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Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major
crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
So a normal average day then!
"Nick Cooper" wrote in message ... "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
Presumably scripted by the same people who come up with
Eastenders/Casualty/Holby City "Ishmael Sayle III" wrote in message ... So a normal average day then! "Nick Cooper" wrote in message ... "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Neill Wood" wrote
Presumably scripted by the same people who come up with .../Casualty/... You mean BBC Comedy Dept? |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Ishmael Sayle III" wrote in message ...
"Nick Cooper" wrote in message ... "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... So a normal average day then! Wonder how LU would flag that one up on the service status boards! From the clips shown on 'BBC Breakfast' this AM, the "dilemma" is whether to tryu to rescue the passengers stuck in the rapidly-filling tunnel, or to close, "the watertight doors." Question is, is it still possible to do that?! |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North" Please insert spoiler into the subject line in future! |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Nick Cooper 625" wrote in message om... One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... So a normal average day then! Wonder how LU would flag that one up on the service status boards! From the clips shown on 'BBC Breakfast' this AM, the "dilemma" is whether to tryu to rescue the passengers stuck in the rapidly-filling tunnel, or to close, "the watertight doors." Question is, is it still possible to do that?! Since when has reality been allowed to interfere with a TV programme? |
Crisis Command - BBC2 Tue 3 Feb *2100* (was: Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30)
It is an hour long, and starts at *2100*, not 2130. The title is "Crisis
Command: Could You Run The Country?", and it is apparently a pilot for a potential series. -- MetroGnome ~~~~~~~~~~ |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
Nick Cooper wrote:
"Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. -- Richard Lamont OpenPGP Key ID: 5ABEC9C3 http://www.stonix.demon.co.uk/key.txt Fingerprint: 9DEE 7113 DF02 A516 404C 22AC 1FF6 185D 5ABE C9C3 |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
In article , Richard Lamont
writes Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! -- Andrew Electronic communications can be altered and therefore the integrity of this communication can not be guaranteed. Views expressed in this communication are those of the author and not associations or companies I am involved with. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
Boy was I impressed with that lot, I'm bloody glad I don't work for or eat
at Yo Sushi, he couldn't make a decision if his life depended upon it, still it was nice seing Parlament burn, it would keep all the wet tube passengers warm. I wouldn't trust those 3 to find their own arses with both hand and a map. ISII "Andrew P Smith" wrote in message ... In article , Richard Lamont writes Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! -- Andrew Electronic communications can be altered and therefore the integrity of this communication can not be guaranteed. Views expressed in this communication are those of the author and not associations or companies I am involved with. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Richard Lamont" wrote in message ... Nick Cooper wrote: "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. LOL! The lessons they learnt should be digested by all those within U.T.L. who don't have to make dreal time ecisions with insufficent information. At least they had advisors and no passengers whinging that the 17:31 Chesham hasn't turned up yet ;-) |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 22:29:28 +0000, Richard Lamont
wrote: Nick Cooper wrote: "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. I expected there was going to be a certain amount of hand-wring, but wasn't prepared for just how ludicrously over-cautious they were. In the case of the airliner, I was sat there shouting, "shoot the ******* down!" at the TV while they were still arguing whether or not to try to get it to divert to Stansted! Still not convinced of the Underground angle, either.... -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Nick Cooper 625" wrote in message From the clips shown on 'BBC Breakfast' this AM, the "dilemma" is whether to tryu to rescue the passengers stuck in the rapidly-filling tunnel, or to close, "the watertight doors." Question is, is it still possible to do that?! Yes it is.... Flood gates still exist on the LUL South Ken to Sloane Square being one place |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
Richard Lamont wrote in message . ..
Nick Cooper wrote: "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. Couldn't have put it better. I hope this remains a pilot. I missed the begininng, and was left wondering how bombs going off at Waterloo would casue a catastrophic failure of a tunnel under the Thames at least a hundred yards away beneath the river bed. Must have been pretty big bombs. Or was this once of those amazing coincidences beloved by Casualty scriptwriters? I'd also like to know how the whole Underground network became flooded by the tunnel collapse about a minute after it happened as was implied. As I recall the whole network would not be at risk of flooding by one tunnel collapse anyway. On the subject of watertight doors, do they still put them on river tunnels? The Jubilee extension crosses the Thames at several points the DLR also crosses now. I don't recall seeing anything on the DLR, but can't really see on the Jubilee as some idiot has put tinted glass walls along the platform edges. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
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Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
Personally speaking, if those 3 ever form part of a cabinet in this country, I will be immediately volunteering to take part in the first explaratory trips to Mars - that should be just about far enough away to be safe from their 'decision' making! James Although the program was even funnier than I was told it would be. I wonder just how many people smirking at them making the wrong decision would be happy to give the order to kill 100 innocent people without the hindsight of knowing the plane was going to crash into parliament. How many people would give the order to seal up a tunnel with a underground train full of injured people on board. Its very easy to mock and laugh at a fictional set up. Or to give advice and opnions in this matter. But how many people would in a real life situation have the guts to order the death of 100's without being 100% that it will save more lives that it loses. And also if it was your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend/child/parent/realtive on the train or plane. Would you be so keen to see them die without being 100% their life would save a lot more? |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
CJG Now Thankfully Living In The North wrote:
But how many people would in a real life situation have the guts to order the death of 100's without being 100% that it will save more lives that it loses. And also if it was your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend/child/parent/realtive on the train or plane. Would you be so keen to see them die without being 100% their life would save a lot more? Hence the proverbial "loneliness of command" and readiness of many to crticise but only with hindsight. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
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Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
SNIPBut how many people would in a real life situation have the guts to
order the death of 100's without being 100% that it will save more lives that it loses. Which begs the question just how prepared would local commissioners in their bunkers have been to make similar decision. At the moment it's all hypothetical but come the crunch?? Regards. Bill Ridgeway Computer Solutions |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Jason Hovercraft-Bingley" wrote in
message ... It's gratifying to see these examples of how much people like you fear The Guardian. I read The Guardian because it's a damned fine newspaper. I initially read The Guardian because people told me it was a damned fine newspaper. Then I tried the Independent, and found it was a little unsettling because every article had a strange "unfinished" feel to it. So I went back to the Guardian. Then I realised that the "unfinished" feeling came about because as a Guardian reader I had come to expect newspapers to tell me what conclusions to draw, and the Independent just gave me the facts and let me draw my own conclusions. So I went back to the Independent. -- John Rowland - Spamtrapped Transport Plans for the London Area, updated 2001 http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood. That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line - It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Richard Lamont" wrote in message ... Nick Cooper wrote: "Three people ar egiven the chance to run their country during a major crisis." One is a "rogue" airliner over London, immediately followed by a Tube train stuck under the Thames. And the tunnel is leaking.... Well that was fun, wasn't it children? Form three Guardian readers into a committee and watch them wring their hands and dither. Richard Lamont It's gratifying to see these examples of how much people like you fear The Guardian. I read The Guardian because it's a damned fine newspaper. The only true newspapers are the Independent, the Guardian, the Telegraph and The Times. The "Daily Maul" can't even climb into the category. JHB. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
I just started watching it, and it seems to be arse so far, with the serious-voiced presenter, almost like Michael Buerk being sanctimonious about car accidents. ;-( And the "crisis" logo makes me think "underpants"... - Huge |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
In article , Night Orca
writes "Nick Cooper 625" wrote in message From the clips shown on 'BBC Breakfast' this AM, the "dilemma" is whether to tryu to rescue the passengers stuck in the rapidly-filling tunnel, or to close, "the watertight doors." Question is, is it still possible to do that?! Yes it is.... Flood gates still exist on the LUL South Ken to Sloane Square being one place They may exist, but do they work? -- Andrew Electronic communications can be altered and therefore the integrity of this communication can not be guaranteed. Views expressed in this communication are those of the author and not associations or companies I am involved with. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
In article , CJG Now
Thankfully Living In The North writes Personally speaking, if those 3 ever form part of a cabinet in this country, I will be immediately volunteering to take part in the first explaratory trips to Mars - that should be just about far enough away to be safe from their 'decision' making! James Although the program was even funnier than I was told it would be. I wonder just how many people smirking at them making the wrong decision would be happy to give the order to kill 100 innocent people without the hindsight of knowing the plane was going to crash into parliament. How many people would give the order to seal up a tunnel with a underground train full of injured people on board. Its very easy to mock and laugh at a fictional set up. Or to give advice and opnions in this matter. But how many people would in a real life situation have the guts to order the death of 100's without being 100% that it will save more lives that it loses. And also if it was your wife/girlfriend/husband/boyfriend/child/parent/realtive on the train or plane. Would you be so keen to see them die without being 100% their life would save a lot more? Put me in the chair, I'll make the decision. And stand by it. -- Andrew Electronic communications can be altered and therefore the integrity of this communication can not be guaranteed. Views expressed in this communication are those of the author and not associations or companies I am involved with. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"John Rowland" wrote in message
... "Jason Hovercraft-Bingley" wrote in message ... It's gratifying to see these examples of how much people like you fear The Guardian. I read The Guardian because it's a damned fine newspaper. I initially read The Guardian because people told me it was a damned fine newspaper. Then I tried the Independent, and found it was a little unsettling because every article had a strange "unfinished" feel to it. So I went back to the Guardian. Then I realised that the "unfinished" feeling came about because as a Guardian reader I had come to expect newspapers to tell me what conclusions to draw, and the Independent just gave me the facts and let me draw my own conclusions. So I went back to the Independent. I used to read the Daily Express, but then I realised that if I just printed out a piece of paper ranting about spiralling tax burdens then it would serve pretty much the same function but save me 50p a day. The other great thing about the Independent is that it does exactly what it says on the tin. It may have an overall editorial line, but its columnists are all over the place - you can't really imagine Ken Livingstone with a column in the Daily Mail, can you? Jonn |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 09:00:01 +0000 (UTC), "Night Orca"
wrote: "Nick Cooper 625" wrote in message From the clips shown on 'BBC Breakfast' this AM, the "dilemma" is whether to tryu to rescue the passengers stuck in the rapidly-filling tunnel, or to close, "the watertight doors." Question is, is it still possible to do that?! Yes it is.... Flood gates still exist on the LUL South Ken to Sloane Square being one place Yeah, sure, but take a look them and you see that most/all clearly haven't been moved for decades. The ones in the cross-passageways at Leicester Square got tiled over lat last year. There are the 1939/40-vintage ones at the ends of the Northern & Bakerloo platforms at Waterloo, but are they actually still capable of being closed? Hence my question: "is it _still_ possible to do that?!" -- Nick Cooper [Carefully remove the detonators from my e-mail address to reply!] The London Underground at War: http://www.cwgcuser.org.uk/personal/...ra/lu/tuaw.htm 625-Online - classic British television: http://www.625.org.uk 'Things to Come' - An Incomplete Classic: http://www.thingstocome.org.uk |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
"Jonn Elledge" wrote in message ...
I used to read the Daily Express, but then I realised that if I just printed out a piece of paper ranting about spiralling tax burdens then it would serve pretty much the same function but save me 50p a day. What a great line. I think everyone should use that as their forum signature. |
Command Crisis - BB2 Tue 3 Feb 21.30
It's gratifying to see these examples of how much people like you fear The Guardian. I read The Guardian because it's a damned fine newspaper. The only true newspapers are the Independent, the Guardian, the Telegraph and The Times. The "Daily Maul" can't even climb into the category. JHB. Ironically its the Metro a free newspaper which is the best paper. Not patronising or up its own arse like the Guardian. And not toilet paper like the Daily Star (both newspapers which I read) Incidentically if you live or work near a university like I do. If you go in the university and find a shop selling newspapers your find that due to wanting to catch students early before they become graudates and buy the same paper for the rest of your life. You can get the Times, Guardian and Independent for a price cheaper than any of the red tops. It may only be 20p your saving but if you buy cheap sandwhiches and drinks there too every day your be a lot better off. |
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