http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=chile The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 23:25:41 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22392#post-60536 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:10:17 +0000 Q William Bacon 60536@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=13978#post-37890 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:33:48 +0000 flyerblade 37890@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Main ride features a 622m vertical drop. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=13961#post-37835 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:16:22 +0000 Oxbridge 37835@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It was the miracle the watching world had scarcely dared dream about. But finally, yesterday, a ghastly ordeal came to an end as a group of 68 stranded journalists were airlifted away from their prison in Chile's Atacama desert.</p> <p>'You can't imagine it,' said the BBC's Matt Frei, from aboard a Royal Navy Sea King helicopter. 'Over two months of endless heat and boredom, hundreds of miles from the nearest bar. Sometimes we had to huddle together in the dark trying to keep each other's spirits up by memories of our expense accounts.'</p> <p>True, every journalist knows the perils that go with the job: the long hours, the monotony of repeating pieces to camera that have gone wrong first time, the very real risk of suffocating under a mountain of cliches. For many of the trapped men, however, their Oxbridge education, their amorality and the ability to type give them no other options in life.</p> <p>'The hardest thing was knowing that the real world was so close by,' added ITN's Michael Brunson. 'There were even several dozen local women hanging around the camp and all of their husbands and boyfriends were away, for some reason we never quite picked up, but not a single one of them was putting out. Quite bizarre.'</p> <p>The journalists to a man said that they were relieved to be out and are looking forward to rejoining their loved ones in the Garrick Club this evening. Despite it all, most remain committed to their jobs and are looking forward to their next assignment, covering breaking reports of a traffic jam in the Maldives. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11196#post-30597 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:42:09 +0000 Sharpehunter 30597@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Stunning! 5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11196#post-30587 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:07:53 +0000 Griffin 30587@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Great! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11196#post-30585 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:48:42 +0000 Duncan Biscuit 30585@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30353 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:26:56 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 30353@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Mr Rik Kor is in a somnolent, replete phase, at the moment, having grawed away the vitals of the last Debutant. Don't mention his name too often: walls have ears. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30329 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:49:36 +0000 island1 30329@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is going far too well—I suspect a trap. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30327 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:28:25 +0000 sauce 30327@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent debut. Don't worry - Rikkor's a pussycat, really (certainly compared to Joan, RIP). </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30324 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:13:20 +0000 Oxbridge 30324@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Welcome indeed. The best debut in a long while. Surely 5* and a front page beckon. Bastard. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30298 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:37:35 +0000 Ostsee 30298@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>V.good. Welcome! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30291 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:07:06 +0000 island1 30291@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What kind and handsome people you are. I fear this 'Rikkor' of whom you speak. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30279 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:28:28 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 30279@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote> "Moving heavy financial instruments into place would take months and, frankly, we're busy saving our own arses at the moment."</blockquote></p> <p>So true. I especially enjoyed the fantasy of diligent and earnest government and relief supplies begin pumped in round the clock.</p> <p>A word of warning, however: the higher the initial score, the more severe the initiation ceremony which cannot be scheduled until the mandatory health and safety inspection has been carried out. You may expect to receive your medical appointment by snailmail within the next 45 days. </p> <p>All the best: and here is a well-deserved 5* </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30272 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:50:58 +0000 jp1885 30272@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Hello!<br /> A nice opening article Mr. Island - have 5 stars as a welcoming pressie.<br /> Now report to the dungeon for your initiation ceremony - Rikkor will be along shortly. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=11075#post-30270 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:45:00 +0000 island1 30270@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Contact has finally been established with 53 million people trapped under a collapsed debt mountain in a struggling first world country. The beleaguered consumers are said to be alive and fairly well informed about celebrity gossip, despite not having been able to afford their Sky subscriptions for the past 14 months.</p> <p>Rescuing the trapped, who are sheltering on a small rainy island just 240,000 square kilometres in area, may take years, financial mining experts have warned. "Of course, we're not going to tell the poor bastards that," said the chief of rescue operations. "Moving heavy financial instruments into place would take months and, frankly, we're busy saving our own arses at the moment."</p> <p>Video contact was established Sunday through a narrow tunnel illuminated with false hope. "It was heartening to see the bewildered incomprehension in their eyes," said rescuers. The good citizens, stuck some 900 billion pounds inside the mountain, sent a note to the surface that simply read "WTF!"</p> <p>Consulting psychologists and disaster pundits have been offering advice to the trapped: "Tighten you belts, make do and mend and construct wild fantasies about the government doing all they can to get you out," they quipped. Super strength cider, daytime television and a moralising tone are being pumped into the debt dungeon round the clock.</p> <p>33 miners trapped 700 metres underground in Chile are said to be cheered by the news. "And I thought we were in trouble!" chuckled one. In a statement Monday the Chilean government announced that it has halted rescue operations and decided to let the miners dig themselves out since: "they are bloody miners after all!"</p> <p>- - - - - - - - - - - </p> <p>I'm new. Hello! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=243#post-846 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:53:46 +0000 virtuallywill 846@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thank you very much HFT, there was a time when I did get some front pages, those days are long gone, well they were last month... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=243#post-842 Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:43:31 +0000 Hunter F. Thompson 842@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I thought this a very perspicacious HL. I want to give it a 10. I've been trying to give it 2 fives. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=243#post-723 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:21:47 +0000 virtuallywill 723@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>more in nine months </p>