taupe Posted 23 July 2022 Posted 23 July 2022 (edited) You have to assume judge and jury have more information than we do, reliant as we are on the press/media generally. Edited 23 July 2022 by taupe 1
Tommy Fresh Posted 23 July 2022 Posted 23 July 2022 9 hours ago, FoxesDeb said: Slitting the throat of the love of your life in a suicide pact with absolutely no evidence that there ever was a suicide pact is far less likely imo So also no evidence that he did it in a rage...Very unlikely that he's committed a crime of passion, then had the composure to put together a story and also stage aspects of the scene.
leicsmac Posted 25 July 2022 Posted 25 July 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62284378 Not entirely sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, what needs to get done needs to get done or the consequences will be awful. On the other, far too many USAians indentured to the idea of "freedom" will squeal bloody murder and get in the way and that could inhibit future progress. Unsure.
Jattdogg Posted 25 July 2022 Posted 25 July 2022 About time this happened. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6530947
ajthefox Posted 25 July 2022 Posted 25 July 2022 On 23/07/2022 at 10:34, The Horse's Mouth said: One step closer to eugenics That's grim. I would hope it's only a matter of time and a case of this happening to some other family members horror that the default stance of the court changes to ensure those wanting the sperm have proof that was the persons wishes. How the fvck were they allowed to harvest his sperm 30 hours after he died anyway!
leicsmac Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 Today in "this shit is all terrible": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62308069 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62303330
BKLFox Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 This is sad & with mum & dad in the chopper behind https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62309294 1
Trumpet Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 14 minutes ago, BKLFox said: This is sad & with mum & dad in the chopper behind https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62309294 I read he was taking a selfie, though not sure how true. Hit by the rear rotor, which must be near enough invisible if you’re walking towards it and it’s spinning. Grim.
Parafox Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 1 hour ago, BKLFox said: This is sad & with mum & dad in the chopper behind https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-62309294 58 minutes ago, Trumpet said: I read he was taking a selfie, though not sure how true. Hit by the rear rotor, which must be near enough invisible if you’re walking towards it and it’s spinning. Grim. Having worked with the earlier ambulance helicopters which had "open" tail rotors, we were never allowed to approach the aircraft until the rotors had stopped. On occasion we had to do a "hot" unloading where the rotors were still running. The tail rotor was hard to see running but we had ground crew procedures in place to prevent an incident. The pilot was the guy in charge of all the aspects of embarking/disembarking the aircraft. I don't know but I imagine no passenger would be allowed to disembark until all blades ha stopped running. That was certainly the case when I was a passenger on a helicopter flight experience. An avoidable tragedy, sadly.
BKLFox Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 8 minutes ago, Parafox said: Having worked with the earlier ambulance helicopters which had "open" tail rotors, we were never allowed to approach the aircraft until the rotors had stopped. On occasion we had to do a "hot" unloading where the rotors were still running. The tail rotor was hard to see running but we had ground crew procedures in place to prevent an incident. The pilot was the guy in charge of all the aspects of embarking/disembarking the aircraft. I don't know but I imagine no passenger would be allowed to disembark until all blades ha stopped running. That was certainly the case when I was a passenger on a helicopter flight experience. An avoidable tragedy, sadly. Yep very avoidable as you say, sop’s would be wait till everything is shut down or leave at a 45 degree line from door and the front so pilot has you in his view all the time But that would only be used for the likes of you guys and military if doing a hot landing 🤷♂️ Didn’t Hamza walk towards the back of a helicopter once?
Trumpet Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 (edited) 33 minutes ago, BKLFox said: Yep very avoidable as you say, sop’s would be wait till everything is shut down or leave at a 45 degree line from door and the front so pilot has you in his view all the time But that would only be used for the likes of you guys and military if doing a hot landing 🤷♂️ Didn’t Hamza walk towards the back of a helicopter once? Demarai Gray. Got incredibly close to it too. Edited 26 July 2022 by Trumpet 1
BKLFox Posted 26 July 2022 Posted 26 July 2022 22 minutes ago, Trumpet said: Demarai Gray. Got incredibly close to it too. Fec in hell, lucky boy thankfully that Marshall was there
ozleicester Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 im sure its been mentioned elsewhere in the past... but you are 68 times more likely to suffer if you play a contact sport. We had all better prepare for the day that heading is outlawed in our game. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/26/conclusive-evidence-repetitive-head-impacts-can-cause-brain-disease
Aus Fox Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 2 hours ago, ozleicester said: im sure its been mentioned elsewhere in the past... but you are 68 times more likely to suffer if you play a contact sport. We had all better prepare for the day that heading is outlawed in our game. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/26/conclusive-evidence-repetitive-head-impacts-can-cause-brain-disease It would be interesting to see the difference between different codes. Football being the only sport I can think of where you actually use your head to play the game. AFL where you regularly get big hits to the head and then you are considered a hero for doing it, or criticised everywhere if you pull out. Rugby where there are more impact with big built guys running head first into collisions. NFL where players are way more padded up and wear helmets. Sport can be brutal on the head and this isn’t really a major surprise. I know when I played from about under 10s I was taller than most we played against so I was the big man up front and the rest of the team were encouraged to launch it up and look for me to head the ball. On a wet day with those old balls, I must have had concussion way more than I would remember and that’s without including all the head clashes when two of us went for the ball, goalkeepers fists and defenders elbows to the head. I played from a young age into my mid 30s in the same style and took a real battering some weeks. I’d hate to see what all that had done.
ozleicester Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 10 minutes ago, Aus Fox said: On a wet day with those old balls, I must have had concussion way more than I would remember As a 70s/80s centre half who's job it was to head back those medicine ball goalkeeper kicks etc. I found it has caused absolutely no cheese to my pathways.
Nalis Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 17 hours ago, leicsmac said: Today in "this shit is all terrible": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62308069 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62303330 Hoping the ISS one is an empty threat.
BKLFox Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 50 minutes ago, pmcla26 said: Boxing and MMA surely have to be the worse. MMA is brutal, a fist to the head/chops & you can see the person is cleary knocked out but then gets a kick to the head as they drop with combination follow up punches whilst on the deck for good measure & as many times as they can before the umpire can climb on their back & get them off, something like 1 in 4 fighters suffer some sort of brain damage during each fight which exacerbates the longer they stay in the sport.
leicsmac Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 1 hour ago, Nalis said: Hoping the ISS one is an empty threat. Yeah, here's hoping. While a second Space Race would undoubtedly push progress in that area, it would be so much better to get out there in the spirit of collaboration rather than conflict. Both Russia and China are considerably behind the US in terms of their manned spaceflight capability anyway. 2
Sampson Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 I had a concussion when I fell off my bike once and hit my head when I was younger. I couldn’t get out of bed for 3 days, as I’d just get incredibly dizzy and nauseous and felt like I’d be sick as soon as I moved about. Think I was off work for 2 weeks, but felt like I couldn’t remember things and my memory wasn’t working at its usual rate for a good few months afterwards. Can’t imagine what it’s like getting that regularly as part of your job. Once was bad enough for me. Was it Steve Thompson the rugby player who was part of England’s 2003 World Cup winning side who said he regrets ever taking up the sport and has told his children not to go into rugby? Because he’s in his 40s and can’t remember anything about the World Cup and large chunks of his career and has serious memory issues already?
leicsmac Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62314306 .... interesting.
Foxdiamond Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 10 hours ago, ozleicester said: im sure its been mentioned elsewhere in the past... but you are 68 times more likely to suffer if you play a contact sport. We had all better prepare for the day that heading is outlawed in our game. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jul/26/conclusive-evidence-repetitive-head-impacts-can-cause-brain-disease For those that love these sports and of course the players this is very concerning. Perhaps at least the headers from goal kicks and keeper clearances should be that the ball has to bounce at least once and not those that centre backs and forwards compete for. Also perhaps in training the number of headers should be much reduced.
String fellow Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 (edited) Emus have attacked a man fleeing the scene of a crash. However, the Wiltshire police didn't arrest the emus on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm, only the man himself! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-62312529 Edited 27 July 2022 by String fellow
SpacedX Posted 27 July 2022 Posted 27 July 2022 11 minutes ago, String fellow said: Emus have attacked a man fleeing the scene of a crash. However, the Wiltshire police didn't arrest the emus in suspicion of causing actual bodily harm, only the man himself! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-62312529 Was it @I am Rod Hull? 2
leicsmac Posted 28 July 2022 Posted 28 July 2022 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62328875 Either Manchin had a sudden attack of conscience amidst all that fossil fuel money, or somehow the Dems were able to browbeat him into agreement on this one. Either way, something of a result. Nowhere close to what needs to be done, but a result nonetheless.
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