4 minute warning

[heather11]

If we had the "four minute warning" what would you do?

[joxville]

Poo my pants.

Or cry.

Or both.

[joxville]

I suppose having an egg boiled for 5 mins would be a waste of time. Maybe a minute steak would be better to end it all on. :)

[Invisible]

Well if JT and Madonna start singing that song I would crack open a beer

[heather11]

I dont think food would be top of the list!!

[joxville]

Would looking up at the sky and shouting 'go away bad bombs' help? :eek:

[heather11]

No, hopefully I would be on "cloud nine at the time"!!!:Razz

[bluechesse]

Wish I was further away.

[joxville]

With any luck I'll be making love to Katie Melua at the time. We may even manage to do it another 7 times! ;)


[lol]

[heather11]

In four minutes - you are ambitious!!

[Fran]

Get the cat and the dog and go under the table

[ducati]

Get the cat and the dog and go under the table

Thank good planning that I would be at least 500 miles away from where the nearest bomb landed.

[riggerboy]

sit on the chair and laugh, telling mrs rig to get the kettle on,

[EDDIE]

I would start smoking again

[Ricco]

Would we really get 4 minutes with modern ultra-sonic rockets? Cool! I used to think that I would jump in the car and get as far as possible. However, it would take me 4 minutes just to get to the motorway junction... and we live 8 miles away from where they make nuclear triggers.

I used to work evenings at a pub where there was a 4-min hotline. It was the only warning the village would get. When it sounded you were supposed to put on a tin hat and go round the village with a bell! Very 40's!

[Errogie]

I think I had something like that moment back in the sixties. I was working in a sheep fank near Spittal dosing or injecting a couple of hundred of the wooly four footed clansmen. A couple of jets had flown past in a westerly direction and when I looked up from the ewe I was treating a plume of smoke erupted in the general direction of Dounereay.

Of course the thought went through my mind is this it, how many minutes left to enjoy what was left of a young life and stranded in a pen of sheep. Stuck for choice! A few minutes into this quandry a helicopter came over heading in the same direction as the smoke to pick up the pilot of a Bucanneer which had come down somewhere at the back of Reay.

[Mik.M.]

With any luck I'll be making love to Katie Melua at the time. We may even manage to do it another 7 times! ;)


[lol]
The only place that will happen is in that baldie heid of yours! :lol:

[JustMe]

Would looking up at the sky and shouting 'go away bad bombs' help? :eek:


No worries really if you think about it, we are safe:D
Remember this is caithness, nobody knows anything exist north of Inverness.[lol]

[joxville]

Would we really get 4 minutes with modern ultra-sonic rockets? Cool! I used to think that I would jump in the car and get as far as possible. However, it would take me 4 minutes just to get to the motorway junction... and we live 8 miles away from where they make nuclear triggers.

I used to work evenings at a pub where there was a 4-min hotline. It was the only warning the village would get. When it sounded you were supposed to put on a tin hat and go round the village with a bell! Very 40's!
Is it Burghfield you're referring too? I'm 300 yards from AWE Aldermaston so will be one of those that will be vapourised. :eek:

[joxville]

The only place that will happen is in that baldie heid of yours! :lol:

I know.......unfortunately. :(

[tonkatojo]

With any luck I'll be making love to Katie Melua at the time. We may even manage to do it another 7 times! ;)


[lol]

your being a bit premature there JOX.. ;)

[bekisman]

A few minutes into this quandry a helicopter came over heading in the same direction as the smoke to pick up the pilot of a Bucanneer which had come down somewhere at the back of Reay.


Being 'out west' interested so had a quick look, found this: http://www.ukserials.com/losses_index.htm blinking heck, lot of aircraft falling out of the sky!

[lynne duncan]

if bairns and hubby at home would hug them and tell them how proud i am, if not I would be playing bejewelled as usual and probably not even notice

[northener]

I think I had something like that moment back in the sixties. I was working in a sheep fank near Spittal dosing or injecting a couple of hundred of the wooly four footed clansmen. A couple of jets had flown past in a westerly direction and when I looked up from the ewe I was treating a plume of smoke erupted in the general direction of Dounereay.

Of course the thought went through my mind is this it, how many minutes left to enjoy what was left of a young life and stranded in a pen of sheep. Stuck for choice..... I did what any desperate young man would do.


Fixed it for you, Errogie.;)

[Vistravi]

With any luck I'll be making love to Katie Melua at the time. We may even manage to do it another 7 times! ;)


[lol]


In four minutes - you are ambitious!!

The viagra helps ;)

[changilass]

I would get a dram, then have a hug with my loved ones on the sofa.

Would even allow the dog on the furniture for once.

Having said that, with the dowg on the sofa ther would be no room for anyone else.

[Errogie]

Thanks Bekisman (and Northener!). My crash must have been the Bucaneer that came down south of Strathy in September '69. What a record of accidents over the years.

[Whitewater]

With any luck I'll be making love to Katie Melua at the time. We may even manage to do it another 7 times! ;)


[lol]

Seven times in in 4 minutes. Hmmm!!! I think I would just be getting into my stride after 4 minutes.

[achingale]

Run into my nuclear bunker of course which just happens to be at the bottom of my garden. :lol:

[bekisman]

Thanks Bekisman (and Northener!). My crash must have been the Bucaneer that came down south of Strathy in September '69. What a record of accidents over the years.

Yep, never realised we lost so many military aircraft, early Harriers seemed prone to it!

[Lumberjack]

I don't know what I would do myself, probably have a smoke.
It brings me back to a comment my brother made last year.
"Oh aye, if the 4 minute warning went, there would probably be some clown panning in Graeme Beggs' window and making off with a plasma telly".

[-Sarah-]

If I was alone I recon I would have a quite moment like at the end of "American Beauty" and be grateful for my time but hopfully not get shot in the head. If with anyone else tell them how amazing they are.

[George Brims]

I would probably spend half the four minutes explaining to my kids what a four minute warning IS. I don't think I've heard that expression in twenty or more years. Perhaps the world is making progress after all.

[ducati]

Wait for it....put my head between my knees and kiss my .............



Goodbye :D

[Ricco]

Is it Burghfield you're referring too? I'm 300 yards from AWE Aldermaston so will be one of those that will be vapourised. :eek:

It is Burghfield. Yep, AWE would be a nasty place to be!

[cuddlepop]

put the kettle on to fast boil so I at least have time to finish my cup of tea.:eek:

[JAWS]

The only thing to do is go outside and enjoy the display. After all, it will be the only chance you'll ever get to see it because you certainly won't be getting another.

[northener]

Survive, consolidate my position and carry on living.

[Sarah]

OK I feel a bit silly asking this, but whats the 4 minute warning?

[RELAX]

OK I feel a bit silly asking this, but whats the 4 minute warning?
Its what you get when scotland kick off with their first international match .