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Yeowch.
I doubt they bothered to drill down to save the fucker, if such technology
even existed.

Dodgy reporting aside I think the accident and subsequent rescue have been
one of the great marvels of recent history.

 

Beckettesque would be better; what with all that existential angst
smoldering in the powder keg of ennui.

Oh, yes.

 

Agreed 100%. The Chileans are terribly proud and they should be.

 

They got him out somehow.

Indeed. I also see in their future a vulture flock of shrinks and
physiologists descending on them to get a few medical papers out of
the whole affair.

 

I rather hope they all come out of it better than the lot of a Chilean
miner.

 

And you watched it all?

 

Wasn't he the one whose house collapsed in the earthquake?

I'd want to be pulled up before that unlucky fucker gets
on the rescue cable and breaks something.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

And then, of course, the two who realise that they cannot live without
one another.

"Brokeback Mine".

 

Today's Sun front page headline

"Freed Hot Chile Fellas"

I have to say I thought it was a very good play on words.

 

Not bad at all, IMHO.


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OK, this reminds me, and I just have to ask. For years I've been trying
to find a film that I saw (probably when it first came out) around 1990.
The film is French, and it's set just after the first world war, in
France somewhere. A unit of soldiers is excavating a railway tunnel which
collapsed on a troop train in the last days of the war, and two women
turn up on the site, who turn out to be the wife and the lover of one of
the officers buried in the tunnel.

Any bells ringing, anyone?

 

And Max Clifford.

 

Stella Artois advert, wasn't it?

 

A representative of the International Federation of Mining Unions
(approximately, this is from memory) on the PM programmme yesterday said
that at least 12,000 people are killed in mining accidents every year.
Thats roughly as many as the group in Chile, every day, which puts a rather
different complexion on it.

 

And the rather slutty young woman of dubious integrity who turns out to
be a diamond in the rough, and will die doing something slightly heroic,
apparently as a punishment for being sexy.

 

It would be rather a grim one, if so, but you did make me do a double
take. I saw it in the Castro cinema in San Francisco, at a time when I
was going to the cinema several times a week, and it's not entirely
implausible that I could have seen such an ad. Do you have any more
information?

 

6000-ish per year in China alone
http://www.clb.org.hk/en/node/19316

 

Well indeedy I doubt anyone actually misses deep coal mining in the UK from
that perspective

 

How many people (per year) lost their lives to mining accidents in the
UK when we still had a proper mining industry?

I only know a couple of people who used to be involved in the
underground side of mining and both of them would go straight back to
it if the opportunity arose. The safety record for UK mines used to be
pretty good and as long as you accept that mines are always going to
be dangerous places to work I don't see them as being the death traps
that a lot of 3rd World ones are.

 

I saw it. I didn't get it. Unless it's a very bad pun on "Red Hot
Chilli Peppers"?