New Blue Hole in Egypt!

[trux]

We all know that the Blue Hole in Dahab becomes more and more busy, and often it is rather difficult to even find place enough for a duck dive in the crowd.

Our British freediving friends, tired by the combats accessing the depth, recognized it as an excellent business opportunity, and decided creating their own Hole in Egypt. The digging started today 80km south of Suez. Unfortunately the attempt for an accelerated excavation with the help of a nuclear explosion failed. It remains uncleared whether there will be another attempt soon:

UK submarine hits Red Sea rocks - Asia, World - The Independent

I suspect our Papa Smurf Stephan Whelan and other guys organizing the freediving courses at the Submarine Escape Training Tank (S.E.T.T.) are behind the plan to dig the new hole.

[Pastor]

Yeah but this blue hole is environmentally friendly, it glows in the dark so no need for disposable batteries in your torch!

[Marwan]

bloody british... driving on the right has to stop at some point

[podge]

Originally Posted by Marwan

bloody british... driving on the right has to stop at some point

Rule Britannia Baby

[Pastor]

Notice that it's the "right" side. The rest of the world must be wrong!

[Erik]

Eh? You guys drive on the left, I drive on the right. Your steering wheels are on the wrong side though I'll admit.

[BennyB]

Ahem... we drive on the correct side of the road....

[podge]

Originally Posted by Erik

Eh? You guys drive on the left, I drive on the right. Your steering wheels are on the wrong side though I'll admit.

Erik you drive a single seater space ship, what ever you say goes mate.

[Erik]

You're right Podge, it's a Suzuki GSXR750! And it's the same bike no matter what side of the road you're on..... and come to think of it, I do spend an inordinate amount of time on the "wrong" side, not that the cops are happy about it haha!

[Erik]

Originally Posted by BennyB

Ahem......

"Ahem"?... Ben you're starting to sound less and less like an Aussie every day... next it'll be 'high tea and scooooones after the foxhunt'?

[trux]

I heard the UK will adopt the EU standards and start driving on the right side too now. However, such an important change cannot be done without preparation and too abruptly, hence after starting with the new standard, it will be permitted to drive on both sides (better told on any side) of the road during 5 years, before the EU standard will be fully enforced.

[Erik]

Originally Posted by trux

I heard the UK will adopt the EU standards and start driving on the right side too now. However, such an important change cannot be done without preparation and too abruptly, hence after starting with the new standard, it will be permitted to drive on both sides (better told on any side) of the road during 5 years, before the EU standard will be fully enforced.

Hahaha! Shouldn't be a problem, they've been doing that in Indonesia for years.

[BennyB]

Originally Posted by Erik

"Ahem"?... Ben you're starting to sound less and less like an Aussie every day... next it'll be 'high tea and scooooones after the foxhunt'?

Sorry! Don't know what came over me - been hanging around the geezers in the office too long.

Right you flaming mongrels, all you galahs drive on the bloody wrong side of the road, pull yer heads in and stop whingin or your face will look like a condom full of walnuts every time you open your yap hole!!!

[podge]

Originally Posted by Erik

"Ahem"?... Ben you're starting to sound less and less like an Aussie every day... next it'll be 'high tea and scooooones after the foxhunt'?

Or a long glass of Pimm’s on the lawn between games of Croquet
but not before 3.00pm as that just wouldn’t be British.

[BennyB]

Speaking of all things British, did anyone see the movie on Mary Whitehouse last night on BBC2? Bloody hilarious.

For those who don't know her, she was a lady that started a campaign in the 60's to get nudity, swearing and general filth off the tv. She was at it pretty much right up to when she died in 2001. She complained about just about every show on tele.

If you're a fan of the Goodies you'll remember an episode when there was an old biddy that complained about all the filth on tv - that was a pisstake on her. In fact, in the 70's, one of the few shows she actually complimented on being good wholesome fun was the first series of the Goodies. The Goodies themselves were a bit insulted about this & were worried this would affect their image so they set about adding more smut into the show in order to get a complaint. They even did the pisstake episode which really went to town on her but she didn't respond. In the end, they finally got their complaint from the Saturday Night Grease episode with Tim Brooke-Taylor dancing in his undies with a carrot on the front.

Anyway interesting part of British telly history and a great doco/movie.