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When I did my scuba instructor course, we were shown that 1976, the year after Jaws came out, was the only year that the number of people learning scuba dropped.
It was suggested we didn't tell prospective divers this.

Pre-pandemic, it was the correct call to switch from low to high value vehicles (EV or ICE). Just goes to show how utterly and rapidly the governments of the world have f-ed up their economies. Idiots are actually quite clever - they are always coming up with new ways to screw things up that you had...

Must be me, but I didn't find The Great Muppet Caper at all scary.

Seriously though, there was some pretty amazing stuntwork during the 70s-90s.
It has to be said that CGI has saved quite a few stuntperson's lives since then, and I'm glad Susan got to live long enough to enjoy her fame..

A new definition of Having A Bad Day... A Russian soldier is caught in the open in broad daylight by an FPV drone, carrying nothing but two plastic 4l containers of gasoline. He lobs the first one at the attacking drone and actually hits it, knocking it back somewhat.... Unfortunately for him the dr...

It's selective. The Brits have allowed it, some others may have but haven't donated systems that can be without a ground invasion of Russia, others definitely haven't. The basic problem is that most western leaders are stupid, corrupt cowards. Fortunately Boris was generally stupid and corrupt, but ...

The Ukrainians will want to take the initiative and start diverting Russian resources themselves, but they don't have sufficient ammo and trained personnel for a sustained offensive yet. I would expect they hope to have by the end of June. Until then, they are just going to have to take the losses. ...

I think you are talking about Suppression of Enemy Air Defences (SEAD), which is also known (from the Vietnam era) as Wild Weasel tactics. The UKR fighters make themselves radar visible to the Russian search radars, usually by increasing altitude. The aim is to get the Russian missile guidance radar...

Gerasimov was featured in a Russian media piece in February claiming he wasn't dead, but that was videoed in a building and not independently date-verifiable. Prior to that he hadn't been seen since September 2023, and he hasn't been seen since the February piece. He and Shiogu used to be a double a...

The most lethal species of every kind of predator, cyclones, and death by hyperthermia?

Your sacrifice in checking is appreciated by those of us who avoided it, thinking it would still be a load of rubbish.

As some had predicted Shoigu has been given the boot as Russian Defence Minister. In his place is a complete and utter banker, who like Shoigu knows sweet FA about the military. Which probably means putin is moving his little toy soldiers around a tabletop in his bunker and issuing stupid orders him...

Hello from Canada. No polar bears today. No snow either.

A witch is what is missing, PHX.

Rossian has it. The Inklings were a group of literary types, including CS Lewis ('The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe') and JRR Tolkein ('The Lord of the Rings'), who met in said Oxford pub.

OH declared.

I thank you.

What links a lion, a wardrobe, a ring, an eagle, and a child?

Well, I only follow hockey, but are the NBA finals also running about now and they are still in those also?

The only US hockey teams still in the playoffs?

Hockey teams still in the playoffs.

Instant coffee??? Are they trying to put you back in the ICU??

Seriously, glad you're out!

..and the right hand's a lot bigger!