Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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787 safe to fly??

http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/2014/09/investigation-safety-concerns-dog-boeing-787-dreamliner-20149391617796902.html

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My latest waffleage in Bluff Europe, including "Blog off".


http://bit.ly/1qITyM3

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Shouting and swearing = cooey wooey in Glasgow 😀

Lol.

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The google home page had a special message dedicated to me. Yes it did. It did. It was in that little clickable picture they have some days above the search box. Blew me away. A message to ME, personally, from Mr google. Amazeballs.
   

WTAF are you on about?

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The google home page had a special message dedicated to me. Yes it did. It did. It was in that little clickable picture they have some days above the search box. Blew me away. A message to ME, personally, from Mr google. Amazeballs.
   

WTAF are you on about?

I opened up google home page, & that little picture thing they sometimes have above the search box was a birthday cake, candles, some party balloons, that sort of thing.

I clicked it, curious to see what it was - they are often very interesting - & it said "Happy Birthday Tony".

I clicked it to see what it linked to, but it went to my google Account (whatever that is) & needed me to sign in, but I had no idea what my Password was.

Later that day I located the Password, but by then (mid-afternoon) it had disappeared.

I was - very briefly - chuffed to bits, to be honest. I'm so shallow. Bet it came personally from Sergey & Larry.

The digital age is a scary thing.

[Tal]

Abuse at the poker table took an interesting form yesterday in the local £50er.

I had the pleasure of being sat at what can fairly be described as the willywavingest poker table I've ever encountered. There must have been six players with preposterously grotesque egos chuntering away at each play they witnessed with a menacing undertone.

Seat four hadn't moved a chip in anger in, I was later assured, a good two hours. He got his money and the developing cobwebs in with a suitably sizeable hand against two opponents and duly trebled up. As he was raking the spoils of victory in, the chap to his left banged the table with fearsome disdain: "If I'd called with my  , I would have won!". Quite right, too, as it would have made the nut flush. But people don't tend to put 30bb in with such hands, when two people (including the world's most patient man) have already emptied their pockets on the table. At best, an unhelpful remark.

The victor turns to this young man and gives him a look as though he'd just urinated on his prize-winning sandscupture.

"No, son," he assured him "I won the pot"

Not satisfied by the answer - and seemingly offended that this man could be offended - the lad re-popped:

"No. I said if I HAD have called, I WOULD HAVE won. It's called the conditional tense, mate"

Having been an awkward and passive observer until now, this tipped me over the edge. The sheer cheek to take away this bloke's one pot in the last two hours by declaring a hand you correctly folded would have bested his, so the victory was only Phyrric anyway is bad enough, but to patronise him in a local comp with an exercise in grammar takes the entire box of special occasion biscuits.

"I think you'll find it's the conditional perfect."

"Sorry?"

"The conditional perfect - you said 'would have won', which is in the past. Not the conditional."

The victor of the pot had almost finished angrily stacking his chips when he looked up to give me an assenting nod. I'm not sure whether he understood exactly what I was on about, but he definitely understood why I'd said it.

Not on my watch, sunshine.

I should add that we had a laugh about it later and the table was, whilst still full of oneupmanship and wee-wee contestry, a little more conducive to the spirit of the occasion.

Nothing like a good grammar-off to get the Saturday night juices flowing.

[Tal]

Should also add I got knocked out by the local lad infamously known on this forum as "some ginger nerd". What he was doing raising with kings I'll never know. Some people have all the luck.

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He got his money and the developing cobwebs in with a suitably sizeable hand

Excellent! (Wasted here though). 

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He got his money and the developing cobwebs in with a suitably sizeable hand

Excellent! (Wasted here though). 

Whole thing is excellent!

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He got his money and the developing cobwebs in with a suitably sizeable hand

Excellent! (Wasted here though). 

Whole thing is excellent! (Wasted here though)

FYP

[horseplayer]

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/japanese-maple

[Redsgirl]

The google home page had a special message dedicated to me. Yes it did. It did. It was in that little clickable picture they have some days above the search box. Blew me away. A message to ME, personally, from Mr google. Amazeballs.
   

WTAF are you on about?

I opened up google home page, & that little picture thing they sometimes have above the search box was a birthday cake, candles, some party balloons, that sort of thing.

I clicked it, curious to see what it was - they are often very interesting - & it said "Happy Birthday Tony".

I clicked it to see what it linked to, but it went to my google Account (whatever that is) & needed me to sign in, but I had no idea what my Password was.

Later that day I located the Password, but by then (mid-afternoon) it had disappeared.

I was - very briefly - chuffed to bits, to be honest. I'm so shallow. Bet it came personally from Sergey & Larry.

The digital age is a scary thing.

Was it your birthday?  If so,
 

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787 safe to fly?

http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/boeing787/2014/09/investigation-safety-concerns-dog-boeing-787-dreamliner-20149391617796902.html

Yes.

If you want 108 pages of 787 scaremongering, PPRuNe is the place.

 http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/505455-faa-grounds-787s.html

That al jazeera thing is just stuff & nonsense.

Boeing employees smoke pot? They have 168,000 employees, it'd be a statistical freak if none of them enjoyed the occasional spliff.

Boeing's commitment to high standards is unarguable, & their products have an astonishing safety record. How many flight cycles has the 747 & 737 had? The fail % must be barely measureable. Can't think of too many 747 failures down to aircraft malfunction.

Sure, there are problems with these new batteries, but they'll sort it soon enough.

When fly-by-wire was introduced, the same people went round shouting & screaming "we are all gonna die", but it all worked out pretty well.

I'd happily fly in a 787. I fancy you would, too, especially if they let you sit in the front left seat.

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How much do those 787 beauties cost?

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/commercial/prices/

Don't suppose anyone pays those prices, must be discount-city, but it's a handy guide to the comparitive cost of the different types.

Sadly, I gather BA are phasing out the 747, & even the A380 is not selling in the anticipated volumes. Shame really.

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