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Climber found reading map after 1,000ft fall

published by Joie de Vivre on 30 January, 2011 - 19:29

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Climber found reading map after 1,000ft fall

A climber who fell 1,000ft (305m) down a mountain and survived was found by his rescuers standing up reading a map.

Adam Potter, 36, lost his footing at the summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor near Ben Nevis and plummeted down the near-vertical eastern slope.

Lt Tim Barker, from the helicopter rescue crew, said: "It seemed impossible... he must have literally glanced off the outcrops as he fell."

Great TV

published by Joie de Vivre on 17 January, 2011 - 23:17

Boardwalk Empire. SKY ATLANTIC WED 6TH FEB 9PM

Lie To Me is awesome. I like Tim Roth. My aunt sent me the first series on DVD and since then I haven't missed an episode. Some people seem to prefer The Mentalist but I don't know why. Roth is compulsive viewing.

And cartoons that I am totally up to date with are all the Seth MacFarlane ones (Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show) even if his humour is often offensive, The Simpsons, whose Christmas episode was shockingly inappropriate, and of course South Park.

Great TV that I don't really watch: Eastenders, Star Trek... help me out here, what are your favourite shows in 2011?

Yemen Claims Would-Be Bomber Surrounded

published by Joie de Vivre on 30 October, 2010 - 19:39

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Yemen security forces have surrounded a house where a suspect believed to have sent explosive packages headed to the United States is hiding, Yemen's president said on Saturday.

"National security are sealing off a house in which there is a woman believed to have sent the packages," Ali Abdullah Saleh told a news conference, but he did not give the location of the house or any further details.

Muslims Wearing Things

published by Joie de Vivre on 24 October, 2010 - 23:15

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Former NPR analyst Juan Williams, among other ignorant people, has an irrational fear of Muslims, and thinks you can identify them based on what they look like. Here I will post pictures of Muslims wearing all sorts of things in an attempt to refute that there is such a thing as "Muslim garb" or a Muslim look.

Jimi Heselden

published by Joie de Vivre on 27 September, 2010 - 19:40

From all accounts he was a great man. A former miner, he pioneered a mesh barrier to protect from and limit land erosion. The military put it to use in place of sandbags to protect from explosions. With his new fortune he invented the Segway, the electric scooter that divides opinion like Marmite, and embarked on charitable work and became one of Britain's great philanthropists. Yesterday his tragic and somewhat surreal ending came when his all-terrain Segway skidded down a ravine on his Yorkshire estate and into the River Wharfe.

I'm sharing this because it is bizarre, but having read about him and found his death no laughing matter I don't have any questions for Revival members or anything.

RIP Jimi Heselden

Land Oyster Party

published by Joie de Vivre on 19 July, 2010 - 17:06


Since 1540, the opening of the Colchester fisheries has seen the town's mayor go out into the sea and dredge up the first oysters of the season, before sampling one accompanied with gin, gingerbread and a toast to the queen.

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