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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19212
- Views: 966036
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Evening all, good weekend at the dog show. Faraday showed as a veteran (7+ years of age) and got a bunch of pretty pink ribbons in addition to the others, plus a round of applause as she ran round the ring (tradition is to applaud the old dogs). She also ran FastCAT and got her FCAT5 title on Friday...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:38 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3641
- Views: 106668
Re: Chaos in USA
Methinks Thatcher's truism is going to be hitting them right between the eyes before 2028, and probably a lot sooner if Trump gets in. The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. There's another side to it. In Canada, Saskatchewan has just stopped paying the C...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:11 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3641
- Views: 106668
Re: Chaos in USA
Now that Trump has apparently failed to raise his bond money, the MAGA crowd may be about to cost him bigly. Scenario: NY seizes a property to auction. Threats are made against potential buyers and the post-sale property, which depresses interest and so it sells for a lower price. Then the state has...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:43 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19212
- Views: 966036
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Trip to the vet today. All three dogs and two cats, so I added the extra dog crate to the van and we took that. Kepler had a blood draw for her cancer vaccine trial, the other dogs needed rabies and other jabs, as did one of the cats. The other was just in for a check-up. There was a Tesla Cybertruc...
Re: Rubbish!
We have something called Bin Assist provided by our caring council, it is for old folk and disabled people who have difficulty with the bins. My neighbour and I live down a private drive about 400 yards long so we have to drag our bins to the road side every Sunday tea time ready for Monday. Bin As...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19212
- Views: 966036
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:22 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: NHS privatisation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 235
Re: NHS privatisation
Not if they can convert it to the American model where they can charge 10x the price, and there's an entire industry (health insurance) set up as a middleman to siphon off even more from the population.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: Photos of Everybody
- Replies: 316
- Views: 48389
Re: Photos of Everybody
Errrr...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
- Replies: 5614
- Views: 155301
Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
In general, if it's seriously raining in a submarine then an umbrella is going to be the least of his worries.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: WTF is happening in the UK?
- Replies: 6307
- Views: 179257
Re: WTF is happening in the UK?
Whilst they'll get hammered now, he must think they'll get slaughtered later. My UK politics teacher friend reckons there's a possibility Labour isn't ready for a snap election, and that's possibly the motivator, if it's happening. I suspect the people are ready for a snap election, although I'm su...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:06 am
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: United Max Gear Collapse at IAH
- Replies: 10
- Views: 247
Re: United Max Gear Collapse at IAH
I was looking at the map in Juan's video, and would have thought it would make more sense to take the high-speed taxiway immediately preceding the end - at least that way they could have existed safely at speed and then slowed down. And if they'd still screwed up the subsequent sharper turn, at leas...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:57 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19212
- Views: 966036
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Evening all. Recovering from the first day of summer time. Got to see it happen, too - Kepler woke me up at about 01:57, so I watched the clock tick over from 01:59 to 03:00. (Anyone else have a bedside clock that runs Linux?) Took Cassini out to a flea market this morning (hence having to get up), ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:37 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in USA
- Replies: 3641
- Views: 106668
Re: Chaos in USA
He's only got to last until December.
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:36 am
- Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
- Topic: Chaos in Scotland.
- Replies: 1750
- Views: 61087
Re: Chaos in Scotland.
The danger comes when people decide that if the police are going to do nothing, they'll do it themselves. Vigilantes will mete out summary justice if they think it is the only way to bring perps to account. They might even get the right one occasionally.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:19 am
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19212
- Views: 966036
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Morning all, waiting to be picked up & taken home. Feeling so much better now. Thank you all for your wishes while I've been crook. The last time I was ill was 2020, and I had forgotten what a bugger it is. I haven't got time to be ill. Except that now I'm getting older I have more frequent visits ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Crewroom
- Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
- Replies: 19212
- Views: 966036
Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
Replaced the van battery today. A little bit more effort than your usual job because it's under the driver's seat. Extracted the old one, took it to the local parts store, brought the new one home and managed to make it all fit. Also got to use my little saver gadget - use with an external 12V batte...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO
- Replies: 27
- Views: 493
Re: United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO
Kenny Rogers has released a song about it: "You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel".
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: United Max Gear Collapse at IAH
- Replies: 10
- Views: 247
Re: United Max Gear Collapse at IAH
I wouldn't necessarily blame this one on Boeing. Any aircraft at speed hitting soft ground like that would probably do nasty things to the gear.
I guess if they skidded due to brakes locking up or other mechanical thing then yes, it's back on Boeing.
I guess if they skidded due to brakes locking up or other mechanical thing then yes, it's back on Boeing.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:05 am
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO
- Replies: 27
- Views: 493
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:37 am
- Forum: Aviation Incidents
- Topic: United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO
- Replies: 27
- Views: 493