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Good clip Solo.
I’m ashamed to say I was laughing too, what a windup, who was operating the winch? Johnny English?
If the poor unfortunate patient being “rescued” survived that spinning ordeal they could survive anything. That should put a lot of climbers and ramblers off their hobby, well at least until the experts solve that twisting rope problem, I think I’d sooner die on the spot than get into a contraption like that.
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Husband of woman in spinning helicopter basket says she was 'more than dizzy' after rescue

This headlines on the helicopter basket incident must be the understatement of the year but I am relieved to have been absolved from feeling like a terrible person for laughing as most who saw the clip did the same and she is fine apparently. Just a tad skaken and dare I say it, a little stirred

Needless to say it has prompted the usual Internet humour at her plight but overall, gladness that she survived.

Had to grin at the Pilots statement that "The potential for the basket to spin is something that’s a known phenomenon in the hoist rescue industry" Wonder how many hikers know that
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Wouldn’t you think in this day and age they could come up with something more secure than a stretcher on a rope? it doesn’t even look safe for God’s sake, very crude and rudimental for 2019.
I saw one similar in an old film recently about Hannibal, he had a platform on a rope and managed to haul an elephant over the Alps without spinning the animal once, talk about going backwards.
You’ve seen the way they train astronauts in that huge merry-go-round that spins them faster and faster, well that rescued woman would be the ideal choice for NASA to be the first person on Mars, ready trained an all.
Still I’m pleased she’s OK, but it was sort of ‘slipping on a banana skin’ funny.
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Some people have weird ideas about wearing jewellery.
There used to be a jewellery shop in Dublin back in the 70’s, I knew the fella who owned it, he had a sign in big letters outside saying, “We specialise in making unusual jewellery of ours or your designs, we’ll mount anything” Everyone called it the Errol Flynn jewellers.
I have a friend who has a glass eye, they really do a lovely job on them now, made to order and matched to the colour and characteristics of the existing eye, with tiny red lines amid the white part, all very natural looking.
Anyway he had a spare one and asked me to make it up into a ring, using the eye as a “stone”. I can tell you that this fella wasn’t short of a few bob, he had property all over the city, I told him not to be ridiculous and forget it, if he liked I would make him a personalised signet ring with his initials in gold set on top a black onyx stone, but no way could I put him off his “eye” ring.
When I finished it he was delighted with it, I thought it a bit too big looking but he said he wanted it big. I had made it with a spring clip underneath the ring head so that he could take off the ring and slip out the eye if he needed it in a hurry, but he would not lose it while wearing it, after all that was the purpose of the spare eye.
That was a good while ago and I hadn’t seen him in years, a few weeks ago he came into the pub and would you believe it he still had the gold ring on his finger! He had one half pint of shandy with me as he was driving back down the country, as he was going he turned back to me and said “I still haven’t had to use the spring clip yet Jem” Fair play to him, but you’d never guess he had a false eye, fine looking man for 80 odd he was too.

How’s this for facial decor? A sure cure for a running nose, it was the only way her husband could stop her habit of picking her nose.
I spotted this while looking up unusual customs, this lady is a native of Northern India. If you would like me to make up a pair for the wife you’ll have to send me her head in a registered parcel so I can get the size right, but you’ll have to hurry if you want them for Christmas!

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My goodness, that is a Conk and a half.
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OMW..Let me get this right. In days of old, men thought "if we ugly up our pretty women no marauding chappie looking to have his wicked way will want them" so they drew a line then shoved two left over sink plugs in their pretty womens hooters. ...Voila... problem solved... pretty women no longer pretty...and the lucky unmarked ugly girls got the pick or were picked by all the handsome lads, as what ugly women ever cared about a bit of marauding or otherwise just so longs as you landed herself a fella. I'm all for that way of thinking. .

Odd thing is none of these tribal youngster want this nowadays whereas it's become the rage for western women to pay a fortune to custom design their fizzogs with far more outrageous facial tattoos. I like the one with the lips sewed together as hopefully it stops them explaining the deep and meaningful reasons why they were compelled to have it done...because these days there is always a deep and meaningful reason why people do things isn't there as your eyeball ring showed..
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Excuse my ignorance, but the woman in Jem's photo has got her mouth shut. So with her nose plugged as well, how the 'eck is she breathing?

If she has got a secret tube inserted somewhere . . I don't wanna know.
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Originally Posted by Mups ->
Excuse my ignorance, but the woman in Jem's photo has got her mouth shut. So with her nose plugged as well, how the 'eck is she breathing?

If she has got a secret tube inserted somewhere . . I don't wanna know.
I was wondering that myself too Mups, maybe she had a front tooth taken out and kept her mouth closed just for the photograph, didn’t want to spoil her good looks.
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It’s funny how as a child you seem to notice everything, maybe it’s natures way of making us pick up things quicker and learn faster.
I say this now because when the wife and me were out in the garden today sitting in the Sun drinking a cup of tea and eating some of her lovely scones, she said to me “Jimmy, why do you always hold your teacup in the left hand when you are not left handed?” I was surprised she never noticed this before in all the years we are married, very little gets by her I can tell you, so I told her the story.

When my older brother and me were staying with the granny as children she had an old friend who used to visit her every second Saturday evening, this lady was in service in Liverpool with the granny when they were young girls, she never married.
Anyway she wore this thick screaming red lipstick and when she was gone home the stuff would be thick on her cup. We decided (the brother and me) that no matter how many times the cup was washed we would still be imagining that awful red lipstick was still there, so we began to hold the handle of our cups in our left hands, that was so we would never be on the same side as the lipstick side because she was right handed.
All those years ago and I still do it, so did me brother until he died several years ago, silly little things that you carry through life.


That Crocodile fella is still getting on my wick advertising his Crocodile garage doors and his conservatories on TV, he’s must be at it now for at least 3 years “But you know what I love best about it? It’s the craftsmanship, it’s cracking!” See I know it word for word. If I had craftsmanship that was cracking I’d want me money back, wouldn’t you?
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It’s funny how as a child you seem to notice everything, maybe it’s natures way of making us pick up things quicker and learn faster.
This as it is so true. To this day I never wear red nail varnish because of my Fathers horified reaction to what he referred to as "looking like fingers dipped in Pigs blood".

Being a gentle and mild mannered man it was very rare for him to back up on anything but when he did..that was it. He loathed red nail varnish and would never be served by anyone wearing it.

Now I, who wanted to know everything in those days instinctively knew not to question this so never found out why or what caused this reaction and I suppose some reasons were best left unsolved. Perhaps the word 'Blood' was reason enough to leave well alone.

Another thing that is unsolvable is ..I saw photos of The Naked Bike Ride in todays papers. As a cyclists it is well beyond my comprehension as to why anyone in their right mind would inflict a narrow bicycle seat anywhere near their naughty bits because it's bad enough enduring those seats fully clothed let alone naked. Questions need to be asked on the sanity of these precarious actions surely .

Human activity sure is a mystery at times .
 

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