I read the synopsis then decided I'd rather cut my toenails with a Bowie knife.

So I did that instead.

Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 August 2017, 07:10:20 AM
I'll stick with Only Connect

Avoided it due to "Len Goodman". Heard him on the radio a few months back, sounded like a card carrying BNP member.

Quote from: fsn on 20 August 2017, 07:32:07 AM
I read the synopsis then decided I'd rather cut my toenails with a Bowie knife.
So I did that instead. 

Get the BBC to film you doing that, Nobby !

I'm sure they could get a run of six shows out of that....And it'd be far more entertaining.  
How about calling it "How deep could you cut a digit."......I could help, by 'guesting' with a scalpel.
Move it to a commercial channel and we could get Elastoplast to sponsor it !
I see a new career beckoning !

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 20 August 2017, 07:43:57 AM
Get the BBC to film you doing that, Nobby !

Didn't go to plan.

This is JUST what the public are clamouring for !

I see a huge hit, and ratings through the roof.

Cheers - Phil.

2nd series could be a problem. 

Quote from: mad lemmey on 20 August 2017, 07:10:20 AM

I'll stick with Only Connect

And we know why

Why has she only got 3 fingers on her right hand ?

Obviously been watching my "How not to use a scalpel"  video. 

Cheers - Phil

Quote from: Techno on 20 August 2017, 05:59:21 PM
Why has she only got 3 fingers on her right hand ?

You noticed her fingers ?

I worry about you sometimes Phil

Mark

The Lovely Victoria used to review porn movies.

I believe she wrote and directed one.

On a completely different subject.....

I hear on the news today that a tanker and American Warship have collided and a number of sailors have been lost. (Overboard ??)This is very sad !

What I can't understand..Is that surely both ships would have known for a while (minutes ?)  that there was no way of avoiding the collision.....So why isn't the crew moved as far away as possible from the point where the 'bump' was most likely to occur.

Must be some reason, or something I'm completely missing.

Any ideas, folk ?

Cheers - Phil

Bad visibility, a restricted seaway, complete idiocy.....

In these days where every ship has radar, it is a puzzle for us land lubbers. However, maybe not as clear cut as you might think, Phil. For example, the collision was reported before dawn so perhaps no time for 'action stations' to be fully effective or for the crew to be warned on the likely side of the ship to be hit. There was another collision in June and the subsequent enquiry / court martial did not turn out well for the Captain.

My brother who had spells in boh the merchant and Royal, tells of coming through the English Channel at night. He noticed that the radar screen had been switched off. Somewhat perturbed, he asked the helmsman (who hailed from Sri Lanka IIRC) why this way.

"I switch off, Boss. Screen too busy."


One does wonder how it happened though.  Presumably tankers are well lit and since they're in the Malaccan Strait, one assumes the US warship was too (i.e. not going sneaky-beaky after Somali pirates). Even if the warship had its radar switched off, you'd have thunk the tanker would be maintaining radar watch, and what happened to the good old Mk1 eyeball?

Will be interested to get the details.