BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pross]

I know people give them a lot of bad press but they really do know how to run a business.

 

[AndyRM]

I know people give them a lot of bad press but they really do know how to run a business.

They survived this...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39443585

 

[Pross]

They survived this...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-39443585

I can't even remember hearing that reported so was presumably passed off as a local story.

 

[briantrumpet]

I guess that Mr Simons struggles with adding 2 + 2

 

[AndyRM]

I can't even remember hearing that reported so was presumably passed off as a local story.

Exactly. I dunno how they got away with it.

But then Subway got away with their entire advertising campaign hero being a nonce so apparently nobody cares if they've got tasty comestibles...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Fogle

 

[C R]

We made it to Galicia after two days of evacuation, and now we are at my mums watching the eclipse.

 

[C R]

We made it to Galicia after two days of evacuation, and now we are at my mums watching the eclipse.

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Half way to totality

 

[briantrumpet]

We made it to Galicia after two days of evacuation

Was it something you ate?

 

[C R]

Half way to totality
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And 99.94 occultation

 

[Pblakeney]

Was a damp squib here.

 

[briantrumpet]

A friend of mine went down from here to Valencia for this and to celebrate his burfday, and considering he only used his crap phone and apparently hasn't worked out that the horizon is supposed to be horizontal, it still looks pretty cool.

 

[Pross]

Was a damp squib here.

It was amazing what a difference a few percent makes. Just felt like some thick cloud had gone across the sun.

 

[C R]

It was amazing what a difference a few percent makes. Just felt like some thick cloud had gone across the sun.

The fact that it needs to get to 99% occultation for it to get really dark just shows how much energy the sun dumps on us every second.

 

[C R]

Was it something you ate?

After the first night of evacuation the local police told us that we would be allowed to get our suitcases and hire car from my sisters house. But when we got to the place, the civil guard didn't let us in, so had to wait for the evacuation order to be lifted on Tuesday morning to be able to continue our travel to my mum's. As I told my children, an adventure to tell their grandchildren.

 

[briantrumpet]

After the first night of evacuation the local police told us that we would be allowed to get our suitcases and hire car from my sisters house. But when we got to the place, the civil guard didn't let us in, so had to wait for the evacuation order to be lifted on Tuesday morning to be able to continue our travel to my mum's. As I told my children, an adventure to tell their grandchildren.

Sorry, shouldn't have joked about it. Hope the house is OK, though obviously people come first... everything else is just 'stuff' (as I told myself when I evacuated for one night here in 2022...)