Making the news today....

[billy_wizz]

14 minutes ago, peds said:

EDIT

Just saw we are actually talking about salmon sperm tonight instead, please disregard the following. 

 

 

 

Case in point...

Just got home from helping two young lads down from the cave mouth, top right of this photo. Look carefully and you'll see our little white helmets scattered about under the cliff.

 

They got up themselves just fine, decent clothing, proper boots, big bags with food and extra layers... but the weather rolled in whilst they were exploring the cave, and getting down seemed risky. They toyed with the idea of spending the night in the cave and descending in the morning after the wind and rain subsided, but in the end they swallowed their pride and asked for help.

And, as we said to them, we'd rather help them walk down from above than scrape them off the rocks at the bottom.

A few hours of dragging ropes around and giving two young fellas a crash course on how to milk a prusik, and everyone gets to go home to their dinner.

 

Looks steep how do you retrieve the fixing point for the rope or is there a permanent fixing can imagine the cave is a popular destination!

[Doug Tait]

36 minutes ago, Steven P said:

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.....

 

Funny I heard on the radio a couple of weeks back the RAC complaining that the gov fuel tax freeze of two years earlier had still not been reflected in the pump price, lo and behold the pump prices start dropping!

 

We are lied to and ripped off at every turn.

[peds]

 

16 minutes ago, billy_wizz said:

Looks steep how do you retrieve the fixing point for the rope or is there a permanent fixing can imagine the cave is a popular destination!

 

Yeah we have stakes hammered in in a few places and a few bolts drilled in to the good rock here and there, we also bring extra stakes and rock gear if we need it. We double the ropes and abseil for retrieval from below if needed, but on the grassy slopes we tend to just send the client down, then most of the team using the rope as a handrail, then two people stay back to tidy the rope away and walk down without. No big deal if it's ground you are comfortable on. A few of us in the team are up and down it all the time in trainers and shorts, no problem. 

 

That cave, highest in Ireland, is definitely one of our busiest spots. It was in that film The Norseman with Nicole Kidman and Bjork a little while ago I think. 

Popular destination during covid, we had a lot of service users then! Then when the pubs opened again it got nice and quiet again. 

 

[Whoppa Choppa]

Chris Packham ‘forced to pay £200,000 to pensioner’ after libel case

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Chris Packham has been forced to pay £200,000 to a pensioner and country...

 

Good. Can't abide the Muppet.

[peds]

I'm surprised, I'd have thought you'd quite like Packham. 

[sime42]

Returning to the previous subject. Here's a couple of tough cookies.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93y147z4pdo

[peds]

Jesus, lucky they got out of that. 

 

I used to see Fay in the lift lines every now and then back in Chamonix, nice girl. Glad they made it.

[Mesterh]

This is more like tomorrows news but if you are in the path of the hurricane Milton I hope you've managed to get out of dodge.

 

[daveatdave]

BBC Four - Britain's Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield

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Nuclear physicist Jim Al-Khalili uncovers the story of the Sellafield nuclear facility.

just watched this on tv if a bomb is dropped on that place we are doomed 

[sime42]

Anyone seen this? It's doing the rounds again at the moment. I've not. Tempted but think I'd regret it.

 

 

BBC Two - Threads

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The story of a nuclear attack on Britain and what remains for the unlucky survivors.

 

 

Threads: How the nuclear bomb drama horrified Sheffield extras

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One of the most terrifying programmes ever shown on British television, Threads is the nuclear apocalypse...

 

 

Edited October 10 by sime42