The whole of Sheiffield under water.

In article [email protected]
reader02.plus.net, says...
On 26/06/2007 08:50, foghollow wrote:
Its to indicate something is missing.
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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?


Courier is fixed innit? That's what I'm using.
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On 26/06/2007 09:26, foghollow wrote:

In article [email protected]
reader02.plus.net, says...
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?

Courier is fixed innit? That's what I'm using.

Yes same here, and so it should have lined-up, actually with the
increasing levels of quote characters, varying styles of trimming and
probably a mixture of fixed 72 column and flowed wrapping, it is "edging
over" relative to the text it was originally pointing at.

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.

Why assume that it'll be the foot which comes off? Knee? Leg? Arm?
Either of those coming off and resulting in him having significant
bleeding, whilst in a sewer/drain, is also going be a significant risk
to life. It's not exactly a sterile area. Add to that the fact that he
may have been weak at the time. Basically, we have no idea what really
happened, the decisions that were made by the medical and rescue staff,
the amount of access (both to the patient, and the immediate area around).

My point is that I trust that the emergency services would have done
everything that they could to save the person, and that we're in
possession of little of the facts. There could have been a whole number
of reasons why they could not save him - and making various suppositions
about why the person died, ranging from incompetence of the services
("if they'd strapped a harness under him and then set 6 beefy firemen
pulling hard he would've come free eventually") through to refusal of
treatment ("I think your refusal of consent idea is probably behind
this.") isn't terribly helpful, especially to people related to or
knowing any of the people involved.

D

wrote:
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......

What a pratt you are! It's global warming that is causing the extreme
weather.

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:36:06 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough"
wrote:



What are Yorkshire water shares like at the moment;?....

Has the hosepipe ban ben lifted yet?


No and it won't be if the resevoir bursts.
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On 25 Jun, 21:10, 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?

ITYM "grate"

apostrophy

apostrophe


catastrophe

"Jethro" wrote in message
oups.com...
On 25 Jun, 21:10, 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?

ITYM "grate"


No, he got his foot caught in a wrought iron gate.


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Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

"Adrian A" wrote in message
news
wrote:
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......

What a pratt you are! It's global warming that is causing the
extreme
weather.




That shows another bit of ignorance. The current westher is the
'European Monsoon' that oftern hits western Europe and the UK in early
June. It's just a bit worse than normal this year!

There was snow in mid June in 1957 and no-one had even thought of
global warming then!


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Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com

"mogga" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:36:06 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough"
wrote:



What are Yorkshire water shares like at the moment;?....

Has the hosepipe ban ben lifted yet?


No and it won't be if the resevoir bursts.
--
http://www.freedeliveryuk.co.uk


Actually Yorkshire Water have not instituted a hosepipe ban in well
over a decade, ever since they got the water grid in place and the
aqueduct from Kielder.


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Woody

harrogate3 at ntlworld dot com