The Lemon Fool

scotia wrote:Two Air France pilots suspended after cockpit fistfight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62712278

And now for something completely different:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-42618201


Come on, British Airways! Where are you?


Steve

PS I've just been watching a few old Monty Python episodes on Netflix, so enjoyed this bit of news very much.

Snorvey wrote:Still, it's better than a fistpit cockfight. Whatever that is.

I think you need more Glenlivet.

Snorvey wrote:There must be a better way.

Yep go back to work,
If everyone gets stonking great pay rises, it just fuels inflation

Edit, Sorry that is not meant to spoil the "oooh thread" (I love that)

Snorvey wrote:
Well they've had 12 days of no pay, alienated a great deal of the city's tourism potential for a good while and still have to clean all the crap up anyway.

There must be a better way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-62722956

Heh...

Oh, there's a better way all right....

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/bin-strikes-edinburgh-nicola-sturgeon-27856534

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

Snorvey wrote:Well they've had 12 days of no pay, alienated a great deal of the city's tourism potential for a good while and still have to clean all the crap up anyway.

There must be a better way.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-62722956

They should think themselves lucky they don't have to clean up 150,000 tomatoes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-62721021

--kiloran

Snorvey wrote:I wonder if she'll have 'Scabs' daubed on her windows....?

I pity that pub, all they did was bag the rubbish, they didn't take the rubbish to landfill or anything like that.

Snorvey wrote:I think the driver was behind schedule and was trying to ket......no, I can't do it.

Oh go on... you know you want to

Snorvey wrote:Jeezo, all the financial news sources are absolutely full of doom and gloom for the UK.

It kinda wears you down a bit reading it all to be honest.

Even if its half true, we might as well settle down with a bottle of pills, a bottle of whisky and watch the sun go down.

As long as it comes back up again in the morning

Snorvey wrote:You're joking but honestly, it's absolutely appalling the state we're in. I'm normally glass half full....but it's difficult to have any optimism for this country. How did we up up in such a mess?

True, we can't even build warships with working propeller shafts now.

HMS Prince of Wales, the £3bn pride of the Navy, grinds to halt over ‘failure to grease propeller shaft’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/08/30/hms-prince-wales-warship-grinds-halt-failure-grease-propeller/

RC

WrenChasen wrote:The approach through the skyscrapers to Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport has to be a front runner when it comes hair-raising passenger experiences. I doubt anyone who's done it will ever forget the experience. I landed there four occasions with Qantas in the 80s, and on every approach fervently wished I believed in some sort of god.

Ooh good one! From 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx3Ccs5tKfw 'Cockpit View Landing Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport'.
This is quite something in itself. What it doesn't illustrate is the view from passenger side-facing windows as the plane descended, amongst apartment buildings that progressively seemed to become higher than the plane was. I recall a sense of seeing people on their balconies and in their homes at the same altitude

DiamondEcho wrote:

WrenChasen wrote:The approach through the skyscrapers to Hong Kong's old Kai Tak Airport has to be a front runner when it comes hair-raising passenger experiences. I doubt anyone who's done it will ever forget the experience. I landed there four occasions with Qantas in the 80s, and on every approach fervently wished I believed in some sort of god.

Ooh good one! From 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx3Ccs5tKfw 'Cockpit View Landing Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport'.
This is quite something in itself. What it doesn't illustrate is the view from passenger side-facing windows as the plane descended, amongst apartment buildings that progressively seemed to become higher than the plane was. I recall a sense of seeing people on their balconies and in their homes at the same altitude

Not the view from a plane but ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai_Tak_Airport#/media/File:Boeing_747-428,_Air_France_AN0278440.jpg

Scary memory for a boy, almost 7, being sent back to the UK to start boarding school!

I don't own a TV, so most of my 'watching crap on a screen' intake comes from YouTube..
I mostly seem to end up watching
(a) old music videos/live performance stuff
(b) guitar tutorials, and general music analysis (Rick Beato..)
(c) train and canal videos... I like Geoff Marshall's railway stuff
Facebook seem to have introduced an embedded video feature (reels/short videos)...possibly a YouTube TikTok cross?

Snorvey wrote:This, my friends, is Clickbait.


England midfielder completes world-record move to Barcelona from Manchester City


Oooh. Now that sounds interesting....!


England midfielder Keira Walsh has joined Barcelona in a world-record deal from Manchester City.

Eh? I've never heard of him.

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Wait a minute. .gah! wimmin's fitba.

I know, it caught me out too
very annoying

Snorvey wrote:How to evaporate a business in 5 minutes (assuming the energy prices weren't killing the place anyway)

Hours after the death of Her Majesty, Jaki’s Fish and Chip Shop posted a Facebook video with a staff member holding up a chalkboard that read “Lizard Liz Dead and London Bridge has fallen.”

The person then clumsily tried to refilm the event before spraying champagne over herself. She was filmed by another person. The video was then uploaded to Facebook.

Its on a number of news sources today. Just search 'Jaki Pickett'

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... een-death/

What a very, very stupid woman!

Apparently, her shop windows have been smashed and she's gone away for her own safety.

What do these people have between their ears?

Steve

This is Jaki's website:

https://www.jaki-chippy.co.uk/about

All that hard work undone in a moment of madness...or maybe the revelation of her true feelings about the Queen.

stevensfo wrote:

Snorvey wrote:
How to evaporate a business in 5 minutes (assuming the energy prices weren't killing the place anyway)

Hours after the death of Her Majesty, Jaki’s Fish and Chip Shop posted a Facebook video with a staff member holding up a chalkboard that read “Lizard Liz Dead and London Bridge has fallen.”

The person then clumsily tried to refilm the event before spraying champagne over herself. She was filmed by another person. The video was then uploaded to Facebook.

Its on a number of news sources today. Just search 'Jaki Pickett'

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/ne ... een-death/

What a very, very stupid woman!

Apparently, her shop windows have been smashed and she's gone away for her own safety.

Very lucky.

She could have been battered....

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

stevensfo wrote:Apparently, her shop windows have been smashed and she's gone away for her own safety.

She's entitled to express her view.

People are entitled to find it offensive, and boycott her business. I think that would be my inclination.

But once they take to physical violence, that's straight into Charlie Hebdo territory.

Snorvey wrote:A moment of madness indeed.

Perhaps a deeply under pressure small business owner facing a ten grand energy bill that she can't pay and saw the Queens death as an outlet for her anger?

Or maybe she was just a dick.

I think she has several strange conspiracy theory type opinions. Like accusing Walt Disney of 'kid trafficking' and 'organ harvesting'.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restauran ... tland.html