The whole of Sheiffield under water.

Mike_B wrote:
In message , R. Mark Clayton
writes

Some chap got caught in 'quicksand' on Blackpool beach and died in
the rising tide because no-one thought to go and buy a snorkel or
advise him to swim out of it.

Yes, yes.... I'm sure this happened. I'm sure the reason he drowned
was due to the lack of someone to advise him to swim away. Since the
depth of water right to the seawall when the tide is in comes to
several metres, one presumes they would have had to buy a snorkel and
a very long hose pipe as well.

Once the quicksand was covered by the rising tide, it would've been much
easier to swim free of it. You don't have to wait for it to be deeply
covered, even a foot or two will significantly help.

foghollow wrote:
In article ,
says...
harrogate3 wrote:


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!



It's certainly not unusual to have torrential rain in Summer. I refer
readers to the "Great Flood of '68" with wiped out 3 road bridges in
Keynsham and seriously damaged a fourth in July 1968. There was
widespread disruption for over a week in the West Country. I remember
speaking to a Keynsham resident shortly after this, who described the
sky as being extremely frightening and angry, with rain falling like
a continual sheet. The Army was brought in to build Bailey bridges
and generally assist.

Only 2 really got taken out totally by the flood - the two down past
the Fry's factory, on the Willsbridge road. The Bath Road bridge was
still standing but a hole developed next

Your line-length's buggered.

Huge wrote:
On 2007-06-26, Peter Hayes wrote:
harrogate3 wrote:


Actually not. The average temperature peaked in 1940 and dropped year
on year until 1975. Who didn't watch "The Great Climate Change
Swindle" in Ch4 recently?
The only swindle done was by the producers of that programme.


Their scientific rigour was no different to the IPCCs.



The IPCC didn't find it necessary to deliberately falsify and tamper with data.

http://fermiparadox.wordpress.com/20...ers/#comment-6

and here

http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu...onLaut2004.pdf

Dr Zoidberg wrote:

Peter Hayes wrote:
harrogate3 wrote:

"Adrian A" wrote in message
om...
harrogate3 wrote:
"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!

They may not have thought of it but global warming had started then
and this June has been the wettest on record.




Actually not. The average temperature peaked in 1940 and dropped year
on year until 1975. Who didn't watch "The Great Climate Change
Swindle" in Ch4 recently?

The only swindle done was by the producers of that programme.

Which bits in particular did you disagree with , and why?

http://www.celsias.com/blog/2007/03/...rming-swindle/

--

Immunity is better than innoculation.

Peter

On 26/06/2007 15:51, Amethyst Deceiver wrote:

Your line-length's buggered.

Outside of the headers, I can't see anything over 72 chars in the
message you replied to.

Huge wrote:

on him and drag him out with a fire engine. Being alive with a missing
foot beats the crap out of being dead.

Have you tried both?

s

In article ,
says...
foghollow wrote:
In article ,
says...
harrogate3 wrote:


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!



It's certainly not unusual to have torrential rain in Summer. I refer
readers to the "Great Flood of '68" with wiped out 3 road bridges in
Keynsham and seriously damaged a fourth in July 1968. There was
widespread disruption for over a week in the West Country. I remember
speaking to a Keynsham resident shortly after this, who described the
sky as being extremely frightening and angry, with rain falling like
a continual sheet. The Army was brought in to build Bailey bridges
and generally assist.

Only 2 really got taken out totally by the flood - the two down past
the Fry's factory, on the Willsbridge road. The Bath Road bridge was
still standing but a hole developed next

Your line-length's buggered.



Looks alright here. Set to 72 IIRC. Even after your followup
--
Snob? Were I a snob, I wouldn't be talking to you.

Huge laid this down on his screen :
On 2007-06-26, BaldoniXXV baldoniXXV wrote:

More people have died of hypothermia than drowning at sea. That
includes all Royal Navy personnel in WWII.

All Royal Navy personnel in WWII died of hypothermia? Crumbs.

Not quite,

Of the crew that were on ships that had been destroyed or abandoned, or
for those sailors that ended up on the sea, more died of hypothermia
than drowning.

Their was not adequate life rafts like there are today, the rafts they
had left them exposed to the elements.

It is essential to get oneself as dry as possible.

It would sound better to the War Office that they had perished by
drowning rather than due to inadequate equipment.

The Merchant Seamen that were torpedoed had their pay stopped the
moment they hit the water.

--
Count Baldoni

BALDONI REX ROMANORUM

On 26/06/2007 15:58, Andy Burns wrote:

On 26/06/2007 15:51, Amethyst Deceiver wrote:

Your line-length's buggered.

Outside of the headers, I can't see anything over 72 chars in the
message you replied to.

Ooh no, tell a lie, Linz cleaned up the line lengths before replying,
foghollow is indeed too wide.

In message , André
Coutanche writes
Sandman wrote:

As a matter of fact, it seems to me that nearly all of the serious
altercation that has occurred in uk.tech.digital-tv in the past few
months has been imported from other groups by crossposting, either
started by people with obsessive agendas or by outright trolls. If
crossposting hadn't been possible, the group would have been very
well tempered by Usenet standards.

Hear, hear! Sandman has done the right thing by removing the
cross-post on his reply (though, of course, we really need a way of
stopping *other people* from cross-posting), and the only other remedy
left to us is NOT TO FEED THE TROLL.

I urge all uk.tech.digital-tv regulars to killfile 'Lord Turkey Cough'
immediately so as to remove any temptation to reply. The signal to
noise ratio on this ng is now lamentable and the trend is very
distressing.

André Coutanche


I always killfile "the half-witted emperor's new coughing wide-boy"
straight away, but often see him quoted by others.

I've partly solved the problem by killing any posts that are
cross-posted, which means I may miss some interesting stuff, but I'll
never know, so I don't mind.
--
Ian