Everything posted by thaiophilus
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Are a man's tattoos a reasonable conversation subject at a pool party?
Does he know what they all mean?
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Calling the US from Japan
Could it be something really obvious, like the eSIM has run out of minutes, or you've reached its expiry date?
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Violent unrest in Los Angeles
No. HTH.
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Do you think they really didn't want their guests' opinions?
All the above is equally true if you replace "QR code" with "clickable link".
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Do you think they really didn't want their guests' opinions?
So can clicking on a link. QR codes aren't magic, just another way of delivering the same data.
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The Dangers Of Assumptions
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?
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Gay Haters On The Move With Trump's Far Right Agenda
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
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Gay Haters On The Move With Trump's Far Right Agenda
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!
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A penny for your thoughts . . .
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. 😕
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New Books on the US Election Are Damning
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!
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Covid is Back in Thailand with 19 Deaths already
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.
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Covid is Back in Thailand with 19 Deaths already
That's for flu. I think @Ruthrieston was referring to vaccines for Covid, as in the thread title.
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Disgraceful behavior by Newark employees worsens danger
I would suggest that in the working environment being described here, nobody could maintain a relaxed, attentive, and mindful demeanour.
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Disgraceful behavior by Newark employees worsens danger
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.
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Remembrance of 50 Years Ago Today
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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More bad news for tourism
And the steepest. Nearly 4 metres height difference from east to west.
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Do you "correct" locals' pronunciations of their own cities?
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...
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Flight routes
Implies he's a slow thinker 😀
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Flight routes
I've seen a certain other airline (better not name it) described as "like Ryanair, but without the irish charm".
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Flight routes
Queens And Nymphomaniacs Travelling As Stewards was another. And - small Caribbean airline - LIAT: Luggage In Another Terminal.
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Creeping towards May 1
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.
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World's Best Airports - Yet Another Poll
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.
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World's Best Airports - Yet Another Poll
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
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British Tourist’s Russian Roulette Goes Wrong
Unfortunately no, that would disqualify him. The award only goes to "those who accidentally remove themselves from the human genome in a spectacular manner".
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Trump Tax Plan Targets Thailand as 'Non-Reciprocal' Trading Partner
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.