Makes yer proud to be British...

[Drago]

He spilled about 8 pints of blood, sucked out through his skin.

 

[ufkacbln]

Where is the poor whippet?

Doing the "Doggy paddle"

 

[Moon bunny]

"The customers thought we were pretty stupid - they're probably right,"

If only they had worn striped blazers and straw boaters, then they could have been eccentric instead of stupid.

 

[Dec66]

He spilled about 8 pints of blood, sucked out through his skin.

More room for beer then, surely?

In the "Big House" in Liverpool you'd have met loads of fellas happy to transfuse their blood in return for an equal measure of bitter. I hear it's closed now, though.

 

[Dec66]

If only they had worn striped blazers and straw boaters, then they could have been eccentric instead of stupid.

As long as they were in Goring on Thames, or somewhere like that, obviously.

A barometer of how Middle England view the world can be gleaned from the Daily Mail coverage of Ladies Day at Aintree, as opposed to Ladies Day at Ascot.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I always like it when the reports showed flooded roads, about how everything has been brought to a halt....... and someone cycles through the flood!

Like the 'tidal road' at Aveton Gifford (Devon)
Scroll down (by County) to find it http://www.wetroads.co.uk/tidal.htm

On the one hand one must admire their pluck.

On the other, I'm flood response trained for SAR and while flood water May look passive and benign, it's deadly. All sorts of underwater dangers, the nastiest being drains that turn into hidden traps with no way for a man to overcome the hydraulic pressure. On the course they show us a video of a body recovered from a drain that had been bent in half and forced about 20metres into the pipe with the pressure.

I concur
One of the major roads to the north of Castleford (A656, Barnsdale Road - heads up to the A1, at Hookmoor/Aberford) is low-lying, & on a flood-plain for the River Aire

A few years (June 2007) ago, I was taking photographs of the expanse of water, when a movement caught my eye
Zooming in, it was a bloke with a bike on his shoulder, wading chest deep through it!!!!!
Bearing in mind, that it's getting on for a half-a-mile stretch under water



Dragos comments are roughly what I thought back then, all it needed was a manhole cover to have been displaced as the water rose & a back-pressure in the drains blew the lid off, then one wrong step & someone would have been wondering why he never came home

the image with my Ribble was taken this Monday (16th November), after the road had re-opened from the weekends closure
The fields under water are about 5 foot below road level at that point, so that height, plus the detritus on the railings.....