General Discussion

looking at the herald express today on the internet and there is a video with a satelite crashing near paignton pier take a look for yourselves it looks real to me lol

I thought it was cats that had nine lives, not dogs.

Maybe that explains all the questions about poor TV reception 

I was there.  It's real but is nothing to do with Dawlish TV reception so nothing to worry about there.  What is worrying though is why the satellite has crashed - there have been similar reports in India, Mexico, Australia and South Africa.  Something is taking out our communications systems perhaps but the government is not making a statement that makes any sense - are they covering something up?

the satelite coming out of the sky crashing on the beach was real or is it just an april fool

yes

Are you lot too young or too foolish to know April Fool ends at noon?!  La Fir Polo?  Lame!

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/VIDEO-Satellite-crashes-Paignton-Beach/story-20891565-detail/story.html

I prefer the conspiracy theory story which explains the April Fool cover-up.  Also the idea of the April Fool being reversed at midday is just a relatively modern invention - probably just an April Fool trick itself originally.

I can confirm that the satellite did crash in Paignton.  

So can I, as sure as my name is Elvis Presley.

Yes DP, but was it the La Fir Polo as reported by the paper or its sister satellite, the La Il Proof? 

Hope the owner of the dog picked up.

@Lynne.  the paper got the name wrong.  three of us have now confirmed the story - me, don pearson & elvis presley - and we surely all have enough nous not to be taken in by government cover-ups.  how many people does it take to confirm something as true?  answers please in under 500 words.  the truth is out there.  you must just believe.

and the NSA are monitoring this thread - they've taken capital letters out of the start of my sentences to try to discredit me - someone who can't write properly can surely not be be;ieved ...........

the nsa must have been monitoring a lot of threads on here then if they're the ones responsible for the missing capital letters!

wot a give away eh?you'da thought they'd be more subtle than that. i dunno. spies these days gone to pot the lot of 'em.

now, when i was a youngster..............  

Yes, Lynne, spying is not what it once was ..... those halcyon days of dry martinis on caribbean shores waiting for some voluptuous beauty (of either sex) to emerge from crystal waters, dripping sensually and clutching a large conch shell containing microfilm of the plans for the world's satellite systems which are gradually being destroyed ...... those were indeed the days, once you'd come back in from the cold of course.

You may yet be in luck ... judging by European events there could be new opportunities for 'Cold War' experts

My alias was Blonde. Jayne Blonde. 

and for those with a more academic inclination - post graduate degrees in spying are now on offer http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/msc-in-cyber-security-gchq-to-approve-postgraduate-degree-courses-in-spying-9242466.html