Thundering Stupidity

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Can't get over the number of people on the Rye and Goose Green sheltering under trees in a lightning storm.

Don't do it people!

[woofmarkthedog]

No sit under an umbrella or better a climbing frame

[KidKruger]

carry a large javelin and point it straight up into the sky to avoid all lightening, you can only do this successfully in wide open spaces like the park.

[Sue]

:))

[lenk]

TIP:

You need to build a Faraday cage to protect yourself - if there's any metal benches about on the Rye they would make good material to build one with.

[Domitianus]

I recommend that all women wear extensively underwired bras when venturing out in weather like this!

[KalamityKel]

Or be me standing under umbrella holding a metal rod in the air whilst trying quite pathetically to unblock a drain fighting against chunks of ice, wind... with me rolled up trousers and sleeves.

Now have given up and sporting an attractive pair of muddy legs, a soaking back and a red over worked face... roll on 8pm when I can go home!

[SteveT]

Yes Kel dear, but other than that, how's your day been?

[Brendan]

Natural selection PGC, natural selection. The world has too many people anyway so the inability to make a simple deduction of causality or at least have some grasp of widely known colloquial wisdom are as good a grounds as any to determine those we can do without.

[HonaloochieB]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Natural selection PGC, natural selection. The

> world has too many people anyway so the inability

> to make a simple deduction of causality or at

> least have some grasp of widely known colloquial

> wisdom are as good a grounds as any to determine

> those we can do without.

Thick as sh!t innit, B.

[Brendan]

Word.

[Muley]

Ha, I channeled the lightening through a conductor on the town hall roof to an old De Lorian car, and am posting this from the future.

Have become small and Canadian though.

[jaybee82]

I generally tend to shoot up to Dulwich and Sydenham for a quick round of golf whenever there's lightning. Adds a certain degree of risk to any game!

[HonaloochieB]

jaybee82 Wrote:

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> I generally tend to shoot up to Dulwich and

> Sydenham for a quick round of golf whenever

> there's lightning. Adds a certain degree of risk

> to any game!

As Fr Stone found to his cost.

[evelknievel]

Jaybee, as Lee Trevino once said, if you get caught in a thunderstorm on the golf course stand in the open with your one iron held in the air. Even god can't hit a one iron.

[AcedOut]

Sit in your car. Only Faraday Cage I have knocking around.

[Eliza.D]

jaybee82 Wrote:

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> I generally tend to shoot up to Dulwich and

> Sydenham for a quick round of golf whenever

> there's lightning. Adds a certain degree of risk

> to any game!

We used to go to Brockwell lido after school for a swim when it rained and it was a bonus if there was a thunder storm.