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Full News Conference from the BBC:
Another similar phrase I have heard is "Stick it in your ear". Maybe I'm naive, but I've never thought any of these were sexual in nature. No one means it literally. That EM took it literally and thought it was sexual shows a lot about HIM, IMO. Oh well, hopefully this is the last we will hear about EMGate...I'm off to watch the presser now.
Anyone remember, "Up your nose with a rubber hose" ala Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta)Another one is "stick that in your pipe and smoke it"!!
Full News Conference from the BBC:
Yep. Guess that tells our age range LOLAnyone remember, "Up your nose with a rubber hose" ala Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta)
Read more: 'It was so magnificent': Thai soccer team recall the moment they were discoveredThe Wild Boars were released from hospital on Wednesday to make their first public appearance at a wide-ranging press conference in the northern province of Chiang Rai.
"When they came out of the water, I was surprised. I didn't know what to [say] to them. I said 'Hello', or something like that. When they said 'hello' to me, I said 'hello' back," one of the boys, Adun Samon, told the packed gathering.
"It was so magnificent."
The entire team left the hospital where they had been receiving treatments since their rescue.
Doctors said the boys were able to gain about 6.6 pounds on average since they were rescued from the cave. They had lost about an average of 9 pounds while trapped inside the cave.
'It was magnificent': Thai cave boys describe moment rescuers arrivedIn a touching moment, the boys said sorry to their parents for the trouble they had caused.
One boy admitted he was most worried about not doing his homework while he was trapped underground.
The team was asked what they had learned from the ordeal and what their dreams for the future were.
At least five said they wanted to become Navy SEALs, which drew applause from the audience, and another said his goal was to play soccer for Thailand.
Ake said the world's kindness was appreciated and that he would be more cautious in the future.
A health official said the boys' mental health was "quite good" and their physical strength was returning to normal.
The press conference started with each boy standing and introducing himself and coach Ekkapol Chantawong answered many of the questions, explaining how the boys became lost in the cave system and how they survived.
He revealed how, on the first night they were stuck in the cave, the group was not too afraid.
“ ‘Let’s pray to God before we go to bed,’ I told everyone. At that time we were not afraid, no”, the coach said.
“I thought the next day the water would recede and someone would come and find us.”
The team told how they went to the cave after soccer training to explore and planned to spend only an hour inside but when they tried to get out, at a junction, the water had risen. They tried to swim a section, to see how deep it was, at one stage.
The coach and one team member then held a piece of string between them as the coach tried to find his way out while they other stayed put.
Read more: Category: | The Courier Mail“If I pull the string twice it means I am able to get out of this cave,” he told the other team member.
He couldn’t get out and the boys were stuck. But the coach said they never stopped trying to find a way out. “We were determined to find a way out.”
He told how he had urged the team not to give up. “I told everyone to have a good spirit, don’t give up.”
On their fifth day in isolation, the players and their coach discussed their options: going deeper into the cave’s winding passageways in hopes of finding an exit farther along; diving out the way they had come; or waiting. Many of them could swim — contrary to initial reports — and so they tried to venture out. At the cave’s intersection, they saw waters rising and knew that was not an option. They were trapped and retreated again by climbing higher up. They decided not to move any more and continued to dig instead.
“We couldn’t go out, but we could dig,” Ekapol said. “At least we were doing something.”
On day nine since their disappearance, some of the boys were on their digging routine when they heard a voice. Ekapol — “Coach Ek,” as he was known to the boys — told them to be quiet and sent one of the boys down from their dry ledge with a flashlight, closer to the water’s edge. The coach asked him to hurry, afraid a rescuer would miss them.
Adul Sam-on, an English-speaking polyglot migrant from Myanmar, realized that the two divers who suddenly emerged were foreigners and spoke English, but he could not find the right words to say to them, except “Hello.”
“My brain was working very slowly,” Adul, 14, said. “All the words left my head.”
Thai cave rescue update: The boys head home - how will they cope back in normality?The press conference was tightly controlled.
Journalists had to submit their questions for approval by a child psychologist in advance to prevent any unnecessary upset.
Ministry official Tawatchai Thaikaew, who asked for the boys' privacy to be respected ahead of the conference said: “We don't know what wounds the kids are carrying in their hearts.
“The media know the children are in a difficult situation, they have overcome peril and if you ask risky questions then it could break the law.”