Posts by Rich Lock
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Berlusconi is feckless, Sarkozy thin-skinned, Mugabe a megalomaniac: the accounts seem spot-on. The faceless corps of tight-lipped American embassy officials turn out to be an alert and discerning bunch.
I’m just going to let that stand for a moment so we can all muse on the brilliance of the writing.
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Turned out it was just “He wears a disguise”.
Does he “kiss this guy”?
Get up in the morning, baked beans for breakfast
Sold out to every monk and beefhead
Woah-ohhhh, me ears are alight!
Why find me kids, they buck up and a-leave me
Darling cheese head I was yards too greasy
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My grandma used to make it for every family gathering, Christmas or not.
One year she didn't and made something else instead. Fortunately she was gently shown the error of her ways, and never made that mistake again.
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Given that ‘twatcock’ is going to walk it, perhaps we should just stick it out of the way over in the corner and focus on the fight for second place.
My leftfield nomination is ’HoSteria!!!!!’, coined by our gracious host in the wake of the front page of the first HoS after the earthquake. For me, it neatly encapsulates that paper’s editorial line on….more or less anything and everything, really.
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And I don't think anyone has posted this yet: The miner's hymn
The disaster is also commemorated in the hymn tune "Gresford", which is also known as "The Miners' Hymn", written by Robert Saint of Hebburn, himself also a miner.
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Bill Bryson gives an account of visiting Centralia in his book 'a walk in the woods'. Sounds like it freaked him right out. It also inspired the town in the 'silent hill' movie adaption.
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didn’t one the two survivors raise the alarm from within the mine on a phone that worked and didn’t the above-ground staff know straight away that the monitoring links went down?
seems the 1 hr 60 min til they knew is a bit of a myth.
The impression I got from the interview with one of the survivors in the paper last Saturday (if my recollection is correct?) was that they got out of the shaft, and then had to walk down the track through bush to raise the alarm from a location somewhere fairly far from the mine itself. And that that communication/alarm was the first inkling that anyone outside the mine had that there might be a problem. The two hours was the time it took them to get from the mine to the phone.
Which if correct (and I’m relying on my memory of an article I skim-read a week ago) does raise some questions about the lack of communication and ongoing monitoring. Which will hopefully be asked an answered at the inquiriy.
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People not on the dole by choice, eh? Who’da thunk it!
Next you'll be saying that people are so desperate to work, they'll queue in their thousands for hours for a handful of menial jobs. But that would be ridiculous, right?
Oh, and this guy has just reminded me why you'll get me to vote tory when you pluck my vote from my cold, dead hand. Not in that country, not in this country, not in this lifetime.
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The first time I've seen bring-it-on step-up-or-step-off i'm-the-greatest trashtalking in relation to...baking cakes.
Float like a fairy cake, sting like a....?
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it’s like they couldn’t bear to be seen to yield space to a bike (speculation).
More probably didn't/don't realise how unpleasant it is to be passed closely when you're on a bike, or didn't notice you. Or some combination thereof.
Most people are extremely unobservant. Also, if they're not regular two-wheelers, they won't really have an appreciation of that perspective.
My personal preference would be for all road users to have to do an apprenticeship on a pushbike or low-cc scooter before they were able graduate to behind the wheel of a car. That way they'd gain a far more acute awareness of spacing and relative vulnerability, which would hopefully lead to them driving more courteously and giving more consideration to other road users.
But I won't hold my breath.