Durdle Door

[tiggerblue10]

Does anyone know this area and is it normal for people to jump off this cliff into the sea?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-52864454

If the pictures are from today then social distancing seems to be a thing of the past now.

[woofgang]

not just the grocks. The people I know of who were injured were locals.

[woofgang]

"Didn't we all jump from great heights (sometimes into water) when we were kids or drunken teenagers? "

no.

[youngmafbog]

I'm sure there were(and will continue to be) some locals. Just I never knew of any. Most true locals will know the power of water round here with two rivers and a ruddy great sea.

[Prudie]

I've not seen anything on local news this morning that suggests anyone died, just airlifted to hospital.

[retrocop]

Ymfb
Do I qualify as a ‘Grock’?
I own a house in Burton just inside the Dorset border. :-)

[ToraToraTora]

no retro, you're not a grock, bit further over you could be in the old Empire of Hampshire!

[gulliver1]

Well surely Durdle Door is a lot nearer than Durham , or Barnard Castle. PMSL.

[vulcan42]

Once again, gulliver, with his great perspicacity, enlightens us all.

[Spicerack]

We should have a whip round to get him some incontinence pants.

[tiggerblue10]

What on Io is a 'Grock'?

[gulliver1]

LOL.

[fiveleaves]

Looking at these photos of beaches, there is such a thing as perspective. People in the distance will look very close together

[ToraToraTora]

it's short for Grockle it's what the indigenous population call the holiday makers that visit Dorset coast from Xch to Poole, possibly further.

[tiggerblue10]

Ah ok, thanks.

In that case I was a 'Grock' around 12 years ago then ;o)

[Bazile]

//Sex in the graveyard is far safer than jumping off a cliff.//

//And we know this how...?//

Well , I would have thought that having sex while jumping off a cliff , would be obviously more dangerous

[woofgang]

they are called grocks in somerset and hants too

[woofgang]

also grockles or grackles....I understand its because they are like seagulls

[tiggerblue10]

Maybe if you were a lemming.

[gulliver1]

Baz 11.51 Nice one BAZ, Now that would be a jump.

[pastafreak]

I thought grockle was used all across the West Country...including Cornwall.