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I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« on: January 11, 2017, 11:08:17 AM »

New primate species found, the Skywalker Archbishop of Canterbury hoolock gibbon


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38576819th


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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2017, 11:14:32 AM »
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2017, 11:20:18 AM »
« Last Edit: January 11, 2017, 11:27:33 AM by Nearly Sane »
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2017, 01:32:22 PM »
They are lovely creatures.
This is just for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmx_XdQky8
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2017, 02:07:06 PM »
Quote from: Brownie on January 11, 2017, 01:32:22 PM
They are lovely creatures.
This is just for them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAmx_XdQky8
they're  so funky. :D
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2017, 02:09:28 PM »
Let's hope the logging doesn't destroy their habitat.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2017, 02:47:11 PM »
Quote from: wigginhall on January 11, 2017, 02:09:28 PM
Let's hope the logging doesn't destroy their habitat.
I wonder if there will be a time where the only creatures on earth are humans and bacteria.?
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2017, 03:24:15 PM »
Quote from: Walter on January 11, 2017, 02:47:11 PM
I wonder if there will be a time where the only creatures on earth are humans and bacteria.?

Sounds like parts of Lincolnshire.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2017, 06:59:49 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on January 11, 2017, 11:08:17 AM
New primate species found, the Skywalker Archbishop of Canterbury hoolock gibbon


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38576819th
I take it you mistook the primate for the archbishop because both the cleric and King Louie of the jungle book like to be known as the King of the Swingers.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2017, 07:39:42 PM »
Quote from: wigginhall on January 11, 2017, 03:24:15 PM
Sounds like parts of Lincolnshire.
hmm , that's where I am at the moment , flat, empty and wet.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2017, 09:56:32 AM »
Oi - lay off Lincolnshire.

One of my very favourite counties.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #11 on: January 12, 2017, 11:17:11 AM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on January 12, 2017, 09:56:32 AM
Oi - lay off Lincolnshire.

One of my very favourite counties.
Hi Trent,

I'm currently at the end of the runway at RAF CONINGSBY enjoying the aerial activity . The Typhoons are awesome (and I don't use that word lightly).
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #12 on: January 12, 2017, 11:36:50 AM »
Quote from: Walter on January 12, 2017, 11:17:11 AM
Hi Trent,

I'm currently at the end of the runway at RAF CONINGSBY enjoying the aerial activity . The Typhoons are awesome (and I don't use that word lightly).

Happy memories of my youth watching Vulcan bombers flying low over the fens. Wondrous beasts.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #13 on: January 12, 2017, 11:50:53 AM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on January 12, 2017, 11:36:50 AM
Happy memories of my youth watching Vulcan bombers flying low over the fens. Wondrous beasts.
yes , another awesome machine, and that terrifying howl will stay in my memory . Such a shame XH558 the last airworthy flying Vulcan was grounded last October owing to lack of support from 3 major technical companies. If it were a ballet company it would probably get government financial support to keep it going. Very disappointing .
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #14 on: January 12, 2017, 12:13:28 PM »
Quote from: Walter on January 12, 2017, 11:50:53 AM
yes , another awesome machine, and that terrifying howl will stay in my memory . Such a shame XH558 the last airworthy flying Vulcan was grounded last October owing to lack of support from 3 major technical companies. If it were a ballet company it would probably get government financial support to keep it going. Very disappointing .

I'm looking at a superb photo of the Vulcan on our wall at the moment(an Xmas present), and it takes me back to a visit made to RAF Finningley, long before it became Doncaster Airport. I can still remember how my teeth vibrated with the power and the sound as the Vulcan took off.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #15 on: January 12, 2017, 12:31:32 PM »
Quote from: enki on January 12, 2017, 12:13:28 PM
I'm looking at a superb photo of the Vulcan on our wall at the moment(an Xmas present), and it takes me back to a visit made to RAF Finningley, long before it became Doncaster Airport. I can still remember how my teeth vibrated with the power and the sound as the Vulcan took off.
AN amazing place during the cold war. I grew up near RAF Finningly with my school directly under the flight path of the Vulcans , totally awesome , the noise will stay with me forever.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2017, 09:36:30 AM »
When I left school, I worked for a while at St Vincents, the house in Grantham that had been the control centre for the Dambusters raid.

Grantham is not flat!
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #17 on: January 13, 2017, 04:45:38 PM »
A bit of Fry and Laurie...

Hugh - Certainly there is. I've often thought of putting out a paper on the correlation between landscape and business acumen.
Stephen - Great subject, Stu. You could set fire to some arses with a paper like that. The Institute of Executive Salesmen would go ape crazy on all fours for a theory of that sort.
Hugh - I think so, Gordon, I think so. Take my own case. Myself, way back when, my folks hailed from Yorkshire. You see? Limestone uplands, unforgiving moors and scarred dales. An uncompromising, beautiful, hard and wide nurse of men.
Stephen - But you were born in Surrey.
Hugh - The limestone's in my blood. You can see it in the way I do business. Where you from first off, Gordon?
Stephen - Lincolnshire.
Hugh - huh. You see? Flat, sodden, yielding, chalky, cautious, indecisive, always late for meetings ...
Stephen - Well Lincolnshire's flat, Stu, yes. But I wouldn't say it was always late for meetings ...


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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #18 on: January 13, 2017, 05:24:38 PM »
Quote from: Walter on January 11, 2017, 02:47:11 PM
I wonder if there will be a time where the only creatures on earth are humans and bacteria.?
No. Cockroaches and rats will certainly outlast humans.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2017, 03:50:36 PM »
Quote from: wigginhall on January 11, 2017, 03:24:15 PM
Sounds like parts of Lincolnshire.
Glad you didn't say Norfolk
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2017, 04:51:12 PM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on January 12, 2017, 09:56:32 AM
Oi - lay off Lincolnshire.

One of my very favourite counties.

Well, you see, Wiggi is a Norfolk boy, like myself. Unlike myself, he still retains a peculiar affection for the great flatlands, and since his 'xenophobia' won't allow him to grant any superior qualities to other counties which are in fact very similar to his own, he feels obliged to pour scorn on those parts of England which are contiguous. No doubt he is similarly disparaging about Suffolk and Cambridgeshire :)
I could understand him having a go at Essex, though :)
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2017, 04:55:54 PM »
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on January 13, 2017, 09:36:30 AM
When I left school, I worked for a while at St Vincents, the house in Grantham that had been the control centre for the Dambusters raid.

Grantham is not flat!

This is true, but most of Lincolnshire is. Such a pity about Grantham - pretty town, birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton of course, and a certain political lady whom the world has more divided opinions about.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2017, 05:02:35 PM »
Quote from: Dicky Underpants on January 19, 2017, 03:50:36 PM
Glad you didn't say Norfolk

That is a foretaste of heaven, eh?   I'm eclectic though, I nearly said electric, I like Manchester, Fulham, Goole, and Oldham.  Ah, one day I will tell you about the redhead whom I chased through all those kingdoms.   The world is not ready for this.   Besides, the woman is dead, nice quote for you Dicky. 
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2017, 05:16:39 PM »
Quote from: wigginhall on January 19, 2017, 05:02:35 PM
That is a foretaste of heaven, eh?   I'm eclectic though, I nearly said electric, I like Manchester, Fulham, Goole, and Oldham.  Ah, one day I will tell you about the redhead whom I chased through all those kingdoms.   The world is not ready for this.   Besides, the woman is dead, nice quote for you Dicky.

I too have chased (and sometimes caught) ladies in Manchester. However, I certain Venezuelan stunner whom I chased through Manchester, Altrincham and Hale evaded my charms, even though I sang Mozart to her.
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Re: I am a gibbon, like my father before me
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2017, 07:22:13 PM »
They don't look too happy. Though they look as though they would make a very nice fur coat. Something I could do with in this weather.
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