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I also very much like the Swedish royal family. They seem to have avoided the idiocy that seems to infect the youngsters in the family at times in all royal families. If you give a young person almost unlimited wealth and tell them they aren't allowed to work until their parent dies, they're almost...

Ran into the new Secretary of State for Transport today, missed out on seeing Keir Starmer though - he was about.

Our question is this: is there any more-or-less standard procedure for NHS paying for medical care for UK citizens overseas who may need emergency medical care? If travelling to the US, you're responsible for taking out your own travel insurance to cover it - and travel insurance for the US is noti...

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 5:25 pmIn fact thinking about it, we’d have likely qualified on the same LSW..!

Can't remember. I fired a bunch of the A2 version later anyway.

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:07 amThe L86A1 is nothing to write home about, I qualified on it in my late teens and it was disappointing then! I preferred the Bren gun.

I’m on the ATI stand most of Monday and taking my kids there on the Friday.

I thought you never lashed a flying helicopter to a structure. I was wrong. Absolutely terrifying. That's very unlikely to be actually lashed on - it's just a grounding wire so it's probably in a pull-out plug. TBH the sketchiest bit of flying there was the selection of a take-off and landing site ...

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 6:55 pmCousins? O’Grady?

Those two, and the rest. The way it was set up they split the syllabus between four of them, but I did end up with three A-levels just in maths. Does send you a bit weird!

Craiglxviii wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:30 pmDid you do Candide with Mrs Halborg? I just had really disturbing flashbacks.

Nah, gave it up earlier to do ridiculous amounts of maths.

Can we build a special jail cell for him at under Minot pour encourager des autres? Fixed it for you. Nope. The full quote is from Candide and reads " il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres " - it is good from time to time to kill an admiral to encourage...

Can we build a special jail cell for him at Minot pour encourager des autres?

I think it was Patrick O’Brien who had the absolutely certain idea that ancient Mediterranean seafarers absolutely would not hug the coast, given the vast number of islands and shoals especially in the East; it made little sense from a nautical perspective’ Need to be careful here. We know that bas...

One note: a single shipwreck in the open sea doesn't men that they were deliberately travelling offshore regularly. It's certainly the way to bet, but we need more of them to be confident that it wasn't an accident which led to them sinking in the first place.

The uniform inspections had BETTER simply be for utility uniforms - as nearly as I can tell, there's damned few people anymore who go to work in blues every day any more. There's NO reason a utility uniform can't be pressed/lightly starched, and boots at least brushed to get the dust off 'em. And o...

Absurd. The schedule is way too over-extended. Eight to ten years to bolt on new engines? I realize the electronic engine control stuff needs to be revised too, but that's mostly ripping out a bunch of wiring and display panels, putting in some MFDs in the flight engineer's station, then dropping i...

You've got to wonder if the guts of an Ioniq 5N fit nicely under there. If so we might be seeing it quite soon.

jemhouston wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 11:12 amHas anyone heard of anyone working on how to handle Lithium fires. I'm hoping Tesla is working on it.

Cool it down and keep the oxygen away. AVD fire extinguishers are designed to do this, you also have fire blankets which pretty much do the same thing without the cooling effect.

Johnnie Lyle wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 9:36 amHow does that work for people who don’t have relatives, or where one can’t be found?

Responsibility devolves onto the local council.
https://www.buckinghamshire.gov.uk/envi ... angements/

One estimate is that if the world were to go net zero then it would need to spend 50% of GDP on batteries. For Australia to go net zero via wind and solar using batteries for backup it would need 167% of current global battery production every year as the old ones wear out. 90% of this could be eli...

This raises an interesting question: had a death certificate been issued? If so, that is a legal document and cannot be altered. In the case of an incorrect cause of death, the body must be exhumed and a further autopsy be carried out, then a new death certificate issued. So would she have to die, ...