The whole of Sheiffield under water.

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from "Lord Turkey Cough" contains these words:

Well you would think so the way the news channels are
going overvboard about it.
Blimey you would think these people had never seen a heavy
rain shower before!!
A waste of the license payers money.

Not really. It offers those of us who have endured the rain in a flood
free environment some consolation and smugness in our choice of said
location.

I'd say it was value for money in this instance.

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from Derek Geldard contains these words:

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:54:40 +0100, Andy Burns
wrote:

On 25/06/2007 21:33, Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

Ignore this, post I put a new one in.

For the sake of a missing "i"? You could cancel the original message if
you though people cared, or that most people hadn't killfile'd you.

What's the apostrophy for ?

I'm only guessin' 'ere, but I think it's to indicate his awareness of
it, even tho' he hasn't quite grasped the rules of its usage.

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On Jun 25, 11:25 pm, "Tom Bradbury" wrote:

He died of the cold, not from drowning.

Surely not?

it's England in June; summer.

And if you believe the do-gooders, global warming is out of control so
there's no possible way the water would or could have been cold enough
to kill him.

Unless global warming is a load of ******** of course......

Huge wrote:
On 2007-06-25, Steve Walker wrote:

Sam Nelson wrote:

In article ,
says...

Well you would think so the way the news channels are
going overvboard about it.
Blimey you would think these people had never seen a heavy
rain shower before!!
A waste of the license payers money.

Some poor bloke drowning in front of a bunch of helpless firefighters
because he had his foot trapped in a gate is pretty serious stuff.
Isn;t it?

Something's funny there. They must've had access to Fire Service & Police
Diver breathing apparatus (which would've kept him alive for a hour or so
underwater), and they were surely carrying cutting equipment (which would've
dealt with the trapped foot, by amputation in the last resort). Even
without the technology, if they'd strapped a harness under him and then set
6 beefy firemen pulling hard he would've come free eventually (perhaps with
a broken, torn or even missing foot).


That's exactly what I said to my wife. At some point, you put a harness
on him and drag him out with a fire engine. Being alive with a missing
foot beats the crap out of being dead.


Perhaps the individual was asked for permission to amputate if necessary
but refused to agree to the procedure? Having refused when conscious,
that refusal will stay in force until either rescued or dead, IIUC.

Even if access was very restricted, a helo overhead with a strop under
his bottom should have popped (most of) him out in a second or two..
possibly a bit more humane that half a dozen firemen pulling away..

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On Jun 25, 11:25 pm, "Tom Bradbury" wrote:

He died of the cold, not from drowning.

Surely not?

it's England in June; summer.

And if you believe the do-gooders, global warming is out of control so
there's no possible way the water would or could have been cold enough
to kill him.

Unless global warming is a load of ******** of course......

How cold do you think water needs to be to kill you? I'm no doctor but I
think I can work out that even if it's as much as 10 degrees C that is still
a bloody sight colder than normal body temperature (37C) and thus will soon
leech away whatever heat you have in your totally immersed body. IIRC body
temperature only has to drop by about 5 degrees or so to significantly
threaten life. Try lying in a cold bath for a couple of hours..........
Strangely enough it's probably global warming that killed the poor sod - it
only needs a small rise in average temperature to significantly increase
water evaporation and hence produce more rainfall and hence the flooding we
are currently suffering.

Global warming is not out of control - it is we who are out of control.
Global warming is just the planet's way of saying "**** off". Perhaps we
ought to be listening?

In article [email protected]
reader02.plus.net, says...
On 25/06/2007 23:38, Mary Pegg wrote:

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
What's the apostrophy for ?
Its to indicate something is missing.
^
|

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?

Point at where it belongs with an arrow as above.


Shame it only lines up if everybody's using the same font
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Mary Pegg wrote (apparently) in uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon 25 Jun 2007
23:38:10:

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

"Derek Geldard" wrote in message
What's the apostrophy for ?

Its to indicate something is missing.

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?

Generally by posting to the Usenet, I believe.

[applause]
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On 26/06/2007 03:05, Johnny B Good wrote:

I think it's to indicate his awareness of it,
even tho' he hasn't quite grasped the rules of its usage.

The word killfiled feels "uncomfortable" without some way of showing how
it was constructed, it's as though it was originally killfil and has
had the suffix "ed" added, whereas the "e" was there all along.

Of course the apostrophe is the pedant's favourite target, why has noone
felt the need to correct the spelling of Sheffield in the subject?

On 26/06/2007 08:50, foghollow wrote:
Its to indicate something is missing.
^
|

How do you indicate a missing apostrophe?
Point at where it belongs with an arrow as above.


Shame it only lines up if everybody's using the same font

It shows up correctly when using *any* fixed spacing font, which is
traditional for usenet, would you rather I top-posted and used HTML with
8-bit characters too?

Palindrome wrote:

Even if access was very restricted, a helo overhead with a strop under
his bottom should have popped (most of) him out in a second or two..
possibly a bit more humane that half a dozen firemen pulling away..

Indeed - or even a JCB or forklift from any nearby site.

I think your refusal of consent idea is probably behind this.