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Yes true, but that comparison would only make sense if the transatlantic flight didn't involve either taking off or landing. If they were included, the inertial forces acting on the plane and the pilot during take-off alone would be catastrophically high, due to the enormous acceleration that would be required.

Us now in the bottom three and Forest in the top three. Not good!

This article about Nasa's Sun probe mission is interesting. The probe is 96% of the way to the Sun, having taken 6 years to get there and is travelling at close to half a million miles per hour. Apparently the Sun's surface is very much less hot than the surrounding corona and Nasa wants to know why that is, since it appears to defy the normal rules of temperature gradients with respect to distance from the heat source. One of the best episodes of Thunderbirds in the 1960s was called 'Sun Probe', although that was a 'manned' mission, which nearly ended in disaster. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9q7lnyw25wo

Why bother? 1. It's a hassle transferring it to another car when you get a new car. 2. The car's 'real' number, i.e. the one it was first registered with will probably return to it later on, causing confusion with the log book details and other documentation. 3. When you're driving, you can't see the private number plate yourself anyway. 4. If the car isn't 'posh' other folk will think you're just a poser with a small penis. 5. If the plate is 'fiddled' to read as wanted, it could be an MOT failure.

The holiday camp at Seagrave.

No, your energy supplier should have that information via the smart meter itself. But you should tell them exactly when you're moving out. Note that you can't use the smart meter elsewhere, because it's designed to operate in that property only.

Our 4-0 loss yesterday is now looking almost respectable!

Today's date of 6/12/24 is the last day this century that such a geometric sequence can occur. The next one will be in 80 years time!

RvN's got a decent set of gnashers. Does he go to the same dentist as Klopp?

It was 1 win after 3 defeats by a margin of 3-1, taking us to 13 points, in front of 31k fans in week 1, day 3 of RvN's reign!

Mevrouw Leontien van Nistelrooy.

RVN has now witnessed us three times this season, losing every one by a three-goal margin (5-2, 3-0, 4-1). What next? 6-3?!

Let's hope that the Dutchman makes a flying start, that it won't be a Ruud awakening to the PL, that the Van delivery will be on time and bountiful, and that he won't come a Nistelrooy cropper in managing the club!

Your unnoted rivals! (Anagram) (4,3,10).

The possibility of getting RVN in feels a bit like when Jock Wallace almost signed Cruyff in 1981.

If City's league position were decided by how good-looking the manager is, then going from Cooper to RVN would immediately result in us moving up from the bottom 6 to the top 6.

The worst craps aren't the ones when everything is voided, it's the ones where nothing exits due to fecal impaction. This is when the stool is large and solid, and becomes stuck inside the lower bowel. It's often regarded as a medical emergency, but the anguish it causes is greatly compounded by the embarrassment of having to present oneself to A&E with this particular problem, which itself is probably only slightly less embarrassing than presenting with a sex toy stuck inside!

They turned defeat into victory recently at Everton, going in to injury time. And we are hopeless at holding on to anything, going in to injury time. So the runes don't look good.

Mini-roundabouts. According to the Highway Code, all vehicles MUST pass round the central markings, except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so. But turning right at most mini-roundabouts in a car is almost impossible to do, without partly driving over the central markings. If you do try to go round, drivers waiting in other vehicles assume you're attempting a U-turn, which is also not allowed. And if vehicles arrive at these stupid junctions simultaneously from different directions, whose right of way it is?

When Selby's in the zone, his standard of play is pure class. We should all be proud of him here in Leicester, whether or not he wins today.

Yesterday's defeat by a relatively respectable margin often seems to happen when City are outclassed. I've come to the conclusion that when we're really crap, we're so crap that we're even crap at being crap!

If the league had 5 divisions instead of 4, we'd be fine - permanently stuck in the 2nd tier.

I agree with Van Gogh's own definition of art: 'Art is to console those who are broken by life'. How right he was, although I'd widen the definition of art to include the arts generally.

Maybe the JSO protesters should focus their theoretically laudible campaign against fossil fuel usage more towards the impact that it has on the planet as a whole. For example, the thought of vast icebergs breaking away from Antarctica, as a result of global warming due to burning of fossil fuels, and the devastating consequences that has for emporer penguins, is far more likely to make me think twice about my eco-credentials than the mindless vandalism of a famous oil(!) painting.

Mark Allen's comment earlier this week that the table he was playing on should be 'burnt' didn't make sense. The beds of snooker tables are made of slate, a non-combustible material.