Kinda OT but... You might not know but, down here, the Brits' image is always associated with all possible goodness: on time, polite, efficient, industrious, honorable, highly educated, tough, phlegmatic even. My trips to the UK never counter that impression except when they lost my father's luggag...

Terminal 5 opened today to a traditional display of British Airways mismanagement and incompetence. It's good that even in this modern age core values still remain... http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article3631601.ece Heathrow Terminal 5’s first morning open for busine...

...The bad news is he wants to be the President of Europe...

Say wha??

Oh yes, its true.

Most people would like to see Blair in Europe however: On trial in the Hauge for war crimes...

While I'm all for the Head of State of any nation trying to save the taxpayers a buck (or a quid), I'm sure that in today's world, the biggest concern in VIP travel is in the realm of communciations. You need all sorts of long range voice and data link comms that may need to be encrypted. This is n...

Not sure what I think about having pussy lips on my face

Personally I'm all for it.

I'd have to look at what is involved when the PM takes a trip to figure out the economics but I think Brown is very likely correct about a plane for the PM. If the aircraft was to be used for all MP travel, the size of the government paid entourage traveling with the PM becomes relevant to the econ...

Important evolutionary development. I wonder what he thinks about the cultural revolution of reverse cowgirl. Might women's shoulder blades start to get fleshy over the next million years? Dunno about that one , he also had a theory that lipstick is worn by women as it is subconsciously representat...

So, getting back on topic, why do boobs matter? Is it innate sexualized behavior in men? Learned? If learned, do those men from cultures where breast exposure is more common view them as less of a sexual stimulus? Good question! Desmond Morris theorised that human female breasts evolved to their la...

Gordon grounds Blairforce One Gordon Brown has ditched the plan for 'Blairforce One', the presidential-style jet plane which his predecessor wanted when he was Prime Minister. Hairshirt Brown has vetoed the plan on grounds of cost, although Sir Peter Gershon, the efficiency expert, recommended the ...

I've had many experiences of car drivers cutting me up on a bicycle, they don't like it if you kick back as Per suggests, I had a splendid fist fight with a car load of youths on Old Street roundabout once, after they took umbrage at having their car door kicked in...

I am one of those who thinks there is no place for firearms on the flightdeck. I think it's insane. I perfectly well understand the point that security is not total and that it is a layered process. Flightdeck guns can represent the final layer, the final insurance in the event of a flightdeck brea...

More importantly, I'm still looking for all the meetings where she got her supposed national security chops. I see she went to Moscow and Belfast in 1998. Seems she toured some schools and sewing factories with some of the local political spouses. What about how she braved the sniper bullets in Kos...

I think a weapon such as a captive bolt pistol would be a much safer weapon to use in the close confines of a cockpit.

If only we knew someone with intimate knowledge of the 787 wing who might be able to shed some light on the wing box redesign. The only person on this forum that I know of who answers to that description has moved to management, and thus has probably undergone the required brain- and spine-ectomies...

Al-Quaida - 9/11 Connection. Right, there was none, but Al-Quaida went to Iraq in the wake of the invasion. Clearly a visionary move ... Bush today hailed Iraq as a success because of “the first large-scale Arab uprising against Osama bin Laden.” This is a measure of success in the same way that dy...

Mission accomplished

Errmmm ............... what was the mission again?

To ensure that Iraq has no WMD, in this criteria the mission is 100% successful, the fact that it has killed the same number of the population as a minor nuclear exchange might be considered unfortunate...

Cakewalk.

Is $200+ million such an amazing & stunning price?

I've heard you can buy an investment bank for that sort of money...

Is this the same Terminal 5 that was allowed to be built on the express understanding and agreement that because of its construction there would be no 3rd runway built at heathrow?

Millions of Londoners would like to know.

What this is ,my friends, is human evolution happening in front of our very eyes.This is like The Peppered Moth's response to the industrial revolution.

I feel humbled.

Isn't it rich? Are we a pair? Me here at last on the ground, You in mid-air. Send in the clowns. Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve? One who keeps tearing around, One who can't move. Where are the clowns? Send in the clowns. Just when I'd stopped opening doors, Finally knowing the one that I wanted ...

Once there I reflected on being the International Super Genius Pilot of the Millenium.

Total cost: Priceless

Yep, there are some situations in life you just can't buy your way out of.

Samanatha Power was right. The monster has been unleashed...

Hmmm, from the 'maths', it looks like it was our business, or you might even say 'responsibility' to invade.

I would say its our responsibility not to create monsters.