BBsers in the Far East

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How ya` doin` out there? News of some pretty strong earth tremours out Tokyo way today - everybody OK? (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2000

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Alive and well Galaxy :o)
The epicentre was about 160km from me, but I still had a bit of a shakey time! It was only 6.4 (not overly strong) but was just 10km below the surface which makes it more powerful. The worrying thing, especially for those living on the islands are the amount of earthquakes there have been. In the last month there have been three over 6 on the Richter scale and many that are rated highly on the Japanese scale. The Japanese use a scale that measures the intensity on the surface and not at the epicentre which makes sense really.
All the above means that it only needs a relatively small tremor of abouy 7 to do some damage as the house foundations will be very weak.

By the way, those islands are the ones I always going camping to, they don't quite hold the same attraction at the moment....

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2000


Howay man Kegsy! How many miles is that? F%&*ing kilometres - my arse!

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2000

Sorry I've been here for too long. That's 100 of your miles to you sir!

-- Anonymous, July 30, 2000

Pleased to hear you are OK! I don`t think I could live somewhere where earthquakes are commonplace - though everyone I know who does, seems pretty blase about it. When I was in California I was really worried about it. It doesn`t help that I have a bit of a problem getting my land legs back after a flight, or even after getting out of a lift! So I kept imagining that the ground was really tilting - when of course, it was just me being `dizzy` so to speak!(:o)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

"By the way, those islands are the ones I always going camping to, they don't quite hold the same attraction at the moment.... "

Well call me Mr Wussy, but I'd have thought you'd be taking your holidays now. I'd rather take the chance of having a small aluminium pole and some folds of fly-sheet falling on me than take my chances with an apartment block! Only ever felt one earth tremor before and I'm in no hurry to repeat the experience :-( Fingers crossed for you.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000



Not sure I agree with you Softie, words like camp(ing), guy (ropes), fly (sheets), poles, etc. certainly give me tremors!

BTW, it's typhoon season here in Hong Kong, they can also be rather scary; there was a big mutha last year, oddly enough just after Taggart and his happy campers were here!

;-)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


He itched the Earth and it sneezed.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

>>>>>> Howay man Kegsy! How many miles is that? F%&*ing kilometres - my arse!

-- SMB (will_mar@hotmail.com), July 30, 2000.

That's what I like.....the occassional class posting from Ludites.......just how deep is that sand you've got your head in!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


How much longer are people going to insist on telling us what the temperature is in Farenheit? They changed over more than 20 years ago man!!! What use is a system that doesn't have 0 as freezing?

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

ITK, So what's a luddite then? ;)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Dear Mr Ostrich........

Ah divvint naa like.....but whatever it is, it probably costs aboot sevin ans sixpince like.

;0)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Softie, one thing about earthquakes is they cause a lot of landslides and the camp site is on a slope, a very sandy slope that goes down to the water. Need I say more. I'm actually in a house, so I quite fancy my chances in an eartquake. I can't believe I've written that.

When I first came here I tried to work out where I'd least like to be in an earthquake and they are as follows.

3 The hairdressers, you know, where they're just cutting round your ear and off it goes.

2 The shower, it'd just be my luck that an entire wall would disappear and I'd be there starkers for all the world to see.

1 Would have to be the toilet. Whilst this is probably the safest place in the house. I can just see me, trapped for about a week and some plucky Swiss rescue team finds me and there I am being lifted out of the bog, live on CNN, with my kecks round my ankles! I'd never live it down.

Yes, Galaxy, I think you can say I'm quite blase about em! Thanks for the concern as well!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Kegsy,

Why don't you get one of those inflatable tents? That way if you get swept down into the sea you just bob about in your tent for a few hours flashing your torch at passing rescue ships.

To avoid the horror of being dragged out showing your bits and bobs on CNN (nice to see that like all irrational fears your is complete in every detail!) try always wearing a pair of long-Johns. All you need to do is unbutton the crap-flap at the back and you get to maintain a certain semblance of dignity even when hauled out on CNN; a vigourous twitch to get the flap back in place will stop the World from having a close up of your 'barking spider' as you are lifted from the wreckage of your kharzi :-)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Hee hee, Softie! And glad to see I'm not the only one that worried about being caught in the bathroom in an earthquake. Growing up in LA, I never went in for a shower without having a full set of clothes close enough to grab. ;-)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

You've still got a very old pair of Long Johns if I rememeber correctly Softie?

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Tremendous Softie. i'm off to the 7-11 now to see if they've got a pair in my size!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

I used to have a set of short-Johns which I wore in bed for a while, thinking that they were debonair, raffish and dashing. They pulled tight across the chest and presented my undercarriage in a flattering manner whilst remaining tight around the biceps and exposing a good length of manly, hairy leg.

Sadly, I hadn't banked on the fact that after a few hours in the foetal position you end up with the arse of the things flapping around your knees and the difficulty of undoing 800 fiddly little buttons when woken up 'suddenly' after a night on the beer and a curry didn't bear a repeat performance :-O

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Sorry softie, but I reckon anybody starkers looks a bliddy sight more dignified than somebody wearing even Armani long johns.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Softie,

I'm convinced you wrote once about having a pair of hand me down long john's from your grandad :))

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


It was a bachelor flat. We had a deal: "No headboards against the intervening wall and no knobs flapping about free when you're trying to eat your breakfast."

In a spirit of openness the nudity ban was lifted from visiting females since there were no knobs to put you off your bangers in the morning :-)

Incidentally, give me a choice of seeing David Shaylor naked or in a pair of long-Johns, and it's the sensible, thermal undergarment for me every time thank you!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Nope, I have his hand-me-down Crombie overcoat but I draw the line at anything with skid-marks!

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

I take it we are taking about door knobs here Softie? (:o)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Obviously Jay, men who fry breakfast with their todger swinging free are likely to end up with a nasty burn that's very difficult to explain away and sound at all plausible. :-)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

If you had no doorknobs how did you open and close your doors??? :o))

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

It was a bachelor flat, there were always plenty of knockers to hand.

I really miss that flat, actually, we had no pictures anywhere and the girls we knew were always saying how terrible it was. We argued that when a man is so tired of watching telly that he is watching the walls, it's just Nature's way of saying that it's time to go to the pub. This didn't stop the whinging, though, so the flat was soon resplendent with really tacky Pamela Anderson posters and the like. 2- 0 to the Lads.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


I remember my brother had a picture of Sam Fix starkers on his wall. I never did work out what he saw in her ! :o)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Err! Cathy Lloyd was more my fancy. She modelled an NUFC silk nightie on TFI Friday once and then started chopping up fruit with a chainsaw....I nearly passed out from blood loss to the brain :-)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Yeah I get a hard on when I see a bird with a chainsaw as well Softie....I know exactly where you're coming from ;)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Well I think I will just leave you boys to it then :o)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

Debbie Harry was my pin-up. I used to like the way she'd flirt with the camera. I was in love.

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

But this wasn't just A Bird with a chainsaw, this was Kathy Lloyd!!! Argh! Choke!

Funny though, if she was to approach me holding a baby I'd run a mile but a chainsaw seems like a great accessory for every woman :-)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Depens where they are holding it :-o

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000

For a thread entitled, "BBSers in the Far East", this one's somehow ended up in Softie's bachelor pad. Whereabouts in the "Far East" was your pad Mr. Soft Southerner, anywhere near Limehouse?

;7)

-- Anonymous, July 31, 2000


Bud Wiser - just another example of how the internet is shrinking the world?(:o)

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

It was in the far East of Kent. You should be more specific with the thread titles. Last time someone said 'Far East' there was a big row about it being the incorrect terminology for your part of the World so naturally I assumed we were talking about the East of Britain.

Sierra Oscar: I am in pursuit of the goalposts, which are now proceeding along the Shields Road at speed. Prepare to deploy the Stinger...:-)

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000


Hey Soft One, get your facts right, Galaxy started this thread (and therefore gave it the title, "Far East...")not yours truly!

;7)

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000


I was just lulled into a false sense of security by your posting on it, Bud :-)

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

Oh-oh! Am I in trouble then?(:o)

-- Anonymous, August 01, 2000

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