The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXV

[Borachio]

Link to video.

Alternatively, and I'm not sure this is the case at all (I really don't have a clue), maybe blind people are on average just cleaner... and they wash their backsides thoroughly. Just to make sure, eh?

It's also possible that blind people are just like everyone else. So, some of them simply won't care.

OR. Maybe there's a special kind of toilet paper you can get? That hoots at you appropriately.

 

[Mouthwash]

How do British people view the Revolutionary War? Is it a political topic there? And do British people in America take offense at their children learn stuff like this?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The Revolutionary War is almost completely forgotten in Britain. Occasionally, a British person may jokingly call the US "the colonies" and the people "colonials", but that's about as far as it goes.

 

[Borachio]

It very rarely comes up as a topic of conversation. If it does, I think Lord North comes in for nearly all the blame. If blame there is.

As for the Boston massacre, that's small fry compared with Amritsar, isn't it?

 

[timtofly]

If a plane fails to take off or has a fault that keeps it on the ground is it counted as a crash?

An aviation accident is defined by the Convention on International Civil Aviation Annex 13 as an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight until such time as all such persons have disembarked, where a person is fatally or seriously injured, the aircraft sustains damage or structural failure or the aircraft is missing or is completely inaccessible.

An aviation incident is defined as an occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft that affects or could affect the safety of operations.

The second one may be what you are looking for?

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I guess that X and XI were Insurrection and Nemesis? Those two were truly awful though I have to say they were more enjoyable to watch than ST I.


The absolute worst though is the one with the whale.

You take that back you! That whale one was one of my faves!

I agree about Insurrection and Nemesis though. The first because I utterly hate hate hate hayyyyyyyyte technophobes; the second because of the BS sacrifice and ending.

 

[Borachio]

Technology stinks.

(Typed onto e-papyrus and sent via carrier e-pigeon.)

 

[Antilogic]

The Revolutionary War is almost completely forgotten in Britain. Occasionally, a British person may jokingly call the US "the colonies" and the people "colonials", but that's about as far as it goes.

It very rarely comes up as a topic of conversation. If it does, I think Lord North comes in for nearly all the blame. If blame there is.

As for the Boston massacre, that's small fry compared with Amritsar, isn't it?

I wonder if N. A. M. Rodger's opinion of the war itself is widespread. Might be worth a thread over in WH.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The second one may be what you are looking for?

It's something that came up when I said that most people survive plane crashes, and I was told it's because a crash includes things like if a plane fails to take off.

 

[Borachio]

I wonder if N. A. M. Rodger's opinion of the war itself is widespread. Might be worth a thread over in WH.

I don't know the fellow. According to this he was simply a naval historian who didn't cover the War of Independence, as far as I can tell.

I suppose you may mean because Lord North delegated much to the Earl of Sandwich. On whom Rodger based one of his novels historical works?

I don't know. I know very, very little about it.

 

[Antilogic]

I don't know the fellow. According to this he was simply a naval historian who didn't cover the War of Independence, as far as I can tell.

I suppose you may mean because Lord North delegated much to the Earl of Sandwich. On whom Rodger based one of his novels historical works?

I don't know. I know very, very little about it.

I've read the first two volumes of his naval history, and the second covers the operations during the War for Independence. In short, he plays it off as a major victory for the fleet (the British only lost one key naval engagement!) and says that since the British held half of their New World colonies (13/26???) under the strain of a hostile great power coalition, it should be viewed as a valiant and good effort.

 

[Traitorfish]

How do British people view the Revolutionary War? Is it a political topic there? And do British people in America take offense at their children learn stuff like this?

The Revolutionary War is almost completely forgotten in Britain. Occasionally, a British person may jokingly call the US "the colonies" and the people "colonials", but that's about as far as it goes.

Yeah, to the extent that Britons have any opinion on the Revolutionary War at all, they probably agree that it was A Good Thing, because it gave the aristocracy a bloody nose and can be very vaguely construed as advancing the democratic cause, but nobody who isn't actively interested in the period is going to get excited about it. Most people only hold even that opinion because we only really hear about it from Americans, which as you'd expect means defaulting to a positive view. Some High Tories might hold the British state pre-1832 in high enough regard to disagree, but you'd be hard pressed to find any willing to hold forth about it publicly.

Mostly, the whole thing is overshadowed by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, which tend to smother the preceding half-century.

 

[Perfection]

The absolute worst though is the one with the whale.

No way. Compare to insurrection. ..

 

[CKS]

It's something that came up when I said that most people survive plane crashes, and I was told it's because a crash includes things like if a plane fails to take off.

Crashes don't include planes that don't take off unless they crash into something. Planes with pilots who just decide not to take off (for whatever reason) don't count as crashes.

About 20 years ago, my parents were on a flight where an engine caught fire while the plane was headed down the runway, attempting to take off. They aborted the attempt and put everyone on another plane. My father was quite freaked out by this, and he wanted to get the whole story about the incident. He was disgusted when someone with the FAA told him that no report had been filed and that none was required because it happened on the ground.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

No way. Compare to insurrection. ..

At least Insurrection had epic space battles!

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I despise major news events, because CNN just wont S. T. F. U. about it for the next two weeks.

 

[Borachio]

Is this the train crash?

At least it wasn't a police helicopter crash on a pub.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Yes the train crash.

 

[AdamCrock]

It's nothing compared to Smolensk tradegy when our president died in a plane crash. Media were all over this even for 3 or 4 months to the point of utter boringness, after 2 months the news about Smolensk were more boring than the advertising and people started joking that they should start a new channel called "TV Smolensk" in order to take out this spam out of every news program

 

[Farm Boy]

Are there any examples of a game company either adding or removing features from their game due to player demands? Such as a game where the narrative was originally a male protagonist, but the option to play as a female character was later added due to demands from the player base as opposed to just later included by the designers. Or anything like that really, not necessarily bound to that specific issue.