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Post by flatandy on May 21, 2020 14:14:54 GMT
I'm not sure sharks are great at nuance.
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Post by hammerhead on May 21, 2020 17:45:45 GMT
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Post by voice on Jun 1, 2020 2:48:33 GMT
Tombstoning, another idiot thing I just don't get www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-52867140Tombstoning has continued on Dorset's Jurassic Coast less than 24 hours after three people were seriously hurt jumping 70ft (21m) from a cliff. The casualties were taken to hospital after jumping from Durdle Door at about 16:00 BST on Saturday. The coastguard and police have warned against leaping from the "dangerous" landmark arch into the sea. However, despite warnings and advice to stay away, police said on Sunday some "still saw fit" to attempt it. Dorset Council had closed the roads around the scene for safety reasons but hundreds of people still travelled to the area, police said. |
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Post by voice on Jun 4, 2020 18:58:44 GMT
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jun 4, 2020 19:38:01 GMT
Photographer Jose Luis Abad felt a bit Ratty and had abad trip after Badgering Nacho Vidal for some Toad- venom.
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Post by mids on Jun 4, 2020 21:49:50 GMT
Frog in your throat? Well, cock actually
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 5, 2020 5:36:52 GMT
Toad in the hole?
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 14, 2020 20:41:09 GMT
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jun 14, 2020 20:47:37 GMT
Yeah - a friend of Neil
or someone Neil hoped to be a friend of...
If I remember correctly
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 14, 2020 20:52:54 GMT
Quite. Do you remember the tantrum when someone was blackballed from the In and Out Club? Truth was that neither of them were actually SF or indeed actual soldiers. In fairness NL had by far the stronger claim. That lovely dippy Irish girl on reception probably had more military experience than the pair of them, if only by dint of the number of squaddies she'd banged. Aislin? Nice kid.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jun 14, 2020 20:54:26 GMT
Yeah - that's the one
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 14, 2020 21:00:10 GMT
Not too bright but a very tidy chassis. I often used to give her a lift home. She made it quite clear that I'd be welcome to come in for coffee on a couple of occasions. That's not the way I roll and, in fairness, I think she was just a bit lonely. She was a nice lass though. I hope she found someone decent.
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Post by voice on Dec 21, 2020 3:57:11 GMT
Totally mental Two European mountaineers embark this week on a bitterly cold, week-long trek to reach base camp on the world's second highest mountain, in a bid to achieve something that no human has ever done before. Romanian Alex Gavan, 38, and Italian Tamara Lunger, 34, are aiming to claim one of the last great challenges in the world of high-altitude mountaineering: the winter summit of K2. They will not be alone. At least 24 others, most of them Europeans, will try to do the same, prompting warnings that too many climbers will be risking their lives on one of the world's deadliest peaks. "It's an extraordinarily rough landscape," Gavan told the BBC in his Bucharest home, surrounded by books and climbing gear. So unforgiving are the conditions on K2, part of the Karakoram Range that straddles the Pakistan-China border, that it has long been referred to as The Savage Mountain. It was a name that stuck after US mountaineer George Bell said of his own attempt in 1953: "It is a savage mountain that tries to kill you." www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55341778 |
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Post by flatandy on Dec 21, 2020 12:40:41 GMT
24 people trying to get up K2 in mid-winter? f**k**g loons. I hope no public money is spent and no lives risked trying to rescue any of these people.
I think there might be benefits to winter climbing, though, from what I recall of reading about Everest - there’s a reason that people climb in the spring window which is that they want some winter conditions without all the winter problems. The ice and snow is more solid, less likely to give way, because it’s so cold, I think, And there’s no risk of monsoon-driven storms.
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 21, 2020 12:43:40 GMT
Also, no cricket or Wimbledon to watch, so ....
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Post by voice on Dec 21, 2020 14:09:10 GMT
If it stays true to its reputation, only 6 of those 24 will survive climbing K2.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 21, 2020 14:37:13 GMT
It should probably be lower given that these are tougher conditions.
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Post by perrykneeham on Aug 20, 2021 13:23:11 GMT
"A father and son believe they are the first people to ride non-stop across the channel on electric-powered hydrofoil boards." www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-dorset-58282106Silly season story, I suppose, but I wonder about these hydrofoil boards. What's the point exactly? Surely a conventional lifting keel would be more efficient as the stemmed hydrofoil actually has to lift and sustain the load completely out of the water. Dunno, seems like a gimmick to me. I get it when it's something like a moth class sailing dinghy, but not an electrically powered surfboards. |
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Post by voice on Aug 20, 2021 17:00:01 GMT
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Post by mids on Aug 20, 2021 17:26:47 GMT
That was brilliant.
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