I said that to Bungle the other day and he thought I was calling him dense when I accused him of deliberately being stupid. So it's definitely not a case of more intelligence.

Oh, the RNLI was the problem, silly me, why don't people just look it up, as I do with some American, British and other local terms or expressions I'm not familiar with?

Common sense would suggest that as the correct path but a lot of people would rather whine about not knowing what something is. It's good form when writing anything to explain anything that could be misinterpreted.

How could RNLI be " misinterpreted"? You either know what it is, or you don't. And if you don't all you need to do is Google it......just like I always get told to do every time I don't know what something is.

I still want to know what's so funny about it.

Are you lost, Bungle? This is a typical Home post. Shouldn't it be posted over there instead of FM? http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/blink1.gif

I already said what it stood for.....

I wanted to post somewhere that actually had some traffic, because I was interested to see if anyone was as shocked as me about it. I didn't expect it to cause such a furore, but then this is FM......

"Apparently the RNLI operates in Eire. Who'd have thought that?

Learnt that from watching Coast."

Whatever spin you want to put on it, that text is ambiguous to a lot of people. Especially more so on a techy forum where people have a tendency to take this literally to the letter.

Do people not have common sense any more?????

Apparently the RNLI operates Don't know what RNLI is? Google it!

Eire Don't know what Eire is? Learn geography or Google it!

Learnt that from watching Coast The clue is in the word "watched".

Honestly people here are such hypocrites. Every time some one else mentions something that I don't what it is and I ask to have it explained I get told off and told to Google it. It seems it's different when the shoe's on the other foot. [rolleyes]

I agree with you totally, but have you not seen the million times that people have taken things I say to the exact letter instead of having the common sense to read between the lines?

My point is that around here most people think in binary, if you don't spell it out word for word in a linear fashion you're going to get called on everything they don't understand, or don't want to understand.

This thread definitely needed a "UK only!" sticker or something...

So is anyone actually going to talk about the topic instead of picking holes?

How dare you [cursing]

Probably not.[rofl]

I just googled this subject and so far you are the only one ever to post such a subject on a forum.

Shocked?

I'm surprised you'd think that anyone would be anything more than mildly bored by this. It's not exactly an exciting revelation, is it?

"Hey, did you know the RNLI operates in Eire?"

"Whaaaaat??? NO... WAY."

"Yes, waaaayyy, dude!!!"

I doubt anyone other than you is going to fall over backwards in amazement, learning that the (something about boats) operates (somewhere in / at / around Ireland) rather than (just England?). I don't know why you were 'shocked', I don't think anyone at FM is going to be even interested? The thread title had me hoping you'd learned something interesting, and I'm afraid that's why you've got a bit more traffic here.

However, to help your thread:

http://picture.funnycorner.net/funny...his-thread.jpg

Oh FFS! [rolleyes]

The RNLI is a BRITISH organisation with the word "ROYAL" it its title operating in a REPUBLIC that has nothing to do with the UK.

ZOMG ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!?!??!?!?!
THAT"S JUST ..BONKERS

I think there are some royal soldiers stuck in the Middle East somewhere, are you shocked at that, too?

I'm sure some sort of agreement was made at some point somewhere, where Ireland asked the perfectly capable RNLI to patrol their waters as well. It may be a republic, but it's right next door. Think of it as, perhaps, a friendly neighbourly deed. Like watering the plants when the lady next door is on vacation. Only, with boats.

There are plenty of international parties working together. Police forces of many European countries work together to fight crime, too, sometimes even across eachothers' borders. You're very surprised at something that really doesn't seem that big a deal. Not to me, at least.