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[daveatdave]

US warships helped to defend Israel against Iran's 180 ballistic missile barrage - World News - Mirror Online

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Missiles from Iran were fired into Israel this evening, but officials have claimed that US destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea worked with the IDF and 'took mutiple' down

 

[Steven P]

Couple of days later and this looks like it is fizzling out a bit to just nasty and not all out war, Iran I think saving face that assassinations took place on their soil.

[Mark Bolam]

@peds

 

 

[peds]

Haha, every team has their occasional dog rescue! I remember hearing about this one, 55kg isn't a problem on a stretcher like that but it's a hell of a lot harder if they don't lie down and stay still.

The masks around the stretcher suggests this news is '20/'21, though. I remember those days! Training with covid masks in horizontal rain... funny stuff.

 

Here's our latest dog rescue, 2 years ago now I think:

 

Broken leg, poor old thing. Emotional support dog or whatever the term is for a girl with autism.

Some people ask what the validity of risking human lives is to rescue a dog, and it's a fair question. The specifics vary from case to case of course, but in this particular instance, I would much rather have carried an injured 30kg dog down a mountain at 3pm than two hypothermic humans and a dead dog at 3am. 

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

@peds

 

 

Its the ONLY way to travel 🙂

[billy_wizz]

25 minutes ago, peds said:

Haha, every team has their occasional dog rescue! I remember hearing about this one, 55kg isn't a problem on a stretcher like that but it's a hell of a lot harder if they don't lie down and stay still.

The masks around the stretcher suggests this news is '20/'21, though. I remember those days! Training with covid masks in horizontal rain... funny stuff.

 

Here's our latest dog rescue, 2 years ago now I think:

 

Broken leg, poor old thing. Emotional support dog or whatever the term is for a girl with autism.

Some people ask what the validity of risking human lives is to rescue a dog, and it's a fair question. The specifics vary from case to case of course, but in this particular instance, I would much rather have carried an injured 30kg dog down a mountain at 3pm than two hypothermic humans and a dead dog at 3am. 

Whilst I can appreciate that all rescues have some inherent risk I'm curious as to what percentage of rescues are genuinely in dangerous conditions and how many are rescuing fools that are improperly prepared and would of been fine if they were?

[peds]

Ah, that's a sliding scale really, and even people who know what they are doing can be caught out by their own silly mistakes. We all make mistakes from time to time.

No matter what the skillset or wardrobe of whoever we scrape off the floor, I'd rather be there in the mud with them than reading about them in the news the next day, and I do my best to withhold judgement... and I'd say most people in the mountain rescue community would say the same thing. We tend to leave it to the Facebook crowd to do the pearl clutching. 

[Mesterh]

Nice 1 Joe, that's the price of everything on the way up now!

 

Nocookies | Sky News Australia

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Nocookies | Sky News Australia

 

 

[Steven P]

went to get petrol today, 129.9, remember the last petrol protests about 5 years ago, when they were protesting about 135.9 a litre (it was that here).. so with Jo, Vlad, Benji and Yahya s best efforts the petrol prices are lower then they were before these wars started.....

[Steven P]

anyway, if I can totally lower the tone? Probably lower than not safe or work?

 

 

People are getting salmon sperm injected into their faces. Why?

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Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston have had the treatment done, and like Aniston, I have a few questions

 

 

Apparently any sperm will work, Salmon being more harvestable in quantities, and it doesn't have to be injected, just a facial will work. Try that suggestion tonight?