Is this spectacular or what?

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Is this spectacular or what?

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If I ain't here, I'm in Bilston, scoffing decent chips at last!!!!
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Awesome indeed!!
Although I expect different words would be used if you were underneath it!!!!
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Or stood on top of it?
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Or were sailing a small boat past?
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or cut of by the tide , especialy if RNLI's on its way :shock:

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Tha looks like Hells mouth near Gwithian A very dramatic coastline at the best of times. What an amazing thing to witness though!
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Lets hope that the cliffs in the Azores that could collapse at any time, don't see that video and decide to copy it, otherwise it is goodbye Manhattan.
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just seen the video on CNN news the kid in China run over twice and no one batted a eyelid and every one ignored him , caught on CCTV.

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strang steel wrote:Lets hope that the cliffs in the Azores that could collapse at any time, don't see that video and decide to copy it, otherwise it is goodbye Manhattan.
It's the Cumbre Vieja volcano in La Palma - if the western flank decides to slide/slump downhill, probably during an eruption, then the wave formed from this impact is estimated to be around 100m high - the whole American seaboard would be devastated. Bermuda and most of the smaller Caribbean islands would just cease to exist. Europe too would probably take some damage. The deathtoll would probably be in the tens of millions, possibly even hundreds depending on circumstances. As you say, let's hope...
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mr B wrote:just seen the video on CNN news the kid in China run over twice and no one batted a eyelid and every one ignored him , caught on CCTV.

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Sums the chinese up nicely does that video
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Coboman wrote:
mr B wrote:just seen the video on CNN news the kid in China run over twice and no one batted a eyelid and every one ignored him , caught on CCTV.

mr b
Sums the chinese up nicely does that video


well after all thats what the chink's think of daughters :mrgreen: just think , who's going to do her job at the hornby /bachmann factory in years to come ?

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Ay up!

What do you mean in years to come? :wink: :shock:
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Blink Bonny wrote:Ay up!

What do you mean in years to come? :wink: :shock:
what on earth was I thinking , only a few month's ago production for most factorys in china was considered moving to pakistan.

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Hornby, Bachmann and Graham Farish all work out of the same factory. These are hard times indeed :cry:
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Back to the original thread, a mate sent me an address to look in a Spanish online newspaper about an undersea volcano in the Canaries that is expected to be above the waves sooner or later. I looked at the thread via google translator and found it interesting yet it has had no mention in the UK media.
Hi interested in the area served by 52D. also researching colliery wagonways from same area.
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