We’ve watched the first two parts, and apart from the music found it pretty good.
I think the champagne drinking was a deliberately included to show how the upper echelons were removed from the reality
of trench warfare.
Overall pretty good, as have most of the other recent documentaries on WWI been.

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn’t there a huge overeaction four years ago at the time of the last Icelandic volcanic eruption?

There certainly was. I got fed up with hearing about the BA 747 incident, from “experts” on the TV news bulletins.

Nice job.
I didn’t realize that Lego did black bricks. I remember reading an article years ago, saying that Lego only did brightly
coloured bricks, never brown or green, as they didn’t want them to be used to build anything with a military connection.

Perhaps times have changed ?

Just found this on the Lego Answers website.

Guideline for weapons and conflict in LEGO experiences

A large number of LEGO minifigures use weapons, and are – assumedly – regularly being charged by each others’ weapons as part of children’s role play. In the LEGO Group, we acknowledge that conflict in play is especially prevalent among 4-9-year-old boys. An inner drive and a need to experiment with their own aggressive feelings in order to learn about other people’s aggressions exist in most children. This in turn enables them to handle and recognize conflict in non-play scenarios. As such, the LEGO Group sees conflict play as perfectly acceptable, and an integral part of children’s development.

We also acknowledge children’s well-proven ability to tell play from reality. however, to make sure to maintain the right balance between play and conflict, we have adhered to a set of unwritten rules for several years. In 2010, we have formalized these rules in a guideline for the use of conflict and weapons in LEGO products. The basic aim is to avoid realistic weapons and military equipment that children may recognize from hot spots around the world and to refrain from showing violent or frightening situations when communicating about LEGO products. At the same time, the purpose is for the LEGO brand not to be associated with issues that glorify conflicts and unethical or harmful behaviour.

Not too clever for the instructor to be standing where he was.

Terrible thing to happen.
Although in this instance, the blame was shared, I think we must have all witnessed the risks motorcyclists take ?

I agree that 7yrs old is a bit young. I’d have a word with his school first.

At least it shows he is human.
Adultery is one of the the least important “crimes” committed by members of the Catholic church.

We have friends who both work for a company, who among other things manufacture items for satellites.
Doing a lot for NASA, ESA etc

He was telling me that some of the new bods brought into the company, want to increase production of certain items.
They have been told that when manufactured, these items have a certain failure rate, and if they try to make more, it will
lead to more failures. This possibly leading to the loss of contracts, in a highly competitive market. Contracts which they won through having a superior product.
They won’t listen to him though, and he feels like he’s banging his head against a brick wall.