Making the news today....

[peds]

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Singapore-registered container ship hits bridge in Baltimore US, 20 confirmed missing from the bridge so far, car drivers and construction workers.

[Mick Dempsey]

Hell of a thing that.

Imagine driving over at the time, unthinkable.

[sime42]

Indeed. Amazing the way that the structure just crumples like soggy cardboard.

[peds]

Yeah, they say that a scary amount of infrastructure in the US is held together with nothing but wishes, and that there's time bombs all over the country. I can't imagine driving a boat into them would help at all. 

 

Edit

I think John Oliver did a decent episode on it a while back, it'll be on the Last Week Tonight youtube if you Google it. 

Edited March 26, 2024 by peds

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, peds said:

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Singapore-registered container ship hits bridge in Baltimore US, 20 confirmed missing from the bridge so far, car drivers and construction workers.

Reminds me of that program that used to be BBC radio called The Navy Lark .....Left hand down a bit ...

[Peter 1955]

8 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Reminds me of that program that used to be BBC radio called The Navy Lark .....Left hand down a bit ...

Spent many a Sunday afternoon laughing at that. Happy days. 🙂

[WirralBoy]

A news item to brighten your day, coutesy of BBC News.

 

 

Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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A wildlife rescue was handed the ornamental tuft by a well-intentioned rescuer.

 

[Steve Bullman]

They just don’t give in do they 

[Whoppa Choppa]

On 23/03/2024 at 23:28, Johnsond said:

 

Do you have much real life experience rather than google and statistics?. Those numbers are crap. I don’t know anyone who does a 35-40hr week, I guess a lot depends on who you associate with in regards most people you meet. Most people I know are grafting hard and making good money, often 100k plus. Are they rich,absolutely not, what they are is hard working people who have trained themselves up and often as not sacrifice time with family etc to pull in good money. Those sacrifices unfortunately are not reflected in the brutal levels of taxation we are hit with. 

You wanna get into timber. 90+ hours a week at times and rarely if ever over £20k per annum take home.

[sime42]

3 hours ago, WirralBoy said:

A news item to brighten your day, coutesy of BBC News.

 

 

Rescued baby hedgehog turns out to be hat bobble

WWW.BBC.CO.UK

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A wildlife rescue was handed the ornamental tuft by a well-intentioned rescuer.

 

 

I mean, you've got to be pretty dim to have made a mistake like that surely? It's scary how out of touch with reality, the natural world, a lot of people are these days.