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[Paphitis]

Well then, the BBC fucked up.

You said that the BBC did not write this article. And now they did.

Fine! Provide the link that the BBC wrote that article.

That doesn't even make sense? What are you on about...? When did I say they wrote it...?

What time is it there, are you on the drink...?

You said this:

And guess what, even the article in the CM (a press release) was run by the BBC!

Provide me a link that the BBC ran the same story because I find that hard to believe.

It is very simple to do (if you are not a bit dim )

1) Go to the Cyprus Mail Article

2) Pick a sample of text at random (I chose, "A 95-year-old British World War II veteran, Ray Woolley, broke his own record" from the first paragraph.

3) Search the Interwebz.


4) Hey presto! Hundreds of articles that contain the same text, and on the BBC too! (because it came from the same press release)...

Thank you and you proved my point nicely.

The BBC did run it. But they didn't claim that the 90 year old spent 44 minutes at 42 metres. The BBC article was not technically incorrect like the Cyprus Mail was.

The BBC did its homework and didn't copy the nonsense written in the Cyprus Mail!

A 95-year-old has broken his own record as the world's oldest scuba diver.

World War Two veteran Ray Woolley, originally from Merseyside, took the plunge in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus.

Mr Woolley spent nearly 45 minutes under water, and said he hopes to break the record again next year.

THANK YOU

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england- ... rld-record

[cyprusgrump]

Thank you and you proved my point nicely.

The BBC did run it. But they didn't claim that the 90 year old spent 44 minutes at 42 metres. The BBC article was not technically incorrect like the Cyprus Mail was.

The BBC did its homework and didn't copy the nonsense written in the Cyprus Mail!

A 95-year-old has broken his own record as the world's oldest scuba diver.

World War Two veteran Ray Woolley, originally from Merseyside, took the plunge in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus.

Mr Woolley spent nearly 45 minutes under water, and said he hopes to break the record again next year.

THANK YOU

Oh good grief!

So your counter claim is that the BBC sent a reporter to the Zenobia for this event then?

Because they never, never ever print anything from a press release?

So when they heard that some 95 year old bloke was going to do a dive in Larnaca they sent a reporter and a photographer to the dive site, took pictures interviews and everything... then back to the UK and published it... Is that it? Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that you can convince anybody of that?

Or, is it as I said from the very start, the story came from a press release, the CM edited it clumsily (as did some other sites actually) but the BBC did not. In fact, neither the BBC nor the Cyprus Mail not any other of the media sites that reported the event and published the picture knew anything about it until the press release arrived?

[Paphitis]

Thank you and you proved my point nicely.

The BBC did run it. But they didn't claim that the 90 year old spent 44 minutes at 42 metres. The BBC article was not technically incorrect like the Cyprus Mail was.

The BBC did its homework and didn't copy the nonsense written in the Cyprus Mail!

A 95-year-old has broken his own record as the world's oldest scuba diver.

World War Two veteran Ray Woolley, originally from Merseyside, took the plunge in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus.

Mr Woolley spent nearly 45 minutes under water, and said he hopes to break the record again next year.

THANK YOU

Oh good grief!

So your counter claim is that the BBC sent a reporter to the Zenobia for this event then?

Because they never, never ever print anything from a press release?

So when they heard that some 95 year old bloke was going to do a dive in Larnaca they sent a reporter and a photographer to the dive site, took pictures interviews and everything... then back to the UK and published it... Is that it? Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that you can convince anybody of that?

Or, is it as I said from the very start, the story came from a press release, the CM edited it clumsily (as did some other sites actually) but the BBC did not. In fact, neither the BBC nor the Cyprus Mail not any other of the media sites that reported the event and published the picture knew anything about it until the press release arrived?

So if the BBC got the same media release, then how the fuck did Cyprus mail fuck it up.

It must have been the same media release right?

This is what happened.

The BBC picked it up from CM, but at the same time, they were smart enough to not write nonsense!

[cyprusgrump]

Thank you and you proved my point nicely.

The BBC did run it. But they didn't claim that the 90 year old spent 44 minutes at 42 metres. The BBC article was not technically incorrect like the Cyprus Mail was.

The BBC did its homework and didn't copy the nonsense written in the Cyprus Mail!

A 95-year-old has broken his own record as the world's oldest scuba diver.

World War Two veteran Ray Woolley, originally from Merseyside, took the plunge in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus.

Mr Woolley spent nearly 45 minutes under water, and said he hopes to break the record again next year.

THANK YOU

Oh good grief!

So your counter claim is that the BBC sent a reporter to the Zenobia for this event then?

Because they never, never ever print anything from a press release?

So when they heard that some 95 year old bloke was going to do a dive in Larnaca they sent a reporter and a photographer to the dive site, took pictures interviews and everything... then back to the UK and published it... Is that it? Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that you can convince anybody of that?

Or, is it as I said from the very start, the story came from a press release, the CM edited it clumsily (as did some other sites actually) but the BBC did not. In fact, neither the BBC nor the Cyprus Mail not any other of the media sites that reported the event and published the picture knew anything about it until the press release arrived?

So if the BBC got the same media release, then how the fuck did Cyprus mail fuck it up.

It must have been the same media release right?

This is what happened.

The BBC picked it up from CM, but at the same time, they were smart enough to not write nonsense!

It is surely simple (even for you) to see... article too big, cut out a few words to make it fit around the adverts and meaning of the article changed.

As I said from day one...

BBC published the article without checking (could be right or wrong they don't care), hacked out some stuff to make it fit yet didn't change the meaning...

It really isn't rocket science...

[Paphitis]

Thank you and you proved my point nicely.

The BBC did run it. But they didn't claim that the 90 year old spent 44 minutes at 42 metres. The BBC article was not technically incorrect like the Cyprus Mail was.

The BBC did its homework and didn't copy the nonsense written in the Cyprus Mail!

A 95-year-old has broken his own record as the world's oldest scuba diver.

World War Two veteran Ray Woolley, originally from Merseyside, took the plunge in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Cyprus.

Mr Woolley spent nearly 45 minutes under water, and said he hopes to break the record again next year.

THANK YOU

Oh good grief!

So your counter claim is that the BBC sent a reporter to the Zenobia for this event then?

Because they never, never ever print anything from a press release?

So when they heard that some 95 year old bloke was going to do a dive in Larnaca they sent a reporter and a photographer to the dive site, took pictures interviews and everything... then back to the UK and published it... Is that it? Do you really believe that? Do you really believe that you can convince anybody of that?

Or, is it as I said from the very start, the story came from a press release, the CM edited it clumsily (as did some other sites actually) but the BBC did not. In fact, neither the BBC nor the Cyprus Mail not any other of the media sites that reported the event and published the picture knew anything about it until the press release arrived?

So if the BBC got the same media release, then how the fuck did Cyprus mail fuck it up.

It must have been the same media release right?

This is what happened.

The BBC picked it up from CM, but at the same time, they were smart enough to not write nonsense!

It is surely simple (even for you) to see... article too big, cut out a few words to make it fit around the adverts and meaning of the article changed.

As I said from day one...

BBC published the article without checking (could be right or wrong they don't care), hacked out some stuff to make it fit yet didn't change the meaning...

It really isn't rocket science...

They cut out all the wrong bits.

Their article was correct and substantiated. The CM article was rubbish!

[cyprusgrump]

They cut out all the wrong bits.

Their article was correct and substantiated. The CM article was rubbish!

The interesting thing about it is that it only confused you...

And it was only you that claimed it was dangerous...

And that many other of the links (that I had to give you because you couldn't find them yourself) made the same mistake...

And yet surprisingly there haven't been hundreds of thousands of people diving on the Zenobia and staying on the bottom for 44mins... perhaps you are the only one in the whole world that found the facts too difficult to grasp from the information given...?

[Paphitis]

It is friggin dangerous. In fact, the old man is lucky to be alive for diving 42 m for 44 minutes.

The CM was just pure innacurate bullshit!

[cyprusgrump]

It is friggin dangerous. In fact, the old man is lucky to be alive for diving 42 m for 44 minutes.

The CM was just pure innacurate bullshit!

And you are an inaccurate bullshitter!

I'll type this slowly so you can understand...

He didn't dive to 42m for 44 mins...

[Paphitis]

It is friggin dangerous. In fact, the old man is lucky to be alive for diving 42 m for 44 minutes.

The CM was just pure innacurate bullshit!

And you are an inaccurate bullshitter!

I'll type this slowly so you can understand...

He didn't dive to 42m for 44 mins...

I know, but the CM said he did!

It's all over!

[cyprusgrump]

It is friggin dangerous. In fact, the old man is lucky to be alive for diving 42 m for 44 minutes.

The CM was just pure innacurate bullshit!

And you are an inaccurate bullshitter!

I'll type this slowly so you can understand...

He didn't dive to 42m for 44 mins...

I know, but the CM said he did!

It's all over!

Fair enough, I can see that you'd like to draw a line under your total humiliation and move on...

We'll just agree that you know little about diving, nothing about Nitrox and even less about how the MSM come up with their 'news'...