Tides of War

Burton WHAT? lol, I think thats probably one of the funniest most true post i have every read. I read it to my room mate and she nearly choked with laughter, She from northern New York state Her last nae is LaDue, yep you guessed it French / Canadian heritage lol
Great post.

JoKer

Very informative post. My last name is Duhon, its french. BUT!, From way back when. So, salute, enjoyed reading your post.

Welcome Nice to have you

Welcome to the BSS Shwane1 hope you like it here

Sheep

Welcome Aboard Brother

May your 6 be clear and your skies be blue

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AirBoss

Hey Shwane1, welcome. I worked the supply and fishing boats down there for years.

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Now, Burton doesn't wish to cause alarm.... BUT

I can?t be the only one worried about this Large Hadron Collider experiment scheduled for tomorrow, can I ?

This represents a bit of a dilema for Burton. You see I am a bit of a techy and definitely into science, I have little time for your Arts, although I confess I have seen the beauty in the odd 'Artistic' Scandinavian Still Life. But I can't help thinking an Art Galery is a cold room with a high ceiling crying out to be a technical library. Ffftft the Art?s !! Can anyone tell me why oh why we subsidize Opera and bloudy Ballet !! For heavens sake, how can any self respecting society consider itself "developed" when they subsidize Opera and Ballet when in our Cities and Villages there are people struggling along with single core AMD processors and 2M broad band links, outrageous, PRIORITIES AND VALUES !!

Its not like I am into your Scientology or anything like that, although Travolta and 'Lofty' Cruise have knocked out some good movies, but I am intensely drawn to the enormity of the questions we may soon get answers for from this Large Hadron Collider.

Jee?s, think about this?. They are going to recreate the big bang, the beginning of time?. Within the Large Hadron Collider?s 27km circular tunnel, beams of protons will be accelerated to up to 99.999999% of the speed of light. Two of these beams will be fired at each other and when they crash together they will generate concentrations of energy resembling those that occurred during the first trillionth of a second after the BIG BANG. Quite what will happen or be created is not known ( which is a nice comforting thought ) but some predict we will create a tiny Black Hole.

Now the guys doing this are CERN, the people that brought us the World Wide Web, a bunch of seriously clever sods, based in Geneva ? Switzerland. And while some predict the planet will be consumed by this Black Hole The CERN boffs say "no, it?s all going to be fine ... here have a toblerone...."

WELL ? my fellow sheep, here?s what worries Burton. Burton has found out that half this freeking tunnel is built in FRANCE !! And you just know when they fire these beams at each other ? they?ll bloudy MISS !

French have a fine Navy .. and AirForce

Don't take me too seriously .... its traditional for the Brits and French to tease each other.

But when push comes to shove were 'largely' side by side politicaly and militarily ( well mostly, they get there as fast as they can, and once even stayed to the end ) and where our cultures differ there is mutual respect ( and often jealousy ) over our differing opinions.

Aww now I feel guilty, I have plenty of good to say about my French cousins... Not the Least their aproach to Health and Safety!! In the UK we have a government department, the "Health and Safety Executive", the HSE, where over 2000 civil servants are employed to develop and police laws that replace what is for the rest of the world COMMON SENSE. Consequently everything we used to enjoy in public is largely not allowed, and we have created a whole new career path for "Risk Accessors" ! We have daily news articles like the 65 year old man arrested for breaking health and safety rules by diving into a swimming pool, or the pensioner ejected from a bus under health and safety concerns for carying a pot of paint! Give me strength...

Whereas as our French cousins their equivalent to our HSE employs .... ZERO people because .... they don't have a Health and Safety Executive. In France if you are stupid enough to take your self out of the gene pool by falling from the top of an unsecured ladder - then thats France's gain... Go France....

BUT, when it comes to this bunch at CERN and specifically the particle accelerator... well frankly ... I am just plain bloudy jealous, I wanted it here in the UK, in fact I wanted it in MY back garden!! Especially as the bally thing appears to work !!

S'not fair.

You have to remember as a Brit I am still bathing in the glory of our last scientific success a direct hit .... drilling a $62M crater in the surface of Mars with our Beagle 2 Mars exploration vehicle. As the Beagle 2 web site say's "..we learn't a lot"