http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 02:29:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124592 Thu, 31 May 2012 11:53:09 +0000 medici2471 124592@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good stuff **** One or two repeats on here at the moment, must be everyone is preoccupied with Leveson. Or returned to full time employment... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124577 Thu, 31 May 2012 10:13:21 +0000 Gerontius 124577@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely sub.<br /> For one reason or another lots of subs don't register first time round.<br /> Sometimes they need dusting off, re-jigging, adding to or even snipping.<br /> There is a lot of fine material that has passed by unnoticed....no reason why you should not give it a make-over and post again.<br /> If the sub is worth re-visiting, then yes...let's have a few more like this. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124569 Thu, 31 May 2012 08:54:23 +0000 Oxbridge 124569@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wake up, guys, this is THIRD time around. At least. To be fair, it is the Isle of Wight, so the space-time curvature works differently. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124551 Wed, 30 May 2012 21:40:26 +0000 Sinnick 124551@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You're referring to this ...<br /> <a href="http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24838#post-67411" rel="nofollow">http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=24838#post-67411</a></p> <p>I missed it 1st time around. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124550 Wed, 30 May 2012 21:34:45 +0000 Tomfinger 124550@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think the official Newsbiscuit line on that lovely island set in the silvery Solent is disgraceful. I found the place exciting and lively when I was last there. I've been meaning to go back to see what it looks like without the barbed wire and anti-invasion mines on the beaches. I just hope it hasn't changed too much.<br /> I've most definitely read this sub before. It's a good one, which is why I remember it. I just wish the chap, if he's going to put old ones up would give us the original date. This one must be from before there was only fields round here. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124539 Wed, 30 May 2012 18:41:02 +0000 Sinnick 124539@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, I'd assumed as a relative newbie you hadn't realised we'd a perennial thing on IoW. "My Bad" as one is supposed to say nowadays.</p> <p>Are you suggesting Oxy is repeating himself ? He's a leg end around here, you know. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124534 Wed, 30 May 2012 18:02:34 +0000 Tomfinger 124534@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sin, what I meant was, this is one of Mr Ridge's repeats </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124529 Wed, 30 May 2012 16:05:55 +0000 Skylarking 124529@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Well, I've been saying for years that Shanklin needs a funicular railway like Sandown. After this latest tragedy, perhaps the authorities will finally take action! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124527 Wed, 30 May 2012 15:55:04 +0000 Sinnick 124527@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tom, the IoW is a running theme; it's overdue for a mention</p> <p>Why not do a website search on it to get the idea ?</p> <p>Note the excellent book "Isle of Wight to get Ceefax"<br /> (well, I haven't read it, but I'm sure someone here must have) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124525 Wed, 30 May 2012 15:48:54 +0000 dvo4fun 124525@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, who can forget the heady scent of nostalgia. </p> <p>Very good; gets a gentle 4 from me [as I didn't actually laugh out loud] </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124520 Wed, 30 May 2012 15:18:45 +0000 Tomfinger 124520@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've a feeling I've tuned in to Newsbiscuit + 1 or is it 2 years ago now? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124514 Wed, 30 May 2012 14:54:41 +0000 Sinnick 124514@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Excellent. Maybe "beige cardigans" instead of "woolly jumpers", but it reads very well.</p> <p>Slightly off-topic, but why do ramblers walk along horizontal tarmac roads carrying 2 climbing sticks, and inclined as if they're climbing a 45 degree slope ? Just asking. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=43509#post-124508 Wed, 30 May 2012 13:54:43 +0000 Oxbridge 124508@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Three intrepid pensionsers who set off to climb Shanklin Chine, a notorious natural gorge in the Isle of Wight, have not been sighted in the best part of two hours. According to experts, the chances that they will make it out in time for dinner are now almost negligible.</p> <p>John Bagnall, 68, his wife Muriel, 66, and Margaret’s sister Doris Nicholson, 62, set out to walk the 280 foot path to the top at 5.15 p.m., according to Doris’s traumatised husband Gordon, who urged them to take the bus back from the beach with him. The group did not take local guides, oxygen or even a flask of tea to see them through the steep climb. Experts have described their actions as foolhardy in the extreme.</p> <p>'People often don’t realise that Shanklin Chine has a micro-climate all of its own,' said retired local Sherpa, Roy Hodges. 'When it is sunny on the beach, it can still be a little bit chilly and damp in the Chine. Once I set out with a party at 3 o’clock in bright sunshine only to find we really needed woolly jumpers. Fortunately, they had the sense to turn back.'</p> <p>Particularly when a bit of light rain has swollen the waterfall, the 1 in 35 path to the top of the chine can become a wee bit slippy. In the last year alone, five people have lost their footing and one man hurt his ankle, waiting 45 minutes in a steady breeze for a first aider to come. Advice to take a walking stick and wear sensible shoes is all too often ignored.</p> <p>As night gathered and a previously warm spring day turned a tad nippy, Gordon Nicholson continued his lonely vigil alongside a grumbling gatekeeper. A realistic man, he said that he accepted that his relatives had already missed the first sitting at the Keats Green Hotel and might struggle even to find a place open for a sandwich. </p> <p>'Doris was always a great one for ignoring the danger signs and gallivanting around,' he told reporters. 'I thought she’d learned a lesson after that time we got slightly sunburnt on Alum Bay in July 2007, but no... Well, there’ll be no more adventure holidays for us from now on, I can tell you that for starters, my lad.' </p>