In airports, you are processed from one unsmiling robotic functionary to another. As in a penitentiary you are given a number, scrutinised, placed under constant surveillance and processed through the system. Typically, you’re in the airport longer than you are in the air.
This month, the UK decided to release many thousands of prisoners early amid a jail overcrowding crisis, coinciding with hundreds of arrests during anti-migrant protests across the migrant-infested country. PSA President Nick Smart told the conference that the move left the police at the center of a storm not of their making.
Another impractical ruse was to impose a €1 charge for using aircraft toilets. This was followed by the ‘fat tax’; a scheme to surcharge passengers considered overweight.
I will never forget the expression on my teenage sons’ faces when I suggested they share a hotel bed when we were motoring through Europe. Both looked at me like I was something they had scraped off the bottom of their shoe.
The shoot-out, which lasted only about 30 seconds, involved Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan Earp, and Doc Holliday against the Clanton gang. Three outlaws were killed, but the violence persisted. Virgil was ambushed and wounded in December 1881, and Morgan was killed in March 1882.
Publisher Caroline Ridding told The Guardian that erotic fiction has an enormous global online constituency driven almost exclusively by female readers.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks several languages? A: Multilingual. Q: How do you describe a person who speaks two languages? A: Bilingual. Q: What do you call a person who speaks only one language? A: British.
It was discovered that over 80 per cent of us cannot quite get the hang of programming devices or putting things together. In fact, I emerged with honours.
Long before the term political correctness had any meaning there was a richness to riposte that is sadly lacking in today’s patois. Those in the public eye often captured the headlines with a sneering wisecrack at an opponent. Newspaper editors too risked their readers’ wrath with an occasional […]
Soon after becoming airborne, passengers and crew experienced the weightlessness you get when you are falling without a parachute. That is exactly what we or rather the airliners are doing.
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