GO! Smell the message in the bottle!
August 26th, 2008 by JimThe Jeremy Vine show on the U.K’s radio 2 is featuring a discussion on how a message in a bottle has been reunited with its sender - twenty three years after he threw it into the sea in Orkney. Almost as old as this sting video from way back:
But are messages in a bottle simply litter as some environmentalists are phoning into the show to complain. If you work on a cruise ship and throw anything into the sea you lose your job. If everyone sent messages in bottles to reach out to others there could be cut feet on the beach.
These days we can communicate in other ways with far quicker responses with the help of the internet, mobile phones and youghurt cartons joined yogether with pieces of string.
Is a message in a bottle a thing of the past or a timeless way of reaching out to someone, somewhere?
Do tell, answers in comments only. Sent messages in bottles will not be returned or replied to - should sending messages in bottles be allowed or banned?
Sending messages in a bottle has made books famous. If we all did it, a big mess would happen but it is a nostalgic thought that gives people hope.
My daughter cut her foot on broken glass in a lake and we had to take her to an emergency room. I wish that never had happened. Guess that’s the reality.
Hugs, JJ
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Oh, what a sad question to ask because I am concerned about the environment, I don’t think that people should do it. However, the nostalgia and romanticism of a message in a bottle has resulted in fantastic stories and I like the idea. But, in the end my answer would be no that we should not be depositing more into the ocean. Sigh!!
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Listen right, me an David are just about to av us teas see! David wants fried Spam an chips but like that’s not fair an all cos I am on a diet an can only av erbal tea wiv ice-cream, an he knows fried Spam an chips is like my double favourite right!
But I do like me ice-cream an that see, an I av got this brill Spam flavoured one wot you puts lots ov ketchup up on an all, then I’m avin raspberry ripple flavour for like me afters an that right, but that erbal tea….. Yeuch!
See like my guru, he says that lots of ice-cream washed down wiv lashins ov nettle tea makes you lose loads an loads ov them fatty pounds (not that I needs to lose too many right me) an soon I am goin to look like a teenager again I am!
Wipes years off ov you this diet does see, I reckon I’ll be like 19 years old again, that’s like 10 years off ov me age it is!
Only you av to get your chakras an that done too fer it to be really effective, an I’m not so sure that’s not a bit too much see I’m not, cos like if your chakras get all tangled up you might end up putting on weight instead right……. An I don’t want that, cos I’m not far off ov me physical peak like me.
So I was like thinkink right, I might stick one ov them letters in a bottle an all an let whoever gets it give me their opinions ov me diet right!
You just never know you don’t see, I might be only 10 when I gets me reply!
Elts,
PS I’d ask me Aunty Bridget, but I don’t thinks she’s talking to me no more like she ain’t not…….
And pray tell, what dids you do to your Aunty Bridget you dids that she’s talking to you no more like she ain’t not eh..? Ha!
Stick with your guru EJ, wipes years off ov you his diets does see, you just never know you don’t see!
That’s right Aunty Bridget, I’ve lost loads ov weight see.
But like, all that appened was I got wrongly accused, thinks it was a case of mistook identity, not sure really I’m not……
No kidding! Mistook identity no less eh?
Here, a message in a bottle for you EJ:
Worry not your lil head over whoever’s accusing you of being not EJ, we all know you sing a mean song, even that George Michael who eats tyres he knows he does! There! You just focus on getting your gold dug by the gold diggers now!
As for Aunty Bridget, she’s enjoying being serenaded by her man farrrrrr too much to be distracted by who else is who ha!
harsh words from Bridget!!
how does this fella serenade you then? sounds a bit creepy to me
Hey you, my man’s no creep I’ll have you know. How he serenades me is between him and me!
Suffice for enquiring minds to know that he can sing better than EJ ha! 
You do seem rather fascinated by him Pagan! Whatever would your little lady think of that eh!
Hmmm.. or is the fascination to do with Miss Jones actually? 
Now, what would the little lady think of THAT!
Huh? Bridget was harsh to EJ?? Aaargh, must be a case of mistook identity it musts ha!
Hmmm. I think it’s safe to say that we are all doing a good job sending messages without bottles - THAT is a lousy attempt to fit this thread to the topic at hand before Jimbo freaks out ha!
If you wanna be romantic sure do the message in the bottle but if your an environmentalist just send it through e-mail
fast and efficient and less waste. 
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I am so against throwing things into the ocean, sea, whatever it is called..what happen if the sea creatures eat the ‘thing’ we throw in the water? I can’t imagine that..it would be awful although there are movies portraying how romantic it is to write a love letter and throw it out to the sea hoping to find true love..nonsense..
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Surely that’s a Police video, not a Sting video.
Fair enough - Police it is - featuring Sting….
Erm it was the connection with the sea, you see, jellyfish, sting.
nice recovery Jim!
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To the environmentalists, it would be interesting to compare the environmental damage inflicted by
a) Phone masts, satellites (how did we get them up there?) plastics in computers/mobile phones (how do we get them to people’s home’s?) radiowaves and pissed off postmen
or
b) Chucking a glass bottle into the sea.
Its a sweet, national, no actually, global tradion which should continue innocently on its way into the future.
That’s dead bloomin right that is Lib! That’s why I’m putting me diet in a bottle an throwin it in the sea right I am!
Ere why don’ts youz try me diet too see? Not like that I’m like sayin youz needs to lose a load ov weight an that, but it makes you feel all sweet an innocent just like wot youz av bin describin right!
An them blimmin postmen, I’ve banned em I av from our ouse, bad tempered load ov miserable buggers they are right. Theys av to leaves me fan mail at me office now see.
spam never did the vikings any harm did it Sir Elt’? Watch that David - bet he’s sneaking chocolate chip cookies when you’re backs turned composing and stuff.
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Fair point…
Just an FYI, satellites get to space via rockets and they have a limited life, so then they become cyber-space waste. Eventually, it burns up, but the are people on Earth who have to track the orbits, so that things don’t collide! They are working on trying to make less waste such as the space shuttle which is reusable.
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Something many didn’t realise - cyber-waste needs disposing of! Maybe a big black hole is the answer CC
But space rockets don’t run on bio-fuel do they?
only that kid in thunderpants! (possibly the worst kids film ever)
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Lib ~ I don’t think soooo.
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So even if they are going to make them re-useable, they are still culpable in as far as how they get them up there.
I agree. I just wanted to bring it up as another point regarding an environmental issue that most people don’t really think about. Oh and resuable is not occurring yet. That still needs to be developed. But, do you realize how many satillites we have up there for media, GPS, weather, monitoring, etc…my brain is slo-w-i-n-g down.
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I don;t really see the porpoise of throwing a message into a bottle and then throwing the bottle into the sea… (liitle daytime humour folks) - seriously, its the ‘romantic’ notion that it may be discovered years later - a bit like a time capsule - nobody raised environmental issues about them did they? and those balloon races - all that rubber and string littering the countryside - where are the PC environment lobby on that one?
Suppose you could be like Tom Hanks and fedex your message - his only took 4 years didn’t it?
Oh I’m in a funny mood today - the medication must be kicking in…..
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Yes, you are on a roll.
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I seriously dont think 6 billion people are going run to the beach with bottled message in hand and throw them in…. although it would be funny to watch..can you imagine those land locked country attempting this feet…. lol..
but to the environmentalist… why do hippy’s drive comby vans… you know the ones those VW vans that you can throw a bed in and have to push up hill….. they always seem to blow smoke out the back…. if everyone drove comby vans there would be a problem but they dont.. perhaps all these do gooders should take their heads of the star struck clouds once in while..
attend a little aromatheropy group, meditate on their belly buttons and go UMMMMM themselves…
Oh did I say that..
LOL - GO! UM themselves
wasn’t that a cartoon character in Whizzer and Chips comics - little um?
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