In his method, first, alternate rows on one side of the plane board, but just the window seats. Then the other side boards, in alternate rows with one row between each passenger. Again, window seats only. Then back to the other side, with the middle seats this time. And so on. The result is a beautiful choreography as rows of passengers simultaneously stow their luggage and take their seats in tandem. The reason why it works is because it makes optimum use of the aisles, allowing each passenger to freely flow from the center aisle, to luggage stow, to their seat. There's maximum elbow room, and minimum crotch and butt scraping.Clever clock.
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| The hype, I mean heat, is driving me mad, I tell you! |
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| He has issues. |
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Ironically, liberal attackers are guilty of far greater unscientific dogmatism, sloppy thinking, and mind-boggling confusion but fail to notice it thanks to a manufactured respectability that deters -- if not forbids -- close inspection. Worse, judged by the unforgiving standards of science, the liberal creed may be far wackier (and factually incorrect) than any assertion about God creating the world in seven days. The war between secular liberalism and evangelical fundamentalism is a battle between competing dogmas, not science versus religious hokum.What people tend to forget is that many of the crimes of Christianity were really committed by those who merely usurped its mantle of authority. The same holds true with science, which is a much smaller and threadbare garment. As to Christian fundamentalism, that's a much more recent phenomenon than the secularism it rose in reaction too and has its own problems, but at least it doesn't shoot itself so squarely in the foot.
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| I am shocked, shocked that petty bureaucrats use health and safety regulations as a smoke screen to further their own agendas! |
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| Now the circle is complete. |
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| Klaatu barada DIE! |
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| To quote David Mitchell: "Not just a Taggart; a Poirot!" |
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| Really slow disaster. |
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| Dr. Fu Manchu's alligator pit: Megalomaniac or Green visionary? |
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| Your Political Class at work. |
We should quit trying to think up logical, sensible reasons for space travel. There are no such reasons. If we ever reach mars it will be because we were lured there by that same vague but irresistible urge that led men to make one assault after another on Mt Everest: "Because it's there."I've heard this sentiment time and time again over the past forty years and it never made sense to me–and bear in mind that I'm a vocal advocate of manned space travel. "Because it's there" is all very well and good if you're doing something pointless like climbing Mount Everest or sailing around the world in a bucket, but if you're asking the public or investors to sink the cost of a large war to land a man on another planet for the hell of it, then you need to step back and look at what you're doing.
I first came across this in the United States, where the cancer has gone much deeper. As a screenwriter I once put forward a script for a film called The Lone Ranger, in which I used a piece of Western history which had never been shown on screen and was as spectacular as it was shocking - and true.
The whisky traders of the American plains used to build little stockades, from which they passed out their ghastly rot-gut liquor through a small hatch to the Indians, who paid by shoving furs back though the hatch.
The result was that frenzied, drunken Indians who had run out of furs were besieging the stockade, while the traders sat snug inside and did not emerge until the Indians had either gone away or passed out.
Political correctness stormed onto the scene, red in tooth and claw. The word came down from on high that the scene would offend "Native Americans".
Their ancestors may have got pieeyed on moonshine but they didn't want to know it, and it must not be shown on screen. Damn history. Let's pretend it didn't happen because we don't like the look of it.
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
My forebears from the Highlands of Scotland were a fairly primitive, treacherous, blood-thirsty bunch and, as Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, would have been none the worse for washing. Fine, let them be so depicted, if any film maker feels like it; better that than insulting, inaccurate drivel like Braveheart.
The philosophy of political correctness is now firmly entrenched over here, too, and at its core is a refusal to look the truth squarely in the face, unpalatable as it may be.
Political correctness is about denial, usually in the weasel circumlocutory jargon which distorts and evades and seldom stands up to honest analysis.
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The public feels it no longer has the right to interfere.Regarding the riots across England, I think this sums it up best: This is what autonomous individualism looks like in the end. Since the 1960s, Britain has been subjected to a relentless campaign to strip the country of its institutions, its history, its morals, its religion and its very identity. Generations of children have been taught that their country is wicked, that their society is worthless, their history shameful. They've been told there is no right or wrong save what they decide is so. For an entire class of society the family has been all but destroyed and mothers gave birth to a generation of bastards who never even knew their fathers. Industry has been punished. Decency derided. Patriotism mocked. Deference abolished. Chastity forgotten. All authority over them renounced. All of this, mind you, in the bosom of a cradle to grave welfare state that ensures that they never need to work a day in their lives. And what have they been left with? A perverted, feral sense of individualism. Not the individualism of a free man under the law and a being created in God's image, but of a brute answerable to no one and nothing. This wave of looting and burning isn't surprising. We have "children" (some middle aged) who have a massive sense of entitlement, no regard for law, no respect for authority, are bone idle and believe that they have a right to anything they can get away with. And now that the police have shown themselves ineffectual, the government spineless and the populace disarmed, they know they can literally get away with murder. And that is what Britain is bankrupting itself for; to support an underclass of parasitic yahoos whose idea of relieving boredom is to rob and burn those few left who are productive. As for second-generation immigrants who by all accounts made up a staggering percentage of the looters, it's like they've been handed the cultural list and only picked up the worst traits of their hosts. And the females? As the father of a little girl, I can only weep at how they have been sacrificed at an altar more terrible than Baal's.
Yob NationFrancis Gilbert
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| 1940 appeal. |
Rioters in Manchester and Salford have been told that they face being evicted from their council homes if they are identified on CCTV footage.Not a bad first move, but I'd take it a step further: Ideally, anyone caught taking part in these riots anywhere in Britain, as well as their parent if minors, should lose access to ALL state benefits FOR LIFE with the exception of compulsory state schooling and in addition lose all eligibility for any form of government employment. In the case of immigrants or other foreign nationals, the penalty should be immediate and permanent deportation. This is, of course, in addition to any fines or prison terms.
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| Getting in the way. |
Cleansed of such outmoded relics, a truly progressive Protestant Church in the Netherlands will arise, a Church in which people of all races, of all kinds of sexual orientation, or previous criminal convictions, and of all faiths or none, whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, atheist or whatever, will be welcome to act as clergy. It will be a Church of diversity and inclusion, a Church which will meet the religious needs of the average man and woman of our secular age in a very real sense.
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| Where can we find a 10,000 ton olive? |
With all that's going on, it's time to repost this.
