The Post Whatever Thread

Think I may need to go to a massage therapist today. I pulled my right hamstring muscle while cheering on my mighty Roosters as they demolished the Dragons 62-16
 
Just wondering what really happened at Denver Intl last night. Sounds like some unusual form of suicide. Also unclear how a jet hitting a person would cause an engine to explode into flames unless, well, you know. News report seems to be delicately tiptoeing around that detail. I was trying not to flash onto that horrific scene in the pilot episode of "Lost." But since I have, I wonder how they would identify the deceased if they were indeed sucked into the engine - they would have to find some unburnt tissue and then find DNA on file, I guess. Or match other physical traces to a missing person report.

More important to air travel would be the question of this type of suicide leading to copycat incidents. Perimeter security would clearly need some bolstering.
 
TheVat said:
Just wondering what really happened at Denver Intl last night
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Looks like some parts of the person was drawn into the turbofan, with what one airport staff radio communication described as limbs found on the tarmac. One video blurred out the turbofan intake, making clear that the deceased had some remains there. ME hasn't determined identity yet. Watching a snip of IR cam video, I wonder if it was a suicidal act or just a trespasser misjudging the speed of the jet and their window for crossing the runway.
 
TheVat said:
Looks like some parts of the person was drawn into the turbofan, with what one airport staff radio communication described as limbs found on the tarmac. One video blurred out the turbofan intake, making clear that the deceased had some remains there. ME hasn't determined identity yet. Watching a snip of IR cam video, I wonder if it was a suicidal act or just a trespasser misjudging the speed of the jet and their window for crossing the runway.
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Oh well, at least they can get some DNA and perhaps identify the person. I suspect drugs may be involved. It seems too contrived for a regular suicide.
 
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or just a trespasser misjudging the speed of the jet
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Dude. You don't misjudge breaking security and getting on the runway.
Issues are, how did he get in that position? If he was a hostile? Intended to blow the plane up, how did he evade their security measures?
 
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Dude. You don't misjudge breaking security and getting on the runway.
Issues are, how did he get in that position? If he was a hostile? Intended to blow the plane up, how did he evade their security measures?
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I wasn't saying that. I meant someone with some bad intent deeper into the airport could still not fully realize how fast planes move on a runway and get hit as they crossed it. It's already established there was lapsed perimeter security, and even at best it takes security a good while to get out that far if there's a breach. Doubt it was anyone trying to blow up that plane, given that would be a sabotage operation done before the flight, for any chance of "success."
 
Let Me See If I Can Explain This One

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Yes! The library at L'École des Cinq Lumières.​

Okay, this is just weird. It feels like it should win some kind of award.

First rule, don't let AI write the plot synopses. Maybe it's just a Crunchyroll thing, but, oh, goodness, it's just terrible.

Second rule, I honestly don't want to know how dictation software plays into this.

So, anyway, it stood out that the show synopsis wrongly called the school "San Culmier". And it literally was l'esprit d'esalier; there was an actual staircase involved when the most obvious answer in the world finally struck. The school is "Cinq Lumières", and the misspelling in the synopsis makes sense if whoever typed it only heard the name.

And that's the part that makes no sense. I can't figure out why that would be, at what point in the process that would have happened.
 
Spooky or what, what?

A horse racing tip from the past leads to a win 62 years later.
A construction worker has won big after he followed a 62-year-old horse racing tip found in a time capsule hidden in a south London park.
The capsule, which included four old coins and a handwritten note, was discovered underneath a statue during renovation work in Crystal Palace Park.
The "spooky" note, dated to 1964, said the coins were winnings from a horse called Santa Claus that ran that year. It urged the finder to back a horse with an associated name.

Site manager Josh Smalls followed the tipster's advice and put £20 on a horse named Christmas Day, which romped home to victory at 7-1 odds on Saturday.
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Both races, old and new, were at the Epsom Derby.
The note, discovered underneath a statue in Crystal Palace Park in south London, said the money had been the winnings from a bet on a horse named Santa Claus in the Epsom Derby and that its finder should use it to bet on a horse with a name that could be "associated with 'Santa Claus'".

Smalls, along with the mayor of Bromley, has placed a bet on Christmas Day for the Betfred Derby Day at Epsom Downs on Saturday.
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So is it good genes, or having a great deal of fun, or both? Or all those brutal workouts on a concert stage? Or are omega-3 foods all that matter and Keef was always sneaking off for a plate of mackerel? We'll never know. Whatever, just don't stop doing what you love.


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‘I’d listen to my body before it screamed for help’: Keith Richards on life as an 82-year-old great-grandad – and jousting with Mick Jagger

He did every substance imaginable – and got punched by Chuck Berry – but Keef’s still going strong. As the Stones knock out another new album, he explains why he’s rejecting AI in favour of ‘the old ways’
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TheVat said:
So is it good genes, or having a great deal of fun, or both? Or all those brutal workouts on a concert stage? Or are omega-3 foods all that matter and Keef was always sneaking off for a plate of mackerel? We'll never know. Whatever, just don't stop doing what you love.


www.theguardian.com

‘I’d listen to my body before it screamed for help’: Keith Richards on life as an 82-year-old great-grandad – and jousting with Mick Jagger

He did every substance imaginable – and got punched by Chuck Berry – but Keef’s still going strong. As the Stones knock out another new album, he explains why he’s rejecting AI in favour of ‘the old ways’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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And not an ounce of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in his family as far as I can tell. But if he lives into his mid-90s or beyond like Mel Brooks, Kirk Douglas, Carl Reiner, Stan Lee, William Shatner, etc... I will definitely have to start considering him to have been a changeling liked Dick Van Dyke and Clint Eastwood are.
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If rye whiskey don't kill me: I'll live till I die.

Meanwhile

My son, Michael, and I rescued 3 trapped fox snakes
Felt good
 
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And not an ounce of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in his family as far as I can tell. But if he lives into his mid-90s or beyond like Mel Brooks, Kirk Douglas, Carl Reiner, Stan Lee, William Shatner, etc... I will definitely have to start considering him to have been a changeling liked Dick Van Dyke and Clint Eastwood are.
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I've heard the nonAshkenazi De Havilland sisters both lived so long because each wanted to dance on the other's grave. Joan was 96, Olivia 104. Their rivalry and estrangement was a Hollywood legend, both for its duration and depth.

I see DVD is now 100. Very long-lived for a chimney sweep.
 
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