You're right! If he hits her that way, she should hit back!

Girl should get revenge by exposing the guy for the asshole he is, so that he loses his job, status and maybe an existing girlfriend! That would be fitting. What future girlfriend would want to go out with an asshole who'd done that to an ex, no matter what justification he was able to conjure?

I used to live under the flight path in Windsor - it was certainly pretty impressive. If you were sleeping in, it would put an end to that.

And I remember sitting in my car in stationary traffic on the M25 just near Heathrow early one evening. It was dark, and suddenly my car started to shudder, as though it was thundering. And then I saw Concorde flying over, just taking off for its evening trip to NY. It had its burners on, and it looked like the Millenium Falcon, with bright white light pouring from its engines. It honestly looked like it was powered by light!

Then the burners went off, the sound collapsed and it just disappeared into the evening. Amazing.

Gravity_wave - fluid dynamics phenomenon

Gravitational_wave - General Relativity

Wikipedia does not constitute proof, but it's probably right in this case.

So the lesson is "if you suck up to local gangs and pay protection money, then you'll live in a better society"? Cool!

Simple.

People talk at a volume appropriate to their own surroundings, and they forget that the other person on the call isn't in the same environment. You usually have to talk loudly in noisy places - turns out it isn't necessary on the phone, but a lot of people don't realise that.

Also, we are trained to treat "half-conversations" as high priority interrupts. If you hear "Hello!" ... followed by a silence ... it calls your "maybe they are talking to me?" handler. And even after you've suppressed the interrupt, it still wakes you up. Really annoying, but kind of interesting once you realize what's going on.

Definitely. We used to call it "PPL" - Property-file Programming Language - the tendency for simple name-value property files to acquire strange little bespoke syntaxes and nesting structures. The question isn't whether you will do it - it's how soon you face it and how elegantly you'll achieve it.

You kidding? Apparently I've even got windows on my computer!