There is a species of manager who hates volunteerism, especially in charities for some reason. They will delight in forcing out long standing arrangements like this, to replace them with paid workers… (View Post)

The Cold War NATO rules never involved shooting at Warsaw Pact aircraft. Instead they were treated as badly behaved children, with the nonsense about turning off transponders and not answering radio … (View Post)

Since the start of the Cold War, the Russians have always tried to shoot down any plane they felt was violating their airspace. NATO policy was always to escort and be polite. In one incident, a Russ… (View Post)

Ah yes. UCL Union - a stack of bars. The memories of Cocktail Night. On a hot summers night, the central staircase was sometimes a waterfall of spilt Blue Lagoon… Dionysus (aka Dialysis) Kebab rester… (View Post)

Many years back, I attended an OR conference in New Orleans. At lunch, the long table of 20+ were squabbling over the bill. The waitress asked me, since I was the only one not arguing, what was going… (View Post)