Re: joke
One has to assume, as this has to be a true story, of course, that the Swede was William Y. Anderson from the U.S. Army Air Forces as there was no other Swedish aces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces
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Chilly willies: Swedish nudie nightclub opens in -11°C to disgust of locals
Wednesday 28th February 2018 10:05 GMT 
Re: Swedish Winter..
"when the nights were 24 hours long ".
With absolutely no intention of becoming serious I remember a situation when I was trying to start a conversation with a guy from north of the pole circle. I went for the "how hard life must have been in old times in all that long darkness". He gave a sort of "oh dear, not again, weary, smile" and asked me if I might have forgotten that they actually have quite a lot of sunshine* during the winter and that the snow is actually very white and moving on the hard snow is fast and easy, and hunting and fishing is very fun, and fishing using fire is very very fun and just give me a call and I take you fishing.
And I was hit hard in the head by "reality" and that people have actually lived there for a very long time, and that people who die because of the cold probably live in the southern part of Europe.
*the moon
Tuesday 27th February 2018 22:00 GMT
@Voyna i Mor
Well there was this "Protestant/Lutheran" priest who said this - "We believe in sexual purity and that sexuality needs to be protected through marriage,".
The only way to add a Catholic priest to this would be to assume he was addressed with such wisdom by the Lutheran priest (to no avail).
The subtitle surprised me until I remembered that we actually have heating inside during the winter here up in the north.
Stockholm is a fairly friendly town according to a Brit I met. If you get awfully drunk it happens that nice and helpful Swedes might offer you a bed at their hotel for the night, and in the morning they might even offer you some money.
And that happened to you, I asked - "oh no" he said, to my sister.
He's cheesed it! French flick pirate on the lam to swerve €80m fine, two-year stretch in the clink
Saturday 24th February 2018 23:44 GMT
Re: Running in France
Returning to my first comment, it was about this subtitle.
"A Frenchman? Running away? Gawd, you don't say"
It is a stupid innuendo. Stupidity is, as we know, not a sin, but not to speak up is a sin.
So what makes some Brits so fond of this stupidity.
But on a lighter tone,
As far as I remember Britain had some nice property in France, but ran away. The French in the English language did not run away. The only French running I can spot is that France has run ahead of Britain as an economic power.
Perhaps we should try to find some logic behind this then.
Lets try modern Trumpism, the good guy called his competition names like “liar ” and “crooked” and it's a known fact that those words come easy when one is one oneself.
Perhaps the explanation to this “running in France” is indeed very similar.
Then we could also try the modern MAGA, the simplest form, the Trump method, is to try to make everybody else a bit smaller in order to feel bigger.
All countries have created their own “neighbour” stupidities, the English with the additional advantage of having such a large number of neighbours both at home and around the world.
Perhaps even world leading in this too.
I become well educated as a kid too, one of my favourites, one I would newer repeat is - “A Russian is a Russian even if you fry him in butter”. I am a bit reluctant to claim it's originally Finnish as Russia has many neighbours and it could also have been copied from some similar surrounding with an expansive big neighbour.
Anyway my original comment was really about “save the children”, stop the stupidity.
Should you find great solace in stupid innuendo try to keep it to yourself.
PS. I almost forgot to mention the high horses.
Friday 23rd February 2018 11:57 GMT
Re: Running in France
@James O'Shea,
The Brits fled and so did the French in front of a stronger army, and so did the Russians in the beginning. So get over it, time to stop that shit innuendo you never seem to be able to end.
Being honest seems to be a bit dangerous in Britain, to refer to Nick Clegg who was honest when he wrote:
"all nations have a cross to bear, and none more so than Germany with its memories of Nazism. But the British cross is more insidious still. A misplaced sense of superiority, sustained by delusions of grandeur and a tenacious obsession with the last war, is much harder to shake off".
If you are interested in "the greatest tank victory" try Russia, where the real war took place, something the Americans seem to understand a lot better than some Brits.
Grandfather as I, or?.
Friday 23rd February 2018 10:12 GMT
Running in France
A bit cryptic.
Could it be about an army of almost 340000 who run like no army has ever run before at the first encounter with the enemy.
To return successfully years later encouraged, and as half a part of an army of soldiers from United States, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Free France, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Poland.
Fun fact: US Customs slaps eyeglass taxes on optical networking gear
Venezuela floats its own oily cryptocurrency to save the world economy
Thursday 22nd February 2018 20:52 GMT
Re: Are sanctions effective?
@ I ain't Spartacus
"America doesn't need Venezuelan oil",
I do agree but my "sour grapes" is the type that even today inserts the "Suez" in comments.
I am not that much into that country but somehow I have a feeling they have to sort it out without the help of the US.
Visited the country long ago, as a crew member, or to be more honest, a brothel, even twice, but the damned thing refused to get exited, spilled milk, and every right not to be an expert on Venezuela.
No icon for this.
Who wanted a future in which AI can copy your voice and say things you never uttered? Who?!
UK.gov's Brexiteers warned not to push for divergence on data protection laws
Monday 19th February 2018 17:28 GMT
Re: @ Halcin
@Dan 55
Codejunky is talking about Global Britain. BoJo's phone has been ringing now for 20 months and he has a hell of a problem together with Rees-Mogg to decide which countries to accept and which to reject. As one bloke revealed on the telly the whole world is waiting for Britain to lead the new global world of free trade.
Just wait and see, Britain will rule the regulations once again, no more rule sharing or taking, just rule making.
UK.gov: Psst. Belgium. Buy these Typhoon fighter jets from us, will you?
Saturday 17th February 2018 15:11 GMT
The "brilliant Mini"
Should one point out that the car would not pass even one safety test today. The same goes for the really brilliant Citroen CV2, so brilliant not much is left for the Mini.
But I can feel the nostalgia towards the Mini and still it was a rather dreadful car, as wet and cold inside as outside, absolutely lethal in snow and sleet in the night on the road among real cars.
But there was the Cooper, Monte Carlo, and rally drivers like Timo Mäkinen and similar.
I suppose my nostalgic feeling have more to do with that than having had to drive a not Cooper one.
Some on memory lane with the Mini and Timo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0RUpn8X6HM
The new Mini, a well built and proper car, is doing quite well in both Germany and the UK.
Finns talked about the "dog booth", was that invented elsewhere I don't know.
Saturday 17th February 2018 01:27 GMT 
Somebody tell the English
The war is over*, also Napoleon, Hitler and even Hammurabi are very dead indeed by now. Playing with tin soldiers end among normal kids at around the age of eleven.
And for those who are interested in the Eurofighter and its history try:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon
*might not prevent a new one, but it could be very different when looking for friends and foo.
Reinforcement learning woes, robot doggos, Amazon's homegrown AI chips, and more
Iran: We have defeated evil nuclear-sensing Western lizards!
Home fibre in the UK sucks so much it doesn't even rank in Euro study
Thursday 15th February 2018 21:54 GMT
Re: *Shrug*
"because your tablet or PC decides to update itself."
Yes, well sorry, but my PCs just politely suggest I update at my leisure, you know penguins.
But more to the topic, my family of three seem to manage quite well with 12 down. Right now I feel my fingers are throttling my brain more than the internet.
Some years ago there was some nice lady asking me if I wouldn't rather have 100, and I said, yes please if you insist. Some weeks later there was this guy who told me "fibre is in the street they had torn up and filled up" and now we only need to pull that 60m to your house and get rid of that old copper you have, and it will cost you only 1000e.
So, you know, nice husbands, I asked my wife. And, you know, nice wives, told me she will let nobody into the house unless I first clean up my room.
And thus I have saved 1000e and the family is doing quite well with 12 down.
Stephen Elop and the fall of Nokia revisited
Thursday 15th February 2018 20:20 GMT
Re: "Elop's time at Nokia cost him his marriage, don't forget."
Elop did not bring his wife, family (if he had a family) to Finland in the first place, so did he leave his wife or did she leave him. Not bringing his family with him gave the impression that his aim at Nokia was a short time effort like all his earlier efforts. He did not impress at any time*, either because he did not have it or because he had no intention to deliver had he had it, or the horse was the wrong horse.
But let's not forget that it was the board who employed him, companies rot from the head, but I suppose they, unless bought, believed they did the right thing.
But what the heck, lets read the book, and who has ever survived the touch of Microsoft. (Sendo anyone)
Still Nokia, as Nokia Networks, is alive and in 2017 employed approximately 102,000 people across over 100 countries, did business in more than 130 countries, and reported annual revenues of around €23 billion.
*foot in mouth, with that "burning platform".
Hua-no-wei! NSA, FBI, CIA bosses put Chinese mobe makers on blast
Thursday 15th February 2018 08:35 GMT
Re: Well, duh
What about asking "would you personally use a phone made with Chinese parts". (Foxconn has factories in China too).
It's hard to change a trend that has gone on for years. One could of course expect The MAGA to demand Apple to produce phones in the US from domestic parts only*.
Dr. Michio Kaku explains it well in 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7D3_eGaO5k
*see icon
NASA budget shock: Climate studies? GTFO. We're making the Moon great again, says Trump
Wednesday 14th February 2018 07:40 GMT
Re: I really hate that man
"That's quite a bit of spin there."
No spin at all, have a listen to Cruz here. It's quite obvious what he wants to change and how the change corresponds to his aims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peL7Qecg3qQ
And for GOP science guys, try this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPgZfhnCAdI
Tuesday 13th February 2018 09:48 GMT
Re: We don't need no education
@ bombastic bob
It's just possible that you have forgotten that some of the dumbest parts of the western world we find in the USA. To let those parts of the country choose what to teach their kids is just not such a good idea and that is why you need help from the "gummint", for what that is worth these days.
MPs: Lack of technical skills for Brexit could create 'damaging, unmanageable muddle'
Friday 9th February 2018 07:05 GMT
Re: But it will be worth it
@strum
"This time, when we whine about the deal, they can tell us to fuck off."
No, I haven't seen much anything of that reaction, I don't think we, the 27, have fallen that deep, perhaps there is an itch, but the hot air and the confusion is still coming out of some Brits and out of too many in the UK government, not from the EU.
Quite fascinating actually if it wasn't about reality. And with three children I suppose I have some protecting shield when dealing with childishness.
For the IT-angle, oh well, what we have now, that we did not have in the same easy way before, is how the internet, with YouTube etc, actually has given us an time machine.
It's fascinating to listen to people talking about their vision about the future years ago, now that you actually know what happened.
Have a listen to Theresa May's Lancaster House speech 17Jan 2017.
Like a young enthusiastic kid going to war totally uninformed and unprepared to face the harsh reality of life and facts ahead.
There is a toll to that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GauFVjx5XXo
Friday 9th February 2018 00:56 GMT
Re: Hmm
@codejunky
Are you deliberately screwing the facts or are you just ill-informed about the "Good Friday Agreement". Perhaps you should read about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement
"The agreement is made up of two inter-related documents, both agreed in Belfast on Good Friday, 10 April 1998:
1. a multi-party agreement by most of Northern Ireland's political parties (the Multi-Party Agreement);
2, an international agreement between the British and Irish governments (the British-Irish Agreement)."
There are a few very simple solutions for the UK to solve the problem they have created, that is, if honouring a agreement or not is a problem. The problem is not caused by the EU.
Thursday 8th February 2018 03:41 GMT
Re: Anti-competitive?
@H in The Hague
Aston Martin has the same problem as they import 60% of their car parts from the EU, but it's the big companies too, like Honda, that might have real problems with 350 trucks of components coming in from the EU each day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F3LZTJOzSA
Thursday 8th February 2018 01:38 GMT
Re: That sounds like getting in your excuses first....
@ John Smith 19
For those who did not grasp the "Make me an offer", It went like this:
In a recent private meeting between May and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, the two leaders reportedly found themselves in a tragicomic conversational loop.
"May kept telling Merkel: “Make me an offer.” To which Merkel would reply: “But you’re leaving – we don’t have to make you an offer. Come on, what do you want?” To which May would retort: “Make me an offer.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/03/imperial-fantasies-brexit-theresa-may
(and elsewhere)
Looking at the bright side, all sanity has not left Blighty.
Wednesday 7th February 2018 15:45 GMT
Re: Clueless on everything
"...still a member of the club, one is not allowed to enter into negotiations.".
That is what Fox is supposed to do now, that is talking, enter into negotiations, but trade agreements cannot be signet yet. Not that easy, everybody wants to sell you something but at the same time everybody wants protect it's domestic industry, farming and so forth, not to mention standards. It's a give and take and can take time.
There is an interesting story regarding "milk" between the US and Canada. The US is producing more than they need but Canada doesn't want to harm it's own dairy industry.
But despair not, The Mogg will soon provide cheap shoes for poor kids.
Wednesday 7th February 2018 13:43 GMT
Re: But it will be worth it
"4. Do you think EU want to encourage another country to leave?"
It has been clear from the very first day that you cannot have the same advantage outside the EU as inside. That's hardly hard to understand and it's all there is to understand.
The difference Britain has to make up as the new darling of global free trade, the Global Britain.
Tech giants' payouts go to everyone but affected citizens. US Supremes now urged to sort it out
Friday 9th February 2018 04:36 GMT
Old news
Swift wrote in his novel "Gulliver's Travels" (pub. 1726), about an old woman who had five cows, crooks stole three and her layer the remaining two. A really old and in a way with a happy ending as these days you might end up in dept too.
Note to self, cheer up.
(The book became popular as soon as it was published. John Gay wrote in a 1726 letter to Swift that "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery)
US Senate mulls giving Huawei and ZTE the Kaspersky treatment
Russian-monitoring Shetlands radar station was nearly sold off
Monday 5th February 2018 13:40 GMT 
Back to this
Atomic Cafe is a collection of stuff I suppose all my age farts must have seen many times before. Makes me a bit nostalgic, probably the music, and who doesn't love a big bang.
We never did any "duck and cover" in Finland during those years, how about Britain?. Anybody who knows about Russia then.
Did the Americans, my age, ever recover.
https://vimeo.com/25154726
Also on Youtube.
Anti-missile missile misses again, US military mum on meaning of mess
Long haul flights on a one-aisle plane? Airbus thinks you’re up for it
Open source turns 20 years old, looks to attract normal people
As Facebook pushes yet more fake articles, one news editor tells Mark to get a grip – or Zuck off
Oxford Uni boffins get things rolling at new electric motor factory
In America, tech support conmen get a mild slap. In Blighty, scammers get the book thrown at them
UK.gov mass data slurping ruled illegal – AGAIN
Tuesday 30th January 2018 14:43 GMT
Re: Watson, not Corbyn
Even more funny if you could understand how idiotic this either or, two party system keeps you stupid. Like drunken sailors, I have some experience, one step left and one step right, never achieving anything but one step left or one step right. Binary idiocy. Oh my good how idiotic you are.
Is it you, or just about the two idiots who run you, one step left and one step right.
Trump White House mulls nationalizing 5G... an idea going down like 'a balloon made out of a Ford Pinto'
Tuesday 30th January 2018 05:40 GMT
Re: YHBT
Well, you newer know what comes out of the White House.
I had a listen at [audiobook] Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yumbVdnZQ0Y
And allegedly the White Chief created a lead balloon asking "why cant we give health care to everybody". Could it be he is a Democrat in a sheep's night robe.
Who knows, did he not actually fire Comey because he was mean towards Hillary, (an other lead balloon).
Newsflash: Car cyber-security still sucks
GOLD! Always believe in your role. You've got the power to know you're indestructible...
Sunday 28th January 2018 00:07 GMT
Re: The start of a trend?
@ Martin Gregorie
Help me out, it's midnight and I am a bit confused.
I used to be quite good at celestial navigation long ago. But as Field of View is a circle, is it not, then does it really matter if you "define" it as latitude or longitude.
PS. for Scandinavian readers who find it difficult to remember which is "lat" and which is "long" just remember "lat är den som ligger". To my surprise Google translate does quite well here but is slightly missing the point still.
PPS is that "s" at the end in latitude and longitude actually proper English, it doesn't sit with me.
Icon for time in the problem of the longitude. (did I spot the solution here, even if the glass is empty)
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