We have written before about catastrophic aircraft damage and planes that have survived this ...
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| Flight 434 from Palma de Mallorca, to Vienna. |
..... well imagine being a passenger on a 9th June 2024 Austrian Airlines Airbus A320 holiday flight from Majorca, Spain to Vienna, Austria.
One of my favourite TV characters is the cynical and vengeful Moe Szyslak .....
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| Moe Szyslak The Owner Of Moe's Tavern |
... the owner and sole barman of Moe's Tavern in The Simpsons.
Reports said that in February 2022, Kim Jong-un, North Korea's hereditary king
in all but name .....
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| Kimjongilia Flowers - North Korean Penal Camp For Not Growing Them. |
..... had a 50 year old palace gardener named 'Han', sentenced to a harsh labour work-camp prison for 6 months, due to the poor man not being able to force a flower to bloom in time for a special festival.
On the 7th of May 2019, Leonard Olsen a 70 year old driver was cruising in his car in Lakeland Florida when he was surprised to be stopped by the police.
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| Leonard Olsen - Violent Road Surfer |
They explained that they had filmed him standing up and sitting on top of the sunroof of his white Cadillac, as it thundered down the road at about 40 mph (64km/h) with no one at the controls.
Desperate times lead to desperate measures ... or so they say.
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| Kurt Kaser, Back At His Farm. |
Kurt Kaser, a 63 year old Nebraskan farmer was proof of this back in 2019. On the 19th April of that year he was operating a grain hopper while uploading corn.
Uber driver Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo in Michigan USA .....
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| Jason Dalton Serial Killer |
As usual, if I spot a Florida Man story I pick it up .....
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| Thomas Devaney Lane And His Turtle Army |
..... and they come as regular as rain in the UK.
No Cyber Geek
In November 2018 it was reported that Japan's new cyber-security minister Yoshitaka Sakurada, had dumbfounded his country by saying he has never used a computer. He has always had staff to do those sorts of things ....
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| Cyber Security In Japan Was In Good Hands |
...... "Since I was 25 years old and independent, I have instructed my staff and secretaries. I have never used a computer in my life." ........ when questioned further about security at Japan's nuclear plants, he apparently didn't understand what a USB stick was. But he assured everyone that everything would be fine as his staff knew about those things .... so that was OK then.
Its been known for quite a while that Russia's intelligence agencies have been practising assassinations of Putin's critics when they are in exile abroad. One example was Sergei Skripal who was poisoned in Salisbury UK with his daughter, but both survived.
%20Potin's%20Killers.jpg "Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov (aliases) Putin's Killers") |
| Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov (aliases) Putin's Killers |
However not many will have been aware of the murder of another of Putin's Russian critics in the UK, just a week earlier.
The belief in people having Mystic powers .....
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| Nina Kulagina - Alleged Russian Psychic. |
.... to predict the future, contact the dead, or identify where bodies are etc etc, are almost embedded in to some parts of humanities psyche. The UK TV channel Blaze for example (along with others), shows a lot of shows on ancient aliens, future aliens, house hauntings, strange and unknown events etc.
The South West London tennis club had fallen prey to the woke curse that was/is sweeping the UK like a pandemic .....
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| Aussie Shopping Centre Toilet Signs - Currently Illegal In UK |
.... They had removed the female gender option from their on-line membership forms. When women tried to join or renew at £300 pa they found no female gender option.
We all tend to think that COVID has simply disappeared .....
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| Montgomery Burns Natural Resistance To Viruses Was Novel. |
...... dissipated and of no concern.
In the UK post office boxes are red ......
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| Sir Chris Hoy's 2nd Gold Post Box |
While much of the world fought Coronavirus with vaccines, others tried other remedies ....
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| Ting Mong's Scare Covid Aware |
In Cambodia, farmers put up effigies known as 'Ting Mongs' along their fences to ward off coronavirus. The idea is that they drive the evil illnesses away and have been used on other occasions to avert Dengue fever and other diseases from the farmers.
The cancel history brigade are now in full flow, and apparently the symbolic genocide of white males from history is continuing apace.
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| Livingstone And Stanley Facing Cancellation |
A short lead post this week ...
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| World Takes A Short Pause ... |
... Trump's US still hasn't extracted itself from Iran, so the real world is kind of on a short pause.
I saw something odd early last year, and decided to write about it, as it stuck in my mind .....
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| A Life Spilt On To The Concrete? |
....... It was the moment when a woman's life possibly changed.
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| Human Mega Brains Are Possible |
Donald Trump claimed once again last Friday ......
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| Trump Between A Rock And A Hard Price? |
.... that the U.S. has "already won" the war. However its now week ten of the war and counting, and he's now saying in his inimitable way that he wants to "win by a bigger margin," and ensure Iran can never attain a nuclear weapon.
Power Transformers worldwide have suffered some strange animal sabotages over the years .....
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| Electrocuted Vervet Monkey |
.... from Racoon's causing power supply problems in both Germany and the USA, to rats in Japan and monkeys in Kenya.
Sometimes fate just takes a hand. Police in Bochum Germany spotted a man playing a one armed bandit in a arcade, and realised that he was wanted with a warrant out for his arrest, because of €710 in unpaid fines. He faced a 71 day prison term if he failed to pay up, so they moved in to handcuff him.
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| Oh What A Lucky Win |
The US is becoming ever more divided politically .....
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| USA Politically Divided |
.... with the current two major parties both prone to being hijacked by and led by extremists of the left and the right, and assassinations and assassination attempts, now seemingly a real factor in political life.
In a scene that is the stuff of nightmares, especially if like me, you are mildly claustrophobic (in truth this picture gave me nightmares for a couple of nights!!) ....
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| Matilda Campbell Found Herself In A Tricky Situation. |
... Matilda Campbell, a young Australian woman, found herself trapped upside down after slipping between two giant boulders.
A lazy post this week .....
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| We Like Poll Lists ..... |
....... Yes its poll time again ... I don't come across them very often these days, so these are a couple of older ones that I thought interesting enough to type up at the time I saw them.
In the USA there have been a number of anti-trump mass rallies ....
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| The Man Who Would Be King? |
.... They have been labelled 'No Kings' protests in an allusion to the revolt against King George III of Britain, which led to the formation of the American Republic.
Animal ecologists often claim that animals are better off in the wild than in zoo's ...
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| Ingo The Old Flamingo |
We have all heard the advice ....
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| Drink At Least 8 Glasses Of Water A Day |
.... to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day (how much that is depends on the glass size, but in UK, the NHS recommends 1.2 litres or 6 - 8 200ml glasses = 2 UK pints).
With a British Prime Minister once again under pressure ...
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| Prime Minister Starmer: Epstein Collateral Damage |
.... over an Ex-Ambassador to the USA's contacts with Epstein, and the handling of his appointment to that role, it's ironic that the Epstein scandal continues to damage so many in the UK.
The prestigious Outback Queensland Masters ....
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| Many Animals Like Golf Balls |
I am something of a herpetologist .....
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| Building A Pond |
Wars that don't end in the total destruction and surrender of one side ....
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| "Mission accomplished" US President Bush 2003 |
Dirty toilets and habits surrounding them are a common enough subject of occasional discussion ...
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| Bad Boy - Zoom Call From Toilet |
... so why not here as well.
Well here we go (again) ....
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| Trump The Destroyer |
This week Trump has threatened to leave NATO, the US led defence organisation that it set up 77 years ago.
Its been reported that researchers have uncovered a strange fact .....
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| Disappearing Fish From Tanks |
.... this is that up to 300,000 pet fish, simply disappear from their tanks every year in the UK.
The need for salt in their diet affects .....
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| Too Much Salt In Our Diets. |
One of the surprises of the war in Iran are the casualty figures ...
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| Tehran Bombed - Low Comparatively Casualties? |
.... I say surprises, because considering the sheer volume of munitions being expended by all sides, especially by the US and Isreal, but also by an Iran lashing out in all directions, you would expect many thousand upon thousands of dead and wounded.
I think its fair to say that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas attack on Israel and its response ro that attack has exposed a fault line in the Western populations .....
Britain is rather benign when it comes to deadly critters ....
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| Adder Attacks Rare In UK |
Surprisingly people lose their feet ....
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| Maurice's Lost Foot |
.... only for them to turn up, washed ashore on beaches around the globe but predominantly the Northwest American coast.
Money from the UK's Postcode Lottery has been used to prepare habitats for beaver reintroductions in three English counties (Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire), which have been beaver free for over 500 years.
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| British Beaver |
When in September 1962, President Kennedy .....
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| Putting A Man On The Moon Was Costly |
...... committed the United States to sending a man to the moon before the end of the decade, he said:
President Trump appears to have no apparent exit ramp from the attacks on Iran ...
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| Wall Street Journal Headline - Exit Iran War |
D.M a commentor last week, reported that CNN has an article that stated "Trump might just mirror his domestic approach by declaring victory, walking away and leaving everyone else to deal with the consequences. Trump’s signature move is to tear down established structures before seeing where the pieces fall and finding some way to declare a win."
Pets can be a financial drain .....
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| Cat Breaks Vase |
.... anyone facing vets bills can attest to that.
Chronic insomnia is a problem of old age (which I for one, can attest to <deep sigh>) ....
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| Randy Smith Has A Strange Fame |
... but affects people of all ages worldwide.
Last Monday, President Trump unusually used a teleprompter/auto-cue at a medal ward ceremony, which the press had attended ....
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| Donalds auto-cue controller |
Cyber security against three malicious states (Russia, China, and North Korea ... the 3 dictatorships most active in the Cybersphere) is a big thing in the increasingly beleaguered West .....
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| Password Quality Can Be Poor |
While perusing the Web for current news stories ....
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| Should Vigilantes Guard Churches? |
... I came across this disturbing little quote from Don Gaetz, a Florida state senator.
When we think of migrating animals ....
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| Migrating Bats |
.... we usually think birds such as geese and ducks.
