@Baz posted:OMG
Don’t let Yogi see that , or we will be scraping her off the forum floor .
*waits for Yogi* 
Seagliders combine the convenience of passenger ferries with the comfort of hydrofoils, the aerodynamic efficiency of hovercraft and the speed of aircraft.
With the potential to connect existing ferry ports, the craft are expected to fly at speeds of up to 180 mph with a battery-powered range of 180 miles.
The voyage from Portsmouth to Cherbourg, for example, could be covered in as little as 40 minutes.
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Seagliders combine the convenience of passenger ferries with the comfort of hydrofoils, the aerodynamic efficiency of hovercraft and the speed of aircraft.
With the potential to connect existing ferry ports, the craft are expected to fly at speeds of up to 180 mph with a battery-powered range of 180 miles.
The voyage from Portsmouth to Cherbourg, for example, could be covered in as little as 40 minutes.
Oooo I like that idea Slim 
The Independent
This is the UK’s best dad joke
The world’s best dad joke has been revealed after more than 2,700 gags were submitted in Aldi’s annual competition.
In celebration of Father’s Day, the supermarket invited people to submit their funniest dad jokes, with standup comedian Mark Watson enlisted to judge the best entry.
After reviewing all of the submissions, Watson chose an entry submitted by a father-of-two named Austin May, as the winner.
Mr May’s joke went as follows: “I once hired a limo but when it arrived, the guy driving it walked off!
“I said ‘Excuse me? Are you not going to drive me?’
“The guy told me that the price didn’t include a driver…… so I’d spent £400 on a limo and have nothing to chauffeur it!”
Government minister 'hopes' cannibalism at sea no longer needed
Modern day technologies should prevent stranded sailors from resorting to cannibalism, a government minister hopes.
The conversation in the upper chamber arose after another member raised the odd legal precedent set in the late 19th century.
It harkens back to 1884, when captain Tom Dudley and mate Edwin Stephens were stranded at sea in a lifeboat following a shipwreck in the South Atlantic, off the coast of Africa.
Cabin boy Richard Parker was with the pair, and in poor health according to the sailors.
Following several weeks trapped on the insignificant and unprovisioned vessel, with their colleague close to death, Dudley and Stephens took the step to kill and eat him in order to fend off starvation.
After being rescued and returned to the UK, the pair justified their actions as a "custom of the sea", and hoped to avoid conviction.
However, this was rejected and both men were subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to death - although this was later commuted to a six month prison sentence by the Crown.
The case set the precedent in common law that necessity is not a defence when charged with murder.
@slimfern posted:However, this was rejected and both men were subsequently convicted of murder and sentenced to death - although this was later commuted to a six month prison sentence by the Crown.
The case set the precedent in common law that necessity is not a defence when charged with murder.
That's our judicial system for you 
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Takes me back to the good old Spectrum days 
My husband got stung by a bee on the forehead. He’s at the ER now, his face all swollen and bruised. He almost died. Luckily I was close enough to hit the bee with my shovel.
@Dame_Ann_Average posted:My husband got stung by a bee on the forehead. He’s at the ER now, his face all swollen and bruised. He almost died. Luckily I was close enough to hit the bee with my shovel.
Football matches - never miss another
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Pass on the football 
Climate change has changed the evolution of mankind – and may be shrinking us
Climate change may be shrinking people because being smaller keeps you cooler, a study suggests.
Changes in the climate have led to “significant” fluctuations in the size of the human body and brain over the last million years, a new study finds.
Cambridge University researchers have discovered that temperature has a large bearing on the average body size, with colder, harsher climates making it bigger and warmer ones shrinking it.
Larger size is thought to act as a buffer against colder temperatures because less heat is lost from a body when its mass is large relative to its surface area. Meanwhile, smaller size helps cool a person down by releasing more heat from their bodies.
Brain size also changed significantly over time but not “in tandem” with body size, suggesting factors other than the climate were also involved.
A defining trait of the evolution of our genus is a trend of increasing body and brain size; compared to earlier species such as Homo habilis, we are 50 per cent heavier and our brains are three times larger. But the drivers behind such changes remain highly debated.
“Our study indicates that climate – particularly temperature – has been the main driver of changes in body size for the past million years,” said Professor Andrea Manica, of Cambridge University.
“We can see from people living today that those in warmer climates tend to be smaller, and those living in colder climates tend to be bigger. We now know that the same climatic influences have been at work for the last million years,” she said.
The researchers say there is good evidence that human body and brain size continue to evolve. The human physique is still adapting to different temperatures, with on average larger-bodied people living in colder climates today.
However, because other factors such as health and nutrition also play a key role in body size it is difficult to say whether people are actually shrinking in the warming – or rather growing less than they would otherwise have done in a stable climate, researchers say.
Brain size in our species appears to have been shrinking since the beginning of the Holocene – around 11,650 years ago.
The increasing dependence on technology, such as an outsourcing of complex tasks to computers, may cause brains to shrink even more over the next few thousand years.
20 of the strangest phobias
Deipnophobia – Fear of dinner conversations
Emetophobia – The Fear of Vomiting
Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns
Ergophobia – Fear of work
Aurophobia – The fear of finding gold
Mageirocophobia – Fear of cooking
Pogonophobia – Fear of beards
Pentheraphobia – Fear of the mother-in-law
Alliumphobia – Fear of garlic
Chorophobia – Fear of dancing
Arachibutyrophobia – Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – Fear of long words
Somniphobia – Fear of falling asleep
Papaphobia – Fear of the Pope
Chaetophobia – Fear of hair
Globophobia – Fear of balloons
Xanthophobia – Fear of the colour yellow
Genuphobia – Fear of knees
Siderophobia – Fear of stars
Phobophobia – Fear of phobias
@slimfern posted:20 of the strangest phobias
Deipnophobia – Fear of dinner conversations
Emetophobia – The Fear of Vomiting
Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns
Ergophobia – Fear of work
Aurophobia – The fear of finding gold
Mageirocophobia – Fear of cooking
Pogonophobia – Fear of beards
Pentheraphobia – Fear of the mother-in-law
Alliumphobia – Fear of garlic
Chorophobia – Fear of dancing
Arachibutyrophobia – Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouthHippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia – Fear of long words
Somniphobia – Fear of falling asleep
Papaphobia – Fear of the Pope
Chaetophobia – Fear of hair
Globophobia – Fear of balloons
Xanthophobia – Fear of the colour yellow
Genuphobia – Fear of knees
Siderophobia – Fear of starsPhobophobia – Fear of phobias
I have mild emetophobia .