Hard News: RT: Eyjafjallajokull
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I noted a little while ago that a suburban volcano in Auckland would take out Auckland airport for weeks or months. Hopefully won't coincide with Rugby World Cup 2011.
yeah, cause those hoping to rent their houses out to RWC visitors won't be able to leave for their holidays in Europe
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Jökull and Hide...
Now, if only that Icelandic poet above could rap. That would be something...
...why, that would be
HipHöpöhöpö!I'm digging the scene:
North Pole-Dancing
HoHoHoHoHoes n hotties
in lavalavas everwhere
itsa disco inferno
ptui classic lycra elastic
I like my ash pyroclastic! -
I like my ash pyroclastic!
Genius.
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You have to love the English and their dark sense of humour. Here's a joke lifted from an English mate's facebook page:
Dear Iceland, we said "Send Cash".
Thanks for the simulation of the volcano in Auckland harbour. It scared the crap out of my son when his grandparents took him to the museum last time we were in NZ. No wonder its pretty scary! I think stranded tourists will be the least of our concerns if that ever happens.
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I'm digging the scene:
North Pole-Dancing
HoHoHoHoHoes n hotties
in lavalavas everwhere
itsa disco inferno
ptui classic lycra elastic
I like my ash pyroclastic!Is this the video?
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Interesting to see all the news reporters around the globe studiously avoiding pronouncing the real name of that which will forever be known as That Bloody Volcano in Iceland
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Reports indicate a shortage of tropical fruit is imminent, green beans are in short supply and a crisis looms in Kenyan flower supplies.
Truly, armageddon is upon us.
Strange to think it wasn't really so very long ago that oranges were desirable enough in Europe to be given as Christmas presents.
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I've uploaded an MP3 of the pronunciation.
Not that it really helps.
I can safely say my guess at the pronunciation was not even close. How to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull.
They don't really seem to agree with each other. Although maybe the latter is breaking it down slowly for us.
Ay-ya-fyat-lie-ya-kut
(with fyat not terribly different from Fiat, and kut rhyming with put).
Not easy for a one-language English speaker, but loop the pronunciation on the GMA story half a dozen times in a row (start from around the 40 second mark), and you should be able to pronounce it easy enough (and certainly if it's your job to!).
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Dear Iceland, we said "Send Cash".
Surely being English it would have read Dear Iceland, we said "Send Cash" you unt.
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I'm just going to jump in here with an early nomination for Eyjafjallajokull as PA Word of the Year. We may have all learned to pronounce by the time Russell actually calls for entries later in the year...
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See:
Eyjafjallajökull - You're doing it wrong!
Chortle.
Hat-tip to NZ-based Icelandic singer Hera Hjartardottir.
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(and certainly if it's your job to!)
Eggs-Zachary!
Ahh, America, we loves yous!
PS. I've found that works if you channel either Billy Connelly or Father Ted, depending on which accent you do better.
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Anyone remember the ABC/CNN/CBS newscaster's attempts to pronounce 'Mt Ruapehu' in 1995/96?
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Airlines testing low-altitude flights, desperate to get in the air again? I imagine some interesting conversations with insurers.
I imagine that if they stay below a ceiling of say c.5000m, they could avoid the higher level ash cloud until they get beyond its limits then lift up to a normal cruising altitude if travelling beyond Northern / Central Europe. The problem with this is that the aircraft will burn through substantially more fuel at lower levels (and of course create more greenhouse gasses). Normally an airline wouldn’t consider this as the increased fuel consumption could be enough to wipe out their profit margin (as well as giving the aircraft a much shorter range) but under the circumstances I imagine they are willing to try anything.
That was actually quite scary.
Indeed it was. It’s interesting how the atmosphere in the room changes and how the quickly the laughter from the children disappears once the "aftermath" image is revealed.
I have an involvement with emergency management in Wellington and while things aren’t perfect down here, there is a general appreciation among the population of the risks associated with earthquakes. Correspondingly, a sizable proportion of Wellington households have made efforts to "prepare" (storing food, water, having an emergency plan etc). I was recently speaking to someone in a similar role in Auckland who was frustrated beyond belief that no matter what they did, he was unable to get Aucklanders to fully appreciate the natural hazards the city faces or to prepare their households for a possible emergency.
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Interesting to see all the news reporters around the globe studiously avoiding pronouncing the real name of that which will forever be known as That Bloody Volcano in Iceland
At first I thought the title of this post was Russell mashing keys from lack of imagination. So that's the name of that bloody volcano in Iceland.
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@Gio
Hopefully won't coincide with Rugby World Cup 2011.
Are you kidding? We'd have the captive, stranded tourists we've always hoped for.
The idea might sound great in Wellington but drunken britons running out of money -
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I was recently speaking to someone in a similar role in Auckland who was frustrated beyond belief that no matter what they did, he was unable to get Aucklanders to fully appreciate the natural hazards the city faces or to prepare their households for a possible emergency.
I bought a wind-up radio ...
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unable to get Aucklanders to fully appreciate the natural hazards the city faces or to prepare their households for a possible emergency.
But we're building more and wider motorways to escape on - to Helensville and beyond!
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I bought a wind-up radio
You're having us on
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Dear Iceland, we said "Send Cash".
It's been pointed out in this context that there is no 'c' in the icelandic aplphabet.
Strange to think it wasn't really so very long ago that oranges were desirable enough in Europe to be given as Christmas presents.
Times do change. Winston Churchill celebrating the end of wartime austerity with a photo op of himself handing a schoolgirl a banana.
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drunken britons running out of money -
That looked like a preview of Party Central, except there'd be a few lads(BG) pissing in the harbour.
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I bought a wind-up radio
You're having us on
He's just winding us up...
But, he did mention this when we discussed the Emergency Preparation thing not so long ago. Mine has a torch too.
Yes yes, another droll badge to add to my collection. Better droll than troll, right?
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drunken britons running out of money -
Those will be sent for a week's stint on Sommes Island along with a contingent of imported Sardinians. Cure them right up.
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Winston Churchill celebrating the end of wartime austerity with a photo op of himself handing a schoolgirl a banana.
Caption: Paedophiles for healthy nutrition?
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Last time we were in that earthquake simulator at the museum everything was going smoothly, until the first big bump hit (and it's a goodie) and somebody's grandmother sitting on the couch yelled "oh FUCK!" at the top of her lungs. Oddly, the kids were fine.
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