thaiophilus

In the words of Sir Henry Rawlinson (he of Rawlinson End, not the Assyriologist of the same name), "If I had all the money I’d spent on drink... I’d spend it on drink". Substitute other goods and services as appropriate.

I think you're both right. @Travelingguy is talking about light aircraft, not airliners, and crashes, not necessarily fatalities. The detailed statistics are no doubt different but I don't think that's the issue. The point is that takeoff is a dangerous phase of flight because everything mechanical is under maximum stress, so undetected problems may make themselves known, and when they do you have neither height nor speed in reserve to deal with them.

"Twink" is said to be derived from the Hostess Twinkie, a kind of cake which is of little nutritional value but "golden-colored, sweet and full of cream".

The boy? yes. The artist? no idea.

Sounds like a friend of a friend of mine (no, not apocryphal, we really did meet once) who had some kind of issue with bodily contact. He would off a boy and then just draw him.

Not all boys are boys. We've had questions here before now from members who didn't understand tomboy clubs 🍆🍑

That looks unlikely. I suspect your sources are defining their terms differently. So I asked duck.ai (GPT-4o): "is the current covid death rate significantly different between Thailand and UK?" It replied: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Search As of mid-June 2025, the COVID-19 death rates in Thailand and the UK show notable differences: Thailand Total Confirmed Deaths: Approximately 34,715 deaths from around 4,799,180 confirmed cases. Death Rate: This results in a death rate of about 0.72% (34,715 deaths / 4,799,180 cases). United Kingdom Recent COVID-19 Deaths: In the week ending June 13, 2025, there were 69 deaths attributed to COVID-19, which accounted for 0.6% of total deaths that week. Total Deaths Registered: The total number of deaths registered in the UK for that week was 10,902, with COVID-19 being the underlying cause for 45 deaths (0.4% of total deaths). Comparison Overall Death Rate: The overall death rate in Thailand (0.72%) is higher than the recent COVID-19 death rate in the UK, which is significantly lower when considering the total population and the recent weekly statistics. Contextual Factors: The differences in death rates can be attributed to various factors, including healthcare systems, vaccination rates, public health responses, and demographic differences. In summary, Thailand currently has a higher COVID-19 death rate compared to the UK, reflecting the ongoing impact of the pandemic in different regions. Search Results COVID-19 pandemic death rates by countryWikipedia Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, pro...Office for National Statistics

Well, you are quoting from the Daily Mail.

I think you have that backwards...

Does he know what they all mean?

Could it be something really obvious, like the eSIM has run out of minutes, or you've reached its expiry date?

No. HTH.

All the above is equally true if you replace "QR code" with "clickable link".

So can clicking on a link. QR codes aren't magic, just another way of delivering the same data.

Before doing something controversial, I find it's worth asking: What is my objective? Can it be achieved? Will this action achieve it? ... and, subsequently, did it?

See Churchill :"On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British!" (On hearing that Ian Harvey had been caught with a guardsman in St James's Park) https://www.lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

On matters of speeling, the Grauniad is hardly a reliable source. Nor ("posing as a somdomite") was the Marquess of Queensberry. You're right about soldomites, though. Hail Tpyos!

Or maybe you could go back to using pieces of eight aka the bit (as in "two bits".) Oh, wait, there isn't a one-bit coin. 😕

LLM o3-mini says: The text you provided is already in English. However, if you'd like a clearer or paraphrased version, here’s one way to render it: "I give up. Are you part of some sycophantic group? You must assume you're superior simply because you claim never to be deficient, because you imply that, and because you consider yourself the judge of who has subpar intelligence and education. Only someone with a superiority complex would make such a statement. And anyone with an obvious superiority complex is, in turn, somewhat foolish and self-isolated." This paraphrase retains the original meaning while using somewhat more straightforward language. Let me know if you'd like any further adjustments!

Because they mutate all the time. Coronaviruses are single-strand RNA viruses, which generally mutate orders of magnitude faster faster than double-strand DNA viruses e.g. smallpox.

That's for flu. I think @Ruthrieston was referring to vaccines for Covid, as in the thread title.

I would suggest that in the working environment being described here, nobody could maintain a relaxed, attentive, and mindful demeanour.

In class-B airspace, all aircraft are subject to ATC clearance and all flights are separated from each other by ATC. That means that ATC, not the pilot, is responsible for preventing mid-air collisions. In effect the controller is piloting the aircraft, not the guy in the left seat on board, who may be seeing nothing but the inside of a cloud. My personal preference, if I were a passenger, would be for the controller to be relaxed, attentive and mindful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

And the steepest. Nearly 4 metres height difference from east to west.