Russian Immigrants Now?

[DTCwordfan]

Come ashore and our Cornish farmers/miners will see you off.

Can't we hold them hostage?

What would you do with them?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-46602615

[naomi24]

I've just been watching this on the news. Someone was probably asleep.

[237SJ]

I saw that the locals are saying there might be a danger to wildlife due to a vodka spill.

[ichkeria]

Hold them until Russia releases the Ukrainian sailors in Moscow.
And check them for perfume bottles ...

[youngmafbog]

Have those Cornish fellas been tinkering with the lighthouses again?

[DTCwordfan]

or release the Salisbury poisoners. Yes, I've heard the vodka theory too! Bit like the Exxon Valdez when the Captain was interviewed. He said "I asked for a Tanqueray on the Rocks, not the *** ship."

[andres]

I don't find the imminent danger of a 62.000 ton ship crashing to disaster a laughing matter. I hope they manage to save it.

[dannyk13]

Andres, they are hoping to re-float it at high tide.

[andres]

^^^ I hope they do .

[ToraToraTora]

Vodka Galore?

[Peter Pedant]

// I've just been watching this on the news. Someone was probably asleep.//

jesus there must be something wrong in the world if an Aber says ( truly ! [deeply. madly]) - " I can drive a ship better than those Rooshans!"

hey what if the cargo hunters board the ship and the Rooshans say
Vel-come ! all door handles smeared with Novichoki !
Goot luck tovarich !
( which is Rooshan for Comrade and designed to give this story some colour)

yeah and we think ( it is dark see?) that the Rooshans are in fact moroccan immigrants and so we tow them back to France ( free gilets jaunes) - but DON'T ram cocktail stick under their fingernails not because it is cruel or because Putin may be possed but because in the Chrissy season, they have run out of cocktail sticks.....

Prosht babies!

[Jackdaw33]

According to a tweet on the link it's been refloated.

[dannyk13]

Also just been announced on the news.

[Mamyalynne]

https://news.sky.com/story/russian-cargo-ship-runs-aground-off-cornwall-beach-11584651

[Peter Pedant]

oh Great people entering into the crissy spirit ( hur hur hur) on this
can I remind you

IN 1708 in the Great Storm ( Girt Starm locally) Sir Cloudesley Shovell lost the fleet ( memo to self - oops!).
And HE was washed up on the foreshore a bit damp and well used, limp even
and the old woman who found him
espied the equally girt emerald on one digit - clinting in the weak winter sun as the final rays died out ....
so drowned the admiral ( he wasnt much good anyway - certainly not after drowning )
and filched the girt big emerald

and couldnt sell it ( old woman wiv girt emerald = thief, geddit?) and so she kept it and confessed on her own death bed to her evil criminal acts later in that century 0 giving rise to the story

( Shovell family do NOT record a lost girt emerald or anyone in the family in 1700s ) - oh well good story huh?

[thousands of ABers murmur - Cloudsley Shovell - who he den when he's at home? ]

[Peter Pedant]

oops sorry - girt = great in Carnwarl aarrr !

The essex wide boys and girls on AB will be completely aT sea over than one ! sozza to all

[DTCwordfan]

it's been refloated and is off around the point (Pendennis) to the port for a look....

And for happy Andres, it was 16,500 tonnes not the bleeding QE2 or an Exxon Valdex.

[andres]

I bow to your superior knowledge DTC!

[DTCwordfan]

well I do live down here...what they want to look at is the bow that could have scraped itself on the rocks out there....the anchor was far to short and a lack of attention in the control house.....

[Jackdaw33]

If they come ashore all you have to say is:

Добро пожаловать! Водка у вас естъ?

Welcome. Got any vodka?

[DTCwordfan]

A Russian, a Cuban, a Cornish pilot and a marine lawyer are on the Kuzma Minin in Falmouth, stranded near the beach.

The Russian takes a bottle of the best vodka out of his pack; pours some into a glass, drinks it, and says: "In Russia, we have the best vodka in the world, nowhere in the world you can find vodka as good as what we produce and far better than that der'mo in Ukraine. And we have so much of it, that we can just throw it away...".

Saying that, he opens the window and throws the rest of the bottle out the porthole and into the Carrick Straits.

All the others are quite impressed.

The Cuban opens a box of Havanas, takes one of them, lights it and begins to smoke it saying: "In Cuba, we have the best cigars of the world: Havanas. Nowhere in the world are there better cigars, and we have so many of them, that we can just throw them away...". Saying that, he throws the box of Havanas out of the porthole.

One more time, everybody is quite impressed.

The Cornish pilot, having been helicoptered in to guide the boat off the beach when the tide came in, just stood up, opened the porthole wide, and threw the marine lawyer out...