Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

father_jack

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100918/twl ... d0ae9.html

:roll:

gmb

Give it two weeks and that will be a game show on ITV4.

Pokerface

I'm surprised it hasn't caught on in the UK already! (But I bet those Colombians have that little extra 'get up and go' that helps them jump off the tracks pretty quick) 8)

dennisn

Glad I'm not that bored with my life.

lae

The title of the thread is the exact line that Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) says in the beginning of Aliens when she was told that there was no indigenous life on LV426.

SLX01

Pokerface wrote:

I'm surprised it hasn't caught on in the UK already! (But I bet those Colombians have that little extra 'get up and go' that helps them jump off the tracks pretty quick) 8)

With the quality of train operators in the UK you would never know when the train was due to arrive and could quite easily fall asleep waiting!

verylonglegs

Pokerface wrote:

I'm surprised it hasn't caught on in the UK already! (But I bet those Colombians have that little extra 'get up and go' that helps them jump off the tracks pretty quick) 8)

I thought it already had been and gone in the UK, there were similiar stories around when I was a teenager in the early nineties about this kind of thing, its certainly nothing new.

Dunk_911

I work on the railway and that is worrying - idiots.

You wouldnt get away with it in the UK, the underneath of the train is such that it clears the ballast (gravel) by only several inches in some places.

Any dumb kids reading; please no one do it :roll: Because even if you do survive it the driver has to report an accident immediately and then the line is closed etc. while the parramedics get the great job of looking for your body. And a soon as you are identified, you or your NOK get fined and the fine for trespassing on a railway is quite mahoosive.

So wanna play with trains? Get a hornby

Sorry for the /rant which is now over.

father_jack

No kids, please do. Remove yourselves from the genepool



poor kitty

Ollieda

In all fairness, them doing it with the trains over there is a lot safer than kids playing in the streets with cars!

Obviously doing it over here would be silly and dangerous with our trains as explained before, and even more stupid if you do it in an area that has electric trains.....and the 3rd rail!

bexley5200

whatever