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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by AtW View Post

    MF’s sledges

    HTH
    Squirrel sex swings?

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I was reading a Beeb article about day trippers who went to see it arrive.

    I want to know what's on it.
    According to the article, so do the people buying the stuff... which I found a little odd, surely there is an exact inventory?

    A lot of perishables which have to be destroyed, though presumably not too gross as the containers are climate controlled - are they?

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  • AtW
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    I was reading a Beeb article about day trippers who went to see it arrive.

    I want to know what's on it.
    MF’s sledges

    HTH

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  • SueEllen
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    I was reading a Beeb article about day trippers who went to see it arrive.

    I want to know what's on it.

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  • ladymuck
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    It's arrived in Felixstowe four months late

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ur-months-late

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  • vetran
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    The blamestorming has started

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...uez-Canal.html

    Indian crew of the Ever Given face ARREST as Egyptian authorities probe crash that blocked the Suez Canal for a week – amid fears they will be made 'scapegoats' for the chaos
    • Union officials fear the 25-man Indian crew onboard Ever Given could be arrested and 'made scapegoats'
    • Bow of the 220,000-ton Ever Given was finally dislodged from the sandy bank of the Suez Canal on Monday
    • Fleet of tugboats used high tide to pull on the ship while rescue teams vacuumed sand from the canal bank
    • It remained unclear how long it would take to fully re-open the canal with £6.5bn of trade held up every day
    • Japanese-owned vessel got wedged in crucial trading passage last Tuesday, disrupting global shipping

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  • ladymuck
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    Bloomin' copy cats.

    Littlehampton was my childhood stomping ground.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    They should pay the crew proper wages as then they may get people who don't make costly mistakes.

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  • xoggoth
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    Becoming a trend:

    https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1919...g-early-hours/

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
    Bearing in mind all the chinese tat I've ordered on Aliexpress always fails within a week, does that mean it's not even worth opening the stuff I've got on order that's late? Dead on arrival?

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  • NickFitz
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    It's free!

    Suez Canal: Ever Given container ship finally freed

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  • NigelJK
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    given that the stern is hard against the other bank, how will that work?
    Like this:

    The stern of a huge container ship that has been wedged across the Suez Canal for almost a week has been freed from the shoreline, officials say.

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  • SueEllen
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    It's starting to move

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56559904

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  • xoggoth
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    Update:

    Frustration as ship laden with sex toys gets blocked from entering passage
    https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/27/ship-...-jam-14314453/

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  • Paddy
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    A dredge-full situation

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