Re: Battle of Hastings
I had to go all the way down here for the two best comments!
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News just in- apparently those who have pleaded guilty and gone to court are largely the local neds with a long string of previous offences. Sop they were just using the protests as an opportunity to kick off and maybe do some recreational looting. But sure, blame the "Far Right", who mostly only exist in Starmer's authoritarian brain.
Agree absolutely about using touchscreens in a car; they're even dangerous at sea. A couple of years ago I was approaching a narrow channel at night and needed to zoom in to see the route in better detail. Whilst steering the boat I hit the touchscreen button to go from 1/2 Nm to 1/4 Nm, but my finger was wet or slipped, and instead I zoomed right out to 48 Nm. The screen was then incomprehensible and I had to rely on the old Mk 1 eyeball, which was now compromised by staring at the radar and I had little night vision. Reducing speed allowed me the time for my vision to recover, and I was able to proceed safely.
Turning a knob one click anti-clockwise would have been a simpler, more user-friendly procedure.
Touchscreens are not progress in many applications.
Hollerithevo; possibly the pen name of Vladimir Putin, to judge by the sentiments expressed. I really LOLd at the "allow the Yanks...etc.", considering continental Europe was begging the Yanks on at least two occasions to come over and help. And where's the gratitude for that? Pphhht.
It was rumoured that HMS Warrior was to be towed to the South Atlantic as a decoy for the Exocets in 1982, since it's composite hull (whose uneconomic scrapping allowed it to survive so long) is practically impenetrable to modern weapons. Enable a large heat/radar signature and suck up all the Exocets.