Van and Taxi drivers.
Universal c**ts of the road.

Then you did.

Dinosaurs are perhaps long distant relatives of Chickens, but sufficiently far apart as to be completely separate species.

As are these two aviation accidents/incidents.

Japan is an enigma. It is a nation of very clever people who have helped with the technological evolution. But beneath that façade of enlightenment is a dark, inhumane nature that wilfully kills defenceless animals for sport and money. Whales and Dolphins are nothing but friendly. They will come up to you and say hello in their own ways, Dolphins especially. They are incredibly intelligent. Dolphins have even been seen helping out other animals in distress. Something rarely seen in the animal kingdom.

To slaughter them so senselessly and in such a painfully, drawn out, way angers me beyond the ability to express my feelings in words.

This is either extreme hubris or an April Fool. I suspect it is the latter!!:applause:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/10735711/Alex-Salmond-to-replace-the-Queen-on-new-Scottish-pound-coin.html

The man is arrogant and self important enough to do that.

But I suspect it is a joke in this case.

The pingers on the “Black boxes” only have a max 5 mile range underwater. And I may be exaggerating there. I don’t have the exact figures to hand.
In deep water, you literally have to be right on top of the recorder with no other noise pollution to detect it by sonar or listening devices.
This of course means, they need to know where to look!

With the Air France flight 447 wreck, they literally stumbled across it while conducting a search pattern. That was 2 years after they were able to narrow the search area to a 10,000 square mile chunk of the Atlantic.

What the searchers are face with in this instance however is the entire Indian Ocean. Millions of square miles of deep water with troughs/canyons plunging to 20,000 feet or more. And if it’s in one of those, forget ever finding it!

Like when Posh Beckham reported the attempted abduction of her child from the middle of Harrod’s (of all places), just as she was releasing a book and album?

Don’t tell me that was a coincidence!

I really don’t get the aversion to the metric system?

The metric system makes all the sense in the world, hence why most of the world uses it! It’s intuitive, easier to calculate, more precise and has the benefit of being easy to teach. The imperial system is overly complicated, outdated and counter intuitive. It’s had its day.

Why are Pirates cool?

Because they Aaaarrrr.