thaiophilus

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.

Another classic tale, probably apocryphal, is that the set for a Wagner opera was misrouted to Lebanon instead of Germany, because someone confused Bayreuth with Beirut...

Implies he's a slow thinker 😀

I've seen a certain other airline (better not name it) described as "like Ryanair, but without the irish charm".

Queens And Nymphomaniacs Travelling As Stewards was another. And - small Caribbean airline - LIAT: Luggage In Another Terminal.

I read it as you do. (Up to 7 days) in advance [and no earlier]. From [the 7th day before until] arrival [and no earlier]. But I can see how one could read the first as "up to the 7th day before [and no later]". "Up to" is the problem because it might refer either to the number of days or the date, but one is counting down and the other counting up.

Granted. But if you're "self-connecting" (ie your flights are not both on the same ticket) it may be useful to know about the free train option.

At LHR there are free train transfers between terminals via the Underground (Piccadilly) and the Elizabeth Line or Heathrow Express: https://www.heathrow.com/content/dam/heathrow/web/common/documents/transport/Heathrow-free-travel-map.pdf

Unfortunately no, that would disqualify him. The award only goes to "those who accidentally remove themselves from the human genome in a spectacular manner".

That table is potentially misleading. Last time I looked, Ireland, Italy, Germany and France were part of the EU, but here they are listed separately as well as being included in the total. Also, those figures are from 2018 and a lot has happened since then.

"you too big" is a complaint, but it's also a compliment, so there's less loss of face(for both parties) than naming the real reason for refusal, whatever it might be.

The Guardian doesn't write a word about the horrors of the health service? Really? https://www.google.com/search?q=nhs+queues+site:theguardian.com yields 32 pages of hits. I didn't read them all, but here are the headlines from the first page: Growing number of people face 18-month waits for NHS ... Revealed: NHS trusts tell patients to go private and jump ... Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of ... Almost 10 million people in England could be on NHS ... Record 7.68m people waiting to start routine hospital ... NHS waiting lists falling but will stay above pre-Covid ... Private healthcare boom fuelled by NHS waiting lists 'It's going to be a terrible winter': ambulance queues warn ... The Guardian view on public service queues: a grim ... It's even funnier that you should consider the Guardian of all papers a government mouthpiece. Must be an April Fool joke.

Of course not. He just follows the working plans given to him by higher management. If he cuts corners, he gets the blame. But if those working drawings differ from the ones originally submitted for approval, they could be evidence that higher management, not the construction manager, were cutting corners, and that would be a sufficient reason to remove them. Note: I'm not saying any of this happened, just pointing out where the argument is incomplete. Actually I dislike conspiracy theories because they are not "theories" in the scientific sense. That's because they are unfalsifiable because you can't prove a negative. If the conspiracy is exposed, then obviously there was a conspiracy. If not, that's just "proof" that the conspirators have succeded in covering their tracks.

Possibly, but you seem to be assuming that the removed documents were identical to those submitted. If they were, why go to the trouble of removing them when other copies exist and you could so easily print another identical copy?

There seems to be some doubt about what Queensberry actually wrote on the famous card. Everyone agrees on his misspelling, but his handwriting is terrible. Was it "To Oscar Wilde" or "For Oscar Wilde", and was it "posing as somdomite", "posing as a somdomite", or even "ponce and somdomite", an interpretation I haven't seen before?

Depends how you define "major". In USA and Europe, yes. Elsewhere, not so many. I found this list of 228 worldwide (can't guarantee its accuracy but stackexchange is usually pretty good): https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/71602/is-there-a-list-of-airports-with-category-3-ils-systems LHR (or rather EGLL) is certainly in there, but there are no Thai airports listed. And, for example, neither Suvarnabhumi (VTBS) nor Don Mueang (VTBD) has Cat III approaches according to the official eAIP https://aip.caat.or.th/2025-03-20-AIRAC/html/index-en-GB.html