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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Miss Demeanour on April 06, 2011, 09:10:34 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8432283/Swedish-couple-have-honeymoon-from-hell.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8432283/Swedish-couple-have-honeymoon-from-hell.html)
Stefan and Erika Svanstrom left Stockholm, Sweden, on December 6 and were immediately stranded in Munich, Germany, due to one of Europe's worst snowstorms.
Travelling with their baby daughter, they flew on to Cairns in Australia which was then struck by one of the most ferocious cyclones in the nation's history.
From there, the couple, in their 20s, were forced to shelter for 24 hours on the cement floor of a shopping centre with 2500 others.
They then headed south to Brisbane but the city was experiencing massive flooding, so they crossed the country to Perth where they narrowly escaped raging bush fires.
The couple then flew to Christchurch, New Zealand, arriving just after a massive magnitude 6.3 earthquake devastated the city on February 22.
Mrs Svanstrom said: "When we got there the whole town was a war zone.
"We could not visit the city since it was completely blocked off, so instead we travelled around before going to Japan."
But days after the Svanstroms arrived, Tokyo was rocked by Japan's largest earthquake since records began.
The family returned to Stockholm on March 29 after a much calmer visit to their last destination China.
But Mr Svanstrom – who also survived the devastating Boxing Day tsunami that hit southeast Asia in 2004 – said the marriage was still going strong.
He added: "I know marriages have to endure some trials, but I think we have been through most of them.
"We've certainly experienced more than our fair share of catastrophes, but the most important thing is that we're together and happy.
Mrs Svanstrom added: "To say we were unlucky with the weather doesn't really cover it! It's so absurd that now we can only laugh."
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You certainly wouldn't plan a joint holiday with them would you ? noooo:
Do you have relatives in Sweden Nick ????
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I do redface:
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I do redface:
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.wikia.com%2Fmuppet%2Fimages%2F4%2F41%2FSwedish-chef.jpg&hash=70ed57d5025305edd43478cd428ecb477e8678af)
I forgot the other muppet was ginger as well rubschin:
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lol: lol:
Tsutomu Yamaguchi witnessed at close hand the nuclear devastation of two Japanese cities, and lived to tell the tale. Now it will be left to others to tell his incredible story after his death this week at 93.
Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised as a survivor of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, died on Monday of stomach cancer at a hospital in Nagasaki, his family said today.
The mayor of Nagasaki said "a precious storyteller has been lost".
Yamaguchi, then an engineer for the shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing 80,000 people instantly and another 60,000 in the months that followed. The badly burned Yamaguchi, who was less than two miles from the blast, spent the night in an air raid shelter before returning home to Nagasaki, 180 miles away, two days later.
He was in Nagasaki on 9 August when a nuclear bomb devastated the city, killing an estimated 70,000 people. Japan surrendered less than a week later.
Not sure if this counts as lucky or un-lucky.
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lol: lol:
Tsutomu Yamaguchi witnessed at close hand the nuclear devastation of two Japanese cities, and lived to tell the tale. Now it will be left to others to tell his incredible story after his death this week at 93.
Yamaguchi, the only person officially recognised as a survivor of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, died on Monday of stomach cancer at a hospital in Nagasaki, his family said today.
The mayor of Nagasaki said "a precious storyteller has been lost".
Yamaguchi, then an engineer for the shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city, killing 80,000 people instantly and another 60,000 in the months that followed. The badly burned Yamaguchi, who was less than two miles from the blast, spent the night in an air raid shelter before returning home to Nagasaki, 180 miles away, two days later.
He was in Nagasaki on 9 August when a nuclear bomb devastated the city, killing an estimated 70,000 people. Japan surrendered less than a week later.
Not sure if this counts as lucky or un-lucky.
Did he not invent those annoying kids toys a few years ago,........... rubschin:
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those annoying kids toys.........
Can you narrow that down a bit?
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those annoying kids toys.........
Can you narrow that down a bit?
I rather think he means these...
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs1.postimage.org%2Fwe70z03o%2Ftami.jpg&hash=fc20de5dff5b58100c2a6f3337e0de5e5816574a) (http://postimage.org/image/we70z03o/)
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those annoying kids toys.........
Can you narrow that down a bit?
I rather think he means these...
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs1.postimage.org%2Fwe70z03o%2Ftami.jpg&hash=fc20de5dff5b58100c2a6f3337e0de5e5816574a) (http://postimage.org/image/we70z03o/)
That's the kiddies.....(bad pun redface:)
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those annoying kids toys.........
Can you narrow that down a bit?
I rather think he means these...
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs1.postimage.org%2Fwe70z03o%2Ftami.jpg&hash=fc20de5dff5b58100c2a6f3337e0de5e5816574a) (http://postimage.org/image/we70z03o/)
I am blissfully none the wiser.
Stopwatches or music players?
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Are they virtual pets?
I wonder if Nick had one...
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Are they virtual pets?
I wonder if Nick had one...
Fecking loads of them, including the pigs!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VAtxf3m5Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VAtxf3m5Q)
eeek: eeek: eeek:
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THE "BRAT" HERE Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
I AVE BIN LOOKIN AT THIS SITE WOTK MY MUM VIZITS ::) AND IT IS DISGUSTING sick2:. MY DAD TURNS OUT TO BE AN OLD GOAT sick2: AND MY MUM JUST EATS CHOCS AND DRINKS VODDY ::) ::) ::) ::) ::). IT'S NOTT FAIR cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:. I AM VERY UNLUCKEE AND I AM FONING CHILDLINE NOW TO CMPLAIN
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VAtxf3m5Q (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VAtxf3m5Q)
eeek: eeek: eeek:
It's lucky they had a camera though. whistle:
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Apparently she was filming the drivers in front of her cos she was going to report them for bad driving rubschin:
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I have camera in my car...(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-happy119.gif&hash=d5f236bb5e6a4507f86f2a5d94647c3df9139a81) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
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Yes but you are supposed to.
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Yes but you are supposed to.
noooo: I mean my own car...
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eeek:
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Yes but you are supposed to.
noooo: I mean my own car...
You seem to have turned into the beast of Bodmin moor.
Anyhoo about this camera is this for your little dogging expeditions?
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Just in case a cat runs out in front of me...without looking...like
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Just in case a cat runs out in front of me...without looking...like
Camera or the beast of Bodmin moor?
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Jim.... eveilgrin:
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sad32:
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THE "BRAT" HERE Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9: Angry9:
I AVE BIN LOOKIN AT THIS SITE WOTK MY MUM VIZITS ::) AND IT IS DISGUSTING sick2:. MY DAD TURNS OUT TO BE AN OLD GOAT sick2: AND MY MUM JUST EATS CHOCS AND DRINKS VODDY ::) ::) ::) ::) ::). IT'S NOTT FAIR cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing: cussing:. I AM VERY UNLUCKEE AND I AM FONING CHILDLINE NOW TO CMPLAIN
happy001
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A STRICKEN grandmother sprawls helplessly in the freezing Arctic Ocean - after paramedics DROPPED her during an attempted mercy mission.
Brit Janet Richardson, 73, was being moved to a rescue boat after falling ill on her cruise ship when she slipped into the -3°C waves off Norway.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3538753/Grandmother-73-sprawls-in-freezing-Arctic-Ocean-after-being-dropped-in-rescue-from-cruise-ship-after-falling-ill.html
Ooooppss..........
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Yeah, but it cured her high temperature
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Cryonics on the cheap?