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55 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I think the US Marines are a higher equivalent than the Austrian League

It was a daft joke for God's sake. 

35 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

Interesting about range shooting. I believe he was rated as a marksman when he was a US Marine

And yet from the KGB's surveillance, he was deemed a lousy shot. 

I believe Patson Daka was rated as a marksman when he played up front for Red Bull Salzburg. 

2 minutes ago, Foxdiamond said:

I know some people insist on a conspiracy still. My view is that Oswald did it alone. The Secret Service and the rest were covering up their embarrassment that they had a lot of knowledge about Oswald but couldn't prevent the crime. 

Interestingly he was monitored very closely by the KGB whilst in the USSR. When he tried range shooting, they noted that he was a poor shot - which the conspiracy theorists will thrive on. However they also concluded that it was doubtful that anyone could control, coerce or subjugate him. 

8 hours ago, blabyboy said:

You might need to wait a while. They've not digitised the whole lot yet, you can visit the files in person if you want to. Some parts are still redacted... Give it 6 months to a year maybe? 

Exactly this. There are thousand of pages and a significant amount of content that remains redacted. However, basement dwelling and armchair conspiracy theorists will already be scouring the contents to cherry pick and extract all manner of confirmation bias for a new wave of dumb social media memes and Tik Tok reels. 

22 minutes ago, Winstonthedog said:

Is that the very unpredictable spursey... not a result to gauge your season on IMO

At no stage did I suggest it was. It was merely a jocular response to the OP. Jeez. 

That a team this staggeringly shite still managed to beat Tottenham Hotspur away. 

1 hour ago, WigstonWanderer said:

Why would anyone vote for this? Baffling.

To take a less diplomatic stance than @leicsmac,  because a significant proportion of the American populace are exceedingly myopic and very, very dim. 

That we lost 0-3 at home last night. 

So pleased for Joe with his first try for England. 

8 minutes ago, murphy said:

Bobby Smith, Steve Lynex, John O'Neil, Gary Lineker, Alan Smith, dunno, Andy Feeley.

 

Do  I get a prize?

Well you would have received a a barrel of best bitter, containing 288 pints, were it not for the fact that you failed to identify Ian Banks. 

10 hours ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

My main rivals growing up, going to school in Ashby. They’ve become somewhat irrelevant though over the last few years. Was the last time we played them in the FA Cup on a Friday night in Feb ‘17?

Correct. 3-1, but the best thing about it was the Nugent reception at 82 minutes. 

I can recall some horrendous encounters over the years. Obviously the abandoned match against Burton Albion at the Baseball Ground in January 1985 for which Burton had the home advantage but was ironically moved there for safety reasons. Predictably to everyone other than the FA, the Lunatic Fringe turned up in numbers and started pelting the pitch with missiles resulting in the Burton keeper being rendered unconscious - so the match was abandoned at 6-1 and replayed behind closed doors one afternoon at Highfield Road. Ind Coope, sponsors of both teams offered both sets of players an incentive to progress to the fourth round; a barrel of best bitter, containing 288 pints. Imagine that now. 

Easy bit of trivia - name each of the players pictured. 

Later that year, but the following season, we played Derby in the Milk Cup which was carnage. That's the sole match in which I recall the clatter of sharpened coins between the mesh of Pen 2 and 3 being constant and unrelenting throughout the game. Fighting erupted outside the ground and then spilled over to Highfields causing a major riot until the early hours that evoked memories of 1982. When questioned about the cause, Peter Soulsby, the then Labour leader of Leicester City Council, attributed it to "a generation of young people who feel alienated from society".

My fondest encounter? 0-4 at Pride Park, April 1998, which we won in the first 15 minutes through a Heskey brace and goals from Izzet and Marshall. 

4 hours ago, leicsmac said:

2nd consecutive new model Starship that became scrap metal not long after launch.

 

Hopefully this isn't setting a trend.

A problem in the aft section again, which according to Space X “resulted in the loss of several Raptor engines. This in turn led to a loss of attitude control and ultimately a loss of communications with Starship".Lose enough of the centre engines and the craft starts tumbling. Starship broke apart over populated islands in Turks and Caicos, littering the islands with debris apparently. That's a second consecutive FAA mishap investigation then. 

The booster catch was magnificent though, and with several raptor engines down. 

3 hours ago, Lionator said:

Just to reiterate that anyone who genuinely considers that Britain fighting Russia would be a good idea is insane. 
 

And before anyone says “well what about when Adolf Putin is rolling across the German border?”, Russian don’t have the capability to do that. 

But only a week ago you yourself were speculating about the dangers of Russia invading Poland until it was pointed out to you that for the same reasons, that too is not going to happen. 

3 hours ago, Spiritwalker said:

I watched a very good documentary series a few years ago about Trump the business man, a running theme throughout was that every time Trump made a major fck up he

blamed everyone around him including close friends and threw them under the bus.

 

He was abominable to his late brother Freddy. 

He had been very frustrated at Birmingham City under Barry Fry. When we signed him he was recovering from a thyroid problem, but vowed to make a significant impact when he was fit. He absolutely delivered on that pledge.

The Blue Ghost landing footage is simply stunning. 

SpaceX is preparing to launch the eighth flight of Starship today, with the goal of completing the objectives set out during Flight 7 when Ship 33 was lost due to an aft fire during its post-staging burn. Flight 8 will attempt the third successful booster catch, while Ship 34 will once more splashdown in the Indian Ocean. It's scheduled to launch at 6:30 p.m. EST which is half-past eleven here in the UK. 

30 minutes ago, StanSP said:

 

Kapustka

 

In fairness, Ranieri was instrumental in this signing and the main impetus behind it. 

1 hour ago, davieG said:

It's actually a very well known fact. He's been doing it for over two decades. 

6 hours ago, leicsmac said:

To get two when the doors of science were so closed to women it was nearly impossible to start a research career, much less advance in one... well, that really should write Mdme Curie into immortality.

Completely. She was a trailblazer that challenged orthodoxy, forged new frontiers and opened up a wealth of opportunity and ,recognition for women in science. She was, the first woman to receive a doctor of science degree in France and additionally she became the first woman to lecture at the Sorbonne. She was not only the first woman to win Nobel Prize but as you say, two of them., and the first Nobel Laureate whose child also won a Nobel Prize.

20 hours ago, simFox said:

You'll be pleased to know it doesn't do an engine much good to warm up on idle. Much better to run it under load at low revs. 

 

So whilst he's got it idling cold, take comfort in the fact that hes slowly breaking it. Maybe leave a smug note in his letterbox.

Plus running it gently is the most effective and quickest way to accomplish it. About 30 seconds of idling is the recommended practice. As mentioned though, cold open loop startup on my previous bike was practically unrideable for the first five minutes.