Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I know it doesn't look awesome, but please take the time to peruse. It made my fucken day.
Just watch out for all the class oozing about.
Gemma Collins turns heads with dramatic makeover as she oozes class in lavish fluffy coat - The Mirror
The former TOWIE star, 39, looked sensational in a classy ensemble as she left filming on Friday in east London
Looks like Demis Rousous (sp) with blonde highlights.
In the words of Andrew Dice Clay, she’s dropped 3 stone
‘Where from, her belly to her ass?’
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@MiketheSnow yeah looks like someone had a mental breakdown....THEN went on a booze and drug binge and ended up in Primark after hours locked in until the morning.
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Nigel Owens' response to a pistonwristedgibbon criticising him for using an English "Use it! when reffing a French team....
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@Victor-Meldrew might have a tough time learning South African...
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@Victor-Meldrew yeah, there has a been a bit of thrash walking over Barnes learning some French to speak to the French players in, like that is now the global standard.
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@Victor-Meldrew I love Nigel Owens always good for a laugh
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@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Victor-Meldrew might have a tough time learning South African...
Sith Ifreeikin is way easier to learn.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Victor-Meldrew might have a tough time learning South African...
Sith Ifreeikin is way easier to learn.
I don't want to be part of your Star Wars chats, nerds. Leave me alone.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Bones said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Victor-Meldrew might have a tough time learning South African...
Sith Ifreeikin is way easier to learn.
Is it
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@JC said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mikedogz said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I am pretty sure there is a rule that all international reffing is to be in english.
Colonialism gone mad.
I know that isn't serious, but it is the international language of aviation too.
Some of it is indecipherable as English (over a radio) but at least they try. The French don't even bother. It's actually pretty dangerous as the guys who don't speak French lose situational awareness as to what is happening with other aircraft / controllers.
My attempts at speaking French to the French have been met with derision so I gave up.
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English is the lingua franca of the modern world.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@JC said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@mikedogz said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
I am pretty sure there is a rule that all international reffing is to be in english.
Colonialism gone mad.
I know that isn't serious, but it is the international language of aviation too.
Some of it is indecipherable as English (over a radio) but at least they try. The French don't even bother. It's actually pretty dangerous as the guys who don't speak French lose situational awareness as to what is happening with other aircraft / controllers.
My attempts at speaking French to the French have been met with derision so I gave up.
Yeah french ATC are a bunch o fluffybunnies. They especially hate the RAF, always good to drop references to the many defeats they suffered when possible
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
always good to drop references to the many defeats they suffered when possible
Reminds me of this:
*The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."* -
@antipodean I see what you did there. Never let it happen again.
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
They especially hate the RAF, always good to drop references to the many defeats they suffered when possible
Read a book once on NZ's negotiations when the UK joined the then EEC, France was also involved. Apparently head Frog De Gaulle made a comment along the lines of "I can still remember those New Zealanders attacking out of the trenches, I hope nothing happens to them"
Not quite knowing how to react, a NZ diplomat was heard to mutter "Well at least we ran in the right direction....."
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
always good to drop references to the many defeats they suffered when possible
Reminds me of this:
*The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- And I didn't land."*Mid 90's. Working for major Management Consultancy and part of a big piece of work for Deutsche Telekom headed up by the local Partner.
Said German Partner had this annoying habit of talking proudly about Germany, would knock the UK and often point out where the RAF had flattened some town or whatever and always ended his little history lecture with the words "...but I don't want to talk about the war"
One day after a long day in Frankfurt AM and driving back to Bonn, he started up again and we and the other Germans really had had enough. After Rudi pointed out some bridge or something that had been surgically removed by Bomber Command's finest, he ended with the usual "...but I don't want to talk about the war". My mate struck:
"Why don't you like talking about the war, Rudi? Is it because you lost twice?"
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