Tell that to someone in Ohio
It is all a matter of scale and expectation.

I'm 5 minutes from a Beech Tree that I sit under and contemplate the world, It grows on the banks of a 2000 year old settlement overlooking the countryside. It doesn't matter that I'm only a couple of hundred feet up, or that there are no waves crashing nearby.

Still I've travelled a tiny bit in the states, and it am damn bootiful too.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 7:56, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

For what it's worth
I live here

Edit: www.orangecounty.net/cities/CostaMesa_history.html
And I live a half mile from the historical site mentioned at the bottom
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:03, Reply)

And me here
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luton
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:10, Reply)

'ERE!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:34, Reply)

Mornin'
I didn't expect that.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:38, Reply)

She drops by on hearing the codeword
Alright!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:48, Reply)

I'm fine thanks
Going to Astrofest tomorrow to buy a new tripod and some eyepieces.

Tonight I'm in Southall for a curry with m'colleages.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:52, Reply)

Right, either you're on about telescopes
or you've flipped your fucking lid...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 8:57, Reply)

Telescopes yes.
Lid flipped years ago.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:00, Reply)

What's that star that changes colour?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:02, Reply)

Michael Jackson

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:03, Reply)

Right, fuck off now!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:05, Reply)

I though you were being the straight man there
It was a superb feed.

Your Ernie to my Eric.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:08, Reply)

*bring me sunshine dance*

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:09, Reply)

You and your short fat hairy legs
What do you think of it so far?
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:14, Reply)

Waggle yer glasses

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:17, Reply)

*Waggled*

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:20, Reply)

*phones agent*

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:23, Reply)

*phones police*
Help, this thread is falling off my screen.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:31, Reply)

Sirius
The dog star, being always low in the British sky seems to twinkle because of the starlight travelling through the atmosphere and getting churned up.

No star can quickly change colour, which is a direct result of surface temperature. All stars change colour over long time spans as they develop and eventually die.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:06, Reply)

Yes it's twinkling
and it's kind of going redblueyellowbluewhite
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:07, Reply)

If it was higher up
It would be white and not twinkle
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:13, Reply)

Got it
It turned into something else once though.
Flew round our house.
I was 10.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:19, Reply)

10 on mushrooms
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:26, Reply)

'koff right
It did.
I'm getting neck strain here. Can we move if you're gonna insult me more?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:28, Reply)