Fire Brigade's advice to stay put during the Grenfell fire ran counter to basic common sense - which it obviously did.
Will Labour set fire to another block of flats during this election campaign, I wonder? After all, it worked well for them last time.
Good Lord,b
Same thought mere moments apart
.....fools seldom differ and whatnot
Yes. You left out the bit about how Jeremy Corbyn is definitely going to set fire to a tower block full of brown people in the next few weeks for some reason, though.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCurly
I get quite nostalgic when I hear of the Grenfell Tower fire. Which isn't something many people can say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I was driving home from Cornwall. it was a beautiful day, traffic conditions were fine, the road was dry, I was listening to 'Frenchman's Creek' and planning a barbecue for the evening. What a delightful day it was. :sigh:
I take it you cancelled the barbecue on grounds of insensitivity?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
It really didn't penetrate my consciousness - I heard about it on the news but my mind and heart were so filled with the dashing Jean-Benoit and the beastliness of Rockingham that I simply couldn't process grubby current affairs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
No. You may keep your Russians. As novelists go, there is no one to touch Daphne.
He went out instead and had a Tower Burger, he's a right unfeeling bástardó old C :shakehead:Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
She's underrated and out of fashion, certainly. However, I think you may be overstating matters somewhat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
On another note, your nostalgic memory sounded like a very English, middle-aged version of the first verse of Tom Petty's 'Running Down A Dream'.
Tom Petty - now there's underrated.
That's a decent call, actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I've always found Tom Petty a little bit like greg mitchell's description of lesbian porn; like Wiltord, it goes round and round in circles and nothing really happens. I always want Tom's song to get on with it and do something!
Meanwhile, I was picturing myself more in a Jungleland scenario.
The Rangers had a homecoming in Harlem late last night
And the Magic Rat drove his sleek machine
Over the Jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a Dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The Rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance
And disappear down Flamingo Lane
Did you say you were moving out east, b? Norfolk, is it? I like it out there. Big skies.Quote:
Originally Posted by barrybueno
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Originally Posted by Burney
Well I would imagine that the idea you stay put is based on research of what happens in a fire, it wouldn't have been just plucked out of thin air by the firemen on the scene
They were given that advice because the manual said that the safety measures required by building regs would keep them safe and that running around in the smoke and the flames would result in more deaths.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Needless to say, it didn't really work out like that.
So the logic was to stay put... correct it didn't work out like that as the law for cladding in this country is so much lower than in the USA etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Indeedy, the sleep village of Martham, about 5 miles from the east coast. Sold my flat last week so I'd guess sometime in January.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
:cry:
Don't cry b, that's great news! A new life, out in the beautiful countryside! Consider crips morning walks, wánking in your shed and the descent into alcoholism. :thumbup: You're living the dream, dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by barrybueno
They need new genes out there, though, bb, so you'll be sure to get loads of inbred pussyQuote:
Originally Posted by barrybueno
'Descent' :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
If only... I'm going up there with no job and not enough coin to buy anything outright (no one will touch me with even a small-ish mortgage for a long time)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'll do the drinking bit no probs and wánking's like good manners, they both cost nothing :thumbup:
I've just looked it up. It looks charming. Lovely parish church.Quote:
Originally Posted by barrybueno
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I mean, obviously it'll be suicide-inducingly bleak in winter, but for four months a year it'll be lovely. :thumbup:
Can you not get part-time work as a pig man? They do that a lot on The Archers and I assume it's similar in Norfolk.Quote:
Originally Posted by barrybueno
:nod: Or there's almost certainly a chicken-gutting factory close by. When I lived near Diss for a while in the 80s everyone in the village was employed in the chicken-gutting factory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I've been there enough times to say the bleakness covers 12 months :hehe: But I'll have a better standard of life overall and know bucket loads of people up there so can't be badQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It's actually the relatives of the victims who are complaining. I am not sure they are all lefties.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Mogg only has the brain to be an irrelevant backbencher, this is just another example demonstrating that. He was never meant for public consumption.