Weather is getting me down

 I don't know what the weathers like in your part of the world but in my bit of South Wales it's pretty crap, my neighbour has nearly finished building his ark   (how did Noah see where he was going?... Flood light of course) and to be honest I thinking of buying a bloody boat myself.
  Now as far as flooding goes I'm one of the lucky one's, I'm too high up to ever really get flooded,but I do feel sorry for those who have been hit, some more than once I'm hearing.
 The problem for me isn't just the rain it's the dark dank grimness of the days, some days I feel like I'm north of the Aortic circle in the the long Polar winter, it's hardly getting light some days.  And that's just bloody depressing if you ask me.  Maybe winter should come with some Prozac or something.
 So if you live in a nice sunny place like Arizona, or Bondi beach and fancy living in a dark, wet, gloomy shit hole give me a shout, maybe we can swoop....   Yes I know, I'm not holding my breath....

Teen killed using a "hover board" (balanceboard)

 Nawaf Al-Tuwayan age 15 was killed after he fell off his so called hover board and was hit by a bus in North London this week.
 Why they are called hover boards when the don't hover is just a small part of the problem with these stupid dangerous devices.  Far bigger problem is unless you have a long drive or private land you can't use them.
 It's an offence under 72 of the Highway Act 1835 to ride them on the pavement in Wales or England, and an offence under UK law to ride them on the road as they are not approved or crash tested for road use, and they fail constructions and use regulations for lighting etc..
 Add in the fact that something like 88% of the ones tested (15.000) were found to be defective, and a known fire risk and you have the Christmas present from hell.
 So if you love and care about your children/grandchildren/the kid next door, etc, don't buy them a death trap... Please.

Communications and cars.....

 Yet again I seem to be in a limbo of communications, a sort of Bermuda triangle of silly bastards who can't be bothered to answer the phone. 
 Seriously why people spend £800 on a top of the range, state of the art, makes the fucking tea in the morning, tells the bloody time in 12 languages I-fucking-phone beats me if they are too stupid to figure out they are supposed to answer it when it rings. 
"Uncle George killed by a bear" "you didn't know?" "really !", well if you answered the phone you'd know.  "Auntie Mable gored to death by the sideboard?"  "You didn't know?"  WELL TRY ANSWERING THE BLOODY PHONE !!!!!!!!!!   Why bother with a mobile phone if you don't want to be in contact.
 Seriously though, one day that call you miss WILL be important!



 My car was due it's annual MOT test this week,exactly why a simple MOT takes half a day is puzzling, especially when the car wasn't actually in the garage the three times I went to look, still it passed which is the important part.

Swansea police need a wake up call !

 It's a Saturday a few weeks before Christmas in the centre of Swansea city, the Christmas market is in full swing and the centre is heaving with Christmas shoppers.... How many armed police did I see?   Well none to be exact, and that was over several hours in the middle of the day!. 
 Keep in mind Swansea has a huge immigrant population and as Wales second city could be easily considered a target for a terror attack.  So no armed police for the terrorists to worry about... Actually no bloody police at all, not even the council wardens who used to be about, no the only protection Swansea has are a few down and outs drunk and in shop doorways. 
 Honestly if baffles me, don't the police take any threats seriously?  We've heard of the terrible attack in Paris, God help the people of Swansea if the bad guys try something similar, they could have a field day until someone gets around to waking up Swansea sleeping policeman.... Or are all Swanseas police guarding the people of London? It wouldn't surprise me to be honest.

Computers... Grrrrrrr!

 I was clearing out some temporary files the other day and I still had my headphones on from watching youtube, and every time I left clicked on something it made a click in the headphones.....Why for fucks sake?  I'm pressing the bloody  right click, why does stupid Windoze (I spell it this way) need to tell me I'm pressing a button!  I know, I just pressed it.
 Then we come to deleting a folder.  Hover over the folder and Windoze says this folder in emprty (it knows it's empty) then when I go to delete the folder it says do you want to delete this folder and contents, what contents? 3 seconds ago you told me it was empty!   I though goldfish are supposed to have a short memorys not bloody computers, if it cant remember 3 seconds how bad can a computer be. FFS!!!!!!!!!!

Aren't the dark nights fun, and bloody dangerous.

 Aren't the dark nights fun, and bloody dangerous. 
 Last night I saw a ninja scooter-ist (kid on a scooter all in black) going down a steep hill at speed in the middle of the road.  Now that's not too bad you'd think, especially if the road is quiet, the risky bit is the road in question is littered with bit's of branch. Now those scooters have very small wheels, hit a small branch and your off.... And that's where it gets dodgy, your all in black on a dark twisting steep hill, and car following you don't the hill is going to get bugger all warning if your lying in the road on a bend all in black.
 Come on people have a bit of common sense.... Please.....

Air Asia flight QZ8501 crash report. Here we go again!

 Indonesia NTSC (air safely body) has determined that the cause of last Decembers crash was electrical issues which resulted in the crew having to switch off auto pilot. This in turn led to the crew having to fly the plane manually, something they were unable to do. In other words they came off auto pilot, got the plane into a stall and couldn't recover from t.
 Now we've been here before, sadly many times.  It seems that modern flight crews simply can't fly the planes properly on manual. Theres been quite a number of accidents caused by the flight crew even not knowing which way to pull or push the stick, indeed pulling back on the flight controls to "dive" the plane is surprisingly common (and totally wrong)   What happens is the plane looses speed so the crew member flying pulls back on the stick (or wheel) to put the nose up to gain speed and height.... except that has the opposite effect, slowing the plane down.  The point is reached where the plane stalls, at this point the crew are usually baffled by whats happening and try and pull the nose up more.
 When the plane finally stalls properly the crew should do what every student pilot is taught, level the wings to prevent a spin, push the nose down and add power, provided you have enough height this works well (as any student pilot will tell you) the plane will recover from the stall (note not a deep stall *) and provided speed is kept high enough the aircraft will continue to fly normally when you level out.
 The problem is modern flight crews simply don't fly the planes, it's almost all on auto pilot, with the exception of the first and last 2 minutes of the flight the computer does it all. These days they don't have any experience of actually flying, maybe they should all have to do 10 hours a week flying small aircraft to keep their hands in so to speak..
 Strange when you think that during the war, very young inexperienced pilots often with only a few dozen hours were flying to Germany and back often at night, and coming back many were shot up with engines out.  God help if most of out super-duper airline pilots tried it.


* Note some aircraft, mostly those with a high T tail can get into whats called a deep stall, the tail T part gets into the disturbed airflow from the stalling wings, this cause the elevators to loose effect, causing the flight crew to be unable to alter the pitch of the aircraft, this means they can't push the nose down to recover from the stall.