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I've started this thread as a continuation of "My problem with English people", as I'm sure Meritocratic Australia wasn't too happy with us hijacking his thread to talk about tourism and obscure seaside towns (except for Teignmouth, which everyone obviously knows and loves).

I've started this thread as a continuation of "My problem with English people", as I'm sure Meritocratic Australia wasn't too happy with us hijacking his thread to talk about tourism and obscure seaside towns (except for Teignmouth, which everyone obviously knows and loves).

Well I don't think we were very happy with his generalisation of english people, so he can get over it!

Well I don't think we were very happy with his generalisation of english people, so he can get over it!

Well, at least we know that people from Devon are all lovely.
:)

Well, at least we know that people from Devon are all lovely.
:)
I like somerset. Is that included in this thread?

w007 for wookie hole!

Well, at least we know that people from Devon are all lovely.
:)

Read my name. It's all there!

I like somerset. Is that included in this thread?

w007 for wookie hole!

Sure! What's Somerset like? I've never been there.

By the way, you just reminded me to edit my profile, Loveliness and hope2!

I like somerset. Is that included in this thread?

w007 for wookie hole!

Somerset should be included as it is part of the unknown counties.
By this I mean that most people are of the opinion that nothing much exists below Bristol, although there is a faint recognition of there being quaint little places that people go on holiday.

Somerset should be included as it is part of the unknown counties.
By this I mean that most people are of the opinion that nothing much exists below Bristol, although there is a faint recognition of there being quaint little places that people go on holiday.
My mates dad is a member of a caving club around wookie hole. Because he works in bristol, he has to stay in a hotel 5 nights a week. By hotel, I mean his old local from when he lived in somerset. Lucky bastard. And he gets to use explosives and stuff when he's looking for new cave systems. Somerset rocks (the home of cider!)

although there is a faint recognition of there being quaint little places that people go on holiday.

And cottages, of course.

And cottages, of course.

and combine harvesters

and combine harvesters
*resists urge to break into rendition of...well, I'm sure you know*

Heh. I'm from Lancashire. It's wet and cold. I wanna live in cornwall

My mates dad is a member of a caving club around wookie hole. Because he works in bristol, he has to stay in a hotel 5 nights a week. By hotel, I mean his old local from when he lived in somerset. Lucky bastard. And he gets to use explosives and stuff when he's looking for new cave systems. Somerset rocks (the home of cider!)

Caving clubs are allowed to use explosives to open new caves? Every day's a school day.

no no no im sorry but ... Devon?

why? ...... Cornwall is much better lol

*resists urge to break into rendition of...well, I'm sure you know*

Heh. I'm from Lancashire. It's wet and cold. I wanna live in cornwall
Cornwall is also, and perhaps surprisingly, wet and cold. Too close to that bloody Atlantic nonsense.

My mates dad is a member of a caving club around wookie hole. Because he works in bristol, he has to stay in a hotel 5 nights a week. By hotel, I mean his old local from when he lived in somerset. Lucky bastard. And he gets to use explosives and stuff when he's looking for new cave systems. Somerset rocks (the home of cider!)
If your mate's dad is caving with explosives, it's no wonder Somerset rocks.

no no no im sorry but ... Devon?

why? ...... Cornwall is much better lol

Noooo they eat their scones the wrong way!
Other than that, we have dartmoor which is gorgeous to visit and as mentioned before, the people are lovely.

cant beat clotted cream!
well what about the good ole cornish pasty, in devon, they're crimped along the top .... THE TOP!!

cant beat clotted cream!
well what about the good ole cornish pasty, in devon, they're crimped along the top .... THE TOP!!

Are they meant to be crimped along the bottom, then?

*resists urge to break into rendition of...well, I'm sure you know*


The Snowman song?

cant beat clotted cream!
well what about the good ole cornish pasty, in devon, they're crimped along the top .... THE TOP!!

Like you said, you can't beat clotted cream. Therefore even though you make a pont about the pasties. the scone thing overrrides it.

Do many people actually eat cream teas? Personally I've only eaten cream teas a couple of times in my life, but I eat croissants all the time.

If your mate's dad is caving with explosives, it's no wonder Somerset rocks.
Yeah, and they accidentally undermined the pub when they were looking for a new cave system. Did health and safety come down on THAT one like a tonne of bricks.

Oh, and they only used the explosives because some other eejits had tried to tunnel into the cave system by digging a thin vertical tunnel, then tried to fill it with concrete afterwards. Some cavers may be cool, but most are drunk

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Some cavers may be cool, but most are drunk
True dat. My first college was the Royal School of Mines, there were cavers all over the shop. Mostly drunk and swapping stories about how nice it is to warm yourself up by pissing inside your wetsuit.

Don't they get cave-ins, though?

Don't they get cave-ins, though?
Oddly enough no. They used the explosives on the surface, then dug down at a certain depth. His dad told me that they guessed how deep to use the TNT, and they were lucky. Only 2 stress fractures in the rock. Its a cave system that links to wookie hole, and was previously uncharted, so they weren't even sure that they were using explosives in entirely the right spot.

The blast radius is massive, though. Last time I was there, the hole was 40m wide and 15 deep. With a digger on a steep rail system, which collapsed one day just after the last man got out of the hole

Oddly enough no. They used the explosives on the surface, then dug down at a certain depth. His dad told me that they guessed how deep to use the TNT, and they were lucky. Only 2 stress fractures in the rock. Its a cave system that links to wookie hole, and was previously uncharted, so they weren't even sure that they were using explosives in entirely the right spot.

The blast radius is massive, though. Last time I was there, the hole was 40m wide and 15 deep. With a digger on a steep rail system, which collapsed one day just after the last man got out of the hole

Oh, for some reason I assumedthat they used it underground to blast into adjoining caves.
I've never heard of Wookie Hole, though. Is it quite a famous cave, like Kent's cavern?

Oh, for some reason I assumedthat they used it underground to blast into adjoining caves.
I've never heard of Wookie Hole, though. Is it quite a famous cave, like Kent's cavern?
You...could say that, yes. It has all the witchy folklore. And they weren't blasting into adjoining caves, they were making a decent sized exit to one of the cave routes.

Wookie hole is near the cheddar gorge.

Oh, and one last thing. I always get the really sad, geeky urge to shout "Don't worry, Chewy!" every time I go. Sometimes I even imitate the big hairy lump

Rrrooawwr!