God help us if it reaches the Red Forest... :dead:
Dowly
08-12-10, 09:08 AM
Wasn't there already an fire there last week or so? :hmmm: I remember hearing something about the fallout and my brother was babbling something about Chernobyl.

EDIT: *Poink*

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iZjsaaHgc6KmwbB1EbJyO9ArS_ng
Jimbuna
08-12-10, 09:27 AM
The price of Russian bread, meanwhile, is rising sharply in Moscow as repercussions from the country's months-long record drought start to have an impact on the cost of food supplies.


I'd have thought that would would be the least of the people living in the fire regions troubles :doh:
Oberon
08-12-10, 03:28 PM
Hmmm, wonder if we'll see bread-queues again :nope:
Jimbuna
08-13-10, 05:15 AM
Pretty pointless...he's already grabbed the last loaf :DL

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/6146/leninbread.jpg (http://img199.imageshack.us/i/leninbread.jpg/)
papa_smurf
08-13-10, 06:03 AM
Hmmm, wonder if we'll see bread-queues again :nope:

Expect the price of Gregg's meat and potato pasties to go up - what will we do?????
ryanglavin
08-13-10, 06:44 AM
Expect the price of Gregg's meat and potato pasties to go up - what will we do?????
Oh God, if the price of a good meat Pastie from der Yooper's goes up, we are screwed.
Jimbuna
08-13-10, 06:53 AM
The Bread Queue
http://www.timhunkin.com/page_pictures/24_bread_queue.jpg


This lived in Neal’s Yd, Covent Garden next to a bakery. At lunchtime people queue for the bakery next door.
Insert a coin and a sign in the door pops up saying ‘Sorry, no bread left’. The figures then react in turn – the old lady’s eyes pop out, the girl’s jaw drops, the gent frowns, and finally the man at the back turns to the spectators and spits at them.
the money it took went to the Big Issue foundation.

You can see how it worked at the link below:

http://www.timhunkin.com/24_coin-ops2.htm