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Earthquake in Lancashire

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  • joefishjoefish
    edited April 2009
    Where's that email gone about disaster relief for the Dudley earthquake? The one about how "Just £2 can buy enough batter scraps and blue pop to feed a family of four..."
    Joefish
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  • milemile
    edited April 2009
    woot..........
  • NickHNickH
    edited April 2009
    Meh, didn't feel it on the Wirral. Probably drowned out by a gnat's fart.
  • polomintpolomint
    edited April 2009
    I'm over near Burnley, and didn't feel a thing.. Mind you, with some of the rather large laydeezz round here, I wouldn't be able to tell if it was a quake or those laydeezzz walking past the house, :)
    So far, so meh :)
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited April 2009
    mile wrote: »
    woot..........

    I know its a lame story, but thats what makes it funny.

    In many countries this would not get a mention over the breakfast table let alone the news.
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  • milemile
    edited April 2009
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I know its a lame story, but thats what makes it funny.

    In many countries this would not get a mention over the breakfast table let alone the news.

    i wasn't being sarcastic, i was genuinly pleased. look at my location. :-D
  • mermanmerman
    edited April 2009
    Apparently there's one a year at that strength in the UK, doesn't usually do much damage...
  • psj3809psj3809
    edited April 2009
    I live near Bury and felt it, was quite cool ! Thought it was another tremour as i lived through (and survived) the Dudley one also.
  • WinstonWinston
    edited April 2009
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    I know its a lame story, but thats what makes it funny.
    In many countries this would not get a mention over the breakfast table let alone the news.

    If you think that's amusingly trivial, you should see what I read in the IOM Courier last week...

    Apparently, Police had busted a group of youths who were using a hotel room as a "drugs den". The lead into the story made it sound like the cops had made a major drug bust - you know, the sort of thing that lead to the collapse of a major Mexican narcocartel, that kind of thing. After informing us that the Police swooped down on the "gang", they revealed that said gang was caught with "marijuana with a street value of £4" and the youths were let off after a stern talking-to and a "promise to seek an end to their appalling drug habit". No, that ain't a typo. £4.

    On the other hand, if a drugs bust with the seizure of £4 worth of pot is newsworthy in the crime and punishment pages of the paper, it does mean that really there isn't an awful lot of crime in the first place...
  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited April 2009
    Winston wrote: »
    If you think that's amusingly trivial, you should see what I read in the IOM Courier last week...

    Apparently, Police had busted a group of youths who were using a hotel room as a "drugs den". The lead into the story made it sound like the cops had made a major drug bust - you know, the sort of thing that lead to the collapse of a major Mexican narcocartel, that kind of thing. After informing us that the Police swooped down on the "gang", they revealed that said gang was caught with "marijuana with a street value of £4" and the youths were let off after a stern talking-to and a "promise to seek an end to their appalling drug habit". No, that ain't a typo. £4.

    On the other hand, if a drugs bust with the seizure of £4 worth of pot is newsworthy in the crime and punishment pages of the paper, it does mean that really there isn't an awful lot of crime in the first place...

    I'm a strong beleiver that sensationalist news stories are doing harm to our culture.

    1) They end up causing apethy because people are so used to everything being sensationalised.

    2) People cannot tell the difference between sensationalisatation and somthing they shoule be really afraid of. They usually end up not caring.


    I took a look in the shop here at work and saw the headlines on the papers. You would think bloody appocolypse was due tomorow. One paper (I cannot remember which one) just had a predominantly black page with large white text saying "IT'S HERE!"


    ooooOOOOHHH nnoooOOOOOOHH were all dooooOOOOOOOOMED!!!!
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