Bob Shearer

This is a really cool video of Valtteri Bottas sensing that the simulator steering wheel was off by … 5mm. This is why Cadillac went with trusted veterans.

As an ex Glasgow Firey I’m not going to comment on the fire last night. I wasn’t there and don’t know any of the details. All I will say is that it is another travisty. Another iconic Glasgow building gone. I retired in 2014. I took an option that meant due to my age I could retire after 25 years service. Now, you may ask why I would do that, considering I was only five years off my full lump sum and pension? Well, in those 25 years the job that I loved changed dramatically and not for the better. The turning point was the 2002 dispute, a career low, led by radical union reps that destroyed the structure of the British Fire Service as it existed. We went from a service led, performance rewarding professional organisation to an HR dominated, chronyistic, risk averse organisation almost over night. By 2014 I could not stand going into work. As a watch commander my days were dominated in box ticking exercises and petty disputes all fuelled by WOKE agenda. Worse than that, I was regularly attending shouts where over promoted senior officers with little actual firefighting experience would turn up, countermand firefighting tactics already in place only to watch a building burn to the ground. Whenever I confronted these frankly negligent decisions I was overridden and on more than one occasion reprimanded. At that time, SFRS still had 1000’s of superb firefighters, but most had been by passed for promotion by the ‘New’ firefighters, who were great on computers, female, gay, other, didn’t rock the boat and could write a blinding CV. When I joined in 1989 there were just 5 people in Personal. One senior officer and four civilians. By the time I left there was one HR staff for every 5 firefighters out of 2500! In the end, I couldn’t justify staying. Guys were dying of heart attacks on night shift, dozens off with ilness and work related stress and every other e mail was a funeral notification for a recently retired colleague. More importantly the bullshit was effecting my mental health. At the time I handed in my resignation no one else (to my knowledge) in Strathclyde had ever done it before. Suddenly I start getting visits from the head shed asking why! Why would I go now? I just laughed and told them I was going before I got sacked. I have never felt relief like I did the day I left, not even when I left Afghan with all my bits still attached! It’s the best decision I have ever made, proving that quality of life is more important than money. You cannot take it with you! I feel sorry for the guys and girls on the ground now, I know a lot of great people still serving and morale is rock bottom. In the end and I’m talking specifically about Scotland now, the SNP have ruined the Fire Service. Amalgamating all the regions into the Scottish FireandRescue Service gave them all the power. You get one person in charge and make sure they are your guy. The Union are less than useless Preferring to focus on gay- trans rights in the place of conditions and manning, I’m just glad I’m out of it all. I get that I probably come across like a bitter, un pc old dinosaur, but no one can tell me we are in a better place than we were 20 years ago, a time when courage and skill was more important than computers and skin colour. Thanks for reading and have lovely , safe day. 🙏🇬🇧

Leyendas vivas. Su legado ya forma parte de la historia del cine.

@TrungTPhan Is the mic on the drone? If yes, turn it off, it’s distracting.

Good breakdown here of the drone tech and how they transmit footage. IOC tested drones with athletes and they can’t hear the buzz, but some of the broadcasts keep them in…weird choice: youtu.be/OTDPj8L_qng?si…

Some behind-the-scenes of the FPV drone pilots at Milan Winter Olympics. They operate 250-gram drones with top speed of 160km/hr. Each works with a technician and a director (who gives real-time advice to frame the shot and plucks footage for broadcast).

BREAKING: Both the White House & RNCC have lashed out at the creators of this ad. It must have struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE!

Official video STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw?si…

Now it’s decided. This morning 05:30 the Germans placed a bath towel on Greenlands beach. Everyone who ever vacationed know what that means.

It's ridiculous how many times I've watched this. It just makes me laugh so much! 🤣😂

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@fakehistoryhunt I’m sure Charles Dickens would have killed for those led lightbulbs - if he had any electricity!

Found another real estate gem, in London this time. It's gorgeous, like a time capsule. The front door alone is magical, you'd imagine bumping into Victorian street urchins some foggy evening. The building is over 300 years old, lets go inside.

@GLA_Airport @united What goes around comes around. You could fly from Prestwick to New York in 1970s.

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@thebestofrally No oat in my rallying!

group b is the most overrated era oat in rallying.

@HowThingsWork_ Still needs to stop for food supplies

A $2.6B Nuclear Submarinw that can run for decades without needing to refuel sails under the new London Bridge.

@ronmanagernottm Never saw them in colour!

A smiling Minnie, Ena and Martha to get your week off to a splendid start.

@rothleyweather @RutStamSound What do the three amounts for each location mean?

@RutStamSound Final total for a long wet Friday! South Witham a huge 76.6mm and kingscliffe on 71.2. More than a months rain in a day!

Dear Lorry Drivers, See when you're trying to overtake other lorry drivers, have you ever considered driving faster than them?? Signed, other road users.

@anon_opin We had some of those in Aberdeen years ago. You could wait for a particular car and press the button to stop him in his tracks. Great fun 😂

Unless there's an unbreakably valid safety reason why not, all button-operated pedestrian crossings should activate the lights in pedestrians' favour instantly when pressed.