Bigphoot2
Not sprouts! I hate sprouts.
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I'm sure he was, but dosn't make him a good actor!
Maybe he was acting at being a nice guy.
I'm sure he was, but dosn't make him a good actor!
Is your cousin's daughter Limmy, and has Gerard Butler died?My cousin's daughter met him when she worked in a bar - said he was great fun, very down to earth and friendly with everyone.
The wife and I watched this last night. It’s bad. I really can’t write any more than that!
Just watched The Vanishing tonight.
I agree. That beardy Dutchman could never have whizzed up to Flannan and got all those men into his hole.
Mind you, there are Dutchmen . . .
I assumed they were Faroese, Norwegian or Icelandic.
I read somewhere that when the relief party first turned up at the lighthbouse they found "We're Going to Hang Out the Washing on The Sigfried Line" playing on an old gramophone. ...
??? ... Really? Or were you just setting up the pun?
I assumed Norwegian too.Dutch? I assumed they were Faroese, Norwegian or Icelandic.
I assumed Norwegian too.
I've sailed past that a few times (but not in weather like that!)
Not particularly. The problem is that 'wave' has two subtly different meanings. The oceanographic one is a a solid mass of moving water. Most of the waves you see hitting the shore aren't, technically, waves, but remnants of waves. Worth bearing in mind if you ever read woo-merchants insisting that no wave 200 feet high has ever been recorded, therefore the Flannan keepers must have been abducted by aliens, or whatever. Technically true, waves aren't that high, but huge volumes of water do reach that high, and higher, when sea meets land in a storm, certainly enough to do serious damage at a high level.If it was a storm that is being held up as the reason for their disappearance, then it must have been a gigantic wave that caused the damage - this web-page well-describes the damage that was found afterwards!
https://www.abandonedspaces.com/pub...ved-mystery-of-the-three-missing-keepers.html
I think dear Gerard struck it lucky with 300 and has not really found his feet since. He has that air of someone who can't really believehis luck, who feels he might be rumbled at any time. I saw him in an American film years back with Billy Connelly{excuse spelling}some time travel nonsense, not even straight to DVD but straight to TV. It should be in the Worst Film Ever thread, but I forgot about it. I do love Billy Connelly, though,but not so much in films.
Long story short, most likely explanation - washed off the rock by giant waves. Some mystery as to why all 3 vanished when it was against policy for all three men to be outside the lighthouse at the same time, & one man wasn't wearing his coat in [presumably] stormy weather in December - the other two were wearing oilskins.
They all spontaneously combusted in a furious drunken masturbation event that went too far.
Malcolm Stewart in his Ronay (1933) doesnt make a big deal of it. (Recently found a copy...<claps hands in glee>)
He thinks the big wave theory is most likley
But, certainly a mysterious place, his accounts of the rituals of the fowlers attest to a degree of dread.
Unprecedented - that word again!3 keepers vanishing from a lighthouse no big deal? It's probably unprecedented.
Unprecedented - that word again!
Relax, just referring to the repeated use of the word in the media these days.What's your problem with it? Has there been another instance of 3 lighthouse keepers disappearing?
Relax, just referring to the repeated use of the word in the media these days.
I liked him in 'law abiding citizen'Anything with Gerard Butler is bad.