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Post by Humph on Jan 5, 2017 19:57:30 GMT
Better 4 than beige. 😜
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Post by Hofmeister on Jan 5, 2017 21:33:14 GMT
I'm acutely aware that we may be being obtuse. You've always got an angle.
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Post by Humph on Jan 5, 2017 21:42:26 GMT
I don't mind offering a tip here and there.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jan 5, 2017 21:54:29 GMT
I don't mind offering a tip here and there. ...makes a change, as a Stuttgart taxi driver, from being offered one.....
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Post by Humph on Jan 5, 2017 22:09:04 GMT
Stuttgart taxi drivers have beige ones...
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Post by WDB on Jan 5, 2017 22:53:51 GMT
The best colour for a Mercedes... ...is the best for a small town in the front garden.
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Post by dixinormus on Jan 5, 2017 23:55:41 GMT
You might want to remember who's being mean to you Al. Make a list.
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Post by dixinormus on Jan 5, 2017 23:59:49 GMT
Going off on a slight tangent, (!), Al's problem reminds me of the Boeing 717 I flew on earlier this week: 2 seats on the left side of the aisle and three on the right. Thought we might be flying on a list. Wonder how the pilot compensates?
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Post by Avant on Jan 6, 2017 0:58:46 GMT
No doubt the piped music was Liszt: To Starboard.
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Post by WDB on Jan 6, 2017 7:28:27 GMT
Hardly the most relaxing (not that stimulating music is a bad thing - although piped music anywhere is a bad thing.)
The 717 doesn't list for the same reason a car with only the driver aboard doesn't list: because the occupants make up only a small fraction of the weight of the whole.
It's possible to make a car list by loading it unevenly, and so it is with a plane, but fore-aft imbalance is more likely than left-right. (Think of how far seats A and F are from the longitudinal axis, compared with the distance from row 36 to the transverse one.)
You may have been on a lightly loaded long flight where the seats in the centre of the cabin were left empty for balance. Once steady flight was established, passengers were invited to spread out and use all the space.
There isn't the same problem on landing, because there's now space in the fuel tanks and the crew can balance the plane by moving the remaining fuel from one tank to another.
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Post by Alanović on Jan 6, 2017 10:35:54 GMT
I shall call the car Fray Bentos from now on.
I'll send the nurse for WDB.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2017 11:36:43 GMT
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Post by Humph on Jan 6, 2017 12:36:55 GMT
Apologies, must have been thinking of Berlin, and Düsseldorf...still, if it was cheap I suppose...
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Post by Alanović on Jan 6, 2017 12:45:57 GMT
"The reliable pick up"....."for spontaneous rides".
These have been remarkably thin on the ground in my life, I are disappoint to say.
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Post by Humph on Jan 6, 2017 12:50:07 GMT
Depends which way you lean.
I suppose.
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