chilean miners - big up, nuff respect..

[Vintage Paw]

We have since confirmed the winch is in fact orange, and not yellow as previously reported.

I'm glad they can clear up such important pieces of information for us.

 

[Dovydaitis]

so they aren't going down for another couple of hours???

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[8ball]

Thing is, people will expect them to do lots of talking about their ordeal and stuff and I bet none of them is going to be up for lots of talking for a while and it'll all do their fucking heads in.

I'd just want to be left alone for a bit.

 

[scooter]

I think the bbc have really dropped the ball on this one. Another 2 hours before the rescue commences and even then it's only gonna be one an hour. I may lose interest and change channel.

 

[8ball]

Is Davina McCall there?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The chilean president is going to hug each miner as he emerges. Given that it's supposed to take 33 hours, I hope he brought a trailer to get some rest in between miners.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The chilean president is going to hug each miner as he emerges. Given that it's supposed to take 33 hours, I hope he brought a trailer to get some rest in between miners.

A 5* trailer probably.

 

[eightball]

Why: because they survived a shitty accident, then got rescued?

Because the Chilean government is manipulating this for their own political ends. Rolling news might be wank but you do get the occasional interesting snippet.

 

[Maggot]

Is Davina McCall there?

This is like the ultimate reality show.


The most amazing thing is how the miners survived for 20 days without extra supplies.

 

[IC3D]

Everyone on the surface should wear ape costumes when the miners emerge.

 

[ymu]

You just need to find a way to fit in something about cycling and coffee, and you've got your perfect post.

And fudge.

Hope they get the support they need to cope with this, and it doesn't just disappear once the cameras have gone. And if they get paid a penny less than they are entitled to whilst a single one of those mine directors has an asset to his name ...

Make the fuckers responsible pay for it and maybe this shit wouldn't happen so often.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Because the Chilean government is manipulating this for their own political ends. Rolling news might be wank but you do get the occasional interesting snippet.

I consider the heroes of these stories to be the people who make herculean efforts to rescue the victims.

 

[IC3D]

The miners should hide.

 

[ymu]

This is like the ultimate reality show.


The most amazing thing is how the miners survived for 20 days without extra supplies.

That's exactly why they deserve respect. They're professionals, so they knew what they were doing, but few of us would have the skills to cope with such an ordeal. They were well organised long before the first communications were established, and made great use of the materials they had down there already.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

That's exactly why they deserve respect. They're professionals, so they knew what they were doing, but few of us would have the skills to cope with such an ordeal. They were well organised long before the first communications were established, and made great use of the materials they had down there already.

Their training had contingencies to deal with the sort of thing that happened. When it did in fact happen, they followed their training, and survived. How does that make them heroes?

 

[beeboo]

Their training had contingencies to deal with the sort of thing that happened. When it did in fact happen, they followed their training, and survived. How does that make them heroes?

I'd say surviving for 17 days on little more than a sip of water and a nibble of food each day, with diminishing hope that they'd ever be found and rescued, that they managed to keep it together over all that time with a slow death looking increasingly likely - that makes them heroes.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Singing, marching policemen

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'd say surviving for 17 days on little more than a sip of water and a nibble of food each day, with diminishing hope that they'd ever be found and rescued, that they managed to keep it together over all that time with a slow death looking increasingly likely - that makes them heroes.

Not survivors? Although I think the fact none of them have killed each other is pretty admirable.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I'd say surviving for 17 days on little more than a sip of water and a nibble of food each day, with diminishing hope that they'd ever be found and rescued, that they managed to keep it together over all that time with a slow death looking increasingly likely - that makes them heroes.

That makes them people with a healthy survival instinct. The guys digging the hole to get to them, they're the heroes.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Not survivors? Although I think the fact none of them have killed each other is pretty admirable.

Why is that? Were you expecting Chilean miners to be a little more likely to revert to savagery and brutality in the face of hardship, than say, Europeans?

 

[IC3D]

Their training had contingencies to deal with the sort of thing that happened. When it did in fact happen, they followed their training, and survived. How does that make them heroes?

I'm not sure they were heroes either, this is a great news story though, I love the bits that aren't so pc that get a small mention like the girlfriends of married men who have turned up with kids in tow and the fact they quite clearly wanted to get pissed down there while they sat it out. It shows the opposite in fact and shows more humanity than the absurd label of hero simply for trying to extend your life

 

[ymu]

Why is that? Were you expecting Chilean miners to be a little more likely to revert to savagery and brutality in the face of hardship, than say, Europeans?

Wut? Where the fuck did that come from? Trying waaaay too hard here Johnny.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Why is that? Were you expecting Chilean miners to be a little more likely to revert to savagery and brutality in the face of hardship, than say, Europeans?

Not at all, I'd imagine living in close, uncomfortable quarters for that long would make me want to kill someone. I'm European btw

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Wut? Where the fuck did that come from? Trying waaaay too hard here Johnny.

She said it was admirable that they hadn't killed each other. I was thinking, 'where did that come from?'

 

[IC3D]

Not at all, I'd imagine living in close, uncomfortable quarters for that long would make me want to kill someone. I'm European btw

mutual wanking is more likely to break the tension I think.

 

[ymu]

She said it was admirable that they hadn't killed each other. I was thinking, 'where did that come from?'

But what made you think that was a comment on their country of origin?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

mutual wanking is more likely to break the tension I think.

I wouldn't expect them to kill each other, but fucking? That might be a different story.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

She said it was admirable that they hadn't killed each other. I was thinking, 'where did that come from?'

Because being stuck in 30 degree heat, 85% humidity with 32 other people, for that long, with no daylight, would be stress enough for anyone.

Just because they're miners and used to dark, humid and confined conditions, doesn't mean that that they're used to being in those conditions for long periods of time.

I bet if it were a load of women who were down there who had the odd barney, you'd be saying "must be their time of the month".

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

But what made you think that was a comment on their country of origin?

I was trying to make some sense of the idea. What would it be about these men that might mean they'd kill each other? I wasn't too sure what it would be.