If the harbour pilot was doing his job, then I can only think there must have been a mechanical failure of some sort.
One report said the ship was 300 metres long, even at slow speed that is an awful lot of kinetic energy.
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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Baltimore bridge collapse
- Replies: 52
- Views: 815
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:49 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Documentary on BBC2 at 21:00 this evening: Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
NATO wasted no time and flew an E-3A over Sweden this afternoon.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
I am about to go to her favourite place in the flower bed between the rose bush and red lipped sage and make a place for her to be comfortable for the last time. It is done. Carefully wrapped in soft cotton cloth with roses printed on it. It has helped to be able to write a little about her. Thank ...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:03 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Nine years ago we were living in Germany near a NATO base where most of the military personnel were on four year tours, some of them abandoned their cats at tourex with the result there was a group of seven or eight stray cats prowling around. One of them took a liking to my wife, always appearing w...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Everything would be labelled in French. I worked with Hellenic Air Force people who had previously been on Mirages, they said all the documentation (APs/T.O.s) would have been chaotic in any language, but with it being in a French that even French linguists struggled with life was very difficult.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Try using a VPN and stream your TV. https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-pr ... -tv-spain/
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: WTF is happening in the UK?
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- Views: 183737
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Nick Robinson interviews the deputy chair of the BMA, 28 year old Emma Runswick:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wh32
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001wh32
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
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Re: Chaos in USA
I don't think it's the guns, it's more the pointless loss of lives.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19379
- Views: 979284
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Aviation question, if you please.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 232
Re: Aviation question, if you please.
I don't know the answer, but can you ask one about using the elevator just so I can say it pitches about the athwartships axis... Oh, I just did. ;-)
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:47 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Poof is another German coloquilism for a brothel.
Zu viele bumsen macht die Beine schwach = Too much shagging makes your legs weak.
Zu viele bumsen macht die Beine schwach = Too much shagging makes your legs weak.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:12 pm
- Forum: Where Are They Now
- Topic: Departed During 2024
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2567
Re: Departed During 2024
Ian Lavender, Private Pike in Dad's Army, has died aged 77. He was the last of the original cast.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
This afternoon was spent repairing the motorhead of a Dyson vacuum cleaner - Successfully!
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:28 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
OFSO, You'll have to wait until Friday to see if you've won anything.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: Computer Chatter
- Topic: Pinky's Tilde
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- Views: 616
Re: Pinky's Tilde
ñ Ñ
Yep, that works, every day a school day, thanks.
Yep, that works, every day a school day, thanks.
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Computer Chatter
- Topic: Pinky's Tilde
- Replies: 9
- Views: 616
Re: Pinky's Tilde
Left of #1 on a German keyboard pressing shift gives you the degree symbol: °
To the right of the Ü there is a key that has +*~ but I don't know how you get that on top of an n.
To the right of the Ü there is a key that has +*~ but I don't know how you get that on top of an n.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: RFA crew shortage as well as a Rear Admiral shortage....
- Replies: 99
- Views: 4178
Re: RFA crew shortage as well as a Rear Admiral shortage....
I was told* the first Tupperware navy minehunters were built using a mould taken from the previous generation of mahogany hulled ships.
*by an ex-RNR CPO who had served on them.
*by an ex-RNR CPO who had served on them.
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: Computer Chatter
- Topic: BBC Radio on internet
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1082
Re: BBC Radio on internet
Thanks llondel, I'll have to try and figure out how that works.