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Offline Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)

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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2025 on: January 17, 2012, 05:07:40 PM »
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/17/costa-concordia-captain-phone-call-video?CMP=twt_gu


No deffo not the captains fault couldn't have been he wasn't even on board. noooo:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2026 on: January 17, 2012, 05:40:31 PM »
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2027 on: January 17, 2012, 05:46:14 PM »
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on January 17, 2012, 12:28:45 PM
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Deffo wasn't the Captain's fault then  whistle:



Two minor points if I may:

1. That's not the M4.    And . .

2. The thing that came unstuck was not a Spaceship!

 whistle:

Bloody hell, Marley could present the case for the defence, "he swerved to avoid falling space debris me lud"
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2028 on: January 17, 2012, 06:24:37 PM »
Quote from: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on January 17, 2012, 05:07:40 PM
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jan/17/costa-concordia-captain-phone-call-video?CMP=twt_gu


No deffo not the captains fault couldn't have been he wasn't even on board. noooo:

Although this is truly shocking (and unfortunately I can imagine what it must have been like), I'm looking forward to seeing some 'over-subtitled' vid where the Captain is trying to order pizza delivery to his lifeboat from the mainland  whistle:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2029 on: January 17, 2012, 06:28:38 PM »
Clearly he is going to carry the can whatever.
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2030 on: January 17, 2012, 06:30:02 PM »
They just played that recording on Skynews with the translation. Well done the coastguard for trying his best to get the captain to do the right thing  :thumbsup:  (We haven't abandoned ship, we were catapulted out"  ffs)  noooo:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2031 on: January 17, 2012, 06:40:43 PM »
I've been following this unfold closely from Saturday morning. My first thoughts were 'navigational error' ... then realised it was show-boating. If he'd gotten away with it as has happened in the past he'd be lauded as a loveable maverick.
Now though he'll be going away for some time for culpable, multiple manslaughter.
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2032 on: January 17, 2012, 06:43:04 PM »
He could say he was just following his GPS like....  whistle:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2033 on: January 17, 2012, 07:01:40 PM »
I think he's tried that tack ...   ;)
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2034 on: January 17, 2012, 07:03:39 PM »
Quote from: Pastis on January 17, 2012, 07:01:40 PM
I think he's tried that tack ...   ;)

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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2035 on: January 18, 2012, 05:27:58 PM »
Quote from: Just One More on January 17, 2012, 05:46:14 PM
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on January 17, 2012, 12:28:45 PM
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Deffo wasn't the Captain's fault then  whistle:



Two minor points if I may:

1. That's not the M4.    And . .

2. The thing that came unstuck was not a Spaceship!

 whistle:

Bloody hell, Marley could present the case for the defence, "he swerved to avoid falling space debris me lud"

Would not work well as a defence since that is clearly NOT the M4.

However,were he to try the
 'we swerved to avoid a pod of bottlenose dolphins' defence,
then he might be in with a chance (of 20 years to life as they say across the pond).
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2036 on: January 21, 2012, 08:03:07 AM »
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2037 on: January 21, 2012, 08:04:19 AM »
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2038 on: January 21, 2012, 08:10:07 AM »
Why do you think I carry the axe  evil:
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Re: Fantastic Headlines
« Reply #2039 on: January 21, 2012, 09:35:43 AM »
Boy or girl? The parents who refused to say for FIVE years finally reveal sex of their 'gender-neutral' child

I read this last night and thought I'd had too much collapso...  noooo:

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His fairy wings, pink tutu and ballet pumps suggest this little boy has raided the dressing up box.

But if five-year-old Sasha wanted to wear this every day, his parents would have no problem at all.

In fact, as they are bringing him up to be ‘gender neutral’, they would see it simply as their son expressing himself.

Not that they usually refer to him as ‘him’. From the moment Sasha was born, Beck Laxton and Kieran Cooper have been at pains not to lumber their son with the stereotyping they fear that gender brings.

So they simply called him ‘the infant’ and kept his gender a secret from all but a few close friends and relatives. As he grew older, he was encouraged to play with dolls as much as Lego, slept in a neutral yellow room and was allowed to wear both boys’ and girls’ clothes.

But now that he is five and at school Miss Laxton, 46, and Mr Cooper, 44, believe it will be almost impossible to keep it up.

Last year parents in Canada who refused to say whether their child was a boy or girl stirred up outrage and accusations they were turning their child into a freak.

Sasha’s parents, who have faced their own share of raised eyebrows, are thought to be among the first British parents to speak about this far-from-traditional method of raising a child. They are keen to highlight the issue publicly and get other parents talking about it.


Poor kid - he'll be beaten to death as skool....
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