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IHateSprouts tells us they once avoided getting caught up in an IRA bomb attack by missing a train. Tell us how you've dodged the Grim Reaper, or simply avoided a bit of trouble.

(, Thu 19 Aug 2010, 12:31)
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Not really.
Granted that there is a large number who can claim with some validity to have had a narrow escape, I still have a hunch that there's a significant amount of... um... "creative memory"...

StR is correct to point out that the parameters of "narrow escape" are very unclear, and that point is wholly compatible with FSS' reply ^up there^ - to which I'm pretty sympathetic.
(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:19, 2 replies)
That too.
Human memory, not so much either. Never mind deliberately exaggerating.
(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:29, closed)
I agree with you
Was just trying to make that point about what a 'narrow escape' means, really. For me, with 7/7. I definitely FELT like it was a narrow escape, but as that bit of maths up there shows, I'm well aware that actually, as FSS points out further down, it needs to be a pretty loose definition of 'narrow' to really be true.
(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:35, closed)
^What she said

(, Fri 20 Aug 2010, 11:40, closed)

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