Hard News: RT: Eyjafjallajokull
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It will be very interesting to see how people get around this cloud. If its going to last for another week or so, then maybe they could be diverting long hauls from London to somewhere like Rabat (or Casablanca, that would be snazzy) and get people to bundle on to boats at South Hampton.
Somehow I don't see that happening, but it would be so pre WW2 world travel.
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Latest: No end in sight and Katla eruption still not out of the question.
I noted a little while ago that a suburban volcano in Auckland would take out Auckland airport for weeks or months. Hopefully won't coincide with Rugby World Cup 2011.
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Hopefully won't coincide with Rugby World Cup 2011.
Are you kidding? We'd have the captive, stranded tourists we've always hoped for.
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Not only people. Our business has a 3rd party warehouse in China where we supply all of our EU customers from. Freight backlogged for weeks, if not months. Looking at flying it into Turkey, then road from there to UK. And our stuff isn't 'important' (lingerie - well for some of us it is, but you know what I mean!)'.
I imagine loads of perishables rotting in various airports in Asia & US. -
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That was actually quite scary.
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So seriously does anyone know how to pronounce that? I'm not sure I even know how to start...
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So seriously does anyone know how to pronounce that?
Sure. (Care of Wikimedia.)
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That was actually quite scary.
I was scared watching the simulations of the activity of Egmont Volcano (as opposed to Mount Taranaki) at the New Plymouth museum last week. The region changed shape quite impressively.
(To say nothing of when it was Taupo that remodelled the Taranaki.)
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If you have trouble playing the Wiki .ogg file, I've uploaded an MP3 of the pronunciation.
Not that it really helps.
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I imagine loads of perishables rotting in various airports in Asia & US.
And a lot of Kenyan farm workers being laid off.
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Concluding thought: the Icelandic language would seem to be a rich trove of un-guessable passwords …
Eyjafjallajökull?
It would be very funny if [people] around the world started copying and pasting this into the password fields. I can hear the screams already. "Shit, how do you do that bloody dotty thing again?"
Edit: IT-geeks wouldn't be that stupid, right? Now, where's my password cracker...
And here's some erudite ABC reporters making fun of a whole culture and their language. I can safely say my guess at the pronunciation was not even close. How to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull.
@RB. Snap.
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The UK press/government has apparently started muttering about using the Royal Navy to get stranded passengers home.
My mind is boggling at the thought of long lines of tourists snaking down the beaches in Northern France (lets say for the sake of argument in the region of, ohhhh I dunno, Dunkirk...), the roads behind them littered with the detrius of a hasty retreat: discarded Louis Vuitton luggage knock-offs, straw hats and bottles of odd foreign liqueurs, and clogged with hastily abandoned hire cars.
Still, on the bright side, no northern European country should have any problems meeting its Kyoto commitments this year.
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Dodgy bankers, dodgy volcanoes, lesbian PMs, whaling, massive public debt. Iceland has a lot to answer for!
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And an anthropomorphically unnerving picture from the air.
The headline Surtur smiles is (obviously - duh!) a reference to Surtr the jötunn, signalling the arrival of Ragnarök.
We're all doomed.
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Last time Eyjafjallajökull erupted it was for on and off for two years (1821 - 1823).
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I think this is the right place to tell you all about Höpöhöpö Böks, which is an Icelandic poem composed using only one vowel, making it a univocal lipogram.
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Reports indicate a shortage of tropical fruit is imminent, green beans are in short supply and a crisis looms in Kenyan flower supplies.
Truly, armageddon is upon us.
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Now, if only that Icelandic poet above could rap. That would be something...
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Paul Litterick has an excellent post up at The Fundy Post: Climbing Mount Unpronounceable
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Hopefully won't coincide with Rugby World Cup 2011.
are you kidding? those of us who are dreading the RWC have already started out on the volcano worship .... these days it seems virgins are hard to come by which means the rugby people have little chance of stopping us ....
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I'm assuming that pronunciation MP3 is of a native Icelander and is thoroughly accurate - it's just that it sounds like someone saying "Eyafsmumblemumble", as though they don't know how to pronounce it either and are trying to bluff their way through... Nice to know that I was at least getting the first two syllables right, though.
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And an anthropomorphically unnerving picture from the air.
Are we really surprised that Volcano Whose Name Cannot Be Spoken turns out to be a portal to the deepest reaches of hell? If they'd just called it Mt Fluffy Bunnies we wouldn't be in this mess...
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Airlines testing low-altitude flights, desperate to get in the air again? I imagine some interesting conversations with insurers.
Dodgy bankers, dodgy volcanoes
Best line I saw on Twitter (from @Chelfyn or our @DavidSlack, I believe):
"It was the last wish of the Icelandic economy that its ashes be scattered over Europe"
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So how about the people actually making those test flights then???
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