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That propane explosion in Florida last night reminded me about this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4525504.stm
Huge news at the time but I can't recall ever hearing mention of it since.
That propane explosion in Florida last night reminded me about this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4525504.stm
Huge news at the time but I can't recall ever hearing mention of it since.
Can't remember any
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Alpha Piper?
i was thinking yesterday how quickly the whole horsemeat scandal was forgotten. was anyone charged?
Alpha piper hasn't really been forgotten
There was an acclaimed and popular documentary about it like last week
That's the new Alan Partridge film
it's not a documentary
:D
He's referencing this
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4431735#r7549410
In which people act a bit weird.
a few horses charged!
www.dadsnet.com/banter/horsemeatjokes
Horsemeat is good one
There was an article about it in one of the papers at the weekend and it's surprising how 'meh' everyone seems to have become about it.
yeah
although i think the bad thing wasn't simply that it was found to be horsemeat, but that companies had absolutely no idea where the meat they used in products was sourced from.
*shakes head*
hm?
Not sure we needed you swapping the name around, given what happened.
oh right...wasn't intentional. that last thread did me.
*mdh
The Mirri story
I can remember MFBPFD but I can't remember what hers was about...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3036626/Girl-bank-exec-in-randy-worker-email-alert.html
the last company i worked for
had a DC next door that was detroyed. they built a new one fairly close by that i had to visit occasionally and, last time i was there (about a year ago) there were still fucked buildings there that haven't been sorted. like, twisted metal girders and shit.
I worked with a guy who lived a mile or so away from the refinery and
he and his family had to be evacuated for days
Did those Mars Bar regulations get implemented in the end?
With a cap per purchase and them needing to be bought over the counter?
think that was methadone
Derrick Bird/Cumbria shootings
Was only three years ago, yet I struggled to remember enough to look it up. 12 people shot dead, right here in the UK, yet aside from the initial coverage I barely remember seeing anything about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria_shootings
One of the people he killed was a mole-catcher
didn't know that was a job.
Wasn't he quickly overshadowed by Raul Moat though
True, just looked it up, was the day after pretty much.
Still, bit of a sad indictment of our attention span (and the media's).
I was IN Cumbria at the time with a meter reader!
He actually knew the guy!
Was in his taxi three days before it happened.
Quiet fella, had a chat about the upcoming World Cup, he thought the US were going to do better than most people expected.
I know a fair bit about the goings-on prior to it happening - the guy was getting bullied on a daily basis by some fellow cabbies on the rank. People chucking rotten milk in his cab and letting his tyres down meaning he missed out on fares, at a time when he was under a bit of financial stress (allegedly).
fix
I remember the media here talking about a Jack the Ripper 2.0 or something Strangler type killer over there in the UK
then it just fell off the radar, never heard about it again. Don't know if he was found or what. Must have been about 3 or 4 years ago now?
Steve ''Suffolk Strangler'' Wright, probably
There was a drama about it a couple of years ago and (quite unbelievably) there is a musical in the offing. A stage-musical about a serial prostitute killer: not exactly Starlight Express is it?
Oh right, yeah it must have been
well I'm glad hes been found then. That sounds terrible. Pretty damn insensitive glorifying something like that, especially something that happened so recently with friends and family member of victims still around to experience that. I'm looking at turning Illinoise into a musical atm and i'm having enough problems with 'John Wayne Gacy, Jr.'
It's called Illinois!
I know :) but it's stylized that way!
'You're a naughty one, saucy Jack...'
the suffolkater
Jack the Ripper: The Musical (1974), with lyrics by Ron Pember and music by Dennis DeMarne, influenced Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
I found out yesterday that Brittany Murphy died
Totally missed that I think
Wow I remember this now but had completely forgotten until this thread
those massive missiles found in Cuba
that came from Russia via Korea.
Seems important. What happened there?
Quickly forgotten. Still,
not the end of the world is it?
not so far
that texas fertilizer plant blast that happened just after the Boston thing.
I was less than 50 miles away when that happened
nobody really gave a fuck
The Greyrigg derailment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayrigg_derailment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Man that accident gives me the chills...
I'd forgotten about it.
Have you read the blackbox transcript from that flight?
It's a disturbing and fascinating read
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/what-really-happened-aboard-air-france-447-6611877
Yes - that's what I was referring to really!
I read it a couple of years back. So, so chilling.
...and all the more so
because the plane crashed almost entirely because of human error/human failure to respond to a situation which was, arguably, largely unthreatening.
That really is a great article
like Gringo said terribly disturbing, but very well written and explained. I wasn't aware of that crash and now I can't stop thinking about it :(
Mais je suis à fond à cabrer depuis tout à l'heure!
Fuck. Seriously chilling. I had to stop reading the article and look away for a bit half way through.
That Greek one does me.
Where the cabin didn't pressurise as the aircraft climbed, the pilots passed out and the autopilot carried on its merry way. It took up the hold above Athens, until it eventually ran out of fuel and crashed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522
bloody hell
how many oversights were there?
also, must be weird being in a fighter jet, seeing the pilot passed out and thinking 'well nothing can be done here'
I can't ever recalling hearing about this
Imagine being on that flight, knowing you were supposed to have landed over an hour previously and you've heard no word from the pilot. The cabin crew must have known something was wrong and yet have no access to the cockpit. Terrifying
Someone managed to get in to the flight deck to try and do something...
Just as the engines shutdown
i probably shouldn't have read that
I think I'd heard of it before, but thought that the passengers were all passed out.
There was a documentary about it on channel 4 last year.
Properly haunting.
Natasha Richardson dying in a skiing accident.
HEADLINE NEWS. Everywhere. Front cover of all the papers.
Until, of course, everyone realised they didn't really have a clue who she was. Or had seen any films she'd been in.
privatization of the NHS
woah woah woah what?
the Iraqi Supergun
Tony Blair cuckolding Rupert Murdoch supposedly? Not mentioned anywhere.
perhaps this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23499856
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks
Absolutely crazy story. People too scared to walk the streets of Washington D.C. for 3 weeks whilst some madman decided to shoot complete strangers from afar.
I have a fair few friends who had no idea this happened.
really?
i still remember that, that was crazy. Back in the day there was a brilliant article in fhm about it.
Exactly
I don't understand how this has been forgotten/unheard of (I have a fair few news savvy friends). It was like some crazy film plot.
That was bonkers.
People being told to walk the streets in zig-zag lines and stuff to make them a difficult target.
North Korea getting all mouthy a few months back.
All the 'splodes in Iraq that kill scores of people each time.
Sadly now so commonplace in the news now that, they're just kind of the boring "bread" in the "news sandwich". The reporters are like "news blah blah... and finally 30 people killed in Iraq, see you again at 6"
Always in a marketplace as well
You'd think online grocery shopping should have taken off more in Iraq.
The company I work for still gets quite a lot of money to look at Buncefield
The last I heard was that they had found the trees outside the depot were arranged in such a way that they exaggerated the intensity of the explosion. They recently did a test where they blew up a bag of spruce trees, which made for a cool video.
In a similar way to Piper Alpha, I think it is collectivity remembered by designers involved in looking at explosion mitigation. As long as the guys who are doing the designs learn the lessons from these disasters I don't think it is a big problem that they aren't remembered by the public.
Yep.
Add to that, for me, Flixborough, Texas City, Mexico City, and many others.
President of Poland
and a planeful of other important figures all died in a crash in April 2010.
Bizarrely, not many people here talk about it either.
Royal Baby
Yeah, all that hype and it's done fuck all so far
George? More like Georcunt.
I remember Buncefield as
1) My family lived near and their windows blew out from the blast
2) It destroyed the building of the company running our payroll and I was in charge of the systems so had to deal with it all when I came into work on the Monday.
is everything ok in turkey now?
bird flu/swine flu/SARS
The whole Oscar Pistorious thing.
Not heard anything about that since it happened.
oh yeah
R.I.P
http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/1151898.chair_destroyed/
the Titanic.
the day the music died
Boxing Day Tsunami
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake_and_tsunami
really? they just had a movie about that?
and they have documentaries about it all the time
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
Beslan
Was probably one of the most terrifying tragedies of the last decade but I rarely see it mentioned nowadays.
people are just posting tragedies now, not forgotten ones
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_K-141_Kursk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_United_States_election_voting_controversies
Good call on the Kursk.
Remember that being constantly on the news for a few days while they were trying to rescue them/raise it.
Mogwai wrote 'Travel Is Dangerous' about it, one of their only ones with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLTxA-1JI3M