Re: SEA pedestrian bridge

Ohhhhh, forgive me. I should have researched first. I see that planes can pass UNDER it. Wow. That's some structure. I'll have to find a way to add it to my flight simulator. You may also be interested in the North Terminal bridge at Gatwick. It has seen both BA and Virgin 747s pass underneath. htt...

Re: Yet another mass shooting in the US not in Cali

Not sure why we discuss every mass shooting. Why not have a single 'thoughts and prayers' thread. Someone did start one for mass killings in the US, I think. I don't know why people did not just use that. That was me, that thread is now locked. No idea why it wasn't carried on with, would have been...

Re: Let's talk about your top goosebumps songs

Blur - This is a Low
Foals - Into the Surf
Yazoo - Only You

Re: Rightwing men continue have the right to kill wives and children

Aesma wrote:

They believe in "faith healing", plenty of people die as a result, and what do they conclude ?

Re: Yet another mass shooting in the US not in Cali

Not sure why we discuss every mass shooting. Why not have a single 'thoughts and prayers' thread. I did actually start a US Mass Shooting thread a while back, as it was actually getting tedious seeing so many active threads from the many shootings. It was used for a while, seems to have been forgot...

Re: 4Yr old seen waving a gun.

But there's no gun problem in America

Re: Greiner aircraft

Goodbye wrote:

johns624 wrote:

They know who she is, they are just insinuating that she isn't important.

Amazingly, not everyone on this site is from the USA - I'm not American, and genuinely have not heard of this person.

Re: RIP Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac)

I saw all of them live in Birmingham a few years ago, was an incredible show. They still had so much energy and sounded great.

Christine even performed Songbird live during the show, which was our wedding song.

Re: Pop Icon Taylor Swift vs TicketMaster / Live Nation

Swift has done a great job of creating a wholesome, approachable, vanilla image that appeals to middle and upper middle class teen girls from the cul-de-sack. This is a massive fan base and they’ve never had a hero represent them in pop music them the way Swift has. The average white kid with boy p...

Re: Family of four found murdered

Ugh. I came to a.net because I didn't want to keep seeing today's headline on BBC about the Thai nursery massacre (37 dead, mostly young kids). I find it so especially awful when it's kids involved.

What is wrong with the World?

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

The Marella Celebration, which was built in 1984 has headed to the scrapyard at Aliaga, Turkey to be broken up after being laid up since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. This ship had been sailing for Marella since 2005 and still had like 5 years of service left with a minor cruise...

Re: Cruise Ship/Ocean Liner Thread -2022

So why is it being scrapped?. Similar to the airline industry, for the cruise industry, the COVID downturn has triggered a purge of older vessels that represent excess capacity in the current market. Newer ships coming online can carry more passengers at higher profit. So the scrap rate is high rig...

Re: European Christmas Markets

Take plenty of money, everything is extortionate. Here in the UK at least.

Although that still doesn't stop me wandering the market clutching a huge beer, scoffing a hog roast and chugging some mulled wine. My favourite time of year.

Re: Boeing 767: 40 years in airline service

My first ever flight was a round trip LGW to PMI in the late 90s on a Britannia 762, I was about 10 years old. I still remember looking at it out the windows of the gate lounge, it looked amazing and graceful in that blue and white pinstripe livery. Quite a sporty takeoff too! Since then I've had a ...

Re: Boston subway train catches fire on bridge

Airstud wrote:

Can you name a subway system that's entirely 100% underground; with nothing even in open air, let alone over bridges?

Re: Possible mass shooting thread in non-av

I did actually start such a thread after one of the shootings, and a few threads merged into it. However, I've now noticed that the thread has been locked with no explanation.

Re: 4th of July Mass shooting in Chicago suburb

Seeing as it's shootin' season again (did it really ever end?), I think it's time to just dust off the United States Mass Shooting thread. Saves the non-av forum being cluttered with a thread for each shooting.

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1459909

Re: 4 dead in Tulsa OK medical centre shooting

Kiwirob wrote:

Thoughts and prayers will solve this problem, but it appears god isn't listening.

Re: Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, TX

https://www.axios.com/2022/05/25/texas-school-shooting-one-classroom All of the fatalities came from one classroom. I couldn't even begin to imagine the horror those kids went through when he started pulling the trigger in that room. Absolutely heartbreaking. The United States is an absolute joke, ...

Re: 10 killed in Buffalo mass shooting.

But he didn’t do the job he was paid to do, protect the customers. Kinda blows up the whole good guy with a gun. Hope the supermarket withholds any payments to his family seeing he failed to do his job. The kid was wearing body armour. He came prepared, the security guard had no chance. If the secu...

Re: Shooting at a Lounge in South Carolina

Of course the great thing about this country, casinterest, is that if you don't want a gun, you don't have to buy one. You aren't taking mine, though. If some gun-toting person doesn't want their life, they don't have to have it. But while taking their own life they don't have to take casinterest's...

Re: DHL 757 off runway at SJO

It's incredible how many accidents/incidents are caught on camera these days. Even a 737 suddenly nose diving in the middle of China just happens to be caught on at least two cameras.

Re: Condor launch new livery

I was taken aback at first with initial shock, but now I look forward to seeing the Jailbird at our favourite holiday destinations.

Re: Louis Anderson, The Commedian Has DIed

He was a clean comic, which is really hard in the comedy world. RIP. He sure and he was funny. I remember first seeing him as the McDonalds employee in Coming to America. RIP. It was McDowell's. See... McDonald's has the golden arches, while McDowell's has the golden arcs. McDonald's is home of the...

Re: Sidney Poitier has died at 94.

He was one of the all time greats. One of my recollections of him actually comes from a very popular British sitcom, Only Fools and Horses; the grandfather (played by the late Lennard Pearce), used to insist on calling him Sidney Potter (pronounced "Potta", in a good London accent!). &quo...