BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Dorset Boy]

I don't think there will be very much sympathy for the junior doctors amongst the public. Their demands are as unrealistic as Trump's, and they'll end up extremely well paid in a few years time anyway if they stay in the profession.

 

[briantrumpet]

BR Cakestoppers will remember one forumite who won't be celebrating this news.

 

[Pblakeney]

BR Cakestoppers will remember one forumite who won't be celebrating this news.

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Yet another unplanned rapid disassembly. 😂

 

[Stevo 666]

I don't think there will be very much sympathy for the junior doctors amongst the public. Their demands are as unrealistic as Trump's, and they'll end up extremely well paid in a few years time anyway if they stay in the profession.

Just read they are demanding another 29% over and above what they have already got. What planet are they on?

 

[BoldonLad]

Just read they are demanding another 29% over and above what they have already got. What planet are they on?

if you push the door, and, it opens easily, why wouldn't you try again, and, push even harder?. Unions are not for the public good, they are effectively shareholder bodies, where the shareholders are their members.

 

[Stevo 666]

if you push the door, and, it opens easily, why wouldn't you try again, and, push even harder?. Unions are not for the public good, they are effectively shareholder bodies, where the shareholders are their members.

I've never been under the illusion that unions are there for the public good And like I said on the last page, they sensed weakness in how quickly Labour agreed to a pay hike last time with no strings attached, so I fully expected them to have another go.

 

[icowden]

Yet another unplanned rapid disassembly. 😂

Except that it isn't. Starships are not planned to survive. They are still experimental. This launch didn't go according to plan but it has still given the teams valuable information.

 

[Pblakeney]

Except that it isn't. Starships are not planned to survive. They are still experimental. This launch didn't go according to plan but it has still given the teams valuable information.

Okay, premature rapid disassembly. 😉

 

[briantrumpet]

Well, in the end the collapsing mountain and glacier won. The Swiss village of Blatten is no more, submerged under millions of tons of debris.
View: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1346224333694857&set=a.215872946730007

 

[briantrumpet]

Jeepers.

 

[Psamathe]

BR Cakestoppers will remember one forumite who won't be celebrating this news.

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It’s one of the failings of the "move fast and break things" - each "break" finds one thing. Next break finds the fault that would have happened last time had a different break not happened first.

Plus it only finds catastrophic failures, not those that "didn’t quite come to light this time ... but when you put humans aboard".

How would the airline industry have developed if every aircraft shortcoming meant an aircraft full of passengers falling out of the sky.

Some things take time and cost money to develop. Doesn't mean we've got it right waiting for catastrophic failures to identify shortcomings isn't necessary better.

Ian

 

[briantrumpet]

It’s one of the failings of the "move fast and break things" - each "break" finds one thing. Next break finds the fault that would have happened last time had a different break not happened first.

Plus it only finds catastrophic failures, not those that "didn’t quite come to light this time ... but when you put humans aboard".

How would the airline industry have developed if every aircraft shortcoming meant an aircraft full of passengers falling out of the sky.

Some things take time and cost money to develop. Doesn't mean we've got it right waiting for catastrophic failures to identify shortcomings isn't necessary better.

Ian

IIRC, the Comet aircraft did fall out of the sky twice, when it still had square windows.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

IIRC, the Comet aircraft did fall out of the sky twice, when it still had square windows.

Geek moment:
I remember being given a tour round the Comet 4C at East Linton (near Edinburgh) of the (amusingly) registered G - BDIX in Dan Air colours.

Anyway, the guide was at pains to tell us that it was more than just the windows as apparently the metal was not manufactured to a high enough standard (due to ignorance of metal fatigue) and there was also something wrong with the floor.

Of course, the windows and the hatch in the roof were the final sequences to disaster, but there was a lot more to it than just that.

 

[icowden]

IIRC, the Comet aircraft did fall out of the sky twice, when it still had square windows.

But not the windows you are thinking of. It's not the passenger windows but the antennae windows that were the problem

 

[Ian H]

IIRC, the Comet aircraft did fall out of the sky twice, when it still had square windows.

And that's how they invented metal fatigue.