Generic "Wrongly Calibrated" Dave

@RupertLowe10 Overpriced Run down Shit food Shit weather. So just like the rest of the UK seaside resorts. Nope. Cheaper to go abroad.

If you’re thinking of a summer weekend away in England, Great Yarmouth is the only option.

@Eddie350442 @Whiledvid A 226 has no tail rotor.

5 months ago, a Ka-226 helicopter crashed in russia with employees of the military plant "Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant" The accident killed the deputy general director, chief engineer and chief designer

@RobFilthUK @llwtydeer We dont have PALs. There are no codes. Literally for the submarine chain of command to decide. No outside input or codes required.

@Bob165061744372 @llwtydeer The firing codes are held by Uncle Sam. They're not that well secured as the testimonies of whistleblower William McNeilly in 2015 stated. Fires on board in the missile compartments, lax security & they were still run on XP!😆

zack polanski is genuinely a complete idiot

@thenewarea51 Going for a nice gentle 0.3 degree glideslope? PAPI showing green green because the light is filtering through the grass?

“Yeah they they felt something over the threshold and they there's a hole in the side of the airplane” ATC audio discussing United Airlines flight 69 (Boeing 767 from Venice) that struck a light pole on the New Jersey Turnpike during its approach to runway 29 at Newark.

@RupertLowe10 Has the entire town been smoking crack?! Its a typical run down UK seaside resort with vastly overpriced guesthouses, crappy food and importantly dismal weather.

Incredible feedback about Great Yarmouth as a holiday destination from our hundreds of visiting members, many pledging to return very soon - we are putting Great Yarmouth on the map as the best English seaside holiday destination. Pumping vast money into our local economy…

@jeremy_pb @NewportRFC .. a good 2 seconds after grounding the ball you mean. Never mind, you lost the rugby but won the acting award for the no-leg, no-contact trip and dive.

@NewportRFC His foot was in touch

80+2: Ebbw Vale 18 - 14 Newport - Try scored by Dafydd Thomas and converted by Evan Lloyd. #COTP #YmlaenCasnewydd

@BethRigby @joshglancy This is the same person that wasted weeks of parliamentary time discussing whether a prime minister ate cake in his own house on his birthday.

Via @joshglancy: Starmer acknowledges the Mandelson appointment was a mistake that needs looking at, but he is also deeply frustrated by Westminster’s obsession with it. He views a political-media class that only wants to talk about vetting forms and not about the Strait of Hormuz as fundamentally unserious. “I understand why there are questions,” he says. “I’ve answered I don’t know how many of them. But at the same time, I’ve got a huge amount of work to do on the war on two fronts.”

@PolitlcsUK This is nothing to do with Epstein. He's deflecting.

🚨 WATCH: Morgan McSweeney says it felt like "a knife through my soul" when he discovered the extent of Peter Mandelson’s links to Jeffrey Epstein "How I understood it at the time was a passing acquaintance that he regretted having"

@DPJHodges @JuliaHB1 It's being chaired by Lady Nuggee. That's why. His defence seems to be make all this about Epstein. When that is actually irrelevant.

Staggering that no-one on the Committee is following up on McSweeeny's passing comment he was not convinced by the responses he received from Mandelson over the due diligence report.

@ArchRose90 The statement this morning in the hearing about pressure being excerpted should have finished him. Its a direct contradiction from the FCDO.

3 times Keir Starmer has misled the House: 10/9/2025 - 'full due process was followed during (Mandelson's) appointment’ 22/04/2025 - 'No pressure existed whatsoever in relation to this case’ He later misquoted Olly Robbins. Labour MPs will put a liar before country. Shameful.

@prestonjbyrne Farage welcomed Nadine Dorries into the party. The woman who describes the Online Safety Bill as her proudest achievement whilst in government. She created this problem. Reform won't be any different.

The Conservative Party is making it very easy for Reform to become the party of free speech. The crown is sitting on the ground. All Farage has to do is pick it up.

@carla_denyer Calais was last at war when exactly?!

More cruelty from Labour today, who will send riot police to stop migrants in small boats These are human beings fleeing war and persecution If govt really wants to end dangerous channel crossings, they must open safe and managed routes to the UK bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@LukePollard And Chagos? And what about the decision to allow Spain to decide who can enter Gibraltar by air? Hypocrite.

The Falklands are British for as long as the Falkland Islanders want to be 🇫🇰🇬🇧

@GrumpyOldLab @poll_checker @timmyvoe You're delusional. Badenoch has no power, no leadership and either can not OR does not want to remove the large number of wets in the party that still hold it to ranson. Actions speak for themselves. The party has not changed and still is not conservative in any shape.

@AlbertSmeee @poll_checker @timmyvoe It isn't dominated by the wets and hasn't been since most were kicked out in 2019. Kemi is a Thatcherite brexiteer. Fed up with all the misinformation given out by Reformiacs and their "uniparty" garbage. You are keeping Labour in power.

Westminster Voting Intention: Reform UK: 24% (-7) Conservative: 21% (=) Labour: 17% (=) Greens: 15% (+3) Liberal Democrats: 11% (=) Others: 8% (+4) SNP: 3% (=) Plaid Cymru: 1% (=) Via: Electoral Calculus/PLMR/Find Out Now MOE: ±1.3% Field Work: 27 March -7 April changes w/ 1-8 December 2025

@JamesMelville Tried blaming Hezbollah yet? No?

South Lebanon is being destroyed. A humanitarian disaster. 1.2 million people, including 400,000 children, displaced by bombardment. Villages flattened. Innocent civilians killed. Parents grieving over their dead children. This cannot be justified

@GrumpyOldLab @poll_checker @timmyvoe Why would they go Tory when the party represents nothing conservative at all and is still dominated by the wets? If Tory voters would go for an actual conservative party, Reform, Labour would be destroyed with 45% of the vote.

@poll_checker @timmyvoe If Reform voters returned to the Tories we would destroy Labour together. We would be on 45%.

@SandDancer9 @poll_checker Because they're not the 8%. It includes independents, Jezbollah, UKIP and all the others.

@poll_checker Why isn’t Restore named if they are the 8%?

@Telegraph URL says non-fiction ?!

Farage holed up in No 10, riots at migrant centres, the Army on standby… A new book peers into Britain’s future But how plausible is it? ↓ telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fict…

@TalkTV @IsabelOakeshott @mrmarkdolan x.com/AmbJapanUK/sta… Meanwhile, the Japanese Ambassador does a far better, non political, simply "Happy St Georges Day" post. This guy likes Britain far more than Starmer.

🚨'SHIT-STIRRING!'🚨 Isabel Oakeshott rages at Keir Starmer's St George's Day tweet where the Prime Minister says, 'Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism.' @IsabelOakeshott | @mrmarkdolan

@SamaHoole Meanwhile, in the real world, its a testimony to modern design advances, improved aerodynamics (and fuel efficiency), optical coatings and other technological refinements. Clue, most cars these days arent shaped like bricks with huge surface areas.

If you are old enough to remember driving in Britain in the 1980s, you will remember the windscreen. You could not see through it by July. A journey from Leeds to London in August ended with a front bumper that looked like it had been through a war and a windscreen that needed a proper scrubbing with a sponge at the services. Insects on the headlights. Insects in the wing mirrors. Insects packed into the radiator grille so densely that mechanics had to fish them out. This was simply the weather of the British summer, the cost of moving through a country that was still, in living memory, full of flying things. Get in a car now. Drive the same route. Stop at the services. The windscreen is clean. The Bugs Matter survey, run by Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife since 2004, has been measuring exactly this. Volunteers clean their numberplate, drive a journey, count the splats on a grid. Between 2004 and 2021, the UK average fell by roughly 59 per cent. England alone: 65. Kent: over 70. The 2024 update found a further 63 per cent drop on top of that. The windscreen phenomenon has the data to back it up now. And not just the insects. Between 1970 and 2024, the UK Farmland Bird Index fell by 62 per cent. Turtle doves down 99. Grey partridge down 94. Tree sparrow down 90. A generation of British children has grown up without ever hearing a turtle dove call, because there are, in functional terms, no turtle doves left to call. Defra's own bulletin lists the causes without embarrassment. Loss of mixed farming. The switch from spring to autumn sowing, which took away the winter stubble the small birds had been feeding on since the Neolithic. The grubbing up of hedgerows to make fields bigger for bigger machines. Increased fertiliser. Increased pesticide. Specifically, the pesticides. Neonicotinoids on oilseed rape. Glyphosate sprayed as a pre-harvest desiccant on wheat and barley. Chemicals applied in combinations and volumes that would have seemed psychotic to a farmer in 1950, applied to grow the crops that feed directly into the plant-based shakes marketed to people who believe they are helping the environment. The insects died in the fields where the crops were grown. The birds that used to eat the insects, starved. The windscreen, accordingly, is clean. None of this happened on the permanent pasture that cattle graze. A herb-rich meadow grazed by cattle has more pollinators, more ground-nesting birds, more beetles, more everything per hectare than the arable field next door. The South Downs and the Welsh uplands and the Cotswold commons where sheep and cattle have been grazing for a thousand years are the places British biodiversity is still, just, holding on. The countryside did not empty because of the cow. It emptied because we replaced the cow with the combine harvester, the meadow with the oilseed rape, and the hedgerow with another half-acre of monoculture that needed spraying fourteen times a season to keep it alive. When someone tells you eating a steak is destroying British wildlife, ask them what was on the field before it became the soy farm, the rape farm, the wheat farm that produced the oat milk in their fridge. It was grass. And on the grass, there were cattle. And when the cattle were there, the windscreen needed cleaning.