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Naffman
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Not sure where to put this so I thought I'd put it here - Australia's housing bubble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smPR0s2W-Ck
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I'm just gonna leave this here and see if others are as terrified as I was watching it, the longer it goes the more bizarre it gets! :D


https://tinyurl.com/yb2jr2yd
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PDC
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Given the current fires in California I highly recommend watching the film 'Only The Brave' about a true fairly recent story that happened in similar fires that I knew nothing about, it is extremely sad and eye opening. After watching it I couldn't believe I never heard about it before and did more research on it and couldn't believe the film didn't do better at the box office in America.

It is currently available on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/search?q=only%2 ... bp=0&jbr=0

On Amzon it isn't included but can be bought or the trailer watched for free: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Brave-Jos ... 07791FW42/
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PDC wrote:
Sat Nov 10, 2018 6:15 am
Given the current fires in California I highly recommend watching the film 'Only The Brave' about a true fairly recent story that happened in similar fires that I knew nothing about, it is extremely sad and eye opening. After watching it I couldn't believe I never heard about it before and did more research on it and couldn't believe the film didn't do better at the box office in America.

It is currently available on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/search?q=only%2 ... bp=0&jbr=0

On Amzon it isn't included but can be bought or the trailer watched for free: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Only-Brave-Jos ... 07791FW42/
That movie is a great watch. I have a friend who is a fire fighting pilot in South Africa (they also help out across the world with big forest fires-e.g. Canada etc) From what I hear their unit is disciplined, courageous and work together in a way that would make any infantry unit proud. That movie really hammers home how friggin brave these souls are. This is them arriving in Alberta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKdjOxYdWNE
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mcgoo wrote:
Sat Nov 10, 2018 9:07 am
That movie is a great watch. I have a friend who is a fire fighting pilot in South Africa (they also help out across the world with big forest fires-e.g. Canada etc) From what I hear their unit is disciplined, courageous and work together in a way that would make any infantry unit proud. That movie really hammers home how friggin brave these souls are. This is them arriving in Alberta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKdjOxYdWNE
I remember seeing that clip on the news, amazing work they all do around the world. As you say the film is a great watch, I couldn't believe I had not heard anything about it before.
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not so much stuff to watch as just enjoy the look on Bobby Gillespie's (Primal Scream) face:

https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/ ... skibidi%2F

Andrew Neil is a prize... i'll stop there.
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his predictions about the future have been right about 86% of the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ryxuehnp8k
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just watched this during a loose moment: Bryan Cranston | Full Q&A at the Oxford Union

absoulutely excellent
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jimibt wrote:
Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:26 pm
just watched this during a loose moment: Bryan Cranston | Full Q&A at the Oxford Union

absoulutely excellent
'moment' it's an hour! I know the pace of life is slower were you are but......
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ShaunWhite wrote:
Mon Dec 03, 2018 6:36 pm
jimibt wrote:
Mon Dec 03, 2018 5:26 pm
just watched this during a loose moment: Bryan Cranston | Full Q&A at the Oxford Union

absoulutely excellent
'moment' it's an hour! I know the pace of life is slower were you are but......
lol - a brief moment in time then!! enjoy it, kick back for an hour (i watched it between the afternoon and evening session today ;) ).

in fact, the whole oxford uni series (with the likes of BC etc) is pretty good.
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This program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:

Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess

In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws
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PDC wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:55 am
This program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:

Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess
sounds like a good watch, will add to iplayer..
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Not sure if this has been posted here, but it was on another thread and was an interesting watch: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQJNeQDDHA
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PDC wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:55 am
This program was on the BBC last night and for those involved in horse racing or who like going to Dubai it is a bit of an eye opener:

Escape from Dubai: The mystery of the missing Princess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b ... g-princess

In February 2018, the 32-year-old daughter of the ruler of Dubai boarded a boat and set sail for India with a plan to start a new life in America. But within days her boat was stormed by Indian commandos - she was captured and presumably returned to Dubai. No one has heard from her since. But Princess Latifa had made a video in case she was caught and entrusted it to a lawyer in America. Days later it was released on YouTube.

This programme pieces together Princess Latifa's life and reveals how she had been planning the escape for more than seven years. Far from living the charmed life of a princess, she was watched and restricted by her father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. The princess claims she had been imprisoned and tortured for a previous attempt to leave. The programme investigates the mystery of her older sister Shamsa, who disappeared from the streets of Cambridge in 2000 after fleeing the family's British mansion in Surrey. And it asks if the image of Dubai we are sold - of winter sunshine and luxury hotels, is actually hiding a brutal dictatorship of human rights abuses - where surveillance, imprisonment and torture are systematic and where tourists can easily be imprisoned for the slightest infringements of their ultra conservative laws

Talking to locals immigrants, who work there (by choice), its not a nice place.

Not all members of the Royal family are nice people.
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Euler wrote:
Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:43 pm
Not sure if this has been posted here, but it was on another thread and was an interesting watch: -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFQJNeQDDHA
Really interesting on a lot of different levels. It seems the NYSE and 2 other exchanges were fined $14m after the SEC investigation.. not much of a deterent :?
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