Shipping Forcast

[craig]

Does anyone understand the Shipping forcast?

All that bloody german bight dogger fisher tony blair lundi forties cromarty bollocks.

What does it all mean?

[Fluffy Wee Cunt]

Come again? :D

[JP]

Shipping forecast (http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ukweather/av/shipping_forecast.ram) ... dont leave home without it.. :titanic:

[Fluffy Wee Cunt]

So basically winds beneath your sails.

[cock-a-leekie]

Ahoy there me ship matey!

Planning a trip around ol dogger in search of pirates? Or ya set to walk the plank me harty?

Be sure to fill up on grog before ya set sail, so you can shiver me timbers with a Yo Ho Ho & a bottle of rum!

[dvtimes]

Use this map.

Its actually interesting to listen to when you use the map:

http://www.metoffice.com/leisure/shiparea.html

http://www.metoffice.com/lib/images/shiparea.gif

[dvtimes]

Does anyone understand the Shipping forcast?

All that bloody german bight dogger fisher tony blair lundi forties cromarty bollocks.

What does it all mean?

Its how the sea is split up.

I love to look at the map, then you understand it.

http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Resources/Weather/Links/images/seaareas.gif

[Shandy McAndy]

For once DVTimes you actually made a post of some interest. Ive learnt something new with your post

[Fluffy Wee Cunt]

I concur. I for one learned name of regions and shapes of land masses depend on where you snatch the graphics file from.

[morefodder]

For once DVTimes you actually made a post of some interest. Ive learnt something new with your post


I concur. I for one learned name of regions and shapes of land masses depend on where you snatch the graphics file from.

I have to agree with both of you ....


Dont fancy where you gotta get to for any dogging though .. :ninja:

[daveydude]

The Shipping News (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120824/) is also a pretty good movie with Kevin Spavey in it.

[mOBSCENE]

Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about the shipping forecast:

Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea ;
Green swift upsurges, North Atlantic flux
Conjured by that strong gale-warning voice
Collapse into a sibilant penumbra...

and so on

Heaney's a wonderful poet - would have to be to make a good poem out of it. My main encounters with the forecast have been when it interrupts crucial moments during Test Match Special (ah, cricket again, even in October, he he!)