16 Feb 2009, 13:00
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200% is the new 110%
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Should have gone to Spec Savers
How exactly do two nuclear subs with sonar manage not to see each other?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm Or perhaps there was a disagreement about which side of the road they were supposed to be on ...?  Dave |
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16 Feb 2009, 13:34
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Relentless
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Quite easily ... it's the fact they didn't hear each other which causes the problem
 I couldn't possibly comment on the firm who make such systems ... |
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16 Feb 2009, 14:45
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Young at heart. Slightly older in other places.
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I think it may have had something to do with Operation Stack.
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16 Feb 2009, 18:55
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Nutty Tart From Hell
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at least nobody said women were driving....lol
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17 Feb 2009, 00:05
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200% is the new 110%
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I'm guessing that by the time the Brit Captain figured out what "Vous n'avez pas la priorite" meant, it was too late
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17 Feb 2009, 00:11
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Relentless
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He was probably dreaming of being the second Nelson and sorting the flags out to signal the fleet with to notice there was something in his way.
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17 Feb 2009, 20:47
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Armed ba$tard and Jo's other half.
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 This wouldn't have happened in the good old days  The French wouldn't have a fleet left to bump into 
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