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Last login: 6 hours agoKahlilaGibran: Kahlila is a woman in a relationship from Kia Ora, New Zealand.; Likes 3,526 pages, 180 videos, 540 photos • 479 fans • Received 176 reviews; Member since Jan 20, 2007

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SgtCarlos profile - StumbleUpon: Jul 22, 1:15pm 51 reviews stumblers, arts, sgtcarlo
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dlaffs profile - StumbleUpon: Jul 21, 10:30am 38 reviews stumblers
http://dlaff.stumbleupon.com/; Oh noes! It's that damned man again.

ABANDON ALL HOPE, YOU WHO ENTER HERE.

But the whole effect is spoilt by vaguely spammy
links to iphone down-page from there.

To hell with that.

Burlington Cold War City - City of Ember | Underground Blog: Jul 21, 8:07am 24 reviews uk, cold-war, war, abandoned-places, secret-places
http://underground.cityofember.com/2008/07/burlington-nuclear-bunker-at-c.html; Secret city

It is called Burlington and was a former emergency relocations site for the British government in the event of nuclear war.

The site, in Wiltshire, has been abandoned since the 1980s and was declassified in 2004.

From the page

The 35 acre subterranean Cold War City lies 100 feet beneath Corsham. Built in the late 50s this massive city complex was designed by Government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike. A former Bath stone quarry the city, code named Burlington, was to be the site of the main Emergency Government War Headquarters - the hub of the Country's alternative seat of power outside London.

Over a kilometre in length, and boasting over 60 miles of roads. Blast proof and completely self-sufficient, the secret underground site could accommodate up to 6,000 people, in complete isolation from the outside world, for up to three months.

An underground lake and treatment plant could provide all the drinking water needed whilst 12 huge tanks could store the fuel required to keep the four massive generators, in the underground power station, running for up to three months. And unlike most urban cities, above ground, the air within the complex could also be kept at a constant humidity and heated to around 20 degrees. The city was also equipped with the second largest telephone exchange in Britain, a BBC studio from which the PM could address the nation and an internal Lamson Tube system that could relay messages, using compressed air, throughout the complex.

Questions abound . . .

How many people knew about it at the time?
Did the villagers have any idea; what stories
did they tell or keep to themselves?

What would you have to do to be among
the 6000 who could be accommodated?

What secret cities are in use now?

This pic and the wide-angle view above link to other articles about the secret city

This also brings to mind a powerful anti-nuclear war movie we were
taken to as schoolkids in 1965 -- Peter Watkins' The War Game.
It provided powerful propaganda for anti-war activists, as the
authorities later found it, and was subsequently withdrawn.

frenchtwists profile - StumbleUpon: Jul 20, 3:10am 640 reviews beauty, stumblers, women, mystique
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Flickr: Photos from clogiron2: Jul 19, 10:25am 1 review flickr, clogiron
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95618388@N00/; I was thinking of sneaking a swig of snake oil from here
but would it do anything except mark me as a sneak?
No, I'm sure Cloggo has a plan for everything in this
collection, and I'll go and get a whisky here instead.
And wait.

Cheers, Gramps!

judefas profile - StumbleUpon: Jul 19, 10:08am 250 reviews stumblers, judefa
http://judefa.stumbleupon.com/; How things change.
Kahlila 35 years on is less capable of acrobatics
and definitely harder to impress.

The result is this like-me-or-lump-me Judefa, I guess.
Not very likable at all, and far less attractive.

orbitals profile - StumbleUpon: Jul 19, 2:36am 8 reviews stumblers
http://orbital.stumbleupon.com/; I think what he is trying to say is . . .

At present pursues the enterprise in the experimental psychology aspect.
I like the ball piano, the academic society, the chess, participates in a great book, the novel muddled feeling, exercises, has a dream clearly, transcribes the idea, the philosophy, is drunk, glance which steals, appears suddenly, foreknowledge, intelligence interaction, elating conversation, appointment, gentle breeze, late night, creative imagination, fluorescence travel, nature, introspection, autodidactism, aleatoric bitter experience, unlimited consideration.

I do not have me politics which puts the blame on to join, not at least in this country, because takes the church parish candidate.
Warms up human who stays up late in brains synesthetic.

Hard to tell with mushrooms involved.
His About page is quite impressive.

PS Hiding four out of eight reviews
already, so he may hide this one as well.
Odd.

StumbleUpon - Shitaos web site reviews and blog: Jul 17, 11:36am 284 reviews stumblers, shitao
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StumbleUpon - ThungurKnifurs web site reviews and blog: Jul 17, 10:31am 250 reviews stumblers, cartoons, politics
http://thungurknifur.stumbleupon.com/; It does generally appear they're getting tough on . . .
not the spammers but those who use profanities!!

I mean FUCK!!!

SU StumbleUpon: Again of the Top Stumbler Matter: Jul 16, 12:53pm 2 reviews stumblers, stumbleupon, top-stumblers, su-dramas
http://stumbleupon.group.stumbleupon.com/forum/95852/; Earnest and pathetic are a couple of words that come to mind
concerning all this fretting over the Top Stumblers problem.
Holier than thou is another.

There is a competitiveness to the listing that is lamentable
and odiously against the spirit of a grassroots community.

So here's a message for all who seek some kind of
stumble stardom via the Top Stumblers listing:

Those who are well educated and learned in the
sciences should be above making this listing, and SU itself, the
centre of the universe -- or is it that scientific bent that
makes you measure success in numbers?

But regarding the larger problem, the dastardly doings of SU's SS.
How about establishing a case and enlightening readers as to what happened,
rather than claiming -- as Stellare does, somewhat tragically on her pages
-- that people are (or one person was) "violently removed".

Not to underrate technology, but I find it hard to picture
"violently" in my mind when we are talking of stumblers across
the world from each other, connected only by computer link.

Btw, I hear from one stumbler that he found himself on
the coveted list quite by accident, after a particularly
vigorous session of thumbing.

It is that scientific!

All in all, the complaining, the supposed creme de la creme
of the stumbleverse and the bitchy tactics used by one particular
c--- sound more like a crappy 50s sci-fi flick than anything
to do with science and research.

Please, also, let's know why it is important to be on that list.
Surely it wouldn't be about driving traffic.
That would just be too tactical and opportunistic for decent stumblers,
and yet I can't think what else would make it matter so much.

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