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We reckon Singapore Airlines is consistently the best.
Lots of others are ok, average.
Aeroflot worst. Emirates not good.

@jon-nyc said:

Landing in Bangkok. Leg 3 of 7 completed.

Beautiful photo

Great news indeed, an impressive military action.

Though losing two helicopters and another plane in the process implies/proves that low level flight over Iran is a high risk, presumably from shoulder launched missiles?

I was a child of 7 when Armstrong and Aldrin blasted off; we went next door to see as the neighbours had a b&w TV).
I feel quite emotional about it, almost like humanity lost 50 years of progress, immensely thankful to the US that it's happening again.

It all seems very similar until they show the control panels. Some contrast!
Wonder what Buzz is thinking.

Pimalai Resort, Koh Lanta?

I've been to Langkawi a few miles down the coast. However Penang is our usual destination/hub, wife's birthplace.

And I thought you'd all be celebrating Trump's first anniversary
'Liberation Day'

Interesting graphic

All news TV is about an 80 year old stuck in a quagmire.
Or rather, quicksand.

Can his redoubtable team come up trumps?

@Axtremus said:

What's a bramble?

A wintery walk

He has a fascinating way of speaking, a confident contradictory rambling style. I was just trying to compose something in Trumpian style:

We're working hard unleashing hell on the lunatic nation. Let me be quite clear it's still an existential threat; but I feel it in my bones their military is decimated and we've won, and it's a beautiful thing, yes, a beautiful thing.

( I used to think management speak was bollocks and he's right up there)

In the UK the new tax rules mean businesses/landlords etc have to submit forms quarterly.
So I've been told.

Interesting. So the cars you make can't run on the oil you harvest.
Could cars be built to run on refined oil you harvest? I mean, some cars run on waste chip fat. Or perhaps I should ask, could refineries be built for your car production?
Will your light crude oil run generators, or oil heating systems? Or does it have to be mixed with heavy crude first.

Thank goodness we invented the battery/electric car around 1940 or the international petro-chemical industry might still be taking advantage🤪

It is barely credible that the USA is energy independent, producing more oil and gas than used.
How can you possibly justify charging your own citizens a price linked to the Straits of Hormuz? The oil still comes from Texas for goodness sake. Sell it abroad at an export price by all means.
Somebody's getting shat on.

Do Western Sahara give a shit, seems a bit of a grey area?

There are people in rural houses who aren't connected to the mains so have to run generators for light and heat. Filling that fuel tank is going to be pricey or what!

We run two cars but drive only six thousand miles a year so the impact can be absorbed. However there was a farm contractor on tv at the weekend saying that the farm machines he drives are now costing him an extra £500 each day in fuel.

So, any guesses where the Marines and Paras will be deployed?

Local BP garage diesel £8.17 a gallon today
(£1.80 a litre)
Going to London this weekend and it will be interesting to see the highest motorway prices.

Who knows, he may yet turn a lengthy strip of the Persian Gulf waterfront to glass.

I meant the Ukrainian/Russian front and the Israeli/Iranian front.
We being the UK, etc.

If you're 'helping' one side you're effectively at war against the other.