Posts by Fruit and Nutcase 5386 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2013
Larry has near death experience /or slips on the deck of one of his yachts and knocks his head.
Refunds all the fees and for good measure adds a couple of billion on top to get Birmingham out of the mire it is in.
After that, he sets out to liquidate all his worldly goods and donate the proceeds to good causes - free health care etc
Apple says software bug and certain apps causing iPhone overheating
Company says it will update iOS 17 to fix bug and is working with developers of apps that overload handsets
Rishi is for ever worring about luggage going missing at airports. I remind him that we don't take commercial flights so it is not a problem for us. Still, is there anything that you can do to reassure him? As air travel is the only form of transport that he can relate to with the voting public, it would be a great help
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Joke icon: Just covering myself in case the crazy one in charge of the Home Office sends the boys and gals in blue over to take me down the station for a nice cup of tea.
The even more crazy thing is, she could replace Sunak after the next General Election.
If these nutters weren't occasionally, and often accidentally, capable of mass homicide[running a country] they would be a joke.
By that I mean, the current UK Government. There's only 1 competant office holder in Downing St...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Office
"How they arrived at the land-locked bodies of water is not yet clear."
may be, this way?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo
As for any (rainbow) trout that they may catch whilst there, they can sell as Salmon, back in China
Officials with Joint Base Charleston confirmed that debris from the jet had been located in the Indiantown area of Williamsburg County, reported TV station WCBD.
https://www.newsweek.com/missing-f-35-update-plane-debris-located-1827974
If found, please call DoD...
https://www.pprune.org/military-aviation/654847-usmc-f-35b-crash-17-sep-23-a-2.html#post11504801
There was this incident in October 1987 of a Harrier on a pre-delivery flight, where the pilot got pulled out through the canopy by the firing of the parachute deployment rocket - the aircraft continued to fly until it crashed into the Irish Sea on fuel exhaustion. The body of the pilot, Taylor Scott was found several days later in Wiltshire.
@Bebu: the notorious prudery of the English
I do wonder sometimes what Mary Whitehouse would have made of the current media.
See the quote attributed to Michael Grade, CEO of Channel 4, reflecting on her career:
"I don't think she has had any effect at all. She never sees things in context..."
Car Tyre (Tire) Size measurement is usually expressed in a mixture of Metric and Imperial. Whilst it is possible to us/see full metric measurements, marketing (and indeed historical left pondian) influence comes into play, and with vehicle tyres, we have this mixed system of the nominal width of the tyre in millimeters and the diameter of the wheel in inches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_sizing
e.g. 205/50 R 15
Width 205mm
Diameter 15 inches
The"burglars could work out when you're home from your power usage" argument is the only one I've heard against that, and it's ridiculously unlikely.
The burglers would have traditional low-tech means of working that out - but that data is still a mine of valuable information that goes far beyond the purpose it was collected for, and stopping or restricting the re-purposing of that is the problem
That nice Mr Sunak has an electricity and carbon footprint way higher than the citizens that he lords over - for heating the new swimming pool of his private residence, a new connection to the national grid had to be installed across open fields. And of course he has a weakness for helicopters, usually for quick short visits for photo opportunities.
Now, he could, if he chose to, avail of such a demand based contract - sign up for one that keeps the pool at the optimum temperature all year round, but then sell back the electricity for when neither he nor family are in residence, when the thermostat can be set lower. That would of course be the financial wizz kind of thing that his instincts would say he should do, but in terms of politics and the optics, very difficult to justify - at least until he has given up politics
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