Back when I started blogging a catchphrase used to castigate the mainstream media was “Don’t these people have editors?”
Can;t use it these days as of course they don’t.
Back when I started blogging a catchphrase used to castigate the mainstream media was “Don’t these people have editors?”
Can;t use it these days as of course they don’t.
Admittedly… A 60-gun modern frigate would look mighty impressive, in a Warhammer-style kind of way. 😉
“60 gun modern frigate”
Senior editor, on reading the print edition: facepalm and “Frig It!”
eTorygraph has it correctly as HMS Westminster. (No mention of firepower tho)
Frigate is one of my favourite words.
News
Caroline Flack has died aged 40 (awaiting Trial)
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-02-15/caroline-flack-itv-love-island-presenter-found-dead/
Suicide and/or heroin OD? Samaritans link at end kinda confirms
“Can;t use it these days”: doesn’t this person have an editor?
Physician heal thy semicolon.
Twatter
@Mr Lud
I like Harrygate – it keeps giving
I feel very sorry for the Queen and Prince Philip being repeatedly kicked in the teeth by petulant and selfish Harry
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@Mr Tim W
Yesterday on ConTel you had a shortage of “e”s, today another shortage
A gift: eeeeeeeeeeee ”””””””’
I thought HMS Winchester timbers were going to be used in rebuilding Notre Dame.
‘Sixty-gun frigate HMS Winchester is believed to have responded to a relay call and is in the area, according to ship tracking data.’
The Royal Navy still uses semaphore?
Can;t use it these days
Give it a rest.
I don’t know about semaphore but the Navy used Aldis lamps when we were on radio silence as we got close to the Falkland Islands.
A mayday relay is used when the sender can’t be heard by the coastguard. I heard one when sailing in the Solent. A small fishing boat caught fire just off St Catherine’s Point (southern most point of the Isle of Wight) and his mayday was picked up by a Navy frigate that was undergoing final sea trials and so had a full complement of crew, including surgeon. They had him out of the water and in their sick bay in no time. It certainly counts as the luckiest mayday response I’ve heard about and if he’d had to wait for lifeboat it could have been quite serious.
As pointed out in the other place, the naval vessel involved was actually HMS Westminster. Dictation over a dodgy line? (Not that I imagine anyone files copy that way any more.)
A ship of Theseus.
I remember back then that they used to make fun of bloggers as ‘guys in pajamas’ – because they did what they did from home and not in a large, open-plan office, under supervision and with direction.
Now, across the internet, the dude’s in pajamas are more professional and take more care with their work than the people who think that what they do constitutes a ‘profession’.
@Gamecock
Semaphore is still used by RN & USN (especially ship-ship replenishing), as is Aldis lamp.
Semaphore also used in Aircraft marshalling
Maritime flag signalling still used as it works, same as Windsocks at airports. Old isn’t bad
Do septics still use forks? We do
@Richard and Tim
Re: https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/newspaper-watch/storm-dennis-325-year-old-ship-aiding-the-rnli/
Read:
https://www.arrse.co.uk/community/threads/back-in-service-the-60-gun-frigate-hms-winchester.298341/post-9836534
ConTel layout, colours & link highlighting are terrible and not intuitive. Links should be blue not red, quotes should not be “in your face” red
PS Posted twice on ConTel, didn’t appear