Shoreham pilot released from hospital and to be questioned. I'm sure he is glad to be alive, but very hard to live with whether it was your fault or not.
http://news.sky.com/story/1550032/hero-ba-pilot-unlikely-to-make-final-flight Pilot on BA plane that caught fire was due to make his last flight, but has now said that he probably won't now. Have to say that if he is 42, he hasn't worn well....surely 52.
Come the revolution, brothers - all of them up against the wall? I'm afraid I'm with Fran on this one - we'd have some tattooed f***wit representing us if the great unwashed had their way .........................
No, not at all. I am all for fairness and equality. They would just be ordinary citizens and we would be their equals, instead of how it is now.
Interesting snippet of news. Travelling to work IS WORK, or so an European court has ruled: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34210002 It's interesting to me because I've always felt, though I've never added it to a charge, that as soon as I leave the house to go and work for someone else, or to do a job for someone else, I am at work. I have always pitied those poor people stood on railway platforms who travel 4 hours to work and back every day because not only are they wasting their lives away, they are often giving away the time as free. My absolute limit is 30 minutes in one direction, which equates to about 15-30 miles, depending upon conditions. Most of my work is about 10-15 minutes away.
But as Nicola said where you live and how you get to work has nothing to do with him. I always feel that 20-30 min is the limit....though I appreciate London commuters will laugh at that.
LAS VEGAS -- On the eve of his record-breaking megafight with Manny Pacquiao on May 2, pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather took an intravenous injection of saline and vitamins that was banned under World Anti-Doping Agency guidelines, according to a report by SB Nation on Wednesday. Three weeks after the fight, Mayweather received an exemption from the United States Anti-Doping Agency, the report said. However, Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Bob Bennett said USADA does not have authorization to grant an exemption. Bennett said only the commission, which was not notified of the exemption until after it was given, can give an athlete an exemption. http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/i...nned-iv-manny-pacquiao-fight-according-report This is looking dodgy for Mayweather. IV lines are used by a lot of PED users to mask it.
Al Qaeda have just declared war on ISIS. http://abcnews.go.com/International/al-qaeda-leader-al-zawahiri-declares-war-isis/story?id=33656684
Hope ISIS get wiped off the face of the earth. Of course in an ideal world they would crush each other but that isn't going to happen so I want ISIS destroyed.
IV usage to rehydrate after weight cuts was recently banned by the UFC for this very reason. This also looks SUPER weird because for that fight Mayweather would not have been making a big cut that would have warranted emergency rehydration, there are fighters who regularly cut 20+lbs of water in order to make weight (Anthony Johnson used to try and cut from 215ish to make 170!) and the IV ban was in part introduced to discourage those kinds of intense and potentially fatal cuts (aside from the possibility of PED/EPO masking). USADA has previous on this, infact I recall saying on this very thread that one of Maryweather or Pac was not clean. It's clear from their history that they are happy to ensure that those paying the fees for the testing get the results that they desire. Just recently UFC fighter Frank Mir was approved for a TUE by USADA that is not permitted within the state he was booked to fight in. The history of USADA testing is pretty sad, they claim to offer Olympic style testing whereby an athlete will be subject to tests at any time, this isn't true. They claim to be a non profit, but if you look at their fees for testing, they vastly outstrip the costs of performing such a service. There is history of them burying/granting specious TUEs for even minor boxers. God knows with them on watch if Rousey, McGregor or another major star pisses hot that they'll bury it deep beneath the earth and never let it out.
