When I was young….

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I went to Morrisons earlier with the intention of buying some vegetables and some cheap food for tea. I took ten pounds out of the hole in the wall and proceeded to shop for stuff, some stir fry, a little cooked chicken. When I was young this wouldn't've cost £5. It's an outrage.

It's entirely possible that in my own mind I am omitting the fact that I also bought chocolate mousse and a bag of lollies at a pound each to cheer me up and I did manage to have change from the fiver and now at least have some pound coins to do some washing with, and I'm just being miserable because I've got a cold. I think I must have caught Man-Flu from David (who has spent the last three days going "Uuurrrrgh" and complaining about how he is on the doorstep of the Reaper himself) which is strange because I thought, being a girl, I would be immune to the deadly Man-Flu. Obviously not.

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Its probably to do with Inflation, ;) Doing a decent business based degree helps with simple things like working out reasons for rising prices ;) :D

At least my degree teaches me things I actually didn't know before, unlike yours where you do power point ;)

Do I patronise you when you don't know stuff about glacio-eustatic sea level changes? I think not. I rest my case.

I know enough to know about how coral reefs drilled offshore of Barbados provide the first continuous and detailed record of sea level change during the last deglaciation. The sea level was 121 plus/minus 5 metres below present level during the last glacial maximum. The deglacial sea level rise was not monotonic; rather, it was marked by two intervals of rapid rise. Varying rates of melt-water discharge to the North Atlantic surface ocean dramatically affected North Atlantic deep-water production and oceanic oxygen isotope chemistry. A global oxygen isotope record for ocean water has been calculated from the Barbados sea level curve, allowing separation of the ice volume component common to all oxygen isotope records measured in deep-sea cores.

Therefore along with this and supporting evidence it is reasonable to conclude and show by use of a diagram the significant variations in the last 100 thousand years or so in Eustatic sea level fluctuations:

So nerr :p now lets see you use powerpoint!

Dude, I know, stop trying to show me up. Everyone knows that you look at foraminifera and the percentages of gas retained within their calcium carbonate (and occasionally silicious) shells as it directly relates to the age and stage of glaciation when they were deposited - you can look easily at the ratio of Oxygen 18 to Oxygen 16 to work it out.

When you get a degree in micropaleooceanography you can come and teach me some more ;) . And google is cheating :P

Oh and there are now a number of drilling stations that they use, if you give me a short while I'll find you a map of where they all are if you're really interested :P

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I knew that already, without needing google ;)

I've been to so many of Leah's lectures because I actually care enough to visit her often ;)

Fine, don't come down again. Wouldn't want you to show me up :P you won't be wanting me to visit at Easter then?