Am I the only one sick of "Miracle on the Hudson?"

[Tisiphone]

For us in the states. Yes, it's cool that the pilot saved the day and landed the plane in the Hudson, and nobody was killed or seriously injured. But for over two weeks, this shit is still going on. ENOUGH.

 

[Ishcabittle]

yeah, it's a slow news month. the bit about that story i like is that one of the survivors snapped a photo from his iphone and posted it to twitter before the rescue was even underway.

 

[Tisiphone]

I saw this morning one of the talk shows had a reunion type thing, and a girl that was on the plane who is a "singer" performed for the pilot and others. She's probably trying to get a record deal through this.

 

[whisky]

Did she do anything by John Denver?

 

[Fuddlemiff]

Something by Blink 182 might also be appropriate. Their drummer survived a plane crash and now they're having a reunion.

Over here we haven't too much about it since the initial media flurry. The snow here has blotted out any follow up stories and now the Australian fires are the main story.

 

[Tisiphone]

Barely seen anything here about the wildfires, though I was doing a local news show from Maryland, and they mentioned that the fires were set on purpose and at least 130 people were dead.

 

[CaptainWacky]

The Australian fires shoudl shame the british news services for reporting about the horrors of SNOW for the last few weeks. Those fires were a REAL natural disaster.

 

[Cassie]

I read about the fires in the paper this morning.. surprisingly there wasn't a story about the plane crash reunion!

 

[whisky]

Did they invite the flock of birds that brought them down?

 

[Tisiphone]

No, but Flock of Seagulls also sang to them.

 

[whisky]

I wonder if Steven Segal has ever been sucked into a jet engine?

 

[Tisiphone]

Fabio probably called the pilot to tell him he'd been in a similar situation.

 

[Archibald Nixon]

I love it when the the nerves-of-steel hero in these stories has a name like Chesley Sullenberger.

When the second booster rocket exploded, the captain calmly said "Drop 'er" and detached the shuttle from the spinning fireball that a split-second before had been the external fuel tank, and proceeded to glide his charred but intact spacecraft down to the airstrip for a landing.

"I did what anybody would have done," said captain Gaylord Ballhauser, once everyone was safely on the ground.

 

[FBI parte due]

This is an actual painting that was auctioned off on eBay.

 

[Sadistic Bastard]

I agree. Enough.

Pilot did what he's trained to do, and did it well. Yeah him. Put him on the "last to be laid off" list and let him go back to his life. The Passengers can take their 5k for their $50 worth of luggage and count themselves lucky they aren't fish-shit by now.

HOWEVER, with all of the doom and gloom, it's about the only "feel good" story out there (now that the octuplits mom has turned out to be a nut-case). The media will milk it for awhile longer.
-SB

 

[Cassie]

What the hell is Obama doing to that unicorn?

 

[CaptainWacky]

Is that a wookiee face on the left?

 

[Cassie]

No, that's a fishman-thing from an old sci fi movie, I think.

 

[SaintLucifer]

For us in the states. Yes, it's cool that the pilot saved the day and landed the plane in the Hudson, and nobody was killed or seriously injured. But for over two weeks, this shit is still going on. ENOUGH.

Well, I for one am quite unhappy that the pilot saved all those fucking Americans! A shame, for that would have meant fewer Americans for the world to deal with. The man should be fucking ashamed of himself! Had he let them drown, I would have presented him with a medal myself.

 

[Dr Dave]

What the hell is Obama doing to that unicorn?

And why is he naked?