CaaC (John)

That's gonna be some task if they can do that, bloody 3,000 feet of ice, phew.

Thank the high heavens there will never be another Thatcher (I hope not !!), she upset a lot of Scots people at the time when she introduced the Poll Tax and Scotland was the first home nation that the law was implicated then followed by Wales and she left England last on the list. Anyway, politics & politicians do not interest me as they are all the same, they make promises they don't keep just to be elected, I never argue about politics nowadays.

Well @Bluewolf , Lee Childs must have taken note what all of his fans thought (including me) about Tom Cruise acting the part of Reacher in the 2 movies produced Entertainment & Arts 'Too short' Tom Cruise to be replaced for Jack Reacher reboot 14 November 2018 Action hero Jack Reacher is to get a reboot for the small screen with a new actor in the lead role after creator Lee Child admitted Tom Cruise, who played him in two films, is too short. In Child's books, Reacher is described as 6ft 5in tall with hands the size of dinner plates. Cruise is 5ft 7in. "Cruise, for all his talent, didn't have that physicality," Child told BBC Radio Manchester's Mike Sweeney. The author said a deal was signed last week to make a new streaming show. Readers had complained about Cruise's suitability to play the imposing former major in the US military police since his casting was announced in 2011. "I really enjoyed working with Cruise. He's a really, really nice guy. We had a lot of fun," Child told the station. "But ultimately the readers are right. The size of Reacher is really, really important and it's a big component of who he is. "The idea is that when Reacher walks into a room, you're all a little nervous just for that first minute. And Cruise, for all his talent, didn't have that physicality. "So what I've decided to do is - there won't be any more movies with Tom Cruise. Instead we're going to take it to Netflix or something like that. Long form streaming television, with a completely new actor. "And I want all those readers who were upset about Tom Cruise to help me out - participate in choosing the right actor for the TV series. We're rebooting and starting over and we're going to try and find the perfect guy." The first Jack Reacher film, directed and adapted by Christopher McQuarrie, debuted in 2012. Cruise got mostly positive reviews and it made $218m (£167m) at box offices around the world. But the decision to abandon the film franchise and move to the small screen could have as much to do with the reception for the 2016 sequel as Cruise's stature. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back grossed $162m (£124m) and received mixed reviews. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46207601

I would put my money on that, too many people looked at May as another Maggie Thatcher but there was only one Iron Lady and May will never in a million years be another Maggie.

Real Madrid is ready to move for one of Paris St-Germain's two key forwards if the French club has to sell players because of Financial Fair Play. Brazil's Neymar, 26, and France international Kylian Mbappe, 19, have long been targets for Real. (AS - in Spanish)

Spot Ronaldo

Bloody hell, the Tree has been clipped

Exoplanet discovered around a neighbouring star By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website 14 November 2018 Astronomers have discovered a planet around one of the closest stars to our Sun. Nearby planets like this are likely to be prime targets in the search for signatures of life, using the next generation of telescopes. The planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of our own, placing it in a category of the world know as "super-Earths". It orbits Barnard's star, which sits "just" six light-years away. Writing in the journal Nature, Guillem Anglada Escudé and colleagues say this newly discovered world has a mass 3.2 times bigger than the Earth's. "We think that this is what we call a Super-Earth - that would be possibly a mostly rocky planet with a massive atmosphere. It's probably very rich in volatiles like water, hydrogen, carbon dioxide - things like this. Many of them are frozen on the surface," Dr. Anglada Escudé, from the Queen Mary University of London, told BBC News. The Sun's closest neighbors Dr Anglada Escudé, from Queen Mary University of London, added: "The closest analogue we may have in the Solar System might be the moon of Saturn called Titan, which also has a very thick atmosphere and is made of hydrocarbons. It has rain and lakes made of methane." The planet, Barnard's Star b, is about as far away from its star as Mercury is from the Sun. It's the next nearest star to the Sun after Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri - which are much better known. Barnard's Star is an extremely dim object known as a "red dwarf"; it's about 3% as bright as the Sun, emitting far less solar energy. The planet orbits beyond a boundary called the "snow line", which is past the traditional habitable zone, where water can remain liquid on the surface. On distance alone, it's estimated that temperatures would be about -150C on the planet's surface. However, a massive atmosphere could potentially warm the planet, making conditions more hospitable to life The researchers used the radial velocity method to detect the new planet. This technique detects "wobbles" in a star which are likely to be caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet. These wobbles affect the light coming from the star. As the star moves towards the Earth its spectrum appears slightly shifted towards the blue and, as it moves away, it is shifted towards the red. Team members re-examined archive data obtained over a 20-year period and added new observations with the Carmenes spectrometer in Spain, the Eso/Harps instrument in Chile and the Harps-N instrument in the Canary Islands. This wealth of data provided the accuracy needed to identify the planet to a high degree of certainty. This is the first time this technique has been used to detect a planet this small so far away from its host star. When the new generation of telescopes come online, scientists will be able to characterize the planet's properties. This will probably include a search for gases like oxygen and methane in the planet's atmosphere, which might be markers for biology. "The James Webb Space Telescope might not help in this case, because it was not designed for what's called high contrast imaging. But in the US, they are also developing WFirst - a small telescope that's also used for cosmology," said Dr Anglada Escudé. "If you take the specs of how it should perform, it should easily image this planet. When we have the image we can then start to do spectroscopy - looking at different wavelengths, in the optical, in the infrared, looking at whether light is absorbed at different colors meaning there are different things in the atmosphere." This is not the first time there have been claims about the discovery of a planet around Barnard's Star. In the 1960s, the Dutch astronomer Peter van de Kamp, working in the US, published his evidence for a planetary companion, based on perturbations in the motion of the star. However, van de Kamp's claims proved controversial, as other scientists were not able to reproduce his finding. The star is named after the American astronomer E E Barnard, who measured properties of its motion in 1916. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46196279

Bloody hell man, I wish I could write and speak English like you and speak different languages, the only other language I know besides English is if I stub my big toe and then yell out "AAAAHHH...you fucking bastard!!".

Oh, how I wish that was me with the baby pandas.

FFS, Health & Safety are way out of the window with this one

Lol, you got me worried then, not sure where nudge stayed so that was just a thought in the back of my mind so I inserted the photo, never mind and I will carry on as per normal.

Don't know, I don't every post, why, don't you like me adding photos lol

Dortmund, stationed at Napier Barracks.

It's yuk, it's as if you can taste the tin like rust, nothing beats a pint of lager in a glass with a lovely head on top and get all the froth all over your mouth.

I loved my army days in Germany where I was stationed in the 70's go to the local German pub with the wife and I would have a pint of Carlsberg or more or in the camps NAAFI bar, those were the days.

My son bought around some cans of Tiger once he got from Sainsbury's, not bad but I had to put into a pint glass as I don't like drinking out of cans.

You two have made me thirsty now!!

I was trying to figure out what the name of the lagers was, gold or something?

Aye, pretty bad looking at the news. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46194770 'Three minutes separated me from death' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46181390

The guy looks pissed already carrying the cans of lager in the video Police make arrest in David Schwimmer lookalike probe By Kim Pilling, Press Association 3 hrs ago © Blackpool Police/@DavidSchwimmer (Blackpool Police/David Schwimmer/PA) Police looking for a suspected thief with a resemblance to Friends actor David Schwimmer have made an arrest in London. Social media users pointed out the likeness to Schwimmer’s character Ross Geller in the popular US sitcom when police in Blackpool posted an image of a man leaving a restaurant and carrying what appeared to be a carton of cans. Schwimmer later responded to the picture by posting a video to his Twitter account that showed him scurrying through a convenience store carrying a carton of beer before looking up furtively at a CCTV camera. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/police-make-arrest-in-david-schwimmer-lookalike-probe/ar-BBPEvsT?li=BBoPWjQ

Thank you @Stan the man.