British Earthquakes!

[Omnituens]

While reading a report about the manc "earthquake" the Manchester Evening news while eating my dinner a few minutes ago, I came across this paragraph:

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Discuss last line in that paragraph.

Thought it was the apocalypse prehaps?

[Rupert]

loved one died?

[pos]

Fear of earthquakes... irrational fear took over they could no longer live in fear of another one happening thus killed themselves.
Sounds stupid, but as a person who has a phobia which most people find weird, i can see it happening.

[Cypher]

~5am isnt the best time for me to read badly scanned images... Those poor elves :(

I'd agree with pos. If someone is scared and panics, who knows what they couldnt be driven to do. Or there could've been an accident, non-lifethreatening, like getting trapped, and paniced.

[Jez_Gafys]

Maybe a pair of scissors fell from a shelf, cleaning removing a certain organ ...

[her0n]

"Eleven people are known to have died as the results of British Earthquakes"

Poor use of English there doesn't indicate whether this is over xx years or whether this is directly linked to the recent tremors in Manchester.

Also that aside, shouldn't it read "..as a result of British Earthquakes" ?

[Omnituens]

yeah, i thought that was wrong too.

[Jez_Gafys]

The person who committed suicide must have left a note that mentions the earthquakes, or how would they have non its connected?

[KingDaveRa]

Who is to say that person wasn't a bit unbalanced in the first place.

Still, I didn't know people had actually died from them.

[Rich]

"Eleven people are known to have died as the results of British Earthquakes"

Poor use of English there doesn't indicate whether this is over xx years or whether this is directly linked to the recent tremors in Manchester.

Also that aside, shouldn't it read "..as a result of British Earthquakes" ?

Bear in mind the article may have been written by a northern person and therefore nothing will really make any sense.

[Jez_Gafys]

Bear in mind the article may have been written by a northern person and therefore nothing will really make any sense.


Yeah thats 6 ppl that died from falling stones could have been those working down in the coal mines :D.

[Elbonio]

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I was reading that in the M.E.N last night too :P



We get tremors quite a lot up here in Manc, usually once every couple of years they're big enough to make the news

biggest ones i remeber were a few years ago which like 4 or something on the scale.


edit: and for the record, everyone saying that the article is written badly it's not - it's just out of context here.

The whole article is not about the recent quakes but about why quakes happen a lot in Manchester and how they happen in clusters around the country. It is separate from the news piece about the current quakes and is instead about "british quakes" in general.

[Steadders]

They quoted that same line in The Times today, so the grammar must be correct. I also fail to see how one can die of shock, I mean seriously, were these people part hamster?

[Omnituens]

I think the medical condition is called 'old'

[Cheez]

They quoted that same line in The Times today, so the grammar must be correct. I also fail to see how one can die of shock, I mean seriously, were these people part hamster?

Erm, shock is quite the killer if not treated properly.

[Portia]

Indeed, shock, in a medical sense, is a fairly specific (and very serious) condition.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5477