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When we had dinner on top of an active volcano as a kid (you can actually do that, restaurant on one of the Spanish islands...) there was a loud rumble beneath us, as is the thing with volcanoes. Child msc asked his dad what would happen if the volcano errupted while we were there. Dad said "just think of it as an added bit of excitement" and kept eating.

Back to ‘Snowflake’. A series of Earthquakes have hit my favourite island of Zakynthos overnight. The largest was 6.8 ish - admittedly pretty strong (I’ve been there when earthquakes have been around 5+), but reading ‘The Sun’ story this morning you’d think all hell had broken loose. Tracey Archer, from Yorkshire, tweeted to travel agent Thomas Cook: “Please do something!! We are stuck in Zante after an earthquake and everyone is outside the hotel in blankets. There’s babies and young children. Please do something, we’re scared and cold.” Tracey, 27, told The Sun Online: “We’re terrified. We’ve just had another bad aftershock and they keep coming. “We were stood outside the hotel for about three hours in the freezing cold, scared. “There were young children crying and screaming. We felt a quake about 1.30am and later a larger one half hour later.” She added: “The bed was shaking violently for minutes it. My partner and I screamed and grabbed each other and he put a pillow over us to protect us as we thought the ceiling would cave.” All buildings in Zakynthos are built with reinforced concrete to the highest standard following the Ionian earthquake in 1953. I think Tracey was being a little bit melodramatic. Edit- just spoken to my mate on the island. He’s confirmed no damage bar a broken coffee cup. I’m starting a fund to assist with his rebuilding Tracey can sit in her blanket outside her hotel for all I care

My plan if the tie remains - award the win to both teams, as I feel it's the most fair route in light of no preestablished rule for ties. However this will not remain permanent, and I will institute a tiebreaker rule for 2019.

Two bullets dodged then, what with earthquakes as well.

Something fishy about this but she is now a Muslim. https://news.sky.com/story/sinead-oconnor-converts-to-islam-and-changes-her-name-to-shuhada-davitt-11535844 Name change for thread I reckon. Eta..... So halibut is off the filter menu then?

Shouldn't take "babies and young children" abroad then Trace. Earthquakes are an Act of God, fuck all to do with Thomas Cook. And if she's tweeting, whining to the Sun , and being on 5Live which I heard , the Communication Network seems to have survived the utter carnage. Funny that Trace.

Here's a sentence whose meaning is entirely changed by a misplaced comma. "He is also suspected of murdering his first wife Kathleen McCormack Durst, who went missing in 1982 and is accused of murdering Susan, who was shot in the head in Beverly Hills, California, shortly before she was set to speak to investigators about Kathleen’s disappearance. "

I think it's in the media's interest to try and make news stories as exciting and scary as possible. So getting scared quotes from an anxious young Mum of young kids who's likely just had her first earthquake experience ever, quite likely cherry-picking the most dramatic things that she said, is par for the course.

Haha - foiled by an updated filter menu.

Will that do?

I’m almost looking forward to reading about Tracey’s attempted compo claim reference said Earthquake. 50p bet that she’ll be on either Look North or Calendar tonight as well.

The road around the harbour has a crack in it and some plate glass has gone in the shops in Zakynthos town. Pretty standard stuff for earthquakes on Zakynthos trust me. No one was injured reading the Ionian newspaper on line and nobody attended the hospital. Bar Tracey from Yorkshire who was ‘badly shook up’...

Might as well make sure your poppy offends mus lims....... And the fitba casuals don't forget

The explanation as to "why" is in the link. "He explained that once GPs have a taxable income above £100,000, HMRC restricts personal tax free allowance, ‘so effectively any profits you earn between £100,000 and £123,000 are taxed at 60% and you’re paying 2% national insurance… and if you’re still an active member of the NHS pension scheme, they’re taking their 28.8% as well" So no incentive to earn more. Yet their expenses have soared in the same period. Funny that Paddy.

The big difference will be that BHS is missed on the High Street.

Broadway/Film Actress Lois Smith turns 89 next year Her role in the Indy SciFi Film "Marjorie Prime" won her a lot of wards in 2017-2018,however unlike most actor's she isn't following that up with anything significant. Her only upcoming work's seem to be voice over performances,could be a sign of her health slowing down and limiting her options.

Lol my dad and I do one together every year

Cool to know that family members bond via deadpools, lol!

Darkness fell on Vincent Price on this day 25 years ago, aged 82.

Clearly not learned the lesson given so ably by Rod Hull, who was 40 years younger as well.

I can nearly see my kitchen table again, having delivered most of the loaded poppy boxes. Still got to sort the school one, but no rush as it's half term. They are getting a box of DIY poppies which the kids have to put together themselves, which they should enjoy. Also poppy pencils, sharpeners, erasers, rulers, bracelets, pin badges, balloons etc.

Yes, walk down narrow streets in Brussels looking for it only to discover it's about 18 inches tall and 20 feet in the air..."So that's it?". Mind you the little mermaid is hardly the Grand Canyon either. Hard to believe they have managed to make a pissing statuette even more tacky, however they do appear to have succeeded in some style. You know what? That appears to my eyes to be even more tacky than the aforementioned statuette. Remarkable.

Paddyfool, met charon. If you start from the principle that he officially hates every human breathing, then you can be pleasant surprised by the ones he doesn't. Whereas stuff like the benefits system and the NHS are just shock of the new to "Nelson", he remembers the Spanish Flu from the first time round.

Shivakumara Swami's long-time designed successor Siddalinga Swami has died of a heart attack at 69. Now he needs a new successor.

I fully agree with her. Cannabis might very well be a cancer killer or have huge benefits in fighting cancer. She needs to get back on this morning and other shows and campaign for it. I really admire her and her fighting spirit .