Regional Poll

Glasgow, Scotland for me. The photo below isn't the city centre, but it's only about 20 miles from it!

Good post about the repitition of threads Peter. The site is clearly becoming more and more successful, and as people join, they will want to discuss many of the topics already covered. It really is becoming impractical to trawl through all the "dead" threads to see if something's been discussed already. It doesn't do any harm for topics to be repeated from time to time, usually with a different slant. Those who don't wish to participate again, can simply pass them by.

Nice pic Ivan, what big 'Andes you've got!

This is Bolton

Anyone know the words to Jerusalem?

Dark satanic thrills?

Pills? Kills? Hills?

The large shadow to the left is caused by the place where I work.

Anybody sleeping yet?

For you non-Brits the white building is a pub!

A rather crap one called The Three Pigeons, but rather flatteringly known as "The Three Pigs"

Let me be the first to make the obscure Monty Python reference.

"it's not a palindrome. The palindrome of Bolton would be 'Notlob'"

This is my home. This is from a live webcam taken about 5 minutes ago.

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Reed Lover wrote: What you live in a Supermarket?

Of course not Reed that is the live Wecam! 

 I live behind it in the dumpster.

The Webcam used to show the lake which is just to the left. I guess i should have said home town.

I just love publicity photos - who says the camera never lies?

Reading is nothing like this - as Blacksword will testify!

Gdub wrote:

It looks like it was his neck the javelin was stuck in. Ivan is a big Genesis fan so my guess he was playing Supper's Ready to the third world cannibals who live over there and they got carried away

ROFLMAO Gdub, but your geography lessons are really weak.

I believe there are no cannibals in this third world country (Yes it's third world), but even if they were near the frontier with Brazil (I read stories of head hunters), it would be in the jungle (38 C° over 0), not at the mountains at 14,000 feet over seal level.

Any decent cannibal uses no clothes or very few so at that altitude and 10 to 15 degrees C° bellow 0 they will end as ice cream  If tyou see the picture, there is a lot of snow and  even when I'm with an Alpaca sweater I was still freezing, imagine naked cannibals.

Maybe your talking about Dr. Hannibal Lecter

Iván

P.S. Now seriously, that place is called Huaraz and you can see part of the most beautiful lagoon (Yanganuco), if you can, go and visit it, it's almost a religious experience.

You can hardly breathe because of the altitude and freezing to death, but the experience is worth it, and it's only 8 hours by car from Lima (the coast).

That's the point where the white chain oif the Andes (Mountains full of snow) meets the the black chain (Near the high and warm jungle -not the low and hot jungle-, there is no snow, foprming a valley called Callejón de Huaylas (Huaylas Alley) all green, and the sky always blue.

When driving there with a non prog' friend, we were listening Heaven and Hell (Vangelis) and believe me it's amazing to listen prog' music with such a beautiful environment, even my friend who doesn't listen Prog' Rock was touched by the way the music blends with the view..

Sadly a USA mine has bought the rights to exploit some of this places and if we don't care, that wonderfull lagoon will be a place full of toxic waste in a few years.

NOTE: It was funny and I almost forgot, in the city of Huaraz, a native indian was playing The House of the King (Focus) with Quena (Native Peruvian flute) in the street for some coins, it was amazing, I asked him how he learned it and told me a Gringo ( USA or Europe citizen) gave him a tape because he listen it in his car and felt in love with the tune so he asked the gringo for a copy, who gladly made one for him.

I gave him a cassette of Jethro Tull so the next time I'll go he will play Thick as a Brick

Iván