thaiophilus

I think you're both right. @Travelingguy is talking about light aircraft, not airliners, and crashes, not necessarily fatalities. The detailed statistics are no doubt different but I don't think that's the issue. The point is that takeoff is a dangerous phase of flight because everything mechanical is under maximum stress, so undetected problems may make themselves known, and when they do you have neither height nor speed in reserve to deal with them.

"Twink" is said to be derived from the Hostess Twinkie, a kind of cake which is of little nutritional value but "golden-colored, sweet and full of cream".

The boy? yes. The artist? no idea.

Sounds like a friend of a friend of mine (no, not apocryphal, we really did meet once) who had some kind of issue with bodily contact. He would off a boy and then just draw him.

Not all boys are boys. We've had questions here before now from members who didn't understand tomboy clubs 🍆🍑

That looks unlikely. I suspect your sources are defining their terms differently. So I asked duck.ai (GPT-4o): "is the current covid death rate significantly different between Thailand and UK?" It replied: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Search As of mid-June 2025, the COVID-19 death rates in Thailand and the UK show notable differences: Thailand Total Confirmed Deaths: Approximately 34,715 deaths from around 4,799,180 confirmed cases. Death Rate: This results in a death rate of about 0.72% (34,715 deaths / 4,799,180 cases). United Kingdom Recent COVID-19 Deaths: In the week ending June 13, 2025, there were 69 deaths attributed to COVID-19, which accounted for 0.6% of total deaths that week. Total Deaths Registered: The total number of deaths registered in the UK for that week was 10,902, with COVID-19 being the underlying cause for 45 deaths (0.4% of total deaths). Comparison Overall Death Rate: The overall death rate in Thailand (0.72%) is higher than the recent COVID-19 death rate in the UK, which is significantly lower when considering the total population and the recent weekly statistics. Contextual Factors: The differences in death rates can be attributed to various factors, including healthcare systems, vaccination rates, public health responses, and demographic differences. In summary, Thailand currently has a higher COVID-19 death rate compared to the UK, reflecting the ongoing impact of the pandemic in different regions. Search Results COVID-19 pandemic death rates by countryWikipedia Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, pro...Office for National Statistics

Well, you are quoting from the Daily Mail.

I think you have that backwards...

Does he know what they all mean?

Could it be something really obvious, like the eSIM has run out of minutes, or you've reached its expiry date?

No. HTH.

All the above is equally true if you replace "QR code" with "clickable link".

So can clicking on a link. QR codes aren't magic, just another way of delivering the same data.

Before doing something controversial, I find it's worth asking: What is my objective? Can it be achieved? Will this action achieve it? ... and, subsequently, did it?

See Churchill :"On the coldest night of the year? It makes you proud to be British!" (On hearing that Ian Harvey had been caught with a guardsman in St James's Park) https://www.lgbthistoryuk.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill