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  • TimSTimS Posts: 14,952

    Easy LD win methinks Lab will be lucky to finish 2nd IMO
    It’s a LD defence so anything other than a win would be bad news.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,924
    eek said:

    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
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,681
    edited February 18
    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.

    Lee Anderson MP

    @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 :wink: .
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 56,022
    Andy_JS said:

    "Nigel Farage calls for more UK births in pro-family message"

    https://www.ft.com/content/80138c82-2fca-41cd-a3e2-18296b1fb1bf

    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.
  • FoxyFoxy Posts: 51,291

    Christ.

    [Also probably a name in the Philippines]
    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.
  • FF43FF43 Posts: 17,884
    ydoethur said:

    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.
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,924
    eek said:

    Link to back things up or are you trying to confirm how unfunny and pointless your posts are
    https://x.com/normAL219/status/1891401093466169475
  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,795
    ydoethur said:

    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...
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,924
    ydoethur said:

    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.
  • SelebianSelebian Posts: 9,266
    .

    There was a vox pop on the radio some years ago, when they asked somebody his name.

    Biggles.

    Quite a pause.

    Turned out he was a third child and his parents had let his siblings name him. And they wanted to call him Biggles. So he was.
    We're due child number 4 very soon. I've suggested Cuatro, to keep things simple, but that's been vetoed :disappointed:

    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.
  • viewcodeviewcode Posts: 24,317
    Nigelb said:

    What did they call Destiny's child ?
    Beyonce
  • NEW THREAD

  • NigelbNigelb Posts: 76,795
    Selebian said:

    .

    We're due child number 4 very soon. I've suggested Cuatro, to keep things simple, but that's been vetoed :disappointed:

    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.
    While we're doing characteristics as names, why not Foursquare ?
  • MattWMattW Posts: 26,681
    Sandpit said:

    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.
  • kamskikamski Posts: 6,331

    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
    You post on twitter?
  • bigjohnowlsbigjohnowls Posts: 22,924
    viewcode said:

    Beyonce
    Destiny is not even born for another 15 years never mind her child

    https://gerryanderson.fandom.com/wiki/Destiny_Angel
  • ydoethurydoethur Posts: 73,575

    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
    I'd go for option 1.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,395
    Still light at 4.17pm

    Fuxsake.
  • BattlebusBattlebus Posts: 678
    edited February 18
    kjh said:

    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.

    Try Cyclechat

    https://www.cyclechat.net/search/362200/?q=Canal+du+Midi&o=relevance
  • eekeek Posts: 29,741

    https://x.com/normAL219/status/1891401093466169475
    Nice to see your reposting the views of a racist xenophobe
  • LeonLeon Posts: 59,852

    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

    Then we went to the go-go bar and had shots
  • sladeslade Posts: 2,163
    kinabalu said:

    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.
  • GardenwalkerGardenwalker Posts: 22,203
    So the Americans have agreed to normalize relations with Russia, including potential reduction of sanctions.

    That’s 5-0 to Russia.
  • Pagan2Pagan2 Posts: 10,808
    FatMaude said:

    Thatcher was NOT a northerner

    Anyone born on the wrong side of the tamar is a northerner
  • Nigelb said:

    What did they call Destiny's child ?
    For shame that nobody had given that a 'like' yet.
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