| Breaking | Vladimir Putin offers to send Russian peace keeping troops to London and Birmingham and Belfast
Link to back things up or are you trying to confirm how unfunny and pointless your posts are
The original post on Twitter got 24k likes so either there are lots of people who randomly like unfunny and pointless posts. Or its just you who needs to get a SOH
On the subject of Mr Anderson's ministrations to Mr Trump's mushroom allegedly suggested by a Conservative whip (iirc) discussed yesterday, this chart demonstrating relative prowess appeared on the Leeanderthal Twitter feed on Valentine's Day (text edited) concerning .. er .. oral contributions. My image quota.
He should ask his friend Elon if he can borrow something from the sperm bank. The richest man in America appears to be on a mission to have as many descendants as posible.
One curiosity is that while Biblical names are very common, and variations on Mohammad are extremely frequent, to call a baby "Jesus" would be considered a bit weird in Britain, though not unusual at all in Spain.
In answer to an earlier question: Almost 10,000 Americans, almost all of them female, are named Liberty:
My dog sitter has a daughter named Liberty. She is from a traveller family.
"Virtue" names have been back in fashion for a while. I know a little Constance, and a couple of Felicitys.
Any Probitys ?
I'm waiting for "Faith", "Hope" and "Charity"
"Blessing" is popular in Nigeria
And Zimbabwe, and for men.
Blessing Muzarabani is a rather talented young pacer and they had a Blessing Mawhire who was rather less talented but also a pacer.
The first President of Zimbabwe rejoiced in the improbable name of Canaan Banana.
There was a rather sad ending to Banana's presidency when he was imprisoned on sodomy charges. It isn't clear as far as I know whether he was actually guilty of abuse or a victim of politically motivated homophobia.
Oh for the good old days when we had proper names, like Praise God Barebones. Or his son, If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebones. (Apparently the latter preferred to be called Nicholas, for some reason.)
There are far more children christened Constance than Nigel now...
| Breaking | Vladimir Putin offers to send Russian peace keeping troops to London and Birmingham and Belfast
So we do need a proper military to keep him out then?
Olaf Scholtz says its inappropriate to discuss and Putin is a wanker for bringing it up
Oh no sorry he was referring to SKS premature ejaculation problem
Scholz said he was "annoyed" by the debate around sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine after the war is over, arguing that it is "highly inappropriate" to discuss it before a peace plan is decided upon.
Best video yet of the Canadian plane crash this morning. From the cockpit of another plane, which is somewhat unusual but there was a howling wind and freezing conditions.
Looks like they hit an air pocket at the worst possible time, and it smacked into the ground and rolled over.
The more videos watched of this one, the more utterly astonishing it is that everyone of 80 PoB got out. That could very, very, easily have been 80 fatalities.
Oh, thanks. Very impressive result.
BTW what's an 'air pocket' in modern terms? Sounds very Biggles era ...
The “air pocket” is an area of relatively less dense air, caused by air masses hitting each other and causing the air to move in different directions. Planes don’t fly as well in this less dense air, as they do in more dense air, hence they fall down in the air.
If your plane is in turbulence, you’re actually experiencing air of different densities or wind directions, which causes the plane appear to bounce around.
Close to the ground, this is somewhat more of a problem, as you see here on a very windy day.
A pilot usually adds a few knots of airspeed to their approach on a windy day, so if my usual approach speed is 80kts and the wind is 20kts, I’d add half the wind and approach at 90kts on that day. This makes the landing distance longer, which I might need to take into account with a big plane and a short runway when it’s snowing…
Looking at the weather reported, this landing would have been awfully close* to the certified operating limits of the aircraft, and they just got damn unlucky. (* let’s see just how close the investigators think it was, might easily have been the wrong side of the line).
The air pocket is quite analagous to what happens to swimmers in water with bubbles - such as in rapids or potentially in waves. The fluid - air or water - is less dense, and so is less able to support the swimmer or aircraft. And it goes down.
For a swimmer in water with bubbles you can get trapped beneath the water, and it may be physically impossible to get out.
| Breaking | Vladimir Putin offers to send Russian peace keeping troops to London and Birmingham and Belfast
Link to back things up or are you trying to confirm how unfunny and pointless your posts are
The original post on Twitter got 24k likes so either there are lots of people who randomly like unfunny and pointless posts. Or its just you who needs to get a SOH
| Breaking | Vladimir Putin offers to send Russian peace keeping troops to London and Birmingham and Belfast
Link to back things up or are you trying to confirm how unfunny and pointless your posts are
The original post on Twitter got 24k likes so either there are lots of people who randomly like unfunny and pointless posts. Or its just you who needs to get a SOH
Does anyone know if I can get away with 32mm tyres on the Canal du Midi towpath. Anyone done it? I have always found the skill level required and difficulty tends to be exaggerated on the internet. I don't want to be caught out, but I really don't want big tyres either if it is civilised.
Watching the Trump team at work and watching the Starmer team at work is there any wonder that we have a growing support for "just get it done" politicians here?
Musk demonstrated again that when he puts the grown up in charge he can organise shit getting done. Not only catching up but surpassing everybody in LLMs in only 18 months and building a 200k GPU cluster from scratch is quite incredible achievement.
Its makes decision to let the teenagers loose on DOGE a strange decision when he has legit people working for him in his other companies.
I just had drinks with a much-loved Anglo-American lefty friend, out here in the winter, and he STILL tried to argue that Musk is just "lucky", "a mere salesman", "inherited an emerald mine" etc
Then I talked him through Musk's development of Grok over the last year and a half - and evidenced the latest iteration in front of him - and he was kinda speechless
In answer to an earlier question: Almost 10,000 Americans, almost all of them female, are named Liberty:
My dog sitter has a daughter named Liberty. She is from a traveller family.
"Virtue" names have been back in fashion for a while. I know a little Constance, and a couple of Felicitys.
Any Probitys ?
I'm waiting for "Faith", "Hope" and "Charity"
Or Endeavour, like Morse.
I have a distant ancestor called Original. The theory is that his grandfather and great grandfather were called Reginald and somehow the parson mispronounced Reginald as Original - dubious I know.
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@LeeAndersonMP_ Feb 14
Reform v Labour.
I'm surrounded by Labour MPs in Nottinghamshire but they're not very noisy neighbours in Parliament.
https://x.com/LeeAndersonMP_/status/1890384221975306603
I bear no responsibility for your conclusions.
TBF that somewhat answers a couple of the things I was speculating about the other day
Oh no sorry he was referring to SKS premature ejaculation problem
Scholz said he was "annoyed" by the debate around sending peacekeeping forces to Ukraine after the war is over, arguing that it is "highly inappropriate" to discuss it before a peace plan is decided upon.
To be fair, we didn't go for Uno, Dos, Tres - I should have suggested those earlier. But Cuatro looks like a pukka boy's name (at least) to me.
NEW THREAD
For a swimmer in water with bubbles you can get trapped beneath the water, and it may be physically impossible to get out.
https://gerryanderson.fandom.com/wiki/Destiny_Angel
Fuxsake.
https://www.cyclechat.net/search/362200/?q=Canal+du+Midi&o=relevance
Then I talked him through Musk's development of Grok over the last year and a half - and evidenced the latest iteration in front of him - and he was kinda speechless
Then we went to the go-go bar and had shots
That’s 5-0 to Russia.