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The new BA Club World is excellent. I liked the old Club World too but it's very aircraft and seat dependant. The newer PE is good step up from Eco, the old, original PE was shit.

BA 747 Upper Deck, 64K, my favourite seat in the sky. Even over any of the 1st Class ones below. 1A/K a close second though.

Erick Morillo. RIP. https://www.tmz.com/2020/09/01/i-like-to-move-it-dj-erick-morillo-dead-at-49/ Some of the best nights of my life were played out to the music he way playing. Hung with him a few times. Good guy.

One of the finest ever police detectives.

Oh, and on the old school geek tech front, I was a Z/VM, VM/VSE, CMS, JCL, COBOL guy.

It's crazy how little money amount can make such a difference if she sticks with it. Illiteracy is on the increase in the UK which is kinda hard to comprehend. Basically poor white kids who take the gang route out of school. A guy I know ended up teaching a lot of them (early-mid 20's kids) when he was inside doing a stretch for a year or so recently.

So where do I send UK £'s to please?

I believe you and think you were correct when you say you read her face, you come across as a guy who can read others pretty well. I'm sure you can easily cover a little education for the lady but i'd be happy to chuck in some $ too if it would help. Illiteracy is a curse that needs to be wiped out.

Very sad to hear this, heartfelt condolences to Phil's family and close friends. RIP.

Listening to Symphony No.5 and remembering that this is as good as music can possibly ever get.

I had a Cav GSI 4x4 and a Cav 4x4 Turbo. Same story......maxed out with the speedo needle on the stopper 😁

Lewis didn't grow up in a well off family. Not poor but not well off, and certainly not well off after he started karting seriously before Mclaren sponsored him. His race number is 44 because that was the number of the registration plate of his dads Vauxhall Cavalier when he was karting. Well off people in the 90's did not drive Vauxhall Cavalier's. In the first year his dad spent his life savings, his new wifes life savings, mortgaged his house and was working three jobs to support Lewis karting. I think the first year cost them about £25,000 in real 1990's money. Nowadays they wouldn't be anywhere near even the back of the grid for that much......it's more like £250,000+ per year now at the earliest most junior level; so if Lewis was trying to do it today he'd have no chance whatsoever. He is the ONLY man on the current F1 grid to come from nothing. Every other driver is from money/privilege, one way or another, i'll include Alex Albon in that because his Thai mum stole about £9 million to finance his motorsport career until Red Bull picked him up.

Elements of truth. Once he was picked up by Mclaren he had a much easier time of course.

Really good obit in the DT - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/peter-green-fleetwood-mac-co-founder-dies-aged-73/

Q/ Which Spice Girl can hold the most petrol?A/ Geri can.

Ben Cross. RIP. Terrific actor. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-53829798

Ronnie is Ronnie. Ronnie is the best player the game has ever seen. He still says that he was best when he was in his mid-teens. No pressure. I've met him a cpl times in a totally non-snooker setting and he is a very decent lad. Both times he (nor I) did not mention snooker at all.

Oh, that is beautiful. Of all the cars i've ever driven, a Frogeye was easily the one that got the most universal smiles when people saw it 🙂

Anderson is an absolutely superb sportsman. In awe.

Not a joke as such, but true old tale..... "Many moons ago, when Hugh Laurie and Sir Stephen of Fry were just becoming 'known', they were interviewed on a BBC radio show. Mr Fry asked what the foam covers on the end of the mics were called. To which Hugh Laurie said, 'They're called 'Spoffles' and they prevent what's known as 'Popping'. Stephen Fry, the host and the engineer were all impressed by Hugh Laurie's knowledge and the interview continued. Years passed, and once again Fry and Laurie were in a BBC radio studio. The engineer said something like he'll just adjust the Spoffle. Hugh Laurie says, 'The what?' And the engineer explains that this is what the foam things are called. "'Good Lord,' laughs Hugh, 'I made that word up on the spot years ago in a studio!'"

This happy chappy has and makes the best toys ever.