CaaC (John)

Edit: Sorry @Stan, I didn't realize you had posted this earlier, my apologies

A good read, I like this bit... "Let's put it like it is: modern football is a load of shit. Windy investors, corporate clubs, a Champions League in which the same big clubs keep getting richer and then crush the national leagues at the weekend. It sucks, sorry..."

Mars Helicopter First Flight

That's myself and the wife notified of our second jab next week and that will be us done and dusted thank fuck.

@DeadLinesman, @MUFC, @Devil and others, has Ole gone loco? Manchester United have changed the colour of the banners covering the seats at Old Trafford from red to black in an effort to win more home games. Almost 25 years to the day since former manager Sir Alex Ferguson ordered his players to change their grey shirts at half-time in a match against Southampton because they were struggling to pick each other out, current boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said a similar issue may be a reason for his side's problems at home this season. FULL REPORT

Holy shit

@nudge A bit off-topic but you can get books on this too.

I know, that's why I put Data in there laughing at my thoughts No, I am sure I read how they transported the stones down canals built in the sands on ships or big barges plus they had thousands of slaves in those days, say, 100 slaves pulling the stones on wooden slabs on rollers along the route to the pyramids, there were a lot of slaves dying in those days so all the Egyptians would do was replace them with others. When I worked in a tyre remould place down South years ago when the gaffa bought a new mould for his tyres there were specialist guys used for moving the moulds that weighed tons but they moved them on rollers underneath, 2 guys in front would lay roller slabs on the ground and forklift in front would pull the mould along, so you can think back to the Pyramid days they did something similar but slaves pulling the stones on wooden roller casts.

Not for me, I'm afraid, I remember reading Erich Von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods or was God an Astronaut made me think, I know a lot of his theories have now been debunked but when you look at the building of the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Moai of the Easter Islands, the Piri Reis Map, the Aztec lines are really a mystery, then you see drawings in caves of what looks like astronauts in space suits. Imagine if we discovered a planet in years to come where we can travel light-years away and there was a form of life with different oxygen levels like we have here on Earth, we could not breathe their air so we had space suits on and crafts that we could help them build structures and then they would worship us as Gods from above, and that planet would suddenly evolve like Earth over the years and we flew away to let them get on with it. I know that sounds a bit like science fiction but you never know, the stones that built the Pyramids weighed tonnes yet they managed to build them, what if was a form of an alien helping them...'Beam me up, Scotty'.

21 incredible pictures from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2021

Do you blame me!!!!

I kept wandering down looking at that blonde bird's cleavage showing

Believe it or not, the film is better than the book I just could not get into the book and it took me ages to read it so when I saw they made a film of it I thought if the book was crap then the film must be the same...WRONG, I quite enjoyed the film watching it with the wife.

I find myself doing that, I might find a book in a box or on a shelf as I have tons of books, with a page marker in-between, I will then scratch my head trying to remember what it was about then started reading it all over again. There is only one book in my entire life that I have tried to read and just could not finish it is the Holy Bible, I think I got up to the bit where Cain killed Abel and was banished to the Land of Nod...where he got married, I remember saying to myself "Who the FUCK did he marry if Adam, Eve, Cain & Able were the only living beings on the planet Earth?..."

"Based on data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter that arrived late Friday night, NASA has chosen to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first experimental flight to no earlier than April 14. During a high-speed spin test of the rotors on Friday, the command sequence controlling the test ended early due to a “watchdog” timer expiration. This occurred as it was trying to transition the flight computer from ‘Pre-Flight’ to ‘Flight’ mode. The helicopter is safe and healthy and communicated its full telemetry set to Earth."

Send it this way, please, I love snow