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Tell us your tales of the police, ambulance workers, firefighters, and - dammit - the coastguard
( , Thu 16 May 2013, 11:33)
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A cautionary tale.
My granddad Bert was a fire-fighter in London during the war (2) he was too old to sign up so he and his best mate Wally helped put out burning buildings, got kittens out of trees and sifted thru rubble to find dead burnt babies after a heavy night on The Blitz. You know - the usual.
During their training as volunteer firefighters many years earlier Bert & Wally had been taught the command "Stop!". Now as anyone who has done any type of safety training knows, this command means - "freeze or play statues now because I have seen something that is dangerous to you (or us) that you may not be aware of". Fairly simple stuff you'd think.
Anyhoo - 1 night while Wally & Bert were in the throes of tiding up the mess being caused by those beastly, unkind Luftwaffe pilots they found themselves in a burning building trying to save some ladies and children (where were their fellas during all this? I ask you).
Wally comes out of a smoky room holding a young girl in his arms. My granddad spies a large burning beam above him, probably about to break. He shouts above the din at Wally, telling him to "STOP!". Wally ignores Bert and runs forward trying to hand the child to him. Burning beam about 2/3rds the thickness of Wally (I hear rations weren't so fattening in those days) falls down on top of Wally and kid, killing them instantly.
That's how my granddad came to watch his best mate and some innocent child die in front of him. If Wally had stopped, the beam would've fallen (relatively - burning building remember) harmlessly in front of him.
Granddad told me this tale with a glint in his eye & a quiver in his voice (hay fever was playing up that day apparently) as a sort of safety parable - something like "do as you're told 'cause sometimes your parents can see danger where you may not be able to". Most emotion he ever showed me the grunggly, old bastard.
I told it to my daughter to try and get her to do as she's told. To little or no avail. Still she hasn't been run over by a bus - so plus sides and all that.
( , Tue 21 May 2013, 22:40, 52 replies)
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So plus sides and all that.
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Also it would be better to say "killed in a horrific accident where she gets mutilated,"
I'm sure your kids are safe and secure all the time. I would hope they grow up in a positive and loving environment.
( , Wed 22 May 2013, 6:26, closed)
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All I'm saying is if your daughter dies screaming, probably on fire or after falling into a pool of acid, it will make for some great new material for you to post on this forum.
Don't get me wrong, any story containing dead burnt babies is comedy gold, obviously, but it's old material.
( , Wed 22 May 2013, 6:51, closed)
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We're just going to get the same old 'children die horrifically' stories, endlessly recycled until you get lucky and get some new schtick.
Let's all keep our fingers crossed.
( , Wed 22 May 2013, 7:40, closed)
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I'm pretty sure that none of the other posts had children dying horrifically either as the topic or in context.
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( , Wed 22 May 2013, 10:10, closed)
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What I'm saying here is that you're a dull cunt, with nothing remotely entertaining to say.
You are both dull AND verbose. One or other I can just about handle, but for fuck's sake man, give it a rest.
( , Wed 22 May 2013, 14:04, closed)
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do you imagine you're going to elicit from me a positive response?
I'm asking because having read a few of your posts in the past you don't strike me as one of the "alright/Cheers/starwars lol" bunch, many of whom I honestly don't think have passed the mental age of 11. You seem capable of conducting a viable and productive discourse. Prove me right.
( , Wed 22 May 2013, 22:54, closed)
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rather than accept that you are now such a dull parody of even yourself, and that non-'clique' members are calling you out on your tedious posts, you instead want to get into a dialogue proving said poster's intelligence. breathtaking.
( , Thu 23 May 2013, 6:46, closed)
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If you had the intelligence to properly read my post you'd see that I was suggesting that Rev. Fister was above & beyond the "clique".
All I'm asking him/her to do is verify that by being prepared to discuss things with me in a reasonable and rational way.
Something you still don't seem able to do. Kudos to you tho - your post was easily the most compos mentis I've ever seen you.
Took my breath away.
( , Thu 23 May 2013, 9:04, closed)
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go take a nap, you tragic alkie.
( , Thu 23 May 2013, 12:55, closed)
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I think I have already explained quite lucidly that I consider that you are both a) dull and b) verbose. What didn't you follow?
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