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filister@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

Geographe Bay: Teen swims hours to save family stranded off Western Australia

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Geographe Bay: Teen swims hours to save family stranded off Western Australia

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filister@lemmy.world to Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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The 13-year-old swam 4km in rough water after his mother and siblings were swept out to sea off the coast of Western Australia.
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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    Come birthday time, she BETTER get him a Nintendo 64, and a tamagachi!

    Oh, wait, sorry. I was thinking of what I wanted when I was 13.

    What do teenage boys like these days, besides boobs?

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      besides boobs

      They are evergreen for a reason

      • T156@lemmy.world
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        Fairly certain that they’re not supposed to be green.

        • Apeman42@lemmy.world
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          Disagree, green boobs are awesome.

          • jet@hackertalks.com
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            A man of art and refined taste!

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    The boy’s 47-year-old mother, her other son, 12, and daughter, eight, were located at around 20:30 by a rescue helicopter clinging to a paddleboard about 14km offshore.

    FFS BBC, did nobody proof read this?

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      what should it say?

      • IggyTheSmidge@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Something like:

        ‘The boy’s 47-year-old mother, her other son, 12, and daughter, eight, were located at around 20:30 by a rescue helicopter. They were found clinging to a paddleboard about 14km offshore.’

        The way they’ve put it, it sounds like the rescue helicopter was clinging to a paddleboard when it found them!

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          good edit, also if you use numerals for numbers (12) dont change to word numbers (eight) inmediately after! also; i want to see the footage of the rescue copter clinging to the paddle board :(

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    A bbc link, let me pop over to europe to read it.

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    What a hero! This could be a movie!

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    Ranma!

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