alpine_saint

Hmm, I am struggling with this statement. An aircraft is a complex system where everything has to function to keep the thing in the air. If you are following the XH558 issue you will know the main problem is reliable engine supply - she stripped 2 turbines at the beginning of this year's flying season. Thats a pretty major problem, and if it happens again she wont even get through the last planned flying season next year. The QE2 is several thousand tons of steel, in principle. A rusty patch isnt going to kill anyone.

Not really. Their parents try to teach them right from wrong of course, but they are given a lot more lattitude than their siblings.

At least you werent subjected to the crap match. That would really have been the proverbial icing on the cake...

No, giving Simon Jenkins and Polly Toynbee free reign to publish rants relating to their personal anti-everything left-wing agendas makes it drivel.............

But XH558 isnt being scrapped. Have you seen the Ve3 proposal from the VTTS Trust ? (was chuffed I saw her in the sky from a Red Funnel Ferry at Cowes in August 2009 as she was flying on her way to the Bournemouth Airshow)

This is a bit of fun, try it out : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2012/oct/17/europe-news-financial-crisis?intcmp=122 I came out as Holland, middle-of-the-road.

Actually, this increases my opinion of Serbs. They like Jenny Agutter's norks too..

Brilliant I dont, and none of my children have it, but two of my cousins children have it. They are as sharp as nails, but very situationally unaware/naiive.

Probably not much, he wouldnt have got the job if he werent pliable.

What utter rubbish. Asperger's has nothing to do with intelligence (in fact many sufferers are incredibly intelligent), and a helluva lot to do with awareness and ability to be held accountable for your actions.

Bog roll has become cheaper to wipe your arse with than left wing drivel.

England have gone utterly backwards under Hodgson. Oh well, at least we can properly enjoy a World Cup as neutrals without any jingoistic nonsense for once.

I am vehemently anti-racist. The Scottish are not a race. To coin a phrase from one of their very best in Trainspotting - "They're just w*nkers" Oooh, is this the Austrian = Nazi = Racist genocidal bastard cliche again ? Wow, thats new.

So you have no interests in museums then, and live only for the superificial here and now ? You're welcome to your opinion.

Uh-huh. OK. Spectacularly unconvinced, sorry. As trousers says, more tax revenue just leads to more waste and cockamamie project ideas that deliver no results.

I read that the stadium officials wanted to close the roof ahead of the game, but needed the approval of the FIFA representative appointed for the evening, but he didnt turn up until 7pm CET and the monsoon was already well under way, by which time it was dangerous to try to close it.

Is that right ? Please explain how taxation creates jobs.

Its always open-season when the England team or clubs play over in Europe. UEFA and FIFA turn a blind eye to so much, I think the charges of institutional bias, corruption and racism are not so wide of the mark. Even their heads, Blatter and Platini, ill-conceal their hatred of England.

The youtube footage doesnt really show what kicked it off and who was responsible, apart from Wickham scoring, of course. Why was Rose red-carded ? Its all quite confusing to watch.

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9988280.QE2_to_be_scrapped_/ Should never have gone in the first place.

He is entitled to say whatever he likes; doesnt mean its a legitimate view.

She must have been a right go-er though. He went grey during that period.

How about doing what is right ? McKinnon suffers from Apsergers so it is questionable if he is fit to be put on trial. Tory interests and "the right thing" do co-incide sometimes, you know... Anyway, Johnsons "national interest" is only lickey-looing to the Yanks and pretending that the "special relationship" really exists. Lets not pretend he has no agenda. How often do the Yanks extradite US citizens to us under this agreement, btw ?

This.

Was the parachute automatically deployed, based on an altimiter reading, in case he blacked out or worse ? Would then explain why the freefall was shorter in duration than expected.