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[sprior]

Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

[Dixie]

Morning chaps [:)]

It is literally cold outside [:D]

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: sprior

Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

Had this 2 days ago. Now it's your turn.
Be careful not to slip on an ice floor !! (no kidding here; the Urgency in the hospital in all Alps town are overbooked with all the accidents we had; too many people fell on the ice).

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: sprior

Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

ORIGINAL: Dixie

It is literally cold outside [:D]

That is really really cold guys (but luckily not as cold as in Poland on Czech Republic - they have -25)...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: sprior

Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

ORIGINAL: Dixie

It is literally cold outside [:D]

That is really really cold guys (but luckily not as cold as in Poland on Czech Republic - they have -25)...


Leo "Apollo11"

Indeed it isn't that cold. Sadly though it's still damn cold and I'm working tonight [:(] Time to dig out whatever cold weather gear I can find. At least it's onlt two more nights working before Christmas [8D]

[JohnDillworth]

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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo


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ORIGINAL: sprior


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ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Apparently there is now an American version of Top Gear. Why cant we just leave other peoples' stuff alone? Its not like it will be anywhere near as good.



Good luck with that. The only British TV series that I know of that converted successfully were "Steptoe and Son" and "Coupling".



Agreed. And the list of Brit shows we completely murdered is long and terrible.



I've seen the US version of "Coupling" and it didn't measure up to the original.

Not to mention the horrible job they did with "Life on Mars". Why not just show the original?

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps [:)]

It is literally cold outside [:D]

Cold enough for Scotts to wear something under their kilts? [X(]

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps [:)]

It is literally cold outside [:D]

Cold enough for Scotts to wear something under their kilts? [X(]

i don't remenber Martin pretending to be a Scott, i think he always told he was from boring Lincolnshire, right ? [:)]

[Onime No Kyo]

That was a general statement/bad attempt at humor. In my mind I'm still asleep. [>:]

[gladiatt]

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

That was a general statement/bad attempt at humor. In my mind I'm still asleep. [>:]

Why "bad" attempt ? It is still funny in my opinion [;)]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Eeeeeeeeeeeeek! [X(]

'The water was churning like I was in a washing machine': Briton's horror after German tourist, 70, dies when her arm is ripped off in shark attack

* Woman killed just days after officials declared waters WERE safe to swim in
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week

A tourist swimming at a winter sun resort popular with Britons died after having her arm torn off by a shark - just days after tourism bosses declared the beach safe to swim from.

The attack came after four other holidaymakers suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents – leading to fears of a Jaws-style rogue predator stalking the coastline.

Beaches at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, had only just been reopened following the earlier attacks when the latest victim, a 70-year-old German woman, went snorkelling on a reef close to the shore.


Attack: A German tourist died after being attacked by a shark at Sharm el-Sheikh, despite claims by officials that this animal was the killer:




Authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks – an oceanic whitetip and a mako – and the Red Sea waters were once again safe for swimming.

But their claims were proved tragically false with the fatal attack on Saturday.

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic whitetip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.

Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood.

She told The Sun: 'I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

'The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

'And the swimmer was screaming "Help me! Help me!" in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.'


Wrong fish: An oceanic whitetip and a mako shark were caught by conservationists after four tourists were injured in two separate attacks last week:




Off limits: Seas at the popular Sharm El Sheikh resort on the Egyptian Red Sea coast were closed after two attacks last week:







Suddenly there was a scream for help and a lot of violence in the water,’ said Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College at the Sinai Peninsula resort.

He said the victim, who was pulled from the water by a lifeguard, was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regency Hotel, one of the world’s most popular scuba diving destinations.

Oceanic whitetips – once described by late marine expert Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks – are not usually found so close to shore.

The beaches were immediately closed again and tourists were warned to stay out of the water. But there were claims last night that the authorities had been too slow to react to the ­initial danger.

The earlier attacks had seen three Russians and a Ukrainian injured.

In one of those incidents, an elderly woman had her hand ripped off and another female swimmer had her leg severed.

Tourist Agnieszka Gogolewski, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, who has just returned from the resort, said ­holidaymakers were given little information about the dangers.

‘We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark,’ she told Sky News.

‘Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists. The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger.’

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

Sharm el-Sheikh is one of the country’s most popular holiday spots, attracting more than four million visitors a year, including thousands of Britons.

Tony Blair has holidayed with his family several times at the resort.


Predator: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an oceanic whitetip shark, which can grow up to 13ft:




Terror: Tourists at the Egyptian resort had been told it was safe to go back into the water:




Horror: The latest attack resembles the plot of the 1975 film Jaws, where the mayor tells swimmers it is safe to go back into the water after fishermen catch a shark, with disastrous consequences:




Environmentalists warned the attacks may have been caused by overfishing in the region, which has brought sharks closer to shore to feed.

One diving expert said the sharks could have been drawn to the coastline by dead cattle – being brought in for the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha – being dumped in the water.

‘It is unusual to have four attacks in a week,’ said Rolf Schmid, manager of the Sinai Divers’ Centre.

‘The area hasn’t had sharks for the past ten to 15 years.

‘A possible reason for these attacks is cattle and sheep imported from Australia die on the long voyage and are thrown in the water before the ships reach the harbour.’

U.S. shark expert Samuel Gruber said the spate of incidents recalled Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws.

He said: ‘It seems the shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person.

‘Then for it to happen again is almost like a Jaws scenario.’

In the film, fishermen capture a tiger shark after one attack and the mayor of Amity declares it is safe for people to go back into the water, with disastrous results.

Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Ungodly hour morning tithe. [>:]

Why up so early thread brother Onime?


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Eeeeeeeeeeeeek! [X(]

'The water was churning like I was in a washing machine': Briton's horror after German tourist, 70, dies when her arm is ripped off in shark attack

* Woman killed just days after officials declared waters WERE safe to swim in
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week

A tourist swimming at a winter sun resort popular with Britons died after having her arm torn off by a shark - just days after tourism bosses declared the beach safe to swim from.

The attack came after four other holidaymakers suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents – leading to fears of a Jaws-style rogue predator stalking the coastline.

Beaches at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, had only just been reopened following the earlier attacks when the latest victim, a 70-year-old German woman, went snorkelling on a reef close to the shore.


Attack: A German tourist died after being attacked by a shark at Sharm el-Sheikh, despite claims by officials that this animal was the killer:




Authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks – an oceanic whitetip and a mako – and the Red Sea waters were once again safe for swimming.

But their claims were proved tragically false with the fatal attack on Saturday.

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic whitetip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.

Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood.

She told The Sun: 'I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

'The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

'And the swimmer was screaming "Help me! Help me!" in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.'


Wrong fish: An oceanic whitetip and a mako shark were caught by conservationists after four tourists were injured in two separate attacks last week:




Off limits: Seas at the popular Sharm El Sheikh resort on the Egyptian Red Sea coast were closed after two attacks last week:







Suddenly there was a scream for help and a lot of violence in the water,’ said Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College at the Sinai Peninsula resort.

He said the victim, who was pulled from the water by a lifeguard, was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regency Hotel, one of the world’s most popular scuba diving destinations.

Oceanic whitetips – once described by late marine expert Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks – are not usually found so close to shore.

The beaches were immediately closed again and tourists were warned to stay out of the water. But there were claims last night that the authorities had been too slow to react to the ­initial danger.

The earlier attacks had seen three Russians and a Ukrainian injured.

In one of those incidents, an elderly woman had her hand ripped off and another female swimmer had her leg severed.

Tourist Agnieszka Gogolewski, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, who has just returned from the resort, said ­holidaymakers were given little information about the dangers.

‘We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark,’ she told Sky News.

‘Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists. The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger.’

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

Sharm el-Sheikh is one of the country’s most popular holiday spots, attracting more than four million visitors a year, including thousands of Britons.

Tony Blair has holidayed with his family several times at the resort.


Predator: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an oceanic whitetip shark, which can grow up to 13ft:




Terror: Tourists at the Egyptian resort had been told it was safe to go back into the water:




Horror: The latest attack resembles the plot of the 1975 film Jaws, where the mayor tells swimmers it is safe to go back into the water after fishermen catch a shark, with disastrous consequences:




Environmentalists warned the attacks may have been caused by overfishing in the region, which has brought sharks closer to shore to feed.

One diving expert said the sharks could have been drawn to the coastline by dead cattle – being brought in for the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha – being dumped in the water.

‘It is unusual to have four attacks in a week,’ said Rolf Schmid, manager of the Sinai Divers’ Centre.

‘The area hasn’t had sharks for the past ten to 15 years.

‘A possible reason for these attacks is cattle and sheep imported from Australia die on the long voyage and are thrown in the water before the ships reach the harbour.’

U.S. shark expert Samuel Gruber said the spate of incidents recalled Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws.

He said: ‘It seems the shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person.

‘Then for it to happen again is almost like a Jaws scenario.’

In the film, fishermen capture a tiger shark after one attack and the mayor of Amity declares it is safe for people to go back into the water, with disastrous results.

Leo "Apollo11"

Daily Mail? The fact it's all about the Brits in Egypt makes it likely. The sharks are probably illegal immigrants on benefits as well [8|] (The eye rolling isn't at your posting Leo, more at the Daily Mail*) How is this anything like Jaws btw? Has a giant rubbery shark been attacking boats as well?

Still, it's not the sharks fault, we just happen to look like food from some angles, splashing around in the water in a known shark habitat comes with risks.... Would it be in bad taste to say Tony BLair should go for another swim? [:'(]


*The tabloid of choice for the angry middle classes [:D]

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Morning chaps [:)]

It is literally cold outside [:D]

Cold enough for Scotts to wear something under their kilts? [X(]

i don't remenber Martin pretending to be a Scott, i think he always told he was from boring Lincolnshire, right ? [:)]

Yep, grew up in Lincolnshire. I am part Scottish though, but not enough to even think about wearing a kilt.

[Onime No Kyo]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo

Ungodly hour morning tithe. [>:]

Why up so early thread brother Onime?


Leo "Apollo11"

One of our night shift guys is on vacation and its a busy morning with you euros blathering on about something to each other. Hopefully I can keep my normal hours for the rest of the week.

[sprior]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: sprior

Is the situation regarding snow and cold in UK normalizing Simon?

No snow but bloody freezing, -13C this morning.

Had this 2 days ago. Now it's your turn.
Be careful not to slip on an ice floor !! (no kidding here; the Urgency in the hospital in all Alps town are overbooked with all the accidents we had; too many people fell on the ice).

Friday morning I had to help a guy who'd fallen in our road and broken an arm.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Eeeeeeeeeeeeek! [X(]

'The water was churning like I was in a washing machine': Briton's horror after German tourist, 70, dies when her arm is ripped off in shark attack

* Woman killed just days after officials declared waters WERE safe to swim in
* Four holidaymakers injured in shark attacks last week

A tourist swimming at a winter sun resort popular with Britons died after having her arm torn off by a shark - just days after tourism bosses declared the beach safe to swim from.

The attack came after four other holidaymakers suffered horrific injuries in similar incidents – leading to fears of a Jaws-style rogue predator stalking the coastline.

Beaches at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, had only just been reopened following the earlier attacks when the latest victim, a 70-year-old German woman, went snorkelling on a reef close to the shore.


Attack: A German tourist died after being attacked by a shark at Sharm el-Sheikh, despite claims by officials that this animal was the killer:




Authorities had reassured tourists that they had captured two sharks – an oceanic whitetip and a mako – and the Red Sea waters were once again safe for swimming.

But their claims were proved tragically false with the fatal attack on Saturday.

Witnesses told how the woman screamed for help after an oceanic whitetip shark tore off her arm and part of her thigh. She is said to have died within minutes.

Briton Ellen Barnes frantically swam for the shoreline after describing the water around her turning red with blood.

She told The Sun: 'I have never felt pure terror like that. The water was churning like I was in a washing machine.

'The shark was thrashing and tearing at this poor woman and I could barely keep my head above the water it was so choppy.

'And the swimmer was screaming "Help me! Help me!" in English. It was spine-chilling. I just threw myself on to the beach.'


Wrong fish: An oceanic whitetip and a mako shark were caught by conservationists after four tourists were injured in two separate attacks last week:




Off limits: Seas at the popular Sharm El Sheikh resort on the Egyptian Red Sea coast were closed after two attacks last week:







Suddenly there was a scream for help and a lot of violence in the water,’ said Jochen Van Lysebettens, manager of the Red Sea Diving College at the Sinai Peninsula resort.

He said the victim, who was pulled from the water by a lifeguard, was a regular visitor to the luxury Hyatt Regency Hotel, one of the world’s most popular scuba diving destinations.

Oceanic whitetips – once described by late marine expert Jacques Cousteau as the most dangerous of all sharks – are not usually found so close to shore.

The beaches were immediately closed again and tourists were warned to stay out of the water. But there were claims last night that the authorities had been too slow to react to the ­initial danger.

The earlier attacks had seen three Russians and a Ukrainian injured.

In one of those incidents, an elderly woman had her hand ripped off and another female swimmer had her leg severed.

Tourist Agnieszka Gogolewski, of Kettering, Northamptonshire, who has just returned from the resort, said ­holidaymakers were given little information about the dangers.

‘We saw a diver being brought out of the water after being attacked by a shark,’ she told Sky News.

‘Only an hour after the attack we saw people were still swimming. It is terrible that no one was warning tourists. The hotels were saying nothing and people were diving and swimming about unaware of the danger.’

The attacks will deal a serious blow to Egypt’s tourist industry.

Sharm el-Sheikh is one of the country’s most popular holiday spots, attracting more than four million visitors a year, including thousands of Britons.

Tony Blair has holidayed with his family several times at the resort.


Predator: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an oceanic whitetip shark, which can grow up to 13ft:




Terror: Tourists at the Egyptian resort had been told it was safe to go back into the water:




Horror: The latest attack resembles the plot of the 1975 film Jaws, where the mayor tells swimmers it is safe to go back into the water after fishermen catch a shark, with disastrous consequences:




Environmentalists warned the attacks may have been caused by overfishing in the region, which has brought sharks closer to shore to feed.

One diving expert said the sharks could have been drawn to the coastline by dead cattle – being brought in for the Islamic feast of sacrifice, Eid al-Adha – being dumped in the water.

‘It is unusual to have four attacks in a week,’ said Rolf Schmid, manager of the Sinai Divers’ Centre.

‘The area hasn’t had sharks for the past ten to 15 years.

‘A possible reason for these attacks is cattle and sheep imported from Australia die on the long voyage and are thrown in the water before the ships reach the harbour.’

U.S. shark expert Samuel Gruber said the spate of incidents recalled Steven Spielberg’s 1975 movie Jaws.

He said: ‘It seems the shark in one day bit more than one person. In all my years reading about shark attacks and writing about them you never hear about sharks biting more than one person.

‘Then for it to happen again is almost like a Jaws scenario.’

In the film, fishermen capture a tiger shark after one attack and the mayor of Amity declares it is safe for people to go back into the water, with disastrous results.

Daily Mail? The fact it's all about the Brits in Egypt makes it likely. The sharks are probably illegal immigrants on benefits as well [8|] (The eye rolling isn't at your posting Leo, more at the Daily Mail*) How is this anything like Jaws btw? Has a giant rubbery shark been attacking boats as well?

Still, it's not the sharks fault, we just happen to look like food from some angles, splashing around in the water in a known shark habitat comes with risks.... Would it be in bad taste to say Tony BLair should go for another swim? [:'(]


*The tabloid of choice for the angry middle classes [:D]

Yep... DailyMail UK... how did you guess? [:D]

BTW, it is news because Briton was almost attacked - it is not news that some Russians and Ukrainians were severely hurt (limbs bitten off) and that German died...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Dixie]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

Yep... DailyMail UK... how did you guess? [:D]

BTW, it is news because Briton was almost attacked - it is not news that some Russians and Ukrainians were severely hurt (limbs bitten off) and that German died...


Leo "Apollo11"

Call it a wild guess [:D]

It's in the news because someone was almost attacked. But they weren't. [8|]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Yep... DailyMail UK... how did you guess? [:D]

BTW, it is news because Briton was almost attacked - it is not news that some Russians and Ukrainians were severely hurt (limbs bitten off) and that German died...

Call it a wild guess [:D]

It's in the news because someone was almost attacked. But they weren't. [8|]

I am avid snorkeller (and I even used to hunt with pneumatic underwatr gun - I even had permit)...

I remember in the mid 1980's (I was 16) that I was diving at 6 meters depth trying to catch some pesky fish that was hiding in the rocks when I noticed long elongated shadow passing on the bottom near me. I was sunny day with somehow choppy surface - the objects on the surface clearly had their shadow on the bottom. I looked up and saw something dark and with fins and speeding on the surface! I hug the bottom as far as I could, dived to surface and swam to the beach as far as I could... Only on shore I dared to look back... What did I see? Well... that was the very first surfboard I ever saw from underwater (they started to appear on our Adriatic coast at that time - they were hugely expensive and only foreigners, most only Germans) had the money to afford them)... [8D]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Dixie

Call it a wild guess [:D]

BTW, when I read free on-line UK (English) press I alwas start with:

- Guardian
- Independent
- Daily Telegraph


Is that OK choice for foreigner with now particular knowledge about newspaper preferences (i.e. Tory / Labour sidechoosing all these newspapers did and do)?


Leo "Apollo11"