What's up with the Times today?

[zathras]

Perhaps it was the firing of live ammunition that scared the dolphins.

If I heard a bomb, my first thought would probably be '*h*t, run!' (or 'swim!', in the dolphins' case.)

That reminds me of a story when the BBC was filming in Belfast. The IRA took exception to the programmes subject (getting youngsters into work) that they planted a fairly large bomb down the road.

Anyway said bomb went off knocked out a couple of cameras. All the teenagers ran around screaming. The crew many of whom lived in London during the Blitz as kids lived with V1 and V2's blowing up the odd house just stood around waiting for the dust to settle.

(The above never happened as we all know that terrorism is such a new thing because Tony Blair told us so. )

[ace00]

Actually a lot of the papers are having a go at DD.
I think they misjudge the mood. It's not about politics, but integrity. Either that or it's very cunning politics.

[Torran]

"Britain shamed as Iraqi interpreters are resettled in squalid tower blocks"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4124673.ece

I don't get this. Are they not then saying that accomodation in Glasgow is not fit for Iraqi (refugee) habitation. What about the Scots? Guess it's OK for them then?

And secondly, they're having a good dig at Dave Davies:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4124674.ece

Have they been assimilated to the NL collective

tbh mate a few months living with the scum that inhabit some of the Glasgow schemes will have them queing up to get back on a plane to Iraq. Just wait until a cold, rainy month like November

As for the scots who live there most of them are too wired out their brains to give a tulip where they live.

[Spacecadet]

And secondly, they're having a good dig at Dave Davies:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4124674.ece

Have they been assimilated to the NL collective

Rupert Murdoch is the key

Ex-Sun editor Kelvin Mackenzie says he is likely to take on David Davis in a by-election if Labour does not stand.
...
The former editor, who now writes a column for The Sun, told This Week he had been promised financial support by the newspaper's proprietor Rupert Murdoch.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7452264.stm

[SizeZero]

Perhaps it was the firing of live ammunition that scared the dolphins.

If I heard a bomb, my first thought would probably be '*h*t, run!' (or 'swim!', in the dolphins' case.)

[Churchill]

As I don't know much about sonar, and notwithstanding that journalists are usually planks, please explain why this is not a reasonable hypothesis?

Passive means it doesn't emit a signal. It just listens!

The only way you can kill something with passive sonar is by clubbing/strangling it to death with the receiving array!

The clue is in the title.

[sasguru]

Passive sonar caused the dolphins to strand? Oh my, that is the funniest thing I've heard for a while.

As I don't know much about sonar, and notwithstanding that journalists are usually planks, please explain why this is not a reasonable hypothesis?

[threaded]

really scary military sort: "passive" sonar.

Passive sonar caused the dolphins to strand? Oh my, that is the funniest thing I've heard for a while.

Some people really are planks. If he covered his eyes then maybe he wouldn't see the dolphins stranding, and then there's no problem...

[NotAllThere]

... like mobile phone masts do to children...The scaremongering 'journalist' should be strung up...

don't
RichardCranium

[RichardCranium]

I still haven't got over their insane 3 page rant about how the Royal Navy caused the dolphin strandings. The proof is in how the Royal Navy claim they weren't there, so they must be guilty, and they used a sinister form of sonar. Not the high, medium or low frequency sorts (which probably rot dolphin brains like mobile phone masts do to children) but the really scary military sort: "passive" sonar.

The scaremongering 'journalist' should be strung up and the editor sacked.

[ace00]

"Britain shamed as Iraqi interpreters are resettled in squalid tower blocks"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4124673.ece

I don't get this. Are they not then saying that accomodation in Glasgow is not fit for Iraqi (refugee) habitation. What about the Scots? Guess it's OK for them then?

And secondly, they're having a good dig at Dave Davies:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle4124674.ece

Have they been assimilated to the NL collective