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Title: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: GROWLER on September 11, 2010, 03:17:43 PM


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-11268644

 lol:
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Just One More on September 11, 2010, 03:43:31 PM
Comedy side, it sounds like a scene from a sitcom. A bin blows out to sea, an 81 year old goes out in his dinghy to get it and ends up having ot be rescued, then the rescuers return to get the bin

On the serious side, 81 years old  eeek: , (if I'm still here at that age and got all my marbles I'd like to think I'd want to go out in a dinghy), no lifejacket, no waterproofs, suffers mild hypothermia, all this with strong winds and high tides, and volunteers have to go out in those conditions to rescue him.



Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: GROWLER on September 11, 2010, 03:50:02 PM
Comedy side, it sounds like a scene from a sitcom. A bin blows out to sea, an 81 year old goes out in his dinghy to get it and ends up having ot be rescued, then the rescuers return to get the bin

On the serious side, 81 years old  eeek: , (if I'm still here at that age and got all my marbles  I'd like to think I'd want to go out in a dinghy), no lifejacket, no waterproofs, suffers mild hypothermia, all this with strong winds and high tides, and volunteers have to go out in those conditions to rescue him.





No. It would be a condition that you had actually lost your marbles to perform an act of such hilarious buffoonery, dopey old goat.
Got to luv him though ey? lol:
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: beerhead on September 11, 2010, 03:59:00 PM
Sounds like lost episode from "Last of the Summer Wine"
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on September 11, 2010, 04:15:59 PM
He gets my vote. happy088  Not sure what for but he gets it anyway.
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Just One More on September 11, 2010, 04:43:49 PM
Oh, he gets my vote too, but if it was a 17 year old "yoof" I have to admit I wouldn't have seen the comedic side of it. So at what age would comedy cut in...  buggered if I know
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Snoopy on September 11, 2010, 07:24:33 PM
The age at which such matters become comedic is the same age at which you start to think that what he did was perfectly reasonable.

Fortunately I am still able to smile with you at his antics and to be grateful that he was rescued ......... well almost as I am also saying thank the Lord we still have people like that who try to do what they think is right to help a neighbour. Misguided but TBH heroic.

I may be on the verge of "That age"  redface:
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 11, 2010, 07:32:25 PM

I may be on the verge of "That age"  redface:

 lol:

On the verge  eeek:

I'd have put you at positively rolling down the embankment  ;)
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Snoopy on September 11, 2010, 07:34:05 PM

I may be on the verge of "That age"  redface:

 lol:

On the verge  eeek:

I'd have put you at positively rolling down the embankment  ;)

Sadly I think you are right.  sad24:
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 11, 2010, 07:35:21 PM
Don't be daft ..I'm never right  ;)
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Snoopy on September 11, 2010, 07:39:02 PM
The way I feel today you're spot on love. Yuk: *Hack Splutter Cough*
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Miss Demeanour on September 11, 2010, 07:40:03 PM
 happy100
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Snoopy on September 11, 2010, 07:45:43 PM
Fanks but don't come too close or you'll get it too.

Bloody THW has only been back at school for 4 days and already she is spreading colds around the family.
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Roy Cropper on September 12, 2010, 05:01:59 PM
The Welsh coastline was hit by some of the highest tides of the year on Friday."

Hit?

As tides are predictable, it is difficult to understand why the BBC wishes to make it seem like a sudden catastrophe, like a storm.  ::)
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Snoopy on September 12, 2010, 06:55:01 PM
Erosion is the problem.

And the fact that some of the sea defences are suffering from severe underfunding
Title: Re: Jokes in here somewhere.
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on September 13, 2010, 08:18:40 AM
Fanks but don't come too close or you'll get it too.

Bloody THW has only been back at school for 4 days and already she is spreading colds around the family.

One of my daughters is doing 'freshers' week in a couple of weeks another is just returning to uni, they will be on deaths doorstep by the beginning of week two. noooo: